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Law· SS. 1160 (99th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorization - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for procurement for the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition and for the unspecified procurement. Prohibits funds appropriated pursuant to this or any other Act from being used for procuring the Division Air Defense system or for the purpose of entering into a new contract for the production and assembly of the Division Air Defense System until certain steps are taken. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from entering into a multiyear contract for the procurement of the Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE). Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being used to contract for the procurement of 5-ton Army trucks until the Secretary certifies to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House that all engines for such trucks have undergone certain testing. Authorizes the Secretary to extend up to 18 months the 5-ton truck multiyear procurement contract in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award a multiyear contract for the procurement of 5-ton trucks not later than May 1, 1986, or notify the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of the impracticability of such a contract before February 1, 1986. Permits the use of funds appropriated for the multiple launch Rocket System (MLRS) program for FY 1985 to make economic order quantity material and component purchases for use with MLRS program end items proposed for procurement in FY 1989. Merges appropriations for FY 1986 for Army aircraft procurement with a specified amount remaining available from FY 1985 for such procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the Navy and Marine Corps for FY 1986 for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for the purchase of LHD-1 class amphibious assault ships. Permits such contracts to include an unfunded cancellation ceiling. Sets aside a specified amount of the funds authorized for shipbuilding and conversion to be available only for the aircraft carrier service life extension program. Prohibits a certain amount of such set-aside funds from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of the Navy makes certain certifications to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House concerning a service life extension program for the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being obligated or expended for the procurement of C-12 or C-12 type aircraft unless such aircraft are procured through competitive procedures. Prohibits funds appropriated for shipbuilding and conversion from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense has reported to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House on procedures which would permit allied or friendly nations to construct diesel-electric submarines in U.S. shipyards. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from entering into multiyear contract for the procurement of P-3C Orion aircraft. Authorizes the transfer of prior-year funds remaining available for use in FY 1986 for shipbuilding and conversion. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft and missiles and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other weapons, and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for FY 1986. Extends through FY 1986 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. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 for research, development, test and evaluation. Requires that a specified amount of the funds authorized to the Navy be used only for the Navy Oceanography Program. Requires that specified amounts of the funds authorized to the defense agencies be used for: (1) the hardened ballistic missile materials program; and (2) computer and related research at Syracuse University, New York. Requires, before any decision is made regarding the full-scale development of a small intercontinental ballistic missile or the selection of its basing sites, the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the appropriate congressional committees an environmental impact statement with respect to such development and basing. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 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 the transfer of funds from the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense Fund to the operation and maintenance accounts of the military departments in specified amounts. Authorizes additional appropriations for increases in civilian personnel costs, unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, and inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the working capital funds of the armed forces and defense agencies. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 1, 1985, to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a plan for the establishment and operation during FY 1986 of a pilot program for the exchange of visits between high-ranking U.S. military and civilian officers and personnel and their counterparts from the Soviet Union. Outlines details to be included in such plan. Authorizes certain appropriated funds to be available for travel and subsistence expenses for those participating in such program from the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use certain funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) in support of the Tenth International Pan American Games to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in August, 1987. Directs that such support be in the form of logistical support, personnel services, and other services and equipment. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel as of the end of FY 1986. 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. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986. 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. Part C: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes an end strength for civilian personnel for the Department of Defense for FY 1986. Requires the apportionment of such personnel among the various military branches and departments. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress on such allocation within 60 days after the enactment of this Act. 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 the Congress of any such increase. Part D: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1986. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Title V: Compensation and Other Benefits; Educational Assistance and Miscellaneous Personnel Matters - Prohibits adjustment to compensation levels of members of the uniformed services in conformity with adjustment to GS-level compensation to Federal employees during FY 1986. Increases by three percent the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic subsistence allowance for members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 1986. Prohibits a member of the uniformed services serving in Alaska or Hawaii from being paid a station housing allowance. Excepts from such provision those already serving in Alaska or Hawaii the day before the enactment of this Act. Prohibits all such members receiving a station housing allowance from receiving a variable housing allowance. Prohibits a member from receiving housing allowances which exceed actual housing costs. Allows the basic allowance for quarters and the variable housing allowance to be paid in advance. Increases the family separation allowance. Requires temporary lodging expenses to be paid to a member making a permanent change in a duty station. Increases the mileage allowance for minor dependents of members making a permanent change in duty stations. Increases the weight allowances for the transportation of household goods of members making a permanent change in duty stations, according to a table based on pay grades. Extends through September 30, 1985, the availability of funds appropriated under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1985 to execute agreements for the continuation of pay to certain dental officers. Revises eligibility for basic allowance for quarters to disallow such allowance for members who make a permanent change of station for either field duty or sea duty. Increases the frequency of travel and transportation allowances to a home port when a member is away from home port and involved in a ship overhauling or inactivating by providing such allowances every 60 days a member is away from such home port. Provides transportation allowances from the home port to the port of overhauling for members' dependents, including spouses. Raises the dislocation allowance from one to two months of a member's basic allowance for quarters. Provides travel allowances for travel undertaken in connection with certain leave. Provides travel and transportation allowances for survivors of deceased members to attend the member's burial ceremonies, if such member dies while on active duty. Provides certain time and geographic limitations for such allowances. Increases the death gratuity paid to survivors of members who die while serving on active duty. Includes officers along with enlisted crew members as eligible for receiving hazardous duty pay when such members are involved in frequent and regular aerial flight. Revises tables for hazardous duty pay for enlisted members and officers. Revises similarly tables for the payment of special pay while on duty at certain places. Authorizes the payment of special pay for positions of unusual responsibility which are of a critical nature to an armed force under the Secretary concerned. Authorizes such pay when a member is assigned to and present within a danger area for a period of not less than six days. Raises special pay for naval officers who work in connection with nuclear propulsion plants and who agree to extend their commission in such work for specified periods. Outlines provisions for the payment of such special pay. Extends from September 30, 1987, to September 30, 1990, the date by which a naval officer is required to execute an agreement-to-extend in order to be eligible for such special pay. Authorizes special pay for naval officers selected for nuclear power training who agree to participate in such a training program for assignment to active duty. Raises the amount of such pay and extends through September 30, 1990, the period of execution for eligibility for such pay. Revises similarly provisions for special pay to nuclear career officers not above grade 0-6 who have completed less than 26 years of commissioned service. Raises from $50 to $80 the special monthly pay for qualified enlisted members extending their tour of duty at designated locations overseas. Part B: Extension of Expiring Bonus Authority, Benefits, and Personnel Management Authorities - Extends for one year, through FY 1986, the authority to provide reimbursement in place of quarters to crew members assigned to a naval vessel rendered temporarily uninhabitable. Extends the special pay provisions for certain Navy aviation career officers from FY 1985 to FY 1986. Extends for two years, through FY 1987, the authority to pay reenlistment bonuses and bonuses to reserve commissioned officers who extend their periods of active duty. Increases the number of certain officer personnel who may be on active duty in specified grades. Part C: Educational Assistance Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to repay any loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part B of the Higher Education Act of 1965, or any loan made under part E of such Act, after October 1, 1975. Specifies those who qualify to have their loans so repaid. Specifies percentages and maximum amounts of such loan repayments. Defines loan repayment recipients as those persons who enlist or reenlist in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of an armed force who enlist or reenlist for service on active duty after September 30, 1980. Amends the Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1984 to repeal the requirement that a member must have served on active duty without a break in such service since December 31, 1976, in order to be eligible for veteran' educational assistance under such Act. Reduces by $100 per month for 12 months the basic pay of a member who elects to become entitled to such assistance. Requires an election by a member to receive such assistance within 120 days of entering upon active duty. Provides for revocation of such election. Provides for reimbursement to a member of that portion by which the $100-per-month pay reduction exceeds the amount of educational assistance received for any reason. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to permit a member to transfer all or a portion of such educational entitlement to a spouse or dependent children upon certain conditions. Part D: Miscellaneous Personnel Matters and Benefits - Limits the size of certain headquarter staffs within the Department of Defense. Authorizes the Governor of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home to exempt up to two physicians employed by the Home from reductions in retired pay due to such employment. Revises general military law clarifying the precedence of the Purple Heart award. Authorizes the President to advance two retired lieutenant generals to the grade of general on the retired list of the Air Force. Authorizes members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve to have limited use of commissary stores. Repeals the test program on such use by Selected Reserve members created under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Part E: Military Retirement - Limits the amount available for obligation to each branch of the armed forces for basic pay and payments into the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund for FY 1986. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than September 1, 1985, to submit to the Congress a report proposing changes in the military nondisability retirement system, in other elements of the military compensation system, or in other military personnel programs. Outlines changes to be proposed in such report. Requires the Secretary to submit a separate report on the anticipated effects such changes will have on recruitment and retention of armed forces. Title VI: (Reserved) Title VII: Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Matters - Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to issue proposed regulations dealing with the unallowability of contractor indirect costs. Requires the Secretary, in determining allowable costs, to consider whether the costs incurred benefit the United States or are necessary for the operation of the business. Specifies certain costs which should be considered unallowable under such new regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to make disallowances and to assess a penalty of three times the disallowed expense whenever there is clear and convincing evidence that such expense is disallowable. Considers as a false claim specifically punishable under specified Federal law an expense submitted by a contractor for reimbursement that was not actually incurred. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Congress on specific actions taken to address the problems related to spare parts purchasing by DOD. Requires the Secretary to issue proposed regulations and legislation as part of such report if such problems have not been remedied. Increases penalties under specified provisions of Federal law for the making of false claims in DOD procurement. Part B: Competitive Labor Purchase Requirements - Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to provide that the minimum wages paid on a construction, alteration, or repair contract awarded by DOD shall be the prevailing wages as determined by the Secretary of Labor. Outlines the manner in which the Secretary shall make such determination. Revises provisions dealing with wage-rate determinations to require the consideration of local wage rates for private industry (currently, surveys of wages paid outside the local area are used) in the determination of the prevailing rate for employees under certain DOD contracts. Makes inapplicable to DOD contracts certain Federal provisions which require an overtime rate of pay for work performed after eight hours of work per day. Requires wages of employees DOD contracts to be computed on a 40-hour week, with hours in excess of 40 hours to be compensated at not less than one and one half times the basic rate of pay. Outlines the liability of a contractor or subcontractor for unpaid wages. Part C: Miscellaneous Cost Savings Provisions - Removes restrictions on contracting-out authority of the Secretary if he or she determines that such contracting-out would be cost-effective and in the best interest of the national defense. Authorizes the Secretary to close or realign any military installation, upon certain considerations, if the President submits a budget reflecting a budget deficit in a fiscal year and the Secretary notifies the Congress at least 60 days prior to taking action. Title VIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the President, effective October 1, 1985, to dispose of certain quantities of specified materials currently held in the National Defense Stockpile. Requires to be deposited into the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund 30 percent of all money accruing to the United States during FY 1986 from lands in the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. Title IX: General Provisions - Limits to $1,000,000,000 the size of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Grants limited authority for the Secretary of Defense to exceed the permanent ceiling on U.S. forces assigned to NATO. Requires the Secretary of Defense, within 60 days of the date of enactment of this Act, to advise the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in writing, of his or her views regarding the desirability of legislation that would prohibit the inclusion of contractor administrative and general overhead expenses in the computation of contractor profits. Limits the use of authorized funds in conducting polygraph examination tests. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 31, 1986, to report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the use of polygraph examinations administered by or for DOD during FY 1986. Outlines details to be included in such report. Requires the Secretary to establish and report annually on a continuing polygraph research program to support polygraph activities within DOD. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to DOD for such program. Provides certain restrictions on the contracting for educational services which are provided to members of the armed forces or civilian DOD employees or their dependents. Directs the President, not later than December 1, 1985, and not later than December 1 of each year thereafter, to report to the Congress concerning the Soviet Union's compliance with arms control commitments. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than April 1, 1986, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the continued use of independent cost estimates in the planning, programming, budgeting, and selection process for major defense acquisition programs in DOD. Outlines details to be included in such report. Extends through 1988 certain reporting dates for the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defenses. Directs the President, in submitting a proposes budget for FY 1988, to submit a single proposed budget for DOD and related agencies for FY 1988 and 1989 and thereafter to submit a two-year proposed budget for DOD and related agencies biennially. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than July 1, 1986, to submit to the Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives a report containing the Secretary's views on certain aspects of the proposed two-year defense budget. Abolishes the position of Administrator of Education for Overseas Dependents, the Office of Education for Overseas Dependents, and certain functions transfers from DOD related to overseas education. Revises provisions concerning the organization of the Advisory Council on Dependents' Education. Extends and expands the authority of the Secretary of Defense to transport humanitarian relief supplies to certain countries. Declares as a policy of the Congress that: (1) it supports the objective of the U.S. to reverse the erosion of the arms-limitation treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; and (2) the Congress' approval for funds for research on the Strategic Defense Initiative does not express or imply an intention to abrogate or erode such treaty. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the purchase of foreign currencies from the Treasury Department to carry out DOD programs. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated under authorization in this Act to be used for the B1-B aircraft program unless the Secretary of Defense first notifies the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. Division B: Military Construction - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 - 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. 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. 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. Authorizes the Secretary to convert four transient housing units in Chinhae, Korea, to family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for Naval Strategic Homeporting until the Secretary reports the Congress on such and 90 days elapse after such report is received. 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. 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. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the construction of ground launch cruise missile facilities in the Netherlands until that country has approved the deployment of such missiles there. Restricts the use of authorized funds for the construction of beddown facilities for the B-1 bomber aircraft until the Secretary of the Air force has made certain notifications to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives and 21 days have elapsed since such notifications. 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 20 family housing units for a specified amount at classified locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a research and engineering facility for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. 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 1985 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total costs 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 1987 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. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the acquisition of any interest in land exceeding $100,000 unless the Secretary notifies the appropriate congressional committees of intent to do so and 21 days elapse after such notification. Raises from $100,000 to $400,000 the maximum interest in land a Secretary may purchase. Requires a member of the armed forces who moves out of an assigned military family housing unit to leave such unit in a satisfactorily clean condition or be liable to the United States for the cleaning costs of such unit. Expands activities and expenses to be included within authorizations for military family housing. Extends to October 1, 1986, the authority of the Secretary of a military department to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing where there exists a deficit in available family housing. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements under certain conditions with the Secretary of State whereby the Secretary of State provides housing and related services to personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are assigned to duty in a foreign country. Requires notification to the Congress and a 21-day lapse period before such agreements may take effect. Changes from October 1, 1985, to October 1, 1986, the effective date for the repeal of Federal law relating to the sale and replacement of nonexcess real property and the abolition of the Department of Defense Facilities Replacement Management Account. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out sale and replacement transactions with respect to specified facilities at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and March Air Force Base, California. Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer certain surplus land adjacent to Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with the National Defense University. Directs the Administrator to reacquire certain land previously conveyed to the city of Los Angeles and to transfer such land to the Secretary of the Air Force to be used for military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell a tract of land within Fort Jackson, South Carolina, known as the Gregg Circle Area. Requires the buyer of such land to construct up to 400 units of family housing and lease such units to the Army or rent such units to military personnel. Requires the sale of the Gregg Circle Area tract to be carried out under public advertisement and competitive bidding, with the Secretary having full authority to determine which offer is in the best interest of the United States. Requires the Secretary, before any contract for the sale of such land is entered into, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the procedures used in selecting a buyer and allow 21 days to elapse after such report is submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for specified housing improvement facilities at Fort Jackson. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being available for any project for which all requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 have not been completed as of March 29, 1985, with specified exceptions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985, to convey a portion of March Air Force Base, California, to Air Force Village West Corporation to be used as security for financing the construction of facilities on such land. Revises Federal law concerning building-height restrictions on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Division C: Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization - National Security Programs Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Title I: National Security Programs Operating Expenses - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1986 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) defense nuclear waste and byproduct management; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Title II: Recurring 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 the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost 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. Division D: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
Bill· SS. 1163 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
Military Family Act of 1985 - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense an Office of Family Policy to coordinate programs and activities of the military departments as they relate to military families. Transfers the Military Family Resources Center within the Department of Defense. Makes travel and transportation allowances the same for members of the armed forces as those applicable to civilian employees. Requires temporary lodging expenses to be paid to such military members transferred within the United States or to a duty station outside the United States other than Hawaii or Alaska. Authorizes the payment of a transportation allowance to student dependents of military members assigned a permanent duty station in Alaska or Hawaii. Prohibits such transportation allowance when the dependent child is attending a school in Alaska or Hawaii. Requires the Secretary of Defense to provide a preference in hiring for civilian positions above GS-7 in the Department of Defense to spouses of military members if they are among those best qualified for a position. Outlines conditions for such preference. Requires the Secretary to provide child-care facilities on military installations on a 24-hour-a-day basis when needed. Requires the Secretary, within one year of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on ways for spouses of military members to obtain employment at child-care facilities. Requires the Secretary to establish at each military installation a youth sponsorship program to facilitate the adaptation of transferred members' children to new surroundings. Requires the Secretary, within one year of enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on recommendations to facilitate the smooth transition for dependent children of military members making a permanent change of station between schools with different graduation requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to establish dental benefit plans for spouses and children of military members who are on active duty for more than 30 days. Requires the member to pay a part of the plan's cost, as determined by the Secretary, to be deducted from the member's basic pay. Outlines the dental benefits to be included in such plan.
