United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Prohibits the Secretary of Health and Human Services from terminating disability benefits under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) or title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act on the basis of continuing disability investigations. Exempts from such prohibition those cases where an initial disability benefit termination is based on a finding: (1) that the individual involved is able to engage in substantial gainful activity; (2) of fraud; or (3) based on a scheduled review of which such individual was notified at the time of his or her initial entitlement. Requires the Secretary to notify individuals who have been or will be notified of a continuing disability investigation that no further decision will be made with respect to their cases during the period in which this Act is in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1982
Constitutional Amendment - Declares that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State on account of sex.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1982
National Defense and Strategic Skills Training Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Labor to develop a list, to be revised annually, of skilled occupations with a substantial shortage of workers. Directs the Secretary of Defense to determine which of those occupations is necessary to the improved efficiency of defense procurement. Directs the Secretary of Labor, upon application, to designate a State a participating State if it: (1) has high concentrations of experienced workers dislocated by major changes in its economic base; (2) will establish a system for selecting, training, and relocating displaced workers; and (3) evidences understanding of defense procurement procedures and establishes relationships with contractors to assist in the placement of experienced displaced workers. Directs the Secretary of Defense to set aside up to one percent of funds available for weapons systems for FY 1983-1987 for the special training program. Directs the Secretary to select appropriate contractors to participate in this program, requiring at least ten percent of the workers to be displaced workers hired and trained under the program. Requires the Secretary to reimburse such contractors for the costs of training these workers. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Adds three members to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Directs the President to appoint the three members from a panel of at least six elected town officials submitted by the National Association of Towns and Townships.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1982
Disability Amendments of 1982 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the termination of disability benefits on the grounds that the physical or mental impairment on which such benefits were based has ceased or did not exist (unless the Secretary of Health and Human Services finds that there has been medical improvement in the beneficiary's condition or that the initial disability determination was clearly erroneous under the disability standards in effect at the time). Requires that a preliminary disability decision by a State agency, or the Secretary, which is unfavorable to the disability benefit applicant contain a statement of the case with a discussion of the evidence, the basis for such decision, the right of the applicant to a review of the decision, and the right to submit additional medical evidence prior to such review. Entitles the applicant or the applicant's spouse, former spouse, surviving spouse, surviving divorced mother, child or parent to a review of the premliminary decision (including the right to make a personal appearance and submit additional medical evidence), upon a showing that his or her rights may be prejudiced by such decision and upon timely request. Sets forth the procedural requirements for a review of a preliminary disability decision. Provides that a preliminary disability decision may be affirmed, modified, or reversed on the basis of the review. Authorizes the State agency which made the initial disability determination to make any new disability determination required during review of the case after notification to the Secretary and in accordance with the rules governing such determinations. Requires that a decision by the Secretary after review which is unfavorable to the individual requesting the review contain a statement of the case with a discussion of the evidence and the basis for the Secretary's decision. Sets forth procedural requirements with respect to the submission of documentary evidence relating to disability on or after the date of the decision made after review. Requires that individuals requesting a review be informed of the requirements under this Act and of their right to representation at the review. Provides for reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing for disability benefit applicants who show that their rights may be prejudiced by a decision after review. Provides that the hearing decision may affirm, modify, or reverse the Secretary's findings of fact and the decision after review. Sets forth procedural requirements with respect to the submission of additional documentary evidence relating to disability on or after the date of the decision after review and before the commencement of the hearing on such decision. Requires the Secretary to prescribe a period of time after hearing decisions during which the Secretary, upon his or her own motion or at the request of the individual who requested the hearing, may review the hearing decision and affirm, modify, or reverse it. Makes such a review the final review of the decision. Provides that the decision shall be considered final if it is not so