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United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1987
Grants a Federal charter to the Non Commissioned Officers Association of the United States of America, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1987
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should express to West Germany that the United States expects it to comply with its treaty obligations by extraditing terrorist Mohammed Hamadei to the United States; and (2) any action by West Germany that involves the exchange of Hamadei for German nationals being held hostage by terrorists will have extremely serious consequences for the relationship between the two countries.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1987
Designates November 1987 as National Family Bread Baking Month.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1987
Declares that the Congress calls on the Government of Vietnam to: (1) permit the resumption of the processing under the Orderly Departure Program for Vietnam of applicants approved for resettlement in the United States; (2) permit the departure of certain prisoners, Amerasian children, and other persons of special humanitarian concern to the United States; and (3) work with the U.S. Government to resolve all humanitarian issues which divide the United States and Vietnam.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1987
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to establish a presumption of service connection, for disability compensation purposes, for the following diseases or illnesses suffered by former prisoners of war which become manifest within ten years after such veteran's detention or internment and recur on a continuous or regular basis: (1) peripheral neuropathy; (2) irritable bowel syndrome; or (3) peptic ulcer disease.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1987
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Act of 1987 - Title I: AIDS as a National Public Health Emergency - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to determine that acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) presents a public health emergency for purposes of certain provisions of the Act. Authorizes appropriations sufficient to double the amount of the standard level to be in the Public Health Emergency Fund at the beginning of each fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to prepare and transmit to the Congress an annual report on expenditures of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) relating to AIDS, including a description of each program, project, and activity and a description of each grant made and each contract and cooperative agreement entered into. Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary, through the National Library of Medicine, to establish, maintain, and operate the International Data Bank on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. States that the Data Bank shall collect, catalog, store, and disseminate, through information systems accessible to the public, general practitioners, and investigators, the results of research and treatment regarding AIDS which is undertaken in any country. Requires that such results be available to any person involved in research and treatment relating to AIDS in any country. Directs the Secretary to establish a schedule of charges for users of the Data Bank from other countries. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Requires the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to establish a virus and serum bank in which all human immunodeficiency virus serotypes and serums are available to qualified investigators. Authorizes the Director to require that any serotype or serum provided under this measure be returned and any information resulting from the use of the serotype or serum be provided to the Director. Authorizes the Secretary, notwithstanding any other law, in accordance with civil service laws, and acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to appoint not more than 40 additional employees to the Food and Drug Administration. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to provide technical assistance to State and local governments and public and nonprofit private entities carrying out programs, projects, and activities relating to AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Title II: Training and Services - Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to add a new subpart on health care services in the home. Authorizes appropriations for activities described in this provision for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to make allotments to each State, of funds appropriated under such authorization, according to a formula which considers the ratio of the number of individuals with AIDS in the State to the number of individuals with AIDS in all States. Directs the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to make payment of allotments directly to an Indian tribe or a tribal organization and to reserve such direct amounts from allotments to the State. States that amounts paid to a State for a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of the year shall remain available to the State for the next fiscal year. Provides that allotments may be used, with regard to eligible individuals, to: (1) pay compensation for the services of physicians, nurses, and social workers who plan, manage, or provide health care services in the home; (2) identify and locate individuals needing health care services in the home; (3) coordinate health care services in the home with other supportive social services; (4) coordinate other long-term care services provided by public and private institutions and voluntary organizations; and (5) train health care professionals, especially those who may provide home health care services or work in hospices. Authorizes States to use amounts allotted to them to provide health care services in the home for eligible individuals through grants to health care organizations. Prohibits more than ten percent of the total amount allotted and paid to a State under this provision from being used to administer such amount. Requires the State to pay from non-Federal sources the remaining costs of administering the funds. Prohibits use of the allotments to: (1) pay more than a specified amount per year per eligible individual for compensation for the services of physicians, nurses, and social workers; (2) inpatient services; (3) cash payments to recipients; (4) capital purchase or improvement, subject to waiver by the Secretary; (5) satisfy any requirement for expenditure of non-Federal funds; (6) provide services under this provision if the total cost to the Federal Government would exceed the total cost of institutionalizing the individual; (7) provide reimbursement for services performed by any individual other than a physician, nurse, or social worker; or (8) provide social services for which planning and management is conducted under specified provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary, if requested by a State, to provide technical assistance to the State. Requires a State, in order to receive an allotment, to submit an application to the Secretary. Specifies matters to which the chief executive officer of a State must certify in the application. Requires the chief executive officer of a State to prepare and furnish the Secretary with a description of the intended use of the payments the State will receive under the allotment. Requires that the description be made public so as to facilitate comment from any person during development and after transmittal. States that existing provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to reduction in payments to States, reports and audits, withholding of funds for cause, nondiscrimination, and criminal penalties for false statements shall apply to this new subpart. Requires reports submitted under this provision to include an analysis of the cost effectiveness of providing health care services in the home. Directs the Secretary to conduct evaluations of services provided and activities carried out with payments to States under this subpart. Authorizes the Secretary to use funds from the Public Health Emergency Fund to purchase, on behalf of and at the request of a State, large quantities, at bulk rates, of drugs for the treatment of AIDS, when doing so is more economical than the purchase of the drug by the State. Requires the Secretary to provide the purchased drugs to the State at the cost paid by the Secretary and to deposit the amount received from the States in the Fund. Amends Part F (relating to grants and contracts) of title VII (Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine and osteopathy to: (1) train faculty of schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, public health, and allied health, and faculty of programs for the training of physician assistants, to teach students, in such schools and programs, to provide care and treatment, including counseling and prevention, for individuals with AIDS; and (2) develop and disseminate curricula relating to care and treatment of such individuals. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give preference to projects which will: (1) train health professionals who will provide treatment for minority individuals with AIDS and other individuals who are at high risk of contracting AIDS; and (2) train minority health professionals to provide treatment for individuals with AIDS. Prohibits making grants or contracts unless an application is submitted to the Secretary. Makes applications for grants or contracts subject to peer review by groups composed principally of non-Federal experts. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application unless the Secretary has received recommendations from such peer groups and has consulted with the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for FY 1988. Amends title VIII (Nurse Training) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to make grants to and enter into contracts, with regard to the care and treatment of individuals with AIDS, with schools of nursing relating to: (1) the training of nurses; (2) the development and dissemination of curricula; (3) instruction in methods; (4) training and retraining of faculty; (5) continuing education of nurses; and (6) establishment of new affiliations with facilities which can provide students with clinical training. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give preference to projects which will: (1) train nurses who will provide treatment for minority individuals with AIDS and other individuals who are at high risk of contracting AIDS; and (2) train minority nurses to provide treatment for individuals with AIDS. Prohibits making grants or contracts unless an application is submitted to the Secretary. Makes applications for grants or contracts subject to peer review by groups composed principally of non-Federal experts. Prohibits the Secretary from approving or disapproving an application unless the Secretary has received recommendations from such peer groups and has consulted with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training. Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts for FY 1988. Amends part B (Federal-State Cooperation) of title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to provide, directly or through grant or contract, for: (1) education, training, and clinical skills improvement activities relating to AIDS for health professionals and allied health professionals; and (2) technical assistance to States and public and nonprofit entities for research in, and prevention and control of, AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Title III: Public Information - Amends Part B (Federal-State Cooperation) of title III (General Powers and Duties of Public Health Service) of the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to develop and disseminate, through the print and broadcast media, public service announcements which inform the public, discourage high risk behaviors, and encourage individuals who may be at risk for contracting AIDS to be tested for infection and to receive counseling regarding infection. Directs the Secretary to: (1) place special emphasis on announcements directed toward minority individuals and individuals at high risk of contracting AIDS; and (2) use appropriate private organizations and businesses. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to establish and maintain a toll-free 24-hour telephone service to provide information to the public concerning AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary, through the Public Health Service, to establish and maintain a telephone service to provide medical and technical information during normal business hours of the Centers to individuals and organizations who provide care and treatment services for individuals with AIDS. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989. Amends title XIX (Block Grants) of the Public Health Service Act to create a new part relating to public information activities by States. Authorizes appropriations for provisions of this part for FY 1988 and 1989. Directs the Secretary to make allotments in the same ratio as the population of the State bears to the population of all States. Directs the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to make payments of allotments directly to an Indian tribe or a tribal organization and to reserve such direct amounts from allotments to the State. Directs the Secretary to make payments from funds appropriated for that fiscal year. Declares that any amount paid to a State for a fiscal year and remaining unobligated at the end of the year shall remain available for the next fiscal year. Requires allocated amounts to be used, with regard to AIDS, for: (1) the development, establishment, or operation of public information activities for the general public, including minorities, relating to prevention and diagnosis; (2) the development, establishment, or operation of public information activities, relating to prevention and diagnosis, for populations at high risk of contracting AIDS; (3) technical assistance to community-based organizations, public and nonprofit private entities, and employers in developing information programs; and (4) training for personnel to carry out such activities. Prohibits States from using allocated funds for capital purchase or improvement, subject to waiver by the Secretary, or for satisfying any requirement for expenditure of non-Federal funds. Directs the Secretary, if requested by a State, to provide technical assistance to the State in planning and operating the activities under this part. Prohibits the use of more than ten percent of allocated amounts for administering the funds. Requires States to pay, from non-Federal sources, the remaining costs of administering the funds. Requires States to submit an application to the Secretary in order to receive an allocation. Specifies matters to which the chief executive officer of a State must certify in the application. Requires that the chief executive officer of a State: (1) prepare and furnish the Secretary with a description of the intended use of the payments the State will receive; and (2) make the description public so as to facilitate comment from any person during development and after transmittal. Declares that existing provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to reduction in payments to States, reports and audits, withholding of funds for cause, nondiscrimination, and criminal penalties for false statements shall apply to this part in the same manner as they apply to the existing part B of this title. Directs the Secretary to conduct evaluations of the activities carried out under this part. Requires each State to include in the annual report submitted to the Secretary under existing provisions information which is necessary to enable the Secretary to conduct the evaluations. Directs the Secretary to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report summarizing the evaluations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Congress should appropriate, for FY 1988: (1) sufficient funds to establish and maintain the Public Health Emergency Fund authorized under current law; and (2) a specified amount to the Veterans Administration for medical care for persons havings AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) who are entitled to receive medical care under laws administered by the Veterans Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1987