Bill· SS. 1150 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1985
Uniformed Services Retirement Act of 1985 - Title I: General - Provides that members of the uniformed services enlisting after the date of enactment of this Act shall be subject to recall to service after completion of 25 years of active duty. (Retains present law making current members subject to recall after 20 years of active duty.) Prohibits the discharge or transfer of commissioned officers who have enlisted after the date of enactment of this Act and who have at least 23 but less than 25 years of active service. (Retains present law prohibiting the discharging of current officers after 18 years of service.) Allows separation pay upon involuntary discharge or release from active duty for members of the uniformed services who have enlisted after the date of enactment of this Act and who have more than five but less than 25 years of active duty. (Retains present law providing for such separation pay for current members with more than five but less than 20 years of service.) Increases from 20 to 25 years the minimum service requirements for nonregular service retirement pay for members of the uniformed service who enlist after the date of enactment of this Act. (Retains present law requiring 20 years of service for current members of the uniformed services.) Revises the computation of retirement pay for members of the uniformed services who enlist after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides for 50 percent of base pay after 25 years of service and 60 percent of base pay after 30 years of service for those enlisting after the date of enactment of this Act. (Retains present law providing for 50 percent of base pay after 20 years of service and 75 percent of base pay after 30 years of service for current members of the uniformed services.) Revises the computation of retirement pay for members of the uniformed services who enlist after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides for 50 percent of base pay after 25 years of service and 60 percent of base pay after 30 years of service for those enlisting after the date of enactment of this Act. (Retains present law providing for 50 percent of base pay after 20 years of service and 75 percent of base pay after 30 years of service for current members of the uniformed services. Provides that cost-of-living adjustments to retirement pay for members enlisting after the date of enactment of this Act shall be cumulative based on base pay and may not be compounded. (Retains present law allowing current members' cost-of-living adjustments to be compounded annually.) Title II: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer from active to retired reserve status officers who have enlisted after the date of enactment of this Act and who have more than 25 years of active service. (Retains present law authorizing the Secretary to transfer current officers with more than 20 years service.) Makes conforming amendments to present law pertaining to the Army consistent with changes made with respect to retirement by Title I of this Act. Title III: Navy and Marine Corps - Makes conforming amendments to present law pertaining to the Navy and Marine Corps consistent with changes made with respect to retirement by Title I of this Act. Title IV: Air Force - Makes conforming amendments to present law pertaining to the Air Force consistent with changes made with respect to retirement by Title I of this Act. Title V: Coast Guard - Makes conforming amendments to present law pertaining to the Coast Guard consistent with charges made with respect to retirement by Title I of this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 171 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Directs the President to provide to the House of Representatives all information in his possession relating to covert training or other support of counterterrorist units against anti-American terrorists in Lebanon or other parts of the Middle East.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 169 (99th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1985
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 1872 (armed forces funding).
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 168 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1985
Directs the Director of Central Intelligence to provide to the House of Representatives all information in its possession relating to covert training or other support of counterterrorist units against anti-American terrorists in Lebanon or other parts of the Middle East.
Bill· HRH.R. 2458 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1985
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to enter into agreements with the State of Illinois or appropriate units of local government to permit the joint use of Scott Air Force Base for military and civilian aviation purposes. Renames Scott Air Force Base as the Mel Price Air Force Base and Airport Illinois.
Bill· SS. 1107 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Authorizes the Society of the Third Infantry Division to erect a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor of the men of the "Rock of the Marne" of the Third Infantry Division who served in both World Wars, Korea, and maintaining peace. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to select a site for the memorial subject to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, and, under certain circumstances, the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Subjects the design and plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Directs that the maintenance and care of the memorial shall be the Secretary's responsibility unless the memorial is on public grounds under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia in which case these duties fall on the District of Columbia. Provides that funds of the United States or the District of Columbia may not be used to erect the memorial. Directs that the authority to establish the memorial is contingent upon its erection beginning within five years with funds sufficient to ensure its completion.
Bill· HRH.R. 2440 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Authorizes the Society of the Third Infantry Division to erect a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia or its environs in honor of the men of the "Rock of the Marne" of the Third Infantry Division who served in both World Wars, Korea, and maintaining peace. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to select a site for the memorial subject to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts, the National Capital Planning Commission, and, under certain circumstances, the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Subjects the design and plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Directs that the maintenance and care of the memorial shall be the Secretary's responsibility unless the memorial is on public grounds under the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia in which case such duties fall on the District of Columbia. Provides that funds of the United States or the District of Columbia may not be used to erect the memorial. Directs that the authority to establish the memorial is contingent upon its erection beginning within five years with funds sufficient to ensure its completion.
Law· HRH.R. 2419 (99th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 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. Authorizes appropriations for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to conduct activities to counter terrorism in 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. Prohibits any funds appropriated by this Act from being used for covert assistance for military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua. Title II: Intelligence Community Staff - Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Staff for FY 1986. Establishes an end strength ceiling of 233 full-time Intelligence Community Staff employees. Title III: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Intelligence Agencies - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require notice to the Intelligence and Appropriations Committees of the House of Representatives and of the Senate of expenditures for intelligence or intelligence-related activities in excess of authorized amounts. Requires that transfers by an intelligence agency of any items of military equipment or services worth more than $1,000,000 be reported in a similar fashion. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to provide a report on the vulnerability of confidential United States Government activities abroad and the efforts by foreign powers to detect, monitor, or counter such activities. Title V: General Provisions - States that the authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Allows increases in employee benefits as authorized by law.
Bill· HRH.R. 2427 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Uniformed Services Survivor Benefits Amendments of 1985 - Extends the application of the Survivor Benefit Plan to a person who dies before or within 90 days after notification of eligibility for retired pay and is married or has a dependent child. Entitles certain surviving dependent children of such a person to an annuity equal to the difference between the amount of dependency and indemnity compensation and 55 percent of the retired pay to which the children would have been entitled. Increases the amount of retired pay which shall be reduced by a specified percentage for a person with a spouse or spouse and dependent child who has not elected to provide an annuity for such persons, or has changed such an election. Directs the Secretary concerned to pay an annuity to survivors of a member or former member who died during a specified period and who would have been eligible for retired pay if he had been 60. Requires a person entitled to two annuities because of subsequent marriage to elect which annuity to receive.
Bill· HRH.R. 2449 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1985
Provides that the President may award the Congressional Medal of Honor to John Yancey in recognition of acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty at Hill 1282, Chosin Reservoir, North Korea.
Bill· HRH.R. 2412 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Grants for compensation purposes a 60 percent service-connected disability rating for former prisoners of war who were detained 30 or more days in the Asian-Pacific Theater during World War II or in Korea during the Korean conflict, or who evaded capture in such theaters for at least 90 days.
