Defence

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1985

United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1984

Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1985 - Appropriates funds for FY 1985 for military construction operations by the Department of Defense for: (1) the Army; (2) the Navy; (3) the Air Force; (4) the Defense agencies; (5) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure; (6) the Army National Guard; (7) the Air National Guard; (8) the Army Reserve; (9) the Naval Reserve; (10) the Air Force Reserve; (11) family housing for the Army; (12) family housing for the Navy and Marine Corps; (13) family housing for the Air Force; and (14) family housing for the Defense agencies. Limits the amount of money which may be available for study, design, and engineer services. Makes previously appropriated funds available to the respective departments through the authorizations enacted by the 98th Congress. Prohibits the expenditure of funds for: (1) payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work except as specified; (2) starting construction of new bases inside the continental United States for which specific appropriations have not been made; (3) the purchase of land or land easements in excess of 100 percent of their value except as specified; (4) the relocation of activity from one base to another without prior notification to the Appropriations Committees; (5) base realignment or closure which is not in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act; (6) steel procurement for any construction project for which American steel producers have been denied the opportunity to compete for such steel procurement; (7) dredging in the Indian Ocean by foreign contractors except as specified; (8) construction of any site-specific facilities for the MX missile system until the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act are met; (9) the payment of property taxes to a foreign nation; and (10) the compensation of unlawfully admitted aliens. Permits the use of funds for advances to the Federal Highway Administration for the construction of certain access roads certified as important to the national defense. Limits the expenditure of appropriations for consulting services. Permits the obligation of funds for military construction projects through the fourth fiscal year after the fiscal year in which such funds were appropriated. Prohibits the use of funds for the sale or lease of Fort DeRussy, Honolulu, Hawaii. Prohibits the use of funds to initiate a new installation overseas without the prior approval of the Appropriations Committees. Prohibits the expenditure of funds for F-16 beddown projects at Misawa, Japan, until the Appropriations Committees determine that the Japanese budget has increased funding for FY 1985 for such projects. Prohibits obligating funds appropriated in this Act for: (1) certain contracts for military construction projects in Japan or in any North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member country if that country has not increased its defense spending by at least three percent in 1983 unless the contracts require that all installed equipment used in such projects have been made in the United States; (2) certain architect and engineer contracts for projects in Japan or in any NATO member country if that country has not increased its defense spending by at least three percent in 1983 unless such contracts are awarded to U.S. firms or U.S. firms in joint venture with host nation firms; or (3) the design or construction of projects associated with the master restationing plan in Germany unless West Germany agrees to fund a substantial portion of the construction cost of that plan. Prohibits funds for certain military construction projects in the U.S. territories and possessions in the Pacific and on Kwajalein and Johnston Islands from being used for the performance of any work by foreign contractors unless the lowest bid from a U.S. contractor exceeds the lowest bid by more than 20 percent. Earmarks sufficient Army military construction funds to pay for design of a replacement facility for the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Directs the Secretary of Defense to inform the Appropriations Committees of the plans and scope of certain proposed military exercises involving U.S. personnel before the exercises occur.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the late Sergeant Billy Finley of Decatur, Illinois, should be honored for his heroic behavior during World War II and for creating good will between United States soldiers and the citizens of France.

United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1984

Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the late Sergeant Billy Finley, of Decatur, Illinois, should be honored for his service and contributions to this country during World War II; and (2) his surviving sisters should be recognized for representing their brother and their country at ceremonies on June 24, 1984, in Cherbourg, France.

A bill to amend section 1086 of title 10, United States Code, to delete the provision which excludes persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under part A of title XVIII of the Social Security Act from eligibility for health benefits under such section.

United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1984

Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to include otherwise eligible persons who are also entitled to Medicare benefits.

A bill to extend the period allowed for rollover of gain on the sale of principal residence under section 1034 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 in the case of members of the Armed Forces who are stationed outside the United States or are required to reside in Government quarters.

United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1984

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the suspension of the two year period in which an individual must purchase a new residence for nonrecognition of gain on the sale of an old residence which is granted to members of the armed forces who are stationed overseas or who are required to reside in Government-owned quarters shall be extended to the later of four years after the date of the sale of the old residence (as currently provided) or one year after the date on which the taxpayer is no longer stationed overseas or required to reside in Government-owned quarters.

A bill to amend chapter 11 of title 38, United States Code, to provide for periods of trial work (comparable to periods of trial work for Social Security Act disability recipients) for veterans assigned service-connected total disability ratings by reason of unemployability.

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1984

Amends the veterans' disability compensation provisions to provide periods of trial work for veterans assigned total disability ratings by reason of unemployability. Defines trial work as work performed for gain by such a veteran to determine whether in fact such veteran is able to pursue substantially gainful employment.

Emergency Veterans Job Training Extension Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1984

Emergency Veterans' Job Training Extension Act of 1984 - Amends the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act of 1983 to extend from 60 to 90 days the viability of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs certificate that a veteran is eligible to participate in the job training program established by such Act. Authorizes appropriations for an additional year, through FY 1987. Extends such program from the end of FY 1984 to May 31, 1985, for applications and from December 31, 1984, to September 1, 1985, for the actual program of job training.

Atomic Veterans Relief Act

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1984

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 who, within 40 years, suffer from diseases that may be attributable to ionizing radiation, including: (1) leukemia, (2) polycythemia vera; (3) carcinoma of the thyroid; (4) chromosomal damage; (5) posterior subcapsular cataracts; and (6) other radiogenic cancers. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to promulgate regulations to resolve benefit claims and provide standards for benefit determinations and the inclusion of additional diseases as the basis for benefits. Provides for survivors' benefits. Directs the Administrator to report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees of Congress whenever legislative action related to the subject matter of the regulations is needed. Establishes in the Veterans Administration the Advisory Committee on Veterans Exposed to Ionizing Radiation to report annually to the Administrator on the administration of the benefits provided by this Act. Directs the Administrator to submit such report to Congress with appropriate comments. Provides medical care for the treatment of genetic or congenital disorders in the natural children of affected veterans. Entitles such children to educational assistance. Requires the Administrator to carry out an outreach, screening, and counseling program to serve those veterans, dependents, and survivors entitled to benefits under this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish a research and training program for the diagnosis and treatment of disabilities caused by exposure to ionizing radiation, including a centralized registry of claims. Directs the Administrator to make a comprehensive report on these programs in the annual report to Congress under this Act.

Veterans' Administration Benefit Rate Increase and Program Improvement Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

Veterans' and Survivors' Compensation Rate Increase Act of 1984 - Title I: Disability Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for dependents; and (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Title II: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) dependency and indemnity compensation for spouses; (2) dependency and indemnity compensation for children; and (3) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Title III: Alternative Rate Increases; Effective Date - Sets forth the effective dates for such increases. Makes the effective dates and amounts of increase contingent upon the percent of increase in benefits under title II of the Social Security Act scheduled to take effect on December 1, 1984.

A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to prohibit employment in civil service positions in the executive branch of any individual required to register under the Military Selective Service Act who has not so registered.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

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.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of subsistence and educational assistance allowance for veterans pursuing vocational rehabilitation programs under chapter 31 and for veterans and eligible persons pursuing programs of education or training under chapters 34, 35, or 36 and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

Increases the rates of educational and subsistence allowances for eligible veterans and their dependents and survivors. Increases the amount of reporting fee per participating veteran or other eligible person payable to an educational institution. Increases the amount a veteran or other eligible person may borrow for education in any one regular academic year.

