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Report· DCCELEX 51983DC0718open

GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1983 SECTION III - COMMISSION - PART B I. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 31/83 (Non-compulsory expenditure) From Chapter 32 to Chapter 33: Commitment appropriations: 7 000 000 ECU Payment appropriations : 7 000 000 ECU "Premiums for the non-marketing of milk"#II. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 32/83 (Non-compulsory expenditure) From Chapters 32 and 46 to Chapter 30: Payment appropriations : 23 200 000 ECU "Marketing and processing of agricultural products"

European Union · European Commission · 25 November 1983

Report· DCCELEX 51983DC0713open

GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1983 SECTION III - COMMISSION - PART B I. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 34/83 (Non-compulsory expenditure) from Chapter 70 to Chapter 71: 100 000 ECU Nuclear safeguards#II. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 35/83 (Non-compulsory expenditure) from Chapter 75 to Chapter 77: 900 000 ECU ECSC studies and development of a Community strategy for the machine-tool industry#III. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 36/83 (Non-compulsory expenditure) from Chapter 51 to Chapter 50: Commitment appropriations: 73 252 509 ECU European Regional Development Fund

European Union · European Commission · 24 November 1983

Bill· HRH.R. 4532 (98th)open

A bill to amend the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 with respect to the budget treatment of the Federal Financing Bank.

United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1983

Amends the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 to require amounts of loans guaranteed by a Federal agency which are financed by the Federal Financing Bank to be included in the unified budget as outlays of such agency. Treats all receipts and disbursements of the Bank with respect to any obligation which is issued, sold, or guaranteed by a Federal agency as a means of financing such agency for the purposes of the unified budget. Declares that in the case of any off-budget agency, the unified budget shall include for such agency its receipts from, and disbursements to, the bank. Prohibits a Federal agency (other than the Department of the Treasury) from issuing, selling, or guaranteeing any investment security obligations unless such obligation is offered for sale to the Bank. Requires the Bank to purchase any such investment security offered. Exempts any investment security obligation from such requirements if: (1) it is issued, sold, or guaranteed under a program under which investment security obligations were issued, sold, or guaranteed during FY 1982; and (2) at least 20 percent of the financing for such program during such year was through the Bank.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 427 (98th)referred

A joint resolution to require the President and the Congress to adopt a "Pay As You Go" budget process.

United States · United States Congress · 16 November 1983

Requires the President to submit to Congress, and the Congress to adopt, for FY 1985 and each year thereafter, a "pay as you go" budget which freezes all revenues and outlays at current levels. Requires any future legislative reductions in revenues to be offset by equivalent reductions in outlays and any spending above the outlay baseline to be offset by equivalent increases in revenues or reductions in outlays so that no spending increase results in an increase in the deficit.

Report· DCCELEX 51983DC0670open

GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1983 SECTION III - COMMISSION - PART A I. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No II/2/83 from chapter to chapter within Title 2 from Chapters 20 and 28 to Chapters 22 and 23 New purchases of technical equipment and installations, vehicles and postal charges and telecommunications#II. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No II/3/83 from chapter to chapter within Title 2 from Chapter 28 to Chapter 26 Statistical studies and surveys

European Union · European Commission · 8 November 1983

Report· DCCELEX 51983DC0650open

GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1983 SECTION III - COMMISSION - PART B I. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 22/83 (Non-compulsory expenditure) From Item 7352 to Item 7359: Commitment appropriations: 441 000 ECU Payment appropriations : 441 000 ECU Research into uranium prospecting and extraction#II. TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 23/83 (Compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure) From Chapter 92 to Chapter 95 16 000 000 ECU Supplementary aid to UNRWA