Designates the month of October 1987 as Lupus Awareness Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Tender Offer Disclosure and Fairness Act of 1987 - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to decrease from five percent to three percent the amount of securities acquired in a corporation which triggers disclosure requirements. Reduces from ten days to one day the time in which public disclosure must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission). Requires such disclosure to include: (1) the identity of all persons with whom the filing person had communications regarding such acquisition within 90 days prior to the acquisition; (2) the sources of financing used to make the acquisition; (3) a statement by the filing person as to whether the acquisition is for the purpose of investment or for the purpose of taking control of such corporation; and (4) an itemized statement of all fees and other expenses paid or incurred in connection with the acquisition. Prohibits any person required to file such a disclosure from acquiring any additional amount of securities until the disclosure has been filed with the Commission and an announcement has been publicly disseminated. Requires that any material changes in facts relating to a filing must be made by the end of the next business day following such change. (Present law requires such a change to be made promptly.) Includes within the definition of those required to file such disclosures any group of two or more persons acting in concert or in a coordinated or consciously parallel manner (whether or not pursuant to an express agreement). (Present law requires disclosure only from groups of persons acting as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate, or other group.) Prohibits anyone who has disclosed that the purpose of the acquisition is investment from making any tender offer for additional shares of securities until six months after the filing of an amended disclosure statement indicating that the purpose is to obtain control of the corporation. Makes unlawful: (1) the making of any false statements of material fact or the omission of any material fact regarding any required disclosure statement; and (2) engaging in any fraudulent, deceptive, or manipulative acts or practices in connection with any required disclosure statement. Provides for a private right of action for damages and equitable relief by the issuer of securities for any intentional disclosure violations or for any violation of margin requirements in connection with tender offer financing. Requires any person making a tender offer for shares of securities of a corporation to keep such offer open for a minimum of at least 35 business days. Prohibits any person to acquire more than 15 percent of any of the shares of any class of securities in a corporation unless such acquisition is made pursuant to a tender offer. Allows the Commission to exempt any person or transaction from such prohibition to the extent that such exemption is necessary or appropriate in the public interest and for the protection of investors. Prohibits an issuer from: (1) buying back its securities at a price above the market value (Greenmail) from any person holding more than three percent of those securities if that person held the stock less than six months, unless the stock is purchased by a tender offer open to all shareholders or the repurchase is approved by a majority of the issuer's shareholders; (2) during the pendency of a tender offer, entering into agreements that increase the current or future compensation (except for a routine increase) of any officer or director (Golden Parachute payments); and (3) establishing any rights to acquire any securities, during the pendency of the tender offer, if such rights would permit such shareholders to purchase securities of an acquiring company or the issuer (Poison Pill defense). Prohibits any person from acting as a "tender offer arbitrageur" unless registered with the Commission. Defines a "tender offer arbitrageur" as any person who regularly buys and sells registered securities, for his or her own account or for the account of others, in response to, or in anticipation of, a merger, tender offer, recapitalization, restructuring, or other similar transaction. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to exempt from liability for breach of fiduciary duties any employee benefit plan trustees who decide in response to a tender offer not to tender securities which are held in trust by the benefit plan. Prohibits any part of the residual assets of a benefit plan from being used to finance, directly or indirectly, any acquisition of the securities of the employer pursuant to a tender offer including the repayment, redemption, or refinancing of any indebtedness incurred by such person in connection with any such acquisition. Increases the insider trading criminal penalties from a maximum of five years imprisonment or a $100,000 fine to a maximum of ten years imprisonment or a $1,000,000 fine. Requires a minimum criminal penalty of one year imprisonment for perjury or obstruction of justice in connection with an insider trading investigation. States that the Congress declares that the internal affairs or governance of corporations shall be subject to regulation by the laws of the State under which such corporation is organized.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Prevents the United States from implementing any agreement with any country bordering the Persian Gulf under which vessels of such country are registered under the U.S. flag. Urges the President to seek a United Nations Security Council meeting to establish a U.N. Peacekeeping Force to protect nonbelligerent shipping in the Persian Gulf and to seek an early end to the Iran-Iraq war.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Federal Campaign Reform Act of 1987 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to increase the limit a person is allowed to contribute to any candidate and the candidate's authorized political committees with respect to any election to Federal office from $1,000 to $1,500. Decreases the amount a multicandidate political committee is allowed to make to a candidate and the candidate's authorized political committees from $5,000 to $2,500. Requires corporations, labor organizations, and each national committee of a political party to file a report with the Commission if such entities have engaged in any otherwise exempt activity during the period for which the report is filed. Describes "otherwise exempt activities" as those activities which are exempt from disclosure requirements and which include any act of furnishing or making available services, payments, or other benefits excluded from the definition of contribution or expenditure. Declares that any nonprofit corporation receiving reduced postal rates which uses the mails to engage in any otherwise exempt activity during the 90-day period prior to a general or special election shall be subject to a civil penalty. Establishes reporting requirements for persons making independent expenditures in U.S. Senate elections totaling more than $10,000, and thereafter each time such persons make independent expenditures totaling more than $5,000. Subjects to such reporting requirements the exempt activities of corporations and labor organizations. Sets forth disclosure requirements for independent expenditures through broadcast communications on any radio or television station. Provides that an expenditure is not an independent expenditure where the person making an expenditure is in coordination, consultation, or concert with a