A bill to amend title 5, United States Code, to establish certain requirements for the procurement by contract of certain services that are reserved for performance by preference eligibles in the competitive service.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

Prohibits a Federal agency from procuring by contract any services performed by Federal employees in the competitive service positions of guards, elevator operators, messengers, and custodians if such procurement would: (1) cause the separation of a preference eligible from any such position; or (2) preclude the performance of any such service by a qualified preference eligible. Allows such procurement when: (1) qualified preference eligibles are not available; or (2) the position is held by an employee other than a preference eligible on the date that the contract is entered into.

A bill to amend the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain Employees to provide essential benefits to certain former spouses not eligible for any benefits under that Act, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain Employees to entitle to an annuity any individual who was a former spouse of a participant or former participant in the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System on November 15, 1982, and for whom such participant failed to elect to provide an annuity. Disqualifies any such former spouse who remarries before becoming 60 years of age. Terminates such an annuity on the last day of the month before the former spouse's death or remarriage before attaining age 60. Requires the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to notify such former spouses of their rights under this Act. Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to allow an individual who was married to a CIA employee for ten years, at least five years of which were spent outside the United States by the employee and the spouse, and who was covered under a health benefits plan as a member of the employee's family immediately prior to a divorce or annulment of marriage to such employee, to enroll in such health benefits for self alone or for self and family coverage. Requires that such individual arrange to pay the amount payable by an employee plus the employee's agency contributions for the same coverage. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to take all steps practicable to notify eligible former spouses of their rights under this Act. Disqualifies any former spouse who remarries before attaining age 60.

A bill to provide a Congressional Medal of Honor to Harrison Summers.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1984

Authorizes the President to present the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously to the family of Harrison Summers for acts performed by him in Normandy, France, on D-Day.

A bill to provide for the presentation of a Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously to the family of Harrison Summers.

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1984

Authorizes the President to present the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously to the family of Harrison Summers for acts performed by him in Normandy, France, on D-Day.

Veterans Administration Health Programs Extension Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1984

Veterans Administration Health Programs Extension Act of 1984 - Extends from FY 1984 to 1987 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 (VA) in the contiguous 48 States. Extends through FY 1988 the VA's program for the treatment and rehabilitation of veterans suffering from alcohol or drug abuse dependencies or disabilities in halfway houses and other community-based programs. Expands the amount of authorizations available for the research and education activities of VA geriatric centers. Extends from FY 1986 through 1991 the authorization of appropriations for grants to States for veterans' homes. Eliminates the restriction on the percent of appropriations under such grant program which may go to one State.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to grant discretion to the Administrator to administer garage and parking appropriations and fees as a revolving fund.

United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1984

Permits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to administer medical facility garage and parking appropriations and fees as a revolving fund. (Under current law, the Administrator is required to administer such amounts as a revolving fund.)

