United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1984
Commends the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission for its efforts to: (1) restore and preserve the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island; (2) establish a lasting memorial to the immigrants who created America; (3) plan and implement centennial celebration events; (4) develop plans ensuring continuing support of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island National Monument; and (5) raise $230,000,000 to accomplish these goals.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Youth Incentive Employment Act - Establishes a program to provide part-time school year employment and full-time (or part-time with training) summer employment to economically disadvantaged youths who pursue further education and training. Provides that an individual may qualify to be an eligible youth for program participation purposes if such individual: (1) is 16 to 19 years of age, inclusive, at the time of assignment to a worksite; (2) is economically disadvantaged; (3) is not employed; (4) resides in the service delivery area (SDA) of the administering entity; and (5) has entered into a commitment to pursue further education and training. Requires such individuals to sign a written committment to: (1) attend either a secondary school for a diploma, an alternative education program for a high school equivalency certificate, a remedial education program, or a skill training program; and (2) meet attendance and performance standards of such school or program and at the worksite to which the individual is referred for employment under this Act. Gives priority for selection under youth incentive plans to eligible youths with documented educational deficiencies. Terminates an individual's status as an eligible youth upon a finding by the administering entity, after an opportunity for a hearing, that the individual has failed to comply with the commitment. Requires that funds provided under this Act be used to establish and assist programs which assist eligible youth with qualifying employment in the form of: (1) part-time employment during the regular school year, not to exceed 20 hours per week; (2) part-time employment, during the months between regular school years, which is combined with remediation, classroom instruction, or on-the-job or apprenticeship training; and full-time employment for a period of at least eight weeks during the months between regular school years, not to exceed 40 hours per week. Permits funds provided under this Act to be used to pay up to the following percentages of the wages and benefits and the costs of any employer-provided instruction and training of an eligible youth: (1) 100 percent during the first six months of qualifying employment; and (2) 75 percent during any succeeding months of such qualifying employment. Prohibits the use of funds provided under this Act to pay any portion of the wages and benefits of any individual: (1) for full-time employment during the months between the regular school year with a for-profit institution or organization unless such employment is a continuation of employment with that employer during the regular school year; or (2) if the employer has failed to develop or enforce attendance and performance standards consistent with youth incentive plan provisions. Sets forth general requirements for receipt and restrictions on the use of funds under this Act. Provides that the administering entity for any SDA under this Act is the same entity selected to administer the job training plan for that SDA pursuant to the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Requires administering entities to: (1) develop and submit to the Secretary of Labor a youth incentive employment plan; and (2) provide from other Federal or State sources, or from local public or private sources, at least 20 percent of program costs for each program year, in cash or in kind. Requires that, of the funds provided to an administering entity for any program year under this Act: (1) at least 70 percent be expended for wages and benefits for qualifying employment, and child care, transportation, or other supportive service expenses for individuals engaged in such employment; (2) not more than 15 percent be used for the cost of administering programs under this Act; and (3) any remainder be used for worksite supervision, supplies, training aids and alternative or remedial education expenses. Sets forth requirements relating to youth incentive plans. Requires such plan to contain specified provisions, including: (1) provision for outreach services and programs to encourage participation in qualifying employment by eligible youths who are school dropouts, as well as by in school youths; (2) assurances that special efforts will be made to recruit youth from families receiving public assistance, including parents of dependent children who meet the age requirement of this Act; and (3) a description of any arrangements made with labor organizations to enable youths to enter into apprenticeship training as part of employment provided under this Act. Requires that such plans, before they are submitted to the Secretary, be: (1) approved by the appropriate chief elected officials and the private industry council for the SDA; and (2) submitted for review and comment to the State job training coordinating council, and include any comments of such council and any reasons for nonconformance with such council's suggestions. Directs the Secretary to: (1) approve any plan submitted in compliance with the requirements of this Act; and (2) only disapprove a plan after notice and opportunity for a hearing to the administering entity. Sets forth special conditions relating to activities using funds under this Act. Requires that wage rates under this Act be the higher of the applicable minimum wage or the prevailing rate of pay for individuals employed in similar positions by the same employer, with specified exceptions in cases of labor organization representation. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe wage rates within specified limits for youth participants for projects financed under $5,000 to which Davis-Bacon Act provisions would otherwise apply. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 and succeeding fiscal years for allocation to administering entities for programs under this Act. Directs the Secretary to reserve a specified amount of such appropriations for allotment among Native American eligible entities, on an equitable basis, taking into account the extent to which regular employment opportunities have been lacking for long-term periods among individual within the jurisdiction of such entities. Requires that the remainder be allocated among administering entities that have in effect an approved youth incentive plan on the basis of numbers in each SDA of: (1) economically disadvantaged youth; (2) unemployed residents; and (3) excess unemployed residents (i.e. those in excess of six and one-half percent of the civilian labor force in the SDA). Requires that such allocations to an administering entity for an SDA be paid to the JTPA grant recipient for that SDA. Provides for a program year basis for funding beginning with FY 1986. Makes FY 1985 appropriations available both to funds activities for the period between October 1, 1984, and July 1, 1985, and for the program year beginning July 1, 1985. Authorizes additional appropriations for the transition to program year funding. Makes specified administrative and enforcement provisions of JTPA applicable to programs under this Act. Requires the administering entity to make quarterly reports to the Secretary on the youth incentive projects authorized under this Act. Requires such reports to include specified topics. Directs the Secretary to compile such reports and submit a summary of the findings to the Congress in the annual report for employment and training programs required under JTPA.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1984
Adoption Identification Act of 1984 - Amends the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978 to provide for the establishment of a voluntary reunion registry demonstration program for biological parents and adoptees, biological siblings or other relatives of adoptees, and estranged family members, including runaways or those estranged as the result of social upheaval. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a voluntary identification system by grant or contract with public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations. Directs the Secretary to report annually to Congress on all activities carried out under this Act. Requires that the voluntary reunion registry operate so as to provide a centralized nationwide capacity, utilizing computer and data processing methods. Requires that participation be voluntary by all parties involved. Provides for initiation of the locating process, by submission of an application to the agency or organization operating the system, by a biological parent, an estranged family member, or an adoptee over age 21. Provides that such process may also be initiated by a sibling or other biological relative of an adoptee or an estranged family member, whenever: (1) the biological parent of an adoptee or estranged family member is dead or missing; (2) such parent has consented in writing to the initiation of such process; or (3) the Secretary determines the circumstances to be appropriate after consideration of the privacy rights and interest of all parties who may be affected. Sets forth other requirements relating to the locating process. Provides for protection of confidentiality and privacy rights, followup activities, and reasonable fees. Provides that the registry may include the operation of a similar statewide identification computer system in any State which chooses to participate in the registry and agrees to provide coordination, consistent standards and procedures, and financial participation. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for FY 1984 through 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Impact Aid Authorization Act of 1984 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to authorize appropriations through FY 1989 for the impact aid program for federally affected schools. Increases the authority for reimbursements to eligible local educational agencies for revenues lost from federally owned, nontaxable property. Requires the Secretary of Education, not later than November 15, of each year, to publish the percentage change in the price index published for October of the preceding fiscal year and October of the fiscal year in which such publication is made. Bases the amount authorized for such impact aid programs on such percentage change. Limits such percentage change to no more than five percent. Repeals the three-year phaseout of impact aid to federally affected schools whose students' parents either live or work on Federal property. Authorizes appropriations for such impact aid through FY 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Human Services Reauthorization Act - Title I: Low-Income Home Energy Assistance - Amends the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to extend the authorization of appropriations for low-income home energy assistance to FY 1985 through 1989. Includes in the term "energy crisis intervention" household energy related emergencies. Requires that at least five percent of a State's allotment of funds for low-income home energy assistance be reserved until March 15 of each year for energy crisis intervention, which shall be administered by public or nonprofit entities having experience in and the capacity to administer such programs. Requires as part of the annual application for an allotment of funds for low-income home energy assistance that a State agree to: (1) describe the eligibility requirements for households desiring to participate in the low-income home energy assistance program and the manner in which the State determines benefit levels; and (2) indicate the amount which the State will reserve for energy crisis intervention and the administration procedures for designating an emergency and determining the assistance to be provided and for determining the use of funds reserved for energy crisis intervention but not expended for emergencies. Provides that home energy assistance payments provided to a household by a private nonprofit organization or by an entity whose revenues are derived primarily on a rate-of-return basis regulated by the State or Federal Government shall not