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United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Includes a specified period of service with the Pacific Stars and Stripes as years of creditable service in determining the Federal retirement annuity of a named individual.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Entitles any individual enrolled in a Federal employee health benefits plan which covers services of a nurse to: (1) unrestricted selection of, and access to, such nurse; and (2) direct reimbursement.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of professional nurse services under the Medicaid program and part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for certified nurse-midwife services.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for services furnished by a clinical social worker to a member of a health maintenance organization.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Provides for free travel on military aircraft for any former member of the armed forces who has a service-connected disability rated total by the Veterans Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends the Central, Western, and South Pacific Fisheries Development Act to extend the authorization of appropriations under such Act through FY 1988. Changes the name of the Pacific Tuna Development Foundation to the Pacific Fisheries Development Foundation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Grants a Federal charter to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Authorizes the classification of a named individual as a child within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Sex Discrimination in the United States Code Reform Act of 1985 - Title I: Armed Forces, Soldiers' Home, Coast Guard, Lighthouse Service, and Merchant Marine - Amends Federal laws dealing with the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Coast Guard to eliminate gender-based distinctions. Title II: Elimination of Gender-Based Distinctions Under the Social Security Act and the Railroad Retirement Act - Eliminates gender-based distinctions in the social security and railroad retirement programs. Title III: Amendments to United States Code - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Walsh-Healey Act, the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, the Federal criminal code and other Acts (dealing with Indian affairs, transportation, public lands, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, contract law, the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, longshoremen and harbor workers, conservation programs, internee benefits, and the spouses of former Presidents, among other subjects) to eliminate gender-based distinctions. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Relieves a named U.S. Navy officer of all liability to the United States for a specified sum representing housing and cost-of-living allowances overpayments made to him by the U.S. Navy during a specified period. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay such individual an amount equal to any amount paid by such individual to the United States with respect to such overpayment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the heirs, successors, or assigns of a named individual in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States relating to property loss suffered by such individual as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Declares three named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Authorizes the granting of visas and admission to the United States for permanent residence to four named members of such individual's family.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Authorizes the classification of a named individual as a child within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Native American Gifted and Talented Educational Assistance Act of 1985 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education and State and local educational agencies for demonstration projects designed to address the special needs of gifted and talented elementary and secondary school students who are Indians, Hawaiian Natives, or Native American Pacific Islanders (including American Samoans). Requires, as a condition of the award of such grants, that an application be submitted to the Secretary. Applies specified requirements of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to such projects unless such requirements cannot legally be met in the State (as determined by the State educational agency of the State in which the applicant for funds is located). Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance Act of 1985 - Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to States for developing more effective drug prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs. Establishes a procedure for grant applications. Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States to assist States and local governments to increase their drug enforcement activities. Requires such grants to be based on the relative needs of the States, taking into consideration the severity of drug trafficking and abuse and the availability of State and local resources to resolve such problems. Establishes a procedure for grant applications. Requires such an application to include a State-wide strategy for the enforcement of State drug laws. Imposes limitations on the use of such grants, including a maximum five percent allocation for administrative purposes. Requires each State which receives a grant to submit a yearly report to the Attorney General, who shall in turn report to Congress with respect to such grants. Authorizes appropriations for both grant programs for FY 1986 through 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for clinical social worker services under Medicaid and part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare. Increases to $1,000 the amount which may be considered as expenses incurred in connection with the outpatient treatment of mental, psychoneurotic, and personality disorders under part B.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide for the coverage of pediatric nurse practitioners or pediatric clinical nurse specialists under Medicaid and part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends titles XVIII and XIX (Medicare and Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for psychiatric clinical nurse specialist or psychiatric nurse practitioner services under Medicaid and part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare. Increases to $1,000 the amount which may be considered as expenses incurred in connection with the outpatient treatment of mental, psychoneurotic, and personality disorders under part B.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends titles XVIII and XIX (Medicare and Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for gerontological nurse practitioner or gerontological clinical nurse specialist services under Medicaid and part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of Medicare.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage as a "qualified pregnant woman" to a pregnant woman who is a member of a family which meets the income and resources requirements of part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to extend for one year: (1) the conditional ceiling on Federal financial participation in foster care; (2) the provision which permits a State to use, under part B (Child Welfare Services) of title IV, funds made available to it under the conditional ceiling that are not needed under part E; and (3) the provision permitting Federal financial participation for foster care for certain children voluntarily placed in foster care.