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United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1983
Authorizes the President to proclaim March 1984 National Social Work Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the continuing possibility that the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to withholding of tax from interest and dividends will be repealed is creating, for all payors, an undue hardship within the meaning of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, and that the Secretary of the Treasury should exercise his authority under such Act to delay the effective date of such provision until December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide civil penalties for persons who import, export, or attempt to import or export: (1) any stolen self-propelled vehicle, vessel, aircraft, or part thereof; or (2) a self-propelled vehicle or vehicle part knowing that its identification number has been altered. Requires the forfeiture of any such vehicle or vehicle part. Requires that persons who attempt to export a used self-propelled vehicle must present to the appropriate customs officer the vehicle and a document describing such vehicle.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Motor Vehicle Theft Law Enforcement Act of 1983 - Title I: Improved Identification for Motor Vehicle Parts and Components - Amends the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to promulgate a Federal motor vehicle security standard applicable to parts used in the manufacture of motor vehicles, other than motorcycles, after the effective date of such standard, or manufactured as new replacement parts after such date. Directs the Secretary to conduct a cost-benefit analysis before promulgating such standard, which includes the effect on domestic motor vehicle production and sales. Stipulates that the standard shall not: (1) impose additional costs upon manufacturers in excess of $10 per motor vehicle; or (2) require the identification of more than 14 parts for any motor vehicle, nine parts for any truck, or four parts for any trailer. Declares that a Federal motor vehicle standard supercedes any State or local standard. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct studies on the development of security devices and systems. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on such devices and systems within one year of enactment. Provides for repeal of this title on a specified date. Title II: Antifencing Measures - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for removing or altering any identification number of any motor vehicle or motor vehicle part required by regulation. Requires the forfeiture of any vehicle or part which has had such number removed, with specified exceptions. Applies to the seizure and forfeiture of motor vehicles and parts those provisions of law relating to the seizure and forfeiture of vessels and merchandise under the customs laws. Establishes penalties for anyone who buys, receives, possesses, or obtains control of, with intent to sell or otherwise dispose of, any motor vehicle or motor vehicle part knowing that such identification number has been removed or altered. Designates as nonmailable matter any manipulative type device which is designed or adapted to operate, circumvent, remove, or render inoperative the ignition switch or lock, or door or trunk lock of two or more motor vehicles, or any advertisement for the sale of such device. Title III: Importation and Exportation Measures - Establishes criminal and civil penalties for anyone who imports, exports, or attempts to import or export any motor vehicle, off-highway vehicle or vehicle part knowing that it has been stolen or that its identification number has been altered. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require persons who export or attempt to export a used motor vehicle or off- highway mobile equipment to present to the appropriate customs officers the vehicle and a document describing that vehicle. Title IV: Reporting Requirements - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish a task force to study problems relating to motor vehicle titling and controls over motor vehicle salvage which may affect the motor vehicle theft problem. Directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretaries of the Treasury and Transportation and the Postmaster General, to report to Congress on the implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that it supports the reduction of child mortality and morbidity throughout the world. Urges the President to promote and undertake activities to further the objectives of the child health revolution. Directs appropriate Government agencies to support UNICEF and other specified international agencies and public and private organizations in fostering the child health revolution.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to suspend the duty on MXDA (meta-Xylene-Diamine and 1, 3-BAC (1, 3-Bis (aminomethyl))-cyclohexane)) until July 1, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Permits executive and legislative agencies to make contracts with law firms for collection services, including litigation, to recover indebtedness owed the United States. Requires that such a contract include provisions: (1) permitting the agency head to resolve a dispute, compromise a claim, or end a collection action; (2) permitting the Attorney General to terminate a collection action in the public interest; and (3) requiring the law firm to report to the Attorney General and the agency head monthly on services rendered and progress made. Declares that such a law firm shall be considered to be a debt collector for the purposes of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Directs the Attorney General to transmit to Congress a quarterly report on the activities of the Department of Justice to recover indebtedness owed the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1983
Condemns the infringement of religious freedom by the Warsaw Pact states. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should raise the failure of the Warsaw Pact states to fulfill commitments on religious freedom undertaken in the Helsinki Final Act and to respect international law on human rights in the area of religion at every appropriate international forum, including the Madrid meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1983
Title I: Department of State - Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of State for FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) administration of foreign affairs; (2) international organizations and conferences; (3) international commissions; (4) migration and refugee assistance; and (5) Bilateral Science and Technology Agreements. Removes the limitation on the percentage of the expenses of the International Bureau of Intellectual Property which the United States shall pay. Repeals certain obsolete reporting requirements and annual reporting requirements dealing with: (1) reports by the President to the Congress on the operations of the Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation; (2) reports by the Secretary of State to the President and Congress on the professional development program for Foreign Service Officers; and (3) reports by the President to Congress on personnel requirements for Federal agencies dealing with foreign affairs and on bilateral and multilateral activities involving science and technology. Amends the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 to repeal the requirement that Secretary of State provide the appropriate Regional Fishery Management Council, upon request, with a copy of a fishing permit application by a foreign nation. Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of State for FY 1984 and 1985 for providing protective services for consulates in locations where funds are not otherwise available for protective services. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the U.S. representatives to United Nations-related agencies and to other international organizations should oppose the adoption of international marketing and distribution regulations which impede U.S. exports. Earmarks specified amounts of the funds authorized for the administration of foreign affairs for: (1) the Coordinating Committee on Export Controls; (2) funding new positions overseas for political and economic reporting; (3) expenses related to an alternative communications center for the State Department; (4) the United States National Commission to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization; (5) U.S. contribution to the World Heritage Trust Fund; and (6) grants to nongovernmental organizations in South Africa promoting efforts to foster a just society and to help victims of apartheid. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to limit the activities for which the Secretary of State is authorized to make emergency expenditures. Directs the Inspector General to conduct an annual confidential audit of the State Department's emergency expenditures and to report to Congress on whether such expenditures were made according to the intent of the basic authority. Lists requirements for the repatriation loan program. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to authorize a member of the Foreign Service residing outside the United States to vote in the State in which the member was last domiciled immediately before entering the Service if specified conditions are met. Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, within 12 months of enactment of this Act, to divide the world into ten geographic regions, the International Wildlife Resources Conservation Regions. Directs the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, to assign abroad Regional Wildlife Resources Attaches. Sets forth methods of determining whether the Attaches have the appropriate training. Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with other concerned agencies, to review and make recommendations concerning the effectiveness of existing U.S. international activities relating to the conservation of international wildlife resources. Requires the Secretaries to report to Congress: (1) on all Federal programs concerned with international wildlife resources conservation programs; and (2) recommendations for an integrated U.S. plan of action to assist foreign governments and international organizations in conserving wildlife. Requires the report to focus on the role and functions of the Wildlife Resources Attache. Sets forth the activities such role and functions shall include. Directs the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Director of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), to insure that Foreign Service officers of the USIA are able to compete for chief of mission positions and have opportunities for assignments outside their area of specialization on the same basis as other Foreign Service officers. Requires the Secretary of State to report to Congress on the policies and procedures adopted to ensure such opportunities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) respond constructively to the Canadian offer to reduce air pollution emissions if the United States reduces its emissions by a similar amount; (2) negotiate as expeditiously as possible a bilateral agreement with Canada providing for significant reductions in transboundary air pollution; (3) consider a joint Government-supported program to develop new cost-effective technologies that will facilitate reduction of sulfur dioxide emissions and other copollutants; and (4) instruct the Secretary of State to report to Congress by December 1, 1983, on the progress toward achieving a new transboundary air pollution agreement. Expresses the concern of the Congress about the delays in the publication of the State Department's series of historical volumes, "The Foreign Relations of the United States." Directs the Historian of the Department of State to report to Congress on the reasons for the delays and on the steps that would be required to reach the goal of publishing within 25 years of the events. