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United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate October 12 through October 19, 1980, as "Italian-American Heritage Week."
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1980
Directs the Secretary of Education to withdraw specified proposed rules relating to students with limited proficiency in English.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1980
Venture and Equity Capital Revitalization Act of 1980 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the capital gains deduction for individuals from 60 percent of the net capital gain to 75 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering Act, 1980 - Declares it to be the policy of the U.S. to: (1) establish a national goal of demonstrating the engineering feasibility of magnetic fusion by the early 1990's; (2) achieve, no later than the year 1990, operation of a magnetic fusion engineering device based on the best available confinement concept; and (3) establish as a national goal the operation of a magnetic fusion demonstration plant by the year 2005. Directs the Secretary of Energy to initiate activities or accelerate existing activities in research areas in which the lack of knowledge limits magnetic fusion energy systems in order to ensure the achievement of the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain an aggressive plasma confinement research program on the current lead concept; (2) maintain a broadly based research program on alternate confinement concepts and advanced fuels; (3) ensure that research on properties of materials likely to be required for the construction of fusion engineering devices is adequate to provide timely information for the design of such devices; (4) initiate design activities on a fusion engineering device using the best available confinement concept to ensure operation of such device, no later than 1990; and (5) develop and test the adequacy of the engineering design components to be utilized in the fusion engineering device. Directs the Secretary to prepare a comprehensive program management plan for the conduct of the research, development, and demonstration activities under this Act. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan for the creation of a national magnetic fusion engineering center to accelerate fusion technology development via the concentration and coordination of major magnetic fusion engineering devices and associated activities at such a national center. Provides for the establishment of a technical panel on magnetic fusion of the Energy Research ADvisory Board to advise the Secretary on the conduct of the national magnetic fusion energy program. Requires the technical board to report at least annually to the Energy Research Advisory Board, and requires the Board to report to the Secretary. Requires the director of each magnetic fusion laboratory installation operated for, and funded by, the Federal Government to establish a program advisory committee solely for the purpose of advising such director. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to actively seek to enter into or to strengthen existing international cooperative agreements in magnetic fusion research and development activities of mutual benefit to all parties. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assess the adequacy of the supply of manpower in the engineering and scientific disciplines to achieve the purposes of this Act; (2) assure the dissemination of information concerning the national magnetic fusion program; and (3) report annually to Congress concerning activities undertaken pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. Declares that it is in the best interest of both such countries to convene a parliamentary and scholarly conference to commemorate and evaluate such treaty. Expresses the interest of the Senate in receiving a report on such conference.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to revise the definition of "farm labor contractor" to: (1) broaden specified exclusions from such definition (thus broadening certain exemptions from coverage under such Act); and (2) exclude from such definition (and such coverage) any nonprofit or cooperative association of farmers, growers, ranchers, duly incorporated under appropriate State laws, and operated solely for the mutual benefit of the members thereof, and any full-time or regular employee of such association or cooperative who engages in such activity solely for such employer. Adds other definitions relating to such revisions. Revises the definition of "agricultural employment" to specify that listed activities take place on a farm or ranch. Limits the definition of "migrant worker" to only those workers who cannot regularly return to their domicile each day after working hours, or who are transported from and to their domicile each workday by the person who recruits, solicits, hires, or furnishes such worker for agricultural employment on a farm or ranch owned or operated by another person.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Tax Reduction - Job Creation Act - Title I: Individual Tax Rates - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce income tax rates for each category of individual taxpayers. Title II: Incentives for New Plant and Equipment - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and a six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits taxpayer to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1980
Terminates the export controls imposed by the President on agricultural commodities to the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil, tier 2, and tier 3 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding the domestic automotive and truck industry. Declares it to be a goal of the United States to achieve technological superiority in the world automobile and truck industry. Advocates changes in economic, fiscal, and import policies in order to create adequate capital and produce a more favorable climate for the domestic automobile and truck industry.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1980
Disapproves a specified portion of the proposed deferral of budget authority (D80-65) for Environmental Protection Agency grants for waste treatment works.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1980
Disapproves a specified portion of the proposed deferral of budget authority (D80-65) for Environmental Protection Agency grants for waste treatment works.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1980