Omnibus Defense Authorization Act, 1985

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1984

Omnibus Defense Authorization Act, 1985 - Title I: Procurement - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 - Part A: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for the Army for FY 1985 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, and tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition, and for other procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of the UH-60A aircraft and EH-60A aircraft, and for the execution of the CH-47D aircraft modernization program. Permits such contracts to include an unfunded cancellation ceiling. Prohibits the use of funds for the Division Air Defense System until: (1) initial testing is completed; and (2) 30 days elapse after the Secretary of Defense reports the results of such testing and certifies to Congress that continued production is in the national interest. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, to repeal the prohibition against establishing a second source for producing the M-1 tank engine. Authorizes appropriations for the Navy and Marine Corps for FY 1985 for procurement of aircraft, weapons (including missiles and torpedoes), shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of the CH-53E aircraft. Permits such contracts to include an unfunded cancellation ceiling. Prohibits the use of funds for the fourth year of the multiyear contract for the procurement of the KS-153 low altitude aerial reconnaissance camera for the Marine RF-4B aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to test the CA-810 aerial reconnaissance camera's suitability for high speed, low altitude aerial reconnaissance missions by November 1, 1984. Permits the fourth year procurement of the KS-153 if the CA-810 proves unsatisfactory or is not completed in time. Directs the Secretary to conduct competitive procurement for such cameras should they meet or exceed the Navy's requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to maintain one or more alternate sources of procurement for a common aircraft ejection seat for specified aircraft. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1985 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and other procurement, including Air National Guard equipment. Prohibits the use of funds for sole source procurement of a strategic weapons loader or the modification of an existing loader to meet the performance requirements for the B-1B bomber or the Advanced Technology Bomber aircraft. Limits MX missile procurement to 21 operational missiles. Authorizes the transfer of specified FY 1984 funds for the procurement of aircraft in FY 1985. Authorizes appropriations for the defense agencies. Extends through FY 1985 the authority of the Secretary of Defense, in carrying out the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the NATO Ministers of Defense concerning the NATO AWACS program, to waive the reimbursement for the cost of specified functions performed by certain personnel and to assume contingent liability for program losses and specified charges. Part B: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1985 for research, development, test, and evaluation. Authorizes the appropriation of additional sums as necessary for civilian employee salaries and benefits. Directs the Secretary of the Army to proceed with the competitive development of a Joint Tactical Missile System with specified goals, including completion by July 1, 1987. Directs the Secretary to report to the Armed Services Committees on the progress of such system January 1, 1985, 1986, and 1987. Limits the funds available for the CV ASW helicopter until the Armed Services Committees have been notified that a full-scale engineering development contract has been awarded. Part C: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1985 for operation and maintenance, including funds for the reserve forces, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, and the Court of Military Appeals. Authorizes additional appropriations for increases in civilian personnel costs, unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, and inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 for the working capital funds of the armed forces and defense agencies. Permits the Secretary of Defense to make contingency funds available for the Unified and Specified Commands. Part D: Personnel- Subpart 1: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel as of the end of FY 1985. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981, to extend for one year the limitation on the enlistment for active duty in the armed forces of persons whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is below a prescribed level. Subpart 2: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1985. Permits the reduction and increase in such strengths as specified. Authorizes a specified number of reserves to serve on full-time active duty in order to organize, administer, instruct, recruit, or train the reserve components. Permits the end strength levels to be increased by two percent in the national interest. Increases the number of certain personnel who may be on active duty in specified grades. Redefines full-time National Guard duty. Subpart 3: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes an end strength for civilian personnel for the Department for FY 1985. Requires the apportionment of such personnel among the various military branches and departments. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on such allocation within 60 days. Specifies the types of civilian employees to be included in such end strengths. Permits the Secretary to increase the number of such personnel by two percent in the national interest. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress of any such increase. Eliminates the civilian personnel ceiling for industrially funded activities for FY 1984. Subpart 4: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1985. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Part E: Compensation, Benefits, and Health Care Matters - Subpart 1: Pay and Allowances - Increases by 4.0 percent, effective January 1, 1985, the rates of basic pay for all military personnel not serving in grade E-1. Increases the basic allowance for quarters to 65 percent of the national median housing costs for each pay grade. Extends through January 1, 1985, limitations on payments of the variable housing allowance set forth in the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1984 and the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Requires that the variable housing allowance be paid where the local median cost of housing for a pay grade exceeds 80 percent of the national median cost of housing for such grade. Requires future adjustments of such rates to coincide with military pay increases but be based upon changes in certain weighted elements of the housing component of the Consumer Price Index. Excludes from eligibility for such allowance a member living in government housing who receives a basic allowance for quarters at the "with dependents" rate solely because such member pays child support and a member in travel status between permanent duty stations. Includes service members stationed in Alaska and Hawaii in the variable (rather than the overseas) housing allowance program. Extends for one year, through FY 1985, the authority to provide reimbursement in place of quarters to crew members assigned to a naval vessel rendered temporarily uninhabitable. Denies credit for time spent in a delayed enlistment program for purposes of computing basic pay. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to commute the ration (pay a cash allowance in lieu of providing a meal) for enlisted members of the guard and reserves entitled to a mid-day meal. Extends for two years, through FY 1986, the authority to pay enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for the active forces. Extends the special pay provisions for certain Navy aviation career officers from FY 1984 to FY 1985. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Armed Services Committees by February 1, 1985, on the adequacy of aviation career officer incentive pay and the effect, if any, of the special pay for Navy pilots on the recruiting and retention needs of the armed forces. Modifies the hazardous duty pay provisions to equalize officer and enlisted rates for specified duties. Eliminates glider pay and leprosy pay. Requires the recomputation of the military pension of certain retirees who voluntarily returned to active duty at the rates in effect when released from such duty. Entitles certain reserve component instructors teaching at a location other than the one assigned to travel and transportation expenses. Authorizes the use of Department motor vehicles for transportation between domicile and place of employment for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chiefs of Staff of the Army and the Air Forces, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Under Secretaries of Defense. Requires the forfeiture of leave for service members who are discharged for failing to serve satisfactorily before completing six months of active duty. Limits to 100 vehicles per month the shipment at Government expense of service member owned motor vehicles from Guam when Guam is being used as an alternate port of shipment. Terminates such shipments after March 31, 1985. Subjects all members of the armed forces rather than just enlisted members of the Army and Air Force to collection of overpayment provisions. Repeals the December 31, 1989, termination of educational assistance under the GI bill for Vietnam era veterans. Requires benefits paid after such date to be paid from Department of Defense appropriations. Expands eligibility for membership on the Department of Defense Retirement Board of Actuaries. Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide, subject to the availability of resources, legal assistance to members, retired members, and their dependents. Eliminates the offset from amounts received under a Survivor Benefit Plan annuity for social security benefits derived from an annuitant's own employment.u Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to determine that a participant in either the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan (RSFPP) or the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) is missing under circumstances from which it can be reasonably concluded that such person is dead if absent for at least 30 days, thereby permitting the payment of an annuity under either plan. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to comply with a court order effectively served on such Secretary for the payment of child support or alimony out of the military pension of the former member in question whether or not such order specifically requires payment to be made out of such pension. Amends the Survivor Benefit Plan to state that a member will be deemed to have elected a former spouse as beneficiary if the Secretary of the military department concerned receives a request for such action from the former spouse and is provided a court order reflecting the court's ratification, incorporation, or approval of a written agreement by the member to make such election. Subpart 2: Health Care Matters - Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to permit annual eye examinations for each patient. Includes chiropractic care under such program. Grants active duty dependents access to dental care in the United States on a space available basis. Requires institutions which provide services under the Medicare program to provide services under CHAMPUS. Part F: Personnel Management - Increases the number of general and flag officers on active duty through FY 1985. Directs the Secretary of Defense to reduce the number of military and civilian personnel on management headquarters staffs by at least five percent by the end of FY 1985. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to promote a reserve general officer who is in inactive status for less than a year and solely because such officer's tenure in a selected position has ended. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to order to active duty a person who has not fulfilled an agreement to complete a service academy education unless such person is earlier separated from service. Permits the Secretary of Defense to extend the military service obligation of Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship officers and graduates of the service academies from six to not less than six nor more than eight years. Extends for two years, from FY 1984 to FY 1986, the authority of the Secretary of the Navy to temporarily promote certain Navy lieutenants to lieutenant commander. Authorizes the appointment of podiatrists as medical officers. Part G: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 to carry out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Repeals the limits on appropriations for certain purposes, including the payment of travel and per diem expenses for students, contribution to States for personal equipment, and administrative expenses. Part H: Defense Procurement Matters - Prohibits the expenditure of Department funds for weapon system or defense equipment procurement in mature full-scale production unless the prime contractor provides written guarantees that such system or equipment conforms to the specified design, manufacturing, and performance standards and if it is not free of defects, that such contractor will cure, without cost to the United States. Permits the Secretary of Defense to waive such guarantees in the national interest or if they would not be cost-effective. Directs the Secretary to report such waivers to the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees either as they happen or in an annual report due by February 1. Authorizes the Secretary to negotiate such contract guarantees for projects not in mature full-scale production and to negotiate more stringent guarantees for the required projects. Repeals the provision of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1984, containing current warranty requirements. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the manner in which the Department negotiates prices for supplies procured from a contractor who does not produce the supplies. Decreases from $500,000 to $100,000 the threshold requiring a prime contractor to submit certified cost and pricing data to the contracting agency. Requires the procurement of supplies in economically advantageous quantities where practicable. Directs each head of a military department to designate an advocate for competition within such agency to promote competition in the procurement of property and services by reviewing current activities and reporting competitive procurement opportunities to such agency's head. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish procedures to ensure that personnel appraisal systems in the Department recognize efforts to increase competition and achieve cost savings in contracting. Prohibits any Defense contractor from entering into any agreement with a subcontractor which restricts sales by such subcontractor directly to the United States. Requires a delay in the effectiveness of procurement regulations for purposes of public comment. Directs the head of the defense department or agency responsible for a major weapon system to incorporate in such system whenever possible currently available components or components likely to be required in large quantities. Includes the availability of technical data on such components as a factor in determining the award of a production contract. Requires the head of a defense agency to provide written justification for prequalification standards a potential contractor or product must meet, including the costs such contractor might incur to qualify. Requires such agency head to solicit additional sources of supply and pay the qualifying costs of a potential supplier who is a small business concern if fewer than two actual manufacturers qualify. Requires the reexamination of prequalification requirements within seven years. Requires defense contracts to specify which technical data will be purchased for the items in question, what criteria such data must meet, separate payment for such data, and the respective rights of the contractor and the Government to such data. Permits the Government to withhold payment for data delivery delays. Permits the contracting officer to waive such requirements in the best interests of the Government. Permits specified Government officials to review any contractor restrictions on the use of technical data by the Government. Sets forth the administrative and appeals procedures for such review and challenge, including a cancellation on any restrictions found to be unjustified. Requires each head of a covered defense agency to develop within the year after enactment of this Act a plan for the management of technical data received under such contracts, including procedures for inventory, update, verification, and access to information. Requires full implementation within five years. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress within 18 months on the management plans of the covered agencies. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress within 180 days after enactment of this Act a plan to improve the Department computer capability to store and access data needed for the procurement of spare parts. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to enter into cooperative agreements with State and local governments and nonprofit organizations to provide technical assistance to firms seeking to bid for defense procurements. Sets forth application procedures and requirements, including a description of the geographic area to be served, an assurance of matching funds, and a limitation on the percentage of funds going for private consultant services. Requires that at least one cooperative agreement be entered into within each defense contract administration services region. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1985 and 1986 and specifies percentages of funds to go to entities which have previously carried out an assistance program. Amends the Selected Acquistion Report (SAR) system and the Unit Cost Report system to: (1) establish a minimum dollar threshold of $2,000,000 on major contracts for which SAR reporting is required; (2) require quarterly SARs only when there is a five percent or greater change in total program cost, or when there is a three month or greater delay in any of the baseline SAR milestones; (3) extend the annual SAR submission date from 30 to 60 days after the submission of the President's budget and provide that quarterly SARs are to be submitted 45 days rather than 30 days after the end of the quarter; (4) require that preliminary reports be submitted within 30 days of such submission; (5) provide for automatic termination of SAR reporting when 90 percent of the deliveries or planned expenditures have been made; (6) delete the requirement to submit multiple unit cost reports when successive baselines have been breached; (7) permit unit cost reports for the end of the first quarter of the fiscal year to coincide with the President's budget submission; (8) limit termination of obligations for research and development, procurement, and military construction funding when there is failure to meet reporting requirements; and (9) provide for severability of such provisions. Establishes a minimum tour of duty of four years or major program milestone completion for officers assigned as program managers of major defense acquisition programs. Amends the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1984, to modify requirements relating to shipbuilding claims. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, to permit the Secretary of Defense to limit the application of the spare parts price increase reporting requirements to non-competitive procurement situations. Directs the Secretary to report to the Armed Services Committees by May 1, 1985, on the continued use of independent cost estimates in major defense acquisition programs with emphasis on the adequacy of personnel and financial resources allocated to the development of such estimates. Part I: General Provisions - Expresses the sense of Congress that the countries of NATO, Canada, and particularly Japan are not bearing their commensurate share of the burdens of mutual defense. States that the President should seek acceptance of such responsibilities and a specific agreement for increased support from each such country. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress by March 1 of each year on a comparison of the equitable defense burden that should be borne, the actual efforts to bear them, the efforts the United States is taking to eliminate any disparities, and other information concerning the mutual defense. Repeals the transfer of the defense dependents' overseas education system from the Department of Defense to the Department of Education. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue participation in the NATO SEA-SPARROW Surface Missile System Cooperative Consortium described in the memoranda of understanding between the United States, Denmark, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Greece, and the Federal Republic of Germany, signed June 6, 1968, and May 20, 1977. Amends the Military Selective Service Act to exempt from induction persons whose mother has been killed in the line of duty. Provides protection for the use of Marine Corps insignia from deceptive uses. Requires all budget submissions from FY 1986 onward to reflect funding for nuclear weapons in the Department of Defense budget rather than the Department of Energy budget. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1983 to extend for another year, through FY 1985, the test program to authorize price differentials to relieve economic dislocations. Applies the prohibitions against construction of naval vessels in foreign shipyards to all military vessels. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to enter into reciprocal communications support arrangements with allied countries or NATO. Directs the President to report to the Armed Services Committees, coincident with a request for MX funding, an assessment of the impact of procuring such missiles on the strategic balance, arms control, and the development of more survivable basing modes. Prohibits the expenditure of funds for more than 100 B-1B bombers without previous notice to the Armed Services Committees. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to determine the configuration of the FFG-7 class guided missile frigate. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, to prohibit the expenditure of funds to test any explosive or inert antisatellite warhead against objects in space unless the President certifies to Congress that such testing is compatible with and essential to arms control agreements affecting such weapons. Requires 30 percent of all money accruing from the naval petroleum reserves through FY 1985 to be credited to the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy for FY 1985 for the exploration and operation of such reserves. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Armed Services Committees by March 1, 1985, a comprehensive study on the atmospheric, climatic, environmental, and biological consequences of nuclear war and the implications thereof for nuclear weapons strategy and policy, arms control policy, and civil defense policy. Prohibits the use of funds for polygraph examinations except for the conduct of a specified test program. Directs the Secretary to report to the Armed Services Committees by December 31, 1985, on the use of such tests during FY 1985. Excludes specified intelligence personnel from such restriction. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to provide equipment and uniforms to the Civil Air Patrol and to arrange for their use of other services' facilities. Increases from one to two the Coast Guard membership on the Reserve Forces Policy Board. Part J: Codification of Certain Recurring and Other Provisions of Law - Codifies specified provisions of law into Title 10. Title II: Military Construction Matters - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 - Part A: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the obligation of funds for certain projects only out of savings derived from other projects or project cancellations. Requires the Secretary to certify to Congress that such funds are available before moving forward on such projects. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Part B: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the obligation of funds for certain projects only out of savings derived from other projects or project cancellations. Requires the Secretary to certify to Congress that such funds are available before moving forward on such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a water supply and flood control project for the Santa Margarita River, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations. Authorizes expenditures to improve existing military family housing units. Part C: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the obligation of funds for certain projects only out of savings derived from other projects or project cancellations. Requires the Secretary to certify to Congress that such funds are available before moving forward on such projects. Prohibits the construction of facilities to support the basing of the ground-launched cruise missile system at Woensdrecht Air Base, the Netherlands, until the Netherlands and the United States have a written agreement concerning such basing. Authorizes improvements to existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units as specified. Part D: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the obligation of funds for certain projects only out of savings derived from other projects or project cancellations. Requires the Director of a defense agency to certify to Congress that such funds are available before moving forward on such projects. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations. Permits expenditures to improve existing units. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, to increase the authorization level for defense agency construction in FY 1984. Part E: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Part F: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total cost of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned. States that such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1986 except as otherwise specified. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Part G: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Expands the authority of the Secretary to contribute funds to a State for arms storage rooms to encompass any critical portion of State facilities related to a Federal military mission. Prohibits the use of lands comprising Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for purposes other than military training unless such lands were permitted to another use before the enactment of this Act. Part H: General Provisions - Expands the liability of a member of the armed forces for damage to housing, equipment, and furnishings to include damage to an unaccompanied personnel housing unit as well as a family unit. Permits the Secretary to establish limitations of liability or compromise or waive a claim. Increases from five to 12 the percent of available real property funds a Secretary of a military department may use to acquire options. Treats land acquisition projects involving condemned lands the same as all other land acquisition projects conducted by a military department. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress when contract cost variations are in excess of 25 percent when the total cost under the contract exceeds the maximum amount for a minor military construction project. Expands the Secretary of Defense's emergency construction authority to activate it whenever the President determines an imminent threat to the national security exists such that current facilities would be inadequate to meet a mobilization effort. Terminates such authority in six months or at the end of a declared war or national emergency. Authorizes a Secretary of a military department to use operation and maintenance or construction funds to restore land to a condition required by another military department or Federal agency which has permitted such land to that department. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1983, to permit the use of funds for projects in the Federal Republic of Germany in support of the master restationing plan before there is a written cost-sharing agreement between such country and the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to sell to utility companies electrical energy generated from alternate energy or cogeneration type production facilities under such Secretary's jurisdiction. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to accept in exchange for Southern California Edison Company's use of warehouse space at the Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California, replacement warehouse facilities and fair rental value for the used space. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to replace substandard housing units known as the Sterling Homes Project, Oceanside, California, serving as military family housing for Camp Pendleton personnel. Permits the use of Department funds for the installation, repair, and maintenance of telephone wire in private residences leased or owned by the Government. Directs the Secretary of the Army to demolish an equivalent area of World War II temporary wooden structures for every new Army facility added after January 1, 1985. Permits the waiver of such requirement for up to 20 percent of the affected footage. Terminates such requirement after December 31, 1989. Prohibits the use of funds for repairs or additions to schools on military bases for the children of military personnel until the local school district agrees in writing to operate and maintain such schools. Requires the setting aside for small business concerns of architectural, design, and engineering services contracts below a specified amount during FY 1985. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to exchange specified lands with the Colorado Board of Land Commissioners to acquire title to or interests in lands in the vicinity of Consolidated Space Operations Center, Falcon Air Force Station, Colorado. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey specified lands or an easement in perpetuity to such lands on the Marine Corps Air Station (helicopter), Tustin, California, to the Irvine Company or the cities of Tustin and Irvine for the development of a public thoroughfare. Requires the Irvine Company to convey to the United States certain rights to lands known as the Browning Corridor. Requires such cities and the Irvine Company to reimburse the United States for costs of replacing the helicopter training facility displaced by the conveyance above to them. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey lands on the March Air Force Base, California, to the Village West Foundation, San Bernardino, California, in exchange for lands of the same market value, the fair market value, or some combination of cash and land comprising the fair market value. Retains a right of reversion to the United States if such land is not used for permanent facilities for the Foundation within ten years, or in portions of the land which cease to be used for Foundation purposes during a 40-year period. Prohibits the Foundation from disposing of such land for 50 years. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey without consideration specified lands located in Lompoc, California, to the city of Lompoc for a permanent site for a space science museum or for related education and recreation purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey lease rights comprising specified lands and improvements to the San Diego Unified Port District, California, in exchange for a replacement facility and the costs of relocation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to exchange specified lands with the City of San Diego, California, or the San Diego Energy Recovery Project (SANDER) comprising or near the Naval Air Station, Miramar. Limits the use of construction funds for hospitals at Fort Lewis, Washington, and at Travis Air Force Base, California, to site preparation construction work. Title III: Department of Energy Matters - Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act, 1985 - Part A: National Security Programs - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1985 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs concerning the military applications of nuclear energy in the following areas: (1) naval reactors development; (2) weapons activities; (3) verification and control technology; (4) materials production; (5) defense waste and byproducts management; (6) nuclear safeguards and security; and (7) security investigations. Part B: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act: (1) where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser; and (2) for programs which have not been presented to or requested of Congress, unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of the Energy has presented to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Authorizes the Secretary to start any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of such project does not exceed $1,000,000. Sets forth procedures for approval of projects that exceed the 25 percent estimated cost provision, and exempts from such procedures any project which has an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs as appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate committees of Congress within 30 days of planning and design costs in excess of $300,000. Authorizes funds for emergency construction design pay increases. Permits funds to remain available until expended if so specified in an appropriation Act. Requires all litigation involving the atomic weapons testing program, including suits now filed against contractors who operate or operated Government-owned facilities relating to atomic energy national defense activities including weapons testing, to be maintained against the United States under the substantive and procedural requirements of the Federal Tort Claims Act. Requires the FY 1986 Department of Defense budget to reflect funding for research, development, testing, production, surveillance, and retirement of nuclear warheads or for the production of material needed for such warheads. Directs the Secretary of Energy to continue to carry out such activities on a reimbursable basis. Directs the President to establish within 30 days the Technical Review Group on Inertial Confinement Fusion to review the current inertial confinement fusion program of the United States and to report the results to the President and Congress in interim reports with a final report due January 1, 1986. Terminates such group upon the submission of the final report. Continues in force the provisions of Executive Order Numbered 12344 pertaining to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

