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Bill· HRH.R. 4346 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Military Selective Service Health-Care Personnel Registration Act - Directs the President to have registered with the Selective Service System certain persons who are qualified in health-care occupations that are essential to the armed forces and in which the armed forces are understaffed. Requires all U.S. citizens between the ages of 18 and 46 who are so qualified to register for possible induction. Exempts lawful resident aliens. Outlines certain identifying information which may be required from persons registering under this Act. Provides civil penalties for late registration, and criminal penalties for failure to register. Provides further penalties for any interference with the administration of this Act. Prohibits any regulations prescribed under this Act from taking effect until 30 days after their publication in the Federal Register. Authorizes the Director of Selective Service to waive the publication requirements in the interests of national defense.
Bill· HRH.R. 4334 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1986
Amends Federal procurement law to authorize the Secretary of Defense, while procuring petroleum for any Government agency, to waive the application of any provisions of law concerning contract procedures, terms and conditions, and performance, if the Secretary determines that the waiver is likely to: (1) achieve significant savings; and (2) enhance competition or provide competition where none exists.
Bill· SS. 2141 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Prohibits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs from taking any action to dispose of certain land and improvements at two Veterans Administration medical centers located in West Los Angeles and in Sepulveda, California.
Bill· HRH.R. 4313 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1986
Amends Federal law relating to major defense acquisition programs to direct the Congress, when it approves the full-scale engineering development stage of a major defense acquisition program, to authorize and appropriate funds for that stage in a single amount sufficient to carry out that stage. Prohibits beginning a development stage until such an authorization and appropriation takes place. Outlines information to be included in a development stage funding request from the Secretary of Defense to the Congress. Requires notification to the Congress and suspension of appropriated funds if the Secretary concerned determines that there is a significant adverse system change while carrying out a development stage for which funding has been approved. Terminates such suspension of funding after 45 days. Defines "significant adverse system change." Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary concerned to change the current baseline description and cost of a major defense acquisition program after the Congress authorizes and appropriates funds for the development stage of such a program. Requires such Secretary to notify the Senate and House Armed Services Committees of any such changes not later than ten days after such a change is made.
Bill· SS. 2132 (99th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1986
Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 - 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. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. 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. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units in a specified amount at classified locations. 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 1986 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, and for the defense agencies. Limits the total cost of all projects carried out by each department and the defense agencies to the amounts authorized under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Defense for the U.S. constribution to the NATO Infrastructure program. States that all such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1987 or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for FY 1989, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Extends the authorization of appropriations for various functions under previous authorization Acts. Establishes maximum amounts of certain expenditures, including an unspecified minor military construction project, architectural and engineering design services, 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 1986 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Repeals Federal law requiring the Secretary of the Army and of the Air Force to assign suitable space for postal purposes at each military post where a post office exists. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to carry out certain renovation projects using operation and maintenance funds. Increases from 200 to 220 the number of military family housing units exempted from the limits placed on foreign military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for the construction of hazardous waste storage facilities. Requires the Secretary, before carrying out any such project, to comply with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Authorizes the increase by up to 25 percent of the estimated cost of any such project if the Secretary makes certain findings. Prohibits the commencement of any such project after September 30, 1991. Exempts certain Department of Defense contracts of $25,000 or less from specified publication and notification requirements under various Federal laws. Repeals Federal law which expressly limited the number of contracts the Secretary concerned was authorized to enter into for the leasing of military family housing units. Repeals specified provisions of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 relating to the military housing rental guarantee program. Title IX: Further Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to the Secretaries of Defense and of each of the military departments to establish or develop military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, converting, rehabilitating, or installing permanent or temporary public works.
Bill· SS. 2124 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Individual Responsibility for Fraud in Defense Procurement Act of 1986 - Increases from $2,000 to $10,000 the civil penalty for individuals making certain false claims to the Federal Government. Increases from double to treble a person's liability for the amount of damages sustained by the Federal Government. Makes such persons liable for pre-judgment interest and the costs of a civil action. Makes an officer, director, or principal stockholder personally liable civilly and criminally for false claims submitted by the corporation if such person failed to act immediately to rectify claims violations upon learning of their existence. Increases from $2,000 to $10,000 the bail amount for a person arrested for making false claims against the Federal Government. Increases from double to treble the amount of damages for which such arrestee is liable. Increases from $10,000 to $1,000,000 the criminal fine imposed for: (1) conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government with respect to claims; and (2) fraudulent claims presented by individuals against the Federal Government. Increases the terms of imprisonment from five years to ten years for persons convicted of such fraudulent claims. Increases from one year to five years the period during which a person convicted of a defense contract-related felony is prohibited from working on any defense contract, including serving on the board of directors of a defense contractor.
