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Bill· HRH.R. 5284 (97th)open

A bill to repeal the changes made by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 in the trigger provisions contained in the extended unemployment compensation program.

United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to repeal specified changes made to the extended unemployment compensation program. Repeals: (1) the elimination of the national trigger provisions; (2) the exclusion of claims for extended or additional compensation in insured unemployment rate determination; and (3) the revision of the State trigger provisions. Provides that the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 shall be applied as if such changes had not been enacted.

Bill· HRH.R. 5251 (97th)open

A bill to reinstate the national trigger provisions which were part of the extended unemployment compensation program before they were repealed by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981.

United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1981

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to repeal the elimination of the national trigger provisions which were part of the extended unemployment compensation program. Provides that the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 shall be applied as if such elimination had not been enacted.

Bill· HRH.R. 5176 (97th)open

A bill to extend from May 1982 to October 1982 the month before which children not otherwise entitled to child's insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act by reason of the amendments made by section 2210 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 must attend postsecondary schools in order to qualify under subsection (c) of such section for entitlement to such benefits and to extend from August 1985 to August 1986 to the month before which any such entitlement terminates.

United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1981

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to extend by five months (until September 30, 1982) the period within which an individual must have become a full-time student at a postsecondary educational institution in order to receive, after July 1982, child's insurance benefits on the basis of student status under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Extends by one year (through August 1986) the period during which such benefits may be paid to an individual so qualified.

Bill· HRH.R. 5109 (97th)referred

A bill to provide for the inclusion of certain items within the unified budget, effective with respect to the fiscal year 1983 budget.

United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1981

Amends the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, and the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 to include within the unified budget for fiscal year 1983 specified items that would otherwise be left out. States that all transactions of the Postal Service Fund and of the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation shall be included in such budget.

Bill· HRH.R. 5110 (97th)referred

A bill to establish a Commission on the Budget Process to make recommendations to Congress and the President to improve and reform the budget process.

United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1981

Establishes the Commission on the Budget Process to review and recommend improvements to the Federal budget process to ensure a comprehensive system to account for the allocation of national resources resulting from Federal activity. Directs the Commission to report its findings, conclusions, and recommendations to the President and each House of Congress within one year after enactment of this Act. Terminates the Commission 30 days after such report is submitted. Authorizes appropriations.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 50 (97th)passed

An original resolution re-affirming the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984.

United States · United States Congress · 24 November 1981

Reaffirms the concurrent resolution on the budget most recently agreed to with respect to the fiscal year 1982 (H. Con. Res. 115, Ninety- seventh Congress). Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) the economic crisis now facing the American people is so severe that solutions must be found immediately; (2) the President should submit a plan as soon as possible to bring interest rates down, to decrease unemployment, to decrease substantially inflation, and to balance the budget in fiscal year 1984; and (3) Presidential guidance and leadership is essential to reach these goals.

Bill· HRH.R. 5032 (97th)referred

A bill to eliminate the new eligibility requirements for receipt of unemployment compensation by ex-service members which were added by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and to provide certain limitations on the amount of unemployment compensation payable to ex-service members.

United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1981

Allows individuals who voluntarily leave military service to receive unemployment compensation based on such service. Increases from 365 to 1,095 days the length of continuous military service needed to qualify as employment for purposes of unemployment compensation. Delays an ex-service member's entitlement until the fifth week after his or her release from the service. Limits an ex-service member's total entitlement to no more than 13 weeks of benefits.

Bill· SS. 1848 (97th)open

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to impose limits on the amount of total budget outlays contained in concurrent resolutions on the budget, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1981

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to limit the level of total budget outlays in any concurrent resolution on the budget to 20 percent of the gross national product by fiscal year 1987. Makes it in order to consider a concurrent resolution containing budget outlays which exceed the specified limits within a specified "margin of error." Imposes reporting requirements upon the President and the congressional budget committees with respect to this requirement.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 239 (97th)reported

A resolution disapproving the proposal to defer budget authority for Veterans' Administration health-care facility construction while the Administration "considers alternative methods for providing readily available quality medical care for eligible veterans."

