United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1982
Grants congressional approval of the Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River System as a guide for future water policy on such System. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide for the engineering, design, and construction, of a second lock at locks and dam 26, Mississippi River, Alton, Illinois and Missouri. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to undertake with respect to the Upper Mississippi River System: (1) a habitat rehabilitation and enhancement program; (2) the implementation of a long-term resource monitoring program; (3) the implementation of a computerized inventory and analysis system for data storage and retrieval; and (4) the implementation of a program of recreational projects. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to: (1) review the Master Plan; (2) assign priorities; and (3) develop and submit to Congress a proposal for further implementation. Declares that such Master Plan has reasonably complied with the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1982
Wilderness Protection Act of 1982 - Withdraws from disposition under all laws pertaining to oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, potassium, sulphur, gilsonite, and geothermal leasing: (1) wilderness areas; (2) lands recommended for wilderness designation, until Congress determines otherwise or until the lands concerned are recommended for other uses; (3) wilderness study areas, for the period of interim wilderness protection and management required by law; and (4) lands identified for further planning in Executive Communication 1504, 96th Congress, until one year after the final approval and implementation of an initial forest plan covering the further planning area. Exempts from the withdrawal pursuant to this Act: (1) national forest system land released to management for nonwilderness uses; (2) lands designated as congressional wilderness study areas in Colorado and New Mexico and certain lands within the River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho; (3) Bureau of Land Management wilderness study areas; and (4) lands in Alaska. Permits activities compatible with the preservation of the wilderness environment for the purpose of inventorying energy, mineral, and other resource values in areas withdrawn by this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to augment recurring surveys of mineral values of wilderness areas and to acquire information on the areas withdrawn by this Act by conducting mineral inventories of such areas. Authorizes the President to recommend to Congress that minerals exploration, development, or extraction be permitted in specified areas withdrawn under this Act if: (1) there is an urgent national need for the mineral activity; and (2) the need outweighs the public values of the wilderness lands involved and the potential adverse environmental impacts likely to result. Makes such a recommendation effective only upon enactment of a joint resolution by Congress approving such recommendation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue oil and gas leases for the subsurface of national forest or public land wilderness areas that are immediately adjacent to oil and gas producing fields or areas that are prospectively valuable. Prohibits surface occupancy under such leases and provides that such leases may be entered only by directional drilling from outside the wilderness or by other nonsurface disturbing methods.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1982
Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (as amended by specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981) to provide that individuals filing claims for compensation, including regular, extended, supplemental, and sharable regular compensation, shall be counted for purposes of determining the insured unemployment rate. Makes such change retroactive to June 1, 1982, for purposes of counting those on extended benefits. Provides that a State shall not be deemed out of compliance with specified Internal Revenue Code provisions by reason of a failure to amend its State unemployment compensation law within a specified period to include any requirement imposed by this Act. Permits States to choose to implement such changes prior to the time that changes in the State unemployment compensation law are formally adopted.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1982
Major League Sports Community Protection Act of 1982 - Declares that it shall not be unlawful under any antitrust law for a professional sports league and its member clubs to enforce rules: (1) authorizing the league membership to decide that a member club shall not be relocated; or (2) providing for the division of league or member club revenues that promote comparable economic opportunities for member clubs. Prohibits any State or local government from imposing any limitation on the collective conduct of sports leagues or member teams authorized by this Act. Specifies the applicability of this Act to actions commenced under the antitrust laws before its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1982
Provides that information published outside the United States by the International Communications Agency shall not be subject to the prohibition against dissemination of such information within the United States. Permits such dissemination after the information has been accessioned into the National Archives.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Establishes the United States Capitol Page Board for the supervision and education of congressional pages. Repeals the eligibility of Supreme Court pages for attendance and residence at the John W. McCormack Residential Page School. Requires the Board to provide for personnel to perform duties with respect to such school.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1982
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of H.R. 3467 (Arms Control and Disarmament Agency).