Bill· SS. 2117 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Strategic Defense Education Act of 1986 - Title I: Higher Education Programs - Amends title IX (Graduate Programs) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (the Act) to create a new part D program of graduate assistance in areas of national need. Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to academic departments and programs and other academic units of institutions of higher education for graduate fellowships in selected areas of study for graduate students who: (1) demonstrate financial need and academic ability; (2) plan teaching or research careers; and (3) pursue the highest degree available in their area of study. Makes the principal criterion for the allocation of such grant awards the relative quality of the graduate programs in competing applications. Directs the Secretary, consistent with such principal criterion for allocation, to promote an equitable distribution of such awards among geographic areas and among eligible public and private institutions. Directs the Secretary to approve a grant recipient for a three-year period. Limits the amount per fiscal year of such grant to any academic department or program of an institution of higher education to a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $500,000. Provides for reallotment of grant funds. Provides for new awards under this Act only to the extent that each previous grant recipient has received the required continued funding. Provides for ratable reductions of amounts required to be awarded to the extent that appropriations are insufficient. Sets forth institutional eligibility provisions. Permits grant applications by any academic department or program of an institution of higher education which offers a program of post-baccalaureate study leading to a graduate degree in an area of national need (as designated through procedures set forth in this Act). Requires a department or program to be in existence for at least four years, in order to be eligible for such a grant. Directs the Secretary, after consulting with specified agencies and organizations, to designate areas of national need. (Lists, as examples of areas which might receive such designation, physical or life sciences, mathematics, engineering, computer science, foreign languages, or area studies.) Directs the Secretary, in making such designations, to take into account the extent to which the interest is compelling and the extent to which other Federal programs support post-baccalaureate study in the area concerned. Sets forth criteria for grant applications, including a requirement of at least 25 percent non-Federal matching funds, for purposes of the fellowship program under this Act. Requires that the institution make such fellowship awards to individuals having financial need who: (1) plan teaching or research careers; (2) plan to pursue the highest possible degree available in their course of study; (3) are from traditionally underrepresented groups undertaking graduate study, as determined by the Secretary; and (4) have compiled excellent academic records in their previous programs of study. Sets forth requirements relating to awards to graduate students. Provides that at least 80 percent of the grant to the academic department or program shall be used for such awards. Limits the period of such award to no longer than five years for any individual. Provides that such fellowships shall consist of payment of tuition and fees and a stipend. Limits the maximum individual annual stipend to $10,000 or the demonstrated level of need, whichever is less. Sets forth other conditions for receipt of such award. Sets forth provisions for assistance to the graduate program. Provides that up to 20 percent of the grant to the institution may be used to conduct activities to improve the quality of the academic program offered at the department, including improvement of library resources and of laboratory and instructional equipment, and support for research projects and academic papers. Prohibits such funds from being used for the general operational overhead of the institution. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 through 1991. Amends title VII (Construction, Reconstruction, and Renovation of Academic Facilities) to add new part E provisions for a college research facilities construction loan corporation to be known as the College Construction Loan Insurance Association (the Corporation). Authorizes the Secretary of Education and the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) to participate in such private, for-profit, non-governmental Corporation, which shall guarantee and insure loans to universities for construction, renovation, and acquisition of research facilities. Title II: National Science Foundation Program - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1987 to the National Science Foundation for Engineering Research Centers. Title III: University Research Initiative - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 to the Department of Defense for the University Research Initiative program. Title IV: Tax Incentives for Research Activities in Areas of National Need - Subtitle A: Credit for Increasing Research Activities in Areas of National Need - Amends the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 to make permanent the tax credit for increasing research activities in areas of national need. Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to modify the definition of qualified research for tax credit purposes. Defines "area of national need" for such purposes. Makes the tax credit for qualified research expenses available to corporations and to certain joint research ventures. Sets forth transition rules. Subtitle B: Promotion of University Research and Scientific Education in Areas of National Need - Amends the IRC to expand the tax credit for university basic research in areas of national need to certain qualified organizations. Allows a tax deduction for certain contributions of scientific and technological property utilized in research in areas of national need. Excludes from gross income certain scholarships, fellowship grants, stipends, and student loan forgiveness for postgraduate students in areas of national need. Subtitle C: Tax-Exempt Bonds and Research Facilities - Sets forth the sense of the Congress regarding the use of tax-exempt bonds to fund research facilities. Declares that the expansion, improvement, and development of research facilities connected with private and public institutions of higher education should be included with other facilities listed under the exceptions to the unified volume limitation for tax-exempt government bonds.
