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United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell to any State or State-authorized entity ammunition for military weapons for use for avalanche-control purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Directs: (1) the Secretary of the Army to compile a list of all persons who served as Philippine Scouts between December 6, 1941, and December 31, 1946; and (2) the Secretary of the Navy to compile a list of all persons who served in the insular force of the Navy between such dates. Requires the Secretaries to pay to such persons, or their survivors, the difference between the basic pay received by them and the pay such persons would have received but for the limitations of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Provides for the issuance of immigrant visas to Filipinos (and their families) who served with and were honorably discharged from the United States Armed Forces in World War II when such visas are not otherwise available under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Exempts such aliens from certain visa fees. Provides that such aliens in the United States on a nonimmigrant visa after enactment of this Act may have their status adjusted to that of an immigrant, and that such status adjustment shall be made without regard to certain foreign residency requirements under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Permits the Secretary of the Air Force to lease housing facilities for assignment without charge to specified members of the armed forces. Limits such leases as to length, number, number of locations, and per unit monthly cost. Requires the Secretary to give the Armed Services Committees 21 days notice of any such contract.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly pension at a rate not to exceed $150 to: (1) each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements and whose annual income does not exceed $10,000; (2) certain qualified surviving spouses of each such veteran (whose own annual income does not exceed $10,000); or (3) the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Veterans Administration Judicial Review Act - Provides for judicial review of decisions of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs concerning a claim for benefits or payments under any law administered by the Veterans Administration. Limits the amount of attorney's fees payable in such actions. Establishes criminal penalties for violations of such limit.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1983
Urges the United States Postal Service to issue a postage stamp commemorating members of the uniformed services who have been prisoners of war or missing in action especially those missing as a result of the conflict in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide special incentive pay for dentists in the Department of Medicine and Surgery with board certification in a specialty.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Permits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay incentive special pay to any psychologist who agrees to complete a specified period of service in the Department of Medicine and Surgery and who obtains: (1) a diploma as a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology or as a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology; or (2) an additional advanced academic degree, such as a masters in public health (MPH), deemed in the best interest of the Veterans Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery in Maricopa Country, Arizona, on the site of and coextensive with the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Revised Statutes) to prohibit the award of damages against any Federal, State, or local governmental entity in any action for the deprivation of rights where the court finds that the officials involved acted in good faith. Amends the Civil Rights Attorneys' Fees Awards Act of 1976 to limit the award of attorneys' fees in certain civil rights actions. States that attorneys fees should be awarded: (1) to prevailing plaintiffs unless special circumstances would make the award unjust; and (2) to prevailing defendants if the plaintiff's claim is found to be frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless, or that the plaintiff persisted in litigating after it clearly became so, even though there was no subjective bad faith. Allows attorneys' fees where a party prevails on another claim which is merely pendent to a civil rights claim only if the court finds that the civil rights claim has sufficient merit to have justified a separate suit. Prohibits the award of fees for any litigation following rejection of a settlement offer substantially favorable to the prevailing party. Allows fees where a claim is mooted by a change in government policy only if the pendency of the claim was a material factor for such change. Requires the amount of fees awarded to be based on a reasonable market rate for time reasonably spent on the claims. Prohibits awards based on bonuses or multipliers. Requires the attorney of a party seeking an award of fees to apply to the court with an itemized statement of hours worked, the nature of the work, and the rates charged.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide outpatient dental services to any war veteran with an 80 percent or more service-connected disability.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Entitles specified members of the armed forces reserves who did not perform active duty before August 16, 1945, to retirement pay.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Entitles former members of the armed forces who are totally disabled as a result of a service-connected disability to travel on military aircraft in the same manner and to the same extent as retired members of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct studies and demonstration projects on the administration of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to eliminate specified restrictions on the provisions of medical and dental care to military dependents. Authorizes the giving, rather than merely loaning, of durable equipment and authorizes contracts for the services of Christian Science practitioners and nurses.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to permit reimbursement to providers of medical services in accordance with medicare reimbursement principles.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to contract for eye examination services for spouses and children of members of the uniformed services under the CHAMPUS program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Permits the Secretary of the Army, with the officer's consent, to retain any reserve officer in an active status until such officer reaches the age of 60.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Directs the Secretary of the Army to issue a certificate of service to any person whom the Secretary determines to have served with or for the United States Army in the Philippine Islands during World War II. Entitles such person to the same rights and benefits as other persons performing the same type of service in the Islands during such war.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to provide payments for the differences between expenses incurred for health services and the amount paid for such services under another plan.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
