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United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1983
Designates the week of April 15 through April 21, 1984, as National Child Abuse Prevention Week.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Grants a Federal charter to the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Incorporated.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the establishment of tax-exempt trusts for investments in mortgages (TIM). Defines a TIM as a corporation, trust, or association: (1) which is managed by one or more trustees or directors; (2) the beneficial ownership of which is evidenced by registered transferable shares or by transferable certificates of beneficial interest; (3) which would otherwise be taxable as a domestic corporation; and (4) which is not a financial institution or an issuance company. Sets forth special rules and investment requirements for qualification as a TIM. Excludes such trusts from taxation. Requires that a TIM shall: (1) use the cash method of accounting; and (2) use the calendar year as its accounting period. Requires that a TIM shareholder shall be treated as if the TIM was partnership and the shareholder was a partner. Sets forth rules for the treatment of dispositions of qualified obligations. Sets forth rules for the treatment of 20 percent or more shareholders. Sets forth rules for the recognition of gains and losses by shareholders. Prohibits certain transactions by TIM'S. Imposes an excise tax on any such prohibited transactions.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Secondary Mortgage Market Enhancement Act of 1983 - Title I: Securities Laws Amendments - Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to exempt from the securities registration requirements securities backed by second mortgages, cooperative housing loans, and manufactured home loans. Expands the type of allowable security to include mortgage-related payment bonds. Exempts from the securities registration requirements securities originated by any Department of Housing and Urban Development approved mortgagee (principally mortgage bankers) in addition to financial institutions. Requires that the current minimum transaction amount of $250,000 be applied only to the initial purchase amount. Permits a 120 day time limit on the cash payment for the security (currently 60 days). Permits broker-dealers to extend credit to buyers of mortgage-related securities on the same basis as they may for government agency securities. Amends the net capital requirements applied to broker-dealers to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to require for investment grade mortgage securities held in a dealer's inventory only the same amount of capital as government securities of a comparable maturity. Amends the Home Owner's Loan Act of 1933 and the Federal Credit Union Act to allow Federally-chartered financial institutions, including credit unions, to invest in mortgage-related securities subject only to limitations that the appropriate regulating board might impose. Permits national banks to underwrite and deal in investment grade mortgage-related securities. Preempts State blue sky and legal investment laws and regulations so that investment grade mortgage-related securities may be purchased by State-chartered and regulated financial institutions, insurance companies, pension funds, trustees or other regulated entities. Permits a State to reassert limitations on investments in mortgage securities within two years of enactment of these provisions if it finds such regulation necessary. Directs the Securities and Exchange Commission to extend its experimental self registration rule beyond the current September 1983 expiration date. Title II: Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and Federal National Mortgage Association Amendments - Requires that any issuance of preferred stock by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) or the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) must comply with the New York Stock Exchange rules and procedures regarding the rights of preferred stockholders. Permits the FHLMC to purchase or deal in junior lien mortgages on the same basis as FNMA. Revises FHLMC's manufactured home loan authority to cover such loans even where the security property is real, personal, or mixed. Allows the FHLMC to purchase State agency insured mortgages. Prohibits the FHLMC from guaranteeing mortgage-backed securities issued by another entity.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Hazardous Waste Reduction Act of 1983 - Title I - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (the Superfund Act) to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to make grants to States to assist States in: (1) carrying out hazardous waste enforcement programs under the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (2) carrying out remedial actions and other response measures necessary with respect to the release, or substantial threat of release, of any pollutant or contaminant from a facility not on the 400 top priority known response targets list but which the State determines may present an imminent and substantial danger to the public health or welfare; and (3) providing technical assistance to companies engaged in the recycling of hazardous substances. Requires that at least $200,000,000 of the amounts appropriated to the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund shall be reserved to make such grants to States. Revises provisions for audits by each Inspector General of each department or agency delegated responsibility to obligate money in the Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund. Directs each such Inspector General to report annually to the President and the Congress on such auditing of the Fund and to specifically identify any improper uses of the Fund. Provides for reimbursement to the Fund for any improper expenditures. