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United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1983
Amends the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 to repeal the requirement that the Secretary of Defense designate, and that such designation be posted at, specified defense facilities where it is unlawful for a member of a Communist-action organization to be employed.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Permits the Secretary of Defense to provide air transportation to annual national meetings within the continental United States sponsored by the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia to the next of kin of persons missing in action in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam era, or reported dead without repatriation of the remains.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1983
Encourages the President's efforts to achieve deep cuts in the amounts of nuclear weapons held by each nation and to establish an enduring peace. Declares that Congress would welcome an international agreement based on specified principles providing for: (1) the staged, proportional disarmament of all nations until nonthreatening force levels are reached under effective international inspection and control; and (2) concurrent agreements (in accordance with specified principles) providing methods for the peaceful settlement of international disputes, for effective compliance during the staged disarmament process, and for effective enforcement as nonthreatening force levels are approached. Urges the President to initiate: (1) renewed consideration of the "Joint Statement of agreed Principles for Disarmament Negotiations" ("Joint Statement") by appropriate U.S. agencies; and (2) joint United States and Soviet reconsideration of such "Joint Statement." Requests the President to: (1) transmit copies of this resolution to the heads of government of all nations and to invite them to participate in negotiations on such an international agreement; and (2) report to Congress on the steps taken respecting this resolution and the responses received and on the U.S. reassessment of the "Joint Statement."
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Veterans Disability Compensation Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Veterans Disability Compensation Benefits - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation, additional compensation for such veterans' dependents, and the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Title II: Survivors' Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Benefits - 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 III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Makes an exception to the commencement of period of payment rule for an increased award of compensation by reason of a temporary increase in compensation for hospitalization or treatment of a veteran (thus making such temporary increase payable before the first day of the calendar month following the month in which the increase become effective). Amends the Veterans' Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982 to revise the effective dates respecting Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) coverage for deaths and disabilities incurred before and after FY 1982. Includes certain adopted children within the definition of child for veterans' benefits purposes. Decreases to ten percent disabling the degree of deafness a veteran suffering from service- connected total blindness must be rated to qualify for additional disability compensation. Reduces from 40 percent to 30 percent disabling the degree of deafness a veteran suffering from service-connected blindness with 5/200 visual acuity or less must be rated to qualify for such additional compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Increases the maximum number of associate members of the Board of Veterans Appeals from 50 to 65. Permits the Chairman to designate a temporary member. Limits such designees to one per section of the Board.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to deny an institution of higher education any new contracts or grants from the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Energy, or Education or the National Science Foundation if it continues to make loans or grants or provide work assistance to students who are required to but have not registered for the Selective Service. Provides for the termination of such disqualification upon compliance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1983
Veterans' Housing Benefits Amendments of 1983 - Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make advances to the holder of a veteran's primary mortgage when such veteran: (1) is living in the dwelling concerned; (2) is unemployed or suffered a substantial reduction in household income; (3) is at least six months delinquent in payments; and (4) has a reasonable prospect of being able to resume full payments within six months. Sets limits on the amount of assistance which may be advanced. Requires the veteran to repay the advance with interest at the rate specified by the Administrator for veterans' guaranteed loans within 48 months. Makes the Administrator's decisions regarding advances final and nonreviewable. Terminates the advance program after two years. Authorizes the Administrator to make guaranteed loans to eligible veterans for manufactured homes permanently affixed to a lot. Permits the Administrator to exclude from the computation of a veteran's aggregate guaranty or insurance entitlement any amount taken over by any veteran-transferee, not just an immediate veteran-transferee, who consents to use his own entitlement. Extends by five years, through FY 1989, the Administrator's grants to States to assist in the establishment or improvement of State veterans' cemeteries. Authorizes the Administrator to make contributions to local authorities for the construction of traffic controls or other improvements or devices necessary for safe ingress to or egress from a national cemetery.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1983