A joint resolution designating July 17, 1984, as "Spanish-American War Veterans Day".

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1984

Designates July 17, 1984, as Spanish-American War Veterans Day.

A joint resolution to authorize the Armored Force Monument Committee, the United States Armor Association, the World Wars Tank Corps Association, the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, and the 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 14th, and 16th Armored Division Associations jointly to erect a memorial to the "American Armored Force" on United States Government property in Arlington, Virginia, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1984

Authorizes the Armed Force Monument Committee, the United States Armor Association, the World Wars Tank Corps Association, the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge, and the 1st, 4th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 14th, and 16th Armored Division Associations to erect a memorial in or near Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, to honor and commemorate the American Armored Force. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, with the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, to select the site and approve the design and plans. Obligates the United States to expenses of maintenance only. Requires the commencement of the erection of the memorial within five years with a certification of sufficiency of funds necessary before commencement.

Nuclear Arms Stability Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1984

Nuclear Arms Stability Act - Prohibits the use of FY 1985 appropriations for: (1) the procurement of the anti-satellite weapon system, the Space Defense Program; (2) flight testing any anti-satellite weapon while the Soviet Union observes its existing moratorium against such testing; and (3) the development and testing of an advanced anti-satellite weapon while the Soviet Union observes its existing moratorium against testing rocket-boosted interceptor anti-satellite weapons in space. Limits the amount of appropriations which may be used for programs forming the Strategic Defense Initiative program of the Department of Defense. Directs the Secretary of Defense to include a report on the funding of such programs with the annual Department budget request for FY 1986-1990. Prohibits the use of FY 1985 appropriations for the procurement or development of any strategic nuclear weapon, nuclear weapon system, or launcher for such weapon or system if to do so would contravene existing strategic arms policies as declared by the President in his 1982 Memorial Day address. Waives such limitations if the President certifies, with 30 days notice, that it is in the supreme national interest of the United States that such limitations no longer apply. Prohibits the Secretary from deploying a cruise missile designed to carry a nuclear warhead and be launched from a naval vessel until: (1) the President reports to Congress a method to determine whether such a missile is conventionally or nuclear armed and it is possible to verify the number of nuclear armed missiles; and (2) Congress specifically authorizes such deployment. Subjects Department of Energy appropriations for the W80-0 nuclear warhead for the tactical land attack missile-nuclear (TLAM-N) to the same restrictions. Prohibits the use of Department funds for the testing and production of the W81 warhead or for development of other warheads for anti-submarine weapons. Directs the President to report to Congress by January 19, 1985, justifying the continued reliance on nuclear warheads for tactical battlefield use. Directs the President to report to Congress regarding the net reduction by the United States in the number of tactical nuclear warheads in the territory of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) European member nations. Requires the President to report to Congress by January 19, 1985, on the rationale behind renovating or not renovating the NATO nuclear deterrent to reduce pressures for an early first strike and to reduce the nuclear arsenal, including NATO reliance on short-range nuclear weapons and the joining of control of tactical nuclear weapons in a single specialized command. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Armed Services Committees of Congress by January 19, 1985, on the survivability of the U.S. strategic nuclear ballistic missile submarine force. Directs the President to report to Congress by that same date on the required strategic counterforce capability of the United States consistent with the policy set forth in the President's letter of May 11, 1983, to Representative Albert Gore, Junior, in which the President agreed with the Scowcroft Commission's recommendation that the United States not develop a first-strike capability against the Soviet Union. Requires such report to include current and proposed U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles capability, including the MX missile, the D5 Trident missile, and the small single-warhead missile.

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1985

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1984

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1985 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in specified departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency (Agency) and the Department of Defense. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence or the Secretary of Defense to notify the appropriate congressional committees of any intent to spend funds other than as specifically authorized. Prohibits reprogramming or fund transfers except in restricted circumstances. Provides that the authorization of appropriations shall not constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence to employ civilian personnel in excess of the ceiling for such personnel when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Requires notice to the appropriate congressional committees whenever such authority is exercised. Title II: Intelligence Community Staff - Authorizes appropriations for Intelligence Community Staff for FY 1985. Establishes an end strength ceiling of 211 full-time Intelligence Community Staff employees. Title III: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. Title IV: Administrative Provisions Relating to Intelligence Agencies - Transfers to the Director of Central Intelligence from the Administrator of General Services authority to protect Agency facilities, property, and personnel. Title V: Defense Intelligence Agency Personnel Management Improvements - Revises certain management policies regarding civilian personnel within the Defense Intelligence Agency (including hiring and compensation). Exempts the Defense Intelligence Agency from civil service laws. Permits the Defense Intelligence Agency to withhold disclosure of information on its organization, function or personnel except for information required by the National Security Act of 1947. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to terminate employment of any civilian officer or employee when it is in the interest of the United States. Title VI: Representation Counterintelligence and Official Representation - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the numbers, status, privileges and immunities within the United States of official representatives of any foreign government engaged in intelligence activities harmful to U.S. security should not exceed the respective numbers, status, privileges and immunities within such country of official representatives of the United States. Makes the President responsible for action to achieve this goal with respect to the number of persons granted diplomatic status. Provides for annual reports by the President to the appropriate congressional committees on the actions taken to implement these objectives. Title VII: General Provisions - Allows increases in employee benefits as authorized by law.