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for the Fund. Increases the yearly amount of such authorization of appropriations for FY 1986 through 1995 (above the yearly amount currently authorized through FY 1985). Amends the hazardous waste management provision of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976) to establish a hazardous waste quantity assessment program. Directs the Administrator, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the States, to develop and implement methods of estimate the quantities of hazardous waste which are generated in each calendar year, on the basis of specified data. Directs the Administrator to report at least annually to the Congress, comparing the quantities of hazardous waste estimated to have been generated during the preceding calendar year and the quantities of waste on which the recycling incentive tax on disposal of hazardous wastes was paid. Title II - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace (effective October 1, 1985) the environmental taxes on petroleum and chemical feedstocks with a recycling incentive tax on disposal of hazardous wastes (effective for FY 1985 through 1995). Sets forth tables for determining the amount of such tax. Distinguishes between: (1) toxic and nontoxic hazardous waste; (2) waste disposal before and after the end of FY 1990; and (3) disposal of waste and storage of waste for more than one year. Imposes such tax on the person disposing of such waste. Sets forth requirements for records, statements, and returns relating to such tax. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe any such requirements, as necessary, for persons involved in the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous wastes. Extends through FY 1995 the authority to collect taxes conferred by the Superfund Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Reform Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act expand the definition of "active ingredient" to include any ingredient of a pesticide which will endanger human beings. Revises Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) information requirements for pesticide registration. Provides that waivers and variation in data requirements may be granted only if the advisability of the waiver or variation is clearly established. Requires the Administrator of EPA to make the data submitted in support of registration applications and petitions to establish tolerances publicly available. Specifies the procedures and provisions governing the joint development and sharing of defensive data as required by the Administrator to fill a data gap. Extends the application comment period from 30 to 90 days. Requires the Administrator, when registering a pesticide, to make a written determination of active and inert ingredients. Requires the Administrator to consider potential chronic health effects in determining whether a pesticide will endanger human beings. Eliminates the Administrator's authority to waive efficiency data requirements. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a summary of the factual basis supporting registration actions. Requires, rather than allows, the Administrator to deny registrations when certain requirements are not met. Prohibits the Administrator from granting a conditional registration for a previously canceled or suspended pesticide. Requires the Administrator to make the data submitted in support of a conditional registration publicly available. Repeals provisions specifying the conditions which must be met before initiating an interim administrative review. Directs the Administrator, in all decisions pertaining to classification, to consider the potential contamination of groundwater in determining whether a pesticide should be classified for restricted use. Provides that registration of a pesticide constitutes prima facie evidence that such pesticide is in compliance only if the active ingredient has been registered after enactment of this Act or re-registered since October 21, 1972, and provided that a cancellation proceeding is not in progress and that no required studies are outstanding. Requires the Administrator to publish in the Federal Register a list of pesticide active ingredients not re-registered since September 31, 1978, in order of their priority for re-registration, and a list of active ingredients and data gaps. Requires the Administrator to issue a notice of intent to suspend a pesticide's registration if there are outstanding data gaps on the pesticide and the Administrator has failed to include the ingredient on the re-registration priority list. Provides that a registrant must conduct studies to fill data gaps and report the results of the studies to the Administrator within three years of the publication of the list and data gaps. Requires the Administrator to issue regulations specifying what tests shall be undertaken on inert ingredients. Allows information on inert ingredients to be disclosed under specified circumstances. Revises requirements for restricted use certification. Eliminates provisions that prohibit a State from requiring a written examination as part of the certification process. Prohibits the Administrator from granting an experimental use permit if the use has previously been canceled, suspended, or voluntarily withdrawn for health or environmental reasons. Requires the Administrator to revoke an experimental use permit if such permit will not yield certain registration data. Authorizes the Administrator to immediately issue a notice of intent to cancel a pesticide's registrations, or revoke tolerances, if it appears that false, misleading, or inaccurate supporting information has been submitted. Requires, rather than allows, the Administrator to issue a notice of intent to hold a hearing or cancel a pesticide's registration if it may reasonably be expected to endanger human beings (including children permitted to work in areas treated with pesticides). Restricts the scope of a hearing held to consider data not available to the Administrator either when the hearing for registration of a previously canceled use of a pesticide was terminated or upon issuance of a cancellation decision. Provides that when a use or uses of a pesticide have been canceled, suspended, or voluntarily withdrawn because of health or environmental concerns, such use or uses shall not be eligible for registration unless there are no alternatives to control new or expanding pest infestation. Authorizes the Administrator to issue commercial applicators' recordkeeping regulations. Repeals certain EPA indemnification provisions. Establishes a private right of action against any person (including the United States or any other governmental instrumentality or agency), or against the Administrator for violations under this Act. Specifies time limits and conditions for such an action. Revises the foreign government notification requirement to include cases where a pesticide's registration has been voluntarily withdrawn. Authorizes an Administrator to grant a public health danger