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should promote lower prices and fair market conditions for imported natural gas; and (2) 30 days after enactment of this Act the Secretary of State should report to Congress on the progress made in achieving such lower prices and fair market conditions. Prohibits using any of the funds made available for international organizations and programs for FY 1984 and 1985 for any programs for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the South West Africa Peoples Organization, Cuba, or Iran. Title II: United States Information Agency - United States Information Agency Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985 - Authorizes appropriations for the USIA for FY 1984 and 1985. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize the Director of the USIA to grant a supplemental living allowance for up to five USIA personnel stationed in New York City. Authorizes the Director to lease radio facilities for 25 years (currently 10 years). Earmarks specified amounts of the funds authorized for the USIA for: (1) the National Endowment for Democracy; (2) the Fulbright Academic Exchange Programs; (3) International Visitor Program; (4) Humphrey Fellowship Program; and (5) for other exchange of persons programs. Amends the Mutual Education and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to establish in the USIA or other appropriate agency a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to coodinate and oversee programs established pursuant to such Act and administered by the USIA. Requires that all programs under the authority of the Bureau: (1) maintain their nonpolitical character; (2) be representative of the diversity of American political, social, and cultural life; and (3) maintain their scholarly integrity. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to prohibit specified types of reprograming of USIA funds unless the House Foreign Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committees are notified 15 days before the proposed reprograming. Authorizes the USIA to award program grants for FY 1984 and 1985 only if those committees are notified 15 days in advance of the proposed grant. Amends the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide for visits between the United States and other countries of environmental science and environmental management experts. Authorizes funds for such exchanges. Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Board for International Broadcasting Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1983, 1984, and 1985 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983, 1984, and 1985. Requires that appropriations which because of foreign currency fluctuations exceed the amount needed for the budgeted level of operation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Incorporated, (RFE/RL) shall be deposited in a separate account to enhance the benefits for RFE/RL retirees and their surviving spouses Title IV: National Endowment for Democracy - National Endowment for Democracy Act - Authorizes the establishment of a nonprofit corporation to be known as the National Endowment for Democracy. Sets forth the purposes of the Endowment. Authorizes the Endowment to provide funding only for programs of private sector groups with the purposes of the Endowment. Provides for the incorporation of the Endowment. Requires the Endowment to report annually to the President on its activities. Authorizes the Director of the USIA to make grants to the Endowment. Allocates funds from the Endowment for each of FY 1984 and 1985 for: (1) the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; (2) the National Republican Institute for International Affairs; (3) the Free Trade Union Institute; (4) the private enterprise development programs of the National Chamber Foundation. Title V: Foreign Missions Amendments Act of 1983 - Foreign Missions Amendments Act of 1983 - Amends the Diplomatic Relations Act to authorize the Director of the Office of Foreign Missions to establish and enforce the liability insurance requirements for persons connected with foreign missions in the United States. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to require the head of a foreign mission to notify the Director of the lapse or termination of any liability insurance coverage held by certain persons connected with the foreign mission. Requires the head of each foreign mission to transmit to the Director a report listing the motor vehicles, vessels, and aircraft registered in the United States by such persons. Sets forth the information to be included in such list. Requires the Director to impose a surcharge or fee on a foreign mission whenever the Director finds that a member of a foreign mission, a member of the family of such member, or an individual described in section 19 of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations: (1) is at fault for personal injury, death, or property damage arising out of the operation of a motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft in the United States, is not covered by liability insurance; and (2) has not satisfied a court-rendered judgement or the person is not legally liable. Requires that the fee shall be available only for compensation to the victim or the victim's estate. Title VI: The Asia Foundation - Asia Foundation Act - Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary of State to make grants to The Asia Foundation in each of FY 1984 and 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1983
International Security and Development Corporation Act of 1983 - Title I: Fiscal Year 1983 Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) foreign military sales loan guarantees; (2) military assistance; (3) the Economic Support Fund with a specified amount earmarked to Cyprus for refugee relief, reconstruction, and educational exchange programs; and (4) international organizations and programs for payment to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Title II: Military Sales and Related Programs - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to express the sense of the Congress that the President should initiate discussions to limit the transfer by member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to developing countries of conventional arms. Prohibits personnel performing defense services provided under the Foreign Assistance Act from performing combat duties outside the United States in connection with the performance of those defense services. Authorizes the President to sell defense services to eligible countries or international organizations if the country or organization agrees to pay, in the case of training sold to a purchaser of a defense service only those additional costs that are incurred furnishing the training. Deletes the provision which authorizes the President to enter into NATO standardization agreements and similar agreements with Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Requires the administrative surcharge included in sales of defense articles and services to include costs which would not otherwise be incurred by the United States. Authorizes the President to provide free cataloging data and services to NATO or to any member government of NATO if NATO or the member government provides such data and services to the United States on a reciprocal basis. Changes the deadline for the President's annual report to Congress on arms sales from major arms suppliers to developing countries from February 1, to April 1, each year. Requires the President's annual report to Congress on U.S. arms sales and military assistance to include the total value of defense articles and services furnished by the United States to each foreign country and international organization by category during the previous fiscal year specifying the authority under which they were furnished. Requires the President's quarterly report to Congress on U.S. military aid to include the text of all defense requirement surveys completed during the preceding calendar quarter. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for foreign military sales credits and guarantees with specified amounts earmarked for: (1) military sales credits to Israel; and (2) military sales credits and loan guarantees to Egypt. Includes Korea within the list of countries that have a ten year grace period before beginning repayment on guaranteed loans. Releases Egypt from repaying a specified amount of the credits and guarantees provided to Egypt by the United States during FY 1984. Increases the amount of foreign military sales credits and guarantees which shall be available only for Egypt. Authorizes making funds available for FY 1984 to finance defense procurement by Israel. Increases the amount of such funds which Israel is released from repaying. Earmarks specified amounts of the funds authorized for loan guarantees for Greece and Turkey during FY 1984. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year beginning with FY 1985 to maintain adequate reserves in the Guaranty Reserve Fund. Provides for congressional review proposals to sell major defense equipment, defense articles, or defense services which have significantly more sensitive technology than that of other major defense equipment, articles, or services. Increases the criminal penalties for certain violations of such Act. Limits the civil penalty for each violation involving certain arms export controls. Prohibits using any of the funds or guaranties made available under this Act for procurement outside the United States unless the President certifies to the Congress that the U.S. national interest will be furthered by such procurement. Requires that charges for administrative services shall include recovery of administrative and extraordinary expenses incurred by Federal agencies in carrying out certain functions of the Arms Export Control Act. Limits the amount of representational expenses that may be recovered by such charges. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for: (1) military assistance; (2) international military education and training; and (3) peacekeeping operations. Sets the limit on the value of additions to stockpiles of defense articles in foreign countries for FY 1984. Authorizes Pakistan, Tunisia, Yemen, Liberia, Sudan, Zaire, El Salvador, Honduras, and Venezuela to have more than six but not more than 12 members of the U.S. armed forces in their countries for FY 1984. Authorizes the President to provide free training for foreign military personnel at professional military schools in the United States if it is pursuant to an agreement providing reciprocal training for U.S. students in foreign military schools. Authorizes the President, in the event of an unforeseen emergency that requires the immediate provision of peacekeeping operations, to direct the drawdown of a specified amount of commodities and services from the inventory and resources of any U.S. agency. Provides for reimbursement of such agencies. Requires the President to notify the Speaker of the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before exercising such authority. Title III: Economic Support Fund - Directs the President to provide, to the maximum extent feasible, assistance under the Economic Support Fund consistent with the international development policy directions, purposes and programs of this Act. Requires that funds made available through the Economic Support Fund for program assistance shall be used to generate local currencies, not less than 50 percent of which shall be available to support specified development objectives. Requires the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering the development assistance part of the Foreign Assistance Act to be responsible for administering the Economic Support Fund. Requires such agency to provide an annual justification to the Congress for the uses and purposes of the funds provided under the Economic Support Fund. Authorizes appropriations for the Fund for FY 1984. Directs the President to use a specified percentage of the funds appropriated for the Fund and made available for commodity import programs to purchase agricultural commodities and agricultural-related products which are of U.S. origin. Earmarks specified amounts of the funds authorized to carry out the Economic Support Fund for FY 1984 for Israel and Egypt. Prohibits making such funds available to Syria. Deletes the provision for regional cooperative programs in the Middle East. Earmarks specified amounts for FY 1984 for: (1) Pakistan; (2) Tunisia; (3) Morocco; (4) programs in the Middle East and South Asia Region; (5) the East Asian Region; (6) Portugal; (7) Cyprus refugee relief and scholarship programs; (8) the European Region; (9) Costa Rica; (10) the Latin American Region; and (11) the African Region. Deletes the sections dealing with: (1) Eastern Mediterranean programs; (2) the Special requirements fund; (3) Tunisia; (4) Costa Rica; (5) the programs for Nicaragua; and (6) the programs for Poland. Prohibits the use of FY 1984 Economic Support Fund funds for nuclear facilities. Authorizes using a specified amount of such funds for emergency assistance. Title IV: Development Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for: (1) agriculture, rural development, and nutrition; (2) voluntary population planning and health programs, with a specified amount earmarked for the United Nations Fund for Population Activities; (3) education and human resources development, with a specified amount earmarked for education assistance to educationally disadvantaged South Africans; and (4) energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities. Authorizes the President to establish a revolving fund account in the Treasury in order to promote private sector development in developing countries. Authorizes depositing a specified amount of funds from the Economic Support Fund in the account. Sets forth the method of administering the fund. Requires the fund's Administrator to report annually to Congress on all projects proposed to be funded by the revolving fund. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on projects funded by the revolving fund. Earmarks a specified amount of FY 1984 funds to support the goals of the United Nations Decade for Women. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for the Sahel development program. Earmarks a specified amount for private voluntary organizations. Directs the President to use poverty measurement standards in determining target populations for U.S. development assistance and to strengthen U.S. efforts to assure that a substantial percentage of development assistance directly improves the lives of the poor majority. Requires that certain development assistance activities be monitored to ensure the ultimate beneficiaries of these activities are the poor majority. Requires that the annual report to Congress on foreign assistance programs shall include an evaluation of the extent to which development programs directly benefit the poor majority. Authorizes appropriations for development assistance for Pakistan. Increases the limit on outstanding housing guaranties. Extends the authorization for the worldwide housing guaranty program until September 30, 1985. Requires the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance programs, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to prescribe the maximum interest rate allowable to an eligible investor in a loan investment guaranteed under the housing guaranty program. Limits commitments to guarantee loans under the agricultural and productive credit and self-help community development programs to the extent provided in appropriation Acts. Extends the authority for such programs through September 30, 1984. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for international organizations and programs. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for specified programs. Prohibits using any of such funds for programs for the Palestine Liberation Organization, the South West Africa Peoples Organization, Cuba, or Iran. Title V: Other Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for American schools and hospitals abroad. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to furnish surplus agricultural commodities for famine relief. Directs the President to suspend all U.S. assistance to a country when the President determines that the government of such country has failed to take adequate measures to prevent narcotic drugs or other controlled substances produced or processed illicitly in such country, or transported through such country, from being sold illegally in that country's jurisdiction to U.S. Government personnel or their dependents, or from being smuggled into the United States. Requires such prohibition to continue in force until the President reports to Congress that such country has devised a plan for eliminating drug traffic and has taken measures to enforce suppression of illicit drugs. Requires the President to terminate all U.S. assistance to any country if Congress so directs by a concurrent resolution stating that such country is substantially in violation of the narcotics control provisions of this Act. Requires the President to report to Congress on the plans for controlling drug traffic which have been made by countries that will be receiving U.S. assistance and that are exporters of illicit drugs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for: (1) international narcotics control; and (2) international disaster assistance. Title VI: Antiterrorism Assistance - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to eligible countries to aid in the deterrence of international terrorism. Sets forth provisions for reimbursement for the value of services and commodities furnished under this program. Provides for consultation with the Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the development and implementation of this program. Sets forth procedures and requirements for training services under this Act. Requires the President to transmit specified written notification to specified congressional committees not less than 30 days before providing antiterrorism assistance. Sets forth certain reporting requirements. Authorizes: (1) appropriations for FY 1984; and (2) transfers of funds previously made available for FY 1983 to carry out this program. Title VII: General Provisions - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to countries to protect and maintain wildlife habitats and to develop sound wildlife management and plant conservation programs. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, in conjunction with the heads of other specified agencies, to develop a U.S. strategy to protect and conserve biological diversity in developing countries. Requires annual reports to Congress on the implementation of such strategy. Declares that it is the intent of Congress that the agency primarily responsible for administering the development programs should intensify its efforts to encourage and assist suppliers of U.S.-origin goods and services to compete for procurement opportunities arising from use of development assistance, economic support fund, and multilateral development bank funding. Requires an annual report on such efforts. Increases the amount which the U.S. Government, without restriction, can grant for development assistance, for American schools and hospitals abroad, or for the Economic Support Fund. Authorizes furnishing assistance to the People's Republic of China (and Tibet) under the Foreign Assistance Act if the President reports to Congress that extending eligibility to the People's Republic of China (and Tibet) is important to U.S. security. Directs the President, in determining the level of U.S. assistance to a country, to consider the extent to which the government of such country permits a government-owned entity or nationals of that country to engage in the unauthorized broadcast of copyrighted material belonging to U.S. copyright owners. Requires that a country whose government-owned entity engages in such broadcasts shall receive only one-half of the proposed U.S. assistance for such country. Authorizes the President to waive such limit if the President determines such action is in the national interest. Directs the President to notify the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concerning any reprograming of authorized funds in the International Affairs Budget Function in the same way as the President notifies the Senate Appropriations Committee. Deletes the limit on the amount of funds that may be used to construct facilities for U.S. Government personnel carrying out the Foreign Assistance Act. Increases the amount of funds that may be used to educate the dependents of such personnel. Excludes from the congressional notification requirement: (1) reprograming of less than $50,000 for use under international narcotics control program; and (2) international military education and training programs. Provides that aid under the Arms Export Control Act need not be reported to Congress within 30 days of enactment of a law appropriating such funds. Deletes the requirement that the President report to Congress before granting certain foreign assistance which exceeds by ten percent or more the assistance which the President reported to Congress. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to delete the requirement that the President report to Congress on the amounts of and recipients of foreign military credit sales and guarantees. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for the: (1) trade and development program; and (2) operating expenses for the agency primarily responsible for administering the development assistance provisions of such Act. Provides that the prohibition against using foreign assistance funds for police training shall not apply to assistance or training in maritime law enforcement. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for the African Development Foundation. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 for the Inter-American Foundation. Amends the Peace Corps Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out such Act. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from the tax withholding provisions the scholarship or fellowship grants of nonresident aliens. Authorizes additional appropriations for aid to El Salvador for FY 1983. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 to carry out military assistance and training under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act for El Salvador such that the sum of the amounts available do not exceed a specified amount. Prohibits exercising the emergency authority under the Foreign Assistance Act or the leasing authority under the Arms Export Control Act during FY 1983 and 1984 with respect to El Salvador. Prohibits the President from exercising the special authorities provided under the Foreign Assistance Act with respect to El Salvador, except for reprograming. Limits the amount of funds available for FY 1983 and 1984 to carry out the Economic Support Fund provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act with respect to El Salvador. Limits the total number of U.S. military trainers or advisers in El Salvador during FY 1983 and 1984 to 55. Declares that: (1) it is U.S. policy to support peaceful resolution to the conflict in El Salvador and (2) to support the evolution of democratic forms of government there; (2) the United States is prepared to offer its help in regional efforts aimed at beginning a dialog in El Salvador, reducing regional tensions, and providing substantial emergency aid to the displaced people of the region. Authorizes providing El Salvador with military assistance, military training, military personnel and offers of military sales credits and guarantees only if the President has reported to the Speaker of the House and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the plans of El Salvador's Government to meet specified goals. Sets forth the goals. Requires the President to provide Congress with progress reports on El Salvador every six months. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1981 to extend through FY 1985 that Act's certification requirement relating to El Salvador. Adds the requirement that the certification include a finding that El Salvador has taken concrete steps to strengthen its judicial system and to insure its independence and integrity. Requires the President to include in each certification a finding that, during the period since the last certification, El Salvador has made further good-faith efforts to investigate the murders of U.S. citizens that have taken place since December 1980 in El Salvador and to bring to justice those responsible for those murders. Requires the President to include in the fourth certification and in subsequent certifications a report on the violence of the guerrillas in El Salvador. Requires the International Development Cooperation Agency to be abolished within 60 days after enactment of this Act unless the President nominates someone to serve as Director of the Agency. Requires the President to report to Congress within 180 days of enactment of this Act on the status of the programs of the Agency for International Development in Egypt. Directs the President to report to Congress on efforts to achieve long-term agricultural commodity agreements. Urges the President to continue to provide emergency food aid and humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia. Establishes an Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs to administer the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs of the State Department. Repeals specified provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1983
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 1342 (Department of State funding).
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1983
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 1347 (foreign assistance funding).
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1983
Emergency Wetland Resources Act of 1983 - Title I: Extension of Wetlands Loan Act - Amends the Wetlands Loan Act to extend from September 30, 1983, to September 30, 1993, the authorization of appropriations for the preservation of wetlands and other waterfowl habitat. Repeals provisions which provide that such funds shall be treated as an advance and require the repayment of such funds. Title II: Revenues for Migratory Bird Conservation Fund - Permits charging an admission fee at certain designated units of the National Wildlife Refuge System in order to provide additional revenues for the conservation of the nation's wetland resources. Requires such fees to be deposited into the migratory bird conservation fund (the fund). Requires annual reports by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the House and Senate concerning such fees. Increases the price of the migratory bird hunting and conservation stamp. Requires import duties collected on hunting arms and ammunition to be paid into the fund. Provides for an annual payment of $75,000,000 into the fund from the Land and Water Conservation Fund between October 1, 1983, and September 30, 1993. Title III: Financial Assistance to States for Wetlands Acquisition - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide up to $50,000,000 annually from the fund to the States for wetlands acquisition during the period between October 1, 1983, and September 30, 1993. Requires a State in order to receive its allotment to: (1) submit a comprehensive fish and wildlife resource management plan to the Secretary which ensures the perpetuation of these resources; or (2) submit to the Secretary full and detailed statements of any proposed wetlands acquisition project. Authorizes the Secretary to finance up to 75 percent of a State's plan or project, if the Secretary approves the plan or project. Title IV: Wetlands Inventory and Trend Analysis - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to continue the National Wetlands Inventory Project and to: (1) produce final National Wetlands Inventory maps for the entire United States (specifies dates at which different maps are to be completed); and (2) produce, by September 30, 1985, and at ten year intervals thereafter, reports to update and improve the information contained in the report dated September 1982 and entitled "Status and Trends of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitat in the Coterminous United States, 1950's to 1970's." Authorizes appropriations for the above maps and reports. Directs the Secretary, by September 30, 1985, to prepare and submit to Congress a report regarding wetlands losses in the United States. Authorizes appropriations for such report.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Title I: Inter-American Development Bank - Amends the Inter-American Development Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Bank to vote for certain pending resolutions which provide for increases in the Bank's authorized capital stock and in the resources of the Fund for Special Operations. Authorizes the U.S. Governor of the Bank to subscribe to 427,396 shares of the increase in the authorized capital stock and to contribute $350,000,000 to the Fund for Special Operations. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Declares that it is U.S. policy that no actions concerning personnel of the Inter-American Development Bank by any U.S. official shall be based on the political philosphy or activity of the individual involved. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to consult with specified congressional committees before any discussion or recommendations by U.S. officials concerning the placement or removal of any principal officer of the Inter-American Development Bank Management. Title II: Asian Development Bank - Amends the Asian Development Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Bank to subscribe to additional shares of the Bank's capital stock. Authorizes appropriations for such subscription. Authorizes the U.S. Governor to contribute $520,000,000 on behalf of the United States to the Asian Development Fund. Authorizes appropriations for such contribution. Title III: African Development Fund - Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Funds to contribute $150,000,000 to the Fund. Authorizes appropriations for such contribution. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets the effective dates for sections of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Mining Reclamation Reserve Act of 1983 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow surface mine operators to establish a reserve for mining land reclamation costs and to deduct additions to such reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1983
