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United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1983
Amends the basic allowance for quarters for the armed services to entitle otherwise ineligible servicemembers to such allowance if they are ordered to field or sea duty without advanced warning or for an indefinite but not permanent period of time.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1984 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Retired Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for retired military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, including the reserves. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense agencies, including their respective stock and industrial funds, reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, claims against the Department of Defense, and the Court of Military Appeals. Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for Department Support provided to the 1984 games of the XXIII Olympiad. Title IV: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other equipment and materials. Includes transfers of funds for specified procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Navy of aircraft, weapons, conversion and shipbuilding of vessels (including transfers of funds). Prohibits the use of funds for naval vessel construction in foreign shipyards' and other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft, missiles, and other equipment and materials. Includes transfers of funds for aircraft procurement. Prohibits the obligation of funds under the four major FY 1984 production contracts for the B-1B bomber if the current dollar costs would exceed the Air Force's original current dollar estimates. Appropriates funds for National Guard, Reserve, and Defense Agencies' procurement. Appropriates funds for purchases of materials or minerals under the Defense Production Act of 1950. Makes all such appropriations available through FY 1986. Title V: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for research, development, tests, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense agencies. Earmarks funds for the integration of the Hellfire missile on the UH-60 helicopter, the Mark 92 fire control system, and the Marine Corps Assault Vehicles program. Permits the merger of appropriations. Appropriates funds for the expenses of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation. Makes all such appropriations available through FY 1985. Title VI: Special Foreign Currency Program - Appropriates funds for FY 1984 for excess payments in foreign currencies for expenses in carrying out the programs of the Department of Defense. Title VII: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of appropriations for consulting services to contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record. Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and of the service departments to procure the services of experts and consultants if advantageous to the national defense. Exempts the Defense Department from the prohibition against employing non-citizens. Makes appropriations available for specified expenses of the department, including motor vehicle insurance, maintenance of prisoners-of-war, school transportation of military dependents, maintenance of facilities, ships, and equipment, exchange fees, and dependents' medical treatment. Directs the Secretary of Defense and each agency of the Department to assist American small and minority-owned businesses in their participation in defense contracts. Permits the President to exempt appropriations available for military functions from the requirement that appropriations be distributed so as to prevent deficiencies or need for supplemental funding. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the cost of any increases in military personnel required by the President. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress monthly on the exercise of this authority. Prohibits the use of appropriations for specified practices, including: (1) operation of commissaries; (2) proficiency flying; (3) excess household goods shippage and storage; (4) the procurement of articles not produced in the United States, except as specified; (5) certain defense contractor advertising; (6) research involving uninformed or nonvoluntary human beings as experimental subjects; (7) certain requests to the Appropriations Committees for reprogramming of funds; (8) certain medical services or treatments under CHAMPUS; (9) pay and allowances in excess of specified levels; (10) certain noncompetitive contracts; (11) certain multiyear procurement contracts with an unfunded contingent liability in excess of a specified level; (12) certain leasing and chartering of vessels, aircraft, or vehicles; (13) the purchase of animals to study the medical treatment of wounds; and (14) the transfer of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools from the Department of Defense to the Department of Education. Title VIII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the Intelligence Community Staff and for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1983
National Critical Materials Act of 1983 - Establishes a National Critical Materials Council under the Executive Office of the President to: (1) advise the President on national policy concerning critical materials; (2) coordinate Federal policies and activities concerning such materials; (3) evaluate Government activities according to the policy and directions provided under the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980; (4) evaluate the critical materials needs of basic and advanced industries and the Government; (5) initiate studies to resolve national critical materials problems; (6) issue a biennial report providing a domestic inventory of critical resources with projections on the needs for such resources; and (7) recommend necessary changes in policies, regulations, and legislation to Congress. Authorizes the Council to establish special advisory panels and Federal interagency committees as necessary. Directs the Council to oversee and coordinate materials research and development programs of Federal entities by: (1) establishing a Federal plan for advanced materials research and development; (2) reviewing authorization requests for such research; and (3) assisting the Office of Science and Technology Policy in preparing long-range materials assessments and reports. Directs the Council to evaluate the establishment of Centers for Industrial Technology, including which activities such Centers will focus on and how the Centers will be financed. Directs the Council to establish a computerized materials property and data management and analysis system. Sets forth the duties of the Executive Director of the Council, including administrative duties and the initiating of studies to advance knowledge of critical or advanced materials issues. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Amends Federal law to specify the two acre area authorized for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to file a map and a legal description of the specified area with the appropriate congressional committee and to publish such map and legal description in the Federal Register.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Designates July 20, 1984, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Transportation should submit to the appropriate congressional committees, not later than June 30, 1984, full research and development program planning documentation for the expedited civilian use of the Global Positioning System (a system which provides navigational information to aircraft).