GI Bill Benefits Increase Act of 1983 - Title I: GI Bill Rate Increases - Increases the rates for veterans' educational assistance. Title II: Rehabilitation Subsistence Allowance Rate Increases - Increases the rates for veterans' vocational rehabilitation. Title III: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date for this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Act - Establishes a program of educational assistance for men and women who enter active duty in the armed forces after a date determined by the President. Defines an eligible veteran for such program as one who: (1) serves on active duty for three or more consecutive years; (2) serves an obligated period of active duty for three or more consecutive years which began after such date; or (3) served on active duty for two or more consecutive years and has been accepted in the Ready Reserve of a component of the armed forces for four or more years. Entitles an eligible veteran to basic educational assistance if such veteran is pursuing a program of education on a full-time basis. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to reduce rates of assistance appropriately if such veteran is pursuing a program of education on less than a full-time basis. Entitles an eligible veteran to supplemental educational assistance if such veteran: (1) has served six or more consecutive years in the armed forces; or (2) has served four or more consecutive years and has been accepted for service in a component of the Ready Reserve. Excludes the periods of service for basic educational assistance from being counted for entitlement to supplemental assistance. Allows such veterans to receive both types of assistance concurrently. Declares the use of an eligible veteran's educational assistance expires ten years after such veteran's last discharge or release from active duty. Sets forth exceptions to such ten-year period based on certain circumstances. Suspends payments for any eligible veteran who fails to serve satisfactorily in the Ready Reserve if such serve is a requirement for eligibility. Excludes certain service for the purpose of earning entitlement, including: (1) assignment to a course of education substantially the same as that offered civilians; (2) service as a cadet or midshipman at one of the service academies; (3) certain enlistment in the Army or Air National Guard; or (4) service in any of the Reserve components. Extends the period of entitlement when necessary for any person to complete a term of education. Provides that payments for basic educational assistance and for supplemental assistance shall be made from appropriations made to the Department of Defense. Permits a Secretary to increase the amount of basic or supplemental educational assistance if necessary to obtain or retain qualified active duty personnel in specific categories of such personnel. Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to each report biennially on the operation of programs provided under this Act, including recommendations for administrative or legislative changes. Makes technical amendments to provisions of the United States Code to conform with this Act. Prohibits a veteran eligible for assistance under this Act from participating in any other veterans educational assistance program. Amends the Veterans Education and Employment Assistance Act of 1976 to preclude enrollment in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance program after December 31, 1981. Requires the Secretary of Defense to reimburse the Veterans Administration for all educational or training assistance allowances paid after December 31, 1989. Prescribes cost and other factors for the President to take into account when determining eligibility dates under this Act. Sets forth a schedule for reporting such dates to Congress. Empowers Congress to veto such dates by adoption, by each House, of a resolution of disapproval before certain dates.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize a new plea of "guilty but insane" for any criminal defendant whose actions constitute all necessary elements of the offense charged but who lacks the requisite state of mind as a result of mental disease or defect. Adopts the current notice provisions for a defense of insanity for the new plea of guilty but insane. Provides for determination of a defendant's mental competency to stand trial. Permits the jury or the court in a non-jury trial to find a defendant guilty but insane. Requires the court in any such case to hold a hearing to determine the present mental condition of the convicted person. Directs the court to commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the person is presently suffering from a mental disease or defect as a result of which release would create a substantial danger to himself or to the person or property of another. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to a State which will assume responsibility for his custody and treatment or otherwise to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create a substantial danger to himself or the person or property of another. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered. Provides for the hospitalization of persons found guilty, imprisoned persons, and persons due for release, who are found to suffer from mental disease or defect.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Veterans' Programs Improvement Act of 1983 - Title I: Definition of Vietnam Era - Redefines the Vietnam era to include the period July 8, 1959, through May 7, 1975, for veterans who served in the Republic of South Vietnam during that period. Title II: Women Veterans - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans to advise the Administrator on the administration of benefits for and needs of women veterans. Directs the Committee to report annually to the Administrator on the activities of the Veterans Administration pertaining to women, together with assessments of needs and recommendations for future action. Directs the Administrator to submit such report to Congress. Makes women veterans eligible for outpatient treatment at private facilities for medical conditions relating to gender. Title III: Veterans Administration Health-Care Programs - Extends through FY 1985 a Vietnam era veteran's eligibility for readjustment counseling. Makes the Preventive Health-Care Services Pilot Program a permanent program. Title IV: Veterans Administration Health-Care Personnel - Permits the Administrator to appoint licensed practical or vocational nurses, physical therapists, and certified or