A bill to name the Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the "Sergeant Alvin C. York Veterans' Administration Medical Center".

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1984

Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as the Sergeant Alvin C. York Veterans Administration Medical Center.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize contributions made by the Veterans' Administration to States for the construction of State home facilities for veterans to be used for acquisition of facilities for such purpose.

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1984

Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide States with funds for the acquisition as well as the construction of State home facilities for veterans.

A bill to amend section 2108 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that certain commissioned officers of the Public Health Service are preference eligibles for the purposes of such title.

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1984

Revises the definitions of "veteran" and "preference eligible" under specified provisions of Federal law concerning Federal employment to provide veterans' preference to commissioned Public Health Service officers who served during the Vietnam era.

A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to conduct a comprehensive study of the impact of nuclear winter on United States defense strategy and capabilities and report the results of such study to the appropriate committees of the Congress.

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1984

Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a comprehensive study of the implications presented to the defense capabilities and strategy of the United States by the atmospheric, climatic, environmental, and biological consequences of nuclear explosions known as "nuclear winter". Requires the Secretary to present both a classified and unclassified report to the Appropriations and Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives within one year.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize direct appropriations to the Veterans' Administration Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund.

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1984

Authorizes direct appropriations to the Veterans Administration Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund.

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the right of all Americans to keep and bear arms in defense of life or liberty and in the pursuit of all other legitimate endeavors.

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1984

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Constitution provides that all citizens have the right to keep and bear arms and that such right supersedes the power and authority of any government.

Donald C. Latham, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense. (New Position-Public Law 98-94 of September 24, 1983)

United States · United States Senate · 21 May 1984

Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1984

Veterans' Compensation Amendments for Fiscal Year 1985 - Title I: Disability Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation - Part A: Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; and (4) dependency and indemnity compensation. Part B: Compensation Program Amendments - Includes lupus erythematosus systemic among the chronic diseases considered to be service-connected for purposes of veterans' benefits if it manifests itself to a degree of ten percent or more within one year of separation from service. Decreases from 50 to 30 percent the percentage of disability required to make a peacetime service-connected disabled veteran eligible to receive additional compensation for dependents. Title II: Other Veterans' Program Improvements - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish the Advisory Committee on Veterans Exposed to Ionizing Radiation to advise the Administrator on benefits provided, compensation needs of veterans, dependents, and survivors, and disabilities or disorders stemming from a veteran's exposure to ionizing radiation during active military service. Requires the Committee to report to the Administrator by July 1, 1985, and biannually thereafter on activities of the Veterans Administration and recommendations for changes pertaining to veterans exposed to such radiation. Directs the Administrator to submit such report to Congress. Requires a permanently and totally disabled from a non-service-connected disability veteran under age 50 who applies for and receives a military pension to undergo a vocational evaluation. Allows any veteran who the Administrator of Veterans Affairs determines can achieve a vocational goal to undertake such training. Limits such training to 48 months. Suspends pension payment to any veteran failing to participate as required by the Administrator. Continues the drugs and medicine entitlement of housebound or regularly attended veterans who participate in vocational training without regard to income limitations. Increases the maximum amount of insurance available under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance program. Increases the amount of automobile and adaptive equipment assistance the Administrator of Veterans Affairs may provide to an eligible person.

A joint resolution designating August 4, 1984, as "National Legion of Valor Day".

United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1984

Designates August 4, 1984, as National Legion of Valor Day.

A bill to name the Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the "Sergeant Alvin C. York Veterans' Administration Medical Center.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1984

Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as the Sergeant Alvin C. York Veterans Administration Medical Center.

A bill to require the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to submit a report on alternatives for providing Federal assistance to certain civilians who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1984

Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to report to Congress within 180 days on providing Federal benefits, such as health care and monetary compensation for dioxin exposure or other traumas, to eligible civilians serving in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era.

A resolution providing for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 5504) to apportion funds for construction of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for fiscal years 1985 and 1986, to revise authorizations for mass transportation, to expand and improve the relocation assistance program, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1984

Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 5504 (Federal aid highway, mass transportation, and relocation assistance programs).

A joint resolution to designate the month of June 1984 as "Veterans' Preference Month".

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1984

Designates the month of June 1984 as Veterans' Preference Month.

A bill to require specific authorization before the introduction of any United States Armed Forces into hostilities in another state, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1984

Amends the War Powers Resolution to prohibit the United States from introducing U.S. armed forces into the territory of another state for combat purposes unless Congress has declared war or enacted specific authorization for such use of U.S. armed forces or the President has determined that such use of U.S. armed forces is necessary: (1) to repel, forestall, or retaliate for an attack upon the United States or its territories or possessions; (2) to repel and forestall an attack against the U.S. armed forces located outside the United States, its territories, and possessions; (3) to protect U.S. citizens while evacuating them from any country in which such citizens are being subjected to threats to their lives either sponsored by the country's government or beyond the control of the government, provided that the President makes every effort to end the threats without using U.S. armed forces and provided that the President, where possible, obtains the consent of the country's government before using such armed forces; or (4) to protect vital U.S. security interests in a sudden emergency that requires military intervention in less than five days. Requires the President to describe the grounds for introducing U.S. armed forces into another state in a report to Congress. Provides for expedited consideration of legislation seeking a declaration of war or specific authorization for the introduction of U.S. armed forces in another state for combat purposes.

A bill to establish a 10-year term for the position of Director of Central Intelligence and a 5-year term for the position of Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.

United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1984

Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to establish a ten-year term for the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and a five-year term for the Deputy Director.

A joint resolution to designate July 17, 1984, as "Spanish American War Veteran Day".

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1984

Designates July 17, 1984, as Spanish American War Veteran Day.

A bill to prohibit the introduction of United States Armed Forces into or over El Salvador or Nicaragua for combat, and to prohibit United States support for military and paramilitary operations against Nicaragua.

United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1984

Prohibits introducing U.S. armed forces into or over El Salvador or Nicaragua for combat purposes and prohibits obligating or spending U.S. funds for such introduction, unless: (1) the Congress has declared war or enacted specific authorization for such use of U.S. armed forces; or (2) such introduction of U.S. armed forces is necessary to meet a clear and present danger of hostile attack upon the United States or to meet a clear and present danger to, and to provide evacuation of, U.S. citizens. Requires the President, if U.S. forces enter El Salvador or Nicaragua under one of the exceptions to the prohibition, to describe the reasons for their actions to Congress. Provides for expedited consideration of legislation seeking a declaration of war or a specific authorization for the introduction of U.S. armed forces into or over Nicaragua or El Salvador. Prohibits U.S. agencies from providing any assistance or funding to support military or paramilitary operations in or against Nicaragua by any nation, group, organization, or individual.

A concurrent resolution requesting the President to call on pertinent member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and on Japan to meet their respective commitments to increase defense spending in 1983 and 1984.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984

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.