United States · United States Senate · 18 October 1983
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1983
National Institute for the Biological Assessment of Nuclear Explosions - Establishes the National Institute for the Biological Assessment of Nuclear Explosions as an independent Government agency. Authorizes the Institute to: (1) conduct research on the worldwide biological and environmental effects of simulated nuclear war or explosions; (2) provide grants and other support for similar research by scholars and scientists; (3) make the results of such research available to the public and establish means for disseminating related information; (4) secure information from other Federal agencies if the release of such information would not jeopardize national security or interfere with agency functions; and (5) conduct studies for other agencies. Prohibits the agency from attempting to influence the passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress, the United Nations, or any State or local legislative body. Allows Institute personnel to testify before such bodies upon request. Requires the Director of the Institute to submit annual reports of the Institute's findings to the President and Congress. Authorizes appropriations for the Institute in specified amounts for FY 1984 and 1985, and for subsequent fiscal years in such amounts as are authorized by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1983
Congressional Commission on National Defense Planning Act - Establishes the Congressional Commission on National Defense Planning to review the current system of formulating defense policy, particularly examining: (1) the organization of the military staffs; (2) procedures within the Department of Defense relating to command and liaison; and (3) personnel policies. Directs the Commission to transmit to the President and Congress such interim reports as it deems appropriate. Grants such Commission subpoena power. Directs the Commission to submit to Congress a final report within one year after it first convenes. Terminates such Commission 30 days after its final report.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1983
Permits the transfer of the obsolete submarine U.S.S. Albacore to the Portsmouth Submarine Memorial Association before the expiration of a 60-day congressional review period.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1983
Amends the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1982 to prohibit the disposal of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines in ocean waters.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1983
Veterans' Housing Foreclosure Assistance Act of 1983 - Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make advances to the holder of a veterans' primary mortgage when such veteran: (1) is living in the dwelling concerned; (2) is unemployed or suffered a substantial reduction in household income; (3) is at least six months delinquent in payments; and (4) has a reasonable prospect of being able to resume full payments within six months. Sets limits on the amount of assistance which may be advanced. Requires the veteran to repay the advance with interest at the rate specified by the Administrator for veterans' guaranteed loans within 48 months. Makes the Administrator's decisions regarding advances final and nonreviewable. Terminates the advance program after two years.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1983
Amends the basic allowance for quarters for the armed services to entitle otherwise ineligible servicemembers to such allowance if they are ordered to field or sea duty without advanced warning or for an indefinite but not permanent period of time.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to extend medical benefits to former military spouses who were married at least 20 years to a member with at least 20 years of service when a minimum of ten years of such marriage and service coincide. Grants medical benefits to a former spouse who has a disease or disability attributable to the nature or location of a member's or former member's military service. Limits the health care available to such former spouses to that necessary for the treatment of such a disease or disability. Entitles such former spouses to post exchange and commissary privileges as well. Applies this Act to all eligible former spouses, regardless of date of divorce.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1983
Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend its expiration date two years, from the end of FY 1983 to the end of FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1983
Designates the week beginning November 6, 1983, as A Week of Education: The New Arms Race or New Ways of Thinking?
