United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1980
Food Safety and Quality Amendments of 1980 - Title I: Withdrawal of Inspection - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to withdraw inspection service under such Acts for violations connected with transactions in drugs and for the repeated failure of an applicant or recipient to comply with sanitation or other requirements of such Acts. Title II: Civil Penalties - Increases criminal penalties for violations of such Acts. Establishes civil penalties for violations for which there is no criminal penalty. Sets forth hearing and review procedures under such Acts. Title III: Residue Prevention - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to authorize the Secretary to quarantine any cattle, sheep, swine, goat, horse, mule, or other equine or any carcass, part thereof, meat or meat food product, poultry or poultry product which the Secretary has reason to believe may contain any unlawful residue. Authorizes such detention until the order is revoked or the articles containing such residue are destroyed. Sets forth hearing procedures for those adversely affected by the Secretary's determination. Authorizes the Secretary to require poultry slaughterers to identify the ownership of such poultry. Title IV: Bribery - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, and the Egg Products Inspection Act to establish criminal penalties for bribing officials performing duties prescribed under such Acts. Title V: General Provisions - Provides for the separability of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1980
Prohibits the removal before January 1, 1982, of houseboats or floating cabins from water resource areas under the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation from Georgia the property of Franklin Roosevelt located in Meriwether County for the establishment of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt-Warm Springs National Historic Site. Authorizes the Secretary to restore and interpret such site. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with Georgia to assist in the restoration and interpretation of property outside such site that is owned by Georgia and to construct structures to enhance such site's historic significance and rehabilitative qualities. Directs the Secretary to develop and transmit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for such site and a report on further developing facilities and establishing programs for the rehabilitation of the physically disabled within such site and adjoining State-owned property.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the employment credit and work incentive (WIN) credit against the alternative minimum tax for noncorporate taxpayers in the same manner as the foreign tax credit is allowed.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1980 and the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980 to make technical corrections in provisions relating to the disclosure of tax return information to the Social Security Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1980
Amends the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 to extend to October 1, 1982, the period within which a State must meet certain requirements under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) before the State's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (part A of title IV of the Act) reimbursement is reduced by five percent.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1980
Amends the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 to extend to October 1, 1982, the period within which a State must meet certain requirements under part D of title IV of the Social Security Act (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) before the State's Aid to Families with Dependent Children (part A of title IV of the Act) reimbursement is reduced by five percent.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1980
Amends the Food Stamp Act Amendments of 1980 and the Social Security Disability Amendments of 1980 to make technical corrections in provisions relating to the disclosure of tax return information to the Social Security Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1980
Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require States to establish quality control systems, subject to approval by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for their AFDC plans which must include: (1) caseload samplings; (2) field investigations; (3) review procedures; (4) submission of data obtained from caseload samplings; (5) submission of a corrective action plan; (6) access to state and local records; and (7) public notification concerning payment error rate. Requires the Secretary to utilize the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to monitor the operation of the quality control systems. Requires the Secretary to: (1) conduct a full field review of State caseload subsamples; (2) conduct a case record review of cases previously found to be in error; and (3) submit the findings of such reviews to the Inspector General. Provides that: (1) any State which disagrees with any findings made on the basis of the Federal review shall be entitled to a hearing by the Secretary; and (2) a final decision of the Secretary shall not be subject to judicial review. Requires the Secretary to provide technical assistance, directly or by contract, to States and local administrative units utilized in the administration of any State's quality control program. Provides penalties for failure of a State to furnish caseload samples as required. Excludes, after March 1, 1981, from the determination of the "dollar error rate of aid" nonpayments to eligible families not receiving assistance due to erroneous terminations or denials. Requires the Secretary to: (1) include on-site visits to the State's quality control offices; (2) establish a uniform monitoring system for regional offices; and (3) temporarily waive the requirements of this Act if compliance requires a change in State law. Provides for a congressional veto of any regulations issued by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 3 September 1980