European Union · European Commission · 27 October 1983

Law· HRH.R. 4169 (98th)enacted

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983

Title I: Short Title and Declaration of Purpose - Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1983 - Provides for reconciliation pursuant to the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 1984. Title II: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - Changes the effective date of civil service retirement cost-of-living adjustments to December 1. Bases such cost-of-living adjustments on the percent change in the price index for the base quarter of such year over the price index for the base quarter of the preceding year. Defines the term 'base quarter' as the calendar quarter ending on September 30. Declares that such change shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, except that no adjustment shall be made during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending November 30, 1984. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to change the effective date of the cost-of-living adjustments to December 1 of each year. Sets the overall percentage adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule and other statutory pay systems at four percent. Requires that each such increase in a pay rate or schedule be of the same percentage and take effect as of the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after October 1 of such fiscal year. Establishes a four percent limitation on pay adjustments for prevailing rate employees during FY 1984. States that such limitation does not apply to wage adjustments for prevailing rate supervisors under the supervisory pay plan. Title III: Committee on Small Business - Amends the Small Business Act to revise the interest rate on Small Business Administration loans to repair or replace property damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster which occurs on or after October 1, 1982. Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make a specified amount of direct loans in FY 1984 through 1986 under the non-physical disaster loan program and in physical disaster loans. Extends until October 1, 1986, the requirement that agricultural producers seek disaster loan assistance from the Farmers Home Administration before they are eligible to apply for a Small Business Administration disaster loan. Provides for a disaster loan program to provide assistance to victims of drastic devaluation and exchange freezes involving the currency of a country contiguous to the United States. Specifies that such assistance shall be used to assist the victims of any qualified currency devaluation and exchange freeze commencing since January 1, 1982. Makes any small business that is injured as the result of the impact of any payment-in-kind program eligible for economic injury disaster loans. Declares that employees of concerns sharing a common business premises shall be aggregated in determining 'major source of employment' status for nonprofit applicants owning such premises. Makes agricultural cooperatives eligible for economic injury disaster loan assistance. Makes such a cooperative eligible only if each member of its board of directors or governing body qualifies as a small business and the entity itself qualifies as a small business. Makes October 1, 1983, the effective date of this title. Title IV: Committee on Veterans' Affairs - Part A: Veterans' Disability Compensation - Veterans' Disability Compensation Amendments of 1983 - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for such veterans' dependents, and the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and for children as well as the rates of supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Makes an exception to the commencement of period of payment rule for an increased award of commpensation by reason of a temporary increase in compensation for hospitalization or treatment of a veteran (thus making such temporary increase payable before the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the increase becomes effective). Amends the Veterans' Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982 to revise the effective dates respecting Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) coverage for deaths and disabilities incurred before and after FY 1982. Includes certain adopted children within the definition of child for veterans' benefits purposes. Decreases to ten percent disabling the degree of deafness a veterans suffering from service-connected total blindness must be rated to qualify for additional disability compensation. Reduces from 40 percent to 30 percent 10/20/83 hfcac070 Reported to House from the Committee on the Budget, H. Rept. 98-425 disabling the degree of deafness a veteran suffering from service-connected blindness with 5/200 visual acuity or less must be rated to qualify for such additional compensation. Part B: Educational Assistance Amendments - Terminates the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make advance payments of educational and subsistence allowances.

