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United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1981
Increases the number of Assistant Secretaries of Defense, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. Designates one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1981
Raises from thirty-five to forty-five the maximum age at which an individual may receive an original appointment as a commissioned officer in a regular component of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1981
Entitles specified members of the armed forces reserves who did not perform active duty before August 16, 1945, to retirement pay.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1981
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) restore the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to its full and proper role of safeguarding the national security; (2) pursue all legislative and constitutional options to halt public disclosure of intelligence personnel; and (3) recommend funding to Congress to adequately compensate CIA personnel serving overseas and the survivors of such employees who die in the line of duty.
United States · United States Senate · 4 September 1981
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1981
Entitles members of the armed forces on active duty to legal assistance in connection with their personal affairs. Permits the provision of such services to dependents and retirees and their dependents as resources allow.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1981
Amends the War Claims Act of 1948 to authorize the War Claims Commission to pay an evader $10 for each day such person spent in hiding during World War II to evade capture.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1981
Entitles members of the armed forces on active duty to legal assistance in connection with their personal affairs. Permits the provision of such services to dependents and retirees and their dependents as resources allow.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1981
Amends the Federal criminal code to make it a defense to a Federal prosecution that the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked the state of mind required as an element of the offense (current law contains no statutory insanity defense). Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty only by reason of insanity" for any criminal defendant who raises the issue of insanity by notice as provided by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Requires that any person found not guilty only by reason of insanity be committed to a facility until eligible for release. Requires the court to commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that the person is currently suffering from a mental disease or defect and his release would create a significant risk of bodily injury to another person or serious damage to property of another. Directs the Attoney General to release such person to a State which will assume responsibility for his custody and treatment or otherwise to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create significant risk of injury or property damage. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered. Provides for the hospitalization of convicted persons who are found to suffer from mental disease or defect.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1981
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to establish a national cemetery in Maricopa County, Arizona, on the site of and coextensive with the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1981
Changes from 90 to 180 days the time limitation under which the President may order members of the Selected Reserve to active duty other than during war or national emergency. Increases from 100,000 to 250,000 the number of members who may be so ordered. Authorizes the President, during such period, to suspend applicable law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation. Directs the President to give Congress written notification of any national security reasons requiring the extension of the time limit.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1981
Increases the number of Assistant Secretaries of Defense, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force. Designates one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1981
Department of Energy National Security Programs Authorization Act of 1982 - Title I: National Security Programs - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 to the Department of Energy for operating expenses incurred in carrying out national security programs, including scientific research and development, strategic and critical materials necessary for common defense, military applications of nuclear energy, and additional authorizations for specific projects. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act 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. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, Congress unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of Energy has presented to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of such requirement where such waiver is approved in writing by each appropriate congressional committee. 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 approving projects that exceed the 125 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. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees in writing of projects exceeding $300,000. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to grant the Department of Energy the authority to prohibit the dissemination of unclassified information concerning atomic energy defense programs which could have a significant adverse affect on the health, safety, and security of the public. Limits the preparation of environmental impact statements by the Department of Energy to exceptional Federal actions affecting atomic energy defense programs representing a significant departure from current operations and having the potential to significantly affect the quality of the human environment. Prohibits the use of authorized funds for such purpose except as specified.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1981
Designates the Veterans' Administration medical center in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the "Richard L. Roudebush Veterans' Medical Center."
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1981
Repeals the delimiting period for the use of educational assistance benefits by Vietnam-era veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1981
Comprehensive Vietnam Veterans Research and Training Act of 1981 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out a program of literature review, research and studies of potential physiological and psychological healthcare detriments affecting Vietnam veterans. Includes among the health hazards to be studied, exposure to herbicides, chemicals, medications, diseases, environmental hazards, psychological stress and post-traumatic stress disorders. Directs the Administrator to train Veterans Administration personnel to counsel, screen, test, evaluate and treat the unique needs of these veterans. Requires the training program to include information on screening for various health hazards, particularly agent orange exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder. Requires the Administrator to submit to Congress within nine months recommendations for further research and analysis. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982 and subsequent years to carry out such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1981
Vietnam Veterans Delayed Reentry and Pscyhological Readjustment and Vocational Rehabilitation Assistance Act of 1981 - Entitles Vietnam-era veterans determined to be in need of mental health services to such services on an outpatient basis as a non-compensable service-connected disability. Entitles veterans whose employability is determined to be significantly impeded by such disability to vocational rehabilitation assistance. Requires the Chief Benefits Director of the Veterans' Administration to provide for the training of persons needed to carry out this program.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1981
Entitles veterans eligible for medical services to chiropractic treatment upon request.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1981
Entitles to an annuity the surviving spouses of military retirees who died before September 21, 1972, but after thier discharge or release from active duty. Requires such annuity benefits to be equal to those of surviving spouses of former members of the armed forces who died before that date while still on active duty after becoming eligible to retire.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1981