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1983
Designates December 1, 1983, as National Civil Patrol Day.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should exert maximum efforts to resist Soviet challenges in Asia; (2) Japan should make a greater contribution to its own defense; and (3) Japan's defense expenditures should be at least three percent of its gross national product.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Department of Defense Procurement Procedures Act of 1983 - Sets forth a formula for determining the applicable percentage of Department of Defense procurement of property and services which must be made through formal advertising for fiscal years after FY 1983. Prohibits the Department of Defense from expending funds for negotiated contracts in any fiscal year following a fiscal year where the purchases and contracts made through formal advertising fell below the applicable percentage. Removes such prohibition if the Department meets or exceeds the applicable percentage during or after that fiscal year. Requires that specified information concerning a negotiated contract be part of the records of the contracting agency, including all cost and pricing data submitted by a contractor and the name of each Government official who participated in the negotiating or awarding of such contract. Requires that agency records on negotiated contracts containing classified information be maintained for at least ten years and be made available to Congress and the Comptroller General upon request. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish procedures which are similar to formal advertising procedures for the purchase of or contracting for personal or professional services. Sets forth investigatory procedures to determine the need for and price of services by a university or other educational institution.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Designates July 20, 1984, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish a program to assist State governments in funding State established veterans' services programs which assist veterans with their benefits. Sets forth grant application procedures, including a description of the State plan for coordination of a State veterans' services assistance program with the programs of local veterans' service organizations. Requires a State plan to show that the delivery of services will be managed at the local level and that a State will increase the amount of matching funds it provides in each fiscal year through the third fiscal year of the grant. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations to evaluate grant applications. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 through 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to compensate ranchers whose lands were taken for national defense purposes after 1941 and are now part of the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Values such land at the current value of its livestock carrying capacity.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1983
Department of Defense Procurement Procedures Act of 1983 - Sets forth a formula for determining the applicable percentage of Department of Defense procurement of property and services which must be made through formal advertising for fiscal years after FY 1983. Prohibits the Department of Defense from expending funds for negotiated contracts in any fiscal year following a fiscal year where the purchases and contracts made through formal advertising fall below the applicable percentage. Removes such prohibition if the Department meets or exceeds the applicable percentage during or after that fiscal year. Requires that specified information concerning a negotiated contract be part of the records of the contracting agency, including all cost and pricing data submitted by a contractor and the name of each Government official who participated in the negotiating or awarding of such contract. Requires that agency records on negotiated contracts containing classified information be maintained for at least ten years and be made available to Congress and the Comptroller General upon request. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish procedures which are similar to formal advertising procedures for the purchase of or contracting for personal or professional services. Sets forth investigatory procedures to determine the need for and price of services by a university or other educational institution.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1983
Deisgnates the Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine as the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1983
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Transportation should make available for civilian use the Global Positioning System (a system which provides navigational information to aircraft).
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1983
Disqualifies for appointment to any civil service position in the executive branch any individual who fails to register as required under the Military Selective Service Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1983
Authorizes the President to issue a posthumous commission of brigadier general to Colonel Charles E. Young, U.S. Army.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1983
Recruitment and Retention Readiness Act of 1983 - Directs the President, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Defense, to report to the Congress by the earlier of July 1, 1987, or at such time as the President determines the armed forces are experiencing recruiting difficulties sufficient to require a new program of educational assistance, on the recruitment and retention experiences of the armed forces. Requires such report to include an assessment of the effectiveness of a new program of educational assistance in attracting and retaining qualified personnel. Requires such report to break down required information by branch of service, occupational specialty, and category of educational qualifications applicable. Requires the Secretary to confer with the Administrator of Veterans Affairs and the Secretaries of the military departments prior to making any recommendations. Sets forth procedures for the introduction of legislation designed to address these recruitment and retention needs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to include chiropractic care among the services offered members, former members, and dependents of the uniformed services. Authorizes the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Medical Services Corps of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. Entitles such officers to the same pay as dental officers.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1983
Permits the transfer of the obsolete submarine U.S.S. Albacore to the Portsmouth Submarine Memorial Association before the expiration of a 60-day congressional review period.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Commission on the Wartime Occupation of Guam Act - Establishes the Commission to review the Wartime Occupation of Guam, which shall: (1) review the facts and circumstances surrounding the claims of Guamanians for losses resulting from the Japanese occupation of Guam during World War II; and (2) recommend appropriate remedies. Directs the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to Congress within 18 months of its first meeting. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from transferring or consolidating a function, power, or duty of a military department on either a permanent or trial basis unless specifically authorized by law. Exempts transfers involving the reallocation of fewer than 200 personnel or $10,000,000 in any fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 2782 (defense industries).