United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1981

Expresses the disapproval by the Senate of the proposed deferral of budget authority for the Veterans' Administration health-care facility construction while the Administration considers alternative methods for providing readily available quality medical care for eligible veterans as set forth in a special message transmitted by the President to the Congress under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

Bill· HRH.R. 4882 (97th)open

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that each congressional budget resolution fix the level of tax expenditures for the fiscal year involved as well as the recommended aggregate level of Federal revenues.

United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1981

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that each congressional budget resolution fix the level of tax expenditures for the fiscal year involved as well as the recommended aggregate level of Federal revenues. Declares that such amendments shall apply with respect to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1982.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 350 (97th)failed

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution altering Federal budget procedures.

United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1981

Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. Permits Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless Congress passes a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Permits Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Prohibits the Congress from requiring that the States engage in additional activities without compensation equal to the additional costs. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States except those for repayment of debt principal.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 260 (97th)referred

A resolution amending Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to eliminate certain exceptions relating to the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1981

Amends rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make the provisions of such rule relating to committee expenses and committee staffs applicable to the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget. Makes the provision of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 relating to the authority of congressional Appropriation Committees to appoint staff inapplicable to the House Committee on Appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 4851 (97th)referred

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to exempt the Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration from any Office of Management and Budget policy or directive prescribing procedures for contracting-out commercial or industrial functions.

United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1981

Excludes the Department of Medicine and Surgery in the Veterans' Administration from any requirements for contracting out commercial and industrial functions.

Bill· HRH.R. 4773 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Social Security Act to remove the social security trust funds from the unified budget.

United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1981

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the inclusion of the receipts and disbursements of the social security trust funds (the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund) in the totals of the Federal budget and exempt them from any general statutory limitation on Federal budget outlays, beginning with fiscal year 1983.

Bill· HRH.R. 4686 (97th)open

A bill to eliminate the new eligibility requirements for receipt of unemployment compensation by ex-service members which were added by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and to provide certain limitations on the amount of unemployment compensation payable to ex-service members.

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1981

Allows individuals who voluntarily leave military service to receive unemployment compensation based on such service. Increases from 365 to 730 days the length of continuous military service needed to qualify as employment for purposes of unemployment compensation. Delays an ex-service member's entitlement until the fifth week after discharge or release from the service. Limits an ex-service member's total entitlement to no more than 13 weeks of benefits.