Bill· HRH.R. 2411 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Grants for compensation purposes a 60 percent service-connected disability rating for former prisoners of war who were detained 30 or more days in the European Theater during World War II or who evaded capture in such theater for at least 90 days.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 159 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Expresses appreciation for the heroism and civic achievements of Sergeant Alvin C. York. Encourages local communities and organizations to begin preparing ceremonies and activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his birth in 1987.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 141 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1985
Expresses, on the 40th anniversary of V-E Day, the sense of the Congress concerning the Nation's deep gratitude toward and recognition of the enormous debt owed to the American servicemen who fought in World War II.
Bill· HRH.R. 2356 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1985
Department of Defense Conflict of Interest Act of 1985 - Prohibits a former officer or employee of the Department of Defense (DOD) or former retired member of the uniformed services from accepting compensation from a Government contractor for two years following the individual's separation from Government service if, during the two years preceding separation from service, such individual had significant responsibilities for a procurement function with respect to that contractor. Specifies penalties for violations of this prohibition. Requires defense contractors to include in defense contracts a provision stating that the contractor agrees not to compensate an individual who falls under such category. Specifies penalties for a contractor's violation of this requirement. Requires contractors subject to such a contract term to issue an annual report listing specified information concerning individuals who had significant responsibilities for a procurement function, left the Government within the previous two years, and was compensated by that contractor after leaving Government service. Requires a copy of each such report to be sent to the Inspector General of the DOD. Requires the Inspector General to assess such reports and report any possible violations to the Attorney General. Provides penalties for those contractors failing to file such reports. Requires the Director of the Office of Government Ethics to have access to such reports and to submit an annual report to the Congress concerning such reports. Excludes from application of these sections those contracts for an amount less than $100,000. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, to delineate the procurement functions covered by these sections and provide a list of such functions to the Congress. Allows an individual who is offered compensation which might be in violation of this Act to apply to the Director of the Office of Government Ethics for advice on the applicability of this Act to such compensation. Requires such application to be made jointly by the individual and the contractor proposing the compensation. Outlines information to be included in such application for advice. Requires the Director to publish notice of the application in the Federal Register.
Bill· HRH.R. 2365 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1985
Uniformed Services Former Spouses' Equity Act - Provides that a former spouse of a member of the uniformed services shall be entitled, unless expressly provided by a spousal agreement or court order, to an annuity: (1) equal to 50 percent of the retired or retainer pay of the member if married to the member throughout the creditable service of the member; or (2) equal to a pro rata share of 50 percent of such pay if not married to the member throughout the entire creditable service of the member. Requires that an election by a member not to participate, or to participate at a reduced level, in the Survivor Benefit Plan or to provide an annuity for a dependent child only must be made jointly with the member's spouse. Provides that such an election must be in writing. Allows a member who has a former spouse to jointly elect by a spousal agreement with such former spouse or as provided under a court order to provide a survivor to the former spouse or to waive such an annuity. Treats a former spouse as a spouse for purposes of eligibility as a beneficiary, computation of annuities, and reductions in retired or retainer pay under the Survivor Benefit Plan if the member elects such treatment. (Present law treats a former spouse as a person with an "insurable interest" subject to certain restrictions and requiring larger reductions in retired or retainer pay.) Establishes a 24-month period during which members who were already divorced before the effective date of this Act may elect to have a former spouse covered under the Survivor Benefit Plan. Provides that a former spouse's share of retired or retainer pay shall be based on the gross amount of such pay. (Present law bases such share on the net amount of such pay after specified deductions.)
Bill· SS. 1067 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1985
Abolishes the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Replaces such joint entity with a single Chief of Military Staff to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Creates a Deputy Chief of Military Staff to be appointed and confirmed and to come from a different service branch than the Chief. Requires the Secretaries of the military departments to recommend to the Joint Staff only the most outstanding officers. Authorizes the Chief to select up to 100 officers not otherwise recommended. Authorizes the Chief to direct such secretaries to convene special selection boards to consider promotions for officers on the staff. Establishes in the Department of Defense a National Military Advisory Council of one senior officer from each service to advise the Chief.
Bill· SS. 1070 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1985
Provides that the President may award the Congressional Medal of Honor to John Yancey in recognition of his performance as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps on November 27, 1950, at Hill 1282, Chosin Reservoir, North Korea.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 154 (99th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1985
Expresses, on the 40th anniversary of V-E Day, the Nation's deep gratitude and recognizes the enormous debt owed to the American servicemen who fought in World War II.
Bill· SS. 1052 (99th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Veterans' Chiropractic Services Demonstration Projects Act of 1985 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct no less than five demonstration projects in five different geographical regions of the United States during FY 1986 through 1988 to provide chiropractic services to eligible veterans and to evaluate the therapeutic benefits and the cost effectiveness of furnishing chiropractic service to such veterans. Requires the Administrator to enter into cooperative agreements with not less than five chiropractic colleges in five geographic regions to coordinate the provision of chiropractic services to veterans and perform clinical research and data collection regarding the therapeutic benefits and cost-effectiveness of such services. Sets forth conditions under which the Administrator shall reimburse a veteran for chiropractic services furnished under such a demonstration project. Permits the Administrator to pay the chiropractor who furnished such services directly in lieu of reimbursing the veteran. Requires the Administrator to establish a schedule of reasonable charges for such services. Limits the amount an eligible veteran may receive for chiropractic services to $600 in any 12-month period. Allows the Administrator to prescribe a limit on the amount payable to any chiropractic college in any fiscal year under a cooperative agreement. Limits the total expenditures for chiropractic services under a demonstration project to $2,000,000 in any fiscal year. Requires the Administrator to report to the House and Senate Veterans' Affairs Committees on the number of requests for, and the amounts paid for, reimbursement or payments for chiropractic services under the demonstration projects established by this Act.
Bill· SS. 1062 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Comprehensive Vietnam Veterans' Research and Training Act of 1985 - Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct a comprehensive research program and review of the professional literature on potential physiological and psychological health effects (especially posttraumatic stress disorders) which may be related to military service in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era or readjustment from such service. Requires the Administrator to conduct a scientific analysis of the findings set out in such literature. Requires the Administrator to establish training and information programs for Veterans Administration personnel who have contact with veterans who are experiencing or potentially will experience adverse health effects from military service during the Vietnam era or readjustment from such service. Sets forth requirements for such programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to carry out this Act.
Bill· SS. 1061 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Vietnam Veterans' Delayed Reentry and Psychological Readjustment and Vocational Rehabilitation Assistance Act of 1985 - Provides Vietnam veterans who are suffering from psychological readjustment problems related to their military service or readjustment therefrom with priority treatment within the mainstream Veterans Administration (VA) medical health resources. Gives service connected disability status, at a noncompensable level, to Vietnam and other eligible veterans who experience mental health problems which are determined by a VA psychiatrist or psychologist to require mental health services to facilitate successful readjustment to civilian life. Requires VA psychiatrists and psychologists to determine if a Vietnam veteran's psychological problems were incurred or aggravated in the service or constitute a post-traumatic stress disorder, thus warranting a service connection for a disability. Directs the VA to institute a comprehensive research and training program for professional, paraprofessional, and lay personnel dealing with Vietnam veterans to assure that they have the ability to counsel, screen, and test Vietnam veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and provide effective therapy, readjustment, and rehabilitation for their unique medical and psychosocial readjustment problems. Authorizes veterans whose serious mental health problems are related to their military service or readjustment therefrom, but do not warrant permanent disability compensation, to participate in the VA's vocational rehabilitation program.
Bill· SS. 1059 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Requires the appointment of health care professionals to the positions of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Surgeon General of the Army, the Surgeon General of the Navy, and the Surgeon General of the Air Force.
