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United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1986
Designates the week beginning November 24, 1986, as National Family Caregivers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Philippines Sugar Quota Act of 1986 - Prohibits certain countries (listed in headnote 3, subpart A of part 10 of schedule 1 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States) from being eligible to receive an allocation of the total base quota of imported sugars unless such country is a friendly developing country and a net exporter of sugars. Requires the quota to be reallocated among the remaining countries on a proportional basis provided that the amounts shall first be reallocated to the Philippines to the extent that country's allocation is less than the percentage allocated to any other country. Grants duty-free treatment to sugar imports from the Philippines during any calendar year in which such imports from any other country are granted duty-free treatment. Prohibits granting sugar imports from any country more favorable treatment than is granted sugar imports from the Philippines.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Farm Credit System should take specified actions to assist borrowers, including: (1) participating to the maximum extent possible with the Farmers Home Administration and other Government guarantee programs to provide 1986 operating loans; (2) following policies of reasonable loan forbearance; (3) using loan restructuring; (4) emphasizing loan servicing approaches that help borrowers meet the conditions of their loan contracts; (5) resorting to foreclosure only when there is no alternative or when the associated costs would be less than loan restructuring; (6) providing defaulting borrowers with the opportunity to bid on foreclosed property; and (7) maintaining sound institutional credit policies.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1986
Expresses the Senate's support for Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry, to be held on May 11, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Rural Health Care Improvement Act of 1986 - Amends part A (General Provisions) of title XI of the Social Security Act to require that whenever the Secretary of Health and Human Services proposes a regulation or promulgates a final version of a regulation under titles XVIII (Medicare), XIX (Medicaid), or part B (Peer Review) of title XI of the Act which will have a substantial impact on small rural hospitals, the Secretary make a regulatory impact analysis available to the public. Amends the Medicare program to continue, beyond FY 1986, current law regarding Medicare payment to sole community hospitals for capital-related costs, treating such costs as distinct from operating costs of inpatient hospital services. Provides certain small sole community and rural hospitals with payment for extremely high cost cases (outlier payments) which represent five or six percent of the total payments made to such hospitals. Sets aside ten percent of amounts expended by the Secretary on certain experiments and demonstration projects for projects relating exclusively to rural health issues. Requires fiscal intermediaries to pay certain small rural hospitals for Medicare claims, at the latest, 30 days after receiving the request for such payment. Amends title VII (Administration) of the Act to establish an Office of Rural Health Policy in the Office of the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration to: (1) advise the Administrator regarding the effects of changes in the Medicare and Medicaid programs on rural health; and (2) oversee compliance with provisions of this Act requiring regulatory impact analysis and rural health demonstration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the deduction for State and local taxes be retained in any Federal tax reform legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1986
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to establish the Veterans' Administration Readjustment Counseling Professional Fellowship Program (the Program) to assist in providing an adequate supply of trained professionals to furnish readjustment counseling services to veterans for the Veterans Administration (VA). Requires an individual, in order to be eligible to participate in the Program, to be: (1) a Vietnam-era veteran; and (2) accepted in an accredited educational program which leads to a degree in a field appropriate to the furnishing of readjustment counseling services. Requires a written contract between the Administrator of Veterans Affairs and any veteran participating in the Program. Requires any veterans participating in the Program to also be full-time employees of the VA: (1) on the date on which their application for such Program is submitted; and (2) on the date on which they become participants in the Program. Authorizes the Administrator to award a scholarship to each veteran accepted into the Program. Limits to 100 the number of scholarships awarded under the Program. Requires the Administrator, in accepting applicants into the Program, to give priority to members of groups determined to be disadvantaged minority groups. Requires the Administrator to include in the annual report submitted to the Congress a report on the Program.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1986