be considered income for such household for purposes of Federal or State law if the appropriate State agency certifies that such assistance is based on need. Decreases the maximum amount of grant money allotted for a fiscal year to States for low-income home energy assistance which a State may request to be held available for the next fiscal year. Specifies additional home energy and home energy assistance data which the Secretary of Health and Human Services is required to collect on a State-by-State basis. Specifies the dates by which the Secretary's annual reports on such data must be submitted to Congress. Prohibits the Secretary from using more than $350,000 in any fiscal year for demonstration and analysis of effective ways to meet the energy needs of low-income households. Title II: Community Services Block Grant - Amends the Community Services Block Grant Act to increase the authorization of appropriations for community services grants for FY 1985 and 1986 and to authorize appropriations for such grants for FY 1987 through 1989. Permits a State to revise the poverty line for purposes of community services grants to 125 percent of the official poverty line established by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget if the State determines that such revision will serve the objectives of such grants. Revises the amount of funds which a State applying for a community services block grant must agree to make available to community action agencies and organizations serving seasonal or migrant farmworkers. Requires that the remainder of such funds be used to permit existing community action agencies to serve geographic areas not being served or to establish new community action agencies. Sets forth waiver provisions with respect to such funding requirements. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Service to provide training and ongoing activities of national and regional significance related to the purposes of the community services grant program. (Under current law, the Secretary has discretionary authority to provide such training and activities.) Permits the Secretary to make grants, loans, and loan guarantees to nonprofit private organizations applying jointly with business concerns for funding. Title III: Head Start Program - Amends the Head Start Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to administer the Head Start program through the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families within the Department of Health and Human Services. Authorizes the appropriations for the Head Start program for FY 1985 through 1989. Requires the Secretary to reserve for training and technical assistance for each fiscal year funds which are not less than the amount spent for such activities under such Act in FY 1982. Requires the Secretary to designate as Head Start agencies any local public or private nonprofit agency which was receiving funds under any Head Start program on August 31, 1981, if such agency meets program and fiscal requirements established by the Secretary. (Under current law, the Secretary is required to give priority in the designation of Head Start agencies to such local agencies.) Authorizes the Secretary to designate a Head Start agency from among qualified applicants in a community if there is no Head Start agency or program serving such community. Permits each Head Start program operated in a community to provide more than one year of Head Start services to children from age three to the age of compulsory school attendance in the State where the program is located. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance and training in connection with Head Start programs. (Under current law, the Secretary is authorized to provide such activities.) Specifies the types of programs which must be included in such training activities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 February 1984
Option Tax Reform Act of 1984 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the taxation of options. Revises the definition of regulated futures contracts to include any dealer option and any nonequity option. Defines the following terms: (1) listed option contract; (2) nonequity option; (3) options dealer; and (4) dealer option. Specifies that the provisions dealing with regulated futures contracts shall not affect the determination of whether a taxpayer is engaged in the trade or business of trading the underlying property or is a dealer in such property for purposes of provisions dealing with losses from wash sales of stock or securities. Revises rules with respect to the termination or transfer of interests in regulated futures contracts. Sets forth special rules for the treatment of option market makers. Sets forth rules for the tax treatment of gain or loss in the case of a cash settlement option and a commodity option. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe regulations to allow a taxpayer to designate positions (whether or not offsetting) to a special mixed straddle account. Empowers the Tax Court to issue a declaratory judgment relating to the status of certain option contracts as regulated futures contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984
Synthetic Fuels Corporation Fiscal Accountability Act of 1984 - Amends the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act of 1980 to prohibit the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation from making new awards of financial assistance after the date of the enactment of this Act and before the date on which the Corporation's comprehensive strategy for achieving the national synthetic fuel production goal is approved by Congress. Makes limitations on Corporation construction projects effective upon the enactment of this Act rather than upon approval of the comprehensive strategy as provided under current law.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1984