Bill· HRH.R. 2344 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Veterans' Housing and Memorial Affairs Amendments of 1985 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to report to the Congress a plan to expand the national cemetery system in at least ten areas with the greatest need. Directs the Administrator to consider acquiring existing State cemeteries to meet such need. Gives contingent dates for the submission of the first such report. Amends provisions concerning national cemeteries and memorials to require that each grave marker in a national cemetery be upright. Provides an exception for individuals requesting flat markers. Requires the Administrator, no later than January 1, 1986, to designate for each cemetery in the National Cemetery System a section for graves with upright markers and a section for graves with flat markers. Directs the Administrator to establish a national cemetery in Merced County, California, on land which is donated by the Romero Ranch Company. Authorizes the Administrator to assist certain disabled veterans in acquiring a residence already adapted with special features deemed necessary due to the veteran's disability. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the one-percent loan origination fee charged by the Veterans Administration (VA) to veterans obtaining a home loan guaranteed by the VA should not be increased. Directs the President to request additional appropriations if he finds that additional funding for the VA home loan guarantee program is required.
Bill· HRH.R. 2343 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
Veterans' Compensation Benefits Amendments of 1985 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to establish a regional office of the Veterans Administration (VA) in each State, while maintaining its central office in the District of Columbia. Adds the loss or loss of use of one hand or foot or one lung to those extremities given special consideration in the determination of veterans' disability compensation. Expresses the sense of the Congress that payments by the VA to veterans as compensation for service-connected disabilities should remain exempt from Federal taxation, and that the President should reject any proposals to tax such payments. Raises the coverage of life insurance benefits for veterans under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance program. Allows veterans who are members of the Retired Reserve as of January 1, 1986, to receive such increased coverage. Makes conforming changes to the Veterans' Group Life Insurance program, similarly granting members of the Individual Ready Reserve and the Inactive National Guard eligibility under such program. Makes eligible for certain veterans' benefits members of the National Guard or Air National Guard who perform full-time duty for training purposes after September 30, 1985. Makes former members of the National Guard or Air National Guard eligible if such member continuously served in such status for 181 days or more. Extends through September 30, 1988, the authority of the VA to operate a regional office in the Republic of the Philippines. Entitles surviving spouses of the Commandant of the Coast Guard to the same dependency and indemnity compensation rate as that accorded to surviving spouses of the chief of the other military services. Makes technical amendments to the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1984 and other Federal law.
Bill· HRH.R. 2323 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1985
New GI Bill Amendments of 1985 - Expands the basic educational assistance entitlement for individuals on active duty and individuals participating in the active-and-reserve program to include any individual who is a member of the armed forces on the date of enactment of this Act and meets all additional requirements. Modifies the requirements of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve to provide that the eligibility period begins with the date of the enactment of this Act.
Law· SS. 1042 (99th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 - 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. 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. 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. Authorizes the Secretary to convert four transient housing units in Chinhae Korea, to family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for Naval Strategic Homeporting until the Secretary reports the Congress on such and 90 days elapse after such report is received. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in the 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. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the construction of ground launch cruise missile facilities in the Netherlands until that country has approved the deployment of such missiles there. 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 12 family housing units for a specified amount at classified locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a research and engineering facility for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. 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 1985 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 costs 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 1987 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. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the acquisition of any interest in land exceeding $100,000 unless the Secretary notifies the appropriate congressional committees of intent to do so and 21 days elapse after such notification. Raises from $100,000 to $400,000 the maximum interest in land acquisition a Secretary may purchase. Requires a member of the armed forces who moves out of an assigned military family housing unit to leave such unit in a satisfactorily clean condition or be liable to the United States for the cleaning costs of such unit. Expands activities and expenses to be included within authorizations for military family housing. Extends to October 1, 1986, the authority of the Secretary of a military department to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing where there exists a deficit in available family housing. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements with the Secretary of State whereby the Secretary of State provides housing and related services to personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are assigned to duty in a foreign country, upon certain determinations. Requires notification to the Congress and a 21-day lapse period before such agreements may take effect. Changes from October 1, 1985, to October 1, 1986, the effective date for the repeal of Federal law relating to the sale and replacement of nonexcess real property and the abolition of the Department of Defense Facilities Replacement Management Account. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out sale and replacement transactions with respect to specified facilities at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and March Air Force Base, California. Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer certain surplus land adjacent to Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with the National Defense University. Directs the Administrator to reacquire certain land previously conveyed to the city of Los Angeles, and to transfer such land to the Secretary of the Air Force to be used for military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell a tract of land within Fort Jackson, South Carolina, known as the Gregg Circle Area. Requires the buyer of such land to construct up to 400 units of family housing and lease such units to the Army, or rent such units to military personnel. Requires the sale of the Gregg Circle Area tract to be carried out under public advertisement and competitive bidding, with the Secretary having full authority to determine which offer is in the best interest of the United States. Requires the Secretary, before any contract for the sale of such land is entered into, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the procedures used in selecting a buyer, and allow 21 days to elapse after such report is submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for specified housing improvement facilities at Fort Jackson. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being available for any project for which all requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 have not been completed as of March 29, 1985, with specified exceptions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 to convey a portion of March Air Force Base, California, to Air Force Village West Corporation to be used as security for financing the construction of facilities on such land. Revises Federal law concerning building-height restrictions on Santa Rosa Island, Florida.
Bill· SS. 1043 (99th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
National Security Programs Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Title I: National Security Programs Operating Expenses : - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1986 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) defense nuclear waste and byproduct management; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Title II: Recurring General Provisions Reprogramming - 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 the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any project which have 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 2314 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Military Command Reorganization Act of 1985 - States that the National Command Authorities consist of the President and the Secretary of Defense. Establishes a military chain of command running from the President to the Secretary of Defense, to the Chief of Staff of the National Command Authorities, to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands. Abolishes the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Chairman thereof. Reconstitutes such staff as the Joint Military Staff of the National Command Authorities under the Chief of Staff of the National Command Authorities. Creates the position of Chief of Staff of the National Command Authorities (Chief) to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate to serve as the principal military adviser to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. Sets forth the duties of the Chief, including: (1) preparing strategic and logistic plans; (2) formulating training policies; and (3) reviewing material and personnel requirements of the armed forces. Establishes two Deputy Chiefs of Staff to be selected by the Chief from the officers of the regular components of the armed forces. Directs the Chief to designate one such Deputy to serve as Acting Chief as specified. Establishes a Joint Military Staff under the Chief. Sets forth the composition of such staff which is to include members from all the armed forces. Sets forth the terms of assignment on such Staff. Requires that such Staff be independently organized and operated. Establishes in the Department of Defense a National Military Council to advise the Secretary and President on matters pertaining to national security policy. Sets forth the terms of membership on such Council. Directs the President to designate a Chairman to administer such Council and to represent him at all National Security Council meetings.
Bill· HRH.R. 2304 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1985
Limits the amount of payments to defense contractors for the expenses of air travel to the amount of the standard commercial fare for travel between the points involved. Provides an exception to such limitation if travel by common carrier at standard fare: (1) would require travel at unreasonable hours; (2) would excessively prolong travel; (3) would result in increased costs that would offset potential savings; or (4) would not meet the physical or medical needs of the person traveling.
Bill· SS. 1033 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1985
Veterans' Career Development Training and Job Bank Act of 1985 - Amends the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act of 1983 to change the title of such Act to the "Veterans' Career Development and Training Act" and to restate and revise the purposes of such Act. Revises eligibility requirements for participation in a job training program to provide that a veteran must be a Korean conflict or Vietnam-era veteran: (1) whose employment has been terminated or who has been laid off from employment, is eligible for unemployment compensation, and is unlikely to return to work in the same occupation; (2) whose employment has been terminated due to permanent closure of a plant or facility; (3) who is unemployed in the same occupation or area in which the veteran resides; (4) who in underemployed and has a service-connected disability; (5) who served in Indochina and is underemployed and whose personal income is below the lower living standard income level; or (6) whose income and employment status is significantly below the level that would be reasonably expected of such a veteran. Revises requirements for employment counseling services and other assistance. Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide such resources and personnel as may be necessary to carry out the counseling assessment and jobs matching functions authorized under the veterans' job bank and job matching program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 through 1988. Authorizes not more than ten percent of the funds appropriated for FY 1986 and not more than five percent of the funds appropriated for FY 1987 and 1988 to be used by the Administrator to provide counseling, job matching, or supportive services or to pay outreach or necessary and appropriate administrative expenses directly related to the implementation of this Act. Authorizes the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment to establish and carry out a nationwide computerized job bank and job matching program. Sets forth requirements for such job bank program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to carry out such program. Increases to GS-11 the level to which veterans may be appointed for veterans readjustment appointments and career-conditional appointments (currently to GS-9). Eliminates the disability requirement as a condition for appointments of Vietnam-era veterans.
