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Sen. Stone, Richard (Dick) [D-FL]

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Law· SJRESS.J.Res. 213 (96th)open

A joint resolution to designate the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health located in Montgomery County, Maryland, as the "Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health".

United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1980

Designates the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health located in Montgomery County, Maryland, as the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Directs the Committee on Rules and Administration to place appropriate markers or inscriptions at suitable locations within such center to commemorate and designate such building.

Law· SS. 3180 (96th)open

A bill to repeal a provision of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980

Amends the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 to repeal the provision providing for the accompanying transfer of appropriations with any transfer of refugee responsibilities from the Federal Emergency Management Administration to other Federal agencies.

Bill· SS. 3145 (96th)referred

A bill to provide Homeownership Assistance.

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1980

Authorizes from funds previously approved in appropriations Acts for the homeownership assistance program under the National Housing Act $125,000,000 to be available for contracts to make periodic mortgage assistance payments entered into on or after October 1, 1980.

Bill· SS. 3124 (96th)referred

A bill to establish the "United States Holocaust Memorial Council".

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1980

Establishes the United States Holocaust Memorial Council which shall: (1) provide and encourage appropriate ways for the Nation to observe the Days of Remembrance to commemorate the holocaust; (2) plan, erect, and oversee the operation of a memorial museum to the victims of the holocaust; and (3) plan for carrying out the recommendations of the report submitted to the President on September 27, 1979, by the President's Commission on the Holocaust. Authorizes the Council to receive public land in the District of Columbia on which it may erect the memorial. Terminates the Council's authority to construct a memorial if the erection of the memorial has not commenced within five years of enactment of this Act and sufficient funds to ensure completion of the memorial have not been certified to be available. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.

Bill· SS. 3118 (96th)referred

A bill to require that the Secretary of Agriculture insure farmers of equitable opportunities to market their flue-cured tobacco, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1980

Amends the Tobacco Inspection Act to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) require each tobacco grower to specify through which warehouse or person such grower intends to market tobacco; (2) issue marketing schedules allocating available sales opportunities to specified warehouses or persons; (3) prohibit unfair methods of competition involving the sale and purchase of grower's tobacco; (4) provide a method for making containers used in marketing tobacco uniform; and (5) require periodic reports and recordkeeping from persons in the tobacco industry describing the amount of tobacco planted, harvested, processed, sold, and purchased. Requires such information to be kept confidential. Establishes forfeitures for specified violations of the marketing schedule. Vests jurisdiction to review forfeiture rulings of the Secretary in the U.S. district courts.

Bill· SS. 3075 (96th)referred

Federal Government Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1980

United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1980

Federal Government Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1980 - Requires the Comptroller General of the United States, after consultation with specified congressional committees, to issue regulations describing the actions which constitute unnecessary spending at the end of a fiscal year by a Government office, as such term is defined in this Act. Directs the head of each Government office to take such actions as necessary to eliminate unnecessary spending. Authorizes the office head to provide awards to employees who help to eliminate unnecessary spending. Directs each office head to submit to Congress an annual report describing the savings of that office during the preceding fiscal year. Requires the Comptroller General, by April 1 of each fiscal year, to conduct random selective audits of at least 15 Government offices to determine whether such offices have engaged in substantial unnecessary spending during the preceding fiscal year. Directs the Congress to recognize by appropriate resolution each office which has achieved savings during a fiscal year. Requires each committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives having legislative jurisdiction over a program carried out by a Government office, when reporting legislation to authorize the enactment of new budget authority for such program for a fiscal year: (1) to authorize new budget authority for a program which achieved savings in the preceding year in an amount which at least equals the amount of budget authority authorized in the preceding year plus the savings during such year, except under specified circumstances; and (2) to authorize the enactment of new budget authority for a program which engaged in unnecessary spending during the preceding year in an amount not exceeding the amount of budget authority authorized in the preceding year reduced by the amount of unnecessary spending. Directs the Committees on Appropriations of each House to report legislation providing new budget authority in accordance with such authorization guidelines. Requires the amount of such new budget authority to be adjusted to reflect changes during the preceding year in the Consumer Price Index beginning with the second fiscal year after the enactment of this Act.

