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United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Designates April 10, 1980, as "ORT Centennial Day" to salute the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training on its 100th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1979
Expresses the Senate's support for efforts to win the freedom of the hostages in Iran. Calls upon all nations to join in cooperative efforts to restrict relations with Iran. Declares that: (1) any trial or public exploitation of the hostages would be viewed as added provocation; and (2) the American people will not be diverted from their determination that the hostages be freed.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1979
Used Machinery Investment Credit Adjustment Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $100,000 to $200,000 the cost of used property which is eligible for the investment tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1979
Regulatory Flexibility and Administrative Reform Act of 1979 - Title I: The Management, Planning, and Analysis of Regulatory Functions - Defines the term "major rule" as an agency rule that is estimated will have an annual effect on the economy of $100,000,000 or more or otherwise will have a major impact. Establishes the Regulatory Policy Board which shall: (1) publish a semiannual Calendar of Federal Regulations containing information on all major rules to be developed or considered by agencies during the next year; (2) identify overlapping and duplicative agency rules; (3) monitor agency compliance with this Title; (4) organize interagency reviews of selected initial regulatory analyses of major rules; and (5) develop methods to reduce duplicative reporting requirements imposed by Federal, State, and local governments. Requires the Executive Director of such Board: (1) in consultation with the Director of the Federal Register, to develop categories for the classification of all agency rules; (2) to compile the classifications of rules which shall be submitted and updated annually by each agency into a comprehensive index of all agency rules; and (3) to publish in the Federal Register instructions for public access to such index. Directs any agency which collects, prepares, or maintains information pertaining to Federal regulatory activities to supply the Board with such information upon request. Requires each regulatory agency: (1) to publish in the Federal Register a semiannual regulatory agenda containing a list of rules the agency expects to propose or promulgate and a description of the areas of regulatory inquiry which the agency will consider during the next year; (2) to solicit public comment on such agenda; (3) to include in the notice of a rulemaking or judicatory proceeding the date by which the agency intends to complete such proceeding; and (4) to notify the public and the Executive Director of any failure to meet such a deadline, of the new completion date, and of the reasons for such a failure. Directs an agency, whenever it is required to publish general notice of a proposed major rule, to prepare and make available to the public an initial regulatory analysis which: (1) describes the need for the rule; (2) describes compliance requirements of the rule; (3) identifies existing duplicative rules; (4) describes alternative approaches for accomplishing the objective of the proposed rule; and (5) describes the economic, health, safety, and environmental effects of the rule. Requires that each agency prepare for each adopted major rule a final regulatory analysis which includes a summary of public comments received on the initial analysis and a justification of the selection of the final rule. Directs each agency to include in the general notice of any proposed rule an initial regulatory flexibility analysis which: (1) describes any adverse economic impact of the rule on individuals, small businesses, small organizations, and small governmental jurisdictions; and (2) discusses alternative regulatory approaches such as varying compliance requirements depending on the resources of the person affected by the rule. Requires each agency to prepare for each final rule a final regulatory flexibility analysis which summarizes comments received on the initial analysis and justifies the selection of the final rule. Specifies techniques through which the head of an agency promulgating a rule shall assure that persons adversely affected by the rule are provided an opportunity to participate in the rulemaking proceeding. Prohibits any Federal agency from: (1) regulating or licensing entry under a scheme when such entry is limited; (2) setting levels for or otherwise controlling the prices, production, or distribution of goods or services; or (3) controlling the terms of agreements among providers and purchasers of goods or services, unless the agency finds such an action to be the least anticompetitive alternative for achieving a statutory goal. Specifies exceptions to the applicability of such prohibition. Requires each agency to establish procedures for notifying the Attorney General of any plans for such an action. Requires each agency to prepare a list of all major rules promulgated by that agency and to publish in the Federal Register a draft schedule for the review over a five-year period of its rules, policies, and practices. Sets forth guidelines for selecting such precepts to review. Directs each agency to publish a final review schedule within one year of the effective date of this Act. Requires that each agency announce the review date for each major rule upon its publication. Requires each agency to publish an assessment of each precept reviewed including a statement of the benefits, adverse effects, costs of such precept, and a determination as to whether the precept should be rescinded, amended, or continued without change. Directs the President to transmit to Congress: (1) an evaluation of the effectiveness of this procedure for reviewing agency precepts; and (2) legislative recommendations for establishing another five-year review period. Requires the Regulatory Policy Board to report to the President and Congress on the regulatory activities of Federal agencies during each of the five fiscal years after the enactment of this Act. Specifies the contents of such report, including an evaluation of agency compliance with this Act. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, for each of the first three fiscal years after enactment of this Act, to monitor agency compliance with regulatory analyses requirements of this Act. Title II: Improving the Efficiency of Administrative Proceedings - Eliminates the exemption from public notice and comment requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act for agency rulemaking concerning Federal loans, grants, and benefits. Exempts from such requirements emergency rules and rules governed by short term statutory or judicial deadlines, provided that an agency complies with such requirements after publication of such a rule when appropriate. Requires each agency: (1) to include in the general notice of proposed rulemaking statements soliciting alternative approaches to the regulatory objective and describing the paperwork requirements of the proposed rule; (2) to resolve controversies concerning proposed major rules through oral or written procedures including informal public hearings, expert advisory councils, and the presentation of witnesses; and (3) to include a response to issues raised by public comments with the statement of the basis and purpose of a final rule. Requires each agency to maintain a file of information on each rulemaking proceeding. Specifies the contents of such file which include: (1) any information which the agency is required to make public; and (2) a record of the source, recipient, and content of any communication with an agency official regarding a proposed major rule. Reorganizes provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act governing adjudication and rulemaking proceedings required by statute to be determined on the record after opportunity for an agency hearing. Declares that if the presiding employee at such a hearing becomes unavailable, another qualified employee shall conclude the hearing. Enumerates the powers of such a presiding employee. Authorizes such employee to cross-examine witnesses and to request the agency to consider and act on interlocutory appeals when action on such appeals would expedite final agency action. Directs such employee to: (1) oversee the expeditious completion of such hearing; and (2) provide a concise record of the important matters of the proceeding. Provides two levels for conducting such adjudication and rulemaking proceedings. Establishes a "general hearing process" which applies to: (1) any rulemaking, ratemaking, or licensing proceeding except a proceeding to withdraw, suspend, or revoke a license or a proceeding before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; (2) a proceeding to determine an initial claim of a party, other than an individual, for a subsidy, right, or other benefit; and (3) any other proceeding which the agency determines does not require a "formal hearing" for a fair disclosure of all material facts. Requires a "formal hearing": (1) for all other proceedings required by statute to be determined on the record; and (2) when there is a genuine and substantial dispute of fact in a general hearing which cannot be resolved without formal cross-examination and upon which the decision of the agency is likely to depend. Requires, in any general hearing proceeding, the conduct of a hearing to afford parties an opportunity to submit written data, and, at the request of any party, an opportunity for oral argument. Prohibits any agency employee who performs investigative or prosecuting functions for the agency in such a proceeding from participating in the decision making process of that proceeding. Authorizes the presiding employee at a formal hearing to: (1) rule on offers of proof and relevant evidence; (2) require written testimony and arguments when oral testimony is not required; and (3) upon request, to issue a decision prior to completion of the hearing if there is no substantial dispute of fact. Prohibits any employee presiding over a formal hearing or participating in any decision or review of a decision of such a hearing from: (1) making ex parte communications; or (2) being responsible to an employee or agent performing investigative or prosecuting functions for an agency. Allows: (1) members of employee boards of review to consult with each other; and (2) persons advising a presiding employee to consult with each other and with the presiding employee. Authorizes each agency to establish employee review boards to review the decisions of presiding employees. Directs each agency to specify the conditions under which it will accept an appeal of the decision of such a board or presiding employee. Authorizes an agency to subpoena any person or evidence as necessary in any general or formal hearing proceeding. Sets forth: (1) the civil penalty for persons who fail to comply with a subpoena; and (2) the judicial procedure for enforcement of such a subpoena. Requires each agency to maintain a public file of significant material concerning the major stages of a proceeding. Permits an action to be brought in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the review of an agency rule if there is no applicable special statutory review proceeding. Requires the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States to recruit for administrative law judge positions among all groups of qualified persons. Directs the Chairman, in cooperation with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), to examine, rank, certify, and register eligible candidates for such positions. Requires the Conference to certify the names of the ten highest ranked candidates to an agency requesting candidates for such a position. Limits to 350 the number of administrative law judges which may be appointed to positions in the GS-16, GS-17, and GS-18 levels of the General Schedule. Directs the Chairman to select administrative law judges to be detailed from one agency to another upon the consent of the transferring agency and the judge selected. Establishes the Administrative Law Judge Career Service consisting of judges appointed under this Act. Title III: Review of the Effectiveness of and Continuing Need for Government Regulation - Directs the President to establish a Committee on Regulatory Evaluation to advise the President concerning the reform of