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from terminating disability benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) or title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act on the basis of continuing disability investigations. Exempts from such prohibition those cases where an initial disability benefit termination is based on a finding: (1) that the individual involved is able to engage in substantial gainful activity; (2) of fraud; or (3) based on a scheduled review of which such individual was notified at the time of his or her initial entitlement. Requires the Secretary to notify individuals who have been or will be notified of a continuing disability investigation that no further decision will be made with respect to their cases during the period in which this Act is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1982
Authorizes the President to provide for U.S. participation in the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. Authorizes the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Commissioner General of the United States Government for the Exposition. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to designate a Commissioner General of Section for U.S. participation, as provided in the Exposition proposal transmitted by the President to Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to take certain actions to provide for U.S. participation in the Exposition, including incurring necessary expenses, leasing land, and hiring consultants. Provides for the use of volunteers. Directs the Secretary to take all reasonable measures to: (1) facilitate the participation of other governments and their nationals; (2) assure adherence to the Bureau of International Expositions protocols; and (3) support the exposition. Authorizes the Secretary to accept private contributions to carry out this Act. Authorizes other Federal agencies to cooperate with the Secretary and provide personnel to help carry out this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to dispose of all Federal property that was used for the Exposition but was not acquired with Federal funds. Authorizes making such dispositions without regard to the Federal laws relating to the disposition of excess or surplus property acquired for the Exposition after the close of the Exposition. States that the functions authorized by this Act may be performed without regard to specified laws. Authorizes the Secretary to issue rules to carry out the functions and duties imposed by this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1982
Commends the President for the proposal to the Soviet Union to begin strategic arms reductions talks. Supports the President's objective of attaining an agreement providing for verifiable, equitable, and militarily significant reductions in strategic offensive arms. Declares that such agreement should provide initially for sharply reduced and equal levels on the total number of nuclear delivery systems and of warheads on these systems. Declares that the United States shall continue to refrain from undercutting the SALT I and SALT II agreements if the Soviet Union shows equal restraint. Declares that the United States should also propose to the Soviet Union and other nations practical measures to: (1) reduce the danger of nuclear war through accident or miscalculation; (2) prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties; (3) cooperate more closely to halt the worldwide proliferation of nuclear weapons; and (4) involve all nations possessing nuclear weapons in the arms control process. Urges the President to finish reviewing and to report on the pending Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty. Declares that the United States should continue to seek the elimination of all nuclear weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
Amends the census provisions to permit the criteria for identifying areas that need specific tabulations of population to include the smallest administrative units used in conducting statewide elections.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 the average annual gross receipts for small businesses which elect to use one inventory pool for income tax accounting purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1982
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1982 - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to enable the United States to give effect to the Nairobi protocol to the Florence Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials. Directs the President to proclaim changes in the Tariff Schedules of the United States to implement temporarily the duty-free treatment provided under this Act for certain articles for the blind or other handicapped persons. Authorizes the President to implement temporarily the duty-free treatment provided under this Act for certain: (1) books, publications, and documents; (2) visual and auditory materials; and (3) tools for scientific instruments or apparatus. Authorizes the President to limit the duty-free treatment or temporary duty-free treatment accorded under this Act for certain tools for scientific instruments or for certain articles for the blind or other handicapped persons if the duty-free treatment of the article: (1) has significant adverse impact on a competing domestic industry; and (2) is not provided for in the Florence agreement or the Nairobi protocol. Authorizes the President to reinstate the duty-free treatment of such articles if it would no longer cause such adverse impact. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide duty-free treatment for: (1) catalogs of educational, scientific, or cultural visual and auditory material; (2) architectural, engineering, industrial, or commercial drawings and plans; (3) certain illustrations and proofs used for the production of books; (4) developed photographic film and similar articles; (5) motion picture films on which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded; (6) magnetic video tape on which pictures or pictures and sound have been recorded; (7) other sound recordings, combination sound and visual recordings, and magnetic recordings; (8) certain educational, scientific, or cultural models; (9) tools specially designed for maintaining certain scientific instruments or apparatus that are used by nonprofit institutions; and (10) articles specially designed or adapted for use by blind or other handicapped persons.