Bill· HRH.R. 4154 (98th)referred

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983

Title I: Short Title and Declaration of Purpose - Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1983 - Provides for reconciliation pursuant to the First Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for FY 1984. Title II: Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - Changes the effective date of civil service retirement cost-of-living adjustments to December 1. Bases such cost-of-living adjustments on the percent change in the price index for the base quarter of such year over the price index for the base quarter of the preceding year. Defines the term 'base quarter' as the calendar quarter ending on September 30. Declares that such change shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act, except that no adjustment shall be made during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending November 30, 1984. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to change the effective date of the cost-of-living adjustments to December 1 of each year. Sets the overall percentage adjustment in the rates of pay under the General Schedule and other statutory pay systems at four percent. Requires that each such increase in a pay rate or schedule be of the same percentage and take effect as of the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after October 1 of such fiscal year. Establishes a four percent limitation on pay adjustments for prevailing rate employees during FY 1984. States that such limitation does not apply to wage adjustments for prevailing rate supervisors under the supervisory pay plan. Title III: Committee on Small Business - Amends the Small Business Act to revise the interest rate on Small Business Administration loans to repair or replace property damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster which occurs on or after October 1, 1982. Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make a specified amount of direct loans in FY 1984 through 1986 under the non-physical disaster loan program and in physical disaster loans. Extends until October 1, 1986 the requirement that agricultural producers seek disaster loan assistance from the Farmers Home Administration before they are eligible to apply for a Small Business Administration disaster loan. Provides for a disaster loan program to provide assistance to victims of drastic devaluation and exchange freezes involving the currency of a country contiguous to the United States. Specifies that such assistance shall be used to assist the victims of any qualified currency devaluation and exchange freeze commencing since January 1, 1982. Makes any small business that is injured as the result of the impact of any payment-in-kind program eligible for economic injury disaster loans. Declares that employees of concerns sharing a common business premises shall be aggregated in determining 'major source of employment' status for nonprofit applicants owning such premises. Makes agricultural cooperatives eligible for economic injury disaster loan assistance. Makes such a cooperative eligible only if each member of its board of directors or governing body qualifies as a small business and the entity itself qualifies as a small business. Makes October 1, 1983, the effective date of this title. Title IV: Committee on Veterans' Affairs - Part A: Veterans' Disability Compensation - Veterans' Disability Compensation Amendments of 1983 - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for such veterans' dependents, and the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Makes an exception to the commencement of period of payment rule for an increased award of compensation by reason of a temporary increase in compensation for hospitalization or treatment of a veteran (thus making such temporary increase payable before the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the increase become effective). Amends the Veterans' Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982 to revise the effective dates respecting Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) coverage for deaths and disabilities incurred before and after FY 1982. Includes certain adopted children within the definition of child for veterans' benefits purposes. Decreases to ten percent disabling the degree of deafness a veteran suffering from service-connected total blindness must be rated to qualify for additional disability compensation. Reduces from 40 percent to 30 percent disabling the degree of deafnes a veteran suffering from service-connected blindness with 5/200 visual acuity or less must be rated to qualify for such additional compensation. Part B: Educational Assistance Amendments - Terminates the authority of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make advance payments of educational and subsistence allowances. Title V: Additional Proposal for Deficit Reduction - Directs the President to convene a domestic economic summit conference to address the dangerous economic situation created by projected large deficits. Requires such summit conference, within 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, to develop and report to Congress a comprehensive plan to reduce the projected deficits.

Bill· HRH.R. 4163 (98th)referred

A bill to reward Government employees for budget savings.

United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983

Requires payment of a reward to any Federal officer or employee responsible for managing a Government activity who reduces the cost or budget request for such activity for a fiscal year below the cost or request for the preceding fiscal year. Bases the reward amount on a specified portion of the reduction.

Bill· HRH.R. 4148 (98th)referred

A bill to amend the provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 relating to certain reductions in pay of members of a uniformed service holding civilian positions while receiving retired or retainer pay.

United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1983

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to prevent certain reductions in pay of members of a uniformed service holding civilian positions while receiving retired or retainer pay.