regulation by Federal agencies. Specifies the composition of the Committee and the compensation of Committee members. Requires the Committee to meet at least twice a year. Directs Congress to evaluate according to a specified schedule the regulatory functions of certain agencies and any reform legislation or report transmitted by the President concerning each such agency. Requires the Committee to examine each agency scheduled for review and to submit to the President any recommendations for legislation for reforming such agency. Directs the President, prior to the scheduled date for congressional review of an agency, to submit to Congress a report and any proposed legislation concerning the regulatory reform of that agency. Requires that such report: (1) examine the impact of each agency's regulatory activities; (2) compare the agency's regulatory policies to those of other agencies; and (3) explain in detail the proposed regulatory reforms or the reasons for not proposing a regulatory reform bill. Sets forth House and Senate procedure for considering such reform legislation. Title IV: The Administrative Conference of the United States - Changes the term of office of the Chairman of the Administrative Conference of the United States to a four year term which coincides with the term of the President. States that at least one-fourth of the members of the Conference appointed by the Chairman shall be representatives of regulated interests. Directs the Conference to establish a Committee on Administrative Procedure to draft procedural rules for agency rulemaking proceedings and adjudications. Requires that such rules be designed to enhance public participation in agency proceedings. Title V: Miscellaneous - Sets forth the effective dates for provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1979
Senior Cryptologic Executive Service Act of 1979 - Title I: Senior Cryptologic Executive Service - Authorizes the Security of Defense to establish within the National Security Agency a Senior Cryptologic Executive Service (Service) comparable to the Senior Executive Service created pursuant to the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978. Authorizes the Director of the Agency: (1) to adopt such administrative and pay provisions of such Act as necessary to administer the Service; and (2) to appoint individuals to the Service without regard to civil service laws. Sets forth provisions governing the awarding of rank, employee sabbaticals, accrual of annual leave, and employee eligibility for civil service annuities for appointees to the Service which are similar to provisions of such Act governing such areas for members of the Senior Executive Service. Directs the Agency to submit to specified congressional committees during each odd-numbered fiscal year a report on the service which includes: (1) the percentage of senior executives at each pay rate; (2) the amount and distribution of performance awards paid during the preceeding year; and (3) the number of individuals removed from the Service for unsatisfactory performance. Title II: Merit Pay and Cash Awards - Authorizes the Director to establish a merit pay and cash awards system for employees of the Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1979
Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to include professional land surveyors within the class of individuals authorized by such Act to perform land surveys and prepare plans, maps, and cross-section maps as required by such Act for all surface mining and reclamation operations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1979
Grants a Federal charter to the National Federation of Music Clubs.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Declares a named individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Declares a named individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Declares a named individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1979
Declares a named individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1979
Establishes the Patent and Trademark Office as an independent Government agency. Designates the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks as the Chief Officer of the Office. Declares that the Commissioner shall be appointed to a six-year term of office and shall be removable from office by the President with the consent of the Senate, only for good cause. Sets forth conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the American people and their representatives are united in their determination and efforts to achieve the immediate, safe, and unconditional release of all U.S. personnel. Calls upon the U.N. Security Council to take all necessary measures to secure the release of all U.S. personnel held hostage in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1979
Authorizes the issuance of a visa to a named individual for admittance to the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1979
National Capital Boundary Stones Act - Makes the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, responsible for the preservation and maintenance of the original boundary stones delimiting the District of Columbia. Directs the Director of the National Park Service to submit a program to the Secretary for preserving such boundary stones. Sets forth provisions to be included in such program. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire the necessary lands and interests to carry out such program. Provides criminal penalties for willfully damaging or removing such boundary stones.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1979
Increases the powers and the number of members of the board of trustees of Trinity College of Washington, District of Columbia.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1979
Allows the Interest Rate Modification Act of 1979, passed by the District of Columbia Council and signed by the Mayor, to become effective upon enactment of this Act, notwithstanding any other provision of law.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1979
Authorizes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Incorporated, to erect a memorial on public grounds in West Potomac Park in the District of Columbia in honor and recognition of the men and women of the armed forces who served in the Vietnam war.
