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United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Provides for a 15-year delimiting period for a veteran to complete a program of education.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Directs the Small Business Administration to assign a break-out procurement center representative to each major procurement center to review and evaluate the procurement methods for military items and develop and implement appropriate changes based on these findings. Directs the Director of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization of the Department of Defense to assign technical advisors to assist each break-out procurement center representative. Requires each major procurement center to submit quarterly reports to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, and the Comptroller General regarding the cost savings through the use of break-out procurement procedures. Authorizes the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to pay a cash award to employees of the two major procurement centers which achieve the greatest percentage of savings through the use of break-out procurement procedures. Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress regarding break-out procurement procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Designates August 4, 1984, as Coast Guard Day.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1983
Designates July 20, 1984, as National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Peace-Time Veterans' Educational Assistance Act - Establishes a new educational assistance program for the peace-time 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 schools and who have served at least two years of continuous active 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 $300 for a full-time approved program of education. Permits enrollment, if eligible, in a program of education while an individual continues to perform his duties. Entitles veterans who have served three or more consecutive years of active duty in addition to those required for basic educational assistance to supplemental educational assistance. Entitles such veterans to a monthly supplemental assistance allowance of $300 a month. Permits the provision of basic or supplemental assistance at a higher rate to any individual entitled to supplemental educational assistance who has a skill or specialty in which there is a critical shortage of personnel. Establishes a ten year delimiting period for educational assistance. Excludes time spent as a prisoner of war subsequent to discharges and time spent physically or mentally disabled. Excludes time an individual was in an alcohol or drug dependence or drug abuse condition if recognized treatment has been sought and the condition is under control. Directs the Administrator to suspend payment of an educational assistance allowance for any reservist failing to fullfill Reserve obligations. 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. Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator to submit to Congress an annual report on the operations of such programs. Establishes a Career Members' Contributory Educational Assistance Program for members of the armed forces serving on active duty who have completed ten years of service. Allows such members to enroll in such educational benefits program by contributing a monthly deduction to the Career Member Education Account. Limits such contributions to not less than $25 but not more than $100. Authorizes the Secretary to match such contributions at a two for one rate after 24 months of participation by any member and to contribute additional amounts he deems necessary to encourage persons to remain in the armed forces. Provides procedures for refunds of contributions due to: (1) disenrollment from such program; (2) death of a participant; and (3) discharge of release under conditions which would bar the use of educational benefits. Sets forth the formula for determining the amount of entitlement and the methods of payments of benefits to eligible members who pursue a program of education. Authorizes eligible veterans to transfer their educational benefits to their spouses or children in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Limits educational assistance under such program to the date ten years beyond an eligible veteran's discharge or release date. Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the Administrator each month on deductions made from the military pay of program participants. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to transfer funds for administrative costs to the Administrator. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to grant leaves of absence (not to exceed 24 months) to eligible members of the armed forces to pursue a program of education. Requires members granted such leave to agree in writing to extend their active duty service for a period of two months for each month of leave of absence. Allows payment to such members of basic allowance for quarters and subsistence while on such leave. Sets forth the circumstances under which the Secretary may cancel such leaves of absence. Requires the Secretary concerned to provide individual predischarge counseling which includes a discussion of educational benefit entitlements. Makes persons who enter the military service after December 31, 1980, ineligible for participation in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program. Eliminates the delimiting period for the Veterans' educational assistance program for veterans who enlisted or served before January 1, 1977. Requires the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Transportation to transfer payment and administrative funds to the Administrator for such program. Sets forth effective dates.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Authorizes veterans' hospital and medical care for certain World War II Members of the Canadian Armed Forces who: (1) have been United States citizens for ten years or longer; and (2) are not receiving or are not eligible for equivalent Canadian veterans' benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Prohibits sending combat troops into Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua for training exercises or any other purposes unless: (1) Congress has authorized their presence in advance by a joint resolution signed by the President; or (2) the presence of such troops is necessary to provide for the immediate evacuation of U.S. citizens, or to respond to a clear and present danger of military attack on the United States. Declares that, in either case, the President should advise and, to the extent possible, consult in advance with the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Prohibits sending combat troops into Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, or Nicaragua for training exercises or any other purposes unless: (1) Congress has authorized their presence in advance by a joint resolution signed by the President; or (2) the presence of such troops is necessary to provide for the immediate evacuation of U.S. citizens, or to respond to a clear and present danger of military attack on the United States. Declares that, in either case, the President should advise and consult, to the extent possible, in advance with the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Provides for the recomputation of the military pensions of certain veterans who were called or ordered to active duty between October 1, 1963, and September 30, 1971.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1983