exemption to a State or Federal agency when no other pesticide alternatives are available. Provides that such an exemption may not be issued for more than one year or renewed more than twice. Revises requirements regarding the comprehensive national plan for monitoring pesticides. Provides that the plan shall be proposed by rule not later than June 1, 1984, and be effective not later than October 1, 1984. Transfers responsibility for regulating occupational exposure to pesticides to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Authorizes States to impose or continue in effect requirements for pesticide labelling or packaging in order to enforce a prohibition on the use of a federally registered pesticide or device in the State. Eliminates the Administrator's discretion to disapprove a special local need registration that is inconsistent with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Allows a rebuttable presumption that a special local need for a pesticide does not exist if five or more States seek the same pesticide for the same local need. Revises provisions pertaining to the appointment of members of the Scientific Advisory Panel. Directs the Administrator to appoint members from specified scientific disciplines. Requires the Administrator to promulgate safe use regulations within one year. Allows States to impose enforcement provisions and regulations more stringent than required by Federal law. Allows States two years to adopt an enforcement program responsive to the new requirements and regulations established pursuant to the new requirements and regulations established pursuant to the National Pesticide Hazard Prevention Act. Directs the Administrator to collect registration fees. Provides certain protections for employees who have commenced actions, testified, or otherwise participated in an enforcement action or complaint. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and enforce standards for indoor human exposure to pesticides. Makes certain technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should not export nuclear reactor components for the nuclear power station at Tarapur, India, unless India provides stronger nuclear nonproliferation guarantees. Specifies what guarantees should be included.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Expresses gratitude to Doctor Alice Mitchell Rivlin for her dedicated service as Director of the Congressional Budget Office.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture from implementing before November 1, 1983, the second scheduled 50-cent milk producer assessment (otherwise effective September 1, 1983, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982).
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Authorizes the President to designate the week of September 25, 1983, through October 1, 1983, as Carrier Alert Week.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States shall call upon El Salvador to: (1) appoint a special prosecuting attorney to investigate those responsbile for the murders of four American churchwomen; and (2) bring the accused to trial by December 2, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Honest Budgeting Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 to require all transactions of the Federal Financing Bank to be reflected in the unified budget of the United States government. Treats amounts of loans guaranteed by a Federal agency and financed by the Bank as outlays of such agency. Treats amounts disbursed by the Bank for the purchase of loans guaranteed, loan assets sold, and debt obligations issued by a Federal agency as a means of financing that agency. Prohibits a Federal agency from issuing, selling, or guaranteeing any investment security obligations of a type formerly financed through the Bank unless such an obligation is offered for sale to the Bank.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Depository Institution Equity Act of 1983 - Title I: Amendments to the Bank Holding Company Act - Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to include within the definition of 'bank' any insured bank as defined in the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and any institution eligible to become so insured. Title II: Amendments to the Federal Deposit Insurance Act - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to apply to every nonmember insured bank the provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 relating to affiliations between member banks and organizations engaged principally in the issue, flotation, underwriting, public sale, or distribution of stocks, bonds, debentures, notes or other securities. Provides that a nonmember insured bank which prior to enactment of this Act was affiliated with such an organization is not prohibited from continuing such affiliation for no more than two years. Excludes dealers in securities from serving as officers, directors, or employees of State nonmember banks. Title III: Amendments to the National Housing Act - Amends the National Housing Act to prohibit a savings and loan holding company, or any subsidiary which is not an insured institution, from commencing or continuing any business activity other than those specified for multiple savings and loan holding companies and their subsidiaries. Permits a company existing as a savings and loan holding company on the date of enactment of this Act whose activities become subject to such restrictions to continue such activities for not more than five years after such enactment. Applies to every insured institution the provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 relating to affiliations between banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System and organizations engaged principally in the issue, flotation, underwriting, public sale, or distribution of stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, or other securities. Permits an insured institution which prior to the date of enactment of this Act was affiliated with such an organization to continue that affiliation for no more than two years. Excludes dealers in securities from serving as officers, directors, or employees of insured institutions. Applies the civil and criminal provisions of the Banking Act of 1933 relating to dealers in securities engaging in banking business to insure institutions' activities and uninsured institutions' activities in the same manner and to the same extent as if the institutions were banks that engaged in the business of receiving deposits. Title IV: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective upon enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that it should not be U.S. foreign policy to overthrow governments with which the United States disagrees politically. Urges the President to indicate U.S. support for the Contadora Group initiative by endorsing specified proposals of the Group. States that the United States should: (1) announce its willingness to pursue negotiations with all Central American nations and to stop U.S. arms shipments; (2) offer technical assistance to the Group to assist in the verification of such a freeze on arms traffic in the region; (3) stop funding guerrilla forces seeking to overthrow Nicaragua; and (4) exert diplomatic efforts to persuade other involved governments to cease activities aimed at destabilizing the existing Central American governments.