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 1979
Civil Rights Improvements Act of 1979 - Amends current law (42 U.S.C. 1983) creating a Federal cause of action for the violation of a person's civil rights under color of State law to specify the circumstances under which a State or local government may be held liable for purposes of damages or other monetary relief and for injunctive or declaratory relief. Stipulates that it is not a defense for a government entity that the officer or employee clothed with the authority of such entity is personally immune from liability under common law or any statute. Makes supervisory officers, with command responsibility superior to a person engaging in actionable conduct, jointly and severally liable whenever a government unit would be liable. Permits a plaintiff to join to a claim under such law other claims deriving from a common nucleus of operative fact. Sets forth the circumstances under which a Federal court may certify a question of State law to the highest court of a State. Prohibits the dismissal or stay of civil actions under this Act on the grounds that State legal and administrative remedies were not exhausted. Limits the circumstances in which a Federal court may stay a pending State criminal prosecution. Specifies the circumstances under which, in any such action, the prior judgment of a State court shall have merger and bar effect. Requires the complaint in any such action to be filed within four years after the right of action first accrues. Prohibits a Federal court, in evaluating the need for relief under such law, from considering the availability of other remedies under State law.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1979
Amends a specified Act for the relief of named individuals to restore certain benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1979
Relieves a named individual of all liability for repayment to the United States of a specified sum advanced to such individual by erroneous administrative action. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay an appropriate amount to such individual as a result of such liability.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1979
Federal Physicians Comparability Allowance Amendments of 1979 - Amends the Federal Physicians Comparability Allowance Act of 1978 to extend by two years: (1) the deadline by which a Federal agency may enter into an agreement providing a bonus allowance for services of a physician; and (2) the termination date of any such agreement. Includes: (1) any physician paid under the Senior Executive Service, the Merit Pay System, or the Panama Canal Commission within the definition of "Government physician"; and (2) the Library of Congress within the definition of "agency" for purposes of such Act. Prohibits the aggregate amount paid by the Government to any such physician in a fiscal year from exceeding the annual rate payable for positions at level I of the Executive Schedules.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1979
Waives the time limitation on the award of certain military decorations to members of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 394th Infantry Regiment, 99th Infantry Division, for acts of valor performed during the Battle of the Bulge.
United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1979
Chrysler Corporation Emergency Loan Guarantee Act - Establishes an Emergency Loan Guarantee Board composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Commerce. Authorizes the Board to guarantee loans made to Chrysler Corporation and to enter other appropriate contracts to carry out the provisions of this Act. Designates the Secretary of the Treasury as Chairman of the Board. Requires all decisions of the Board to be made by majority vote. Imposes the following contributions on any loan guaranteed by the Board: (1) the loan must be needed to enable Chrysler to continue operations which if curtailed would seriously and adversely affect the economic or employment situation in the United States or any of its regions; (2) Chrysler must be unable to obtain credit upon reasonable terms without such a guarantee; (3) Chrysler's prospective earning power, together with any security it pledges, must furnish reasonable assurance that the loan will be repaid; (4) the lender must certify that it would not make the loan without such a guarantee; (5) the term of the loan must not exceed ten years; and (6) the loan must bear interest at a rate determined by the Board taking into account the reduced risk afforded by the guarantee and interest rates on otherwise comparable loans. Directs the Board to collect a guarantee fee to cover the administrative expenses of the Federal Government in making a loan guarantee. Requires the Board, to the maximum extent feasible, to ensure that the Government is compensated for the risk it assumes in issuing a guarantee by collecting additional guarantee fees or by other appropriate methods. Conditions Chrysler's eligibility for loan guarantees on its establishment of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) which: (1) satisfies the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954; (2) acquires Chrysler equity securities, bonds, debentures, notes or other instruments evidencing an indebtedness with the proceeds of a loan guaranteed under this Act; (3) is administered by a committee representing Chrysler, its employees participating in the ESOP, the trustee of the ESOP, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of Labor; (4) will acquire noncallable preferred Chrysler stock convertible to common by direction of the ESOP committee at its fair market value as of October 23, 1979, in an aggregate amount not less than $250,000,000 or 25 percent of the loan guarantee, whichever is greater; (5) contains an agreement by Chrysler to make annual contributions sufficient to permit the ESOP to amortize the loan made by Chrysler to the ESOP; (6) grants all participants a nonforfeitable interest in their accounts; and (7) requires an annual allocation of all securities the ESOP acquires to the accounts of each participant in substantially equal amounts. Directs the Board to make every effort to assure that guaranteed loans to Chrysler are secured by sufficient property to fully collateralize the amount of the loan guarantee. Prohibits Chrysler, while any guaranteed loan remains unpaid, from declaring any dividend on its common stock or from making payments on any other indebtedness. Permits the Board