Bill· HRH.R. 4273 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Amends Federal law relating to competition requirements in defense contracts to direct the head of a defense agency to require any firm that submits a bid or proposal in response to a solicitation to disclose in such bid or proposal any significant interest in that firm that is owned or controlled by a foreign government or a foreign national. Requires the head of an agency to exclude from consideration for a contract exceeding $100,000 a firm in which a hostile foreign government or covered foreign national owns or controls a significant interest. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations listing hostile foreign governments. Makes this Act inapplicable to the Coast Guard or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Bill· HRH.R. 4271 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Requires the President to direct the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress, no later than 180 days after the enactment of this Act, a joint report addressing the question of Government responsibility for providing benefits and services to individuals who served with certain volunteer organizations in support of U.S. armed forces stationed in Vietnam during the Vietnam era.
Bill· HRH.R. 4270 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1986
Authorizes the Eleventh Airborne Division Association to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor such division. Requires the Association to be responsible for preparing the design and plans for the memorial, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Requires the Secretary to: (1) select a site for the memorial; (2) determine the sufficiency of funds before allowing site preparation to begin; and (3) be responsible for the maintenance of the memorial. Prohibits the United States from paying any expenses associated with the memorial. Requires the authority to establish the memorial to expire five years after the enactment of this Act unless site preparation has begun.
Bill· SS. 2102 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act of 1986 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of 1979 to provide for determinations to be made as to the quantity of any material to be stockpiled under such Act. Directs the President to appoint an interagency advisory committee (the committee), chaired by the Secretary of Defense, to determine which materials are to be acquired under this Act and their appropriate classification. Outlines procedures for the determination of the quantity and classification of such materials. Requires the stockpile goal for any material to be reviewed by the committee once every four years. Requires a revised stockpile objective to be established in specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary or the committee to review stockpile goals at other times, but requires the Secretary to notify the Congress in writing when the committee determines that a stockpile goal should be computed in a different manner. Requires the new formula for computing the stockpile goal to be included in such notification, such formula to become effective within 90 days after the Congress receives such notification.
Bill· HRH.R. 4235 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Joint Officer Capability Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a secondary occupational specialty for officers in each branch of the armed forces, to be known as the joint subspecialty. Outlines provisions concerning the number, selection, and assignments of officers to joint subspecialties. Directs the Secretary to establish career guidelines for officers in the joint subspecialty. Directs the Secretary to revise the curriculum of schools of the National Defense University in order to enhance the education and training of officers in joint military matters. Requires officers graduating from a joint military school in a joint subspecialty to be assigned to a joint position in that officer's next duty assignment. Prohibits an officer from commanding a unified or specified combatant command unless such officer is in a joint subspecialty. Prohibits an officer from appointment as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) unless the officer has served as the commander of a unified or specified command. Sets forth the promotion policy for joint service officers (including faster promotions). Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for monitoring the careers of officers in the joint subspecialty or other joint officers. Revises provisions concerning the review of promotion lists by the Chairman of JCS to allow the Chairman, in a limited number of instances, to recommend for promotion officers who: (1) have served in joint assignments; and (2) were considered by a review board but not recommended for promotion. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to disagree with the Chairman's promotion recommendations. Requires the Secretaries concerned to record their disagreement as part of their transmittal to the Secretary of Defense of the selection board's report. Requires the Secretary of Defense to resolve any such disagreements before transmitting the report to the President. Requires previous joint officer assignments for officers promoted to brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half). Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prerequisite in appropriate cases. Outlines the length of duty as a joint officer required for promotion to certain grades. Requires the Chairman of JCS to advise the Secretaries of the military departments concerned with respect to duty assignments of officers in the joint subspecialty and other joint officers. Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure that military schools strengthen the focus on joint military operations in preparing certain level officers for joint duty assignments. Directs the Secretary of Defense to make the initial selection of officers for the joint subspecialty, following certain special rules.