Establishes a presumption of service-connection for disability compensation purposes for the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis developed to at least a ten percent degree within seven years of separation from service during a period of war.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1981
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to reimburse any employee assigned to recruiting duties for expenses incurred in connection with such duties.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1981
Amends the CHAMPUS program to include chiropractic care.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1981
Critical Materials Act of 1981 - Establishes a Council on Critical Materials in the Executive Office of the President to: (1) advise the President on national policy concerning critical materials; (2) coordinate Federal policies and activities concerning such materials; (3) evaluate Government activities according to the policy and directions provided under the National Materials and Minerals Policy, Research and Development Act of 1980; and (4) oversee and coordinate materials research and development programs of Federal entities. Sets forth duties of the Council's executive director, which include: (1) cataloging materials research and development activities of public and private institutions; (2) evaluating the critical materials needs of basic industry and the Government; (3) initiating studies to resolve national critical materials problems; (4) issuing a biennial report providing a domestic inventory of critical resources with projections on the needs for such resources; and (5) recommending necessary changes in policies, regulations, and legislation to Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1981
Repeals the requirement that the Secretary of Defense request suggestions for improving procurement policies from commissioned officers and certain civilian employees who are scheduled for retirement.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1981
Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act of 1981 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act of 1979 to direct the President to appoint an interagency advisory committee to determine; (1) which materials are strategic and critical to the United States; (2) how much of such material should be stockpiled, and (3) what classification such material should be assigned. Sets forth a formula for determining the quantities of each classification of material to be imported. Requires that each stockpiled goal be reviewed at least every four years by the interagency committee. Requires the President, upon the committee's determination, to notify the congressional armed services committees of any proposed new formula for computing the stockpile goal for a particular material. Makes such new goal and formula effective 90 days after such notification unless Congress agrees to a resolution of disapproval. Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to require that moneys received from the sale of stock pile materials be used to acquire strategic and critical materials.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1981
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to contract for the use of publicly or privately owned facilities in Las Vegas, Nevada, to provide hospital care to veterans with service-connected disabilities. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1981
Military Construction Appropriation Act, 1982 - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for military construction for: (1) the Army; (2) the Navy; (3) the Air Force; (4) Defense Agencies; (5) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) 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, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Defense agencies; and (12) the Homeowners Assistance Fund established by the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Prohibits the expenditure of funds under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work without the approval of the Secretary of Defense, except as specified. Prohibits the use of funds for additional costs involved in expediting construction without the Secretary's certification of necessity. Prohibits the use of funds for the construction of specified facilities including bakeries and cleaning facilities unless such services are not obtainable commercially. Permits the use of funds for the hire of passenger motor vehicles. Permits the use of funds for advances for the construction of access roads for projects certified by the Secretary as important to the national defense. Prohibits the use of funds for the construction of new bases without specific appropriations. Prohibits the use of funds for the dredging in the Indian Ocean by foreign contractors. Prohibits the use of funds for the installation of solar energy systems in new facilities unless such systems are cost effective. Prohibits the use of funds for the design of site-specific facilities for the MX missile system unless there is compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act. Prohibits the use of funds to pay real property taxes in any foreign nation. Prohibits the use of funds for the construction of facilities at a Naval hospital or medical center in San Diego, California, unless the property is owned by the United States. Prohibits the use of funds to reimburse a contractor for the services of illegal aliens. Limits the use of funds for any consulting service through procurement contract. Permits the obligation of funds before the end of the fourth fiscal year after the fiscal year for which the funds were appropriated, as specified.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1981
Designates the Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Dublin, Georgia, as the Carl Vinson Veterans' Administration Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1981
Entitles to educational assistance benefits veterans who served on active duty after September 30, 1981. Eliminates the delimiting period for such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1981
Increases the number of Assistant Secretaries of Defense, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1981
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to Japanese residing in Guam during World War II compensation for damages inflicted by the armed forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1981
Excludes from the amount of the survivor benefit to which a widow or widower is entitled under Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance payments based solely on employment in the armed forces, an amount equal to any reduction made in such benefit due to the widow's or widower's receipt of public retirement benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1981
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act and the Department of Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to repeal the mandate to transfer the education program for defense dependents in overseas areas from the Department of Defense to the Department of Education. Requires a report to the Congress on a study of the education system by January 1, 1983. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Education to assure the continued administration of such system pursuant to the Education Amendments of 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1981
Directs the Secretary of State to offer a reward for information leading to the discovery of an Army sergeant who disappeared following a helicopter crash in Ecuador. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1981
Increases the maximum amount of coverage under both the Servicemen's and the Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs to $35,000.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1981