Insanity Defense Reform Act of 1983 - Amends the Federal criminal code to make it an affirmative defense to a Federal prosecution that the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked the ability to understand the nature and quality of the act or lacked the ability to distinguish right and wrong with respect to the act. Places the burden of proof of insanity on the defendant. 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 a preponderance of the evidence that the person is currently suffering from a mental disease or defect and his release would create a substantial danger to himself or herself or another person or serious damage to the property of another. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to a mental hospital or other suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create a substantial danger. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered. Provides for a special verdict of "guilty but mentally ill." Directs the Attorney General to take action to assure that a person found guilty but mentally ill receives appropriate treatment for any mental illness occurring during the term of such sentence.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1983
Designates February 14 of each year as National Salute to Hospitalized Veterans' Day.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1983
Directs the President to designate a Federal agency as the custodian of Pershing Hall, Paris, France. Permits such Federal agency to enter into an agreement with the Reserve Officers Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars to maintain Pershing Hall as a memorial. Allows the Reserve Officers Association and the Veterans of Foreign Wars to contract with a nonprofit foundation to operate and maintain Pershing Hall.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1983
Joint Chiefs of Staff Reorganization Act of 1983 - Establishes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after the Secretary of Defense in the chain of combatant commands. Eliminates the numerical restriction on the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Sets forth the terms and conditions of service on the Joint Staff by officer personnel. Grants each officer serving as a chief of service or as the commander of a unified or specified command an opportunity to comment on reports of the Staff before their submittal to the Joint Chiefs. Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure the independence of the Joint Staff. Makes the Chairman a member of the National Security Council.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1983
Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as the James E. Van Zandt Veterans Administration Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1983
Defense Industrial Base Revitalization Act - Title I: Industrial Modernization and Strategic and Critical Materials - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to direct the President to take immediate action to assist in the modernization of industries which are related to defense. Limits such assistance to small and medium-sized businesses unless national security requires otherwise. Directs the Secretary of Defense to determine immediately and semiannually which industries should be given priority and the type of assistance which would be most helpful. Requires each proposal to include a financial plan which specifies how the assistance offered will insure that the company involved will become more economically viable. Directs the President to assist persons expanding the domestic capability to produce or process critical and strategic materials. Sets forth the terms of such assistance, including qualification through public solicitation and the President's right to refuse delivery of items exceeding market price. Prohibits the extension of assistance for establishments relocating from one area to another or for persons divesting other persons of contracts customarily performed by them. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1986. Permits the President to utilize the borrowing authority of the Treasury as specified and to use unobligated funds in Department of Defense appropriations. Limits the amount of funds used to the amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Title II: Defense-Related Skill Training and Education -- Directs the President to implement a national program to train workers in skills necessary in key defense industries. Requires the Secretary of Defense to transmit to the President recommendations as to the necessary skills. Makes assistance available through grants to Governors for allotment to State vocational education programs in States with previously approved plans for a three-year program of skills training. Requires that the State job training coordinating council be given an opportunity to participate in the development of, review of, and comment on such plan. Requires each State to make contributions to such program of ten percent of its costs to qualify for extensions of such programs. Directs the President to implement a grant program to assist institutions of higher education in obtaining and installing modern equipment to train scientific and technical personnel needed in the key industries. Sets forth the terms of such assistance, including application procedures, limits on grants, and the requirement that such equipment be purchased through competitive bidding. Requires such equipment to be of U.S. origin. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1984-1986. Directs the Comptroller General to monitor this program and submit an annual report to Congress. Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to study the public facilities or infrastructure essential to the defense industrial base and report to Congress on recommendations for measures to avoid serious impediments to production. Sets forth the labor standard to be maintained on any project funded under this Act, including compliance with the wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act. Directs the President to transmit to Congress every six months a listing of all loans, loan guarantees, and commitments for loan guarantees made in assisting in the modernization of defense-related industries. Title III: Amendments to Defense Production Act of 1950 - Requires each executive department and agency to follow the principle of geographical dispersal to the degree possible in constructing any Government-owned industrial facility. Directs such departments and agencies to continuously assess the capability of the defense industrial base to satisfy near-term and increased mobilization production requirements. Prohibits the President from exercising his authority to direct performance of defense production contracts unless Congress is notified of such exercise of authority and 60 days of continuous session of Congress has passed. Relieves the President of this restriction where immediate action is needed in the interest of national security. Postpones until the end of FY 1986 the termination date of certain provisions of the Defense Production Act of 1950, including certain priorities, allocations, and expansion of productive capacity and supply provisions. Repeals the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages Act of 1974. Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to require any defense contractor who includes an offset agreement in excess of $5,000,000 in a defense contract with a nation other than the United States to file an annual report with the Secretary of the Treasury. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on the number and amount of offsets in such contracts. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the appropriate congressional committees within 30 days of signing any memorandums of understanding involving offsets in contracts in excess of $5,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1983
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to direct the President to begin the registration and classification of persons under such Act. Permits the induction of such persons into the armed forces through FY 1988.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Unformed Services (CHAMPUS) to provide payments for the differences between expenses incurred for health services and the amount paid for such services under another plan.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1983
Amends the Uniformed Survivors Benefits Amendments of 1980 to entitle certain individuals who were widowed on or before September 21, 1972, and who are not covered by the Military Survivor Benefit Plan to an annuity.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1983
Prohibits increasing the numbers of U.S. armed forces in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua above the number in those countries as of August 1, 1983, unless: (1) Congress has declared war or enacted specific authorization for an increase of U.S. armed forces; or (2) the armed forces are necessary to meet a clear and present danger of attack upon the United States or to meet a clear and present danger to, and to provide essential and immediate evacuation of, U.S. citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1983
Limits the total number of U.S. Government personnel in Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador to the number of such personnel in each such country on June 1, 1983. Prohibits U.S. military personnel from conducting or participating in any blockade or quarantine by air, land, or sea of Nicaragua or El Salvador. Authorizes amendment or repeal of such limitation and prohibition by a joint resolution of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from transferring, reassigning, or consolidating any function, power, or duty of a military department to a nonmilitary department within the Department of Defense on either a trial or permanent basis unless specifically authorized by law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Directs the Judge Advocates General to establish and supervise legal assistance programs for members and dependents of the armed forces for their personal affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from transferring, reassigning, or consolidating any function, power, or duty of a military department to a nonmilitary department within the Department of Defense on either a trial or permanent basis unless specifically authorized by law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1983
Directs the Secretary of the Navy to repatriate the remains of five unknown American sailors from Tripoli, Libya. Authorizes the Secretary to inter such remains at the United States Naval Academy or at Arlington National Cemetery.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1983
Amends the wartime disability compensation provisions to deem as service-connected the disease of transverse myelitis developed to a degree of at least ten percent disability in a wartime veteran within seven years from the date of such veteran's discharge or release.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1983
Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure Compensation Standards Act - Creates, upon the appropriate findings by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs, a presumption of service-connected disability for compensation purposes for any veteran who was exposed to radiation or toxic chemicals while actively serving in the armed forces under specified conditions and who is now suffering from a disability or disorder symptomatic of such exposure. Maintains such presumption even in the absence of records. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish guidelines and criteria for resolving claims for benefits resulting from a service-connected death or disability based on a veteran's exposure during service on active duty to: (1) herbicides containing dioxin in Vietnam during the Vietnam era; or (2) ionizing radiation from the detonation of a nuclear device, either in connection with testing or the American occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, prior to July 1, 1946. Sets forth procedures for the development of such regulations, including: (1) opportunities for public hearings and comment; and (2) amendment of such regulations upon the annual reporting of the results of the epidemiological study on the effects of exposure to agent orange required by the Veterans' Health Programs Extension and Improvement Act of 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1983
Designates the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic to be located in Crown Point, Indiana, as the Adam Benjamin Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1983
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish and maintain a post-traumatic stress disorder program at the Veterans Administration hospital in Brecksville, Ohio. Requires such program to provide treatment for any veteran who incurred such a disorder as a result of active duty service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Directs the Administrator to establish an advisory committee of representatives from Vietnam era and other veterans and community groups. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Designates April 9, 1984, as National P.O.W./M.I.A. Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1983