Unlocking America's Energy Resources Act - Directs the President to order the removal of administrative restrictions not required by Federal law or court order which impede the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf. Requires the President to institute policies which give priority to the expeditious leasing, development, and production of oil, natural gas, coal, oil shale, tar sands, and geothermal resources on Federal lands. Requires the President to submit to an advisory panel a list of restrictions required by Federal law or court order which impede the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf. Directs the panel to review such restrictions and report to Congress and the President on: (1) the reasonableness of such restrictions; and (2) appropriate legislative or administrative actions to reduce impediments to the leasing of energy resources on Federal lands or the Outer Continental Shelf. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to order substantial lease sales, for private development only, within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Bars civil actions challenging any such lease sale which are brought more than 30 days after such lease sale is announced. Exempts any such lease sale from the environmental impact statement requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. Requires the President to direct that leasing priority be given to areas of the Outer Continental Shelf that have the highest hydrocarbon potential and known hydrocarbon reserves. Sets forth the conditions for the issuance of Outer Continental Shelf leases by the Secretary of the Interior. Sets forth the requirements for the appointment by the President of members of the advisory panel.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with other Federal agencies, should establish a program to use energy efficient and viable alternatives to halocarbon based technologies for cooling.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1980
Urban Jobs and Enterprise Zone Act of 1980 - Title I: Designation of Private Jobs and Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of private jobs and enterprise zones, for a ten-year period, by local governments, or by State governments on behalf of local governments subject to the approval of the Secretary of Commerce, for purposes of extending the tax incentives provided by title II of this Act to employers and employees within designated zones. Specifies that the Secretary may only approve the designation of such zones if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of the designating local government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area has a population of at least 4,000, or is an Indian reservation; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements. Requires designating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's approval, to effect a permanent real property tax reduction in their respective jurisdictions, which is not less than 20 percent of the current effective rate. Requires any such property tax reduction to be disregarded for the purpose of determining the eligibility of a State or local government for Federal assistance or benefits. Expresses the sense of the Congress that in the case of any application for designation of an area in a private jobs and enterprise zone as a foreign trade zone: (1) the Foreign-Trade Zone Board should expedite the application process; (2) the Board, in evaluating such application, should consider not only the current economic conditions within the zone, but also future development to be expected as a result of the incentives provided by this Act; and (3) the Board should provide technical assistance to the applicants. Title II: Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce social security payroll taxes in designated private jobs and enterprise zones. States that such tax rate reductions shall not affect an individual's eligibility for social security benefits. Appropriates to the Federal Disability and Hospital Insurance Trust Funds general revenue amounts equivalent to the amount by which such taxes are reduced. Reduces the rate of tax on the capital gains of individuals and corporations in such zones. Exempts gain from the sale or exchange of property used in a business in a private jobs and enterprise zone from the computation of the minimum tax. Reduces the rate of tax on the income to corporations whose workforce comprises at least 50 percent of individuals working in a private jobs and enterprise zone (qualifying businesses). Authorizes accelerated depreciation for qualifying businesses (straight line method based on a three year useful life). Limits the basis for depreciation to $500,000. Allows a full investment tax credit for such property despite election of such accelerated depreciation. Permits qualifying businesses to elect to use a cash method of accounting if their gross receipts do not exceed $1,500,000 in any prior taxable year. Allows a ten year carryover of net operating losses for qualifying businesses. Title III: Effective Date - Specifies effective dates for provisions of this Act which apply to income tax, provisions which apply to social security payroll taxes, and provisions which apply to tax procedure and administration.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1980
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 · 20 May 1980
Excludes from the boundaries of the Grand Teton National Park in the State of Wyoming those lands which comprise the area utilized by the town of Jackson, Wyoming, and the county of Teton, Wyoming, for the operation of a public airport facility.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1980
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) to conduct a clinical investigation of the safety and efficacy of dimethyl sulfoxide as a drug to be used by persons with arthritis.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1980