registered respiratory therapists for the medical care of veterans. Requires such personnel to have such medical, scientific, or technical qualifications as the Administrator shall prescribe. Sets forth the period of appointments and the probationary period for such personnel. Establishes wage scales and other terms and conditions of employment. Requires the Administrator and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to submit a joint report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees concerning the conversion of selected health care occupations to title 38 (Veterans), U.S. Code. Title V: Status and Role of Administrator of Veterans' Affairs - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator should be made a fully participating member of the Cabinet. Title VI: Health Hazards Studies and Report - Directs the Administrator to provide for an epidemiological study of the long-term adverse health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation from the detonation of a nuclear device, either in connection with a test or with the American occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, following World War II. Directs the Administrator to conduct a comprehensive review of scientific analysis of the literature covering studies relating to such effects. Directs the President and the Administrator to make several reports to the appropriate committees of Congress concerning the steps taken and the results of the literature review. Requires, after two years, an annual report from the Administrator to the appropriate committees concerning the epidemiological study. Directs the Administrator, within 90 days of submitting such report, to set forth in the Federal Register what action he proposes to take concerning Veterans Administration programs in response to such report. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress within 180 days of enactment on alternative approaches to providing benefits to veterans and the natural children of veterans who were exposed during service to either such radiation or to dioxins (Agent orange) used in Vietnam. Title VII: Technical Amendments - Makes various technical amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it an affirmative defense to a Federal prosecution that the defendant, as a result of severe mental disease or defect, could not at the time the offense was committed appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or conform his conduct to the requirements of law. Places the burden of proving the defense of insanity on the defendant. Prohibits expert witnesses from offering opinions on the ultimate legal issues presented to the trier of fact. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty by reason of insanity" for any criminal defendant who raises the issue of insanity by notice as provided by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Requires the court to hold a hearing to determine the present mental condition of a defendant found not guilty on such ground. Directs the court to commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General upon a finding that the person's release would create a substantial risk of bodily injury to another as a result of his present mental disease or defect. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to the State or to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Provides that when the defendant has recovered and would no longer create a substantial risk of bodily injury, the court on the motion of the attorney for the Government or on its own motion shall hold a hearing to determine if such person shall be released or conditionally discharged. Allows for the revocation of any conditional discharge.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Directs the United States Postal Service to issue, during the calendar year 1983, a commemorative postage stamp to honor the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Establishes the Veterans Administration as an executive department redesignated as the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Makes technical and conforming changes, including the redesignation of the Administrator as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator of Veterans Affairs should be a member and full participant in all activities of the Cabinet.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant posthumous U.S. citizenship to any alien who died while serving on active duty with the U.S. Armed Forces during specified periods of hostilities.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
American Defense Education Act - Authorizes a national program to provide incentives to local educational agencies to improve: (1) instruction in mathematics, science, communication skills, foreign languages, and technology; and (2) guidance and counseling. Title I: Elementary and Secondary Education Programs - Requires local education agencies which desire to participate in such national program to develop and carry out a program of improvement of instruction and student achievement. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Entitles participating local educational agencies to receive basic payments for each fiscal year equal to two percent of an established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Entitles agencies which show substantial evidence of meeting program goals to an incentive payment equal to an additional two percent of the established payment rate multiplied by the average daily attendance. Sets forth a formula for establishing such payment rate. Sets forth requirements for applications for payments. Directs the Secretary of Education ("the Secretary") to approve applications which meet such requirements. Sets forth provisions for participation in such program by children enrolled in private schools. Title II: Teacher Training and Postsecondary Programs - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of grants to institutions of higher education for coordination between such institutions and local education agencies in improving science and mathematics education, through precollege teacher training, development, and recruitment programs. Sets forth requirements for grant proposals and priorities in grant selection. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 through 1987 for such grants. Title III: Research to Improve Instruction - Directs the Secretary to administer, through the National Institute of Education (NIE), in consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, a program to support research and development into effective education in mathematics, the sciences, foreign languages, and technology. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Education to be made available to NIE to carry out such educational research program for FY 1985 through 1987. Title IV: General Provisions - Directs the Secretary to administer the program and to pay each local educational agency with an approved application the amount to which it is entitled for each fiscal year. Provides for a joint survey and report to Congress by the Secretaries of Defense and Education, for each year from 1983 through 1987, on the academic achievement levels of U.S. 18-year-olds and the personnel training and educational needs of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Prohibits Federal instrumentalities from procuring by contract any services performed by Federal employees in the following competitive service positions (currently reserved for preference eligibles): guards, elevator operators, messengers, and custodians.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Limits eligibility for admissions to any U.S. service academy to men.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Authorizes the appointment of citizens of the Northern Mariana Islands as officers in the U.S. armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Authorizes a transportation allowance for a member of a uniformed service stationed overseas for each dependent child attending secondary school or college in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Transfers the functions of the Assistant Secretary of Labor relating to job counseling, training, placement, and reemployment of veterans to an Associate Deputy Administrator of Veterans Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Prohibits Federal instrumentalities from procuring by contract any services performed by Federal employees in the following competitive service positions (currently reserved for preference eligibles): guards, elevator operators, messengers, and custodians.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Prohibits the expenditure of funds for the production of lethal binary chemical munitions after the enactment of this Act. Defines lethal binary chemical munitions to mean: (1) toxic chemicals intended to injure or kill humans; and (2) devices intended to disseminate such chemicals. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should begin negotiations with the Soviet Union for a mutual, verifiable limitation on chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Establishes the Veterans Administration as an executive department redesignated as the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Makes technical and conforming changes, including the redesignation of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Makes a veteran entitled to disability compensation with any rating of disability (currently a rating of 30 percent or more) eligible for employment and training benefits. Eliminates the requirement that veterans of the Vietnam era apply for such benefits within 48 months of discharge or release to remain eligible.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Permits State directors and assistant State directors of veterans' employment to be hired from outside a State if they have two years' experience in that position.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Authorizes the Veterans Administration to provide vocational rehabilitation training to certain former prisoners of war.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1983 to require that certain procured articles be packaged in the United States or its possessions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1983
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to furnish outpatient dental services to veterans with a 60 percent rated service-connected disability.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Renegotiation Act Amendments of 1983 - Reinstates until the end of FY 1986 the Renegotiation Act of 1951 (providing for review of defense contractors' profits). Makes the Act inapplicable to amounts received by contractors from October 1, 1976, through the date of enactment. Requires renegotiation to be conducted by division and major product line, rather than by total aggregate sales. Increases from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 the aggregate fiscal year renegotiable sales amount which makes contractors and subcontractors covered by the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Entitles former members of the armed forces who are totally disabled because of a service-connected disability to the same travel privileges on military aircraft as retired members of the armed forces enjoy.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
National Strategic Materials and Minerals Assessment Act of 1983 - Transfers the uranium resource assessment program from the Department of Energy to the Department of the Interior. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a national strategic minerals and materials assessment program within the Department, utilizing the framework and personnel of the uranium program. Directs the Secretary to: (1) coordinate and evaluate the activities of the Government; (2) classify the areas of potential strategic material and mineral deposits on public lands; (3) periodically review strategic materials and minerals issues; and (4) establish an early warning system to monitor supply and demand for such materials and minerals. Directs the Secretary to continually assess the materials and minerals on public lands in a manner not injurious to the habitat. States that nothing in this Act preempts any provision of the Wilderness Act or the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act except that the Secretary may initiate strategic materials and minerals assessments on public lands withdrawn from mineral entry to the extent such assessments can be accomplished with minimal surface disturbance.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Permits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to release the name and address of any member, former member, or dependent of a member or former member of the armed forces if necessary to conduct a field examination, investigation, or other inquiry for a veterans' benefits program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Amends the Federal criminal code to authorize a verdict of "guilty but insane" for any criminal defendant who raises the issue of insanity by notice as provided by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Provides that a defendant is "guilty but insane" if his actions constitute all necessary elements of the offense charged other than the requisite state of mind. Provides that if the defendant is found "guilty but insane" the court may commit the defendant to serve all or a portion of a sentence in a suitable facility for treatment of his mental condition. Requires the defendant to serve the remaining portion of his sentence upon release from the mental facility.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1983
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to furnish a flag for burial to any veteran of the Reserves who at the time of death was entitled to retired pay or would have been entitled to such pay had the individual been 60 years old. Requires that such flag then be given to the next of kin or a close friend or associate of the deceased.