Bill· HRH.R. 2270 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1985
Veterans' Health Care Promotion Act of 1985 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to determine the most cost-effective method of acquiring medical facilities for the Veterans Administration (VA) using certain specified methods. Requires the Administrator, not later than January 1, 1987, to enter into contracts to carry out the pilot program. Requires such contracts to be with an appropriate entity to construct and operate a nursing home for the VA. Requires the Administrator to enter into a contract with an appropriate entity to plan for, design, and construct a medical facility for the VA and to lease or sell such facility to the VA as directed by the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to also acquire two existing medical facilities. Requires the Administrator to provide the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives an annual report on the administration of the pilot program and a final report promptly after the termination of such program. Requires the Administrator, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to report to the same such Committees on: (1) the extent to which the VA furnishes respite care to elderly veterans and disabled veterans; (2) the VA's plans for furnishing such care in the future; and (3) an estimate of the cost of increasing community-based nursing home beds available to the VA by specified percentages. Limits the amount of working reserve funds available to the VA for FY 1986 for the purchase of an urban medical facility. Directs the President to include in the budget submitted to the Congress a statement of the estimated expenditures and appropriations required to carry out the pilot program.
Bill· SS. 1029 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1985
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorization - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for procurement for the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, and ammunition and for the unspecified procurement. Prohibits funds appropriated pursuant to this or any other Act from being used for procuring the Division Air Defense system or for the purpose of entering into a new contract for the production and assembly of the Division Air Defense System until certain steps are taken. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from entering into a multiyear contract for the procurement of the Armored Combat Earthmover (ACE). Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being used to contract for the procurement of 5-ton Army trucks until the Secretary certifies to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House that all engines for such trucks have undergone certain testing. Authorizes the Secretary to extend up to 18 months the 5-ton truck multiyear procurement contract in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to award a multiyear contract for the procurement of 5-ton trucks not later than May 1, 1986, or notify the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of the impracticability of such a contract before February 1, 1986. Permits the use of funds appropriated for the multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) program for FY 1985 to make economic order quantity material and component purchases for use with MLRS program end items proposed for procurement in FY 1989. Authorizes appropriations for the Navy and Marine Corps for FY 1986 for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons, racked combat vehicles, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into multiyear contracts for the purchase of LHD-1 class amphibious assault ships. Permits such contracts to include an unfunded cancellation ceiling. Sets aside a specified amount of the funds authorized for shipbuilding and conversion to be available only for the aircraft carrier service life extension program. Prohibits a certain amount of such set-aside funds from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of the Navy makes certain certifications to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House concerning a service life extension program for the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. Prohibits funds authorized under this title from being obligated or expended for the procurement of C-12 or C-12 type aircraft unless such aircraft are procured through competitive procedures. Prohibits funds appropriated for shipbuilding and conversion from being obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense has reported to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House on procedures which would permit allied or friendly nations to construct diesel- eletrict submarines in U.S. shipyards. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy from entering into multiyear contracts for the procurement of P-3C Orion aircraft. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other weapons, and for other unspecified procurement. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for FY 1986. Extends through FY 1986 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. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 for research, development, test and evalution. Requires that a specified amount of the funds authorized to the Navy be used only for the Navy Oceanography Program. Requires that specified amounts of the funds authorized to the defense agencies to be used for: (1) the hardened ballistic missile materials program; and (2) computer and related research at Syracuse University, New York. Requires, before any decision is made regarding the full-scale development of a small intercontinental ballistic missile or the selection of its basing sites, the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the appropriate congressional committees an environmental impact statement with respect to such development and basing. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for the armed forces and defense agencies for FY 1986 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 the transfer of funds from the Foreign Currency Fluctuations Defense Fund to the operation and maintenance accounts of the military departments in specified amounts. Authorizes additional appropriations for increases in civilian personnel costs, unbudgeted increases in fuel costs, and inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the working capital funds of the armed forces and defense agencies. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 1, 1985, to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a plan for the establishment and operation during FY 1986 of a pilot program for the exchange of visits between high-ranking U.S. military and civilian officers and personnel and their counterparts from the Soviet Union. Outlines details to be included in such plan. Authorizes certain appropriated funds to be available for travel and subsistence expenses for those participating in such program from the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to use certain funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) in support of the Tenth International Pan American Games to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, in August 1987. Directs that such support be in the form of logistical support, personnel services, and other services and equipment. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes strengths for active duty personnel as of the end of FY 1986. 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. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes average strengths for the selected reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1986. 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. Part C: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes an end strength for civilian personnel for the Department of Defense for FY 1986. Requires the apportionment of such personnel among the various military branches and departments. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress on such allocation within 60 days after the enactment of this Act. 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 the Congress of any such increase. Part D: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes average military training student loads for each component of the armed forces for FY 1986. Requires the adjustment of such loads as the manpower strengths of each component are adjusted. Title V: Compensation and Other Benefits; Educational Assistance and Miscellaneous Personnel Matters - Prohibits adjustment to compensation levels of members of the uniformed services in conformity with adjustment to GS-level compensation to Federal employees during FY 1986. Increases by three percent the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic subsistence allowance for members of the uniformed services, effective January 1, 1986. Prohibits a member of the uniformed services serving in Alaska or Hawaii from being paid a station housing allowance. Excepts from such provision those already serving in Alaska or Hawaii the day before the enactment of this Act. Prohibits all such members receiving a station housing allowance from receiving a variable housing allowance. Prohibits a member from receiving housing allowances which exceed actual housing costs. Allows the basic allowance for quarters and the variable housing allowance to be paid in advance. Increases the Family separation allowance. Requires temporary lodging expenses to be paid to a member making a permanent change in a duty station. Increases the mileage allowance for minor dependents of members making a permanent change in duty stations. Increases the weight allowances for the transportation of household goods of members making a permanent change in duty stations, according to a table based on pay grades. Extends through September 30, 1985, the availability of funds appropriated under the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1985 to execute agreements for the continuation of pay to certain dental officers. Part B: Extension of Expiring Bonus Authority, Benefits, and Personnel Management Authorities - Extends for one year, through FY 1986, the authority to provide reimbursement in place of quarters to crew members assigned to a naval vessel rendered temporarily uninhabitable. Extends the special pay provisions for certain Navy aviation career officers from FY 1985 to 1986. Extends for two years, through FY 1987, the authority to pay reenlistment bonuses and bonuses to reserve commissioned officers who extend their periods of active duty. Increases the number of certain officer personnel who may be on active duty in specified grades. Part C: Educational Assistance Programs - Authorizes Secretary of Defense to repay any loan made, insured, or guaranteed under part B of the Higher Education Act of 1965, or any loan made under part E of such Act, after October 1, 1975. Specifies those who qualify to have their loans so repaid. Specifies percentages and maximum amounts of such loan repayments. Defines loan repayment recipients as those persons who enlist or reenlist in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of an armed force or who enlist or reenlist for service on active duty after September 30, 1980. Amends the Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1984 to repeal the requirement that a member must have served on active duty without a break in such service since December 31, 1976, in order to be eligible for veteran' educational assistance under such Act. Reduces by $100 per month for 12 months the basic pay of a member who elects to become entitled to such assistance. Requires an election by a member to receive such assistance within 120 days of entering upon active duty. Provides for revocation of such election. Provides for reimbursement to a member of that portion by which the $100-per-month pay reduction exceeds the amount of educational assistance received for any reason. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to permit a member to transfer all or a portion of such educational entitlement to a spouse or dependent children upon certain conditions. Part D: Miscellaneous Personnel Matters and Benefits - Limits the size of certain headquarter staffs within the Department of Defense. Authorizes the Governor of the U.S. soldiers' and Airmen's Home to exempt up to two physicians employed by the Home from reductions in retired pay due to such employment. Revises general military law clarifying the precedence of the Purple Heart award. Authorizes the President to advance two retired lieutenant generals to the grade of general on the retired list of the Air Force. Authorizes members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve to have limited use of commissary stores. Repeals the test program on such use by Selected Reserve members created under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Title VI: Procurement Policy Reform and Other Procurement Matters - Defense Procurement Improvement Act of 1985 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to prepare an acquisition plan before the completion of the full-scale engineering development of a major defense acquisition program. Requires the establishment and maintenance of two or more production sources as part of such strategy. Allows single production sources only in certain limited circumstances. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress explaining the planned acquisition strategy for each major defense acquisition program not later than the time that a budget request for initial production of the system is made. Requires the Secretary to explain the reasons for use of a single production source if such is chosen. Requires the Secretary to perform a cost analysis for each major defense acquisition program during the first four years of production under such program. Provides for the waiver of such cost analysis in certain instances if the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives are properly notified of such waiver by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to report annually to such Committees the cost of performing such analyses and the savings believed to be achieved. Directs the Secretary of each military department to issue regulations establishing minimum requirements in education, training, and prior experience for program managers of major defense acquisition programs. Outlines minimum education and experience requirements for such program managers. Requires the Secretary of each military department to issue regulations establishing minimum requirements in education, training, and prior experience for brigadier generals, commodores, or any higher grade officers assigned to duty in any material, system, or logistics command in a military branch. Directs the Secretary of Defense to develop a training program for all personnel of DOD responsible for assuring quality control in contractor facilities. Requires such employees to attend the program during the first six months of their assignment. Amends military procurement provisions to increase the reporting and disclosure requirements for certain former employees of DOD concerning duties performed with defense contractors. Increases the liability of a person failing to comply with such requirements. Requires certain present DOD employees who contact or are contacted by a defense contractor concerning future employment opportunities to make certain disclosures concerning such possible employment if he or she participated personnally and substantially as a DOD employee in a permanent contract awarded to such defense contractor. Outlines information to be included in such reporting requirement and imposes liability for failure to comply with such requirements as determined by the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 and 1987 to carry out the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreements programs and certain administrative provisions of this Act. Requires in any Federal court proceeding in which the reasonableness of general or administrative costs for which a defense contractor seeks reimbursement from the DOD are in issue that the burden of proof be upon such contractor to establish the reasonableness of such costs. Title VII: Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Matters - Department of Defense Efficiency and Economy Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Defense, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to issue proposed regulations dealing with the unallowability of contractor indirect costs. Requires the Secretary, in determining allowable costs, to consider whether the costs incurred benefit the United States or are necessary for the operation of the business. Specifies certain costs which should be considered unallowable under such new regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to make disallowances and to assess a penalty of three times the disallowed expense whenever there is clear and convincing evidence that such expense is disallowable. Considers as a false claim specifically punishable under specified Federal law an expense submitted by a contractor for reimbursement that was not actually incurred. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Congress on specific actions taken to address the problems related to spare parts purchasing by DOD. Requires the Secretary to issue proposed regulations and legislation as part of such report if such problems have not been remedied. Increases penalties under specified provisions of Federal law for the making of false claims in DOD procurement. Makes rate-of-wages provisions under the Davis-Bacon Act inapplicable for labor performed in connection with military construction projects. Revises provisions dealing with wage-rate determinations to consider local wage rates for private industry (currently, surveys of wages paid outside the local area are used) when determining the prevailing rate for employees employed under certain DOD contracts. Makes inapplicable to DOD contracts certain Federal provisions which require an overtime rate of pay for work performed after eight hours of work per day. Provides in such contracts that the overtime rate will instead be paid after ten hours of work per day. Removes restrictions on contracting-out authority of the Secretary if he or she determines that such contracting-out would be cost-effective and in the best interest of the national defense. Authorizes the Secretary to close or realign any military installation if the President submits a budget reflecting a budget deficit in a fiscal year and the Secretary notifies the Congress at least 60 days prior to taking action. Title VIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the President, effective October 1, 1985, to dispose of certain quantities of specified materials currently held in the National Defense Stockpile. Requires to be deposited into the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund 30 percent of all money accruing to the United States during FY 1986 from land in the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. Title IX: General Provisions - Limits to $1,000,000,000 the size of the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Grants limited authority for the Secretary of Defense to exceed the permanent ceiling on U.S. forces assigned to NATO. Requires the Secretary of Defense, within 60 days of the date of enactment of this Act, to advise the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in writing, of his or her views regarding the desirability of legislation that would prohibit the inclusion of contractor administrative and general overhead expenses in the computation of contractor profits. Limits the use of authorized funds in conducting polygraph examination tests. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than December 31, 1986, to report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the use of polygraph examinations administered by or for DOD during FY 1986. Outlines details to be included in such report. Requires the Secretary to establish and report annually on a continuing polygraph research program to support polygraph activities within DOD. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to DOD for such program. Provides certain restrictions on the contracting for educational services which are provided to members of the armed forces or civilian DOD employees or their dependents. Directs the President, not later than December 1, 1985, and not later than December 1 of each year thereafter, to report to the Congress concerning the Soviet Unions's compliance with arms control commitments. Directs the Secretary of Defense, not later than April 1, 1986, to report to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on the continued use of independent cost estimates in the planning, programming, budgeting, and selection process for major defense acquisition program in DOD. Outlines details to be included in such report. Extends through 1988 certain reporting dates for the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defenses. Directs the President, in submitting a proposes budget for FY 1988, to submit a single proposed budget for DOD and related agencies for FY 1988 and 1989 and thereafter to submit a two-year proposed budget for DOD and related agencies biennially. Requires the Secretary of Defense, not later than July 1, 1986, to submit to the Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives a report containing the Secretary's view on certain aspects of the proposed two-year defense budget. Abolishes the position of Administrator of Education for Overseas Dependents, the Office of Education for Overseas Dependents, and certain functions transfers from DOD related to overseas education. Revises provisions concerning the orgnization of the Advisory Council on Dependents' Education. Extends and expands the authority of the Secretary of Defense to transport humanitarian relief supplies to certain countries. Declares as a policy of the Congress that: (1) it supports the objective of the U.S. to reverse the erosion of the arms-limitation treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; and (2) the Congress' approval for funds for research on the Strategic Defense Initiative does not express or imply an intention to abrogate or erode such treaty. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the purchase of foreign currencies from the Treasury Department to carry out DOD programs. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated under authorization in this Act to be used for the B1-B aircraft program unless the Secretary of Defense first notifies the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. Division B: Military Construction - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1986 - 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 in amounts. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. 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. 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. Authorizes the Secretary to convert four transient housing units in Chinhae, Korea, to family housing units. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for Naval Strategic Homeporting until the Secretary reports to the Congress on such and 90 days elapse after such report is received. 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. 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. Restricts the obligation or expenditure of funds appropriated for the construction of ground launch cruise missile facilities in the Netherlands until that country has approved the deployment of such missiles there. 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 20 family housing units for a specified amount at classified locations. Permits the Secretary to improve existing military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for the design and construction of a research and engineering facility for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. 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 1985 for construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for the NATO Infrastructure program. Limits the total costs 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 1987 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. Title VII: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1985 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from contracting for the acquisition of any interest in land exceeding $100,000 unless the Secretary notifies the appropriate congressional committees of intent to do so and 21 days elapse after such notification. Raises from $100,000 to $400,000 the maximum interest in land a Secretary may purchase. Requires a member of the armed forces who moves out of an assigned military family housing unit to leave such unit in a satisfactorily clean condition or be liable to the United States for the cleaning costs of such unit. Expands activities and expenses to be included within authorizations for military family housing. Extends to October 1, 1986, the authority of the Secretary of a military department to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing where there exists a deficit in available family housing. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements under certain conditions with the Secretary of State whereby the Secretary of State provides housing and related services to personnel under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned who are assigned to duty in a foreign country. Requires notification to the Congress and a 21-day lapse period before such agreements may take effect. Changes from October 1, 1985, to October 1, 1986, the effective date for the repeal of Federal law relating to the sale and replacement of nonexcess real property and the abolition of the Department of Defense Facilities Replacement Management Account. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out sale and replacement transactions with respect to specified facilities at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and March Air Force Base, California. Requires the Administrator of General Services to transfer certain surplus land adjacent to Fort McNair, Washington, D.C., to the Secretary of the Army for use in connection with the National Defense University. Directs the Administrator to reacquire certain land previously conveyed to the city of Los Angeles and to transfer such land to the Secretary of the Air Force to be used for military family housing. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell a tract of land within Fort Jackson, South Carolina, known as the Gregg Circle Area. Requires the sale of the Gregg Circle Area tract to be carried out under public advertisement and competitive bidding, with the Secretary, before any contract for the sale of such land is entered into, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the procedures used in selecting a buyer and allow 21 days to elapse after such report is submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to use the proceeds from such sale for specified housing improvement facilities at Fort Jackson. Prohibits any funds appropriated under this Act from being available for any project which all requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 have not been completed as of March 29, 1985, with specified exceptions. Amends the Military Construction Authorizations Act, 1985 to convey a portion of March Air Force Base, California, to Air Force Village West corporation to be used as security for financing the construction of facilities on such land. Revises Federal law concerning building-height restrictions on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Division C: Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclar Energy Authorization - National Security Program Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1986 - Title I: National Security Programs Operating Expenses : - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1986 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; and (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) defense nuclear waste land byproduct management; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development; (6) security investigations; and (7) naval reactors development. Title II: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the cost exceed by more than $10,000 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 the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost and exempts from such procedures any project which have 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. Division D: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
Bill· HRH.R. 2265 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1985
Joint Chiefs of Staff Reorganization Act of 1985 - Establishes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after the Secretary of Defense in the chain of combatant command. Grants the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the authority to provide military advice in his own right to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. Eliminates the numerical restriction on the Joint Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 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. Requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to submit an evaluation to the President of any person for appointment to a grade above major general or rear admiral. Requires such evaluation to consider the performance of that officer as a member of the Joint Staff and in other assignments involving joint military experience. Makes the Chairman a member of the National Security Council.