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Authorizes the Attorney General to make contracts retaining private counsel to furnish collection services in the case of any claim of indebtedness owed the United States. Permits the head of an executive or legislative agency to refer to a private counsel so retained any claims of indebtedness owed the United States arising out of such agency's activities. Declares that for the purposes of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, a private counsel performing collection services under this Act shall be considered a debt collector. Requires the Attorney General to transmit to Congress a quarterly report on the activities of the Department of Justice to recover such indebtedness. Requires the Attorney General to transmit to Congress a report on the actions taken under this Act within 60 days after the date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Urges the President to seek an agreement with the Soviet Union to: (1) declare a verifiable and limited moratorium on the testing in space of antisatellite weapons; (2) resume negotiations on a verifiable ban on the testing, production, deployment, and use of any antisatellite weapon; and (3) seek a verifiable treaty prohibiting any space-directed or space-based weapons system which is designed to cause damage on earth, in the atmosphere, or on objects placed in space. Declares that such agreements should not restrict non-weapons operations in space, such as the U.S. space shuttle program.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce to continue to use diplomatic and legal means to achieve worldwide compliance with the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial whaling.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1983
Designates certain lands within the Chequamegon National Forest and the Headwaters Wilderness in the Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides that the RARE II (second roadless review and evaluation) final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest system lands in Wisconsin shall not be subject to judicial review. Releases national forest system lands in Wisconsin which were reviewed in the RARE II program from further review by the Department of Agriculture, pending the revision of initial national forest management plans. Releases lands in Wisconsin reviewed in the RARE II program and not designated as wilderness from management as wilderness areas. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of national forest system lands in Wisconsin without express congressional authorization.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Financial Institutions Deregulation Act - Amends the Banking Act of 1933 to allow a member bank to be affiliated with a depository institution securities affiliate. Permits an officer, director, or employee of a member bank to serve at the same time as an officer, director or employee of its depository institution securities affiliate or affiliates. Amends the Securities Act of 1933 to exempt from the registration requirements of such Act the issuance of a company's shares in connection with a reorganization. Amends the Securities Exchange Act to make the Securities and Exchange Commission the appropriate regulatory agency to enforce a bank securities affiliate's compliance with regulations concerning transactions in municipal securities. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to include depository institution securities affiliates within the definition of "bank" for the purposes of such Act. Defines "depository institution securities affiliate" to mean any corporation that: (1) is engaged in the United States in one or more of the activities authorized under such Act; and (2) is a broker or dealer within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or an investment advisory within the meaning of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Revises the process for the formation of a bank holding company. Permits bank holding companies after notice and subject to approval by the Federal Reserve Board to engage in: (1) activities that the Board has determined to be closely related to banking or managing or controlling banks or to be of a financial nature; (2) insurance underwriting or brokerage; or (3) real estate investment, development or brokerage. Sets forth the criteria to be considered by the Board in connection with such notice. Permits a bank holding company, subject to prior notice and certain requirements and conditions, to acquire shares in any company that engages only in the activities authorized for a depository institution securities affiliate under this Act. Prohibits any bank holding company that establishes or acquires a securities affiliate or engages in securities affiliates activities, from permitting any of the depository banks it controls to engage, directly or through a subsidiary, in specified securities activity one year after the securities affiliate starts business. Permits a depository institution securities affiliate to conduct any securities or securities-related activity that a national banking association is not prohibited from conducting. Permits a depository institution securities affiliate to: (1) deal in and underwrite all State and municipal general obligations and revenue bonds (including, under certain conditions, industrial development bonds); (2) organize, sponsor, operate, and control an investment company; (3) render investment advice; or (4) underwrite, distribute, and sell securities of any investment company. Permits a bank holding company to acquire shares of a company engaged in any activities in which a multiple savings and loan holding company was authorized to engage in on July 1, 1983. Limits Federal Reserve Board authority to: (1) require nonbanking subsidiaries of a bank holding company to submit reports regarding compliance with the provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act; and (2) conduct examinations of such subsidiaries. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to allow a member bank and its subsidiaries to engage in a covered transaction or a financial assistance transaction with an affiliate only on substantially the same terms prevailing for comparable transactions with other nonaffiliated companies. Prohibits a member bank and its affiliates from publishing any advertisement suggesting that the member bank is responsible for its affiliates' obligations. Prohibits a member bank and its affiliates from purchasing as fiduciary any securities or other assets from an affiliate unless lawfully authorized by the instrument creating the fiduciary relationship, by court or by local law. Prohibits a member bank and its subsidiaries except in certain circumstances from purchasing or otherwise acquiring, during the existence of any underwriting or selling syndicate, any obligation a principal underwriter of which is one of its affiliates or subsidiaries. Amends the Investment Company Act of 1940 to permit an investment company affiliated with a depository institution securities affiliate, but only with prior approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to: (1) place or maintain its securities or similar investments in the custody of a bank affiliated with such depository institution securities affiliate; (2) designate any such bank as trustee or custodian; or (3) deposit designated proceeds with any such bank. Amends the Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of 1970 to permit a trade association to commence, on behalf of an association member, any private right of action for injunctive relief against threatened loss or damage as a result of a violation of the prohibitions against tying arrangements. Amends the Savings and Loan Holding Company Amendments of 1967 to subject all unitary savings and loan holding companies to the same restrictions on their activities as multiple savings and loan holding companies. Declares that such restrictions shall not apply to any company that acquires an insured institution between July 1, 1983, and the effective date of this Act. Sets forth activities to which such restrictions do not apply. Authorizes savings and loan holding companies to acquire banks insured by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Sets forth limitations to which any such acquisition is subject. Exempts from prohibitions against interaffiliate transactions the transactions of any subsidiary insured institution of a savings and loan holding company with an affiliate engaged in permitted business activities. Exempts from prior approval requirements the formation of a savings and loan holding company involving a reorganization of interest from individual ownership to holding company form. Declares that no State shall prohibit the affiliation of an association with a company engaged solely in one or more of the activities authorized for savings and loan holding companies under this Act. Amends the Home Owners' Loan Act of 1933 to authorize savings and loan institutions to invest in depository institution service corporations in accordance with the requirements, conditions, and limitations set forth by this Act. Permits a trade association to commence any action for injunctive relief against threatened loss or damage resulting from a violation of such Acts prohibitions against tying arrangements. Amends the Bank Service Corporation Act to rename such Act the Depository Institution Service Corporation Act. Sets forth limitations on the amount a depository institution may invest in depository institution service corporations. Describes the depository institution service corporation activities permissible for depository institutions. Subjects a depository institution service corporation to examination and regulation by the appropriate Federal supervisory agency of its principal investor to the same extent as its principal investor. Provides grandfather rights to service corporation investors and for service corporation activities where an investment was made and the activities were commenced prior to July 1, 1983. Authorizes any association, which is organized and continues to operate in the mutual form, to invest in the capital stock obligations, or other securities of any corporation (a mutual thrift service corporation) organized under State laws if the entire capital stock of such corporation is available for purchase only by savings and loan associations having their home offices in such State.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Federal Credit Control Act of 1983 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit to the Committees on the Budget of both Houses a fiscal policy report which includes alternative levels of new direct loan authority and new loan guarantee authority. Requires the first concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year to: (1) establish the appropriate level of total new direct loan authority and total new loan guarantee authority; and (2) estimate new direct loan authority and new loan guarantee authority for each major functional category. Directs congressional committees to which allocation of new direct loan authority or new loan guarantee authority were made to subdivide such allocations among their subcommittees. Prohibits either House of Congress from considering any bill or resolution specifying fiscal year levels of new direct loan authority or new loan guarantee authority until the first concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year has been agreed upon. Exempts from such proscription bills or resolutions specifying levels of new direct loan authority or levels of new loan guarantee authority for a fiscal year following the fiscal year to which the concurrent resolution applies. Requires committee reports which accompany legislation specifying levels of new direct loan authority or new loan guarantee authority, to detail how such levels compare with the appropriate level of new loan guarantee or new loan guarantee authority set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to issue periodic up-to-date tabulations comparing the total new direct loan authority and the total new loan guarantee authority in enacted legislation to the appropriate level of such authority as set forth in the most recently agreed upon concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires the Director to report projected total new direct loan authority and total new loan guarantee authority for each fiscal year in a period of five fiscal years. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to submit to specified congressional committees an estimate of the total new direct loan authority and the total new loan guarantee authority needed to implement bills or resolutions reported by such committees for the fiscal year in which such legislation would become effective, and for each of the four following fiscal years. Requires the President's message to Congress on the budget to include all essential facts regarding direct Federal loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments, an estimate of total budget outlays resulting from loan guarantees, and an allocation of such total budget outlays among all budget accounts for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the four fiscal years thereafter. Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the President to include rescissions of direct loan authority or loan guarantee authority in any rescission or deferral message to Congress. Requires loan guarantee authority or direct loan authority to be fully obligated or committed unless the Congress has completed action on a recission bill rescinding a proposed amount within a prescribed 45-day period. Applies specified procedures to the disapproval of proposed deferrals of direct loan authority or loan guarantee authority. Requires the Comptroller General to report to both Houses of Congress if the President and other specified parties have failed to transmit a special message to the Congress regarding reservations or deferrals of loan guarantee authority or direct loan authority. Empowers the Comptroller General to bring a civil action in the United States District Court if direct loan authority or loan guarantee authority required to be made available for obligation or commitment has not been made available.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
No Free Lunch Act of 1983 - Requires all persons to be charged the cost of meals received in a Senate dining facility or an executive agency dining room that serves only high level officers and employees.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Designates the week of May 27, 1984, as National Tourism Week.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1983
Urges the United States, the Soviet Union, and other countries possessing the technology to produce separated plutonium for military or civil purposes to begin negotiations leading to a verifiable halt in the production of separated plutonium and in the export of technology for such production. Calls for the United States and other nuclear supplier and consumer nations to begin negotiations leading to an agreement to: (1) reject the commercial use of separated plutonium as a nuclear power reactor fuel; (2) base civilian nuclear power technology only on nonweapons usable fuel; and (3) make available reliable supplies of natural and low-enriched uranium.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1983
Prohibits any company that is engaged directly or indirectly in any activity not permitted for a bank holding company from acquiring control of any insured bank or of insured banks in more than one State without prior approval under the Bank Holding Company Act. Prohibits any company that is engaged directly or in any activity other than an activity permitted for a multiple savings and loan holding company from acquiring control of any insured institution except as provided in the National Housing Act. Prohibits any company that acquires control of an insured bank or institution on or after June 23, 1983, from retaining control of such bank or institution and engaging in non-bank holding activities on or after the effective date of this Act unless the acquisition conforms to certain provisions of the National Housing Act. Prohibits any company from retaining control of insured banks in more than one State that were acquired on or after June 23, 1983, unless such banks were acquired with prior approval under the Bank Holding Company Act. Prohibits any State-chartered depository institution from commencing any non-banking activity not previously and lawfully engaged in by that institution unless: (1) such activity was explicitly authorized for that type of institution by State statute or regulation before January 1, 1983; (2) such activity is permitted under the Bank Holding Company Act for a bank holding company; or (3) such activity is explicitly authorized by a State statute and is performed exclusively in such State for customers present in it. Requires any State-chartered depository institution that commenced, on or after June 23, 1983, any activity that would have been prohibited by this Act if commenced after enactment of this Act to immediately terminate such activity. Repeals the provisions of this Act on December 31, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Designates the week of December 11-17, 1983, as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1983
Authorizes and requests the President to designate July 15, 1983, as National Ice Cream Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1983
Designates the week of September 4 through September 10, 1983, as Youth of America Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1983
Designates the square dance as the national folk dance of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1983
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a specially struck gold medal to the widow of Roy Wilkins. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell bronze duplicates of such medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1983
Declares two named individuals to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1983
Fair Lab Payments Act - Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that payments with respect to covered diagnostic lab tests shall be 100 percent of the established payment rate. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish payment rates which shall be considered the full charge for low-cost diagnostic tests (tests which cost $15 or less, increased or decreased annually according to the Consumer Price Index).