candidate. Requires a candidate, within 15 days of qualifying for a primary election ballot, to file with the Commission and each other qualifying candidate a declaration stating whether or not such candidate intends to expend funds and incur personal loans for the primary and general election in the aggregate of $250,000 or more from the following sources: (1) personal funds; (2) family funds; and (3) personal loans incurred in connection with the campaign for office. Allows the opponents of such candidate to accept larger contribution amounts from individuals. Requires a candidate who files a declaration of intent not to expend more than $250,000 and who subsequently does exceed such amount, to file an amended declaration within 24 hours after exceeding such amount. Allows a candidate to repay a personal loan in connection with the candidate's campaign from contributions made to such candidate or any authorized committee of such candidate. Prohibits the repayment of any interest on the principal amount of such loan. Prohibits a candidate from making expenditures from personal funds, family funds, or from incurring personal loans in connection with the election campaign at any time within 60 days before such election. Requires that solicited or accepted contributions made through a check or money order be made payable to a specific payee by the original drawer of the check or money order when such amounts will be combined and contributed to a candidate for Federal office. Requires semiannual reports by a party political committee with respect to payments to such committee to defray establishment, administration, and solicitation costs. Requires the national committee of a political party to include in specified reports all funds received and disbursements made for purposes other than to influence a Federal election (soft money). Expresses the sense of the Congress that there should be established a bipartisan commission on campaign financing to develop a means of campaign financing which: (1) promotes the availability of qualified candidates for congressional office; (2) permits candidates, irrespective of their personal financial resources, the opportunity to communicate effectively with the electorate; (3) protects the integrity of the legislative process; (4) promotes participation of political parties in the electoral and legislative process; and (5) promotes public confidence in both the electoral and legislative processes. Declares that such commission should consider and study Federal laws and regulations and public commentary relating to financing congressional election campaigns.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Authorizes the States to raise the speed limit 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 and which: (1) are constructed according to specified interstate standards; or (2) are divided four-lane fully controlled access highways designed to accommodate such speeds.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1987
Designates the week of September 13 through September 19, 1987, as National Reye's Syndrome Week.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1987
Declares a named individual to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1987
Designates November 15 through November 22, 1987, as National Arts Week.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1987
Designates August 1, 1987, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Requests the President to: (1) reassert the American commitment to the Helsinki Accords; (2) raise the issue of noncompliance with such Accords with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania; (3) convey to all signatories of such Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is vital to progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; (4) convey to U.S. allies the necessity of unity regarding such Accords; (5) continue his efforts to achieve the release of political prisoners of the Soviet Union, an increase in Soviet emigration, resolution of family reunification cases, and cessation of radio transmission jamming; (6) seek the inclusion, in any concluding document agreed to in Vienna, of a mechanism to sustain human rights progress after the Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and (7) convey to signatory states the desire of the United States for a result at Vienna that will not favor military security at the expense of human rights.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of April as Fair Housing Month.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates January 8, 1988, as National Skiing Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates October 1, 1987, as National Medical Research Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week of September 20 through September 26, 1987, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1987
Designates the week beginning June 21, 1987, as National Outward Bound Week in honor of the 25th anniversary of the first Outward Bound Outdoor Recreational Program offered in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Renewable Energy/Fuel Cell Systems Integration Act of 1987 - Directs the Secretary of Energy to implement a research program regarding: (1) fuel cell use of methane gas generated from biomass forms; (2) technologies using renewable energy sources (such as wind and solar energy) to produce hydrogen for fuel cell use; and (3) fuel cell technology for electric power production as backup spinning reserve components to renewable power systems in rural and isolated areas. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, private research laboratories. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress regarding the fuel cell research program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Fuel Cells Energy Utilization Act of 1987 - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to redefine the term "domestic renewable energy industry" to include industries using fuel cell technology (thus bringing fuel cells systems technology within the ambit of Federal energy legislation). Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare guidelines for cities and municipalities specifying environmental and safety standards for the use of fuel cell technology. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to the Congress regarding the export market potential for integrated systems of fuel cells with renewable power technologies.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates July 20 of each year as Space Exploration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates August 29, 1988, as National China-Burma-India Veterans Appreciation Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates the week of July 13, 1987, as Snow White Week.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates July 13 through July 26, 1987, as U.S. Olympic Festival-'87 Celebration. Designates July 17, 1987, as U.S. Olympic Festival-'87 Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1987
Designates July 20, 1987, as Space Exploration Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