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1984 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in specified departments and agencies in the U.S. Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense. Prohibits the use of funds for any activity not specifically authorized. Requires notification of the appropriate congressional committees of any fund transfers between activities. Permits the CIA Director to employ civilian personnel in excess of authorized ceilings (but not more than two percent) for certain purposes. Title II: Intelligence Community Staff - Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Ssaff for FY 1984. Establishes a ceiling of 211 full-time Intelligence Staff employees. Sets forth conditions for the appointment of a commissioned officer of the Armed Forces as Director or Deputy Director of the Intelligence Community Staff. Title III: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. Title IV: Provisions Relating to Intelligence Agencies - Authorizes the CIA to determine and fix minimum and maximum age limits for appointees to operational positions. Allows the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to grant honorary awards to employees. Directs the CIA to reimburse the State of Virginia for highway improvements associated with construction at the Agency headquarters. Makes changes in the executive schedule pay rates for the Director and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. Provides benefits for certain employees of the Department of Defense assigned abroad. Title V: General Provisions - Allows increases in appropriations to cover increases in employee benefits authorized by law.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1983
Authorizes the erection of a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia, or its environs, in honor and commemoration of members of the armed forces who served in the Korean war. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select, with the approval of the National Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, a suitable site on public grounds for such memorial. Subjects the design and any plans for the memorial to the approval of the Secretary, the National Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Declares that no moneys belonging to the United States or the District of Columbia shall be expended for the erection of such memorial. Authorizes appropriations for site acquisition and preparation in the event nonpublic land is selected for the memorial.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1983
Veterans Administration Health Programs Amendments of 1983 - Extends by three years, from FY 1984 to FY 1987, the period during which Vietnam-era veterans may request psychological readjustment counseling from the Veterans Administration. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to conduct a comprehensive study of the readjustment of Vietnam-era veterans to civilian life. Requires that such study include a nationwide survey of the prevalence and incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder and related readjustment problems among such veterans and a survey of their health status in relation to that of the general population. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress on such study by December 31, 1985. Increases the amount of reimbursement which the Administrator shall pay to a State for furnishing domiciliary, hospital, or nursing home care to eligible veterans who receive such care in State facilities. Directs the Administrator to report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees every three years on the appropriate rates for payments. Extends from FY 1983 to 1984 the authority of the Administrator to contract for hospital care or medical services in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands without reference to patient loads or incidence of provision of medical services for veterans treated by the Veterans Administration in the contiguous 48 States. Directs the Administrator to establish an Advisory Committee on Women Veterans to advise the Administrator or on the administration of benefits for and needs of women veterans. Directs Committee to report annually to the Administrator on the activities of the Veterans Administration pertaining to women, together with assessments of needs and recommendations for future action. Directs the Administrator to submit such report to Congress. Prohibits the Administrator from disposing of real property under his or her jurisdiction until 180 days (currently, 30 days) have elapsed since the Administrator notified the Veterans' Affairs Committees of such intention. Requires the Administrator to determine that certain real property under his or her jurisdiction is not needed by the Veterans Administration to carry out its functions before such property may be declared excess. Permits the Administrator to release the reversionary interest of the United States restricting the use of specified lands in Biloxi, Mississippi to use as a public park or for other public purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Amends the Arms Control and Disarmament Act to authorize appropriations for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for FY 1984 and 1985. Provides that the Director of the Agency shall be a permanent member of the National Security Council.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Amends the Federal criminal code to allow as an affirmative defense to a prosecution that, as a result of mental disease, the defendant did not know the nature and quality of his actions or did not know the wrongfulness of his actions at the time he committed the offense. Transfers the burden of proving insanity to the defendant. Prohibits expert witnesses from offering opinions on the ultimate legal issues presented to the trier of fact.