Designates the week beginning May 4, 1986, as National Correctional Officers Week.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Establishes a moratorium on the importation of Canadian cattle until a United States Internation Trade Commission study, as required by this Act, determines whether such cattle are a substantial cause, or threat, of serious injury to U.S. cattle producers in specified States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Prohibits for a period of ten years any disposition of any federally owned or operated power production or transmission facility located in the conterminous 48 States whose electric energy is transmitted for sale by a Federal Power Marketing Administration or by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Exempts from such proscription certain authority granted: (1) under the Bonneville Project Act of 1937; (2) to the Tennessee Valley Authority for property dispositions in the normal course of business; and (3) to the Administrator of the General Services Administration to dispose of surplus property. Makes such proscription inapplicable to transactions involving the production and transmission of electric power among Federal officials that may occur in the normal course of business.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Declares that the Congress recognizes the visit by the descendants of the original settlers of Purrysburg, South Carolina, to Neufchatel, Switzerland, in October 1986 as an international gesture of goodwill.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the administration should continue to oppose actions by the European Community to impose quotas on oilseeds in Portugal, to impose a grain purchase requirement quota on Portugal, and to place variable levies on corn and grain sorghum entering Spain before negotiating compensation; and (2) unless the European Community rescinds such trade restrictions or the United States receives compensation for resulting trade losses, the administration should impose trade restrictions on a sufficient value of exports of the European Community to the United States to reestablish the balance of concessions under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and other trade agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in view of specified international human rights agreements, the Soviet Union should approve the exit visa applications of Doctor Naum Meiman and his wife, Inna Kitrosskaya-Meiman, and arrange for them to go to the country of their choice. Urges the President to: (1) protest the Soviet Government's refusal to consider the exit visa applications of Dr. Meiman and his wife; (2) call upon all other signatory nations of the Helsinki Accords to join in such protests; and (3) instruct the U.S. delegation to the meeting of experts on human contacts organized under the auspices of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bern, Switzerland, to pursue this matter.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Amends the International Travel Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration for FY 1987 through 1989.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Makes foreign nationals (including foreign-controlled corporations) ineligible for agricultural price supports, loans, crop insurance, and disaster payments.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1986
Designates December 7, 1986, the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1986
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to make required red meat purchases in proportion to the number of dairy cattle slaughtered in each disposal period under the milk production termination program (program). Provides that if such purchases are inadequate to offset the amount of meat being marketed under the program, the Secretary shall decrease meat imports, or increase purchases and exports. Directs the Secretary to ensure the orderly marketing of such dairy cattle consistent with historical beef and dairy marketing patterns.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Designates the month of November 1986 as National Diabetes Month.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1986
Prohibits the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to specified proposed sales of Sidewinder, Stinger, and Harpoon missiles and services to Saudi Arabia, as described in the April 8, 1986, certifications from the President to the Congress under the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
National Forest Ski Area Permit Act of 1986 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue permits for the use and occupancy of National Forest System lands for commercial skiing operations. Requires existing permits to conform to the new system.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Designates the week beginning on November 9, 1986, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that, in order to encourage the continued improvement of relations between the United States and Romania, the Romanian Government should consider taking specified humanitarian actions in light of the upcoming Bern Human Contacts Experts Meeting of Helsinki signatory states. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of State should: (1) pursue such humanitarian concerns at every possible opportunity, including at the Bern meeting of Helsinki signatory states; and (2) convey to the Romanian Government the importance of progress on such matters so that it may be taken into consideration by the Congress during the 1986 Most Favored Nation deliberations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1986