to waive such prohibitions if such action is consistent with the interests of the United States. Directs the Board to require Chrysler to make changes in its management and fiscal operations and to develop a long-range plan if the Board determines that the inability of Chrysler to obtain credit in the normal capital markets is a result of a failure on the part of management to exercise reasonable business prudence. Prohibits the Board from guaranteeing any loan until it has received Chrysler's audited financial statement and has been afforded access to Chrysler's records. Requires a lender to exhaust all of its remedies under a guarantee agreement before any payment under the guarantee of the United States becomes due. Directs the Board to assure that any loan agreement guaranteed under this Act contains the usual provisions to protect the guarantor including strictures against waiver or amendment without the consent of the Board. States that the guarantee of the United States shall be in force with respect to advances under a loan agreement only if: (1) the Board receives ten days notice in writing of the advance; (2) the lender certifies that Chrysler is not in default, except that in cases where the lender reports the circumstances of a default the Board may guarantee an advance if it is consistent with the interests of the United States; and (3) Chrysler provides the Board with a plan concerning the expenditures which will be made with the advance. Requires Chrysler to report all instances in which advances were not expended in accordance with such plan. Requires that all guarantee agreements give the Board priority interest over the lender in any collateral securing the loan and any outstanding earlier loans. States that any sums that Chrysler has on deposit with the lender which are subject to offset under the bankruptcy laws shall be considered collateral in which the Board has priority over the lender. Authorizes the Board to inspect and copy Chrysler's records. Directs the General Accounting Office to conduct an audit of Chrysler at least once a year if an application for a guarantee has been made or if a guarantee is outstanding. Requires the Office to report the results of such audits to the Board and the Congress. Sets forth the maximum obligation of the Board under all outstanding loan guarantees made under this Act. States that such assistance may be only in such amounts as provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Establishes an emergency loan guarantee fund in the Treasury to cover the expenses and obligations of the Board. Requires that all guarantee fees be deposited in such fund. Permits the Board to use any Federal Reserve bank as its fiscal agent provided the bank is reimbursed for any expenses or losses incurred acting in such capacity. Directs the Attorney General to enforce the rights of the United States as a guarantor under this Act. Requires all sums recovered by the Attorney General to be deposited in the emergency loan guarantee fund. Entitles the Board to recovery of any payments made by Chrysler or any other liable person pursuant to a guarantee agreement. Directs the Board to ensure that lenders and other persons maintain their unguaranteed financial assistance to Chrysler at the level provided from October 1, 1978, to October 31, 1979. Directs the Board to submit an annual report to the Congress on its operations. Requires the Board to submit a report to Congress within six months of the enactment of this Act which contains recommendations on the need to continue the guarantee program beyond the termination date of this Act. Terminates the authority of the Board to enter new guarantee agreements on December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1979
Designates the month of July 1980 as "National Porcelain Art Month."
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1979
Declares a named individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1979
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1979 - Makes the United States liable for: (1) damages arising from certain nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site to individuals who resided in the affected area for a period of one year between January 1, 1951, and October 31, 1958, or between June 30, 1962, and July 31, 1962; (2) damages to individuals who worked in a uranium mine in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, or Utah for at least one year between January 1, 1947, and December 31, 1961; and (3) damages to a qualified sheep herd. Establishes in any action filed under this Act, upon a determination by the court that the plaintiff meets the requirements of the Act, an irrebuttable presumption that the damages alleged were caused by exposure to radiation as a result of a nuclear detonation or exposure to uranium. Limits the amount of attorney fees which can be received with respect to such actions. Defines "affected area" to mean specified areas of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, and any other area of the United States which received a high level of fallout as a result of the Nevada Test Site detonations, as determined by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Establishes within the National Cancer Institute a seven-member Advisory Panel on the Health Effects of Exposure to Radiation and Uranium to identify, for the purposes of recovery under this Act, types of cancer which develop after exposure to low level radiation and diseases and illnesses which develop after uranium mine employment. Directs the Advisory Panel to report its findings to Congress within nine months of the date it convenes. Amends title III of the Public Health Service Act (General Powers and Duties) to direct the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the adverse health effects resulting from the Nevada Test Site atomic weapons test program since January 1, 1951. Transfers to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare all functions of the Department of Energy relating to research on the health effects of radiation on human beings.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the charitable deduction allowable for the expenses of operating a motor vehicle to require the amount of such deduction to be the same as the amount the taxpayer would have received if he were engaged on official business for the Government and reimbursed accordingly.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate November 16, 1979, as "American Enterprise Day."