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of State to request the assistance of State and local governments outside the District of Columbia in providing: (1) fixed guards at any consular premises or residences of consular officers within the jurisdiction of such governments; and (2) protective security details for such consular premises and officers. Permits the Secretary, in certain circumstances, to reimburse the govenrments for providing such services. Authorizes the Secretary to procure other security services if the State or local government cannot provide the requested assistance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Product Liability Act - Preempts State product liability laws. States that this Act governs any civil action for harm caused by a product which would have been based on: (1) strict or absolute liability in tort; (2) negligence or gross negligence; (3) breach of express or implied warranty and; (4) failure to discharge a duty to warn or instruct. Makes a manufacturer liable if the claimant establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that a product was unreasonably dangerous: (1) in construction or design; (2) because the manufacturer failed to provide adequate warnings of danger; or (3) because the product did not conform to an express warranty. Specifies the requisite findings which must be made for such proof of unreasonable danger to be determined. Subjects a product seller to liability if the claimant proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the claimant's harm was proximately caused by such seller's failure to use reasonable care with respect to the product. Enumerates circumstances under which such a seller is also subject to the liability of a manufacturer. Provides that all claims, under this Act shall be governed by the principles of comparative responsibility. Sets forth rules with respect to conduct affecting comparative responsibility, including misuse, alteration or modification of a product. Specifies the manner in which damages are to be apportioned. Requires that damages in any product liability claim be reduced by an amount paid as workers' compensation benefits. Prescribes statutes of limitation for recovery. Allows punitive damages to be awarded if the claimant proves by clear and convincing evidence that the harm suffered was the result of the product manufacturer's or sellers's reckless disregard for the safety of product users, consumers, or others who might be harmed by the product. Provides that evidence of corrective measures taken by a product seller after a harm has occurred would not be admissible in court to prove liability.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1982
Lebanon Emergency Relief, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Assistance Act of 1982 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance for the relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction needs of the victims of recent fighting in Lebanon. Authorizes FY 1982 appropriations for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Prohibition of Mandatory Retirement and Employment Rights Act of 1982 - Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to eliminate the upper age limitation of the class of persons to whom such Act applies.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1982
Amends the Peace Corps Act to provide that the monthly readjustment allowance for Peace Corps volunteer leaders shall not be less than $125. (Current law provides that the monthly readjustment allowance may not exceed $125.)
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1982
International Security Enhancement Act of 1982 - Title I: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to: (1) authorize additional FY 1983 appropriations for the foreign military sales credit and guarantee program; and (2) increase the FY 1983 ceilings on the total amount of foreign military sales credits and guarantees. Increases the amount of FY 1983 credits and loan guarantees that shall be available only for Israel. Increases the portion of that amount which must be available as credits. Increases the amount of FY 1983 foreign military sales credits that Egypt is released from repaying. Increases the amount of FY 1983 credits and guarantees used by Israel to finance the procurement of defense articles and services and design and construction services which Israel is released from repaying. Limits the amount of FY 1983 foreign military sales credits and guarantees that may be extended to Zaire. Increases the fine for certain violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees the details of any procurement by a foreign country of goods outside the United States with funds provided by the United States under the Arms Export Control Act. Provides that administrative surcharges include recovery of extraordinary expenses incurred by Federal agencies in carrying out foreign military sales. Authorizes the President, during FY 1983 and 1984, to provide free training of foreign military personnel at professional U.S. military schools (other than the Service academies) in accordance with reciprocal programs between U.S. and foreign schools. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize additional FY 1983 appropriations for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; and (3) peacekeeping operations. Authorizes the President to order the drawdown of commodities and services from the inventory of any Federal agency in certain emergency situations. Authorizes appropriations. Requires the President to notify Congress before ordering such action. Authorizes furnishing assistance to the People's Republic of China if the President determines that such assistance is important to U.S. security. Exempts the international narcotics program and international military education and training program from the requirement that Congress receive prior notification of reprogramming of funds, if the reprogramming involves less than $50,000. Title II: Anti-terrorism Assistance - Authorizes furnishing antiterrorism assistance for foreign countries. Authorizes providing services and commodities for such assistance. Prohibits using credits and guarantees made available to such countries under the Arms Export Control Act for antiterrorism assistance. Requires that the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs be consulted in developing and implementing antiterrorism assistance programs. Prohibits conducting training outside the United States. Requires U.S. antiterrorism advisers to carry out their responsibilities to the maximum extent possible within the United States. Prohibits State Department personnel from training law enforcement officers in antiterrorism assistance, except that employees of the State Department's Office of Security may train law enforcement personnel to protect diplomatic personnel and facilities. States that antiterrorism assistance does not include assistance in gathering intelligence. Sets forth the expiration date for the authorization for antiterrorism assistance programs. Directs the President to send specified information to specified congressional committees within 30 days of providing antiterrorism assistance to a foreign country. Prohibits providing a country with such assistance until a human rights report is transmitted to such committees if the chairmen of such committees request the report. Requires the President to make an annual report to Congress on antiterrorism assistance. Authorizes FY 1983 appropriations for antiterrorism assistance. Authorizes modifications of the regulations implementing the national security controls imposed under the Export Administration Act of 1979 only if the President gives 30 days notice to specified congressional committees. Requires the President to give Congress 60 days notice before removing a country from the list of countries supporting international terrorism. Prohibits removing a country from the list unless the President certifies to Congress that the country has not supported international terrorism during the preceding 12 months. Authorizes the chairman or ranking minority member of specified congressional committees to require the President to certify to the Congress before issuing an export license to such a country that the sale is necessary to U.S. national security. Prohibits