reviewed. Requires the Secretary to notify the individual involved with respect to a case where the Secretary initiates a review. Provides that an application for disability benefits filed before the first month in which the applicant satisfies the requirements for such benefits shall be considered valid only if: (1) the applicant satisfies such requirements before the Secretary makes a final decision on the application and no request for review has been made; or (2) the applicant satisfies such requirements before a decision on review is made in any case where review is requested. Requires that hearings on disability decisions after review be conducted on the record. Subjects such hearings to Federal law governing administrative hearings. Requires the Secretary to appoint administrative law judges to conduct such hearings. Entitles any individual who is dissatisfied with the final hearing decision to judicial review of that decision. Entitles an individual who shows that his or her rights may be prejudiced by a determination with respect to his or her continuing eligibility for disability benefits to the same type of review and hearing as is permitted in the case of an initial disability determination. Specifies the cases with respect to which State agencies may make new disability determinations for purposes of review under this Act. Permits an individual who has been found to be no longer eligible for disability benefits, and who has requested a hearing on such determination, to elect to have the payment of such benefits continued during the period of appeal. Provides that if the decision upon appeal affirms the determination that the individual is not entitled to such benefits, any benefits paid pursuant to such election shall be considered overpayments. Requires the Secretary to provide uniform standards which shall be applied at all levels of disability determinations. Provides that except in certain cases, if an individual has been found to be no longer eligible for disability benefits, the termination month for such benefits shall be the month in which: (1) a decision affirming such benefit termination has been made after review of the preliminary decision to this Act; or (2) the time for requesting such a review has expired. Sets forth evidentiary requirements with respect to disability determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to allow as an affirmative defense to a prosecution, that as a result of mental disease the defendant did not know the nature and quality of his actions or did not know the wrongfulness of his actions at the time he committed the offense. Transfers the burden of proving insanity to the defendant. Prohibits expert witnesses from offering opinions on the ultimate legal issues presented to the trier of fact.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) seek agreement by Argentina and Great Britain to submit the issue of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands to the International Court of Justice; or (2) if such agreement is not obtained, direct the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations to urge the Security Council to request the International Court of Justice to render an advisory opinion on the issue of sovereignty.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1982
Condemns the use of plastic or rubber bullets in Northern Ireland. Calls upon the Government of the United Kingdom to ban the use of plastic or rubber bullets against civilians.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1982
Synthetic Fuels Corporation Amendments of 1982 - Amends the Energy Security Act to authorize the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation to make loans, loan and price guarantees, and purchase agreements and to enter into joint ventures for district heating or cooling projects. Authorizes the Corporation to make price support loans for municipal waste energy projects which produce and sell biomass energy. Requires the Corporation to solicit proposals and provide financial assistance for district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects. Requires that the synthetic fuel production strategy established by the Corporation address the types of district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects the Corporation intends to assist. Requires the Corporation's Board of Directors to assure that the Corporation is organized to evaluate, process, and review proposed and funded district heating or cooling projects and municipal waste energy projects.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Benefits Restoration Act - Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to certain children between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning. Limits eligibility for such payments to children of veterans who died on active duty or from a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to make monthly payments to the surviving spouse of such veteran in the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the Secretary to make a lump-sum payment to persons who would have been entitled to such payments one month before the effective date of this Act. Directs the Secretary concerned to notify each member of the armed forces that his or her dependents will be ineligible for such benefits should the member die after the applicable date, in no case later than August 13, 1983. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide the Secretary concerned with information necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States: (1) should not sell advanced weapons to Jordan; (2) should ensure that Israel retains its qualitative military edge in the Middle East; and (3) should focus its efforts on bringing Jordan into direct peace negotiations with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should direct the appropriate agencies to pursue vigorously and promptly conclude certain countervailing duty and antidumping duty investigatons and the pending steel unfair trade practices investigation; and (2) Congress should consider legislation to strengthen U.S. trade laws.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1982