Bill· HRH.R. 4136 (98th)reported

Medicare and Medicaid Budget Reconciliation Amendments of 1983

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983

Medicare and Medicaid Budget Reconciliation Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Medicare Reconciliation Amendments - Part A: Payment and Coverage-Related changes - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide coverage for hepatitis B vaccine and its administration. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a national fee schedule for diagnostic laboratory tests for which payment is made under part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII. Directs the Secretary to set the fee schedule at 60 percent of the prevailing charges paid under part B for similar diagnostic laboratory tests during the fee screen year beginning July 1, 1983. Directs the Secretary, in addition to the amounts provided under the fee schedule, to provide for and establish a nominal fee payable to the person drawing the specimen for the diagnostic laboratory test. Provides for Medicare payment of 100 percent of the amount determined by the Secretary. Amends title XIX (Medicaid) to provide for Medicaid coverage of laboratory tests to the extent such coverage is provided under Medicare. Revises provisions under part B of title XVIII relating to payment for the services of a teaching physician to limit, for the purposes of determining the customary charge, the consideration of charges made by a physician outside of teaching to charges made by nonteaching physicians. Provides that if all the teaching physicians in the hospital agree to have payment made for all physicians' services under part B furnished patients in the hospital on the basis of an assignment, the carrier shall take into account the amounts otherwise payable under part B with respect to similar services in the same locality. Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on methods by which payment amounts and other program policies under part B may be modified to: (1) eliminate inequities in the relative amounts paid to physicians by type of service, locality, and specialty; (2) increase incentives for physicians and other suppliers to accept assignments; and (3) provide incentives for physicians and other providers not to provide increased or otherwise excessive amounts of hospital, physician, and other health care services. Directs the Secretary, in order to carry out the study and facilitate congressional review, to compile a centralized Medicare part B data base, utilizing information gathered by Medicare carriers and used by the carriers in making the 1984 reasonable charge updates. Directs the Secretary to compile annually a list of physicians serving individuals enrolled under part B indicating the share of claims which each physician has accepted on an assignment basis in the preceding year. Directs the Secretary to publish annually a list of all physicians who have agreed to accept payment on the basis of an assignment. Directs the Secretary to issue revisions to the current guidelines for payment under part B for physicians' services for the transtelephonic monitoring of cardiac pacemakers. Requires such guidelines to include provisions regarding the specifications for and frequency of transtelephonic monitoring procedures which will be found reasonable and necessary. Directs the Secretary to: (1) review, and report to the appropriate congressional committees, regarding the appropriateness of the current rate of part B reimbursement for physicians' services associated with the implantation or replacement of pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads; and (2) consider reducing the recognized rates for such services by 20 percent. Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Food and Drug Administration, to provide for a registry of all cardiac pacemaker devices and pacemaker leads for which payment was made under title XVIII. Directs the Secretary, in any case where the Secretary has reason to believe that replacement of a cardiac pacemaker device or lead for which Medicare payment is or may be requested is related to the malfunction of a device or lead, to require the testing of the device. Directs the Secretary to provide that payment will not be made under part B for a physician's debridement of mycotic toenails to the extent such debridement is performed more than once every 60 days, unless the medical necessity for more frequent treatment is documented by the physician. Part B: Miscellaneous Administrative Changes - Permits part B payments to be made to an entity: (1) which provides coverage of the services under a health benefits plan; (2) which has paid the person who provided the service the amount which that person has accepted as payment in full for the service; and (3) to which the individual has agreed in writing that payment may be made. Authorizes the United States to bring an action directly against third party insurance programs for Medicare costs. Provides for a 30-day period of coverage for services furnished by a home health agency following the termination of the agency's agreement. Authorizes the Secretary to terminate an agreement with a provider if any individual who directly or indirectly owns or controls five percent or more of the provider's business has been convicted of certain Medicare- or Medicaid- related offenses. Authorizes the Secretary, if patient health and safety is not jeopardized, to apply less severe sanctions than are presently available for dealing with an end-stage renal disease facility which is not in compliance with applicable regulations. Title II: Medicaid Reconciliation Amendments - Provides that the Federal medical assistance percentage, under title XIX of the Social Security Act, shall be 100 percent with respect to amounts expended as medical assistance for services furnished to a "qualified pregnant woman or child." Defines a qualified pregnant woman or child as an individual who was not eligible for categorically needy coverage under Medicaid as of July 1, 1983, and who is: (1) under one year of age (to be increased to under five years of age as of October 1, 1987) and who meets Aid to Families with Dependent Children (part A of title IV of the Social Security Act) requirements but does not receive cash payments and is a categorically needy individual; or (2) a pregnant woman who, at the State's option, may be deemed an AFDC recipient for Medicaid purposes or who is a member of a family which would be eligible for AFDC if the State's AFDC plan required payment of aid with respect to dependent children deprived of parental support by reason of the unemployment of a parent who is the principal earner. Provides that a child born to a woman eligible for and receiving medical assistance under a State Medicaid plan on the date of the child's birth shall be deemed to have applied for medical assistance and to have been found eligible for such assistance on the date of the child's birth and to remain eligible so long as the child is a member of the woman's household and the woman remain eligible for such assistance. Title III: Recovery of Hill-Burton Funds - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise provisions relating to the recovery of Federal expenditures from a hospital or other medical facility under certain conditions. Provides that the United States shall be entitled to recover, whether from the transfer or transferee, an amount (determined as specified below) if any such facility which received Federal funds for construction or modernization under the Public Health Service Act, at any time within 20 years after the completion of construction or modernization: (1) is sold or transferred to any entity which is not qualified to file an application under such Act for a construction or modernization project or which is not approved as a transferee by a State; or (2) ceases to be a public health center or a public or other nonprofit hospital, outpatient facility, facility for long-term care, or rehabilitation facility. Provides that the amount the United States is entitled to recover, subject to certain exceptions, shall be an amount bearing the same ratio to the then value of so much of the facility as constituted an approved project as the amount of the Federal financial participation bore to the cost of the construction or modernization of such project. Title IV: Technical Amendments Relating to Title V or Title XIX of the Social Security Act - Makes technical amendments to titles V (Maternal and Child Health Services) and XIX of the Social Security Act.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 382 (98th)referred