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1979
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 · 3 October 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the weeks of January 21 through January 27, 1979, and January 20 through January 26, 1980, as "Junior Achievement Week" in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of Junior Achievement, an organization dedicated to the American enterprise system and service to youth.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Declares a named individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1979
Declares an individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1979
Nuclear Waste Management Reorganization Act of 1979 - Title I: Declarations of Findings and Purposes; Definitions - Sets forth the purposes of this Act. Title II: Nuclear Waste Management Authority - Creates the Nuclear Waste Management Authority as an independent executive agency. Transfers to such Authority all authority of the Department of Energy with regard to nuclear waste management, storage and disposal. Sets forth the functions of such Authority as: (1) the acquisition of existing nuclear waste facilities not owned by the United States; (2) the establishment of control over existing Federal nuclear waste facilities; (3) the design, construction, and operation of all such facilities in the United States; (4) the establishment of programs for the handling of nuclear wastes and spent nuclear fuel, including related research and development activities; (5) the establishment of and collection and deposit of fees in the Nuclear Waste Management Fund; (6) the establishment of a Nuclear Waste Treatment and Disposal Plan; and (7) the promulgation of necessary rules to implement the authority granted under this Act. Maintains the regulatory authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Transfers to such Authority all authority of the Department of Energy concerning radioactive mine and mill tailings, but maintains the regulatory authority of Federal agencies, States, Indian tribes, or private entities under the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978. Sets forth provisions relating to officers, personnel and administration of the Authority. Authorizes the departments and agencies of the executive branch to furnish any information requested by the Executive Director of such Authority deemed necessary to carry out his duties under this Act. Title III: Long-Term Surface Storage - Authorizes the Executive Director to study the feasibility of long-term surface storage of nuclear waste and spent fuel. Directs the Director to select a site or sites and to construct facilities for such storage. Requires the Executive Director to assure that a long-term facility shall be available to store spent fuel by January 1, 1988. Directs the Executive Director to submit a report to the President, Congress, and the Governor of the State selected for such facilities on his recommendations as to the establishment of such facilities. Directs the Executive Director to enter into contracts to accept and take title to, and to provide long-term storage and disposal of spent fuel and nuclear waste, under terms and conditions established by him. Provides for congressional oversight of the criteria used to establish such terms and conditions. Amends the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 to include spent fuel storage within the licensing and related regulatory authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over Retrievable Surface Storage Facilities and other nuclear storage facilities. Requires compliance by the Executive Director with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 with respect to the establishment of long-term storage facilities. Prohibits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from denying or otherwise delaying the granting of nuclear power reactor licenses based upon findings or determinations concerning the status or progress of long-term storage or disposal programs and facilities. Title IV: Nuclear Waste Treatment and Disposal - Directs the Authority to submit to Congress a Nuclear Waste Treatment and Disposal Plan. Enumerates items to be covered by such Plan. Directs the Authority to submit to Congress individual site development plans for liquid waste treatment plants and high-level and transuranic nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel repositories. Sets forth components of such plans. Authorizes the Executive Director to amend the general plan or individual site plans, and provides for congressional oversight of such site plans. Directs the Authority to submit to Congress a plan designed to assess the need for additional low-level waste sites and the need for any remedial action for existing low-level facilities. Includes research and development as part of such plan. Provides for State participation in the development of plans for the establishment of any nuclear waste treatment facility or permanent repository within any particular State. States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the licensing and regulatory authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over high-level radioactive waste storage and disposal. Requires that the Authority comply with requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act unless stated otherwise. Title V: Funding - Establishes within the Treasury a Nuclear Waste Management Fund to be administered by the Executive Director without the requirement of annual congressional authorization. States that the purpose of such Fund is to provide capital and operating expenses necessary for planning and administration, research and development, management, transport, treatment and disposal, and perpetual care and maintenance of commercially generated nuclear wastes, and such other financial needs as arise in the implementation of this Act. Authorizes the Executive Director to issue and sell securities and Fund bonds and to prescribe and impose fees and charges for services rendered by the Authority pursuant to this Act. Stipulates that the proceeds from the issuance of such bonds, the income and gains realized by the Fund from any investment of excess moneys from the Fund and the income from fees and charges established pursuant to this Act shall be deposited