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Requests the President to call on the pertinent members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and on Japan to meet or exceed their pledges for at least a three percent real increase in defense spending in 1983 and 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1983
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Japan should increase its defense expenditures to ensure a more equitable defense burden sharing arrangement with the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1983
Directs the President to award the Purple Heart to any individual wounded or killed while held as a prisoner of war during World War I, World War II, or the Korean conflict under the same criteria applicable to prisoners of war held during the Vietnam era.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1983
Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend its expiration date for five years, from the end of FY 1983 to the end of FY 1988. Sets forth the criteria under which the President may authorize the guarantee of loans to defense contractors, including: (1) the essentiality of the material or service to the national defense; (2) industry's need for such a guarantee before providing the necessary capability; (3) the cost- effectiveness of the guarantee, considering the alternatives; (4) that defense demand is equal to or greater than the output of domestic industry, including the guaranteed output; and (5) that the subject of the guaranteed contract has been identified in a mutually agreed upon specification. Sets forth similar criteria for loans to private business enterprises and the purchase of raw materials under such Act. (The criteria set forth are the existing Department of Defense criteria for evaluating project proposals under title III of the Defense Production Act.) Eliminates the legislative veto provisions from such Act requiring instead that Congress approve loan guarantees, loans, or purchases through the authorization and budget process.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1983
Extends from FY 1983 to 1984 the authority of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to contract for hospital care or medical services in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands without reference to patient loads or incidence of provision of medical services for veterans treated by the Veterans Administration in the contiguous 48 States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1983
Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to authorize the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a U.S. Representative for Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations. Classifies the position of U.S. Representative for Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations as a position at level III of the Executive Schedule. Changes the classification of the positions of Deputy Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the Special Representative for Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from level IV to level III of the Executive Schedule. Changes the classification of the four positions of Assistant Directors of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from level V to level IV on the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1983
Atomic Veterans Relief Act - Provides disability benefits to veterans who participated in atomic tests or the occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki after World War II and suffer from diseases that may be attributable to ionizing radiation. Provides benefits to survivors of those veterans who die from such diseases. Directs the Administrator of the Veterans Administration to establish the Advisory Committee on Veterans Exposed to Ionizing Radiation from Nuclear Testing.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1983
Permits a disabled veteran or person on active duty to receive an adaptive automobile assistance payment for an automobile acquired after disposing of an automobile for which he had received adaptive equipment assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1983
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to repatriate the remains of five unknown American sailors from Tripoli, Libya. Authorizes the Secretary to inter such remains at the United States Naval Academy or at Arlington National Cemetery.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1983
Authorizes the Veterans Administration to furnish each veteran who has a compensable service-connected disability such drugs and medicines as may be prescribed by any licensed physician for treatment of the disability.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1983
Authorizes the Veterans Administration to furnish each veteran with a compensable service-connected disability such drugs and medicines as may be prescribed by any licensed physician for treatment of the service-connected disability.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1983
Intelligence Activities Oversight Improvement Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the provision that limited spending for intelligence operations in foreign countries to those operations which the President found to be important to the U.S. national security. Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the Director of Central Intelligence and the heads of other agencies involved in intelligence activities to keep the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence fully and currently informed of all U.S. intelligence activities, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity. (Current law imposes the same requirement except that: (1) current law declares that such requirement shall not require approval of the intelligence committees before initiating an anticipated intelligence activity; and (2) if the President determines that extraordinary circumstances require that prior notice must be limited, such notice shall be limited to specified members of Congress.) Prohibits any special intelligence activity from being initiated unless and until the activity has been approved by the President and the President has made a written finding that: (1) such activity is essential to the national defense or the conduct of foreign policy; (2) such activity is consistent with and in support of the publicly avowed foreign policy; (3) the anticipated benefits of such activity justify the foreseeable risks and likely consequences of its disclosure to a foreign power; (4) overt or less sensitive alternatives would not be likely to achieve the intended objective; and (5) the circumstances require the use of extraordinary means. Prohibits conducting a special activity which is not within a category of special activities authorized by the President unless and until the President submits a report to the intelligence committees containing the required presidential findings and other specified information. Permits limiting the prior notice to specified members of the intelligence committees so long as the remaining members are notified within 48 hours. Requires the President to submit additional information to the committees, upon request. Permits the President to authorize special activities by category but such a category of activities may not be authorized unless the President: (1) personally finds that activities falling within the category are important to national security; and (2) reports, before any activity within the category is commenced, a description of the category and a justification for conducting activities within the category to the intelligence committees. Requires the National Security Council to supervise each activity falling within such category and to ensure that each activity remains consistent with the nature and scope of the category. Directs the President to provide the intelligence committees, upon request, with additional information on specific activities undertaken within a category of activities. Prohibits spending funds to support any clandestine paramilitary or military activity unless specifically authorized, or in the case of a country or territory invaded, attacked, or occupied by the armed forces of another country, the President, in addition to other findings, determines that providing such clandestine support is essential in order to meet extraordinary circumstances affecting vital interests of the United States. Defines "special activity" to mean any activity conducted in support of national foreign policy objectives abroad which are planned and executed so that the U.S. role is not apparent or acknowledged publicly but which are not intended to influence U.S. opinion and do not include diplomatic activities or the collection and production of intelligence or related support functions. Declares that these amendments to the National Security Act shall not apply to activities undertaken pursuant to a declaration of war approved by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1983
Requires the President to submit a specified report to Congress, as required under the War Powers Resolution, dealing with the U.S. armed forces in Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to permit the interment of a surviving spouse and unmarried children in a department-owned cemetery if the member in question is already interred therein.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Provides civil service retirement credit for certain employees and former employees of noncommercial nonappropriated fund instrumentalities of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Designates August 4, 1984, as Coast Guard Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Designates the week beginning November 6, 1983, as National Disabled Veterans Week.