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Grants a Federal charter to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Compassionate Pain Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a 60-month program under which parenteral diacetylmorphine shall be made available through hospital and other prescribed pharmacies for the relief of pain from terminal cancer (as defined by this Act). Directs the Secretary to provide for the manufacture of such drug. Permits physicians registered under the Controlled Substances Act to prescribe such drug. States that for purposes of such program the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and titles II and III of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 shall not apply with respect to: (1) the importing of opium; and (2) the manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of parenteral diacetylmorphine. Requires: (1) the Secretary to make program reports to specified congressional committees; and (2) the Comptroller General of the United States to make a program report to such committees upon expiration of 56 months after the date the program is established. Requires the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees concerning: (1) the extent of research activities in the management of pain which have received funds through the National Institutes of Health; (2) the ways in which the Federal Government supports the training of health personnel in pain management; and (3) recommendations for expanding and improving the training of health personnel in pain management. Permits the Secretary at any time six months after implementation of the program to modify or terminate the program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Prohibits the expenditure of funds for the production of lethal binary chemical munitions after the enactment of this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should intensify efforts to reach agreement with the Soviet Union and other countries for a mutual, verifiable ban on chemical weapons; and (2) the Department of Defense should improve the capability of the United States to detect chemical weapons and protect members of the armed forces from the effects of such weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
Grants a Federal charter to the National Academies of Practice, honoring persons of the health care professions.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
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 · 3 January 1985
Designates the week of March 24 through March 30, 1985, as National Skin Cancer Prevention and Detection Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1985
States that the United States and the Soviet Union should: (1) pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race; (2) decide when and how to achieve a mutual verifiable freeze on the testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems; (3) give special attention to destabilizing weapons; and (4) proceeding from this freeze, pursue major, mutual, and verifiable reductions in nuclear warheads, missiles, and other delivery systems.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1984
Expresses the Senate's appreciation to members of the entertainment industry, especially the Entertainment Industries Council, for their work in discouraging and communicating the danger of drug use.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1984
Expresses the Senate's appreciation to members of the entertainment industry, especially the Entertainment Industries Council, for their work in discouraging and communicating the danger of drug use.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1984
Declares two named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1984
Grants a Federal charter to the National Society, Daughters of the American Colonists.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1984
National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1984 - Title I: Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research - Establishes: (1) a ten-year National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program; and (2) a Directorate, with the Secretaries of Defense, Agriculture, and Health and Human Services as joint chairpersons, to implement such program. Sets forth the Directorate's functions, including: (1) establishing National Science Foundation-administered matching grants to accelerate the development of uniform and cost-effective standards to monitor nutritional and health status; (2) establishing Centers for Disease Control-administered grants to assist States and local governments to monitor and enhance nutrition services; and (3) submitting an annual report to the President and the Congress by January 15 of each year. Requires the Directorate to prepare a National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Plan which shall: (1) assess and report on U.S. nutritional and dietary trends; (2) sponsor or conduct research; (3) develop and maintain dietary and nutritional data resources; (4) coordinate Federal activities and assist similar State and local activities, including scientific and technical assistance; (5) maintain and coordinate present and future nutrition and dietary surveys, including the development of uniform survey standards; and (6) encourage private sector and academic program participation. Requires a 60-day public comment period before such plan is submitted in final form to the President and the Congress. Provides for scientific research and development in support of such program and plan. Authorizes: (1) FY 1985 appropriations to be available until expended to establish the Directorate and the National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council (as provided for in title II of this Act); and (2) ten-year appropriations for the National Science Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control grant programs. Title II: National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council - Establishes a 15-member Advisory Council to: (1) evaluate such program and plan; (2) provide scientific and technical advice; and (3) submit an annual report to the Directorate.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1984
Designates the month of October 1984 as National Head Injury Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1984
Authorizes the classification of two named individuals as children within the meaning of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that funding should be provided to carry out existing scientific exchange agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1984
Arms Race Control Act of 1984 - Directs the President to propose to the Soviet Union that the two sides agree to halt for a limited time: (1) the flight, testing, and deployment of strategic ballistic missiles under development; (2) the testing of antisatellite weapons against objects in space; and (3) the detonation of any nuclear explosive device. Prohibits the obligation or spending of any funds, beginning six months after enactment of this Act, for any such testing, deployment, or detonation unless the President provides a determination and certification to the Congress, together with an unclassified report and a detailed classified report setting forth the basis for the decision stating that: (1) the President has tried in good faith and has failed to achieve a mutual and verifiable agreement with the Soviet Union to impose the constraints on such testing, deployment, and detonation; (2) the President has reliable evidence that the Soviet Union is proceeding with such testing, deployment, or detonation; and (3) failure of the United States to do the same would undermine the national security. Provides for the allocation of personnel as may be appropriate to ensure continued progress toward the goal of a comprehensive halt in the nuclear arms race. Directs the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, to transmit to the Congress an annual report regarding the status of and prospects for bilateral and multilateral negotiations to accomplish the goal of a comprehensive halt in the nuclear arms race.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1984
Designates 1985 as the Year of the Teacher.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1984
Congratulates the U.S. athletes who participated in the games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles. Urges the speedy enactment of S. 2568 (discrimination by Federal assistance recipients).