Intelligence Identities Protection Act - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 by adding a new title V: Protection of Certain National Security Information. Establishes criminal penalties for whoever, having had authorized access to classified information, intentionally discloses information that identifies a covert agent, knowing that the information so identifies such individual and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such individual's intelligence relationship to the United States. Establishes criminal penalties for whoever, having had authorized access to classified information, learns the identity of a covert agent and intentionally discloses such information, knowing that the information so identifies such agent and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such agent's relationship to the United States. Establishes criminal penalties for whoever, in the course of an effort to identify covert agents and with intent to impair U.S. foreign intelligence activities, discloses information that identifies a covert agent, knowing that the information so identifies such individual and that the United States is taking affirmative measures to conceal such person's intelligence relationship with the United States. Makes it a defense to such crimes that before the commission of the offense the United States had publicly acknowledged or revealed the intelligence relationship of the individual to the United States. Provides that no person other than the person committing such offense shall be subject to prosecution, except with respect to those acting in the course of an effort to identify and expose covert agents with intent to impair U.S. intelligence activities. States that it shall not be an offense to transmit such information directly to the Congressional intelligence committees. Directs the President to establish procedures to ensure that any employee of an intelligence agency or any member of the Armed Forces assigned to intelligence duties whose identity is classified information is afforded all appropriate assistance to conceal his identity.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1981
Provides that applicable State law shall determine the disposition of retired or retainer pay upon the dissolution of a marriage of any member or former member of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1981
Changes the 90-day limitation under which the President may order members of the Selected Reserve to active duty other than during war or national emergency to such length of time as he considers necessary to protect the national security. Repeals the provision of law limiting the number of members who may be so ordered. Authorizes the President, during such period, to suspend applicable law relating to promotion, retirement, or separation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1981
Increases the maximum loan period for home loans guaranteed by the Veterans' Administration for the purchase of single-wide and double-wide mobile homes.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1981
Urges the President to designate an aircraft carrier as the United States ship Wasp.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1981
Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration to donate to a State or local government any Federal personal property which: (1) was transferred by the Department of Defense to the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency by July 15, 1979; (2) is on loan to such a government under an agreement executed by such Agency; (3) was transferred with the property and functions of such Agency to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); and (4) the Director of FEMA certifies is being used for civil defense purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1981
Entitles individuals who performed service as National Guard technicians before January 1, 1969, to credit for such service when determining length of service for purposes of civil service retirement, leave, employee death and disability compensation, group life and health insurance, severance pay, tenure, and status.
United States · United States Senate · 30 June 1981
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1981
Extends for four years the authorization of appropriations for State home facilities to furnish domiciliary, nursing home, and hospital care to eligible veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1981
Directs the Secretary of the Army to erect a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery to honor combat glider pilots during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1981
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a study to determine whether there is a relationship between the exposure of members of the U.S. armed forces to nuclear radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and any abnormal health symptoms currently exhibited by such individuals. Requires a report to Congress within two years of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1981
Directs the President to establish a tomb for the Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1981
Authorizes appointment of a Northern Mariana Islands citizen who is qualified and indicates an intent to become a U.S. citizen: (1) as an officer in the U.S. armed forces; (2) in the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and (3) in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship program. Declares that this Act expires upon the establishment of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1981
Amends the Military Survivor Benefit Plan to create more options for providing an annuity and designating beneficiaries. Permits a remarried participant to irrevocably elect within a year whether or not to provide an annuity for the new spouse. Permits a participant to again designate as beneficiary a natural person with an insurable interest in the participant if an initial beneficiary of the same type predeceases the participant. Reduces the amount of an annuity when the widow or widower receives social security benefits based solely on the service of the participant unless such annuity is already being reduced based on the widow's or widower's government service. Permits a participant with a dependent child but no current spouse to discontinue participation in the Plan.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1981
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1981 - Title I: Veterans' Disability Compensation Benefits - Increases the rates of veterans' compensation for: (1) wartime disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for dependents; and (3) clothing allowances paid to certain disabled veterans. Title II: Survivors' Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Benefits - Increases the rates of veterans' dependency and indemnity compensation for: (1) a surviving spouse; (2) surviving children; and (3) supplemental children's benefits. Provides for the adjustment of such benefits when the entitlement of a child is established retroactively or a child reaches age 18. Title III: Life Insurance Program Amendments - Increases the maximum amount of insurance coverage under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance Program. Permits a member of the Retired Reserve of a uniformed service to obtain increased coverage as specified. Increases the maximum amount of insurance coverage under the Veterans' Group Life Insurance Program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations for the administration of the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance Program by the Secretaries of the military departments. Permits the first beneficiary under a National Service Life Insurance policy to elect to receive payment in a lump sum. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to notify each individual insured under such policy or a United States Government Life Insurance policy of such changes and to provide forms for the election of a mode of payment. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - States that a funded personnel ceiling shall be provided to the Veterans' Administration. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to certify to the appropriate committees of Congress and to the Comptroller General that such ceiling has been provided. Directs the Comptroller General to report to the appropriate committees of Congress as to whether the Director has complied with such requirement. Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, before reorganizing or redistributing the functions of the bureaus, agencies, offices, or activities within the Veterans' Administration, to submit to Congress for 60 days a plan describing proposed changes. Makes such plan effective if neither House of Congress adopts a resolution of disapproval. Requires a veteran to have completed at least 24 months of an obligated period of service before such veteran is eligible for benefits administered by the Veterans' Administration, including disability benefits, hospital and medical care, and burial benefits. Preserves the right of certain blind veterans being furnished hospital or nursing home care in a Veterans' Administration blind rehabilitation center or clinic to continue to receive full pensions.