Amends the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 to authorize appropriations to the State and Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund for the entitlement periods of each of fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Reduces by one-third the funds authorized to be provided for such entitlement periods. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish within the Trust Fund a State government account and a local government account for entitlement periods beginning after September 30, 1980. Declares that the State account shall receive only funds transferred from categorical grant programs. Prohibits the amount credited to the State account for a specific State for any entitlement period from exceeding one-half the amount credited to the local government account for all local governments within such State for that period. Declares that the amount a State government is entitled to receive from the Trust Fund for any entitlement period beginning after September 30, 1980, shall not exceed the amount of the categorical grant funding reduction elected by that State for that entitlement period. Sets forth the procedures for the designation, by the chief executive officer of a State, of the categorical grant programs under such State's allotments which are to be transferred to the State account of the Trust Fund. Requires a majority of the chief executive officers of States involved in a single project under a program to designate the transfer of funds for such program before such transfer may occur. Directs the Secretary to transfer any such designated program funds to the State government account. Declares that such a transfer of funds allotted to a State under a program shall constitute a payment to that State for purposes of provisions of law providing for the reallotment of amounts not paid under the program to a State.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Designates the week of February 15 through February 21, 1981, as "National Circle K Week."
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the enactment of a withholding tax on interest and dividend payments would be detrimental to the economic well-being of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1980
Makes an approved new drug application effective for the use of dimethyl sulfoxide as a topical drug for the relief of inflamation from arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism, and other disorders of the musculoskeletal system.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1980
Makes an approved new drug application effective for the use of dimethyl sulfoxide as a treatment for scleroderma.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1980
Makes an approved new drug application effective for the use of dimethyl sulfoxide as an intravenous drug for the treatment of acute brain and spinal cord injuries.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1980
Directs the Postmaster General to issue in the year 1980 a special postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1980
Extends the condolences of the Senate to the families of the eight American servicemen who lost their lives during the mission to rescue the hostages in Iran. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President order the American flag to be flown at half-mast on all government grounds from May 4 through May 11, 1980, as a mark of respect for such servicemen.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1980
Extends the congratulations of the Senate to all of the members of the 1980 United States Handicapped Olympic Team for a job well done.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1980
National Forest Multiple-Use Management Act of 1980 - Specifies that lands within the National Forest System considered for wilderness designation under the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE) conducted by the Department of Agriculture, but not recommended for designation as wilderness or identified for further planning during the 96th Congress, shall continue to be managed for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System which have been recommended for designation as wilderness during the 96th Congress, but have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1983, shall be managed beginning on such date for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System which have been identified for further planning during the 96th Congress, but which have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1983, shall be managed beginning on such date for uses other than wilderness. Stipulates that if: (1) an executive communication has been received by Congress recommending the designation of any such lands as wilderness prior to January 1, 1983, and such lands have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1985, they shall be managed beginning January 1, 1985, for uses other than wilderness; and (2) at any time a determination is made by the Secretary of Agriculture under the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 that any such lands shall not be recommended for designation as wilderness, they shall be managed beginning on the date of such determination for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System recommended for designation as primitive area during the 96th Congress, for termination and management for use other than wilderness, shall be managed after the date of enactment of this Act for uses other than wilderness in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Directs that lands within the National Forest System that have been recommended for designation as primitive area during the 96th, for termination and designation as wilderness, but which have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1984, shall be with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt a certain portion of royalty owner oil production from the windfall profit tax. Limits the amount so exempted per quarter to ten barrels per day. Requires proportionate allocation of any production in excess of ten barrels per day between tier 1 oil and tier 2 oil, and within any tier on the basis of removal prices. Requires allocation of the ten barrel amount among royalty owners who are members of the same related group.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Deems certain oil and gas leases to be in full force and effect under specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Disapproves the President's imposition of import fees on petroleum and petroleum products pursuant to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall not approve any portion of the Model State Adoption Act and Procedures prepared under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 which: (1) confers upon all biological fathers of children born out of wedlock, without distinction, the right to veto adoption of the child upon mere proof of paternity; (2) sets less stringent standards for the placement of children by unlicensed intermediaries than by licensed child-placing agencies; (3) gives parents the right to revoke relinquishments which have not been obtained through fraud, duress, or undue influence; (4) requires automatic opening at the request of an adult adoptee of confidential birth records, court records, and adoption agency records; and (5) requires agencies to notify adult adoptees that a birth parent desires to meet the adoptee even if the adoptee has not expressed a desire to meet with his birth parents.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Members of Congress should request their States, constituents, and the Bureau of the Census to encourage older people to participate as census workers in the taking of the 1980 Decennial Census.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1980
Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act to require competitive bidding in oil and gas lands set apart for military or naval purposes, and to expand the area to be leased by competitive bid two and one-half miles outside known geological structures of a producing oil or gas field.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Amends the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 to extend the authorization of appropriations for general revenue sharing through fiscal year 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Members of Congress should request their States, constituents, and the Bureau of the Census to encourage older Americans to participate as census workers in the taking of the 1980 decennial census.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Congress does not intend to take any action to authorize wage and price controls.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that it does not intend to take any action to authorize wage and price controls.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1980
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the first concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1981 reported by the Committee on the Budget shall limit budget outlays to 21 per cent of the gross national product.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to reduce the value of the allotment received by a household containing members who have available to them meals provided under the national school lunch program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Congratulates the members of the 1980 U.S. Winter Olympic team, its coaches and officials for a job well done. Recognizes the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee and the people of the Lake Placid area for their successful efforts in organizing and producing the XIII Winter Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1980
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of February as "National Snowmobiling Month."
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1980
Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act to include any loan, payment, or gift made for the purpose of participating or intervening in a political campaign for certain offices within the definition of a "contribution or expenditure" by a national bank, a corporation, or a labor organization for purposes of such Act and the Public Utility Holding Company Act. Allows a corporation or labor organization to establish and administer a separate contributory fund for political purposes provided that all contributions for or to the fund are made voluntarily and are unrelated to any fees required for membership or employment in such organization or corporation. Prohibits the payment of any costs of establishing or administering the fund from moneys obtained in any commercial transaction.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1980
Urges the President to prohibit the export of phosphate fertilizer to the Soviet Union, until Soviet troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan and the President removes the ban imposed on the export of agricultural commodities to the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1980
Specifies that certain lands within the National Forest System in Idaho which have been studied as part of the Roadless Area Review and Evaluation Program and which are not designated as wilderness or for further wilderness study or planning shall be managed for uses other than wilderness pursuant to the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Specifies that lands within the National Forest System which have been recommended in the 96th Congress for designation as wilderness, or identified for further planning, but have not been included in the National Wilderness Preservation System prior to January 1, 1982, shall be managed beginning on such date for uses other than wilderness. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, upon receipt of any communication from the Idaho State Legislature recommending additions to or deletions from the wilderness system in Idaho, to conduct a study pursuant to such recommendations and report within two years to Congress the merits of such proposed additions or deletions.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Amends the Clayton Act to prohibit the direct or indirect restriction by any person engaged in commerce on the use of credit instruments in any transaction concerning the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel, where there is no similar restriction on transactions concerning conventional motor fuel. Prohibits any other condition, restriction, agreement, or understanding which otherwise discriminates against or unreasonably limits the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1980
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to halt immediately implementation of those regulations relating to clinical laboratory personnel published October 12, 1979, and published as corrected October 23, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Amends the Colorado River Basin Project to prohibit any Federal official (presently, just the Secretary of the Interior) from undertaking reconnaissance studies of any plan for the importation of water into the Colorado River Basin from any other natural watershed outside of specified States.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1980
Designates March 1980 as "Gospel Music Month."
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1980
Expresses the gratitude of the Senate for the forceful action of Colonel Ishmail Kahn and Mr. Bill Hamidullah in repelling the attackers of the International School of Islamabad in Pakistan.