Nuclear Material Export Control Act of 1982 - Title I: Exports of Nuclear Material - Declares that there should be congressional review of the export of commercial materials and technical data that can be used for nuclear weapons or facilities. Directs the President to transmit to the Congress any application for an export license authorizing a sale to a country that has not signed the Treaty on the Non- Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: (1) of any material or technology that can be used to build or test nuclear explosive devices; or (2) for the construction of certain nuclear facilities. Prohibits issuing such license until 30 days after the President transmits the application to the Congress and then only if both Houses of Congress do not adopt a concurrent resolution disapproving the issuance of such license. Provides for expedited consideration of such a concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1982
Federal Supplemental Unemployment Compensation Act of 1982 - Permits States to enter into and participate in agreements with the Secretary of Labor under this Act and to terminate such agreements upon providing 30 days' written notice to the Secretary. Requires that such agreements provide that the State agency will make Federal supplemental compensation payments: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular and extended compensation under State law, have no rights to unemployment compensation with respect to a week under State or Federal law, and are not receiving Canadian unemployment compensation with respect to such week; and (2) for any week of unemployment which begins in an extended benefit period and the individual's period of eligibility. Prohibits any Federal supplemental compensation payment to any individual for any week of unemployment which begins more than two years after the end of the benefit year for which rights to regular compensation were exhausted. Makes the amount of Federal supplemental compensation payable to any individual for any week of total unemployment equal to the amount of the regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable during the benefit year under the State law. Requires that the amount established in an individual's Federal supplemental compensation account equal the lesser of: (1) 50 percent of the total amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable with respect to the benefit year on the basis of which regular compensation was most recently received; or (2) 13 times the individual's average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. Prohibits payment of Federal supplemental compensation to any individual under an agreement entered into under this Act for any week beginning: (1) before the first week beginning after enactment of this Act or the week following the week in which such agreement is entered into, whichever is later; or (2) after September 30, 1983. Provides for Federal payments to States having agreements for the payment of Federal supplemental compensation. Directs the Secretary to certify from time to time to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State the sums payable under this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make such payments by transfers from funds appropriated pursuant to this Act to the account of the State in the Unemployment Trust Fund. Authorizes appropriations from the general fund of the Treasury, without fiscal year limitation, as necessary to carry out this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1982
Small Issue Industrial Development Bond Reform Act of 1982 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disqualify industrial development bonds (IDBs) for the small issue tax exemption if a substantial amount of proceeds of such bonds is used to finance restaurants, certain office buildings, shopping centers, or entertainment or recreation facilities. Requires bond issuing authorities to conduct public hearings prior to the approval and issuance of any small issue industrial development bond. Requires the Governor of a State to report to the Secretary of the Treasury annually beginning in 1984 on bonds issued during the preceding year. Increases to $15,000,000 the amount of industrial development bonds used for economically distressed areas which qualify as tax-exempt small issues. Permits the financing of office buildings, restaurants, stores or shopping centers in such areas. Specifies requirements relating to poverty for designation as a qualified distressed area. Provides that capital research and experimental expenditures shall not be taken into account for purposes of determining the aggregate face value of industrial development bonds which otherwise qualify for the small issue exemption. Suspends temporary Internal Revenue Service regulations which prohibit pooled issues of bonds for projects located in only one state with respect to bonds sold after August 23, 1981. Sets forth transitional rules and effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1982