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to state that noncommercial educational television broadcast stations are not required to furnish access time to any legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the nonconventional source fuel production income tax credit to any solid fuel in pellet form produced from biomass (other than wood or wood products) which has a Btu content per unit of volume or weight, determined without regard to any nonbiomass elements, which is at least 40 percent greater per unit of volume or weight than the Btu content of the biomass from which it is produced. Requires the taxpayer to elect whether to determine Btu content by volume or by weight. Limits application of such credit to pellets: (1) produced in a facility placed in service between January 1, 1980, and September 31, 1983, or for the construction of which the taxpayer was obligated under a binding contract on September 30, 1983; and (2) sold before January 1, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1980
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out at least three demonstration projects whereby Medicare patients receiving chemotherapy may be housed in facilities other than inpatient acute care hospital facilities. States that the accessibility of such alternative facilities to such patients for both ordinary and emergency treatment shall be considered in determining the appropriateness of such alternative facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1980
Authorizes the President to negotiate agreements with foreign governments limiting exports of automobiles and trucks to the United States. Terminates such authority and any agreements pursuant to such authority on July 1, 1985. States that action taken pursuant to such agreements shall not be treated as violating U.S. laws.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1980
Animal Biological Products Act - Prohibits the production, sale, shipment, or delivery for shipment in the United States of any biological product which is: (1) misrepresented or unsatisfactory; or (2) not produced at a licensed establishment under a valid product license issued by the Secretary of Agriculture and in compliance with this Act or any regulations promulgated pursuant to it. Defines "animal biological product" as any product (e.g. a vaccine, bacterin, antiserum, antitoxin, toxoid, allergen, or diagnostic antigen, but excluding antibiotics or hormones) which is prepared from, derived from, or prepared with micro-organisms, or the growth products of micro-organisms, or animal tissues, or animal fluids, or other substances of natural or synthetic origin, and which is intended for use in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment or cure of animal diseases through a specific immune process. Provides for the issuance, or denial, of establishment licenses (for establishments producing animal biological products), product licenses, and import permits. Provides for the suspension and revocation of such licenses and permits, and for judicial review of suspensions and revocations. Authorizes the Secretary to obtain, without charge, prerelease samples of a biological product to test and examine such products to determine whether it is pure, safe, potent, and efficacious, and otherwise in compliance with this Act. Permits the Secretary to issue, without hearing, a "Stop Sale, Transport, or Use" order, for a period not to exceed 30 days, whenever the Secretary has reason to believe that a biological product is misrepresented or unsatisfactory, or otherwise not in compliance with this Act. Provides for the seizure, condemnation, and destruction of such a product in a judicial proceeding. Requires licensees and permittees to keep records and give access to examiners sent by the Secretary. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for the violation of provisions of this Act. Repeals provisions of the Act of March 4, 1913, with respect to viruses, serums, toxins and analogous products.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an employer an income tax deduction for contributions to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) which owns all, or substantially all, of the outstanding qualifying employer securities of such employer, and such contributions are applied to the repayment of principal and interest on a loan incurred by the plan for the purpose of acquiring such securities. Limits the deductible amount to a maximum 25 percent of the compensation otherwise paid or accrued to all employees under the plan for the taxable year. Allows any ESOP to retain its qualified status even though it provides for cash distributions and denies any participant the right to demand a distribution in the form of employer securities. Exempts such an ESOP from the limitations otherwise imposed on annual additions to an employee stock ownership plan. Allows such an ESOP to elect irrevocably to use the book value as the fair market value of employer's securities for the purpose of determining the value of participants' accounts under the plan. Exempts from the requirement that employer securities must stay in the plan securities distributed as a benefit to a participant as the result of a transaction in which the employer ceases to be a member of a controlled group of corporations with the corporation whose stock constitutes employer securities under the plan.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to assess civil penalties for violations of specified provisions preventing the introduction and dissemination of livestock and poultry diseases, plant diseases, and plant pests. Reduces the maximum term of imprisonment for importing diseased animals from three to one year. Establishes criminal penalties for importing animals except at quarantine stations. Increases the amount of criminal fines for importing or transporting infected livestock and poultry. Eliminates the element of scienter from the prohibition against the unauthorized movement of any plant pest through importation or interstate movement. Amends the Federal Plant Pest Act and the Plant Quarantine Act to establish criminal penalties for the knowing counterfeit or alteration of a permit authorizing such movement. Establishes criminal penalties for violations of regulations controlling the entry, inspection, and cleaning of vehicles and materials entering the United States from Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1980
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1985 to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out a program of matching grants to States to assist "1890 land grant colleges", including Tuskegee Institute, in acquiring and improving agricultural and food research facilities and equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1980
