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United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress in opposition to employment discrimination against persons who have, or have had, cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1986
Designates February 4, 1987, as National Women in Sports Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1986
Cattle Restitution Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make specified payments to producers who sold cattle for nonbreeding purposes during the period March 28, 1986, through June 30, 1986. Requires payment claims to be submitted before July 1, 1987. Sets forth procedures for resolving disputed claims, including judicial review in U.S. district court.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1986
Comprehensive Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Coordination and Leadership - Subtitle A: Office of the Director of National and International Drug Operations and Policy - National Narcotics Act of 1986 - Establishes a Cabinet-level Office of the Director of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to plan and coordinate drug enforcement efforts of the Federal Government. Requires the Director to report to the Congress on U.S. policy with respect to illegal drugs. Requires the Director to make recommendations to specified congressional committees for legislation to reorganize the executive branch of the Government to more effectively reduce drug trafficking and drug abuse. Terminates the National Drug Enforcement Policy Board. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987. Subtitle B: White House Conference on Narcotics Abuse and Control - Directs the President to call a White House Conference on Narcotics Abuse and Control to develop recommendations to control the illicit production, trafficking, and distribution of narcotics, and to prevent and treat narcotics abuse. Directs the Conference to review: (1) the impact of recently enacted laws on efforts to control trafficking in narcotics and to prevent and treat narcotics abuse; (2) the recommendations of the President's Commission on Organized Crime as they relate to narcotics abuse and control; and (3) the extent to which sanctions in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 have been, or should be, used in encouraging foreign states to comply with their international responsibilities respecting narcotics control. Requires the Conference to report its findings to the President and the Congress. Subtitle C: Coordinated Budget Submission for Federal Drug Control and Enforcement Activities - Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission a detailed request for Federal agencies responsible for drug abuse prevention and treatment and drug law enforcement. Title II: Enforcement - Subtitle A: Drug Enforcement Enhancement - Drug Enforcement Enhancement Act of 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 to the Department of Justice for: (1) the Drug Enforcement Administration; (2) assistant U.S. attorneys; (3) U.S. Marshals; and (4) the National Park Police. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1987 and 1989 for the Federal Prison System; (2) FY 1988 and 1989 for the construction of Federal penal and correctional institutions; and (3) FY 1988 for establishing an All Source Intelligence Center. Subtitle B: State and Local Narcotics Control Assistance - State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to States for narcotics law enforcement. Establishes a procedure for grant applications. Requires such an application to include a State-wide strategy for the enforcement of State drug laws. Requires 75 percent of such grants to be distributed to States according to population, with the remaining 25 percent distributed according to need. Requires each State receiving such a grant to submit yearly reports to the Attorney General. Requires the Attorney General to submit annual reports to the Congress summarizing the State reports and the expenditure of such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 and 1988. Subtitle C: More Effective Criminal Penalties - Narcotics Penalties and Enforcement Act of 1986 - Part 1: Controlled Substances Penalties - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to modify the threshold quantity and kinds of controlled substances (adding cocaine freebase and controlled substance analogs) which trigger enhanced penalties. Establishes a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment (ten years for subsequent offenses) for violations involving a specified large quality of such substances. Increases the maximum sentence for such violations to 25 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $1,000,000 (40 years imprisonment and a fine of up to $2,000,000 for subsequent violations). Provides for a fine of up to $3,000,000 ($6,000,000 for subsequent violations) for violations involving a person other than an individual (corporation). Specifies lesser penalties for smaller quantities of the same substance. Increases the fines for certain Controlled Substances Act violations. Establishes criminal penalties (imprisonment for up to one year and a fine of up to $5,000, up to two years and $10,000 for subsequent violations) for possession of a controlled substance in a special maritime or territorial jurisdiction of the United States. Provides increased criminal penalties (a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment, maximum term of life) for certain Controlled Substances Act violations which result in death or a serious bodily injury. Amends the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to modify the threshold quantity and kinds of controlled substances which trigger revised enhanced penalties. (Modifies the quantities and kinds of substances to reflect those in the Controlled Substances Act.) Increases the fines for certain Controlled Substances Import and Export Act violations. Provides increased criminal penalties (a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years imprisonment, maximum term of life) for cetain Controlled Substances Import and Export Act violations which result in death or serious bodily injury. Part 2: Protection of Children from Crack and Other Narcotic Drugs - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make cocaine freebase a schedule I substance. Establishes criminal penalties for employing or using persons under 21 years of age in drug operations. Establishes enhanced criminal penalties for the manufacture of a controlled substance in or near an elementary or secondary school. (Current law establishes such enhanced penalties only for the distribution of a controlled substance in or near such schools.) Subtitle D: Unlawful Money Laundering - Money Laundering Crimes Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish money laundering as a Federal offense. Sets forth fines and penalties to be imposed on anyone who, knowing that the property involved in a financial transaction represents the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, conducts or attempts to conduct such a transaction which in fact involves such proceeds: (1) with the intent to facilitate the carrying on of specified unlawful activity; or (2) knowing that the transaction is designed in whole or in part to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, ownership, or control of such proceeds, or to avoid a transaction reporting requirement under State or Federal law. Sets forth fines and penalties to be imposed upon anyone who: (1) transports or attempts to transport a monetary instrument or funds from a place in the United States to or through a place outside the United States, or vice versa, with similar intent or knowledge; or (2) conducts or attempts to conduct a financial transaction that in whole or in part involves the proceeds of specified unlawful activities with intent to violate or facilitate the violation of certain provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Provides, for each of such offenses, for a fine of not more than $250,000 or twice the value of the monetary instrument, whichever is greater, or imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or both. Establishes a civil penalty of the greater of the value of the funds or the monetary instrument involved or $10,000. Authorizes components of the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury to investigate such offenses, as appropriate. Establishes extraterritorial jurisdiction if certain conditions are met. Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 with respect to the permissible notification of the Federal Government by a financial institution that the institution has information which may be relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation. Restricts such information to the name or names and other identifying information concerning the individuals and accounts involved in and the nature of the suspected illegal activity. Preempts any State or local law which prohibits disclosure of such information. Precludes liability under any law for an institution for such a disclosure or for failing to notify the customer of such disclosure. Grants a district court authority to order the institution to delay notifying a customer of the existence of a grand jury subpoena of financial records or of information furnished to the grand jury. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) examine books, papers, and records of domestic financial institutions; and (2) summon an officer or employee having possession or custody of reports or records to appear and give testimony under oath. Permits the Secretary to make information filed by financial institutions in certain reports available to a Federal, State, or local agency upon request. Authorizes the Secretary to make such information available to a Federal agency when the Secretary has reason to believe it may be relevant to a matter within the receiving agency's jurisdiction. Authorizes the disclosure of such information for national security purposes. Exempts such reports, and records of such reports, from public disclosure provisions. Increases the civil penalties for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act's reporting rules. Provides in the case of a reporting violation for a maximum penalty of $1,000,000 and a minimum of $25,000. Reduces the civil penalty by any amount forfeited to the United States. Imposes a civil penalty for the criminal violation of such rules, in the amount of the transaction or $25,000, whichever is greater, where the violation involves a transaction. Sets a civil penalty of the entire amount of an account (up to $250,000), or $25,000, whichever is greater, where the violation involves failure to report the existence of an account or any required identifying data pertaining to it. Imposes a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 in the case of a negligent violation. Authorizes the Secretary to assess a civil penalty within six years after the transaction on which the penalty is based. Permits the Secretary to bring a civil action to recover a civil penalty within two years after assessment. Lists money laundering as a predicate offense for purposes of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. Authorizes wiretapping for the investigation of money laundering. Establishes civil and criminal forfeiture procedures for the offense of money laundering. Subtitle E: Designer Drugs - Controlled Substance Analogs Enforcement Act of 1986 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to establish criminal penalties for the manufacture, possession with intent to distribute, or distribution of controlled substance analogs. Subtitle F: Career Criminals - Career Criminal Amendments Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal criminal code to provide increased mandatory penalties for any person who transports firearms or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce if such person has multiple convictions for serious drug offenses and violent felonies. (Current law provides increased penalties where such person had multiple convictions for robbery and burglary.) Subtitle G: Technical Amendments to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 - Grants the Attorney General authority to enter into contracts with State and local law enforcement agencies to provide cooperative controlled substance enforcement. Makes technical and conforming changes to the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. Subtitle H: Use of Defense Facilities as Detention Facilities - Requires the President to direct the Secretary of Defense to prepare a list of defense facilities which can be used as detention facilities for felons and describe how such facilities can be converted for use as detention facilities. Title III: Forfeiture - Authorizes the use of funds in the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund and the Customs Forfeiture Fund for specified controlled substances law enforcement activities. Directs the General Accounting Office to prepare a report on the feasibility and desirability of abolishing such funds and combining such funds under the authority of either of the offices. Requires such report to be submitted to specified congressional committees within six months of enactment of this Act. Requires the Attorney General to prepare a report on the feasibility and desirability of allowing evidentiary cash in Federal criminal and civil trials to be demonetized to expedite the transfer of such cash into the Federal Government's assets forfeiture funds. Title IV: Armed Services: Interdiction and Intelligence - Subtitle A: National Drug Interdiction Improvement - National Drug Interdiction Improvement Act of 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY 1987 for enhanced drug enforcement assistance, including: (1) the procurement of aircraft (including helicopters and long-range surveillance aircraft); and (2) aerostat radar systems. Directs the Secretary of Defense to make such aircraft available for use by the U.S. Customs Service (which shall be responsible for the expense of operating and maintaining such aircraft). Directs the Commissioner of Customs to consult with the Commandant of the Coast Guard regarding deployment of such aircraft. Requires the Commissioner to make quarterly reports to specified congressional committees regarding drug interdiction plans developed under this Act. Allows the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to assign specially trained members of the Coast Guard to duty on naval vessels for drug enforcement purposes. Authorizes appropriations for the Coast Guard for FY 1987 for: (1) the acquisition of secure radio equipment; (2) additional personnel; and (3) long-range surveillance aircraft. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for the U.S. Customs Service for: (1) additional drug interdiction personnel, equipment (including drug enforcement vehicles and vessels), and training (including training for Southwest Boarder Drug Enforcement Task Force personnel); (2) the operation and use of vessels made available by the United States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force; (3) the operation and maintenance of the air interdiction program; and (4) the establishment of a customs air support branch in the Northeast Region of the United States (including the purchase of specified aircraft). Authorizes appropriations for the establishment of command, control, communications, and intelligence centers in the United States. Establishes the United States-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force. Directs the Commissioner of Customs to enter into negotiations with the Government of the Bahamas regarding the establishment and operation of such task force. Directs the Director of the Office of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to make quarterly reports to specified congressional committees regarding progress in establishing the Task Force. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for: (1) the Coast Guard-Bahamas Drug Interdiction docking facility; (2) helicopters for drug interdiction operations in Hawaii; and (3) the establishment of an All Source Intelligence Center in the Department of Justice. Subtitle B: Anti-Smuggling Provisions - Anti-Smuggling Act of 1986 - Part I: Amendments to the Tariff Act of 1930 - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to include monetary instruments within the meaning of "merchandise." Requires the master of any vessel from a foreign port or place, any foreign vessel from a domestic port or place, or any U.S. vessel carrying bonded merchandise or foreign merchandise for which entry has not been made, to immediately report such vessel's arrival at a U.S. or Virgin Island port to the nearest customs facility or place prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Restricts the arrival of any vehicle coming into the United States to border crossing points designated by the Secretary. Requires the person in charge of such vehicle to report its arrival, and present such vehicle and all persons and merchandise on board, to the customs officer. Requires the pilot of any aircraft arriving in the United States to comply with such advance notification, arrival reporting, and landing requirements as the Secretary may prescribe. Prohibits the departure of such vessels, vehicles, or aircraft, or the discharge of passengers or merchandise, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Imposes penalties for violations of the arrival, reporting, or entry requirements. Increases the fine for the unauthorized unloading of passengers. Sets forth reporting requirements for individuals arriving in the United States. Imposes penalties for violations of such reporting requirements. Requires unclaimed property to be retained by the Customs Service for six months (currently one year). Allows such property to be retained for official use or otherwise disposed of in accordance with regulations. Allows counterfeit merchandise seized by the Customs Service to be sold at auction after 60 days (currently one year). Increases the criminal fines for: (1) failing to produce a vessel's manifest; (2) producing a false manifest; and (3) unlawfully unloading merchandise. Makes aviation smuggling unlawful. Prohibits the at sea transfer of prohibited merchandise between U.S. owned aircraft and vessels. Prohibits the at sea transfer of prohibited merchandise between aircraft and vessels, regardless of the nationality of either, where the intent is to smuggle the merchandise into the United States. Establishes penalties, including seizure of the aircraft of vessel, for violations of such anti-smuggling provisions. Specifies certain acts that, if engaged in within 250 miles of the U.S. territorial seas, shall be: (1) persumed to indicate intent to smuggle; and (2) deemed prima facie evidence that the aircraft or vessel was used in aiding or facilitating such smuggling. Establishes civil penalties for making false written or oral statements which seeks or affects the payment or credit of any drawback payment, refund of duties, allowance, or rebate, or relates to merchandise which is to be exported contrary to law. Changes the procedures for the seizure and forfeiture of conveyances used in smuggling to require that a common carrier be seized and forfeited under certain circumstances. Authorizes the issuance of search warrants for places suspected of containing: (1) merchandise brought into the United States unlawfully; (2) property which is subject to forfeiture under the customs laws; or (3) articles which are evidence of a customs violation. Authorizes the seizure and forfeiture of smuggled merchandise. Requires that any deposit made in lieu of forfeiture of property seized under customs laws be treated in the same manner as the proceeds of a sale of any forfeited item. Provides that the expenses of a forfeiture proceeding shall be a priority claim in the same manner as court costs. Provides that compensation for informers shall not exceed 25 percent of the amount recovered. (Current law requires such compensation to equal 25 percent of such amount.) Declares that an action to recover a pecuniary penalty is considered to have been commenced when the penalty notice is issued. Authorizes the Secretary to require the production of foreign landing certificates to comply with international obligations. Permits the Secretary to authorize customs officials to exchange information or documents with foreign customs or law enforcement agencies under certain circumstances. Allows the Secretary, when authorized by treaty or executive agreement, to station customs officers in foreign countries to examine persons or merchandise prior to their arrival in the United States. Provides that merchandise seized at a foreign station may be transported to the United States for customs proceedings. Permits the stationing of foreign customs officers in the United States (if similar privileges are extended to the United States). Imposes penalties for making fraudulent statements to such foreign officials. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to provide a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not to exceed two years, or both, for persons (owners of aircraft) who operate an aircraft: (1) that is not registered; (2) during any period for which the aircraft certificate or registration has been suspended or revoked by the Secretary of Transportation; (3) without a valid airman certificate; or (4) who employ airmen without valid airman certificates. Requires any person having an ownership interest in an aircraft for which a certificate or registration has been issued, upon the sale, transfer, or conveyance of such interest, to file within 15 days such notice as the Secretary of the Treasury may provide. Part II: Amendments to the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act - Makes it unlawful for any United States citizen on board any aircraft, or any person on board any aircraft owned by a U.S. citizen or registered in the United States, to manufacture or distribute or possess with intent to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance. Amends the Federal criminal code to provide criminal penalties for any person to operate an aircraft; (1) without navigation and/or anticollision lights; and (2) with an illegal fuel tank or fuel system installation. Title V: Foreign Relations - Subtitle A: International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - International Narcotics Control Act of 1986 - Part 1: International Narcotics Control Assistance Program - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the FY 1987 authorization for aid for international narcotics control. Permits certain additional funds to be appropriated for FY 1987 only if the President has submitted to the Congress: (1) a budget request for such funds; and (2) a plan showing how such funds will be used. Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 military assistance authorization be available to provide aircraft to countries receiving such assistance for narcotics control eradication and interdiction efforts. Earmarks at least half of such funds for aircraft based in Latin America. Requires such aircraft to be made available to foreign countries only on a lease or loan basis. Requires the Secretary of State to maintain detailed records on the use of such aircraft. Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 military assistance authorization be available for education and training in the operation and maintenance of aircraft used in narcotics control interdiction and eradication efforts. Earmarks a specified amount of the FY 1987 international narcotics control assistance for research, development, and testing of safe and effective herbicides for use in aerial eradication of coca. Requires the Comptroller General to investigate and report to the Congress on the effectiveness of the international narcotics control assistance program. Part 2: Improving Law Enforcement and Other Narcotics Control Activities Abroad - Requires the President's annual report to the Congress on the international strategy to prevent cultivation and trafficking in narcotics to include a discussion of the extent which each source country has cooperated with U.S. narcotics control efforts through the extradition or prosecution of drug traffickers and a description of the state of negotiations on updated extradition treaties. Commends the decision of the Secretary of State to issue diplomatic passports to officials and employees of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress before changing such policy. Requires the executive branch to establish expeditiously the information sharing system that will list all drug arrests of foreign nationals in the United States as required by the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1986 and 1987. Requires the executive branch to report to the Congress when the system is established. Urges the President to require that greater priority be given to the collection and sharing of information concerning narcotics related activities abroad. Requires the President to order the preparation of an updated threat assessment of narcotics trafficking from Africa. Requires the President to take steps to improve the capability of the executive branch to: (1) collect information concerning links between narcotics traffickers and acts of terrorism abroad; and (2) develop means to respond to the threat which those links pose. Requires the President to report to the Congress on such steps. Requires that a specified amount of the FY 1987 administration of justice program authorization be used to provide Colombia (and other countries in the region) assistance to protect judicial or other officials who are targets of narcoterrorist attacks. Urges the Secretary to increase efforts to negotiate with relevant countries procedures to facilitate the interdiction of vessels suspected of carrying illicit narcotics. Directs the President to take appropriate actions, including denial of access to U.S. ports, if a country refuses to negotiate interdiction procedures. Requires the Secretary to submit semiannual reports to the Congress identifying countries that fail to negotiate such procedures. Provides that the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State shall jointly determine when armed forces personnel are needed to provide law enforcement assistance (in enforcing specified customs and drug laws and the Immigration and Nationality Act) activities abroad. Part 3: Development and Narcotics Production and Trafficking - Requires the annual report on foreign aid programs to contain a description of the development programs (other than narcotics control programs) dealing with illicit narcotics production. Part 4: Drug Education Programs Abroad - Authorizes additional appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency for FY 1987 which shall be available only for increasing drug education programs abroad. Authorizes additional appropriations for development assistance programs for FY 1987 which shall be used for additional activities aimed at increasing awareness of the effects of production and trafficking of illicit narcotics on source and transit countries. Requires the Director of the U.S. Information Agency and the Director of the Agency for International Development to include in their annual reports to the Congress a description of the drug education programs carried out by their respective agencies. Part 5: United Nations Activities Related to Drug Narcotics Control - Declares congressional support or the United Nations General Assembly decision to convene in 1987 an International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Calls upon the President to appoint the head of the U.S. delegation well in advance of the conference and ensure that necessary resources are available for U.S. preparation and participation. Requires the President to report to the Congress by April 30, 1987, on the status of U.S. preparation for the conference. Calls for the conduct of a study of the effectiveness of the United Nations drug-related declarations, conventions, and entities. Requires the President to report any recommendations which result from such study to the Congress. Urges the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs to complete work as soon as possible on a new draft convention against illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances. Calls for more effective implementation of existing conventions relating to narcotics. Part 6: Provisions Relating to Specific Countries - Urges the President to direct the Secretary to enter into negotiations with the Government of Mexico to create a Mexico-United States Intergovernmental Commission on Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug Use and Abuse. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within 90 days of enactment of this Act on progress in establishing such a commission. Urges Pakistan to adopt and implement a comprehensive narcotics control program. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress within 60 days of enactment of this Act on the adoption and implementation of such a program. Calls upon the President to instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to request that the problem of illicit drug production in Iran, Afghanistan, and Laos be raised at the International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Subtitle B: Drug Eradication Act of 1986 - Drug Eradication Act of 1986 - Directs the United States to promote, through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the Inter-American Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank, the development and implementation of national drug eradication programs in developing countries. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multinational development banks to propose that assistance be provided to such countries in developing and implementing such programs. Authorizes the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration to certify the adequacy of such programs and annually review such programs. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to: (1) vote against loans to major drug producing countries that have no certified program within one year of enactment of this Act; and (2) propose that their respective banks increase lending for crop substitution programs. Requires the Secretary to include an accounting of the manner and extent of compliance siwht this Subtitle in its annual report to the Congress. Subtitle C: Denial of Trade Benefits to Certain Drug Source Nations - Narcotics Control Trade Act - Directs the President to designate a country an uncooperative drug source nation if during any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1986, such country: (1) was a source of any illicit narcotic and psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances that are significantly affecting the United States; and (2) did not cooperate with the United States in preventing such drugs and substances from affecting the United States by taking specified actions. Directs the President to report to the Congress the name of each such country. Denises the products of each such country most-favored-nation treatment until the President notifies the Congress that such country has made significant progress and will continue to make progress in remedying those policies on which an uncooperative drug source nation designation was based. Title VI: Education and Public Awareness - Subtitle A: Emergency Response - Designates October 6, 1986, as National Drug Abuse Education Day. Requires the Secretary of Education to insure that State educational departments and local school districts and schools have information on: (1) the scope and nature of the cocaine freebase epidemic; (2) strategies for effective school level intervention and community mobilization; and (3) available resources. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse to produce and disseminate public service announcements on the consequences of cocaine freebase use. Subtitle B: Establishment of Office Within the Department of Education - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish an Office of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Prevention in the Department of Education. Provides that such Office shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Prevention (the Assistant Secretary). Sets forth the duties of the Office. Requires the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to report to the Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act on the progress in establishing the Office and the long-term strategy of the Office for drug education and prevention. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to coordinate efforts to: (1) disseminate program related information; (2) provide training and technical assistance; and (3) identify research and development priorities. Subtitle C: Student Drug Abuse Education and Prevention - Student Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to establish a program of grants to States for drug (including alcohol) abuse education in elementary and secondary schools. Lists the State and local educational agency uses of such funds. Restricts the amount States may use for administrative costs. Provides for: (1) the allotment of such grant funds to States; (2) State application for such grant funds; (3) allocations to local educational agencies; and (4) local application to State educational agencies. Provides for the equitable participation of children enrolled in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools in such program. Provides that the use of such grant funds is to supplement and not supplant other Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Subtitle D: Regional Drug and Alcohol Abuse Training Centers - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 for establishing and operating regional drug and alcohol abuse training centers. TItle VII: Prevention and Treatment - Subtitle A: Prevention - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an emergency report and feasibility study of intervention by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Drug Abuse to reduce the epidemic of cocaine freebase use in the United States. Subtitle B: Research on Effective Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand certain information dissemination activities regarding drug abuse prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. Subtitle C: State and Local Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Assistance - State and Local Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1986 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991 to provide assistance to the States for planning, establishing, and maintaining effective prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs and activities to deal with the abuse of controlled substances. Requires 75 percent of such assistance to be distributed to States according to population, with the remaining 25 percent distributed according to need. Establishes procedures for grant applications. Imposes limitations on the use of such assistance, including a maximum five percent allocation for administrative purposes. Subtitle D: Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Model Projects for High Risk Youths - Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Model Projects for High Risk Youth Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate effective models of preventing drug abuse and alcohol abuse among high risk youths. Requires the Secretary to give priority to applications for projects directed at: (1) latchkey children; (2) children at risk of abuse or neglect; (3) preschool children eligible for services under the Heald Start Act; (4) children at risk of dropping out of school; (5) children at risk of becoming adolescent parents; and (6) children who do not attend school and who are at risk of being unemployed. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate effective models of treamtnt and rehabilitation of high risk youths who are drug abusers or alcohol abusers. Requires the Secretary to give priority to projects which address the relationship between drug abuse or alcohol abuse and: (1) physical, sexual, and/or emotional child abuse; (2) dropping out of school; (3) unemployment; (4) delinquency; (5) pregnancy; (6) violence; (7) suicide; or (8) mental health problems. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Requires public and nonprofit private entities to submit their grant applications to the Governor of the State in which the project will be conducted. Requires the Governor to review each application and submit his or her recommendations to the Secretary, together with a priority ranking of those recommended for approval. Requires the Secretary to give priority to applications from community-based organizations for projects: (1) to develop innovative multi-disciplinary models for the prevention or for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug abuse or alcohol abuse by high risk youths; and (2) to demonstrate effective models which may be replicated. Requires the Secretary, in making such grants, to consider the specific needs of urban and rural areas. Requires the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to evaluate projects conducted with grants under this Act. Subtitle E: Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment - Drug and Alcohol Dependent Offenders Treatment Act of 1986 - Grants the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts authority to contract with public and private agencies for the detection and treatment of alcohol-dependent and drug-dependent offenders. Amends the Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Authorization Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for contracts for the supervision of released drug offenders through FY 1989. Subtitle F: Indians and Alaska Natives - Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1986 - Part I: General Provisions - Sets forth the purpose of this Act. Part II: Coordination of Resources and Programs - Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement which shall: (1) define the scope of the problem of alcohol and substance abuse for Indian tribes and assess its financial and human costs; (2) assess the resources available to combat alcohol and drug abuse among Indian people; (3) establish appropriate standards for each agency's program responsibility; (4) coordinate the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service alcohol and substance abuse programs; (5) delineate the responsibilities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service to coordinate services; (6) directs the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency and education superintendents and the Indian Health Service unit directors to cooperate; and (7) provide for an annual review of such agreement by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the agreement to be submitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register. Allows the governing body of any Indian tribe to establish a Tribal Action Plan to coordinate available resources and programs in an effort to combat alcohol and substance abuse among its members. Requires the Bureau of Indian Affairs agency and education superintendents and the Indian Health Service service unit director to cooperate, if requested, in developing such plans. Provides for the development of such plans by Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service personnel if an Indian tribe fails to adopt such a plan. Establishes within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs an Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse to: (1) monitor the performance and compliance of programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in meeting the goals and purposes of such agreement and this Act; and (2) serving as a point of contact within the Bureau of Indian Affairs for Indian tribes and the Tribal Coordinating Committees. Establishes within the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse the position of Indian Youth Programs Officer. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make available for community use, in the futherance of the purposes and goals of this Act, local Federal facilities, property, and equipment. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish summer recreation, employment, and counseling programs for Indian youth; (2) keep open schools which are necessary to provide facilities for the programs established under this Act; and (3) provide coordinators, as needed, for such programs. Part III: Indian Youth Program - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review: (1) Federal program providing specified services or benefits to Indian children and families; and (2) tribal, State, local, and private resources, benefits, and programs providing specified services. Requires the results of such review to be provided to each Indian tribe. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs to develop and implement a pilot program in selected schools to determine the effectiveness of summer youth programs in furthering the purposes and goals of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to publish an alcohol and substance abuse newsletter. Requires the Tribal Action Plans to make provisions for the establishment, funding, licensing, and operation of emergency shelters or half-way houses for Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers. Urges States to require its law enforcement officers to place any youth arrested for any offense related to alcohol or substance abuse in such shelter or half-way house. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989 for the contruction, renovation, and operation of such shelters and half-way houses. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to require the compilation of data relating to the number and types of child abuse and neglect cases seen and the type of assistance provided. Part V: Law Enforcement and Judicial Services - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review: (1) Federal programs providing law enforcement or judicial services to Indian tribes; and (2) tribal and State and local law enforcement and judicial programs and systems. Requires the results of such review to be provided to each Indian tribe. Part VI: Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcemnt - Increases the maximum sentence (from six months to one year) and fine (from $500 to $5,000) which a tribal court can impose for any offense. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to ensure that all Bureau of Indian Affairs and tribal law enforcement and judicial personnel have training available in the investigation and prosecution of offenses relating to illegal narcotics and in alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1989. Requires the Memorandum of Agreement to include a provision for the development and implementation of a procedure for the emergency medical assessment and treatment of Indian youth arrested or detained by the Bureau of Indian Affairs or tribal law enforcement personnel for offenses relating to or involving alcohol or substance abuse. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) establish and implement a program for the eradication of marijuana cultivation within Indian country; (2) develop and implement a plan for the construction or renovation and staffing of tribal juvenile detention and rehabilitation centers; (3) provide for the development of a Model Indian Juvenile Code; and (4) collect data regarding calls and encounters, and arrests and detentions, and the disposition of cases involving Indians where alcohol or drug abuse is a contributing factor. Part VII: Indian Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation - Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to review: (1) Federal programs providing health services and benfits to Indians; (2) tribal, State, local, and private health resources and programs; (3) where facilities that provide such treatment are or should be located; and (4) the effectiveness of private and public alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs. Requires the Memorandum of Agreement to include provisions pursuant to which the Indian Health Service shall assume responsibility for: (1) determing the scope of the alcohol and substance abuse problem among Indians; (2) assessing the existing and needed resources to support an alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treament program for Indians; and (3) estimate the funding necessary to support such a program. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) provide a comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse prevention and treatment program for members of Indian tribes; (2) develop and implement a program for acute detoxification and treatment for Indian youth who are alcohol and substance abusers; (3) begin the construction of 11 regional treatment centers serving Indian tribes; (4) develop and implement within each Indian Health Service service unit community-based rehabilitation and follow up services for Indian youth who are alcohol or substance abusers; (5) develop and implement within each service unit a program of community education and involvement; (6) require that the existing health staff of the Indian Health Service receive training in alcohol and substance abuse; (7) develop and implement a program of alcohol and substance abuse prevention through education intervention; (8) identify and use existing Federally owned structures as residential alcohol and substance abuse treatment centers for Indian youths; (9) make grants to the Navajo tribe to establish a demonstration program in Gallup, New Mexico, to rehabilitate adult Navajo Indians suffering from alcoholism or alcohol abuse; and (10) compile data on the number of incidents where Indian Health Service personnel or services were involved in matters related to alcohol or substance abuse. Subtitle G: Programs in United States Insular Areas - Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the efforts of Federal agencies, and the adequacy of arrangements with States in preventing the illegal entry of controlled substances into the United States. Authorizes law enforcement officers of the Governments of American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands to: (1) execute and serve warrants, subpoenas, and summons issued under the authority of the United States; (2) make arrests without warrants; and (3) make seizures of property to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, and any other applicable Federal narcotics laws. Authorizes the Attorney General to train such law enforcement officers and provide certain law enforcement equipment. Requires the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Coast Guard, the Customs Service, and the Postal Service to assign and maintain a specified number of agents, officers, and vessels in Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1986 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to add to the list of products covered under the Act: (1) freezers which can be operated by alternating current electricity (with specified exceptions); (2) central air conditioning heat pumps; (3) direct heating equipment; and (4) pool heaters. Deletes from specific coverage: (1) television sets; (2) humidifiers; and (3) dehumidifiers. Excludes from such coverage consumer products designed solely for use in recreational vehicles and other mobile equipment. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy (the Secretary) to amend Federal energy efficiency test procedures for appliances under specified guidelines. Prohibits manufacturers from making any representations regarding the energy efficiency of appliances covered by this Act unless such appliances have been tested in accordance with the Federal test procedures, and the manufacturer's representations fairly disclose the results of such testing. Sets forth specific Federal energy conservation standards for products covered by this Act and manufactured after certain dates. Establishes deadlines by which the Secretary must issue rules regarding such standards. Details the criteria to be applied if such standards are revised. Revises the information requirements with which manufacturers must comply to provide that the Secretary shall exercise authority in a manner designed to minimize unnecessary burdens on manufacturers of covered products. Revises the rules under which State regulations are superseded by the Federal regulations for testing and labeling requirements and energy conservation standards. Permits the waiver of Federal preemption if the Secretary finds that such waiver is needed to meet compelling and unusual local energy conditions. Prescribes procedural guidelines for such a waiver. Details conditions under which State and local building code requirements regarding energy conservation standards are not superseded by the standards promulgated under this Act. Permits the commencement of a citizen's suit against the Secretary for failure to comply with a nondiscretionary duty to issue rules according to prescribed schedules. Directs the courts to expedite the disposition of such suits. Vests jurisdiction in the Federal district courts over actions brought by any adversely affected person to determine whether a State or local government is complying with the requirements of this Act. Declares that the required submission by the Secretary of an annual report regarding Federal energy efficiency standards does not constitute a defense or justification for a failure by such Secretary to comply with the nondiscretionary duty provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
Montana Wilderness Act of 1986 - Designates specified lands in the following national forests in Montana as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Beaverhead National Forest; (2) Bitterroot National Forest; (3) Deerlodge National Forest; (4) Lolo National Forest; (5) Custer National Forest; (6) Helena National Forest; (7) Flathead National Forest; (8) Kootenai National Forest; (9) Lewis and Clark National Forest; and (10) Gallatin National Forest. Incorporates the Great Bear Wilderness Area and the Scapegoat Wilderness Area into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Provides that the RARE II (second roadless area review and evaluation) final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest system lands in Montana shall not be subject to judicial review. Releases national forest system lands in Montana which were reviewed in the RARE II program from further review by the Department of Agriculture, pending the revision of initial national forest management plans. Releases lands in Montana reviewed in the RARE II program and not designated as wilderness from management as wilderness areas. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of national forest system lands in Montana without express congressional authorization. States that the provisions above shall also apply to national forest system lands in Montana which are less than 5,000 acres in size. Establishes the Ben Strong National Recreation and Wildlife Area in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Requires that the Big West Hole, Beaverhead National Forest, continue to be managed as a further planning area during the next five years as the Secretary of of Agriculture completes and reports to the Congress on a special watershed study. Requires that the Elkhorns National Recreation and Wildlife Area, Helena and Deerlodge National Forests, be managed to conserve recreation and wildlife values. Permits the continuation of grazing where already permitted. Directs the Secretary to exchange specified lands with the Burlington Northern Railroad Company. Expresses the sense of the Congress that this exchange should be completed within 90 days of enactment. Releases the Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area from further review for wilderness suitability. Expands the boundary of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Custer National Forest, to include additional lands. Withdraws specified lands surrounding Swan Crest, Flathead National Forest, from all forms of entry or appropriation under the mining laws. Directs the Secretary to study a potential Horse Trail in the Swan Range, Flathead National Forest, and a potential Alpine Running and Bicycle Trail in the Gallatin National Forest, the latter within two years. Directs the Secretary to acquire lands and interests within the wilderness areas designated by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to study and report to the Congress within three years on the proper minimum altitude which should be maintained by aircraft when flying over units of the national park system. Requires the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, to provide technical assistance. Sets forth certain units of the park system to be included in such study, such as Yosemite National Park, and certain types of aircraft to be evaluated, including helicopters. Requires the Administrator to review the report and current regulations and make recommendations for necessary changes on the basis of aviation safety. Authorizes appropriations. Prohibits flights below a certain altitude at Yosemite National Park, California, and at Haleakala National Park, Hawaii, during the course of the study. Makes exceptions for emergency situations. Directs the Director to submit to the Administrator a final plan for the management of air traffic over Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, and to implement such plan within a prescribed period. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to report to the Congress within two years of the plan's implementation as to its effectiveness in restoring the natural quiet of the Park. Exempts certain helicopter flights from any prohibitions.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1986
Designates July 2 and July 3, 1987, as United States-Canada Days of Peace and Friendship.
United States · United States Congress · 8 August 1986
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of November 23 to November 30, 1986, as American Indian Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
National Narcotics Act of 1986 - Establishes a Cabinet-level Office of the Director of National and International Drug Operations and Policy to plan and coordinate drug enforcement efforts of the Federal Government. Requires the Director to report to the Congress on U.S. policy with respect to illegal drugs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
Emergency Crack Control Act of 1986 - Title I: Law Enforcement - Amends the Controlled Substances Act to include cocaine freebase as a schedule I substance. Establishes criminal penalties of up to 20 years in prison, or up to $250,000 fine, or both, for manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing cocaine freebase. Provides increased penalties for employing persons under 21 years of age to distribute controlled substances. Imposes enhanced penalties for the manufacture of a controlled substance in or near an elementary or secondary school. (Current law imposes such enhanced penalties only for the distribution of a controlled substance in or near such schools.) Makes it a Federal criminal offense to open, maintain, manage, or control any facility used for manufacturing, storing, distributing, or using a controlled substance. Title II: Education and Public Awareness - Part A: Emergency Response - Designates October 6, 1986, as National Drug Abuse Education Day. Requires the Secretary of Education to ensure that State educational departments and all schools have timely information on: (1) the scope and nature of the cocaine freebase epidemic; (2) strategies for effective school intervention and community mobilization; and (3) available resources. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse to produce and disseminate two emergency public service announcements on the consequences of cocaine freebase use. Part B: Establishment of Office Within the Department of Education - Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish within the Department an Office of Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Policy. Provides that such Office shall be administered by the Assistant Secretary for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Education and Prevention (the Assistant Secretary). Sets forth the duties of the Office. Requires the Secretary of Education to report to the Congress within one year after the enactment of this Act on progress in establishing the Office and the long-term strategy of the Office for drug education and prevention. Part C: Student Drug Abuse and Prevention - Student Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to establish a program of grants to States for drug (including alcohol) abuse education in elementary and secondary schools. Lists the State and local educational agency uses of such funds. Restricts the amount States may use for administrative costs. Provides for: (1) the allotment of such grant funds to States; (2) State application for such grant funds; (3) allocations to local educational agencies; and (4) local application to State educational agencies. Provides for the equitable participation of children enrolled in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools in such program. Requires the Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to: (1) collect and disseminate program-related information to State and local educational agencies; (2) provide technical assistance; and (3) identify research and development priorities. Authorizes appropriations for such activities. Provides that the use of such grant funds is to supplement and not supplant other Federal funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Title III: Prevention - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an emergency report on and feasibility study of intervention by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institute of Drug Abuse to reduce the epidemic of cocaine freebase use.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1986
Designates the week of October 19 through October 26, 1986, as National Housing Week.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1986