Bill· HRH.R. 2262 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1985
Authorizes the Inspector General of the Department of Defense to suspend payments under a contract with the Department of Defense, or revise the schedule for payments under such a contract if the Inspector General determines that: (1) based on audits there have been excessive charges; and (2) other remedies available by law and under the contract are insufficient to eliminate promptly waste, fraud, and abuse with respect to the contract. Allows the Secretary of Defense, in the interest of national security, to overrule such an action by the Inspector General. Requires the Secretary to report to specified committees of the Congress on the reasons for overruling such action.
Bill· SS. 1007 (99th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1985
Veterans' Health Care Promotion Act of 1985 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to carry out a pilot program to determine the most cost-effective method of acquiring medical facilities for the Veterans Administration (VA) using certain specified methods. Requires the Administrator, not later than January 1, 1987, to enter into contracts to carry out the pilot program. Requires such contracts to be with an appropriate entity to construct and operate a nursing home for the VA. Requires the Administrator to enter into a contract with an appropriate entity to plan for, design, and construct a medical facility for the VA and to lease or sell such facility to the VA as directed by the Administrator. Directs the Administrator to also acquire two existing medical facilities. Requires the Administrator to provide the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives an annual report on the administration of the pilot program and a final report promptly after the termination of such program. Requires the Administrator, within 90 days after enactment of this Act, to report to the same such Committees on: (1) the extent to which the VA furnishes respite care to elderly veterans and disabled veterans; (2) the VA's plans for furnishing such care in the future; and (3) an estimate of the cost of increasing community-based nursing home beds available to the VA by specified percentages. Limits the amount of working reserve funds available to the VA for FY 1986 for the purchase of an urban medical facility. Directs the President to include in the budget submitted to the Congress a statement of the estimated expenditures and appropriations required to carry out the pilot program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2227 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1985
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct demonstration projects for the purpose of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of providing chiropractic care to veterans. Requires such projects to be conducted in three geographically-dispersed locations in the United States. Directs the Administrator, in conducting such projects, to obtain advice and recommendations from recognized medical or scientific authorities in the field and to ensure adequate participation by chiropractors in the design and evaluation of the projects. Requires the Administrator, not later than October 1, 1988, to report to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives on the results of such projects.
Bill· HRH.R. 2233 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1985
Revises provisions concerning the provision of hospital, nursing home, or domiciliary care and medical treatment to include as eligible for such care veterans: (1) who are former prisoners of war, for any disability; (2) of the Spanish-American War, Indian wars, Mexican border period, or of World War I, for any disability; and (3) for a non-service-connected disability, if such veteran is unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital or nursing home care. Defines as sufficient evidence to qualify for such health care the fact that a veteran has income and assets, when combined with the income and assets of all those living with him/her in the household, equal to or less than twice the maximum annual rate of pension as provided under veterans' pension provisions. Requires the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to prescribe regulations identifying the circumstances under which the Administrator will consider a veteran to be unable to defray expenses of needed care. Outlines provisions to be included in such regulations, including a schedule of unreimbursed medical expense contributions that a veteran will be expected to make before he or she will be deemed unable to defray expenses of needed care.
Law· HRH.R. 2205 (99th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Korean War Memorial Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to erect and maintain a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Korean War. Subjects the selected site, design, and plans for the construction of such memorial to the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2218 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Waives certain time limitations with respect to awarding a distinguished flying cross to Clayton P. Hall, Jr., for heroism while participating in an aerial flight during combat operations on the Japanese island of Ishigaki-Shima on June 22, 1945.
Bill· HRH.R. 2197 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1985
Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to authorize the use of funds appropriated for operations and maintenance of the Navy to pay for expenses of the Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense. Extends the time for submission of certain reports by the Commission.
Bill· HRH.R. 2181 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Veterans' Disability Compensation and Survivor Benefits Amendments of 1985 - Title I: Disability Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for dependents, and the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and for children, as well as the rates of supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Title II: Other Veterans' Program Improvements - Eliminates as an effective date for the discontinuance or reduction of compensation those benefits which were based on the last date of school attendance of a payee or dependent of a payee. Revises provisions concerning the active-duty status of members of the National Guard or Air National Guard for purposes of entitlement to veterans' benefits. Further conditions the circumstances under which adopted children of veterans may be considered dependents for purposes of entitlement to veterans' benefits. Includes lung disabilities of 50 percent or more in the "paired organ" criteria which permits a presumption of service-connected disability for both organs when only one such organ was actually a service-connected disability. Title III: Extension of Authority to Operate A Regional Office in the Republic of the Philippines - Extends through FY 1988 the authority of the Administrator of the Veterans Administration to operate a regional office in the Republic of the Philippines.
Bill· HRH.R. 2179 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct a pilot program during FY 1986 through 1988 to: (1) furnish respite care in Veterans Administration facilities to chronically ill service-connected disabled veterans; and (2) evaluate the medical advantages and cost-effectiveness of furnishing such respite care.
Bill· HRH.R. 2175 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Allows certain Vietnam-era veterans with a break in service to become eligible for benefits under the new GI bill educational assistance program.
Bill· HRH.R. 2171 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1985
Provides that Veterans Administration (VA) grants to States for construction of State veterans' homes shall be made on the basis of need rather than by the order of application to the VA.
Bill· SS. 964 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1985
Repeals certain veterans' education provisions requiring the use of educational benefits within ten years of eligibility (the delimiting period).
Bill· SS. 965 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1985
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to assist certain disabled veterans in acquiring residences already adapted with special features deemed necessary due to the veterans' disabilities.
Bill· SS. 962 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1985
Authorizes educational assistance for apprenticeship or other onjob training under the All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Program. Limits the amount of educational assistance payable in any one month where the individual pursuing the educational program fails to complete 120 hours of training.