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1984
Commercial Space Launch Act - Prohibits persons from: (1) launching a launch vehicle or operating a launch site within the United States (or, in the case of U.S. citizens, from outside the United States) unless they are properly licensed; and (2) in the case of a license holder, launching a payload (i.e., object to be placed in space) unless such payload compiles with all requirements of Federal law. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to ascertain whether a person has obtained a license to launch a payload. Directs the Secretary, if no license has been obtained, or if no license is required by Federal law and such launch is a safety or security jeopardy, to take appropriate action to prevent the launch of such payload. Grants exclusive authority to the Secretary to issue or transfer such licenses (except for licenses issued under the Communications Act of 1934) to persons who meet the requirements of this Act. Directs the Secretary to prescribe requirements for the issuance or transfers of a license. Allows the Secretary, in individual cases and under certain circumstances, to waive such requirements. Provides for: (1) license application and approval; and (2) license modification, suspension and revocation. Provides for administrative and judicial review of actions regarding issuing, transferring, modifying,, suspending, or revoking such licenses. Permits Federal officials to monitor the activities of licenses. Permits the use of Government property by such licensees and requires them to have liability insurance. Provides for the collection of fees by the Secretary for the use of such property. Sets forth civil penalties for violations of this Act. Prohibits a State from adopting any law or rule inconsistent with this Act. Allows State laws and rules additional to or more stringent than those under this Act. Requires the Secretary to carry out this Act consistent with U.S. international obligations and with applicable foreign laws. Requires the Secretary, not later than one year after enactment of this Act, to submit to the Congress a report describing activities undertaken pursuant to this Act and recommendations for legislation regarding commercial launch activities. Directs the Secretary to consult with: (1) the Secretary of Defense on matters relating to the national security of the United States; and (2) the Secretary of State with respect to international matters. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985-1989.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1984
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should direct appropriate members of the Administration to: (1) pursue discussions with Canada directed toward resolving problems relating to U.S. imports of Canadian pork; and (2) use all available authorities to protect the economic viability of the U.S. pork industry and to promote free and fair trade.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1984
Expresses the sense of the Senate that no recess appointments should be made when the Senate stands adjourned or recessed within a session for a period of less than 30 days.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1984
Reaffirms the U.S. commitment to the furnishing of population assistance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) U.S. policy toward furnishing such assistance should continue; and (2) the President should not deny funds to any multilateral institution or nongovernmental or private and voluntary organization because of their participation in family planning activities that are financed with funds from non-Federal sources as long as those activities are in accordance with U.S. laws.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1984
Directs the President to designate March 1985 as National Mental Retardation Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1984
Designates the month of October 1984 as Computer Learning Month.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1984
National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act of 1984 - Establishes the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere (the Committee). Requires the 13 members of the Committee (the currently established committee has 18 members) to: (1) not be full-time U.S. employees; (2) be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and (3) relfect diverse backgrounds relating to oceanic and atmospheric policy. Requires the Committee to: (1) continually review ocean policy, coastal zone management, and the U.S. marine and atmospheric science and service programs; and (2) advise the Secretary of Commerce (the Secretary) with respect to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration programs; (3) submit an annual report to the Secretary, President, and Congress. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) the membership and Chairmanship of the Committee; (2) the terms, compensation and travel expenses of the committee members; and (3) interagency cooperation and assistance. Repeals Federal law establishing qualifications for individuals appointed to the current National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere and authorizing appropriations for such committee. Transfers the personnel and functions of such committee to the Committee established under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1984
Proclaims October 23, 1984, as "A Time of Remembrance" for Americans to take time to reflect on the sacrifices that have been made in the pursuit of peace and freedom.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1984
Designates the week beginning on May 19, 1985, as National Tourism Week.