Bill· HRH.R. 4234 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Armed Forces Combatant Command Reorganization Act - Amends general military law to direct the President to establish unified and specified combatant commands to perform military missions and to prescribe the force structure of such commands. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, if a situation warrants it, to establish a special combatant command. Requires the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to periodically (not less than every other year) review the overall structure of the unified and specified combatant commands and make appropriate recommendations to the President. Directs the President to promptly notify the Congress of any action taken in response to such recommendations. Directs the Secretary of each military department to assign all forces under their jurisdiction (except forces assigned to recruiting, organizing, training, or supplying the armed forces) to unified and specified combatant commands as established under this Act. Outlines provisions concerning the command hierarchy of such assigned forces. Provides that commanders of combatant commands shall be supervised by the Chairman of JCS and be responsible to the President and the Secretary of Defense for their missions. Makes the Secretary of each military department responsible for the support and administration of forces assigned by that department to combatant commands. Authorizes the commander of a combatant command to request the Secretary of Defense for the transfer to such commander of support or administrative functions. Directs the Secretary of Defense to include in the annual budget of the Department of Defense (DOD) a separate budget proposal for activities of each of the unified and specified combatant commands. Outlines information concerning activities of such combatant commands to be included in such proposals. Requires the commander of each such command to submit to the Chairman of JCS, for review and recommendations, annual program and budget proposals for such commands. Outlines provisions concerning the selection and tenure of combatant command subordinate commanders and staff officers. Establishes in DOD the Joint Commanders Council, consisting of the Chairman of JCS and the commanders of the combatant commands. Directs such Council to advise the Chairman, the President, and the Secretary of Defense on appropriate matters. Requires the Chairman of JCS to submit to the Secretary of Defense recommendations for the allocation of defense resources under the proposed national defense budget for each fiscal year, and to take certain other specified actions in connection with activities of the unified and specified combatant commands. Directs the Secretary of Defense (the Secretary) to provide for the transfer of staff personnel from the headquarters staff of the military departments to the staffs of the commanders of the specified and unified commands to reflect the reorganization made under this Act. Limits the total staff size of the unified and specified commands. Outlines actions to be taken into consideration at the first review of the structure of the unified and specified commands.
Bill· HRH.R. 4262 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Amends Federal law concerning Coast Guard personnel to direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to award a specified increase in retired pay to those Coast Guard officers cited for extraordinary heroism in the line of duty. Makes this Act retroactively applicable to any Coast Guard officer so cited. Outlines provisions concerning the computation of the increase for Coast Guard officers so cited who are retired before the effective date of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 4237 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1986
Amends general military law relating to the organization of the defense agencies to direct the Secretary of Defense, in appropriate cases, to provide for the performance by one agency or organization of supply or service activities common to more than one military department. Directs the Secretary to periodically (and not less than every two years) review the services and supplies provided by the defense agencies to ensure that such provision is more economical than the provision of such services by the military departments. Specifies various officers and directors whose views are required as part of the Secretary's review. Requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to periodically (and not less than every two years) report to the Secretary concerning the combat support agencies. Directs the Chairman to: (1) provide for the participation of the combat support agencies in joint training exercises; and (2) assess the performance of each agency in such exercise and provide for any necessary changes. Requires the Chairman to develop a uniform system for reporting each such agency's readiness to perform in a war or threat to national security. Establishes in each combat support agency a combat support agency policy council. Requires such council to: (1) advise the director of that agency on policy matters relating to the operation of that agency; and (2) consider and provide advice as directed by the Secretary of Defense. Requires the Director of a combat support agency, upon request, to assign a representative of that agency to the headquarters of a unified or specified combatant command. Defines "combat support agency" for purposes of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Defense to conduct a study of the functions and organizational structure of the defense agencies. Directs the Chairman of JCS and the Secretaries of the military departments to each conduct a study of the functions and organizational structure of the defense agencies. Requires each such study to be submitted to the Secretary of Defense. Directs the Secretary of Defense, within a specified deadline, to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees concerning the study made of the functions and organizational structure of the defense agencies, together with recommendations.