A joint resolution to establish a bipartisan National Commission on Federal Budget Deficit Reductions.

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983

Establishes the National Commission on Federal Budget Deficit Reductions to review all relevant elements of fiscal and monetary policy, identify problems which may hinder the control and reduction of Federal budget deficits, and analyze all potential options which would result in deficit reductions and place the Government on a sound financial basis. Requires the Commission to transmit a report to the President and Congress not later than February 15, 1984, or the close of the 90th day beginning after the date of enactment of this resolution. Requires such report to contain a detailed statement of the findings and conclusions of the Commission, together with its recommendations for such legislation and administrative actions as it considers appropriate. Terminates the Commission 30 days after it submits its report.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 375 (98th)referred

A joint resolution to call on the President to convene a domestic economic summit conference to prepare a plan to reduce the deficit in the Budget of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983

Declares that the President shall convene a domestic economic summit conference to address the economic situation created by projected large deficits. Requires that such conference convene within 45 days to develop and report to Congress a comprehensive plan to reduce the projected deficits in the United States budget.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 376 (98th)referred

A joint resolution to establish a bipartisan National Commission for a Responsible Budget.

United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983

Establishes the National Commission for a Responsible Budget to review all relevant elements of fiscal and monetary policy. Requires the Commission to identify problems which may hinder the control and reduction of Federal budget deficits and analyze all potential options which would result in deficit reductions and place the Federal government on a sound financial basis. Requires the Commission to transmit a report not later than February 15, 1984, or the close of the 90th day beginning after the date of enactment of this resolution, to the President and Congress containing a detailed statement of the findings and conclusions of the Commission, together with its recommendations for such legislation and administration actions as it considers appropriate.

Law· HRH.R. 3871 (98th)enacted

A bill to amend the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to provide that the figure used in determining hourly rates of pay for Federal employees not be changed before the comparability adjustment in the rates of pay for such employees has been made for fiscal year 1984.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1983

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 to prohibit the provision changing the figure used in determining the hourly pay rates for Federal employees from taking effect before the effective date of the comparability increase in such pay rates for FY 1984.

Bill· HRH.R. 3877 (98th)referred

A bill to repeal the provisions of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 removing the operations of the social security trust funds from the unified budget beginning in 1992.

United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1983

Repeals provisions of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 which require, starting in FY 1993: (1) the exclusion of the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund from the totals of the Federal or the congressional budgets; and (2) the treatment of the disbursements of the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund as a separate major functional category in the Federal and the congressional budgets.

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