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
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 · 11 May 1983
Authorizes the President to designate October 2 through October 9, 1983, as National Housing Week.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Taiwan should remain a full member of the Asian Development Bank, irrespective of the issue of the People's Republic of China's application to such bank. Declares that the President and the Secretary of State should express U.S. support for Taiwan.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1983 - Enacts into law the short titles "Civil Rights Act of 1968" and "Fair Housing Act". Amends the Fair Housing Act to expand the definition of "discriminatory housing practice" to include any violation under such Act (thus codifying case law which holds that the obligation of Federal agencies to administer programs affirmatively to further the purposes of fair housing and the prohibition against interference with rights under the Act are separately actionable). Adds new definitions of "handicap", "aggrieved person" and "familial status." Excludes from the meaning of "handicap" any impairment consisting of alcohol or drug abuse or which would be a direct threat to the property or safety of others. Defines "familial status" as one or more minors being domiciled with their parent or guardian. Retains the two current exemptions from the prohibition against the discriminatory sale or rental of housing which are given to: (1) an owner of three or less single-family houses; and (2) the owner of a dwelling consisting of four or fewer family units who also resides in such dwelling (the "Mrs. Murphy" exemption). Makes it unlawful to: (1) refuse to sell or rent to a handicapped person unless such handicap would prevent a prospective occupant from conforming to specified non-discrimination rules and practices; and (2) discriminate against a handicapped person in the conditions of sale or rental, or in the provision of related services or facilities. Includes within such discrimination a refusal to: (1) permit reasonable modifications to permit access to the premises (but only if a renter agrees to restore the premises to their original condition); and (2) make reasonable accommodations in policies, services, or facilities to afford handicapped persons equal enjoyment of the premises. States that such discrimination shall not include a refusal to: (1) make alterations at the expense of sellers, landlords, owners, or persons acting on their behalf; (2) make modifications which would unreasonably inconvenience others; and (3) allow architectural modifications which materially decrease the value of a building or alter its intended use. Prohibits discrimination against families with children. Makes it unlawful for an insurer to discriminate in the provision or terms of insurance against hazards to a dwelling because of the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, national origin or familial status of persons owning or residing in or near the dwelling. Adds handicapped persons as a protected class under other existing prohibitions on discriminatory activities. Modifies the housing financing discrimination provision to prescribe all conduct which denies or "otherwise makes unavailable" financial assistance because of race, color, religion, handicap, national origin, or familial status. Includes with such prohibition persons in the business of selling, brokering, or appraising real property. States that nothing in this Act is to be construed to defeat any reasonable local, State or Federal restrictions on the maximum number of persons permitted to occupy a dwelling unit. Provides that familial status does not apply to any State or Federal programs aimed at assisting elderly persons. Establishes the Fair Housing Review Commission, composed of three members appointed by the President for staggered six-year terms. Stipulates that no more than two members may be of the same political party. Directs the Commission to: (1) appoint administrative law judges and other employees as necessary to carry out its functions; (2) promulgate a code of ethics to assure the independence of such judges; (3) promulgate rules of discovery for its proceedings consistent insofar as practicable with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; and (4) consider appeals from the proposed orders of the administrative law judges upon application of a party. Includes Federal agencies having regulatory authority over financial institutions within the executive departments and agencies which are currently required to administer their housing programs in an affirmative manner. Authorizes the Department of Housing and Urban Development to provide financial as well as technical assistance to public and private organizations seeking to remedy housing discrimination. Establishes a new administrative enforcement procedure within the Department of Housing and Urban Development in addition to the current enforcement provisions of title VIII (allowing civil actions by private parties and the Attorney General). Directs the Secretary to make an investigation of all alleged discriminatory housing practice on his or her own initiative or upon the filing of a charge by an aggrieved person within one year of the alleged discrimination. Requires the Secretary to attempt to correct the discriminatory practice by informal methods of conciliation. Requires the Secretary, if the aggrieved person and respondent consent to binding arbitration, to refer the charge to an arbitrator made available by the Community Relations Service of the Department of Justice. Continues the current authority of the Secretary to utilize discovery measures. Retains the current penalty for failing to produce information (up to a $1,000 fine and/or one year's imprisonment). Makes certain changes in the current requirements for referring charges to State or local agencies for investigation and enforcement. Specifies, with respect to the rights and remedies provided by such agencies, the elements of "substantial equivalency which permit certification and referrals of discrimination charges. Eliminates the Secretary's authority to recall referrals in the interest of justice or to protect the rights of the parties. Prohibits further action by the Secretary unless the agency fails to act in a timely fashion (current law gives the agency 30 days to commence proceedings). Requires the Secretary and other Federal agencies to cooperate to avoid duplication of their housing discrimination authority. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements to permit other agencies to carry out such responsibilities within their jurisdictions. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with specified Federal agencies for such purpose with respect to depository institutions. Permits an action for temporary or preliminary relief to be brought on behalf of the Secretary in accordance with rule 65 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when the Secretary establishes that voluntary compliance is unobtainable and prompt judicial action is necessary. Permits the Secretary to file an administrative complaint or refer the matter to the Attorney General for civil action if the investigation supports a finding of reasonable cause, except with respect to matters involving land use controls, which must be referred. Specifies the hearing procedures to be utilized if an administrative complaint is issued. Permits the administrative law judge to award appropriate relief and a civil penalty of up to $10,000. Permits the filing of a position for judicial review of a final order in an appropriate court of appeals within 60 days after entry of such order. Provides that the findings of fact shall be conclusive if supported by substantial evidence in the record considered as a whole. Authorizes the administrative law judge to assess civil penalties for noncompliance with a final administrative order. Makes certain revisions in the private right of action for aggrieved persons under the Fair Housing Act. Extends the statute of limitations from 180 days to two years. Disallows simultaneous administrative and judicial proceedings involving the same charge. Permits the Attorney General to intervene upon certification that the civil action is of general public importance. Continues the current provision permitting the appointment of counsel. Removes the existing $1,000 limit on punitive damages for willful violations. Continues the authority of the Attorney General to initiate civil actions where there is reasonable cause to believe that a pattern or practice of resistance to title VIII rights has occurred. Permits the intervention of aggrieved persons in such actions. Permits the award of costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, to prevailing parties in court and administrative proceedings (current law permits an award of attorney's fees only to prevailing parties who are financially unable to assume them). Authorizes appropriations for this Act, effective October 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Designates August 1, 1983, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation reasserting the American commitment to the human rights and humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki accords. Requests the President to continue to raise the issue of noncompliance with the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.
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
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Barney Clark.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Operational Testing and Evaluation Act of 1983 - Establishes in the Department of Defense a Civilian Director of Operational Testing and Evaluation appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires such Director to perform all duties relating to operational testing and evaluation in the Department. Requires such Director to advise and report directly to the Secretary of Defense. Grants such Director access to all necessary Department records. Permits the Director to require observers to be present during testing. Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to report all testing results to the Director. Requires the Director to respond to congressional requests for information. Prohibits the obligation of funds for operational testing without the advance approval of the Secretary. Directs the President to request separate budget authority for the Director's activities. Grants the Comptroller General access to all records of the Department of Defense.
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 · 21 April 1983
Amends the Federal Reserve Act and other Federal law to authorize the printing of the back side of the one-dollar note by other than the intaglio process.
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 · 15 April 1983
Construction Work in Progress Policy Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal Power Act to authorize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve, upon application by a public utility, the inclusion in the rate base of such utility of the costs of construction work in progress (defined as construction of a facility used to generate electric energy) with respect to: (1) any pollution control facility; and (2) the conversion of oil or natural gas-fired facilities to the use of other fuels. Authorizes the Commission to approve by final order the costs of construction work in progress for other types of facilities, subject to the requirements under this Act. Requires the Commission to hold an evidentiary hearing upon application by a public utility for approval of such a rate increase. Sets forth the items required in any such application. Requires the Commission to approve the rate increase applied for or to order a lesser rate increase if, after the hearing, the Commission finds that: (1) the utility will be in severe financial difficulty unless construction work in progress costs are included in the rate base; (2) the utility has initiated programs to acquire alternative energy resources; (3) the facility being constructed is reasonably necessary to meet energy demands; (4) any mismanagement involved will not affect the utility's future financial situation; (5) the long-term benefits justify short-run rate increases in the case of customers purchasing electric energy for resale; (6) innovative financing is insufficient to alleviate or prevent severe financial difficulty; and (7) the applicant utility will discontinue the capitalization of allowance for funds used during construction for those construction work in progress costs included in the rate base. Provides that no rate increase approved or ordered under this Act may: (1) be charged for electric energy sold before the date of such approval or order; (2) exceed the amount needed to alleviate the utility's financial difficulties; (3) have an anticompetitive effect; (4) be charged to recover any costs imprudently incurred; or (5) be unduly discriminatory or preferential or exceed a just and reasonable amount.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1983
Designates the week of June 24, 1984, as Federal Credit Union Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should delay implementing milk producer assessments until at least July 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1983
Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Federal Reserve System, in conducting monetary policy for 1983, should continue to promote a reduction in interest rates consistent with sustainable economic growth and without rekindling inflation. Declares that the Federal Reserve System should permit reductions in interest rates resulting from reduced projected budget deficits without attempting to offset these reductions through a more restrictive monetary policy.