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to antidumping and countervailing duty investigations to require the producers or growers of agricultural products to be considered part of the industry that produces processed agricultural products if such products are produced from the raw agricultural product through a single continuous line of production, and there is a substantial coincidence of economic interest between the producers of the raw agricultural product and the producers of the processed agricultural product based upon certain economic factors. Sets forth specified factors, for purposes of this Act, to be considered to determine: (1) when a processed agricultural product shall be deemed to be processed from a raw agricultural product through a single continuous line of production; and (2) questions of coincidence of economic interest. Defines "raw agricultural product." Requires the International Trade Commission, with respect to whether imports (or sales for importation) of both a raw agricultural product and a product processed from such raw agricultural product threaten material injury to a U.S. industry, to consider, in addition to other relevant economic factors, the likelihood that an affirmative determination by the Commission with respect to either products (but not both) would result in an increase in the imports of the other agricultural product to an injurious level. Includes U.S. manufacturers, producers, or wholesalers engaged in the production of processed agricultural products as "interested parties" with respect to antidumping and countervailing duty investigations involving such products.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1986
Designates March 25, 1986, as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1986
Designates the week of November 16 through November 22, 1986, as National Arts Week.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1986
Designates the week of April 27 through May 3, 1986, as National Arts in the Schools Week.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1986
Designates the week of December 7 through December 13, 1986, as National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Federal funding for FY 1987 Cooperative Extension Service Programs should be restored to at least the level approved in the FY 1986 concurrent budget resolution, except for reductions in such programs required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1986
Declares that the Congress reaffirms its support for the effort of Radio in the American Sector of Berlin to serve the cause of freedom through communication of information to Berlin and the German Democratic Republic and as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the freedom of Berlin.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Amends the Small Business Act to extend through FY 1991 the authorization for not-for-profit organizations operated in the interest of handicapped and blind individuals to receive Federal contracts from the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires each agency having procurement powers to report to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy each time such a contract is entered into. Requires the Office to collect specified data and to report such data to the SBA. Requires the General Accounting Office, not later than September 30, 1990, to prepare a report on the impact that contracts awarded to such organizations have on for-profit small businesses for FY 1987 through 1989. Requires such report to be transmitted to specified congressional committees. Establishes a task force on purchases from the blind and severely handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Designates 1988 as the Year of New Sweden.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Landowner Protection Act of 1986 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to require a Farm Credit System institution to restructure, rather than foreclose, a loan to an eligible borrower if foreclosure costs equal or exceed restructuring costs. Sets forth borrower appeals procedures. Requires a program report to the Congress within 270 days. Terminates such program one year after enactment of this Act, or 90 days after submission of such report, whichever is later.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1986
Risk Retention Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Product Liability Risk Retention Act of 1981 to rename it the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986. Revises the definition of "liability insurance," currently limited to product liability and completed operations liability, to cover any legal liability of an organization for damages because of injuries to other persons, damage to their property, or other loss or damage arising out of its business, trade, products, services (including professional services), premises or operations, but excluding personal risk insurance, workers' compensation, and employers' liability insurance. Defines as "organizations" eligible to purchase liability insurance any association, business, corporation, professional corporation or partnership, chruch, hospital, school, university or other institution or a State or local government. Excludes from the coverage of this Act product liability risk retention groups formed under the laws of Bermuda or the Cayman Islands before January 1, 1985. (Current law excludes groups formed under the laws of Bermuda or the Cayman Islands on or after January 1, 1985.) Repeals the requirement that a risk retention group be composed of members each of whose principal activity consists of the manufacture, design, importation, distribution, packaging, labeling, lease or sale of a product or products. Subjects such groups to State no-fault automobile insurance requirements. Limits the authority to provide insurance under such Act to liability insurance.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Provides for the distribution and use of judgment funds awarded to the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, and the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to distribute such funds under a specified formula and to prepare a plan for their use. Requires the Secretary to submit such plan to the Congress. Exempts the funds from: (1) State or Federal income taxes; and (2) being considered as income or resources for purposes of eligibility for assistance under Federal assistance programs (including the Social Security Act).