United States · United States Congress · 4 May 1983
Veterans' Programs Improvement Act of 1983 - Title I:Definition of Vietnam Era - Redefines the Vietnam Era to include the period July 8, 1959, through May 7, 1975, for veterans who served in the Republic of South Vietnam during that period. Title II: Women Veterans - Makes women veterans eligible for outpatient treatment at private facilities for medical conditions relating to gender. Title III: Veterans Administration Health-Care Programs - Extends through FY 1985 a Vietnam era veteran's eligibility for readjustment counseling. Makes the Preventive Health-Care Services Pilot Program a permanent program. Title IV: Veterans Administration Health-Care Personnel - Permits the Administrator to appoint licensed practical or vocational nurses for physical therapists, and certified or registered respiratory therapists for the medical care of veterans. Requires such personnel to have such medical, scientific, or technical qualifications as the Administrator shall prescribe. Sets forth the period of appointments and the probationary period for such personnel. Establishes wage scales and other terms and conditions of employment. Requires the Administrator and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to submit a joint report to the Veterans' Affairs Committees concerning the conversion of selected health care occupations to title 38 (Veterans), U.S. Code. Title V: Status and Role of Administrator of Veterans Affairs - Expresses the sense of Congress that the Administrator should be made a fully participating member of the Cabinet. Title VI: Health Hazards Studies and Report - Directs the Administrator to provide for an epidemiological study of the long-term adverse health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation from the detonation of a nuclear device, either in connection with a test or with the American occupation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, following World War II. Directs the Administrator to conduct a comprehensive review of scientific analysis of the literature covering studies relating to such effects. Directs the President and the Administrator to make several reports to the appropriate committees of Congress concerning the steps taken and the results of the literature review. Requires, after two years, an annual report from the Administrator to the appropriate committees concerning the epidemiological study. Directs the Administrator, within 90 days of submitting such report, to set forth in the Federal Register what action he proposes to take concerning Veterans Administration programs in response to such report. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress within 180 days of enactment on alternative approaches to providing benefits to veterans and the natural children of veterans who were exposed during service to either such radiation or to dioxins (Agent Orange) used in Vietnam. Title VII: Technical Amendments - Makes various technical amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Designates August 3, 1983, as National Paralyzed Veterans Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1983
Designates May 1983, as Purple Heart Month.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1983
Decreases from 60 to 20 percent disabling the degree of deafness at which a veteran suffering from service-connected total blindness must be rated to qualify for additional disability compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1983
Repeals the requirement that the Disabled American Veterans corporation make annual financial reports to the Comptroller General for auditing.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1983
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to erect along the approach to Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, a statue or other memorial to honor the combat glider pilots of World War II. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1983
Strategic and Critical Materials Funding Act of 1983 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to provide that 20 percent of specified revenues from leases on the Outer Continental Shelf shall be deposited in the national defense stockpile transaction fund. Permits the President, with the prior approval of Congress within 60 days of transmitted intent, to suspend or reduce such deposits if it would be in the national interest. Makes this Act effective for FY 1984 and beyond.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Operational Testing and Evaluation Act of 1983 - Establishes in the Department of Defense a Civilian Director of Operational Testing and Evaluation appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires such Director to perform all duties relating to operational testing and evaluation in the Department. Requires such Director to advise and report directly to the Secretary of Defense. Grants such Director access to all necessary Department records. Permits the Director to require observers to be present during testing. Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to report all testing results to the Director. Requires the Director to respond to congressional requests for information. Prohibits the obligation of funds for operational testing without the advance approval of the Secretary. Directs the President to request separate budget authority for the Director's activities. Grants the Comptroller General access to all records of the Department of Defense.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1983
Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Act of 1983 - Authorizes the establishment of the Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, a nonprofit corporation, to: (1) carry out medical research and education projects under cooperative arrangements with the Uniformed Services University of Health Science (University); (2) serve as a focus for the interchange between military and civilian medical personnel; and (3) encourage the participation of medical, dental, nursing, veterinary, and other biomedical sciences in the work of the Foundation for the mutual benefit of military and civilian medicine. States that the Foundation shall not for any purpose be an agency or instrumentality of the U.S. Government. Directs the Council of Directors of the Foundation to report to the President annually on the operations of the Foundation. Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University to contract with the Foundation for cooperative enterprises in medical research, consultation and education, subject to specified restrictions. Requires the Board to notify the Armed Services Committees at least 15 days before it enters into agreements for certain facilities or services. Prohibits the Board from contracting with the Foundation if the contract would obligate the University to make outlays before enactment of appropriate budget authority. Deems any Foundation scholar or other person providing volunteer services to the University a Federal employee for purposes of workers' compensation or tort claims.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Amends the Department of Education Organization Act and the Department of Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to return the operation of the overseas schools for dependents of Department of Defense personnel to the Department of Defense from the Department of Education.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Uniformed Services Survivors Benefits Amendments of 1983 - 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.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Defense Industrial Base Revitalization Act - Title I: Industrial Modernization and Strategic and Critical Materials - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to direct the President to take immediate action to assist in the modernization of industries related to defense. Limits such assistance to small and medium-sized businesses unless national security requires otherwise. Directs the Secretary of Defense to determine immediately and semiannually which industries should be given priority and the type of assistance which would be most helpful. Requires each proposal to include a financial plan which specifies how the assistance offered will insure that the company involved will become more economically viable. Directs the President to assist persons expanding the domestic capability to produce or process critical and strategic materials. Sets forth the terms of such assistance, including qualification through public solicitation and the President's right to refuse delivery of items exceeding market price. Prohibits the extension of assistance for establishments relocating from one area to another or for persons divesting other persons of contracts customarily performed by them. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1986. Permits the President to utilize the borrowing authority of the Treasury as specified and to use unobligated funds in Department of Defense appropriations. Limits the amount of funds used to the amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts. Title II: Defense-Related Skill Training and Education -- Directs the President to implement a national program to train workers in skills necessary in key defense industries. Requires the Secretary of Defense to transmit to the President recommendations as to the necessary skills. Makes assistance available through grants to Governors for allotment to State vocational education programs in States with previously approved plans for a three-year program of skills training. Requires that the State job training coordinating council be given an opportunity to participate in the development of, review, and comment on such plan. Requires each State to make contributions to such program of ten percent of its costs to qualify for extensions of such programs. Directs the President to implement a grant program to assist institutions of higher education in obtaining and installing modern equipment to train scientific and technical personnel needed in the key industries. Sets forth the terms of such assistance, including application procedures, limits on grants, and the requirement that such equipment be purchased through competitive bidding. Requires such equipment to be of U.S. origin. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose for FY 1984-1986. Directs the Comptroller General to monitor this program and submit an annual report to Congress. Directs the Office of Technology Assessment to study the public facilities or infrastructure essential to the defense industrial base and report to Congress on recommendations for measures to avoid serious impediments to production. Sets forth the labor standard to be maintained on any project funded under this Act, including compliance with the wage requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act. Directs the President to transmit to Congress every six months a listing of all loans, loan guarantees and commitments for loan guarantees made in assisting in the modernization of defense-related industries. Title III: Amendments to Defense Production Act of 1950 - Requires each executive department and agency to follow the principle of geographical dispersal to the degree possible in constructing any Government-owned industrial facility. Directs such departments and agencies to continuously assess the capability of the defense industrial base to satisfy near-term and increased mobilization production requirements. Increases the maximum obligation of any guaranteeing agency for loans necessary to prevent personal insolvency or bankruptcy that would impede the production and delivery of materials or the performance of services for the national defense. Decreases from 60 to 30 days the period provided for the congressional review and veto of such loan guarantees. Permits such a loan guarantee to be made immediately if both Houses adopt a concurrent resolution approving it. Postpones until the end of FY 1986 the termination date of certain provisions of the Defense Production Act of 1950, including certain priorities, allocations, and expansion of productive capacity and supply provisions. Repeals the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages Act of 1974. Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to require any defense contractor who includes an offset agreement in excess of $5,000,000 in a defense contract with a nation other than the United States to file an annual report with the Secretary of the Treasury. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on the number and amount of offsets in such contracts. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the appropriate congressional committees within 30 days of signing any memoranda of understanding involving offsets in contracts in excess of $5,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1984 - Title I: National Security Programs - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy for FY 1984 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs concerning the military applications of nuclear energy in the following areas: (1) naval reactors development; (2) weapons activities; (3) verification and control technology; (4) materials production; (5) defense waste and byproducts management; (6) nuclear safeguards and security; and (7) security investigations. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, or whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of Congress, unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of the Energy has presented to all the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of such requirement where such waiver is approved in writing by each appropriate committee of Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to start any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of such project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for approval of projects that exceed the 25 percent estimated cost provision, and exempts from such procedures any project which has an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs as appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary tonotify the appropriate committees of Congress in writing of specific cost overruns. Authorizes funds for emergency construction design and pay increases. Prohibits the Secretary from implementing a requirement relating to public health and safety until 45 days after Congress receives notice or transmits to the Secretary written notice of no objection. States that executive order 12344, dated February 1, 1982, concerning the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program shall stay in force. Prohibits the disclosure of information classified under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to a nongovernmental party to an agency regulatory proceeding except as authorized by the agency head.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Permits the Secretary of the Army, with the officer's consent, to retain any reserve officer in an active status until such officer reaches the age of 60.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Former Prisoners of War Compensation Act-Entitles veterans who are former prisoners of war to veterans' disability compensation. Varies the percent of disability directly with the length of detention. Entitles surviving spouses and children of veterans rated more than 50 percent disabled to dependency and indemnity.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Intelligence Activities Oversight Improvement Act - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the prohibition against funding Central Intelligence Agency operations in foreign countries without a presidential finding that such operation is important to U.S. national security. Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require the Director of Central Intelligence and the heads of all intelligence agencies to keep the appropriate congressional committees fully and currently informed of all intelligence activities, including any significant anticipated intelligence activity. Deletes the provision which limits the need to inform the committees of activities before they occur. Prohibits initiating any special intelligence activity unless and until the activity has been approved by the President and the President has made a specified written finding. Prohibits any Federal agency from conducting any special activity which is not within a category of activities authorized by the President if: (1) the President does not submit, before the activity is begun, a report containing the written finding, a description of the nature and scope of the activity, and a justification to the committees; or (2) both committees disapprove such activity within 15 days of receiving the prior notice. Permits the President, under extraordinary circumstances, to limit the prior notice to the chairmen and ranking minority members of the committees so long as the remaining members of the committees are notified within 48 hours of the limited notice. Requires the President to provide the committees with additional information upon request. Permits the President to authorize special activities by category if they do not involve elements of high risk, major resources, or serious political consequences and if the President: (1) personally finds that activities falling within the category are important to U.S. national security; and (2) reports to the committees, before any activity within the category is commenced, a description of the category and a justification for conducting activities within the category. Prohibits any spending for such activities until the President has made the required finding and report. Requires the National Security Council, after the President has made such finding and report, to be responsible for supervising such activity. Directs the President to provide to either intelligence committee, upon request, additional information pertaining to specific special activities undertaken within a category of activities. Defines "special activity." Declares that these provisions shall not apply to activities initiated pursuant to a declaration of war approved by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Veterans' Disability Compensation and Survivors' Benefits Amendments of 1983 - Title I: Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of veterans' disability compensation. Permits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to adjust the rates of disability compensation for other specified persons. Increases the rates of additional compensation for dependents. Increases the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans. Title II: Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses according to a specified table. Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Increases the rates of supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Title III: Effective date - Sets forth the effective date for this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1983
Amends the veterans' benefits provisions concerning minors, incompetents, and other wards to permit the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to authorize a Veterans Administration appointed fiduciary to deduct up to four percentage of the benefits received by the beneficiary as a commission.