Requires the Attorney General and all other appropriate Federal agencies and officials to enforce the antitrust laws, including the prohibition against vertical price restraints. Directs such officials and agencies to cease propounding arguments in court designed to weaken such prohibition, and to submit to Congress proposed legislation to make any desired changes in such prohibition.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund Self-Sufficiency Act of 1983 - Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (REA) to eliminate the requirement for a State certificate of convenience and necessity before the Administrator may make loans to provide rural telephone service. Revises the liabilities and uses of the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund established under the REA to provide that notes of the Administrator to the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain funds for loans shall be equity capital of the Fund. States that assets of the Fund shall be available only for: (1) payment of interest and principal on loans to the Administrator from the Secretary; and (2) for certificates of beneficial ownership issued to the Secretary or in the private market. Requires the Administrator to maintain two separate accounts within the Fund: (1) the Electrification Account; and (2) the Telephone Account. Lists the items that shall be accounted for in each Account respectively, and restricts the purposes for which the assets of each Account shall be available. Authorizes the Administrator to repurchase specified certificates of beneficial ownership under certain conditions affecting their interest rates. Establishes guidelines for interest-bearing insured loans made by the Administrator to electric and telephone borrowers. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to request in each annual supplemental budgets estimate the amount needed to replenish the Fund for anticipated and actual costs resulting from loans made at less than a specified rate during the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Administrator to guarantee loans to specified borrowers or to accommodate or subordinate liens or mortgages held in the Fund, according to prescribed rules and regulations. Directs the Administrator to promulgate such rules and regulations within ninety days after the effective date of this Act. Prescribes guidelines under which certain lenders are authorized to adjust interest rates on loans guaranteed by the Administrator. Requires rural electrification borrowers to obtain concurrent supplemental financing according to prescribed guidelines in any fiscal year in which the minimum loan level for insured rural electrification loans is less than $1,000,000,000. Repeals certain provisos governing the loan-making authority of the Governor of the Rural Telephone Bank which require approval by the Secretary of Agriculture of facilities or lines to be acquired with such loans. Eliminates loan restrictions placed upon potential borrowers whose net worth exceeds their assets by twenty percent.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Patent Term Restoration Act of 1983 - Amends the patent law to extend the terms of patents which encompass specified products or methods for using or producing a product, any of which are subject to certain nonpatent regulatory review periods. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such extension, including a seven year limitation. Directs the Commissioner of Patents to issue to the owner of record of a patent a certificate of extension stating the fact and length of the extension and identifying the product and the use and the claim to which such extension is applicable. Makes such certificate a part of the original patent. Limits the application of such patent term extension to patents for products subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Public Health Service Act, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act, and the Act of March 4, 1913 (relating to virus, serum, toxin, and analogous products).
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Designates September 11, 1983, as National Youth Day.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that regulations relating to title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (concerning sex discrimination in education) should not be amended in any manner which will lessen the comprehensive coverage of such title in eliminating gender discrimination throughout the American educational system.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1983
Expresses the support of the Senate for Lebanon's and Israel's agreement on arrangements for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. Calls upon other nations to work toward the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Lebanon. Emphasizes the need of all nations to recognize the sovereignty of Lebanon. Urges Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization to agree to the arrangements for the withdrawal of their forces from Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1983
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the pensions received by retired judges who are assigned to active duty shall not be treated as wages for purposes of title II.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Permits the Secretary of Defense to provide air transportation to annual national meetings within the continental United States sponsored by the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia to the next of kin of persons missing in action in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era, or reported dead without repatriation of the remains.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Emergency School Aid Extension Act of 1983 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reestablish the Emergency School Aid Act as title VI of ESEA. Makes the emergency school aid program a categorical grant program to assist public school desegregation. Authorizes appropriations for the emergency school aid program for FY 1984 through 1987. Amends the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 to delete references to the emergency school aid program under the block grant provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Senior Citizens Independent Community Care Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize any State to establish a statewide prepaid capitation program for providing acute and long-term care services for individuals aged 65 or older who require long-term care by reason of impairments which restrict daily living activities. Limits to four the number of States which may establish such a program during the four years following enactment. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services in subsequent years to limit the number of additional States which may establish such a program in order to insure that additional programs will not require payments from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund in excess of the amounts available in the Trust Fund. Provides that each eligible individual shall be entitled to the following benefits: (1) all services to which such individual would be entitled under title XVIII; (2) homemaker-home health aide services; (3) adult day services; (4) respite care services for up to 14 days or 336 hours annually; (5) service coordination; (6) preadmission screening and assessment; (7) intermediate care facility services for up to 20 days annually; and (8) such other services as the Secretary may determine. States that services provided under the program shall be in lieu of any payments or services to which an individual would otherwise be entitled under title XVIII or under any other Federally funded program. Makes any individual eligible who: (1) is entitled to benefits under part A(Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII and enrolled under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII; (2) has attained age 65; (3) resides in a State with a program; (4) agrees to participate in the program; (5) is not in an institution; (6) is certified by a preadmission assessment and screening team (PAT) to have an unmet need for certain services; and (7) has certain physical or mental impairments which interfere with the activities of daily living. Requires a PAT to evaluate each eligible individual's health status, functional capabilities, and home and environment in order to assess and develop a plan of care for the individual before the individual can receive any benefits under the program. Requires an individual's status to be assessed on an ongoing basis, and the plan of care to be appropriately updated. Directs the Governor of each State having a program to designate the State agency or agencies which shall administer the program. Directs such agency or agencies to coordinate the designation of entities which shall provide services under the program. Directs such entities to be responsible for establishing PATs and providing services under the program. Requires each PAT to consist of at least one physician and one social worker. Directs the Secretary to pay a fixed per capita fee to each designated entity for which payment may be made under the program. Prohibits such fee from exceeding an amount equal to 60 percent of the average monthly rate in such State for services provided in free-standing skilled nursing facilities. Requires an individual receiving services under the program which are otherwise covered services under parts A or B of title XVIII to pay the entity providing the services a copayment equal to the amount which such individual would be required to pay under parts A or B for the same services. Requires an individual receiving homemaker-home health aide services, adult day services, respite care services, or a preadmission screening and assessment to pay a copayment equal to 20 percent of the reasonable charge for such services. Prohibits an eligible individual from being required to make yearly copayments which exceed a specified percent of the individual's income for the preceding year. Provides any individual the right to reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing with respect to determinations made by the Secretary under the program in the same manner as under part A of title XVIII. Sets forth the effective date. Directs the Secretary to monitor the effect of the program and submit reports to Congress. Requires the reports to include a recommended strategy for implementing the program on a national basis. Directs the Office of Management and Budget to prepare an analysis of the budgetary impact of the implementation of the program on a national basis and to report to Congress with respect to such report. Requires payments under this program to be made from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Requires payments related to services provided under this program which are not covered services under part A or B to be made from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the feasibility and desirability of establishing a program under which State Medicaid programs would provide prepaid capitation plans for providing Medicare and Medicaid (title XIX of the Act) services to those individuals eligible for both and to report the results of the study to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should seek a consensus at the Williamsburg Summit, aimed at: (1) reducing disparities in certain financial rates and economic policies among summit countries; and (2) arranging a meeting of summit country finance ministers with the Secretary of the Treasury, to achieve an alignment between the interest rates and major currencies. Urges the President to arrange, in conjunction with the Williamsburg Summit, bilateral discussions with the Prime Minister of Japan to bring about further realignment of the yen and dollar exchange rates.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the age for drinking and purchasing alcoholic beverages should be raised to 21 in all States where the drinking age is lower.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 639 (Lebanon aid).