into the Fund. Directs the Authority to adopt criteria for setting fees, establishing fees schedules, and collecting fees from commercial users of its facilities. Stipulates that if the Federal Government determines that spent nuclear fuel is to be reprocessed, the Authority shall revise its fee schedules to include provisions for the return of spent nuclear fuel to facility users upon their request. Directs the Authority to provide for planning, administration, research and development, management, transport, treatment, disposal, and perpetual care and maintenance of all noncommercially generated nuclear waste and spent fuel. Directs the Congress to approve Authority budgets, and directs the Authority to compensate the Treasury out of the Fund for the cost of research and development performed by the Authority. Directs the Authority to take title to any existing nuclear waste disposal facility now under United States ownership. Title VI: International Cooperation - Directs the Authority to provide technical assistance to the Department of State in developing policies for international cooperation in nuclear waste management. Directs the Director to appoint a commission to study and recommend policies for such international cooperation and to identify foreign sites feasible as nuclear waste repositories.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1979
Alaska Federal-Civilian Energy Efficiency Swap Act of 1979 - Authorizes the Secretary of any of the departments of the United States to sell or contract to sell surplus federally generated electrical power produced in Alaska if such action will result in reduced electrical costs to Federal or civilian consumers, and in the case of electrical energy produced at coal-fired powerplants, will result in reduced consumption of oil and natural gas.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1979
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1979 - Requires each organization which expends more than $5,000 per quarter year for lobbying purposes to register with the Comptroller General and to update such registration annually. Requires such organization to file quarterly reports concerning such lobbying activities including: (1) an estimate of the total expenditures made for lobbying communications; (2) the identification of retainees and certain employees of the organization who make lobbying communications and the expenditures made pursuant to retaining or employing such persons; and (3) a description of the issues for which such organization has lobbied. Specifies duties of the Comptroller General concerning the management of such disclosed information which include making copies of each registration and report required by this Act available for public inspection and copying. Sets forth procedures for the enforcement of this Act. Authorizes a court to require the United States to pay the attorney fees and other litigation costs incurred by an organization which substantially prevails in any action brought pursuant to this Act. Requires the Comptroller General to transmit to the President and Congress annual reports on activities of the Comptroller General under this Act. Prescribes civil penalties for violations of provisions of this Act. Declares that no action to enforce any violation of this Act may be maintained unless brought within three years after the violation occurred. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act. Transfers all information obtained or prepared pursuant to such Act to the custody and control of the Comptroller General.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1979
Economic Growth Management Assistance Act - Establishes within the Executive Office of the President: (1) an Economic Growth Policy and Management Assistance Council (Council) which shall be presided over by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; and (2) an Office of Economic Growth Policy and Management Assistance to provide staff support for the Council and carry out other duties as assigned by the Council. Sets forth the duties of the Council which include: (1) evaluating the economic impact of Federal activities such as spending, contracting, and facility relocation on local, State, and regional economies; (2) identifying those economies which are substantially affected by such activities; (3) developing, updating, and submitting to Congress an annual national economic growth policy designed to stabilize economic growth; (4) developing programs to facilitate stable growth; (5) assisting substantially affected economies; and (6) reviewing proposed agency activities which will have a substantial impact on any such economies. Requires each Federal agency: (1) to prepare an annual economic impact statement on the effects of its activities on such economies; (2) to make such statement available to Congress and the public; and (3) to change their activities as necessary to avoid intensifying any negative economic trends of subtantially affected communities. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make employment training programs available to persons in such substantially affected areas. Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and Defense to make technical and economic adjustment assistance available to such areas.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1979
Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1976, as amended by the Tax Reduction and Simplification Act of 1977, to postpone the effective dates of certain changes in Federal income tax exclusions for sick pay from December 31, 1976, to December 31, 1977, or from January 1, 1977, to January 1, 1978, as the case may be.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the disability and income requirements for the sick pay exclusion enacted by the Tax Reform Act of 1976, and to restore prior law. Makes such repeal retroactive to January 1, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income of any individual who has attained the age of 65 the first $5,000 of income, including any amount received as a pension or annuity, which would otherwise be included in such gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a tax exclusion from personal income earned abroad by an individual performing qualified charitable services for a tax-exempt employer. Limits such exclusion to an amount not to exceed a figure computed on a daily basis at an annual rate of $20,000. Sets a formula for the maximum amount of exclusion for an individual who performs such charitable services and also performs other services while residing in a camp located in a hardship area.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1979