Bill· HRH.R. 4229 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1986
Coast Guard Defense and Personnel Protection Act - Requires civilian personnel employed at the Coast Guard Yard (Maryland) and at the Coast Guard Aircraft Repair and Supply Center (North Carolina): (1) to be managed each fiscal year solely on the basis of workload and available funds; and (2) to be exempt from any statutory or regulatory manpower constraints. Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating (the Secretary) to identify those Coast Guard activities that are necessary to maintain the logistics capability of the Coast Guard. Requires the Secretary, no later than January 31, 1987, to provide a list of such activities to the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. Provides that such activities may not be contracted for performance by non-Government personnel, except in specified circumstances. Requires the Secretary, before the beginning of FY 1987 and 1988, to submit to the above committees a list of activities that are to be contracted for performance by non-Government personnel during that fiscal year. Prohibits any Coast Guard vessel or major component of such vessel from being constructed in a foreign shipyard, unless the President makes authorized exceptions based on national security. Requires the President to notify the Congress of any such exception, and requires 30 days to pass after such notice before any contract for foreign construction may be entered into.
Bill· SS. 2082 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1986
Defense Acquisition Enterprise and Initiative Act of 1986 - Amends general Federal procurement law to authorize the Secretary of a military department to designate any major defense acquisition program conducted by such department as a defense enterprise program, which shall be managed by a program manager. Requires such program manager to report to and be under the direction and control of the Secretary concerned. Limits the regulation of such defense enterprise programs (programs) as specified. Requires the Secretary concerned to appoint a program manager for each program. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the appointment and performance review of such managers. Authorizes the manager of a program to establish a senior staff to assist in the management of the program, as well as a technical staff. Provides that it is the policy of the Congress to authorize at any one time in connection with any program the appropriation of sufficient funds to carry out the program through at least one defense systems acquisition review council milestone established for the program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to specify the amount of necessary funds for each such program. Establishes in the Department of Defense the Defense Acquisition Service (DAS). Limits to 10,000 the number of personnel employed by DAS. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the appointment, assignments, and rates of pay of DAS personnel. Provides for the payment of performance awards to selected members of DAS. Requires the performance of each member of DAS to be evaluated at least once each year. Authorizes appropriate increases or reductions in pay after such performance evaluations. Limits the number of DAS employees in each military department for each of FY 1987 through 1989. Prohibits a a covered senior defense official from contacting a defense contractor regarding future employment opportunities with the defense contractor. Defines "covered senior defense official." Requires such official to immediately terminate any contact made by a defense contractor regarding possible future employment. Provides for the payment of severance pay to a covered senior defense official upon termination of Federal employment as a covered senior defense official.
Bill· HRH.R. 4204 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1986
Prohibits the Administrator of Veterans Affairs from taking any action to dispose of certain land and improvements at two Veterans Administration medical centers located in West Los Angeles and in Sepulveda, California.
Bill· SS. 2079 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to require that the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress be reduced by 4.3 percent for FY 1986. Requires, during any other fiscal year, that such pay be reduced by the percentage of reduction in outlays for non-defense programs required by the President's sequestration order under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act).
Bill· SS. 2078 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Reaffirms the intent of the United States to maintain close ties with the Republic of the Philippines and to maintain U.S. military facilities located there as long as practicable. Directs the Secretary of Defense, for contingency planning purposes, to conduct a study of the feasibility of relocating such military facilities presently in the Philippines at another secure and stable site in the Pacific region. Directs the Secretary to submit the results of such study, together with comments and recommendations, to the Congress no later than June 30, 1986.
Bill· HRH.R. 4192 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Waives the congressional report and waiting period requirements applicable to specified reorganizations within the Veterans Administration.
Bill· HRH.R. 4181 (99th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 - 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. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. 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. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units in a specified amount at classified locations. 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 1986 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Departments of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, and for the defense agencies. Limits the total cost of all projects carried out by each department and the defense agencies to the amounts authorized under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Defense for the U.S. constribution to the NATO Infrastructure program. States that all such authorizations shall expire at the end of FY 1987 or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for FY 1989, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Extends the authorization of appropriations for various functions under previous authorization Acts. Establishes maximum amounts of certain expenditures, including an unspecified minor military construction project, architectural and engineering design services, 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 1986 for the costs of acquisition, architectual and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the guard and reserve forces. Title VIII: General Provisions - Repeals Federal law requiring the Secretary of the Army and of the Air Force to assign suitable space for postal purposes at each military post where a post office exists. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to carry out certain renovation projects using operation and maintenance funds. Increases from 200 to 220 the number of military family housing units exempted from the limits placed on foreign military family housing units. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for the construction of hazardous waste storage facilities. Requires the Secretary, before carrying out any such project, to comply with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Authorizes the increase by up to 25 percent of the estimated cost of any such project if the Secretary makes certain findings. Prohibits the commencement of any such project after September 30, 1991. Exempts certain Department of Defense contracts of $25,000 or less from specified publication and notification requirements under various Federal laws. Repeals Federal law which expressly limited the number of contracts the Secretary concerned was authorized to enter into for the leasing of military family housing units. Repeals specified provisions of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 relating to the military housing rental guarantee program. Title IX: Further Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to the Secretaries of Defense and of each of the military departments to establish or develop military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, converting, rehabilitating, or installing permanent or temporary public works.