High-Level Radioactive Waste Storage Act of 1987 - Amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 to suspend until January 31, 1998, the siting or construction of any repository (including the development of site characterization plans and related activities). Directs the Secretary of the Interior (the Secretary) to: (1) conduct a national survey during such suspension period; (2) prepare a list of potentially suitable sites for a deep geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel; (3) conduct a study on the need for a second geologic repository based upon specified factors; and (4) submit such study to the Congress by January 1, 1998, including recommendations for a second repository site characterization, if appropriate. Requires the President to submit to the Congress, by July 1, 1998, at least one site for site characterization activities for a repository. Requires the Secretary to submit a revised timetable to the Congress for repository characterization, construction, and licensing in tandem with the President's submission. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to develop and construct three additional monitored retrievable storage facilities according to specified design and site selection criteria. Provides for regional distribution of such facilities. Sets forth a schedule for the development of guidelines for additional monitored retrievable storage facilities, and for the implementation and construction of such facilities. Prohibits any repository from being constructed in any State in which a monitored retrievable storage facility is already located. Mandates that the waste generated in the region in which such a monitored facility is located shall be stored within such region. Sets forth a schedule for the storage of radioactive waste at either monitored retrievable storage facilities or at the reactor site. Directs the Secretary of Energy to make grants to States and Indian tribes for the construction and operation of a monitored retrievable storage facility. Makes such States and tribes eligible for compensation in the form of annual spent fuel payments if they agree to accept a monitored retrievable storage facility. Authorizes appropriations for such compensation. Directs the Secretary of Energy to accelerate a demonstration program for subseabed disposal of high-level radioactive waste, and to establish a university-based consortium (including private research firms) to investigate the feasibility for such disposal. Authorizes appropriations for alternative disposal systems. Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to permit States or their political subdivisions to regulate hazardous materials transportation through designation of specified routes, imposition of transport fees, requirements for driver training, and other means.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1987
States that the Environmental Protection Agency should encourage States to mandate the use of fuel alcohol and other oxygenate/gasoline blends in CO nonattainment areas, and neat alcohols or other clean burning alternative transportation fuels in commercial fleets in ozone nonattainment areas as optional pollution control strategies in their State Implementation Plan under the Clean Air Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Designates the week of December 13 through December 19, 1987, as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Designates the week beginning on the third Sunday in May 1988 as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Designates October 1987 as Polish American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that each Senate committee that reports legislation requiring employers to provide new employee benefits should include in such report an analysis of the impact of the legislation on employers (especially small businesses), the economy (in terms of international competitiveness), and employees (in terms of lost jobs).
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1987
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for services performed by a physician assistant outside institutional settings.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Education, Information, Risk Reduction, Training, Prevention, Treatment, Care, and Research Act of 1987 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to create a new title on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control (Director), to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a comprehensive national plan containing specified elements relating to education, information, and risk reduction activities concerning AIDS. Directs the Secretary to submit to the committees each year for the next ten years a revision of the plan. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director, to make grants to States for the development, implementation, or expansion of State plans for education, information, risk reduction, and other activities relating to AIDS. Requires States, in order to receive grants, to submit an application with specified contents. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States relating to these grants. Directs the Secretary to make grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities for development, establishment, or expansion of programs for targeted education, information, and risk reduction activities relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to give grant priority to activities directed toward individuals at highest risk of becoming infected with the acquired immunodeficiency virus. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary to give preference to community-based organizations which are located in, have a history of service in, and will serve specified areas. States that the Secretary may review the content of any educational or information materials developed with grants only for scientific and factual validity. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control for the training of individuals to develop skills in epidemiology, surveillance, testing, counseling, education, information, laboratory analysis, and risk reduction relating to AIDS. Declares that individuals receiving fellowships shall not be counted in determining the number of full time equivalent employees of the Department of Health and Human Services for specified purposes. Directs the Secretary to make grants to international organizations concerned with public health for: (1) programs of education, information, and risk reduction relating to AIDS; (2) projects to train individuals to develop skills and technical expertise regarding AIDS; and (3) epidemiological research relating to AIDS. Directs the Secretary to inform the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development of grants made under this provision. Prohibits grants from being made unless an application is submitted. Requires that not less than 50 percent of the grants be made through the World Health Organization and, in the Western Hemisphere, through the Pan American Health Organization. Requires grants to be in furtherance of the global strategy of the World Health Organization Special Programme on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990 for grants to States, for grants to local governments and public and private nonprofit entities, for fellowships at the Centers for Disease Control, and for grants to international organizations. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for the development, establishment, or expansion in a service area of networks of comprehensive medical services for individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Requires networks to provide: (1) comprehensive services, or referrals to comprehensive services, for such individuals, including specified services; and (2) continuing education for health care personnel involved in the delivery of services to individuals infected with the virus. Specifies allowed and prohibited uses of grants. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Requires entities applying for a grant, prior to applying, to establish a network advisory committee to assist in development of grant applications, provide support for the development, establishment, or expansion of the network, and monitor the implementation of, and the services provided through, the network. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to specified types of applicants. Directs the Secretary to make at least one grant each fiscal year to an applicant in each service area in which there is a high incidence of children who are infected with the virus. States criteria for selecting such applicant. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities for projects to demonstrate innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services to individuals with AIDS. Requires projects supported with such grants to provide for the delivery of health services in conjunction with the comprehensive medical services networks. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for comprehensive medical service networks and for innovative models for cost-effective delivery of health services for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the development, establishment, or expansion of programs to: (1) provide long-term counseling to individuals who have AIDS or who have tested positively for the presence of antibodies to the virus; and (2) conduct evaluations of the effectiveness of such counseling. Specifies purposes for which grants may be used. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Directs the Secretary, in making grants, to give priority to entities based at, or having relationships with, entities providing comprehensive health services to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to make grants to public and nonprofit private agencies for the study of, and projects for the demonstration of, effective methods, with regard to intravenous drug abusers, to reduce the transmission of the virus and provide treatment to individuals who have AIDS or who are infected with the virus. Prohibits making grants unless an application with specified contents is submitted. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990. Amends title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act to create the National Program on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, consisting of: (1) a research program on AIDS, including a research program relating to the prevention of AIDS; and (2) demonstration, education, and other programs for the detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS and for the provision of counseling concerning AIDS. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to designate one of the Directors of the national research institutes as the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Coordinator. Makes the AIDS Coordinator responsible for administration of the Program. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to develop and implement a plan for NIH to expedite the award of grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements by any agency of NIH for projects relating to AIDS, including projects initiated by investigators not in response to any solicitation for proposals. Requires the plan to provide, in the case of applications made in response to solicitations for proposals, for making of awards or disapproval of applications within six months after the date on which a solicitation is issued. Directs the AIDS Coordinator, in conjunction with the Directors of the national research institutes and in consultation with the National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board (Advisory Board), to promote cooperation between specified agencies in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of AIDS. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to prepare and transmit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report with specified contents. Directs the AIDS Coordinator to expand clinical trials of treatments and therapies for AIDS and infection with the virus. Authorizes the AIDS Coordinator to: (1) establish or support the large-scale production or distribution of specialized biological materials or other therapeutic substances for research relating to AIDS and set standards of safety and care for persons using such materials; (2) support, in consultation with the Advisory Board, research relating to AIDS outside the United States in certain circumstances, collaborative research involving American and foreign participants, the training of American scientists abroad and foreign scientists in the United States, and programs of education and training, including education and laboratory and clinical research training; (3) encourage and coordinate research relating to AIDS by industrial concerns in certain circumstances and provide for the exchange of information between Federal agencies and private entities involved in specified ways with therapies and vaccines for AIDS; (4) acquire, improve, repair, operate, and maintain, in consultation with the Advisory Board, laboratories and other real and personal property, make grants for the renovation of facilities, and lease certain spaces for a limited period; (5) enter into contracts and cooperative agreements to expedite and coordinate research relating to AIDS; and (6) maintain and operate the International Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research Data Bank. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the AIDS Coordinator, to establish in NIH a National Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Advisory Board to: (1) review and evaluate the implementation of the Program; (2) advise and make recommendations to the Congress, the Secretary, the Director of NIH, the AIDS Coordinator, and the heads of other Federal agencies; and (3) maintain liaisons with other advisory bodies and key non-Federal entities involved with the control of AIDS. Requires the Advisory Board to prepare an annual report for the AIDS Coordinator describing the Advisory Board's activities and making recommendations regarding the Program. Authorizes the Director of the Institute to enter into cooperative agreements with and make grants to public or private nonprofit entities for planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for, centers for basic and clinical research into, and training in, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods for AIDS. Specifies permitted uses for Federal payments under a cooperative agreement or grant. Limits support of a center to five years, subject to extension for periods of up to five years, if recommended by a peer review group. Requires, in the Institute, appointment of an Associate Director for Prevention to coordinate and promote the programs in the Institute concerning the prevention of infectious diseases, including AIDS. Directs the Associate Director for Prevention to prepare, for inclusion in a biennial report required by existing law, a description of the prevention activities of the Institute. Requires the Director of the Institute to establish a virus and serum bank in which all human immunodeficiency virus serotypes and serum are available to qualified investigators. States that AIDS is included within the scope of the purpose of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to make awards, under existing provisions for National Research Service Awards, for the training of individuals to participate in national research efforts relating to AIDS. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or the Administrator of General Services to respond to any priority request made by the AIDS Coordinator of the NIH within 14 calendar days.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1987
Arctic Coastal Plain Public Lands Leasing Act of 1987 - Amends the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program on the public lands of the Coastal Plain (in Alaska) in order to assure expeditious exploration, development, and production of the area's oil and gas resources. Delineates the elements of the Coastal Plain leasing program. Mandates deposit of the receipts from such leasing program in the Treasury. Requires that activities be conducted to achieve the reasonable protection of wildlife resources, the environment, and subsistence users. Directs the Secretary to provide impact aid to affected communities to ensure the availability of public services necessitated by the leasing program. Authorizes the Secretary of State to initiate discussions with the Canadian Government regarding mutual planning for the development and transportation of crude oil and natural gas resources in the Arctic region under the respective jurisdiction of each country, both onshore and offshore.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1987
Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987 - Expresses the determination of the Congress that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): (1) is a terrorist organization; (2) is a threat to the interests of the United States, its allies, and to international law; and (3) should not benefit from operating in the United States. Prohibits, if the purpose is to further the interests of the PLO: (1) the receipt of anything of value except informational material from the PLO; (2) the expenditure of funds from the PLO; (3) the establishment or maintenance of a PLO office within the jurisdiction of the United States. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall cease to have effect if the President certifies to the Congress that the PLO no longer practices or supports terrorist actions.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1987
Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue a certificate of documentation for a named vessel.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1987
Marine Science, Technology, and Resource Development Act of 1987 - Amends the National Sea Grant College Program Act to declare the need for a national ocean policy and to revise definitions under such Act. Expands coverage of such Act to include Great Lakes resources. (Current law covers ocean and coastal resources.) Requires the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Administrator) to develop and publish every three years the Sea Grant Strategic Research Plan (Plan) identifying and describing a limited number of priority areas for strategic marine research. Requires the Plan to be submitted to specified congressional committees. Describes the priority area on which the Plan shall concentrate, including: (1) critical resource and environmental areas of national or global scope where adequate funding is otherwise precluded under other provisions of the National Sea Grant College Program Act; and (2) areas where sustained programmatic research and technology transfer can be utilized. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to make grants to carry out such strategic marine research to sea grant colleges, programs, regional consortia, and individuals meeting certain criteria. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1988 through 1992. Describes the academic, congressional, Federal, and postdoctoral fellowships which may be awarded. Adds to the duties of the sea grant review panel the responsibility of giving advice with respect to applications, proposals, performance, grants, and contracts awarded under the Sea Grant Strategic Research Plan. Authorizes appropriations for the National Sea Grant College Program for FY 1988 through 1992. Amends provisions of the Sea Grant Program Improvement Act of 1976 relating to the purposes of the Sea Grant International program to authorize grants and contracts to enhance international research, promote marine activities with foreign universities, encourage technology transfer, and promote foreign data exchanges. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes for FY 1988 through 1992. Allows additional funding to be provided through other Federal program elements with a marine science or technology transfer component, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1987
Veterans' Administration Health-Care Personnel Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide premium pay if necessary to obtain or retain the services of pharmacists or occupational therapists. Authorizes premium pay for nurses performing a shift any part of which is performed on a Saturday. (Currently, such premium pay is authorized only for Sunday duty.) Directs the Administrator to require that the Chief of Nursing Service (or designee) at each Veterans Administration (VA) facility be included in the membership of each policymaking and fiscal committee at each such facility. Repeals current provisions governing the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program and adds a new chapter establishing a program to be known as the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Educational Assistance Program (the Program), to be comprised of: (1) the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program (the Scholarship Program); and (2) the Veterans' Administration Health Professional Tuition Reimbursement Program (the Tuition Reimbursement Program). Outlines eligibility requirements and application procedures for participation in the Scholarship Program. Requires the Administrator and a successful applicant to enter into a written contract which allows the applicant to accept payment of educational assistance in return for the promise to serve a period of obligated service within the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Entitles the United States to damages for a participant's breach of contract. Allows the monthly stipend paid under the Scholarship Program or the tuition reimbursement paid under the Tuition Reimbursement Program to be increased for each school year in conformity with increases in the GS wage levels of the Government. Directs the Administrator, no later than March 1 annually, to report to the Congress detailing certain information concerning the number of applicants, participants, scholarships awarded, and tuition and other expenses paid under the two educational assistance programs, as well as the number of participants who successfully completed such program during the previous year. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations to carry out the Educational Assistance Program. Provides that any obligation of a participant for service or payment of damages for breach of contract is canceled upon the death of the participant. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations providing for the waiver or suspension of any obligation under such Program when compliance by the participant is impossible due to circumstances beyond the control of the participant or whenever the Administrator determines that such waiver or suspension would be in the best interest of the VA. Authorizes such required service to be exchanged with similar service required under other Federal programs. Exempts educational assistance payments from State or Federal taxation. Prohibits the Administrator from furnishing scholarships to new participants in the Scholarship Program after September 30, 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements and application procedures for participation in the Scholarship Program. Requires the Administrator to notify the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees no less than 60 days before awarding a scholarship in a course of training other than medicine or nursing. Requires the Administrator and a successful applicant under the Scholarship Program to enter into a written contract which allows the participant to accept such scholarship payments from the Administrator in return for the participant's agreement to serve for a specified period of time in the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Sets forth the amounts of scholarship payments, educational expenses, and monthly stipends to be provided under the Scholarship Program. Provides for participation as a part-time student in the Scholarship Program for individuals who are full-time VA employees permanently assigned to a VA health-care facility. Provides for a reduced monthly scholarship payment for individuals participating as part-time students, and allows a scholarship for a part-time student to be extended for up to six school years if the Administrator determines such extension to be in the best interest of the United States. Requires each participant in the Scholarship Program to provide service as a full-time employee of the VA for the agreed-upon period. Requires the Administrator, for either a full-time or part-time student participant in the Scholarship Program, to notify the participant of the applicable date for the commencement of the obligated period of service as a VA employee. Provides further information concerning the obligated period of service for Scholarship Program participants and the determination of the service commencement period, including the determination of such commencement period for students who are required as part of their educational requirements to serve a period of medical internship or residency. Outlines provisions concerning the liability of a Scholarship Program