Amends the Plant Quarantine Act of 1912 to eliminate the notice and hearing requirements with respect to the promulgation of determinations relating to: (1) importation restrictions on certain plants and plant products other than nursery stock; and (2) interstate quarantines necessary to prevent the spread of dangerous plant diseases or infestations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate the intrastate movement of animals, animal carcasses, products, and articles as the Secretary deems necessary to eradicate or prevent the dissemination of any disease which threatens the livestock or poultry of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Agricultural Credit Readjustment Act of 1980 - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to implement a national or local moratorium on the repayment or foreclosure on loans made or held by the Secretary or under the provisions of any law administered by the Farmers Home Administration for up to three years if warranted by emergencies adversely affecting the agricultural economy. Authorizes the Secretary to consolidate or reschedule such loans for payment. Sets forth the terms for such payment. Alters the terms and conditions of membership on county committees. Authorizes the Secretary to use and train such committees for any purposes of such Act the Secretary deems appropriate. Requires such committee to serve as a loan board for loans made pursuant to such Act.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a current investment tax credit against the alternative minimum tax to the extent that the amount of such credit is attributable to the active conduct of a trade or business.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1980
Amends the Social Security Act to provide that: (1) grants, gifts, or endowments which are not designated for paying any specific operating costs; (2) Government grants which are not available for use as operating funds; and (3) income derived from grants, gifts, or endowments which is not available for use as operating funds, shall not be deducted from the operating costs of nonprofit providers of health services for purposes of determining the reasonable costs of such services under the Maternal and Child Health, Medicare, and Medicaid programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (formerly, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare) to provide that certain types of donor designated grants and gifts shall not be deducted from such operating costs under certain conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of excise tax on: (1) highway vehicle tires from $.10 to $.0975 (and on or after October 1, 1984, to $.04875); and (2) other tires (except laminated tires) from $.05 to $.04875. Requires determination of any overpayment of such tax arising by reason of an adjustment for such reduction after the original sale pursuant to warranty, in accordance with principles set forth in regulations and rulings in effect on March 31, 1978. Applies this requirement to the adjustment of any tire between March 31, 1978 and January 1, 1983. Prohibits any credit or refund for adjustments after December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1980
Declares seven 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 · 26 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend from June 15, 1981, to January 1, 1986, the termination date for certain provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1976 relating to the allowance of a deduction for the amortization of certain rehabilitation expenditures for certified historic structures.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments of 1980 - Amends the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963 to revise the definition of "farm labor contractor" to: (1) broaden specified exclusions from such definition (thus broadening certain exemptions from coverage under such Act); and (2) exclude from such definition (and such coverage) any nonprofit or cooperative association of farmers, growers, ranchers, duly incorporated under appropriate State laws, and operated solely for the mutual benefit of the members thereof, and any full-time or regular employee of such association or cooperative who engages in such activity solely for such employer. Adds other definitions relating to such revisions. Revises the definition of "agricultural employment" to specify that listed activities take place on a farm or ranch. Limits the definition of "migrant worker" to only those workers who cannot regularly return to their domicile each day after working hours, or who are transported from and to their domicile each workday by the person who recruits, solicits, hires, or furnishes such worker for agricultural employment on a farm or ranch owned or operated by another person.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress regarding the domestic automotive and truck industry. Declares it to be a goal of the United States to achieve technological superiority in the world automobile and truck industry. Advocates changes in economic, fiscal, and import policies in order to create adequate capital and produce a more favorable climate for the domestic automobile and truck industry.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1980
Appellate Court Reorganization Act of 1980 - Divides the current United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit into the following two circuits: (1) the Fifth Circuit, composed of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, and consisting of 14 judges; and (2) the Eleventh Circuit, composed of the States of Alabama, the Canal Zone, Florida, Georgia, and consisting of 12 judges. (The current Fifth Circuit consists of all six States and has 26 judges.) Designates Atlanta, Georgia, the headquarters of the Eleventh Circuit and New Orleans, Louisiana, headquarters of the Fifth Circuit. Makes this Act effective October 1, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1980
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, the United States Trade Representative, and other United States Government officials take such actions as are appropriate to: (1) provide adequate resources for necessary investment and restructuring by the United States automobile industry; (2) encourage sales of United States produced automobiles; (3) secure reasonable investment by foreign automobile manufacturers in the United States; (4) reduce barriers to exports of United States produced automobiles; and (5) insure that workers unemployed as a result of the present crisis continue to receive needed assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that any income received or accrued by a tax-exempt mutual or cooperative electric or telephone company from qualified pole rentals, or by a cooperative telephone company from the sale of display listings in a directory furnished to company members, shall not be treated as unrelated business income subject to tax. Defines qualified pole rental as any rental of a pole (or other structure used to support wires) if: (1) such pole or structure is used by the telephone or electric company in providing telephone or electric services to its members; and (2) the use of such pole or structure pursuant to the rental is in connection with the transmission by wire of electricity or of telephone or other communications.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the deductibility of employer contributions to a deferred compensation plan of employees who are nonresident aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1980