Declares that the Senate: (1) recognizes the right of the people of Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and other Soviet-bloc Eastern European countries to have religious freedom; and (2) deplores the refusal by the Soviet Union and Romania to recognize the Byzantine Rite Catholic Church and the refusal by those countries to restore Church property. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the Review Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to press the restoration of the Church and freedom of all religions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1986
National Oil Security Act of 1986 - Directs the President to establish a national oil import ceiling level beyond which foreign crude and oil product imports as a share of U.S. oil consumption shall not rise. Prohibits such ceiling level from exceeding 50 percent of U.S. crude and oil product consumption for any annual period. Requires the President to: (1) annually submit projections to the Congress regarding anticipated U.S. oil production, demand, and imports for the subsequent three years; (2) certify whether imports of crude oil and oil products will exceed domestic production; and (3) submit an Energy Production and Oil Security Policy to the Congress to prevent foreign oil dependence from exceeding the national oil import ceiling for any year in which foreign oil imports are projected to exceed such amount. Grants the Congress ten continuous session days to review such oil projections and to determine whether the ceiling level will be violated within three years. Authorizes the President's energy plan to include: (1) an oil import fee; (2) energy conservation actions; (3) expansion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves; and (4) production incentives for domestic oil and gas.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1986
Processed Products Inspection Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to redescribe the manner and frequency of inspection of meat food products to include the requirement that the Secretary of Agriculture take into account for each establishment: (1) the nature and frequency of processing operations; (2) the adequacy and reliability of processing controls and sanitary procedures; and (3) the history of inspection compliance. Changes the requirement that condemned meat food products be destroyed for "food purposes," to a requirement that they be destroyed for "human food purposes." Authorizes a court, upon the Secretary of Agriculture's request, to issue a temporary order forbidding operational control of a facility subject to Federal inspection by any person convicted of a felony involving intentional adulteration of food, extortion, or bribery, if control by such person would pose a threat to public health or safety or a clear likelihood of significant economic harm to consumers. Authorizes the Secretary to commence civil actions for inspection suspensions in cases of: (1) repeated offenses; and (2) assaults or threats of assault on inspectors. Provides for judicial review of such suspension in courts of appeal. Provides that amendments made by this Act shall not be construed to authorize the Secretary to refuse to provide inspection solely because an establishment does not participate in a total plant quality-control program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that it should evaluate the effects of this Act eight years after its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1986
Anti-Mercantilism Trade Act of 1986 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to declare unjustifiable (and therefore actionable under such Act) those foreign acts, policies, or practices: (1) which require a state trading enterprise to compete in international trade with U.S. firms or make purchases or sales in international trade on any basis that is not dependent on commercial considerations; (2) through which a foreign country exercises its authority in order to assist a state trading enterprise in competing in international trade with U.S. firms or making purchases or sales in international trade on any basis that is not dependent on commercial considerations; or (3) which fails to afford U.S. firms adequate opportunity to compete for participation in purchases from, or sales to, state trading enterprise. Defines a state trading enterprise as: (1) a foreign agency which makes purchases in international trade for any purpose other than use of such purchases by such agency or which sells goods or services in international trade; or (2) any business which is substantially owned or controlled by a foreign country or agency, which is granted special privileges by such foreign country or agency, and which makes international trade purchases for any purpose other than use of such purchases by such foreign country or agency or sells goods or services in international trade. Authorizes any person to request, by petition, the International Trade Commission (ITC) to investigate sales by state trading enterprises. Requires such petition to allege that: (1) sales by a state trading enterprise are conducted without depending on commercial considerations; (2) a foreign country has exercised its authority, influence, or power to promote such sales; and (3) the effect or tendency of such sales is to injure substantially an efficient U.S. industry, to prevent the establishment of such an industry in the United States, or to restrain or monopolize trade and commerce in the United States. Sets forth the timetable and standards for completing such investigation. Requires the ITC to issue an order limiting the quantity of imports of an article produced by a state trading enterprise if the allegations contained in the petition are found to be true. Authorizes the ITC, in lieu of imposing such limitation, to issue an order directing the state trading enterprise to stop conducting sales on bases that are not dependent on commercial considerations. Establishes penalties for violating such orders. Sets forth the duration of such orders. Provides for judicial review of such orders. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to issue import licenses in carrying out any import limitation ordered by the ITC. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to auction such import licenses to the highest bidder at a public auction. Requires the President, before entering into trade negotiations with a foreign country and before any foreign country accedes to a multinational trade agreement to which the United States is a party, to determine: (1) whether state trading enterprises account for a significant share of the country's exports or of the country's goods that compete with imports; and (2) whether such state trading enterprises unduly burden and restrict or adversely affect U.S. foreign trade or the U.S. economy or are likely to result in such a burden, restriction, or effect. Authorizes the President, if both such determinations are affirmative, to enter into an agreement with such country or instrumentality only if the agreement provides that such state trading enterprises: (1) will make both purchases which are not for use of such country and sales in international trade in accordance with commercial considerations; and (2) will afford U.S. firms adequate opportunity to compete for participation in such purchases or sales. Provides that if both such determinations are affirmative: (1) the President shall reserve the right to withhold extension between the United States and such foreign country of such agreement; and (2) such trade agreement shall not apply between the United States and such foreign country until the foreign country makes certain assurances about the use of state trading enterprises.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1986
Authorizes the States to raise the speed limit up to 65 miles per hour on highways on the Interstate System which are located outside of an urbanized area of 50,000 population or more.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1986
National Nuclear Reactor Safety Study Commission Act - Establishes the National Commission on United States Nuclear Safety to: (1) review all information pertaining to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident; (2) compare Soviet reactor design and safety standards with U.S. commercial and defense production reactors; (3) review and evaluate U.S. nuclear reactor management and regulation; and (4) recommend improvements in licensing and related regulatory practices. Requires the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress within one year after enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1986
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow homeowners to deduct the full amount of points paid in connection with the refinancing of their principal residences for the taxable year in which paid.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Medicare Timely Payment Amendments of 1986 - Amends parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require intermediaries and carriers to pay the claims of Medicare providers and beneficiaries, and give such providers and beneficiaries notice of improperly submitted claims, within 22 days of receiving such claims (unless payment is made on a periodic interim payment basis). Requires the Federal Government to pay the interest accruing on such claims for the period during which the payment or notice is past due.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Radon Mitigation Clarification Act of 1986 - Provides that, for purposes of the medical care expense tax deduction, amounts paid for necessary home improvements to mitigate measured harmful levels of radon gas exposure shall be treated as expenses paid for medical care and in the same manner as amounts paid for other home improvements which qualify as expenses paid for medical care.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1986
Declares that the United States, as long as Soviet forces occupy Afghanistan, should support the efforts of the Afghan people to regain their sovereignty through: (1) appropriate provisions of U.S. material assistance; (2) renewed multilateral initiatives aimed at Soviet military withdrawal and the return of an independent Afghanistan; (3) efforts to remove Soviet barriers to the reporting of events in Afghanistan by international journalists; and (4) efforts to impress upon the Soviet leadership that continued military action imposes on the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. Urges the Secretary of State to: (1) determine if Soviet actions against the Afghan people constitute genocide and, if so, report findings and recommendations to the President and the Congress; and (2) review U.S. policy with respect to its recognition of the Soviet-backed government in Kabul, Afghanistan.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) it is against the national security interests of the United States to abandon existing strategic offensive arms agreements by exceeding the numerical sublimits of such agreements as long as the Soviet Union remains within such sublimits; (2) the Soviet Union should take steps to resolve U.S. concerns about Soviet violations of existing strategic arms agreements and to negotiate a new agreement; and (3) the Congress and the President should continue to review the policy of mutual adherence to the numerical sublimits on launchers of strategic nuclear delivery systems and the significance of both Soviet compliance and noncompliance with existing strategic offensive arms agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that unless the Health Care Financing Administration allocates sufficient funds and takes other action to ensure prompt payment of Medicare claims, the Senate shall adopt legislation ensuring prompt claims payment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the 50-year-old tax exemption of the 84 nonprofit, community-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans be retained without modification.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Prompt Payment Amendments of 1986 - Revises Federal law to deem the head of an agency to receive an invoice on the fifth day after the date on which a property is actually delivered, or final performance of a service is actually completed, unless the contract specifies otherwise. Makes Federal prompt payment provisions applicable to the United States Postal Service. Reduces the 15-day grace period for payment of interest penalties to eight days for solicitations issued before October 1, 1988. Requires an agency to pay a double interest penalty if it fails to meet such grace period and the business concern makes a written demand that the agency pay such penalty. Makes the interest penalty provisions applicable to construction contracts for progress payments and retained amounts. Specifies the calculation of time for interest penalties on discount payments. Revises agency reporting requirements on interest penalty payments to include a description of agency payment practices. Requires the modification of Government-wide procurement regulations to implement Federal prompt payment provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1986