Bill· SS. 3066 (96th)referred

A bill to provide for the use and distribution of the award granted by the Indian Claims Commission to the Seminole Nation as it existed in Florida on September 18, 1823, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1980

Provides for the use and distribution of the award granted by the Indian Claims Commission to the Seminole Nation as it existed in Florida on September 18, 1823. Directs the chief trial judge of the United States Court of Claims to report to the Congress findings of fact and a recommendation as to what constitutes a fair, just, and equitable division of the award between the Seminole Indians of Florida and the Seminole Indians of Oklahoma. Makes such recommendation binding on the Secretary of the Interior at the end of the 60-day period following its submission if neither House of Congress adopts a resolution to the contrary. Provides for the allocation of the total share of the award of the Seminole Indians of Florida among the Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, and those Indians in Florida possessing at least one-fourth degree of Florida Seminole blood who have not shared in the claims of any other tribe.

Bill· SS. 3012 (96th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to eliminate the requirement that the States reduce the amount of unemployment compensation payable for any week by the amount of certain retirement benefits, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1980

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate the requirement that States reduce the amount of unemployment compensation payable for any week to an eligible individual by the amount of certain retirement benefits received by such individual.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 111 (96th)referred

A concurrent resolution concerning the fifth anniversary of the Helsinki Accords and calling for prominent attention to human rights concerns at the Madrid conference.

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1980

Reaffirms congressional support for full implementation of the Helsinki Final Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that human rights concerns should be given serious attention at the Madrid meeting to review such Act. Declares that any new measures should be balanced among all sections of the Final Act. Directs the U.S. delegation to seek another review meeting within two years.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 492 (96th)referred

Lee Metcalf Fair Employment Relations Resolution

United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1980

Lee Metcalf Fair Employment Relations Resolution - Title I: Fair Employment Relations Board - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Board to: (1) establish and publish policies and guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate; (2) supervise the actions of the Director and the operations of the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office; and (3) hear and determine complaints. Title II: Senate Fair Employment Relations Office - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office which shall develop procedures to implement the policies of the Board, gather information relating to Senate employment practices, and review procedures for the hearing and settling of complaints. Title III: Complaints of Violations of Equal Employment Opportunity - Provides for counseling and assistance through the Office, to any individual who believes that he or she has been discriminated against in violation of rule XLII. Sets forth the procedure for filing informal complaints based on employment discrimination, and for the informal settlement of such claims. Sets forth the procedure for filing formal complaints, and for conducting hearings on such claims. Provides for an appeal to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics of an adverse decision or order of the Board. Sets forth remedies available to individuals who have been discriminated against in violation of rule XLII. Title IV: Amendments to Standing Rules of the Senate - Amends rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the Senate, relating to employment practices, to provide that any complaint of violation of such rule be heard and settled by the Senate Fair Employment Relations Board in accordance with provisions of this Act.

Bill· SS. 2978 (96th)referred

A bill to revise certain provisions of the Home Energy Assistance Act of 1980.

United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1980

Amends the Home Energy Assistance Act of 1980 to require that the allotment of home energy grant funds be based on the number of heating and cooling degree days (currently, the number of heating degree days squared) multiplied by the number of low-income households. Authorizes States to make grants to eligible households to meet the rising costs of cooling.

Bill· SS. 2922 (96th)referred

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to limit the level of total budget outlays in any fiscal year and to require compensation for additional costs imposed on State and local governments, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to prohibit total budget outlays for any fiscal year after fiscal year 1980 from exceeding the total budget outlays for the preceding fiscal year by a greater percentage than the percentage increase in the gross national product in the preceding calendar year. Reduces further the permissible total budget outlays by percentages based upon the inflation rate and Federal grants to State and local governments. Permits: (1) an increase in the permissible total budget outlays if both Houses of Congress agree by a three-fourths vote; and (2) emergency outlays to be authorized if the President has declared an emergency and both Houses agree by a two-thirds vote. Prohibits requiring State or local governments to perform additional functions without compensation for necessary costs incurred in connection with such functions. Requires such compensation to have been authorized and included as a part of the permissible total budget outlays. Requires concurrent resolutions on the budget to include the estimated amount of grants to State and local governments, in the aggregate and as a fraction of total budget outlays, and any changes. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the Budget to be prepared in compliance with this Act. Directs the President to take necessary action to assure continuing compliance with this Act.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 484 (96th)passed

A resolution relative to the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security with Japan and announcing Tokyo conference.

United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980

Commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan. Declares that it is in the best interest of both such countries to convene a parliamentary and scholarly conference to commemorate and evaluate such treaty. Expresses the interest of the Senate in receiving a report on such conference.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 481 (96th)referred

A resolution directing the Committee on Finance to study and report on a tax program.

United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1980

Directs the Senate Finance Committee to report to the Senate by September 3, 1980, a responsible, targeted anti- inflationary tax cut to take effect in 1981. Directs the Democratic Task Force on the Economy to recommend to the Senate a comprehensive economic policy at the earliest possible date.

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