Reaffirms Senate Resolution 179 and House Resolution 177 which called upon the President to take steps to strengthen the international barriers to proliferation of nuclear weapons. Urges the President to seek agreement at the Versailles economic summit conference, and through other appropriate channels, that all nuclear supplier nations will export nuclear fuel, equipment, and technology only to those non-nuclear-weapon states that have accepted full-scope safequards of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Soviet Union should permit Abe Stolar and his family to emigrate to Israel and that the President should express U.S. opposition to the forced captivity of the Stolar family by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy should take immediate action to carry out the provisions of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act with respect to the simplification of all Government procurement procedures and forms.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1982
Antitrust Enforcement Fair Dispositions Act of 1982 - Amends the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act to permit the termination of any civil proceeding brought by or on behalf of the United States under the antitrust laws only upon order of the court before which the proceeding is pending. Subjects any motion for dismissal of such a proceeding made by the United States, and any proposal for modification of a judgment entered in such a proceeding to public comment and judicial review requirements basically identical to those applied to proposals for consent judgments for the purpose of requiring the presiding court to determine that any order for dismissal, any proposed modification, or any proposed consent judgment is in the public interest before the court may enter such order or proposal.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Small Business Procurement Reform Act of 1982 - Amends the Small Business Act to require the Secretary of Commerce to include in the notice for bidding on a Government procurement action the basis for the limitation in any case where bidding on a procurement action is limited to one person, a particular area of the United States, or both. Requires the Secretary to publish timely notice of all awards of Government procurement contracts set aside for small businesses. Directs the Secretary to investigate, and authorizes the Secretary to implement alternative means of notifying small businesses of procurement actions. Prohibits a Federal agency from awarding a procurement contract for which a notice for bidding must be published until 45 days after the publication of such notice, or the closing date for bidding on the action specified in the notice, whichever is later. Requires each Federal agency, to the extent practicable, to subdivide large systems procurement contracts into smaller components on which small businesses can compete. Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish Government procurement contract arbitration panels for resolving contract disputes between small businesses and Federal agencies. Makes the use of such a panel voluntary. Establishes a Small Business Procurement Advisory Committee to advise Congress and the Administrator on Government procurement contracts awarded to, or set aside for, small businesses. Requires the Committee to report annually to Congress and the Administrator on its activities and to make recommendations for increasing the number of Government procurement contracts awarded to small businesses.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until December 31, 1987, the authority for the targeted jobs income tax credit. Extends the credit to all cooperative education students regardless of their economic status. Disallows the credit for employees who have worked for the same employer within the last 180 days. Limits the credit claimed on any individual to $4,500.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the proposed divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company be examined with a view toward protecting: (1) telephone users from rate increases; (2) the interests of Bell System shareholders; and (3) the viability of local operating companies. Directs the General Accounting Office to begin a report to Congress on the likely effects of the proposed divestiture. Calls for the abandonment of the proposed divestiture if the public interest would not be served.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1982
Commends Israel for completing the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Camp David Accords. Expresses confidence that Israel and Egypt will continue normalizing relations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1982
Omnibus Victims Protection Act of 1982 - Title I: Victims Impact Statement - Amends rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to require that presentence reports contain information assessing the impact upon and cost to any person who was the victim of the offense. Title II: Protection of Victims and Witnesses from Intimidation - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish as offenses "tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant" and "retaliating against a witness or an informant." Amends the Bail Reform Act of 1966 to require as a condition of pretrial release that the defendant not commit these offenses. Grants general authority to the Attorney General to relocate or protect Government witnesses. Authorizes the Attorney General to initiate civil proceedings to restrain tampering with a witness or victim. Title III: Restitution - Authorizes a sentencing court to order the defendant to make restitution for any offense. Requires the court to state for the record the reasons for not ordering restitution. Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress laws necessary to compensate victims of crimes where restitution is not possible. Title IV: Federal Accountability for Escape or Release of a Federal Prisoner - Grants exclusive jurisdiction to the Federal courts over civil claims against the the United States for damages caused by dangerous offenders who are released or escape from the lawful custody of a U.S. employee as a result of such employee's gross negligence. Title V: Federal Guidelines for Fair Treatment of Crime Victims and Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System - Directs the Attorney General to develop Federal guidelines for the fair treatment of crime victims and witnesses. Requires the Attorney General to consider certain objectives in preparing the guidelines, including: (1) ensuring that victims receive prompt social and medical services; (2) giving victims and witnesses notice of important criminal justice proceedings and scheduling changes; (3) arranging for the prosecution to obtain the nonbinding views of victims of serious crimes during such stages as plea bargaining and pretrial release; (4) encouraging employers to continue to pay victims and witnesses for work absences to assist investigations and prosecutions; and (5) training law enforcement personnel in victim assistance. Title VI: Profit by a Criminal from Sale of his Story - Directs the Attorney General to recommend to Congress any laws that are necessary to ensure that no Federal felon derives any profit from the sale of his or her story until any victim of the offense receives restitution.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1982
Justice Assistance Act of 1982 - Amends title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Justice System Improvement) to eliminate the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration including the Office of Community Anti-Crime Programs and the Office of Justice Assistance, Research, and Statistics. Retains the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Institute of Justice. Establishes a new Office of Justice Assistance (OJA). Establishes a Justice Assistance Board to: (1) recommend to the Director of the Office of Justice Assistance funding and program priorities; (2) review and evaluate the activities of the OJA and Federal policies and priorities in justice assistance; and (3) coordinate its activities with the other justice advisory bodies. Authorizes appropriations for the Board. Decreases from 21 to 15 the membership of the National Institute of Justice Advisory Board and the Bureau of Justice Statistics Advisory Board. Requires each Board to include two nonvoting coordinating members from the other and from each of the Justice Assistance Board and the National Advisory Committee for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Authorizes appropriations for the two Advisory Boards. Replaces the formula grant program with "national priority implementation and replication programs," under which grants are authorized for programs which address critical problems of violent and serious crime and for programs which have been certified to be successful. Enumerates 15 criteria for the awarding of these grants. Limits the Federal share of the new priority grant programs to a period of four years and includes a cash match requirement. Eliminates the current national priority grant program. Retains the discretionary grant program. Limits the purposes of discretionary grants to: (1) educational and training programs for criminal and juvenile justice personnel; (2) the provision of technical assistance; and (3) national demonstration programs which are likely to be successful but unlikely to be funded. Retains the training and manpower development programs. Establishes within the Department of Justice an Assistant Attorney General for Justice Assistance. Authorizes a State to apply for emergency Federal law enforcement assistance in the event that a crime problem of serious and epidemic proportions exists. Requires the Attorney General, in approving or disapproving such application, to consider: (1) the nature and extent of the crime problem; (2) the emergency or extraordinary circumstances; (3) the availability of State and local resources; (4) the need to avoid unnecessary Federal involvement in local concerns; and (5) alternative sources of assistance. Authorizes appropriations in the amount of $25,000,000 for law enforcement assistance for each of FY 1983 through 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should adopt an arms control package that includes the following goals: (1) limit strategic weapons by negotiating a freeze on testing, production, and deployment of such weapons through 1985; (2) reduce existing nuclear weapons stockpiles by balanced incremental reductions; (3) prevent the spread of nuclear weapons by establishing additional nonproliferation measures; (4) make a commitment to bring all nations possessing nuclear weapons into the arms control negotiations as soon as possible; and (5) address the question of arms control in its totality by continuing good faith negotiations to reduce nuclear weapons in Europe, by emphasizing expanded U.S.-Soviet negotiations on conventional weapons, and by restraining conventional arms transfers to the Third World.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1982
Amends the Housing Act of 1959 to revise provisions relating to the program of loans to sponsors developing housing and related facilities projects for elderly or handicapped families. Deletes provisions authorizing such loan program assistance to limited profit sponsors, consumer cooperatives, or public bodies or agencies (thus permitting such loans only to private nonprofit corporations). Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to prohibit: (1) the sale or other transfer of a project developed under such loan program to any organization or individual except a qualified nonprofit sponsor who agrees to maintain the low-income elderly or handicapped character of the project for at least the remaining term of the original loan; and (2) the prepayment of any loan under such program in connection with such prohibited sales or transfers of assets. Directs the Secretary, in selecting projects for such loan program, to assure the inclusion of special design features and congregate space necessary to meet the special needs of elderly and handicapped residents. Directs the Secretary to encourage the provision of small and scattered site group homes and independent living facilities for nonelderly handicapped persons and families. Permits up to 25 percent of the units in a project financed under such program to be efficiency units, subject to the Secretary's determination that such units are appropriate for the elderly or handicapped. Authorizes the Secretary to require a sponsor of a housing project financed with a loan under such program to deposit an amount not to exceed $10,000 in a special escrow account to assure the sponsor's commitment and long-term management capabilities. Directs the Secretary, in establishing per unit cost limitations, to take into account design features necessary to meet the needs of elderly and handicapped residents. Directs the Secretary to assure that project sponsors may continue to utilize methods permitted on January 1, 1982, for the selection of contractors employed in the construction of such projects. Limits the interest rate on loans under such program to the lesser of nine percent per year or the average Federal borrowing rate as determined by the Secretary considering specified factors. Provides that the aggregate amount of obligations the Secretary may issue to the Secretary of the Treasury to finance such loan program shall be increased to specified amounts on October 1, 1982, October 1, 1983, and October 1, 1984. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to require that the greater of the amount of income derived from a family's net assets or ten percent of the value of such assets be included in that family's income for purposes of determining whether the family is eligible for assistance under the low-income housing rent subsidy program. Requires that, in computing annual income to determine tenant contribution toward rent, there be deducted from total income: (1) $300 for each minor; (2) medical expenses exceeding three percent of annual income; and (3) unusual expenses, including the cost of care for minor, disabled, or handicapped household members when such care is necessary to enable a family member to be employed and only up to the amount of income from such employment. Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to direct the Secretary, at the time of the original approval of a project authorized under the loan program for sponsors of housing for low-income aged and handicapped under the Housing Act of 1959, to reserve funds for rent subsidies for such project under the Housing Act of 1937. Requires that such reservation of funds: (1) be in amounts equal to the maximum permissible fair market rents for the units in such project; and (2) continue until the execution of the low-income housing assistance contract for such units in such project. Amends the Congregate Housing Services Act of 1978 to authorize appropriations for FY 1983 through FY 1985 to carry out such Act (which provides for Federal aid to nutritional meals and personal assistance programs undertaken by public housing agencies or nonprofit corporations to help elderly, handicapped, or disabled residents of low-income housing avoid unnecessary institutionalization).
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convene, as soon as possible, a summit meeting with the leaders of the Soviet Union to reduce the risk of nuclear war and to establish methods for better controlling and reducing nuclear arms.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Amends the Veterans Administration Health Professional Scholarship Program to make eligible part-time employees of the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Sets forth the payments and obligations concerning such persons.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Mass Transportation Act of 1982 - Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from making a discretionary capital grant or loan unless the applicant has sufficient capability to maintain the facilities and equipment purchased with such grant or loan. Directs the Secretary to make public mass transportation grants to finance the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, and operating costs of facilities and equipment for use in mass transportation service. Sets forth formulae for apportioning such grants between urbanized areas with populations of more than 200,000 and urbanized areas with populations of less than 200,000. Limits Federal grants for construction projects to 80 percent of their costs and for project operating expenses to 50 percent of their costs. Requires a Governor, together with specified officials, to designate a recipient or recipients to receive and dispense funds apportioned for urbanized areas of 200,000 or more. Authorizes a Governor to transfer a State's apportionment between grant programs authorized under this Act. Sets forth requirements for recipients to receive grants for urbanized areas, including environmental protection procedures. Requires recipients to: (1) submit to the Secretary, at a time determined by the Secretary, a statement on the use of funds made available to them; and (2) make available independently conducted reviews and audits as determined necessary by the Secretary. Sets forth penalties for the submission of false or fraudulent statements under this Act. Reduces the Federal share of net projects costs of discretionary capital grants from 80 percent to 70 percent. Provides that appropriations for the long-range program of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 shall be authorized as necessary for administrative costs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983 through 1986 for: (1) research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) grants