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Strategic Defense Education Act of 1986 - Title I: Higher Education Programs - Amends title IX (Graduate Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to create a new part D program of graduate assistance in areas of national need. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to academic departments and programs and other academic units of institutions of higher education for graduate fellowships in selected areas of study for graduate students who: (1) demonstrate financial need and academic ability; (2) plan teaching or research careers; and (3) pursue the highest degree available in their area of study. Makes the principal criterion for the allocation of such grant awards the relative quality of the graduate programs in competing applications. Directs the Secretary, consistent with such principal criterion for allocation, to promote an equitable distribution of such awards among geographic areas and among eligible public and private institutions. Directs the Secretary to approve a grant recipient for a three-year period. Limits the amount per fiscal year of such grant to any academic department or program of an institution of higher education to a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $500,000. Provides for reallotment of grant funds. Provides for new awards under this Act only to the extent that each previous grant recipient has received the required continued funding. Provides for ratable reductions of amounts required to be awarded to the extent that appropriations are insufficient. Sets forth institutional eligibility provisions. Permits grant applications by any academic department or program of an institution of higher education which offers a program of post-baccalaureate study leading to a graduate degree in an area of national need (as designated through procedures set forth in this Act). Requires a department or program to be in existence for at least four years, in order to be eligible for such a grant. Directs the Secretary, after consulting with specified agencies and organizations, to designate areas of national need. (Lists, as examples of areas which might receive such designation, physical or life sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science, foreign languages, or area studies.) Directs the Secretary, in making such designations, to take into account the extent to which the interest is compelling and the extent to which other Federal programs support post-baccalaureate study in the area concerned. Sets forth criteria for grant applications, including a requirement of at least 25 percent non-Federal matching funds, for purposes of the fellowship program under this Act. Requires that the institution make such fellowship awards to individuals having financial need who: (1) plan teaching or research careers; (2) plan to pursue the highest possible degree available in their course of study; (3) are from traditionally underrepresented groups undertaking graduate study, as determined by the Secretary; and (4) have compiled excellent academic records in their previous programs of study. Sets forth requirements relating to awards to graduate students. Provides that at least 80 percent of the grant to the academic department or program shall be used for such awards. Limits the period of such award to no longer than five years for any individual. Provides that such fellowships shall consist of payment of tuition and fees and a stipend. Limits the maximum individual annual stipend to $10,000 or the demonstrated level of need, whichever is less. Sets forth other conditions for receipt of such award. Sets forth provisions for assistance to the graduate program. Provides that up to 20 percent of the grant to the institution may be used to conduct activities to improve the quality of the academic program offered at the department, including improvement of library resources and of laboratory and instructional equipment, and support for research projects and academic papers. Prohibits such funds from being used for the general operational overhead of the institution. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Amends title VII (Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities) to add new part E provisions for a college research facilities construction loan corporation to be known as the College Construction Loan Insurance Association (the Corporation). Authorizes the Secretary of Education and the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to participate in such private, for-profit, non-governmental Corporation, which shall guarantee and insure loans to universities for construction, renovation, and acquisition of research facilities. Title II: National Science Foundation Program - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1987 to the National Science Foundation for Engineering Research Centers. Title III: University Research Initiative - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 to the Department of Defense for the University Research Initiative program. Title IV: Tax Incentives for Research Activities in Areas of National Need - Subtitle A: Credit for Increasing Research Activities in Areas of National Need - Amends the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 to make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities in areas of national need. Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to modify the definition of qualified research for tax credit purposes. Defines "area of national need" for such purposes. Makes the tax credit for qualified research expenses available to corporations and to certain joint research ventures. Sets forth transition rules. Subtitle B: Promotion of University Research and Scientific Education in Areas of National Need - Amends the IRC to expand the tax credit for university basic research in areas of national need to certain qualified organizations. Allows a tax deduction for certain contributions of scientific and technological property utilized in research in areas of national need. Excludes from gross income certain scholarships, fellowship grants, stipends, and student loan forgiveness for postgraduate students in areas of national need. Subtitle C: Tax-Exempt Bonds and Research Facilities - Sets forth the sense of the Congress regarding the use of tax-exempt bonds to fund research facilities. Declares that the expansion, improvement, and development of research facilities connected with private and public institutions of higher education should be included with other facilities listed under the exceptions to the unified volume limitation for tax-exempt government bonds.