United States · United States Senate · 26 April 1983
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
Amends the Native Latex Commercialization and Economic Act of 1978 to rename such Act the Critical Agricultural Materials Act. Increases the number of agencies and organizations recognized by Congress as participants in native latex research and commercialization to include the National Science Foundation and other public and private industrial research groups. Recognizes the need to develop domestic agricultural sources for products other than rubber which are of strategic and industrial importance. Extends the definition of "native" to include other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance (presently limited to hydrocarbon-containing plants, including guayule). Eliminates the definition of "regional commissions" (no longer in existence). Renames the Joint Commission on Guayule Research and Commercialization the Joint Commission on Research and Development of Critical Agricultural Materials. Expands the Commission's membership to include representatives from the Departments of State and of Defense and from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to select the Commission Chairman from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) members. Broadens the Commission's scope of authority to seek technical advice. States that the USDA shall be the lead agency in carrying out such Act. Expands USDA and Department of Commerce latex research and development programs to include such other agricultural materials. Requires USDA research to include large-scale (10,000 acres or more) experimental latex plantings. Directs the Secretary to establish within USDA an Office of Critical Agricultural Materials. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative projects, including the extraction and processing of latex and critical agricultural materials produced in the United States, with Australia and Israel. Broadens State contract and assistance authority of USDA and the Department of Commerce to include projects for all critical agricultural materials (presently only for latex). Broadens similar USDA and Commerce authority regarding regional, national, and international conferences. Includes the Department of State within the scope of Federal agency coordination under such Act. Permits sales of byproducts to other Federal agencies for testing purposes. Extends reporting requirements through FY 1987. States that after FY 1988, activities under such Act shall be limited to critical agricultural materials other than native latex.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1983
World War I Veterans' Service Pension Act - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to pay a monthly service pension of $125 to certain veterans of World War I and the Mexican border period. Increases such pension to $150 if the veteran has a spouse or child. Provides for the payment of a monthly pension of $100 to the surviving spouses of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States Army Reserve be commended on the 75th anniversary of its founding on April 23, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, as the T. Overton Brooks Memorial Veterans Administration Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to prohibit the Secretary of Defense from entering any defense contract in excess of $5,000,000 with any manufacturer in the United States unless such manufacturer agrees to sponsor or conduct job training programs in skills which are in short supply.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to extend medical benefits to a former spouse who was married at least 20 years to a member with at least 20 years of service when a minimum of ten years rather than 20 years of such marriage and service coincide. Repeals the requirements that the former spouse be unmarried and have no medical coverage under an employee-sponsored health plan. Grants medical benefits to a former spouse who has a disease or disability attributable to the nature or location of a member's or former member's military service. Limits the health care available to such former spouses to that necessary for the treatment of such a disease or disability. Applies this Act to all eligible former spouses, regardless of the date of divorce.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1983
Title I: Amends the Federal criminal code to prohibit mental condition from being a defense to any charge of criminal conduct. Allows admission of expert evidence on the issue of state of mind when it is an element of the offense. Title II: Authorizes a verdict of "guilty but mentally ill" for any criminal defendant who raises the issue of insanity by notice as provided by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Provides that if the defendant is found "guilty but mentally ill" the court may commit the defendant to serve all or a portion of the sentence in a suitable facility for treatment of his mental condition. Allows for transfer to a Federal prison when the defendant is no longer in need of custody, care or treatment. Provides that if the defendant is found not guilty, but the court determines that he is presently suffering from a mental condition where his release would create substantial danger to himself or another, then the court may commit him to custody of the appropriate State or to a suitable mental health facility. Requires the court to order the discharge of such a defendant upon recovery from his mental condition.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1984 and 1985 - Title I: National Security Programs - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy for FY 1984 for plant and capital equipment and operating expenses in carrying out national security programs concerning the military applications of nuclear energy in the following areas: (1) naval reactors development; (2) weapons activities; (3) verification and control technology; (4) materials production; (5) defense waste and byproducts management; (6) nuclear safeguards and security; and (7) security investigations. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of Congress, unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of the Energy has presented to all the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of such requirement where such waiver is approved in writing by each appropriate committee of Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to start any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of such project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for approval of projects that exceed the 25 percent estimated cost provision, and exempts from such procedures any project which has an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs as appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate committees of Congress in writing of specific cost overruns. Authorizes funds for emergency construction design and pay increases. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1985.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1983 - Title I: National Security Programs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 to the Department of Energy for operating expenses incurred in carrying out national security programs, including scientific research and development, strategic and critical materials necessary for common defense, military applications of nuclear energy, and additional authorizations for specific projects. Authorizes appropriations for specified plant and capital equipment necessary for national security programs. Title II: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds authorized under this Act where the costs of the program exceed 105 percent of the program authorization or the costs exceed by more than $10,000,000 the amount authorized by this Act, whichever is the lesser. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of Congress, unless 30 calendar days have elapsed since the Secretary of the Energy has presented to all the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed. Allows the written waiver of such requirement where such waiver is approved in writing by each appropriate committee of Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to start any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of such project does not exceed $1,000,000. Sets forth procedures for approval of projects that exceed the 25 percent estimated cost provision, and exempts from such procedures any project which has an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services for construction projects in support of national security programs as appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate committees of Congress in writing of specific cost overruns. Authorizes funds for emergency construction design and pay increases.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Approves the obligation and expenditure of funds appropriated in Public Law 97-377 for MX missile procurement and full-scale engineering development of a basing mode for the MX missile.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make available to eligible veterans guaranteed loans for the purchase of manufactured homes that are permanently affixed to a lot.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1983
Approves the expenditure of appropriations for MX missile procurement and the development of a basing mode.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who die while serving with the U.S. Armed Forces during certain periods of hostilities may be considered to have been U.S. citizens at the time of their deaths.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act of 1983 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Revision Act of 1979 to direct the President to appoint an interagency advisory committee to determine: (1) which materials are strategic and critical to the United States; (2) how much of such material should be stockpiled; and (3) what classification such material should be assigned. Sets forth a formula for determining the quantities of each classification of material to be imported. Requires that each stockpile goal be reviewed at least every four years by the interagency committee. Requires the head of an agency, upon the committee's determination, to notify Congress of any proposed new formula for computing the stockpile goal for a particular material. Makes such formula effective 90 days after such notification unless either House of Congress, within such period, agrees to a resolution of disapproval.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make advances to the holder of a veteran's primary mortgage when such veteran: (1) is temporarily unemployed; (2) is at least six months delinquent in payments; and (3) has a reasonable prospect of being able to resume full payments within six months. Sets limits on the amount of assistance which may be advanced. Requires the veteran to repay the advance with interest at the rate specified by the Administrator for veterans' guaranteed loans within 54 months. States that if the veteran defaults on the mortgage despite the advances made, the advances do not reduce the obligation of the Administrator under the guaranty on the primary mortgage. Specifies that advances be made from the Direct Loan Revolving Fund established for veterans' loans. Makes the Administrator's decisions regarding advances final and nonreviewable. Terminates the advance program after two years.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Act of 1983 - Authorizes the establishment of the Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, a nonprofit corporation, to: (1) carry out medical research and education projects under cooperative arrangements with the Uniformed Services University of Health Science (University); (2) serve as a focus for the interchange between military and civilian medical personnel; and (3) encourage the participation of medical, dental, nursing, veterinary, and other biomedical sciences in the work of the Foundation for the mutual benefit of military and civilian medicine. States that the Foundation shall not for any purpose be an agency or instrumentality of the U.S. Government. Directs the Council of Directors of the Foundation to report to the President annually on the operations of the Foundation. Authorizes the Board of Regents of the University to contract with the Foundation for cooperative enterprises in medical research, consultation and education, subject to specified restrictions. Requires the Board to notify the Armed Services Committees at least 15 days before it enters into agreements for certain facilities or services. Prohibits the Board from contracting with the Foundation if the contract would obligate the University to make outlays before enactment of appropriate budget authority. Deems any Foundation scholar or other person providing volunteer services to the University a Federal employee for purposes of workers' compensation or tort claims.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Establishes the Veterans Administration as an executive department redesignated as the Department of Veterans' Affairs. Makes technical and conforming changes, including the redesignation of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs as the Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Altoona, Pennsylvania, as the James E. Van Zandt Veterans Administration Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1983
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the city of Nitro, West Virginia, be recognized as a living memorial to World War I.