Bill· SS. 1683 (97th)open

Budget and Oversight Improvement Amendments of 1981

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1981

Budget and Oversight Improvement Amendments of 1981 - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to establish a more thorough and timely process for the adoption of the Federal budget. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to revise the timetable with respect to the congressional budget process to provide for a two-year budget cycle, beginning with the Ninety-eighth Congress. Defines the term '2-fiscal-year budget period' to be the period of 2 fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any even-numbered year. Requires all bills and resolutions providing budget or spending authority, with certain exceptions involving supplemental appropriations, for any 2-fiscal-year budget period to be reported to the House of Representatives and the Senate no later than April 1 of the year in which such period begins. Requires the Congress to complete action on all bills and resolutions directly or indirectly authorizing the enactment of new budget authority for a 2-fiscal-year budget period not later than October 1 of the year preceding the year in which such period begins. Declares that it is essential to provide for the congressional determination biennially of the appropriate level of gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and the appropriate level of commitments to guarantee loan principal. Includes within the definition of 'budget authority' the authority to make direct loans. Requires the Congressional Budget Office to provide to the Budget committees information with respect to direct loans and loan guarantees. Requires the following information to be included within the first concurrent resolution on the budget: (1) the appropriate level of total gross obligations for direct loans and loan guarantees; and (2) an estimate of gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and an estimate of commitments to guarantee loan principal for each major functional category. Makes it out of order in the Senate or the House to consider any first concurrent resolution on the budget if such resolution includes any other matter other than that specified by such Act. Requires the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to submit to the Budget Committees its recommendations as to the appropriate level of total gross obligations for direct loans and loan guarantees. Requires the Committee on Appropriations of each House to subdivide among its subcommittees the allocation of gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and the allocation of commitments to guarantee loan principal allocated to it in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the first concurrent resolution on the budget. Makes it out of order in either House to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget revising a concurrent resolution on the budget for any fiscal year which is adopted before the adoption of the second concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year if the revising resolution includes any matter other than matters specified by such Act. Requires either House, when reporting a bill or resolution providing new budget authority or new or increased tax expenditures, to report on how the level of gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and the level of commitments to guarantee loan principal provided in that bill or resolution compare with such information set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. Requires the up to date tabulation of Congressional budget actions by the Congressional Budget Office to compare the gross obligations for direct loans and loan guarantees for such fiscal years on which Congress has completed action to the gross obligations set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. Limits the enrollment of bills and resolutions providing new budget or new spending authority for any 2-fiscal-year budget period until the concurrent resolution for such 2-fiscal-year period has been agreed to. Makes it out of order in either House to consider any bill or resolution which provides, extends, or enlarges authority to incur obligations for direct loans or loan guarantees unless that bill, resolution, or amendment also provides that such authority is to be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent as provided in appropriation Acts. Sets forth the information to be included in the budget of the United States Government submitted pursuant to the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, for the 2-fiscal-year budget period beginning on October 1, 1984. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the President to transmit to the Congress, by January 10, of the first session of each Congress beginning with the 98th Congress, the budget for the 2-fiscal-year budget period beginning on October 1 of the succeeding calendar year. Requires that all essential facts regarding direct loans and loan guarantees be included within such report. Requires the President to transmit revisions in the budget by January 10 of the second session of such Congress. Requires the President to include in such budget: (1) proposed budget authority; (2) direct loans and commitments to guarantee loan principal; and (3) estimates of outlays and receipts for all activities of all departments and instrumentalities of the Federal Government, except Government sponsored corporations to the extent financed by wholly private funds. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to require the standing committees of the Senate and the House (except specified committees), during the period beginning on the 15th day after the Congress meets in each odd-numbered year and ending October 1 of the following even-numbered year, to review and study: (1) the application, administration, execution, and effectiveness of those laws the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of such committee; and (2) the organization and operation of the Federal agencies and entities having responsibilities in or for the administration and execution thereof. Requires the findings to be reported to the House or the Senate no later than October 1 of such even-numbered year, and shall constitute the basis for such committee's legislative work during the succeeding Congress. Sets forth the effective dates for the provisions of this Act.

Bill· SS. 1677 (97th)referred

A bill to amend section 719 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, to authorize the grant of exemptions to the Cost Accounting Standards by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1981

Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to authorize the Office of Management and Budget to exempt from cost accounting standards such classes or categories of defense contractors or subcontractors under contracts negotiated in connection with national defense procurements as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines, on the basis of the size of contracts involved or otherwise, are appropriate.

Bill· HRH.R. 4523 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to defer certain individual and windfall profit tax reductions until the Federal budget is balanced.

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1981

Defers until the first calendar year after a fiscal year in which the Federal budget is balanced, the following provisions enacted by the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981: (1) individual and estate and trust income tax reductions applicable to taxable years beginning with 1982; (2) indexing of tax tables; (3) the 1985 increase in the exemption from the windfall profit tax of royalty oil; (4) the reduction in the tax on newly discovered oil; and (5) the exemption of independent producer stripper well oil.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 212 (97th)open

A resolution to direct the Committee on Finance to reduce the cost of the Economic Recovery Tax Act by a third, so that the federal budget can be balanced in fiscal year 1984.

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1981

Directs the Senate Committee on Finance to report new tax legislation by no later than October 15, 1981, which would reduce by $250,000,000,000 the revenue loss from the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 for fiscal years 1981 through 1986.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 320 (97th)referred

A joint resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that following the achievement of a balanced budget, any existing budget surplus should be applied to reducing the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1981

Expresses the sense of the Congress that, following the achievement of a balanced budget, any existing budget surplus should be applied to reducing the national debt. Declares that reducing the national debt should be a major goal of the United States fiscal policy in order to stimulate economic growth and cut inflation.

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