Future Teacher Training Corps Act - Amends title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish a new part G program of Future Teacher Training Corps Fellowships. Directs the Secretary of Education to allot program grant funds to each State on the basis of school-age population. Directs State Governors to appoint Selection Review Panels to select fellowship recipients. Requires that recipients be interested in teaching careers and agree to teach in areas of the State where there is a shortage of elementary or secondary school teachers or in fields of study where there is a shortage of such teachers. Sets forth guidelines for selection procedures. Sets forth program grant application requirements for States. Limits each such fellowship to not more than: (1) $5,000 for each year of graduate education in preparation to become an elementary or secondary school teacher; and (2) two years of such graduate education. Sets forth fellowship conditions. Requires fellowship repayment in cases of noncompliance with fellowship agreements, with specified exceptions. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1990 to carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award up to 5,000 fellowships during each of those fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1986
Designates 1987 as the National Year of the Americas.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Repeals provisions of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 which: (1) provide a remedy against the United States for loss of property, personal injury, or death due to exposure to radiation based on acts or omissions by a contractor conducting atomic weapons tests under a contract with the United States; and (2) preclude any other civil action by individuals against a contractor for the purpose of determining civil liability from acts or omissions of such contractor. Makes the period during which such provision was in effect inapplicable for purposes of the tolling of any statute of limitations for claims.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Commends Major General William C. Lee for his long, faithful, and outstanding military service to our Nation. Designates June 6, 1986, as William C. Lee Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Philippines Sugar Quota Act of 1986 - Prohibits certain countries (listed in headnote 3, subpart A of part 10 of schedule 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States) from being eligible to receive an allocation of the total base quota of imported sugars unless such country is a friendly developing country and a net exporter of sugars. Requires the quota to be reallocated among the remaining countries on a proportional basis provided that the amounts shall first be reallocated to the Philippines to the extent that country's allocation is less than the percentage allocated to any other country. Grants duty-free treatment to sugar imports from the Philippines during any calendar year in which such imports from any other country are granted duty-free treatment. Prohibits granting sugar imports from any country more favorable treatment than is granted sugar imports from the Philippines.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Designates the week beginning November 9, 1986, as National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Farm Credit System should take specified actions to assist borrowers, including: (1) participating to the maximum extent possible with the Farmers Home Administration and other Government guarantee programs to provide 1986 operating loans; (2) following policies of reasonable loan forbearance; (3) using loan restructuring; (4) emphasizing loan servicing approaches that help borrowers meet the conditions of their loan contracts; (5) resorting to foreclosure only when there is no alternative or when the associated costs would be less than loan restructuring; (6) providing defaulting borrowers with the opportunity to bid on foreclosed property; and (7) maintaining sound institutional credit policies.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1986
Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1986 - Title I: The Head Start Program - Amends the Head Start Act to authorize FY 1987 through 1990 appropriations for the Head Start program. Eliminates cost-of-living adjustments for Indian and migrant Head Start programs. States that national funding for such programs shall be at least seven and one-tenth percent of appropriations in each fiscal year. Extends through October 1, 1990, the prohibition on any method of calculating income which would result in reductions or exclusions of persons from such program. Title II: The Dependent Care State Grant Program - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to authorize FY 1987 through FY 1989 appropriations for dependent care programs. Makes the inclusion of specified types of information in dependent care resource and referral systems optional rather than mandatory. Requires States to assure that: (1) no such information will be provided with respect to any dependent care services which do not comply with State and local laws; and (2) the information will be the latest available and kept up to date. Provides that certain funds may be used for school-age child care services before and after school in community centers whether or not school facilities are available for such purpose. Redefines "school-age children" to include those younger than five in States where such children are provided a free public education. Entitles such dependent care program provisions of such Act as the "State Dependent Care Development Grants Act." Title III: Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to authorize FY 1987 through 1990 appropriations for the low-income energy assistance program. Includes community-based organizations among the eligible administering entities for purposes of such program. Revises the criteria used to determine Indian grants under such program. Title IV: Community Services Block Grant - Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to authorize FY 1987 through 1990 appropriations for the community services block grant program. Extends appropriations authority for the community food and nutrition program through FY 1989. Includes within the definition of eligible entities those programs which came into existence in FY 1982 as direct successors to community action agencies and meet specified board composition requirements. Establishes procedures which the Secretary of Health and Human Services must follow in reviewing State funding termination for a community action agency or migrant or seasonal farmworker organization. Directs the Secretary to assume responsibility for providing financial assistance if a State terminates funding prior to hearing and review. Requires: (1) grant evaluations to consider the impact of program funds on children, homeless families, and the elderly poor; and (2) evaluation results to be submitted annually to appropriate congressional committees. Authorizes the Secretary to fund national conferences, newsletters, and information collection and dissemination as part of such grant program's training activities. Gives priority to rural community assistance programs under the special emphasis program on rural housing and community facilities development. Directs the Secretary to: (1) appoint an Advisory Panel to hold a national conference on the problems of poverty; and (2) reserve a specified amount from administrative expenses for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary to make matching grants for demonstration projects dealing with poverty problems common to a number of communities. Permits grants to be made only for projects which: (1) can be closely coordinated with ongoing programs; (2) involve significant new resource combinations or partnership agreements; or (3) will promote the purposes of the Community Services Block Grant Act. Authorizes FY 1987 through 1989 appropriations. Title V: Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance Program - Child Development Associate Scholarship Assistance Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make a grant for any fiscal year to any State receiving a grant under title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act to enable the State to award scholarships to eligible individuals within the State who are candidates for the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. Sets forth requirements for State applications for such grants and for distribution of such grants throughout the Nation. Defines "eligible individual" as a candidate for the CDA credential whose income does not exceed a specified poverty line by more than 50 percent. Requires States receiving such grants to submit specified program information to the Secretary annually. Authorizes FY 1987 through 1989 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1986
Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to allow an extension of time for the filing of claims for credit or refund of Federal income taxes for insolvent farmers who were exempted by such Act from the alternative minimum tax on capital gains realized on the transfer or sale of farmland under threat of foreclosure or in cancellation of indebtedness.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Medicaid Maternal and Infant Amendments of 1986 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to give States the option of extending coverage to pregnant women and infants up to age one whose family income does not exceed the higher of the income eligibility threshold under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Act or the Federal poverty level. Prohibits States which provide coverage pursuant to this Act from establishing more stringent AFDC eligibility tests or reducing AFDC payment levels after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Prohibits for a period of ten years any disposition of any federally owned or operated power production or transmission facility located in the conterminous 48 States whose electric energy is transmitted for sale by a Federal Power Marketing Administration or by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Exempts from such proscription certain authority granted: (1) under the Bonneville Project Act of 1937; (2) to the Tennessee Valley Authority for property dispositions in the normal course of business; and (3) to the Administrator of the General Services Administration to dispose of surplus property. Makes such proscription inapplicable to transactions involving the production and transmission of electric power among Federal officials that may occur in the normal course of business.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Prohibits the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to specified proposed sales of Sidewinder, Stinger, and Harpoon missiles and services to Saudi Arabia, as described in the April 8, 1986, certifications from the President to the Congress under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Agriculture shall take specified steps to address the current instability in the red meat market, including additional Federal purchases and proportional spacing of dairy cattle slaughter.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue permits for the use and occupancy of National Forest System lands for commercial skiing operations. Requires existing permits to conform to the new system.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to exempt from any benefit reduction under such Act the dual benefits payments account in the Treasury (60-0111-0-1-601) pertaining to certain railroad retirement benefits. Applies such exemption to fiscal years beginning FY 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1986
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a health promotion and disease prevention program to serve Native Hawaiians (including the prevention and treatment of certain Native Hawaiian related health problems, the monitoring and collection of data, and the training of Native Hawaiian community health outreach workers). Requires the Secretary to provide grants to Native Hawaiian organizations to develop the management capabilities of such organizations to plan and operate the health promotion and disease prevention program. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with a Native Hawaiian organization to provide education to Native Hawaiian children in health promotion and disease prevention. Directs the Secretary to establish a Native Hawaiian Program for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention demonstration project in Hawaii to explore ways to meet the unique health care needs of Native Hawaiians. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress for FY 1988 through 1990. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) designate Native Hawaiians as a medically underserved population; (2) provide grants to Native Hawaiian organizations for the planning of community health centers to serve the Native community; and (3) establish community health centers. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Governor of Hawaii regarding grants for the planning and developing of community health centers to serve the Native Hawaiian community. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 to provide for such grants and to provide for the establishment of community health centers. Authorizes the Secretary to designate Native Hawaiians as a population group that has a health manpower shortage for purposes of the Public Health Service Act. Directs the Secretary to provide health service scholarship assistance to Native Hawaiian students. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to enter into contracts with Native Hawaiian organizations for the provision of health care referral services for Native Hawaiians. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations that provide specified criteria for the selection of such organizations. Requires organizations that receive or expend funds pursuant to such contracts to submit quarterly reports to the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of any barriers that may exist to the participation of Native Hawaiians in specified programs established under titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Requires the Secretary, within one year after enactment of this Act, to submit a report to the Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1986
Unfair Trade Concessions Requirements Act - Requires the President to seek commitments in trade agreement negotiations to remove existing, and avoid future use of, unfair trade concessions requirements. Permits such commitments to provide for the temporary use of unfair trade concessions requirements by certain developing countries. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to define "unfair trade concessions requirements" to mean any practice or policy of a foreign government that requires, as a condition for allowing U.S. imports into such country or for carrying on businesses in such country, that: (1) substantial investment be made in such country; (2) intellectual property be licensed to such country; or (3) other collateral concession be made. Makes countries that impose unfair trade concessions requirements on U.S. products covered by bilateral trade agreements ineligible for designation as beneficiary developing countries under the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act and under the Generalized System of Preferences of the Trade Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1986
Declares that the benefits of the following programs, including cost-of-living adjustments, shall not be subject to modification, suspension, or reduction in calendar year 1987 pursuant to the President's sequestration order under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act): (1) black lung benefits; (2) Central Intelligence Agency retirement and disability system; (3) civil service retirement and disability system; (4) Comptroller General retirement system; (5) foreign service retirement and disability system; (6) judicial survivors' annuities system; (7) longshoremen's and harbor workers' compensation system; (8) military retirement system; (9) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration retirement system; (10) pensions for former Presidents; (11) railroad retirement; (12) Coast Guard retirement system; (13) Public Health Service commissioned officers retirement system; (14) disabled coal miners' benefits; and (15) Tax Court judges survivors' retirement system.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Alzheimer's Disease Research and Assistance Act of 1986 - Directs the National Institute on Aging to develop and encourage partnerships for research in: (1) the etiology, diagnosis, clinical course, treatment, and epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease; (2) the psychological and social functioning of patients with Alzheimer's disease; and (3) methods of raising or sustaining the quality of life for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Directs the National Institute on Aging to establish a scientific and medical advisory panel on Alzheimer's disease to facilitate such partnerships. Directs the National Center for Health Statistics, in cooperation with the National Institute on Aging, to collect medical information necessary to: (1) diagnose and evaluate individuals with Alzheimer's disease; and (2) develop a national data base concerning Alzheimer's disease. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish five additional Alzheimer's disease research centers. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987. Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize the development of programs to assist victims of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders in meeting their day-to-day needs. Directs the National Institute on Aging to conduct research in methods of financing systems of providing long-term care to victims of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Requires the National Institute on Aging to report to the Congress on the results of such research. Directs the National Institute on Aging to develop a data base on needs for long-term care, and on costs of alternative funding. Requires the Commissioner of the Administration on Aging to direct area agencies on aging to maintain registries for various medical and community services. Provides that no skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility which receives payments under title XVIII (Medicare) or under a State plan approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act may discriminate in the acceptance or refusal of patients on the grounds that an individual is eligible for Medicaid or suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Requires such facilities to include a functional assessment of the Alzheimer's patient in the initial admission evaluation. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress with respect to implementation of this section. Directs the Secretary to establish mechanisms for: (1) the dissemination of information and guidelines relating to Alzheimer's disease; and (2) training for persons involved in the Social Security Administration's disability determination process. Directs the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on Mental Health to develop and disseminate curricula for the training of personnel who provide health services to Alzheimer's disease patients. Directs the National Institute on Aging to develop and implement programs to train providers of clinical care services and families of patients with Alzheimer's disease to care for such patients. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement programs to train personnel who provide long-term care services to patients with Alzheimer's disease; (2) make grants to schools of medicine to train physicians and other health care personnel who provide care to Alzheimer patients who reside in nursing homes; (3) conduct training programs on Alzheimer's disease for safety and transportation personnel; (4) conduct training programs for medical examiners, coroners, and pathologists in the proper conduct of an autopsy to determine whether Alzheimer's disease was a factor contributing to a death; and (5) promulgate regulations to encourage medical examiners, coroners, and pathologists to provide reports concerning the findings of autopsies in which Alzheimer's disease contributed to the death. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to exempt from any sequestration of funds under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) certain benefits which are based upon the service-connected disability or death of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1986
Provides that any requirement to substantiate a deduction under the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the business use of a vehicle must be based on regulations in effect before the Tax Reform Act of 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Medicare Beneficiary Access Protection Act of 1986 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in determining whether payments to a home health agency should be denied under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, to apply a presumption of compliance until 12 months after certain regional intermediaries have begun to service such agencies. Requires the Secretary to apply a similar presumption of compliance to skilled nursing facilities for 30 months following enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Requires the Federal Reserve Banks, for 36 months, to discount or rediscount up to a specified amount of notes, drafts, and bills of exchange for agricultural purposes.