Veterans' Health Care Act of 1984

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984

Veterans' Health Care and Facilities Improvement Act of 1984 - Revises the requirements concerning the special policemen who protect Veterans Administration (VA) property. Increases the maximum fines for violations of regulations governing such property. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to appoint a chief inspector to supervise VA police officers. Sets forth requirements concerning police uniform design and cost reimbursement. Directs the Administrator to report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees within 90 days on the implementation of these provisions and the number and salary of officers proposed to be assigned to such facilities. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to furnish medical treatment to veterans of the Vietnam era who served in Southeast Asia and suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Limits treatment of such disorder to specified VA medical facilities. Directs the Administrator to compile and publish research results concerning the causes and treatment of such disorder. Terminates such assistance after FY 1988. Modifies the due date of the Comptroller General's report on the compliance of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget with certain statutory requirements relating to funded personnel ceilings for the VA's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Directs the Administrator to make an annual rather than a triennial report to Congress on the adequacy of per diem rates for payments made to States providing domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care to veterans. Makes the first report due June 30, 1985 (currently, due June 30, 1986). Extends from FY 1984 to FY 1985 the authority of the Administrator 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. Expands the amount of authorizations available for the research and education activities of Veterans Administration geriatric centers. Authorizes the Administrator to provide States with funds for the acquisition as well as the construction of State home facilities for veterans. Entitles veterans receiving service-connected disability compensation who are housebound or in need of regular aid to VA furnished drugs and medicines.

A bill to authorize the Eleventh Airborne Divison Association to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984

Authorizes the Eleventh Airborne Division Association to establish a memorial on Federal land located in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor the Eleventh Airborne Division, United States Army. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select, with the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Association, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Terminates the authority under this Act five years after enactment unless the site preparation has begun and it has been determined that funds are available to complete the memorial. Provides that the United States shall not be charged with any expenses associated with the establishment of the memorial. Directs the Secretary to maintain the memorial.

American Defense Education Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984

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 Secretray 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. Sets a limitation on the authorization of appropriations. Provides that no funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act for any fiscal year if the amount appropriated to carry out chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 for such fiscal year does not equal or exceed the amount appropriated to carry out such chapter for the preceding fiscal year.

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase certain dollar limitations under Veterans Administration housing programs, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1984

Increases the adapted housing benefit ceiling for veterans with specified permanent and total service-connected disabilities. Increases the maximum home loan guaranty available to eligible veterans generally and for the purchase of a manufactured home. Amends the national cemeteries and memorials provisions of Federal law to require that each grave marker in a national cemetery be upright.

Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985

United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1984

Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations in specified amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Sets forth specifications for the construction of family housing units at Fort Hood, Texas, and for the use of funds at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and at Fort Hamilton, New York. Directs the Secretary of the Army to contract for design or replacement facilities for the Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations. Authorizes expenditures to improve existing military family housing units. Sets forth specifications and funding arrangements for housing units at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Authorizes the Secretary to replace specified substandard housing units in the Sterling Homes Project, Oceanside, California. Authorizes the Secretary to convey as payment to the contractor title to the land and improvements thereon constituting Sterling Homes Project. Designates the naval hospital under construction in San Diego, California, as the Bob Wilson Naval Hospital. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes improvements to existing military family housing units, earmarking certain funds for energy conservation projects only. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units as specified. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Permits the Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units at specified installations. Permits expenditures to improve existing units. Amends the Military Construction Authorizations Act, 1984, to increase the authorizations level for defense agency construction in FY 1984. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations and Recurring Administrative Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total cost of all projects to the total amounts authorized to be appropriated for each military department concerned and amounts available to the Department from previous appropriations. Establishes maximum amounts on certain expenditures, including unspecified minor military construction projects and per unit improvement and rental costs for military family housing. Provides for a supplemental authorization for FY 1984 for a military construction project at the Naval Station, Keflavik, Iceland. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1984 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Increases from $50,000 to $100,000 the ceiling on facility acquisitions which the Secretary of Defense may make using funds available for operations and maintenance. Expands the authority of the Secretary to contribute funds to a State for arms storage rooms to encompass any critical portion of state facilities related to a Federal military mission. Title VIII: General Provisions - Expands the liability of a member of the armed forces for damage to housing, equipment, and furnishing to include damage to an unaccompanied personnel housing unit as well as to a family unit. Permits the Secretary to establish limitations of liability or to compromise or waive claims. Treats land acquisition projects involving condemned lands the same as all other land acquisition projects conducted by a military department. Increases from five to 12 the percent of available real property funds a Secretary of a military department may use to acquire options. Authorizes a Secretary of a military department to use operation and maintenance or construction funds to restore land to a condition required by another military department or Federal agency which has permitted such land to be used by the department. Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from storing non-Department owned toxic or hazardous materials in a Department installation. Excludes from such prohibition the storage of materials in the National Defense Stockpile, the temporary storage of explosives to protect the public or assist law enforcement or civil authorities, the temporary storage of nuclear or classfied materials, and other specified emergency storage. Permits the Secretary to charge for such storage. Permits the Secretary of each military department to enter into one contract for no more than 600 family housing units at one location to accommodate a major restationing action. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to exchange specified lands with the Colorado Board of Land Commissioners to acquire title to or interests in lands in the vicinity of Consolidate Space Operations Center, Falcon Air Force Station, Colorado. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey specified lands at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, to the Naval Academy Athletic Association for fair market value. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey specified lands or an easement in perpetuity to such lands on the Marine Corps Air Station (helicopter), Tustin, California, to the Irving Company or the cities of Tustin and Irvine for the development of a public thoroughfare. Requires the Irvine Company to convey certain rights to lands known as the Browning Corridor and the cities and the Irvine Company to reimburse the United States for costs of replacing the facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey lands on the March Air Force Base, California, to the Village West Foundation, San Bernardino, California, in exchange for lands of the same market value, the fair market value, or some combination of cash and land comprising the fair market value. Retains a right of reversion to the United States if such land is not used for permanent facilities for the Foundation within ten years, or in portions of the land which cease to be used for Foundation purposes during a 40 year period. Prohibits the Foundation from disposing of such land for 50 years. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey without consideration specified lands located in Lompoc, California, to the city of Lompoc for a permanent site for a space science museum or for related education and recreation purposes.

Arms Race Moratorium Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Arms Race Moratorium Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately communicate to the Soviet Union the willingness of the United States to enter into a mutual United States - Soviet Union moratorium on the flight testing and deployment of new ballistic missiles and anti-satellite weapons and the testing of nuclear warheads. Prohibits spending or obligating any U.S. funds for the flight testing or deployment of new ballistic missiles, the flight testing against objects in space or the deployment of anti-satellite weapons, or the testing of nuclear warheads if, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the President has not made such a communication with the Soviet Union and, within such period, the Soviet Union communicates to the President that at the end of the 90 days the Soviet Union will observe a mutual United States - Soviet Union moratorium on such testing and deployment. Authorizes U.S. funding for such testing and deployment if, after the beginning of the moratorium, the President certifies to Congress that the Soviet Union has conducted a test or deployed a missile or anti-satellite weapon or tested a nuclear warhead inconsistent with the moratorium. Requires the President, as part of such certification, to submit to Congress an unclassified report summarizing the basis for the certification and a classified report describing in detail the basis for the certification. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress: (1) on the progress in negotiating nuclear arms control agreements with the Soviet Union; and (2) on whether the President believes that continuation of the moratorium is in the best national security interests of the United States. Authorizes Congress, if the President states that continuation of the moratorium is not in the best national security interests of the United States, to enact a joint resolution which terminates the moratorium and permits funds, to be used for testing and deployment.