furnishing antiterrorism assistance to countries that engage in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Amends a specified definition to establish a costing formula for sales of commodities and services provided under the antiterrorism assistance program. Title III: Economic Support Fund - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1983 for the Economic Support Fund. Increases the portions of Economic Support Fund funds that shall be available for Israel. Decreases the amount of FY 1983 Economic Support Fund authorized appropriations that shall be available for scholarships for Cypriot students in the United States. Authorizes funds for administering the Fund. Title IV: Development Assistance and Other Assistance Programs - Extends the authorization for the Agricultural and Productive Credit and Self-Help Community Development Programs until September 30, 1983. Authorizes additional FY 1983 appropriations for the: (1) international narcotics control program; and (2) trade and development program. Requires the President to use at least half the funds made available for development assistance programs to finance programs that will directly benefit those living in absolute and relative poverty. Requires special emphasis to be placed on alleviating hunger in sub-Saharan Africa and on providing assistance to women engaged in agricultural production in that region. Authorizes the transfer of employees of the Agency for International Development (AID) to international agricultural research centers. Prohibits making available to Pakistan any FY 1983 authorized appropriations for development assistance. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Limits the amount of military and economic assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the amount of credits and guarantees under the Arms Export Control Act that may be furnished to El Salvador during FY 1983. Prohibits any such aid if El Salvador modifies its land reform program in a manner detrimental to the rights of the beneficiaries or potential beneficiaries of the reform. Prohibits making available to Zaire any of the FY 1983 authorized appropriations for the Economic Support Fund unless the Secretary of State certifies to specified congressional committees that Zaire has reached a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund. Directs the President to report to Congress on the status of AID programs in Egypt within 180 days of enactment. Establishes an Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs who shall be responsible to the Secretary of State for matters pertaining to political-military affairs and shall administer the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs of the Department of State. Transfers the functions carried out by the Director of the Bureau to the Assistant Secretary. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to require the annual arms sales report by the President to the Congress to include a report on the amount of defense articles and services furnished to each foreign country and international organization, by category. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish countries with assistance in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitats and in developing sound wildlife management programs. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development and other appropriate agencies to develop plans to protect biological diversity and to implement wildlife protection objectives. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on the implementation of these provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Benefits Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to certain children between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning. Limits eligibility for such payments to children of veterans who died on active duty or from a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments to the surviving spouse of such veteran in the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary concerned to notify each member of the armed forces that his or her dependents will be ineligible for such benefits should the member die after the applicable date, in no case later than August 13, 1983. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide the Secretary concerned with information necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
International Communication Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1983 - Authorizes FY 1983 appropriations for the International Communication Agency (ICA) to carry out international communication, education, cultural, and exchange programs. Earmarks specified amounts for: (1) the Education and Cultural Affairs Directorate of the ICA; (2) the Fullbright Academic Exchange Programs and the International Visitor Program; (3) the Humphrey Fellowship Program; and (4) grants to private, nonprofit organizations engaging in exchange-of-persons programs. Amends the United States Information and Education Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the ICA to credit to its applicable appropriations any fees received by the ICA in connection with its English-teaching programs. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to direct the President to prescribe the salary rates for each salary class of the Senior Foreign Service. Directs the Secretary of State to determine which of the basic salary rates shall be paid to each member of a salary class. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust the basic salary rate of a member of the Senior Foreign Service once a year. (Current law requires Presidential reappointment and Senate reconfirmation for a senior foreign service member to move, even within a class, from one pay level to another.)
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should direct the appropriate agencies to pursue vigorously and promptly conclude certain countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigatons and the pending steel unfair trade practices investigation; and (2) Congress should consider legislation to strengthen U.S. trade laws.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1982
Surplus Agricultural Commodities Disposal Act of 1982 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to contract for the processing of surplus commodities into liquid fuels and agricultural commodity byproducts. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress within 120 days and annually thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1982
Reaffirms Senate Resolution 179 and House Resolution 177 which called upon the President to take steps to strengthen the international barriers to proliferation of nuclear weapons. Urges the President to seek agreement at the Versailles economic summit conference, and through other appropriate channels, that all nuclear supplier nations will export nuclear fuel, equipment, and technology only to those non-nuclear-weapon states that have accepted full-scope safequards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and of the receipts from the taxes on self- employment income, employees, and employers in the totals of the Federal budget. Exempts such receipts and disbursements from any general statutory limitation on Federal budget outlays and from the provisions of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (other than certain impoundment control provisions).