Trade Procedures Simplification Act of 1980 - Requires the Attorney General, in consultation with other Federal agency heads, to determine whether: (1) U.S. business conduct and arrangements to expand exports in various countries conflict with basic antitrust principles; and (2) a more liberal enforcement policy for overseas activities would impede implementation of the antitrust laws. Directs the Attorney General to identify conduct and arrangements associated with particular types of export sales which the Attorney General determines would not warrant prosecution under the antitrust laws. Sets forth the procedures for describing such permissible conduct and disclosing such descriptions. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to intervene in such suits and to provide legal assistance to exporters. Prohibits prosecution under the antitrust laws of exporters who: (1) have notified the Attorney General of their intention to engage in such designated permissible conduct; or (2) receive an approval, or no objection, from the Attorney General concerning proposed transactions. Requires the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress concerning implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1980
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the payment of disability insurance benefits to: (1) any individual for any month during which such individual is an inmate of a penal institution after being convicted of a crime or a facility for the criminally insane or other psychiatric facility after having been found (a) not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity or (b) mentally incompetent to stand trial; and (2) any individual otherwise entitled to benefits on the basis of the wages and income of such inmate for the same period.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1980
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should not admit more than 650,000 immigrants, including refugees, in fiscal year 1980, and that the President shall submit to the Congress an annual U.S. immigration goal.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1980
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the enactment of a withholding tax on interest and dividend payments would be detrimental to the economic well-being of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1980
Veterans' Disability Compensation and Survivors' Benefits Amendments of 1980 - Title I: Veterans' Disability Compensation Benefits - Increases the rates of veterans' compensation for: (1) wartime disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for dependents; and (3) clothing allowances paid to certain disabled veterans. Title II: Survivors' Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Benefits - Increases the rates of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation for: (1) a surviving spouse; (2) surviving children; and (3) supplemental children's benefits. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Extends the authority for the Veterans' Administration regional office in the Republic of the Philippines until September 30, 1985. Sets forth procedures for: (1) retroactive payments for additional children entitled to dependency and indemnity compensation; and (2) reducing payments to a dependent child who has attained the age of 18 and is attending an educational institution, and whose parent is receiving compensation payments as a surviving spouse. Provides for pension payments to a hospitalized veteran having neither spouse nor child if such veteran is readmitted within six months of a period of care. Title IV: Effective Date - States that the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1980
Conveys all right to $1,000,000,000 of the blocked Iranian assets to the United States. Establishes the Iranian Claims Fund in the U.S. Treasury to contain such assets. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to use such Fund to pay specified amounts to the U.S. hostages held in Iran or their legal representatives. Directs the Secretary to make payments out of any remaining amounts to: (1) the estates of those members of the uniformed services who died performing duties in response to the taking of the hostages; and (2) those Federal agencies which have incurred expenses while performing duties in response to the taking of the hostages. Directs the Secretary to convey the balance into miscellaneous receipts of the Treasury. Declares that any payment made pursuant to this Act shall not be construed as having divested any U.S. claimant of any rights against Iran, subject to any claims agreement between Iran and the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1980
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Martin Luther King, Junior, Preservation District, which shall consist of the properties within the Martin Luther King, Junior, Historic District. Authorizes the Secretary, within the national historic site, to: (1) acquire by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, transfer or exchange, lands and interest therein; (2) convey a freehold or leasehold interest in any property, for such sums as he deems appropriate, and subject to such term and conditions and reservations as will assure the use of the property in a manner consistent with the purposes of this Act; (3) enter into cooperative agreements with the owners of properties of historical or cultural significance; and (4) provide security and law enforcement services as authorized by law. Establishes in the Department of the Interior, the Martin Luther King, Junior, Advisory Commission to advise the Secretary with respect to the formulation and execution of plans for the national historic site, and the preservation district. Terminates such commission ten years from the date of enactment of this Act.
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