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 - Sets forth purposes of this Act, including authorizing appropriations for the Department of Defense for FY 1985 at levels consistent with a strong national defense and a sound national economy minimizing the risk of nuclear confrontation, eliminating waste and abuse in the defense budget, and altering certain personnel and management policies. Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for procurement for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1985. Prohibits the use of such funds for: (1) the Pershing II missile program; (2) the sea-launched cruise missile program; (3) the MX missile program, the ground-launched cruise missile program, the B-1B bomber program, or antisatellite weapons; and (4) binary chemical weapons. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for research, development, test, and evaluation for the armed forces and the defense agencies for FY 1985. Prohibits the use of such funds for the Trident II missile program and the same weapons programs as are prohibited in Title I. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for the military functions of the Department for operation and maintenance for FY 1985, including funds for increases in civilian employee pay and benefits, unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, and inflation. Prohibits the use of funds for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. Title IV: Personnel - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel for the armed forces. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the Selected Reserve of the armed forces reserves. Requires the proportional reduction in such strength as specified. Authorizes average strengths for members of the Reserves serving on full-time active duty in support of the reserve components. Part C: Military Training - Authorizes military training student loads for components of the armed forces for FY 1985. Title V: Personnel Management - Waives the civilian personnel ceiling for FY 1985. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to recruit an increasing percent of women during FY 1986-1988. Establishes in the Department the Defense Advisory Committee on Women to be composed of nonservicemembers to advise the Secretary on matters relating to the service of women in the armed forces. Requires the Committee to report to the Secretary annually, such report to then be transmitted to the Armed Services Committees of Congress. Title VI: Compensation Matters - Increases the rates of basic pay by 3.5 percent, effective January 1, 1985. Title VII: Educational Assistance Programs - Establishes a new educational assistance program for the all-volunteer force. Excludes graduates of service academies from eligibility for such assistance. Entitles veterans who are graduates of a secondary school and who have served in the armed forces on continuous active duty for at least three years to basic educational assistance. Entitles veterans of the Selected Reserve who are graduates of secondary school and who have served at least two years of continuous active duty in the armed forces and at least four years of continuous duty in the Selected Reserve to basic educational assistance. Sets forth the formula for determining the length of such assistance based on the length of time served. Entitles such veterans to a monthly assistance allowance of $200 for a full-time approved program of education. Permits the Secretary concerned to establish a higher rate of assistance, but not more than $400 a month, for individuals possessing a skill or specialty designated as being in critical shortage. Permits enrollment, if eligible, in a program of education while an individual continues to perform his duties. Entitles veterans who have served five or more consecutive years of active duty in addition to those required for basic educational assistance to supplemental educational assistance. Entitles veterans of the Selected Reserve who have served two or more consecutive years of active duty and four or more consecutive years of duty in the reserves in addition to that required for basic educational assistance to supplemental educational assistance. Entitles such veterans to a monthly supplemental assistance allowance of $100 a month. Permits the provision of assistance at a higher rate, but not more than $300 monthly, to any individual entitled to basic educational assistance who has a skill or specialty in which there is a critical shortage of personnel. Permits the Secretary of Defense to authorize specified individuals to transfer to a dependent part or all of such individuals' entitlement to educational assistance. Sets forth the conditions under which transferred benefits may be provided. Establishes a ten year delimiting period for educational assistance. Excludes from such ten-year limitation: (1) time spent as a prisoner of war subsequent to discharges; and (2) spent physically or mentally disabled. Limits educational assistance to individuals being furnished subsistence to the amount an institution would charge similarly circumstanced nonveterans. Prohibits participation in more than one program of educational assistance. Allocates the administration and costs of such programs to the Veterans Administration, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund. Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator to submit to Congress a biennial report on the operations of such programs. Amends the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1977 to terminate the right to enroll in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program after December 31, 1984. Directs (rather than permits) the Secretary of each military department to establish a program to provide educational assistance to members of the Selected Reserve who agree to remain in such Reserve for at least six years. Sets forth the amount of such assistance. Requires that such assistance be given for pre-degree work at an institution of higher learning. Sets forth further eligibility requirements for such assistance. Establishes a delimiting period of ten years from the date of entitlement or from the date of separation from service, whichever comes first. Prohibits the provision of assistance to any member already receiving assistance as a member of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program or a member who fails to perform satisfactorily in training. Expands the penalties for failure to participate satisfactorily in such program to include orders to active duty. Designates the Veterans Administration to administer such program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress annually rather than quarterly on its operation. Establishes in the Treasury a Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund to be administered by the Secretary of the Treasury for the accumulation of funds to finance Department education liabilities on an actuarially sound basis. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer amounts from the Fund to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs and to the Secretary of Defense as necessary to make required payments. Establishes in the Department of Defense a Department of Defense Education Benefits Board of Actuaries to: (1) report annually to the Secretary on the actuarial status of the Fund; (2) report not less than every four years to Congress and the President on the valuations and status of the fund; and (3) determine the present value of future benefits payable from the Fund. Directs the Secretary to: (1) make periodic actuarial valuations of the educational programs; (2) determine an amortization methodology and schedule for the liquidation of gains or losses to the Fund; and (3) determine the amount necessary to be appropriated for the Fund for each fiscal year. Sets forth other terms and conditions for administering such Fund. Permits the Secretary concerned to grant an eligible member a leave of absence of not more than two years for such member to pursue a program of education. Sets forth the terms and conditions for such leave. Requires the Secretary concerned to provide individual predischarge counseling which includes a discussion of educational benefit entitlements. Title VIII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1985 to carry out the provisions of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Prohibits the use of funds for population relocation in time of crisis. Title IX: General Provisions - Directs the President to report to Congress, within 90 days, on the effect of current and projected levels of defense spending on the economy. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish programs to provide economic readjustment assistance to communities and workers affected by reductions in weapons and other defense programs provided for under this Act, including job training and relocation, emergency economic assistance and health care benefits. Authorizes appropriations.

A concurrent resolution authorizing use of the rotunda of the Capitol to honor the unknown American who lost his life while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era and who has been selected to be buried in the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery.

United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1984

Authorizes the use of the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, from May 25- 28, 1984, for the remains of the unknown American of the Vietnam era to lie in state.

Arms Race Moratorium Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1984

Arms Race Moratorium Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately communicate to the Soviet Union the willingness of the United States to enter into a mutual United States - Soviet Union moratorium on the flight testing and deployment of new ballistic missiles and anti-satellite weapons and the testing of nuclear warheads. Prohibits spending or obligating any U.S. funds for the flight testing or deployment of new ballistic missiles, the flight testing against objects in space or the deployment of anti-satellite weapons, or the testing of nuclear warheads if, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the President has not made such a communication with the Soviet Union and, within such period, the Soviet Union communicates to the President that at the end of the 90 days the Soviet Union will observe a mutual United States - Soviet Union moratorium on such testing and deployment. Authorizes U.S. funding for such testing and deployment if, after the beginning of the moratorium, the President certifies to Congress that the Soviet Union has conducted a test or deployed a missile or anti-satellite weapon or tested a nuclear warhead inconsistent with the moratorium. Requires the President, as part of such certification, to submit to Congress an unclassified report summarizing the basis for the certification and a classified report describing in detail the basis for the certification. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress: (1) on the progress in negotiating nuclear arms control agreements with the Soviet Union; (2) on whether the President believes that continuation of the moratorium is in the best national security interests of the United States. Authorizes Congress, if the President states that continuation of the moratorium is not in the best national security interests of the United States, to enact a joint resolution which terminates the moratorium and permits funds, to be used for testing and deployment.

A bill to exempt certain veterans of the Armed Forces from registering for Military Selective Service.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1984

Amends the Military Selective Service Act to exclude from the registration requirement, honorably discharged veterans of the armed forces who served at least one year.

A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal program of impact aid with respect to the children of military personnel should be transferred to the Secretary of Defense.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1984

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should, as soon as practicable, take such actions as may be necessary to transfer to the Secretary of Defense the responsibility for compensating local school districts for the education of children of military dependents.