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Congress supports Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Recognizes the week of May 8 through May 14, 1983, as Small Business Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1983 - Extends copyright protection to mask works. Defines a mask work as a series of related images: (1) having the predetermined, three-dimensional pattern of metallic, insulating, or semiconductor material present or removed from the layers of a semiconductor chip product; and (2) in which the relation of the images to one another is that each image has the pattern of the surface of one form of the chip product. Excludes masks and mask works from the pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works categories. Sets forth the exclusive rights the owner of copyright holds, including the right to: (1) embody the mask work in a mask, a two- dimensional partially transparent and opaque sheet; (2) distribute a mask embodying the mask work; (3) reproduce such work on material intended to be part of the semiconductor chip product; and (4) manufacture and distribute semiconductor chip products incorporating such masks. Sets forth limitations on such exclusive rights, including compulsory licensing, as specified. Sets the copyright term for masks at ten years from first authorized distribution, use, or manufacture. Excludes an innocent purchaser in good faith of a semiconductor chip product from infringement liability. Permits the impoundment and seizure of masks made or used in violation of the copyright owner's exclusive rights.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Incorporated, to retain funds authorized for FY 1982 and 1983 which, because of upward fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, exceed the amount needed to maintain the budgeted level of operation.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Tobacco Deregulation Act of 1983 - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to repeal specified tobacco programs, including: (1) price supports; (2) parity payments; (3) review and adjustment of quotas; and (4) marketing quotas. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 and the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to prohibit agricultural commodity assistance for tobacco. Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Assistance Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from issuing any tobacco handling orders. Makes such provisions applicable to the 1984 and subsequent tobacco crops. Repeals provisions relating to compacts among States providing for the control or production of, or commerce in, tobacco within such States. Withdraws congressional consent to such compacts. Provides for sliding-scale based payments to low-income tobacco farmers (1982 adjusted gross income up to $24,000) who have terminated acreage allotments and marketing quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the changes in the Federal estate tax laws which were made by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 are vital to the continuation of the family farm and small business, and that such changes should not be repealed or amended and should be allowed to run their course.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Declares that national policy should be that the Federal Government contribute to the support of education in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Deauthorizes the William L. Springer Lake portion (located on the Sangamon River near Decatur, Illinois) of the flood control project for the Illinois River and tributaries (Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana). Requires the lands acquired for such portion to be made available for purchase by the city of Decatur before such lands are sold or otherwise disposed of at the price the United States acquired such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to apply duty-free treatment to imported water chestnuts and bamboo shoots.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) continue to express U.S. opposition to the forced exile of Ida Nudel; and (2) urge the Soviet Union to provide her with adequate medical care, grant her residence status in Moscow, and allow her to emigrate to Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
Grants a Federal charter to the organization known as the Catholic War Veterans of the United States of America, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise: (1) the criteria under the category "Mental Disorders" in the "Listing of Impairments" in effect under part 404 of title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations which are used to make individualized determinations of disability for purposes of determining eligibility for disability benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act; and (2) the methods and procedures for assessing the residual functional capacity of individuals having mental impairments. Requires the Secretary to appoint a panel of outside experts to make recommendations with respect to such revisions. Prohibits the Social Security Administration from carrying out continuing eligibility reviews with respect to individuals previously determined to be under a disability due to mental impairment until such revisions have been established by final regulation. Makes such prohibition inapplicable in any case involving fraud or where an individual is engaged in substantial gainful activity. Sets forth requirements for the redetermination of disability determinations made after the enactment of this Act and before the date on which the Secretary's revisions are established by final regulation. Amends titles II and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to require that a qualified psychiatrist or psychologist complete the medical portion of the sequential evaluation and residual functional capacity assessment in cases where an individual alleges to be under a disability due to a severe mental impairment.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
Foreign Service Act Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to declare that for purposes of restrictions on Federal employee involvement in political campaigns, the Inspector General of the Department of State and the Foreign Service shall not be considered to be an employee who determines U.S. policies. Provides that up to ten members of the Senior Foreign Service who are appointed by the Secretary of Commerce shall be excluded from the calculation of the limit on the number of members of the Senior Foreign Service serving under limited appointments. Authorizes extending a limited appointment to the Foreign Service beyond five years under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary of State to prescribe regulations under which a periodic within-class salary increase may be withheld or deferred for a member of the Service who is on leave without pay or in part time employment status and shall be withheld or deferred for a member whose performance falls below the appropriate standards of performance. Requires local compensation plans established by the Secretary to include provision for payments by the Government and foreign national employees to a trust or other fund to finance future benefits for foreign national employees. Directs the Secretary to exclude members of the Service from eligibility for promotion when they remain in the Service after expiration of time-in-class and any limited-career extensions. Authorizes the Secretary to extend for more than a year the career appointment of a career member of the Service whose maximum time in class or limited career extension has expired if the additional extension is necessary to attain eligibility for an immediate annuity. Permits judicial review of separations for cause. Defines former spouse to mean a former spouse of a participant in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System who was married to a participant for ten years including five years while the participant was contributing to the Retirement Fund. Permits a participant and former spouse to elect to waive or reduce the survivor annuity for a former spouse if the election is made within 12 months of the divorce or annulment. Provides that a participant who is being retired for disability or incapacity may not receive service credit exceeding the difference between the participant's age at the time of retirement and age 65. Requires such retirees to be given a physical examination annually until the annuitant is 60. Excludes any extra credit authorized by the Foreign Service Act and any credit for military service from the annuity of a participant retiring under disability. Directs the Secretary to withhold consent for retirement by any participant who has not been a member of the Service for five years. Provides for the amount of annuity payable to a participant who voluntarily separates from the Service before completing five years in the system. Changes the day on which the annuity of a former spouse may commence. Permits giving effect to a court order relating to an annuity which is issued more than 12 months after the date of the divorce or annulment involved if it is issued in recognition of a substantial change in the economic circumstances of either party. Sets forth: (1) the conditions under which a participant is entitled to a lump-sum credit; (2) the amount of and conditions for payment of a lump-sum credit to a spouse of that participant. Provides that a former spouse shall not be considered as married to a participant for periods assumed to be creditable service. Provides that extra credit for service at unhealthful posts shall not be used to determine the eligibility of a person to qualify as a former spouse or to compute the pro rata share of such a spouse in a participant's annuity. Sets forth the formula for calculating the first increase to an annuity. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations dealing with waiving or reducing annuity payments to missing spouses and former spouses of participants. Includes within the definition of "management official" individuals who are engaged in investigation, inspection or audit activities in other agencies to which the labor-management relations program of the Foreign Service Act applies. Provides for cost-sharing arrangements in appeals to the Foreign Service Grievance Board. Extends for an additional three years the period during which Foreign Service Officers who meet specified conditions can convert from the Foreign Service to the Civil Service. Provides that career appointees who, prior to the Foreign Service Act of 1980, were not subject to selection out procedures under the Foreign Assistance Act or the Foreign Service Act shall not be subject to the provisions of the 1980 Act dealing with retirement based on relative performance until ten years after the effective date of the 1980 Act. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act to authorize the Secretary of State to employ experts or consultants on a temporary or intermittent basis. Makes State Department funds available for international dispute resolution proceedings and for arbitrations arising under contracts for the performance of services or acquisition of property abroad. Authorizes the Director of the United States Information Agency and the Director of the United States International Development Corporation Agency to pay subsistence expenses of security officers and of employees who are required to spend extraordinary amounts of time in travel status. Provides for payment for an additional 30 day period of temporary lodging for an employee moving from a post in foreign areas. Provides for payment of prekindergarten education of handicapped children of Government employees serving in foreign areas. Provides for travel allowances for dependents of such employees who are traveling to and from the United States to obtain an American post-secondary education.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to a named individual in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States arising out of withheld disability retirement pay from service in the U.S. Coast Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Designates April 24, 1984, as a day of remembrance for all victims of genocide, especially those of Armenian ancestry who died between 1915 and 1923.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Natural Gas Consumer Access Amendments of 1983 - Amends provisions of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 relating to the transportation of natural gas by pipeline. Requires a pipeline, without discrimination, to transport natural gas on a reasonable request if: (1) the owner of the gas submits to the pipeline a formal application for transportation which shall include documentation for the sale of a minimum of a total of 250 Mcf per day of natural gas for a period of at least six months; (2) such owner agrees to compensate the pipeline in accordance with the tariff rates established by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC); and (3) the pipeline has sufficient available throughput capacity. Directs FERC to establish just and reasonable maximum rates and charges for such transportation. Requires FERC's responsibilities over any intrastate pipeline to be delegated to the appropriate State commission. Directs FERC to prescribe regulations governing contractual relationships and obligations relating to transportation under this Act. Authorizes FERC to require the interconnection of two or more pipelines or the extension of a pipeline for purposes of increasing available throughput capacity. Defines "available throughput capacity" to mean that portion of pipeline capacity which during the term of the transport contract would otherwise be unused except during periods of peak usage. Defines the term "free access gas" to mean natural gas produced from any well in the United States: (1) which is not subject to a sales contract as of a certain time; (2) which is released by the pipeline by the exercise of a volume adjustment option; or (3) which is subjected to any termination of contractual obligations. Authorizes free access gas to be sold to any purchaser capable of taking delivery and the seller shall be considered released from all duties and obligations with respect to the service obligations of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978. Provides that in the case of any existing contract provision which has a minimum purchase requirement if a pipeline which is a party to such contract transmits to the producer a written notice requesting that such contract be voided, such contract shall be unenforceable with respect to any natural gas sale, transportation, or storage required under such contract after the expiration of the later of: (1) the 60 day period beginning on the date notice is received; or (2) the date specified in the notice for contract termination. Defines "minimum purchase requirement" to mean any contract or tariff requirement of payment for the minimum quantity of natural gas contracted for if the purchaser fails to take delivery. Directs FERC and the Department of Justice to undertake a cooperative study of and to report to Congress on the competitive effects of vertical integration in the production, purchase, transport, storage, and sale of natural gas, and the effects of vertical integration on the price, availability, and deliverability of natural gas to local distribution companies and ultimate consumers.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Act of 1983 - Establishes a National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission to evaluate existing and potential public outdoor recreation policies, programs, and opportunities and to recommend outdoor recreation policies and activities which should be instituted at the Federal, State, and local levels and by the private sector in order to protect existing recreation resources and to meet future recreation needs. Requires the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the President and Congress within 18 months after its establishment. Terminates the Commission six months after submission of its report. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Regulatory Reform Act - Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to exempt from its applicability any rule involving public property, contracts, or general policy statements of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Repeals the current exemption provided for matters relating to loans, grants, and benefits. Requires a notice of proposed rulemaking to include: (1) a statement of need and objectives; (2) a statement that the agency seeks proposals of alternative methods from the public and from State and local governments; (3) a description of the information on which the agency plans to rely in the rulemaking; and (4) a statement specifying where copies of the rulemaking file may be obtained. Allows an agency to adopt a rule before publishing notice, providing a period for public comment, or establishing a rulemaking file, when notice or hearing is not required by another statute, if: (1) it publishes its findings that compliance with such procedures before the rule becomes effective would be impracticable and contrary to the public interest; and (2) it completes such procedures as soon as practicable after the rule is promulgated. Requires an agency to publish a notice and allow a period for comment on any final rule which is substantially different from the original rule as proposed. Directs each agency to give interested persons at least 60 days to submit written comments on a proposed rule. Permits an agency to use any appropriate procedure to elicit full and representative public comment on the significant issues of a rulemaking. Requires an agency to provide an opportunity for oral presentations at informal public hearings in a rulemaking for a "major rule," as defined by this Act. Requires agencies to publish with each final rule a notice of its effective date and a statement of its basis and purpose, including: (1) a discussion of significant issues and alternative approaches raised by public comments; and (2) an explanation of how the agency's factual determinations are substantially supported in the rulemaking file. Prohibits an agency promulgating a rule from relying on any material not placed in the rulemaking file in time to afford an adequate period for public comment. Directs each agency to give interested persons the right to petition for an interpretation of, or exemption from, a rule. Requires an agency to respond promptly and in writing to such a petition. Requires that each agency maintain a public file of the paperwork, data, and comments pertaining to each rulemaking which shall constitute the rulemaking record for purposes of judicial review. Allows an agency to exclude from the file material exempted from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, if the agency includes a summary of such material or a notice of the existence of such material. Prohibits an agency rule from substantially changing the requirement of any existing contract, agreement, or grant between a Federal agency and a State or local government for one year after the rule takes effect, unless the agency publishes a finding that delaying the rule's effect would be contrary to the public interest. Provides for the judicial review of agency compliance with rulemaking requirements under this Act. Requires each agency: (1) prior to publishing a rulemaking notice, to determine whether a proposed rule is a "major rule" and (2) to include an explanation of such determination in the notice. Authorizes the President or a selected officer to determine that a rule is a major rule within 30 days after publication of the rulemaking notice and to designate not more than 75 rules as major rules during any fiscal year. Requires an agency to issue, to enter into the rulemaking file, and to publish in summary form a preliminary rulemaking analysis of each proposed major rule, with specified exceptions. Provides 60 days for public comment on such analysis. Lists the contents of such analysis, including: (1) a description of quantifiable and nonquantifiable costs and benefits; (2) a description of reasonable alternatives; (3) a statement identifying the source of Federal funds, if any, to