Patent Law Amendments of 1979 - Directs the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks to establish regulations governing: (1) the citation to the Patent and Trademark Office of prior art patents or publications which are pertinent to a later patent; and (2) the reexamination of a patent to determine whether such a prior patent or publication has any bearing on the patentability of any claim of such patent. Authorizes any individual to: (1) cite to the Office any such prior patent; and (2) request such a reexamination. Requires the Commissioner within 90 days of such a request to make a determination as to whether the cited prior patent raises a new question of the patentability of any claim of the later patent. Authorizes the Commissioner on his or her own initiative to make such a determination at any time. States that a determination that no new question is raised shall be final. Directs the Commissioner, upon determining that there is a new question of patentability, to order and conduct a reexamination. Requires that the patent owner be provided at least two months to file a statement on such question and that the person making the reexamination request be provided two months to respond to such statement. Declares that the patent owner shall be provided an opportunity in any reexamination to amend any claim of the patent in order to distinguish the claim from the prior patent cited, or in response to a decision adverse to the patentability of the claim. Authorizes the owner to appeal any adverse decision. Directs the Commissioner, upon the conclusion of any reexamination or appeal proceeding, to issue and publish a certificate cancelling any unpatentable claim, confirming any valid claim, and incorporating any amended claim in the patent. Declares that no prior patent or publication may be relied upon as evidence of nonpatentability in a civil action involving the validity or infringement of a patent unless: (1) the prior patent or publication was cited by or to the Office regarding application or reexamination proceedings for the patent; or (2) the court concludes that consideration of the prior patent or publication in such proceedings is unnecessary for adjudication. Sets forth circumstances under which a court may stay the proceedings of a civil action involving the infringement or validity of a patent to enable either party to such action to secure a determination on a request for reexamination of the patent by the Patent and Trademark Office. Provides the moving party in such action the right to dismiss the complaint commencing such action.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit any State, or political subdivision thereof, which imposes an income tax on a corporation from taking into account any amount of income belonging to, or attributable to, any foreign corporation which is also a member of an affiliated group to which the domestic corporation belongs, unless such amount is subject to Federal income tax. Prohibits any State, or political subdivision thereof, from taxing or otherwise taking into account a certain percentage (determined according to specified formulae) of any dividend received by a corporation from a foreign corporation (or by a domestic corporation treated as having received such a dividend). Allows such State, or political subdivision, to take into account only a tax for which a Federal foreign tax credit would be allowed.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1979
Establishes the Commission for the Commemoration of the Federal Government Bicentenary Era to commemorate the significant events in American history which occurred between the years of 1776 and 1800. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the activities of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Act - Establishes the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to: (1) determine whether a wrong was committed against American citizens and permanent resident aliens who were subjected to relocation or internment as a result of Executive Order Numbered 9066 dated February 9, 1942, and other associated Government acts; and (2) recommend appropriate remedies. Directs the Commission: (1) to hold public hearings in specified cities; and (2) within 18 months after enactment of this Act, to submit a final report of its findings and recommendations to Congress and the President. Terminates the Commission six months after such report is submitted.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development to pay a specified sum to a named individual for educational expense allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Declares an individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to the investment tax credit rate for the purchase of equipment financing bonds. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 ($200 in the case of a joint return). Provides that the taxpayer must hold such equipment financing bonds for at least 84 months after purchase, or else pay a tax penalty in the year of sale of 150 percent of the amount allowed as a credit as a result of the purchase of such bonds. Defines "equipment financing bond" as a bond which is used to finance the purchase of property for which an investment tax credit is allowable.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $100 to $1,000 the amount of the dividend exclusion from gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the income tax deduction for capital gains. Provides for an inflation adjustment for the capital gains or losses of noncorporated taxpayers. Revises the tax treatment of capital losses of noncorporate taxpayers by providing that such losses shall be allowed only to the extent of long-term capital gains, plus the smaller of the taxpayer's taxable income reduced by his zero bracket amount, or $3,000 ($1,500 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return). Provides for a one year carryover of excess long-term capital losses.