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Provides that Federal tax reform legislation based on the President's tax reform proposal submitted to the Congress on May 29, 1985, shall not take effect before January 1, 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Amends the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of 1978 to increase the amount used by the Secretary of the Interior to determine the amount of grant assistance to be allocated to tribally controlled community colleges for FY 1986. Extends, through FY 1990, the authorization of funds for technical assistance contracts, grants, and endowment grants to such colleges. Amends the Navajo Community College Act to extend, through FY 1990, the authorization of funds for construction grants to the Navajo Community College.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Designates the month of November 1986 as National Alzheimer's Disease Month.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1986
Provides that the Internal Revenue Service, during the moratorium period beginning January 1, 1986, and ending June 30, 1987, may not enforce its regulations relating to the substantiation requirements with respect to deductions for the business use of vehicles. Directs that the determination of any amount includible in gross income with respect to the personal use of an employer-provided vehicle during the moratorium period shall be made without regard to temporary regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. Prohibits the Secretary, during the moratorium period, from issuing any regulations relating to the substantiation requirements with respect to deductions for the business use of vehicles or with respect to amounts included in income for the personal use of employer-provided vehicles.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1986
Designates March 16, 1986, as Freedom of Information Day.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
States that the Congress disapproves the proposed deferral of budget authority 86-49 for the urban development action grant program set forth in the special message transmitted by the President to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
States that the Congress disapproves the proposed deferral of budget authority 86-49 for the urban development action grant program set forth in the special message transmitted by the President to the Congress on February 5, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the Soviet Union to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates the 14th day of June 1986 as Baltic Freedom Day. Authorizes and requests the President to submit the issue of Baltic self-determination to the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Extends congratulations and best wishes to President Ronald Reagan on his 75th birthday.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1986
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to establish 1986 and 1987 minimum farm payment yields at 1985 levels for wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1986
Expresses the sense of the Senate that employee benefits should not be taxed.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1986
Expresses the deep sorrow of the Senate for the fate of the space shuttle Challenger.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1986
Expresses disapproval of the refusal of the Soviet Union to recognize the sovereignty of the Baltic Republics. Designates the 14th day of June 1986 as Baltic Freedom Day. Authorizes and requests the President to submit the issue of Baltic self-determination to the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1985
Higher Education Amendments of 1985 - Revises and reauthorizes through FY 1991 specified programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Title I: Student Assistance - Part A: Grants to Students - Subpart I: Pell Grants - Extends the Pell Grant program. Revises program eligibility requirements. Revises maximum grant limits and cost of attendance formulas and rules. Sets forth a separate new family contribution schedule for Pell Grants. Sets forth a procedure with respect to award errors and overpayments. Subpart 2: Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant Program. Revises program provisions relating to: (1) the maximum amount of such grants; (2) priority for needy students; and (3) apportionment. Subpart 3: State Student Incentive Grants - Authorizes appropriations for the State Student Incentive Grants Program. Sets forth a Federal share limitation under such program. Subpart 4: Student Support Service Programs - Authorizes appropriations for Student Support Service Programs. Revises program provisions, including provisions for veterans and for outreach and staff development. Subpart 5: Special Programs for Students Whose Families are Engaged in Migrant and Seasonal Farmwork - Authorizes appropriations for the program referred to under this subpart. Part B: Guaranteed Loans - Extends and revises the Guaranteed Student Loan Program (including the Federally-Insured Student Loan Program). Part C: Work Study Programs - Extends and revises work study programs (including work study for community service learning on behalf of low-income individuals and families). Part D: Direct Loans - Extends and revises the Direct Student Loan Program (including loan priority for needy students and interest rates on loans made after July 1, 1986). Part