pay costs imposed on State and local governments; (4) a description of agency action to verify data; and (5) an explanation of why the rule chosen is more cost effective than the alternatives. Directs the agency to issue a final regulatory analysis upon publishing a final major rule, to place such analysis in the rulemaking file, and to summarize such analysis in the statement of the basis and purpose of the rule. Establishes guidelines for the evaluation and description of benefits and costs in the preparation of such analysis. Limits judicial review over: (1) the designation of a major rule; or (2) any regulatory analysis. Authorizes the President to establish procedures for agency compliance with the regulatory analysis and sunset review requirements under this Act and to monitor and enforce agency implementation of such procedures, except for rules issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Directs the President to report to Congress annually on agency compliance with regulatory analysis requirements. Requires each agency to publish for public comment a proposed schedule for the review of its existing major rules and other rules selected for review by the agency or the President. Directs each agency to publish a final schedule with its responses to public comments within one year of enactment of this Act. Requires each agency to review major rules within ten years after enactment of this Act, or within ten years after such a rule is promulgated, amended, or renewed, whichever is later. Directs each agency to publish a notice of its proposed action regarding a reviewed rule. Requires that the notice: (1) assess the costs and benefits of the rule; and (2) invite public proposals for modifications or alternatives. Requires an agency to follow normal rulemaking procedures when amending or rescinding a rule. Specifies procedures for renewing a rule without amendment. Provides for: (1) extension of the review period to not to exceed 15 years; (2) revision of the review schedule; and (3) expedited agency action if a review deadline is not met. Requires each agency to publish in the Federal Register, semiannually, an agenda of the rules the agency expects to propose, promulgate, renew, or repeal within the next twelve months, including a schedule of the agency actions pertaining to each rule. Directs the President to publish, semiannually, a Calendar of Federal Regulations, listing each of the major rules included in such agenda. Allows an agency to promulgate a major rule not listed in such agenda only if it publishes an explanation of why the rule was omitted. Requires each agency to include in the notice of a proposed rulemaking the date by which it intends to complete action or each major portion of action on the rule. Directs an agency that fails to complete action by such date and that expects a delay of more than 30 days to announce a new deadline for action. Directs the President to report to Congress annually on the regulatory activities of the Government. Requires that the report include estimates of the costs and benefits to each major sector of the economy of all major rules promulgated during the preceding year, included in the regulatory agenda for the preceding year, or scheduled for review. Directs a court reviewing an agency action to: (1) determine the authority or jurisdiction of the agency on the basis of the language of the authorizing statute or other evidence of legislative intent; (2) accord no presumption in favor of or against agency action, but to give an agency's interpretation of a statutory provision such weight as it warrants; and (3) determine whether the factual basis of an agency rule has substantial support in the rulemaking file. Declares that when proceedings for review of the same agency action are instituted in two or more courts of appeals within five days, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall select, by a system of random selection, the court in which the record shall be filed. Authorizes the courts to postpone the effective date of the agency action until after such selection is made. Amends the Federal Advisory Committee Act to exclude from the definition of "advisory committee" for purposes of such Act any committee which is composed wholly of elected State or local officials or their representatives. Grants Federal district courts original jurisdiction of any civil action or proceeding to resolve a controversy between two or more regulatory agencies not of the same State concerning jurisdiction to regulate a public utility, unless the courts of appeals have exclusive original jurisdiction to review actions of one of the regulatory agencies involved. States that a declaratory judgment in such a proceeding shall not be withheld: (1) on the ground that a controversy over matters other than jurisdiction to regulate may exist between the parties; (2) because of failure to exhaust administrative remedies; or (3) because of inconsistent provisions of other statutes providing for judicial review of agency action. Declares that any Federal or State agency may join or be joined as a party to such action and the district court may issue its processes without regard to territorial limitations. Establishes venue for such a proceeding. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to pay the expenses of persons participating or intervening in agency proceedings, except as expressly authorized by statute. Authorizes each Federal agency to adopt as a Federal rule with respect to a State or locality any State or local rule which duplicates or is substantially equivalent to or more stringent than such Federal rule. Declares that any final agency rule, with specified exceptions including an emergency rule, shall be considered to be a recommendation to Congress and shall have no effect unless it is reviewed and not disapproved by Congress. Directs each agency to transmit each final rule to Congress on the day the rule is transmitted for publication to the Federal Register. Prohibits the rule from becoming effective if: (1) within 45 days of continuous session of Congress after the rule is received by Congress, either committee of the House or the Senate having primary legislative jurisdiction over it reports or is discharged from consideration of a resolution disapproving it; (2) within 30 days after such resolution is reported or discharged, either House adopts it; and (3) within 30 days after the adopted resolution is transmitted to the other House, such other House agrees to it. Permits a final rule to become effective at any time after either House rejects a resolution of disapproval. Authorizes an agency to issue and submit to Congress for review a recommended final rule relating to the same acts or practices as a disapproved rule. Sets forth expedited congressional procedures for the consideration of resolutions of disapproval. Declares that the provisions of this Act supercede any other provision of law requiring action by both Houses of Congress for congressional review and disapproval of agency rules, but not any other provisions requiring action by only one House. Amends the Government in the Sunshine Act to include the Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Board as an agency subject to such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1983
Iran Claims Act - Authorizes the U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to determine the validity of claims by U.S. nationals against Iran which are settled en bloc by the United States. Requires the Commission to apply in the following order: (1) the terms of any settlement agreement; (2) the relevant provisions of the Government of Algeria of January 19, 1981, giving consideration to the interpretations of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal; and (3) applicable principles of international law, justice, and equity. Requires the Commission to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury any awards made. Authorizes the Secretary to make payments of the lesser of $10,000 or the principal amount of an award. Deducts two percent of the amount of an award as reimbursement to the U.S. Government, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and other agencies for expenses incurred in the arbitration of the claim. Declares that such deduction shall not apply to an amount awarded for an en bloc settlement. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for expenses incurred in the settlement or arbitration of such claims. Prohibits the disclosure of records pertaining to the arbitration of claims before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal except for certain U.S. documents.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $2,000,000 to $10,000,000 the average annual gross receipts requirement for small businesses which elect to use one inventory pool for income tax accounting purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1983
International Environment Protection Act of 1983 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to declare that the preservation of animal and plant species should be an important objective of U.S. development assistance. Authorizes assistance to countries in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitats and in developing sound wildlife management and plant conservation programs. Directs the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, in conjunction with the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, to develop a U.S. strategy to protect and conserve biological diversity in developing countries. Requires an annual report to Congress on the implementation of this strategy. Directs the President, within one year of enactment of this Act, to submit a comprehensive report to Congress on such strategy. Amends the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to authorize the President, in furtherance of the purposes of such Act, to provide for visits between the United States and other countries of experts in environmental science and environmental management. Provides for the financing of such program.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1983
Designates the week of June 24, 1984, as Federal Credit Union Week.