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to include educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance within the prohibition against sex discrimination.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the compensation of the higher-paid spouse may be taken into account in determining the income tax deduction for contributions to the individual retirement account of the other spouse. Treats alimony as compensation for purposes of determining the income tax deduction for contributions to an individual retirement account. Allows an income tax credit in lieu of the income tax deduction presently allowed for contributions to an individual retirement account. Sets the amount of such credit at 35 percent of the amount which would be deductible under present law.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1984
Directs the President to: (1) secure from the Southeast Asian nations a full accounting of Americans captured or missing as a result of the Vietnam conflict; and (2) work for the release of Americans listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing-in-action (MIA) and the return of the remains of all American POWs and MIAs who died in Southeast Asia. Requires the President to submit two reports to Congress on the POW/MIA problem.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that nursing care and home health aid services may be provided on a daily basis as home health services for up to 60 days with monthly physician certification of the need for such services, and after the 60 day period, on a physician certification of exceptional circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish an alternative minimum taxable floor for purposes of computing the alternative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. Requires that alternative minimum taxable income shall not be less than such minimum taxable floor. Sets forth the method of calculating such minimum taxable floor. Provides that for purposes of such calculation deductions attributable to property held for the production of income or to a trade or business shall not be taken into account to the extent that the deductions from such activities exceed the gross income attributable to such activities.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Permits the Secretary of the Interior to acquire fee simple title to the McClintock House, Waterloo, New York, as part of the Women's Rights National Historical Park.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Amends the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 to require each Federal agency conducting or supporting an activity (whether inside or outside the Coastal Zone) that produces an identifiable physical, biological, social or economic consequence in the zone, or initiates a chain of events likely to result in such consequences, to conduct or support that activity in a manner which is, to the maximum extent practicable, consistent with approved State management programs. Exempts from such requirement any Federal activity that is: (1) undertaken to counter the immediate effects of a declared national emergency; (2) necessary for reasons of national security; or (3) required by any provision of a Federal law which prevents consistency with any provision of an approved State coastal zone management program.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Tax Shelter Reform Act of 1984 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to deny an income tax deduction for certain property where a taxpayer uses property of another for personal purposes and such other person uses similar property of the taxpayer for personal purposes. Imposes an addition to income tax or estate or gift tax where a court (including the United States Claims Court and the Tax Court) makes a final determination that property has been significantly overvalued or undervalued. Sets forth the method for calculating such tax. Establishes an alternative minimum taxable floor for purposes of computing the alternative minimum tax for taxpayers other than corporations. Requires that the alternative minimum taxable income shall not be less than such minimum taxable floor. Sets forth the method of calculating such minimum taxable floor. Provides that for purposes of such calculation deductions attributable to property held for the production of income or to a trade or business shall not be taken into account to the extent that the deductions from such activities exceed the gross income attributable to such activities. Limits the basis of passenger automobiles to $15,000 for purposes of determining the amount of depreciation and investment tax credit allowable. Allows for an automobile price inflation adjustment (if required) for the calendar year in which the automobile is placed in service. Limits the amount that can be deducted as an ordinary and necessary business expense for leasing automobiles for periods longer than one month. Denies an income tax deduction for interest paid or incurred to purchase or carry certain short-term obligations except to the extent that the taxpayer declares any interest income from such short-term securities. Requires any corporation or partnership organized for tax shelter purposes to file with the Secretary of the Treasury a duplicate of any materials required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study of tax shelters and report the results to specified committees of the Congress not later than December 1, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1984
Declares that Congress asks the American people to take cognizance of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Rome on June 2 through June 3, 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the FY 1985 funding levels for Federal foreign language and international education and exchange programs should be maintained or increased above the FY 1984 levels.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Anti-Terrorism Rewards Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of State to offer and pay rewards for information or services that lead or may lead to the appropriate resolution of terrorist activities outside U.S. jurisdiction which are directed against U.S. persons or property. Authorizes the Attorney General to offer and pay rewards for information or services that lead or may lead to the appropriate resolution of terrorist activities within U.S. jurisdiction. Requires the Secretary and Attorney General to proscribe guidelines for such offers and payments. Requires the guidelines to be filed with the appropriate congressional committees. Requires the Secretary and the Attorney General to report semiannually to Congress on all such offers and payments. Makes Federal, State, and local officers and employees ineligible for such payments. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Senior Citizen Tutorial Volunteer Network Act of 1984 - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants to local educational agencies (LEAs), or to public agencies and private nonprofit organizations applying jointly with one or more LEAs, to establish and operate senior citizen tutorial volunteer network programs for educationally disadvantaged children. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1989 to carry out this Act. Provides that 85 percent of such appropriations be used for such grants for such programs. Provides that such volunteers will tutor such children in their elementary and secondary schools and homes and will serve as liaisons between their schools and families. Provides that such funds may also be used to: (1) train volunteers, teachers, and other school personnel involved in such programs; (2) develop curricula materials; and (3) assist volunteers to pay for program-related expenses. Provides that 15 percent of such appropriations shall be used by the Secretary for: (1) a leadership training institute for project directors and other designated project personnel; and (2) ongoing technical assistance for projects. Requires that eligible applicants submit grant applications which describe the program, including plans for program continuation at the local level. Requires that such applications provide assurances that: (1) local senior citizen groups are involved in program design and operation; and (2) only elementary and secondary schools and families eligible for assistance under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 may receive assistance under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) assure equitable distribution of assistance among the States; and (2) pay a Federal share for each fiscal year equal to 100 percent of the costs of the programs described in approved applications.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Makes a supplemental appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for FY 1984 to carry out the famine relief provisions (title II) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Public Law 480).
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, Incorporated to erect a National Law Enforcement Heroes Memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor and recognition of law enforcement officials in the United States who died in the line of duty. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Fund, to select with the approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial other than expenses incurred in the process of site selection and approval of design and plans.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1984
Authorizes the President, on behalf of Congress, to present to Elie Wiesel a gold medal in recognition of his humanitarian efforts and outstanding contributions to world literature and human rights. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the public sale of bronze duplicates of such medal.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1984
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Office of Management and Budget should: (1) withdraw its proposed revisions to Circular A-122 that would prohibit Federal reimbursement of Government contractors and grantees for the cost of lobbying and related activities; and (2) refrain from promulgating any rule that would have a similar effect.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1984
Directs the Attorney General to make grants to the government of Nassau County, New York, for anti-terrorist and other security-related expenses associated with hosting the 1984 International Games for the Disabled. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Expresses the appreciation of Congress to the descendants of blacks who contributed to American independence. Encourages State and local governments and private organizations to conduct activities during Black History Month 1985 in honor of black involvement in the American Revolution.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1984
Requires the appropriation of funds authorized under the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 for the rehabilitation of structures for use as shelters for the homeless and for demonstration projects coordinating local efforts to assist families trying to locate affordable housing.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1984
Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 to require an export license for the export in bulk by tanker of fresh water removed from the navigable waters of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, to issue regulations providing for such export licenses. Provides for granting such licenses only if the affected States and local governments concur in the granting of the license and receive reimbursement for the exported water. Permits administrative and judicial review of such export license requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1984
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, to the extent approved in appropriation Acts, to reimburse the government of Nassau County, New York, for all necessary security related expenses associated with hosting the 1984 International Games for the Disabled. Requires the government of Nassau County to: (1) report to the Secretary all of its anticipated security related expenses associated with the games; (2) keep records of such expenses; and (3) following the games submit to the Secretary a report of all such expenses. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1984
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to limit the basis of passenger automobiles to $15,000 for purposes of determining the amount of depreciation and investment tax credit allowable. Allows for an automobile price inflation adjustment (if required) for the calendar year in which the automobile is placed in service. Limits the amount that can be deducted as an ordinary and necessary business expense for leasing automobiles for periods longer than one month.
![Official portrait of Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY]](https://www.congress.gov/img/member/m001054_200.jpg)