participant who refuses to accept the scholarship payments as required under the written contract or who instructs the educational institution being attended to refuse to accept such payments. Specifies an amount to be owed to the United States as liquidated damages for breach of contract in such cases. States than an individual shall be liable to the United States for any amount that has been paid to the participant for which such participant failed to perform the service obligation as specified in the written contract. Outlines eligibility requirements and application procedures for participation in the Tuition Reimbursement Program. Gives priority in the selection of individuals to individuals who have demonstrated superior proficiency and performance as determined by the Chief Nurse of the facility at which the individual is employed. Requires the Administrator, not less than 60 days before awarding tuition reimbursement assistance to any individual for a course of training other than nursing, to notify the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees of the reasons for the awarding of such assistance. Requires the Administrator and a successful applicant to enter into a written contract under the Tuition Reimbursement Program whereby the Administrator agrees to provide tuition reimbursement assistance in return for the participant's promise to serve as a full-time employee in the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery for a specified period of obligated service. Sets an annual ceiling on the amount of tuition reimbursement paid per individual. Requires participants in the Tuition Reimbursement Program to provide full-time clinical practice service for the VA for the period of obligated service as provided in the written contract. Requires a participant whose tuition was paid pursuant to a contract with an educational institution to provide courses at a VA health-care facility to complete the period of obligated service provided in the written contract even if the participant fails to complete the course involved for which the tuition was reimbursed. Outlines the liability of a participant in the Tuition Reimbursement Program who fails to maintain full-time employment with the VA while in such Program or who fails to complete the required period of obligated service. Requires the Administrator, in determining the amount of funding necessary for the Tuition Reimbursement Program, to take into account: (1) the personnel ceiling for nursing personnel; and (2) the recruitment and retention needs of that facility.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1987
Designates March 16, 1988, as Freedom of Information Day.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1987
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to authorize an Alaska Native Regional Corporation, if authorized by an amendment to its articles of incorporation, to issue up to 100 additional shares of Settlement Common Stock to certain Natives born after December 18, 1971, or eligible but unenrolled. Sets forth provisions relating to the class, preference, dividend and voting rights, liquidation preferences, alienation restrictions, and issuance of such additional shares of stock. Grants specified rights to and places certain alienation restrictions on holders of Settlement Common Stock, including inheritance by non-Natives. Sets forth procedures for the termination of such alienation restrictions, including the issuance of Replacement Common Stock. Allows a Regional Corporation, under certain circumstances or if authorized, to purchase any or all shares of its Settlement Common Stock then issued and outstanding. Sets forth procedures for any Village, Urban, or Group Corporation to amend their articles of incorporation to terminate alienability restrictions. Authorizes corporations in the Aleut or Bristol Bay regions to use alternate procedures. Sets forth procedures for such Corporations to consider amendments and resolutions, including shareholder petitions and voting standards. Entitles dissenters who lose certain amendments or resolutions to request payment from the Corporation for all their shares of Settlement Common Stock. Sets forth valuation and payment procedures. Terminates alienability restrictions of all Regional and certain Village and Group Corporations after December 18, 1991. Sets forth procedures to extend such restrictions and for the issuance of alienable common stock. Sets forth procedures a Regional Corporation may use to extend such restrictions through the issuance of alienable common stock as part of a recapitalization plan. Authorizes the conveyance of assets, excluding subsurface estates and timber resources, by a Native Corporation to a qualified transferee entity upon approval of its shareholders (or former shareholders in the case of involuntary dissolution). Treats such entity as a Native Corporation for immunity and other purposes. Revises the Alaska Land Bank Program concerning benefits to private landowners, automatic protections for lands conveyed pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and condemnation. Makes conforming amendments. States that provisions of this Act are severable. Exempts any corporation organized under this Act from U.S. securities laws until the corporation removes limitations on alienation or until shares are issued to non-Natives. Provides that any compensation, revenue, stock, land, or other benefits received by a household or individual Native under this Act shall not be considered as a resource in determining eligibility of such household or individual to participate in the Food Stamp program or to receive assistance under the Social Security Act or any other federally assisted program. Provides that a Native Corporation shall be considered a corporation owned and controlled by Alaska Natives until such time as less than 50 percent of the outstanding Native common stock is held by such individuals. Establishes a statute of limitations for challenges to the constitutionality of this Act. Grants exclusive jurisdiction over any action challenging the constitutionality of any provision of this Act to the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. Prohibits any provision of this Act from diminishing or in any way affecting any governmental authority of a federally recognized tribe, traditional or statutory Native council, or qualified transferee entity, or from affecting any assertion that Indian country does does not exist.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1987
Designates May 9 through May 15, 1988, as National Stuttering Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Directs the President to designate the week of May 10 through May 16, 1987, as Just Say No to Drugs Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1987
Designates August 11, 1987, as National Neighborhood Crime Watch Day.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 3, 1987, as Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the period of May 23 through May 30, 1987, is recognized as Hokule'a Week, celebrating the return to Hawaii after a two and one-half year voyage of the Polynesian Voyaging Society's sailing canoe.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Requires the United States Trade Representative to initiate an investigation under the Trade Act of 1972 regarding unfair trade barriers of entities owned, controlled, and financed by the Government of Japan against U.S. architectural, engineering, construction, and consulting services.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Directs the President to negotiate trade agreements with each country from which at least 50,000 automobiles are imported into the United States per year that: (1) will eliminate unfair, restrictive, and discriminatory practices in the marine transportation of such imports; and (2) establish procedures under which a fair and reasonable portion of all such imports are transported to the United States by U.S. owned and operated vessels. Requires the President to report to the Congress semiannually on such negotiations.