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Soviet Union should permit Abe Stolar and his family to emigrate to Israel and that the President should express U.S. opposition to the forced captivity of the Stolar family by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy should take immediate action to carry out the provisions of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act with respect to the simplification of all Government procurement procedures and forms.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from foreign base company income certain foreign personal holding company income whether or not the transaction giving rise to such income was voluntary or was mandated by law or other action of a foreign government. Specifies that such income shall be excluded only if: (1) the recipient and payor of the income are foreign corporations that are members of the same affiliated group; (2) a U.S. shareholder owns more than 50 percent of the stock of both corporations; (3) the corporations were in existence for at least the five-year period ending immediately prior to the date of acquisition of its stock by the U.S. shareholder; and (4) either the payor or such foreign corporation was engaged in the active conduct of a trade or business during such five-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1982
Declares that the United States cannot be neutral in implementing a specified United Nation's Resolution calling for the withdrawal of Argentine troops from the Falkland Islands. States that the United States should prepare to further all efforts pursuant to that Resolution to achieve full withdrawal of Argentine forces from the Falklands.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1982
Directs the reprinting of a specified number of copies of the committee print entitled "NATO Today: The Alliance in Evolution" for the use of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1982
Commends Israel for completing the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Camp David Accords. Expresses confidence that Israel and Egypt will continue normalizing relations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Omnibus Victims Protection Act of 1982 - Title I: Victims Impact Statement - Amends rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to require that presentence reports contain information assessing the impact upon and cost to any person who was the victim of the offense. Title II: Protection of Victims and Witnesses from Intimidation - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish as offenses "tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant" and "retaliating against a witness or an informant." Amends the Bail Reform Act of 1966 to require as a condition of pretrial release that the defendant not commit these offenses. Grants general authority to the Attorney General to relocate or protect Government witnesses. Authorizes the Attorney General to initiate civil proceedings to restrain tampering with a witness or victim. Title III: Restitution - Authorizes a sentencing court to order the defendant to make restitution for any offense. Requires the court to state for the record the reasons for not ordering restitution. Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress laws necessary to compensate victims of crimes where restitution is not possible. Title IV: Federal Accountability for Escape or Release of a Federal Prisoner - Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Federal courts over civil claims against the the United States for damages caused by dangerous offenders who are released or escape from the lawful custody of a U.S. employee as a result of such employee's gross negligence. Title V: Federal Guidelines for Fair Treatment of Crime Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System - Directs the Attorney General to develop Federal guidelines for the fair treatment of crime victims and witnesses. Requires the Attorney General to consider certain objectives in preparing the guidelines, including: (1) ensuring that victims receive prompt social and medical services; (2) giving victims and witnesses notice of important criminal justice proceedings and scheduling changes; (3) arranging for the prosecution to obtain the nonbinding views of victims of serious crimes during such stages as plea bargaining and pretrial release; (4) encouraging employers to continue to pay victims and witnesses for work absences to assist investigations and prosecutions; and (5) training law enforcement personnel in victim assistance. Title VI: Profit by a Criminal from Sale of his Story - Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress any laws that are necessary to ensure that no Federal felon derives any profit from the sale of his or her story until any victim of the offense receives restitution.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to extend until September 30, 1986, the authorization for the Secretary of Transportation to issue and sell anticipation notes for the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Fund. Authorizes appropriations for such Fund for FY 1983 to remain available until October 1, 1986. Sets forth limitations on authorized expenditures from the Fund. Provides that funds appropriated for the preference share program (a program which provides low interest loans for the rehabilitation and acquisition of railroad facilities) before October 1, 1982, shall remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Fund to contribute a specified amount to the third replenishment of the Fund. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the International Committee on the Red Cross should recognize the Red Shield of David of the Magen David Adom as an emblem: (1) meeting the membership requirements of the International Committee on the Red Cross; and (2) conforming with the appropriate Geneva Conventions.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to specified congressional committees on the advisability of replacing the Federal individual income tax or such income tax and the Federal corporate income tax with a simplified income tax on gross income.
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