E: General Student Aid Provisions - Revises various provisions relating to HEA title IV (Student Assistance) programs generally. Title II: Institutional and Program Assistance - Part A: Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning - Repeals title I (Continuing Postsecondary Education Program and Planning) under HEA. Provides for a National Advisory Council on Continuing Education. Part B: Libraries - Reauthorizes HEA provisions relating to libraries. Revises provisions relating to college library resources. Authorizes a study of the effectiveness of the needs criteria for the College Library Resource Program. Strengthens research library resources. Repeals specified provisions relating to libraries. Part C: Institutional Aid - Reauthorizes provisions relating to institutional aid. Part D: Teacher Training and Development - Subpart I: Teacher Training Programs for Higher Educational Personnel - Repeals part B (Teacher Training Programs) of Title V (Teacher Corps and Teacher Training Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Training for School Teachers To Teach Handicapped Children - Repeals part C (Training for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers to Teach Handicapped Children in Areas with a shortage) of title V of HEA. Subpart 3: Coordination - Repeals part D (Coordination of Education Professional Development) of title V of HEA. Subpart 4: Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program - Authorizes specified appropriations for the Carl D. Perkins Scholarship Program for FY 1987 through 1991. Subpart 5: National Talented Teacher Fellowship Program - Authorizes specified appropriations for the National Talented Teacher Program for FY 1987 through 1991. Part E: International Education - Reauthorizes provisions related to international and foreign language study (including provisions on language and area centers, foreign language resource centers, summer institutes, and research). Authorizes specified appropriations for the provision of international education for FY 1987 through 1991. Part F: Construction and Renovation - (Reserved.) Part G: Cooperative Education - Authorizes specified appropriations for cooperative education for FY 1987 through 1991. Authorizes grants (and contracts for demonstration projects) for cooperative education programs. Part H: Graduate and Professional Programs - Subpart I: Grants to Institutions of Higher Education - Repeals part A (Grants to Institutions of Higher Education) of title IX (Graduate Programs) of HEA. Subpart 2: Fellowships for Graduate and Professional Study - Increases the maximum institutional and individual grant amounts for graduate and professional study under HEA for institutions and individuals. Establishes a minimum institutional payment. Authorizes specified appropriations for fellowships for graduate and professional study for FY 1987 through 1991. Subpart 3: National Graduate Fellows Program - Extends and limits the authorization of appropriations for the National Graduate Fellows Program through FY 1991. Requires that awardees under such program be known as Jacob J. Javits Fellows. Subpart 4: Training in the Legal Profession - Authorizes specified appropriations for HEA legal training programs for FY 1987 through 1991. Subpart 5: Law School Clinical Experience Programs - Authorizes specified appropriations for Law School Clinical Experience Programs under HEA for FY 1987 through 1991. Part I: Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education - Authorizes specified appropriations for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education for FY 1987 through 1991. Establishes a program of grants to and contract with higher education institutions and other agencies and organizations for innovative projects for community services and student financial independence. Authorizes specified appropriations for such program for FY 1987 through 1991. Establishes a Community College Unit in the Office of Postsecondary Education. Authorizes specified appropriations for the Minority Institutions Science Improvement Program for FY 1987 through 1991. Part J: Urban University Program - Repeals title XI (Urban Grant University Program) of HEA. Title III: Regional Education Laboratories and Research and Development Centers - Amends a specified provision of the General Education Provisions Act to reauthorize appropriations for regional educational laboratories and research and development centers through 1991.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1985
Requires the Secretary of Transportation (the Secretary) and the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (the Administrator) to: (1) rescind rules, regulations, or orders which permit airlines to buy and sell landing rights at specified high density traffic airports; and (2) refrain from issuing a rule, regulation, or order regarding such airports that is inconsistent with this Act. Requires the Administrator to: (1) recall for reallocation any domestic or commuter air carrier operating rights ("slots") which are regulated at high density traffic airports and which are substantially unused; and (2) provide a mechanism for the allocation and reallocation of domestic slots. Requires that the allocation and reallocation of slots which are not made on a lottery basis shall be made semiannually by a separate Scheduling Committee established for each such high density traffic airport (unless the Committee unanimously agrees on another allocation interval). Requires the Secretary to allocate slots on lottery basis if the Committee cannot reach a unanimous allocation agreement. Requires the Administrator to recall slots currently in use in a manner that ensures that no carrier incurs the loss of an undue proportion of such slots. Prohibits the Secretary and the Administrator from permitting the transfer of slots for consideration or in a manner inconsistent with this Act. Requires the Secretary to declare null and void any such slot transfer effected between December 1, 1985 and the date of enactment of this Act.