for managerial, technical and professional training programs; and (3) grants for research and training in urban transportation problems. Authorizes the Secretary to make capital grants to States and local public bodies for repair or replacement of public transportation equipment and facilities damaged by natural disaster or catastrophic occurrence. Sets forth conditions for approval of such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to pay up to 100 percent of the net project costs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1986 to finance grants established under this Act and to finance grants for areas other than urbanized areas. Requires authorized appropriations for grants for construction or operating assistance for the urban mass transit program to remain available for expenditure until September 30, 1985. Requires the Secretary, in making grants for research and training in urban transportation problems, to give preference to public and private nonprofit organizations (currently, to institutions of higher learning). Revises the definition of a fixed guideway to include a public transit facility which uses a fixed catenary system and a right-of-way rail usable by other forms of transportation. Includes grants established under this Act in the public mass transportation reporting system and uniform system of accounts. Requires that unobligated or deobligated amounts remaining available for grants for areas other than urbanized areas after September 30, 1982, be added to amounts available for apportionment for such areas under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to specified congressional committees on the advisability of replacing the Federal individual income tax or such income tax and the Federal corporate income tax with a simplified income tax on gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that continued, adequate funding should be provided for the necessary research, development, and demonstration of new fossil fuel technologies.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1982
Prohibits the Government from imposing export restrictions on agricultural commodities which interfere with valid export contracts if: (1) the contracts were entered into before the imposition of such restrictions; and (2) the contracts provide for the delivery of such commodities for export within 180 days of the date the restrictions are imposed.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of, and establish a program to control gypsy moth infestation. Requires the Secretary to report to the congressional agriculture committees within one year. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify multiple lot issues of industrial development bonds for the small issue exemption for purposes of the tax exclusion of interest on such bonds. Requires that such multiple lots be sold at the same time, at the same interest rate, and under a common marketing plan. Requires that a common or pooled security be used to pay debt service on such obligations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the provision which allows Members of Congress an income tax deduction without substantiation for living expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the aggregate amount of appropriations for conservation and renewable energy for FY 1983 should not be less than the amount appropriated for FY 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Enterprise Zone Tax Act of 1982 - Title I: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for purposes of extending the tax incentives and regulatory flexibility measures provided by this Act. Specifies that State and local governments shall nominate areas for such designation. Limits the designation of enterprise zones to 25 nominated areas per year. Limits the period during which such designations shall remain in effect. Specifies that the Secretary may designate such zones only if: (1) the area is within the jurisdiction of the local government; (2) the boundary of the area is continuous; (3) the area has a population of at least 4,000 if any portion thereof is located within a standard metropolitan statistical area (with a population of at least 50,000) or 2,500 otherwise, or is within an Indian reservation; and (4) the area meets specified unemployment and poverty requirements. Requires nominating local governments, as a condition of the Secretary's designation, to agree in writing to follow a course of action which may include reducing tax rates, improving local services, simplifying or streamlining regulation of business, or receiving commitments of private entities to assist employees and residents of the area. Terminates the authority of the Secretary to designate enterprise zones on December 31, 1985 or three years after publication of regulations pertaining to such zones, whichever is later. Describes areas to which preference shall be given in deciding to designate enterprise zones. Requires that any property tax reduction effected by a local government under the terms of this Act be disregarded for purposes of determining the eligibility of a State or local government for Federal assistance or benefits. States that designation of an enterprise zone shall not give displaced persons from such an area any rights or benefits under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisitions Policies Act of 1970. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives Subtitle A - Credits for Employers and Employees - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers a nonrefundable income tax credit for ten percent of the increase in payroll for all employees, taking into account a maximum of $15,000 in wages per employee. Allows such credit only for wages paid to employees who perform 90 percent of their services in work directly related to the conduct of the taxpayers' business located in the enterprise zone and who perform 50 percent of their services within such zone. Phases out such credit in the last three years of the enterprise zone designation. Allows a nonrefundable income tax credit for employers equal to 50 percent of the wages paid to certain disadvantaged workers for the first three years of the enterprise zone designation. Phases out such credit by ten percent a year beginning in the forth year after such designation. Requires a recapture of such credit for the early termination of such employees. Disallows a deduction for the portion of wages or salaries subject to such credit. Requires employers to furnish to each employee a written statement showing the amount of wages paid to such employee. Provides an income tax credit for enterprise zone employees equal to five percent of the first $9,000 of wages received each year. Phases out such credit in the last four years of the enterprise zone designation. Subtitle B: Credits for Investment in Tangible Property in Enterprise Zones - Allows businesses an additional investment tax credit for certain tangible property located in enterprise zones. Limits such credit to five percent for zone personal property and ten percent for new zone construction property, including rental property. Requires that the property subject to such credit be predominantly used in the zone, be purchased after zone designation, and not be acquired from relatives or related corporations. Requires the recapture of such credit upon early disposition of the property. Subtitle C: Reduction in Capital Grain Tax Rates - Eliminates the capital gains tax on property of corporations acquired after the enterprise zone designation and used in a zone business. Qualifies certain low-income rental housing located in an enterprise zone for such treatment. Permits property to remain qualified for purposes of the revised capital gains treatment after a designation of an enterprise zone has terminated. Exempts gain from the sale or expenses of property used in a business in an enterprise zone from the computation of the minimum tax. Expresses the sense of Congress that if the minimum tax is modified, enterprise zone capital gain will be excluded in computing minimum taxable income. Subtitle D: Extension of Carryover Periods - Extends the net operating loss and investment tax credit carryover period to the longer of 15 years or the duration of the enterprise zone designation for businesses operating in such zones. Subtitle E: Rules Relating to Industrial Development Bonds - Provides that rules relating to small issue tax-exempt industrial development bonds now in effect shall apply to bonds used to finance land or other depreciable property located in an enterprise zone, even if such rules are subsequently changed. Subtitle F: Sense of the Congress With Respect to Tax Simplification - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Internal Revenue Service should simplify the administration and enforcement of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code affected by this Act. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions, to include qualified businesses (as defined in Title II of this Act), designating governments, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprise zones. Authorizes Federal agencies, upon request by a designating government, to waive or modify rules and regulations which pertain to the carrying out of projects or activities within an enterprise zone. Requires agencies to approve such request if the resulting benefits of job creation, community development or economic revitalization outweigh the public interest in continuation of the rule unchanged. Disallows waiver or modification of a rule that would directly violate a statutory requirement (including the Davis-Bacon Act and Fair Labor Standards Act) or which would present a danger to the public health and safety. Provides that such waivers or modifications of rule shall remain in effect as long as the zone designations. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to direct the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to promote the coordination of all enterprise zone programs and consolidate all periodic reports required under such programs into one summary report. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires the Foreign-Trade Zone Board to consider on a priority basis and expedite the processing of applications for the establishment of foreign-trade zones within enterprise zones. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to give priority to and expedite applications for the establishment of parts of entry necessary to establish such zones. States that to the maximum extent practicable foreign-trade zones should be established within enterprise zones.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Directs the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp to honor Roberto Clemente. Provides that such stamp shall be issued in the denomination used for first-class mail up to one ounce in weight and shall be placed on sale during the month of August.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1982
Declares that the United States should propose to the Soviet Union: (1) a long-term, mutual, and verifiable nuclear forces freeze at equal and sharply reduced levels; and (2) practical measures to reduce the danger of an accidental nuclear war and to prevent the use of nuclear weapons by third parties. States that the United States and the Soviet Union should channel their resources away from amassing nuclear armaments and towards fighting poverty, hunger, and disease. Declares that the United States should continue to work for balanced arms reductions.
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