Recognizes the role of Japanese Americans in the Second World War, and expresses the thanks of the Nation to the 100th Infantry Battalion, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and all Japanese-Americans who served in the Nationality Intelligence Service.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to extend medical benefits to former military spouses who were married at least 20 years to a member with at least 20 years of service when a minimum of ten years of such marriage and service coincide. Grants medical benefits to a former spouse who has a disease or disability attributable to the nature or location of a member's or former member's military service. Limits the health care available to such former spouses to that necessary for the treatment of such a disease or disability. Entitles such former spouses to post exchange and commissary privileges as well. Applies this Act to all eligible former spouses, regardless of date of divorce.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1983
National Defense Stockpile Amendments of 1983 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to require that excess defense industrial property be transferred from a Federal department or agency to the National Defense Stockpile on the same basis as excess material. Directs the President to use barter in the acquisition and disposal of materials from the stockpile when in the national interest. (Under current law, the President is encouraged to use barter.) Authorizes the President to require agency heads to barter or transfer excess material or defense industrial property under such agency's control. Sets forth bartering procedures. Makes stockpile material and property available for transfer at fair market value as payment of incidental expenses incurred in an acquisition or transfer. Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Barter Coordination Council, an interagency council headed by a chairman who shall be designated by and report to the President. Requires the Council to establish a procedure to identify opportunities for barter. Makes technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1983
Revises the membership of the Special Medical Advisory Group of the Veterans Administration Department of Medicine and Surgery to include persons deemed by the Chief Medical Director to have pertinent experience with respect to the mission of the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1983
Eliminates the requirement that 30 days termination notice be given to a civilian National Guard technician if such technician is a temporary or probationary employee or if such technician is a member of the Guard as a condition of employment and voluntarily terminates his membership.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1983
Increases from seven to ten the number of Assistant Secretaries of Defense. Makes one Assistant Secretary the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. Adds an Assistant Secretary to each of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1983
Omnibus Education Assistance Act of 1983 - Amends the veterans' vocational rehabilitation program to permit the payment of a subsistence allowance to a participating, hospitalized veteran only during those periods in which such veteran is in an authorized leave status. Permits eligible veterans to elect participation in either the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program or the Veterans' Educational Assistance Program. Permits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide educational or vocational counseling for eligible veterans' dependents without the participation of such dependents' parents or guardians. Prohibits the dual payment of benefits for pursuit of the same educational program by an eligible veteran or dependent.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1983
Authorizes the Eleventh Airborne Division Association to erect a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia in honor and in commemoration of the men of the Angels of Liberation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select a suitable site on public grounds in the District of Columbia or environs upon which such memorial may be erected.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President expeditiously recommend budgetary steps necessary to build weapons to destroy ballistic missiles in space which might be launched against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate jointly to present, on behalf of the Congress, a bronze medal to families of American personnel missing or otherwise unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Permits the Secretary of the military department concerned to order a member of the Retired Reserve who has completed at least 20 years of active service or a member of the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve to active duty on the same basis as a retired member of the regular armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Permits officers of the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, as well as those of the Army, to command companies of cadets of the U.S. Military Academy for military instruction purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Extends from 30 to 90 consecutive days the time during which all elements of a National Guard unit must complete a training assembly.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1983
Rescinds a U.S. Military Academy cadet's right to a reexamination and readmission after failing a required examination in a subject because of such cadet's deficiency.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Designates the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic to be located in Crown Point, Indiana, as the Adam Benjamin Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Permits the Secretary of the military department concerned, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, to prescribe regulations for technicians required to join the National Guard as a condition of employment.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Eliminates the requirement that students in Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corp (ROTC) units be citizens or nationals of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
Designates the Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic to be located in Crown Point, Indiana, as the Adam Benjamin Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1983
World War I Veterans' Bonus Act - Provides a $10,000 bonus for each veteran of World War I.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to prohibit peacetime registration for the draft.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1983
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to redefine "covert agent" for purposes of protecting the identities of certain U.S. undercover intelligence officers, agents or sources.