Bill· HRH.R. 4180 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1987 and 1988 for civil defense programs under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
Bill· HRH.R. 4193 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Waives the congressional report and waiting period requirements applicable to specified reorganizations within the Veterans Administration.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 289 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1986
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State should consider the issuance of a travel advisory to warn U.S. citizens of the dangers to travel in any country in which such citizens are attacked by terrorists supported by Libya if the government of that country fails to close Libyan official missions.
Bill· HRH.R. 4167 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1986
Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act - Continues on the reserve active status list certain Army and Air Force reserve colonels and brigadier generals who would otherwise be discharged from such active status due to age or years in service. Outlines certain promotion and failure of selection provisions concerning reserve officers of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force who are subject to placement on the reserve active status lists and who come up for promotion to a higher reserve grade. Authorizes, for a specified period, the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force to prescribe minimum periods of total years of commissioned service for promotion consideration for reserve officers who are subject to placement on the reserve active status list of the Army or Air Force. Requires all officers due to be placed on the reserve active status list of their armed forces to be placed on such list with the same relative seniority as they held on the day before the effective date of this Act. Revises provisions concerning the determination of the highest grade held for purposes of computation of retired pay of officers required to perform satisfactorily on the reserve active status list. Title I: Promotion and Involuntary Separation of Officers on the Reserve Active Status List - Amends general military law provisions to direct the Secretary of the military department concerned, whenever the needs of the service require, to convene selection boards to make recommendations: (1) for promotion of officers on the reserve active status list in each permanent grade to the next higher grade; and (2) for continuation of officers on the reserve active status list or for selective early removal from such list (including requiring an officer to show cause for retention). Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to notify officers eligible for promotion in advance that a selection board is to convene. Requires each selection board convened to submit a written report and certain certifications regarding their selection procedure. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to return a report to a selection board if a recommendation is found to be contrary to law or regulations. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned, after final review of a board report, to submit such report along with the Secretary's recommendations to the Secretary of Defense for transmittal to the President for approval, modification, or disapproval. Allows the name of an officer recommended for promotion by a selection board to be removed from such board's report only by the President. Authorizes dissemination of the names of officers recommended for promotion upon approval by the President of the selection board report. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to maintain a single list of all officers who are in an active status in a reserve component. Outlines general rules pertaining to eligibility for consideration for promotion of officers appearing on such reserve active status lists. Requires an officer to be on such list for at least one continuous year before being eligible for promotion. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to limit the number of officers considered for promotion by a selection board. Defines "promotion zone" for purposes of this Act to be a certain specified promotion eligibility category. Outlines the minimum years of service in grade required for promotion eligibility consideration for officers who are on the reserve active status list of a reserve component. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to prescribe longer minimum periods of in-grade service in certain instances. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in the case of an officer holding the grade of major or lieutenant commander in a reserve component, to also prescribe a minimum period of total years of commissioned service. Requires that certain ranked officers on the reserve active status list who are ineligible for promotion due to an insufficient period of in-grade service shall be placed in a zone of consideration and considered for promotion far enough in advance that such promotion would be effective on the date of eligibility due to completion of such required service. Requires each officer whose name appears on a reserve active status list to be placed in a competitive category for promotion. Directs the Secretary concerned to establish a promotion zone for officers serving in each grade and competitive category. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to implement regulations that require that a promotion zone for consideration of officers above the rank of ensign or second lieutenant be determined in accordance with a running mate system. Directs the Secretary concerned, before convening a selection board, to determine the maximum number of officers in each competitive category that the selection board may recommend for promotion. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, when the needs of the armed forces require, to recommend officers of a certain rank for promotion from below the promotion zone. Directs the Secretary concerned, after the report of a promotion selection board has been approved by the President, to place the names of all officers selected for promotion on a list (a promotion list) in the order of seniority of those officers on the reserve active status list. Provides that promotions shall then be made in the order in which the names of the officers appear on the promotion list. Provides that appointments shall be made by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, with specified exceptions. Considers an officer to have accepted an appointment on the date it is made unless expressly declined. Provides that the President may at any time remove the name of any officer from a promotion list or such officer's name shall be removed if the Senate does not give its advice and consent to such appointment. Directs that any officer whose name is so removed continues to be eligible for promotion. Provides specified circumstances under which the appointment of an officer to a higher grade may be involuntarily delayed (e.g., court-martial, criminal proceedings, or disciplinary actions against an officer). Requires the name of such officer to be returned to such list if no adverse determinations are made. Provides for delay of promotion for: (1) mental, physical, moral, or professional reasons (including provisions for written notice of the grounds for such action, an opportunity for a written response, and time limitations for promotion delays and final actions concerning such delays); (2) compliance with military end-strength limitations; and (3) voluntary delays of up to three years. Authorizes the President to vacate the promotion of an officer to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) if the officer has served less than 18 months in that grade after promotion to that grade. Provides the grades to be held by such officers whose promotions are so vacated. Provides for the promotion of an eligible officer to a vacant position if specified circumstances are met. Provides for the promotion of officers in the Army National Guard and Air National Guard, and Federal recognition of such appointment. Declares ineligible for promotion an officer who is transferred to an inactive status after having been recommended for promotion under provisions of this Act. Requires an officer who is on a promotion list and who is placed on an active duty list before being promoted shall be promoted even though the officer is on the active duty list at the time of promotion. Outlines various other promotion procedures for officers in transition to and from the reserve active status list or the active duty list. Provides that a reserve officer below the grade of colonel, or captain in the Naval Reserve, who is eligible for promotion but either is not selected for, or declines the offer of, a promotion shall be considered to have failed selection for promotion. Outlines other instances in which an officer shall be considered to have failed selection for promotion. Directs the Secretary concerned to convene a special selection board in the case of an officer who was: (1) not considered for promotion because of administrative error; and (2) eligible for promotion, considered, but not selected because the action of the first selection board was contrary to law or contained material or administrative error or because such board lacked material information. Requires: (1) time limits for application for consideration by a special selection board; and (2) each such board convened to submit a written report. Provides for promotion of an officer recommended for promotion in a report by the special selection board which is approved by the President. Prohibits any official or court of the United States from having jurisdiction over any claim based on the failure of an officer to be selected for promotion until the claim has been acted upon by a special selection board. Permits a court to review a decision by the Secretary concerned not to convene a special selection board. Authorizes a court to remand a case to the Secretary concerned under certain circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to discharge an officer on the reserve active status list who: (1) has less than five years of service in an active status as a commissioned officer; or (2) is serving in the grade of second lieutenant or ensign and has been found not qualified for promotion to the next higher grade. Provides for the separation from service of various officers in the reserve component of the armed forces who fail for the second time to be selected for promotion to the next higher grade. Provides for the removal from the reserve active status list of lieutenant colonels, colonels, commanders, and captains in the reserve due to the completion of specified years of commissioned service. Provides for the separation from service at age 60 of certain reserve officers below the rank of brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half). Provides for the continuation of selected officers on the reserve active status list for a total specified number of years of service which varies depending upon the rank of such officer. Requires such continuation to be accomplished through a continuation selection board subject to the Secretary concerned. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to retain on the reserve active status list certain reserve officers until age 60. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to exercise selective early removal from the reserve active status list due to excess manpower in such reserve officer category. Provides for the separation from service of chaplains due to the loss of professional qualifications. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned, at any time, to convene a board of officers for the purpose of determining whether such officer should be removed for substandard performance or certain other reasons (such as misconduct, or moral or professional dereliction). Provides for the reenlistment at the same enlisted status into the Regular Army or Regular Air Force of a former enlisted member, who has since discharge served on active duty as a reserve officer in the Army, upon specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to furnish the name of any officer of the Army Reserve who is assigned the duties of a general officer of the next higher service grade to a selection board for consideration for promotion to that grade. Repeals Federal law requiring: (1) officers of the Army National Guard or Army reserve who are not promoted to first lieutenant on or before three years of service to be discharged from their reserve appointment; and (2) separation, retirement, or discharge of reserve officers below the grade of brigadier general upon their attaining age 60. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to retain on the reserve active duty status list until age 60 certain officers employed as National Guard or reserve technicians whose active status in a reserve component is required as a condition of such employment. Repeals specified provisions of Federal law relating to promotions of officers on the reserve active status list for each of the armed forces. Directs that each officer who is promoted to fill a vacancy in a federally recognized unit of the National Guard shall be examined for Federal recognition in the grade to which the officer is promoted. Extends automatic Federal recognition to officers in the National Guard or Reserve being promoted to a grade above first lieutenant, upon certain conditions. Title II: Appointments - Authorizes any former commissioned officer of an armed force to be appointed as an officer in a reserve component of that armed force and placed on the reserve active status list at the rank of the highest rank achieved while on active duty or in an active status. Requires appointments of reserve officers in commissioned grades of lieutenant colonel or commander or below, except commissioned warrant officers, to be made by the President alone. Authorizes active-service credit for officers being appointed to reserve commissioned officer positions. Specifies various types of prior education, training, or experience for which credit shall be given for constructive service to reserve commissioned officers in achieving such skills. Prohibits such constructive service from being credited for education, training, or experience obtained while serving as a commissioned officer on active duty or in an active status, with limited exceptions. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to award constructive service to aspiring judge advocates receiving an original appointment in a reserve component if the Secretary of Defense determines that there is a critical shortage of judge advocates serving in an active status in a reserve component of the armed forces. Outlines provisions concerning the computation of an officer's years of service for purpose of determining whether a reserve commissioned officer may be transferred to the Retired Reserve or discharged. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning service credit and appointments as reserve officers in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Title III: Retirement and Separation - Provides for the determination of a reserve commissioned officer's grade upon transfer to the Retired Reserve to make such retired grade the highest grade served satisfactorily on the reserve active status list for specified periods of time (depending upon the rank involved). Makes conforming amendments for the computation of retired pay for such officers. Outlines administrative provisions relating to the mandatory removal and separation of reserve officers from the reserve active status list for various reasons, including age, years of service, and failure of promotion. Title IV: Strength and Distribution in Grade - Specifies the authorized strength of reserve commissioned officers on the reserve active status list in the Army and Air Force. Authorizes a higher strength, or a suspension of the authorized strength, in time of war, national emergencies, or certain other circumstances. Specifies the authorized strength of reserve general officers on the reserve active status list in the Army and Air Force. Authorizes the suspension of such limitation in time of war or national emergency. Authorizes a similar suspension of the operation of any authorized strength limitation on commissioned officers in: (1) grades below brigadier general on the reserve status list in the Army and Air Force; and (2) the reserve active status list in grades above chief warrant officer, W-4, in the Naval Reserve and Marine Corps Reserve.
Bill· HRH.R. 4152 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1986
Exempts veterans' home loan guaranty program commitments from any provision of law providing for the sequestration of budget authority generally throughout the Federal Government.
Bill· SS. 2052 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Establishes a veterans' home loan guaranty limitation amount of $17,600,000,000 reduced by 4.3 percent for purposes of implementing any sequestration order issued by the President for FY 1986 calling for a reduction of such loan commitments.
Law· HRH.R. 4130 (99th)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1986
Establishes a veterans' home loan guaranty limitation amount of $17,600,000,000 reduced by 4.3 percent for purposes of implementing any sequestration order issued by the President for FY 1986 calling for a reduction of such loan commitments.
Bill· SS. 2035 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Department of Defense Procurement Reorganization Act of 1986 - Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Defense the Office of Defense Procurement, to be headed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Procurement (Under Secretary). Makes the Under Secretary responsible for the centralized procurement of all property and services for the Department of Defense (DOD), all contract administration functions of DOD, and all competition advocates of DOD. Brings under the Office of Defense Procurement: (1) all functions of DOD relating to the procurement of property and services; (2) all functions of the Defense Acquisition Regulation Council and of the Defense Logistics Agency; and (3) all functions of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization for the Department of Defense. Prohibits entering into a contract for the full-scale development or procurement of a major system unless the Under Secretary has reviewed and approved the contract. Requires all advocates for competition in DOD to be under the supervision, direction, and control of the Under Secretary. Requires advocates to report annually to the Under Secretary, describing their activities during the preceding year.
Bill· SS. 2034 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Unified and Specified Command Organizational Act of 1986 - Amends general military law to establish in the Department of Defense such unified combatant commands (composed of forces from two or more military departments) and specified combatant commands (composed of forces from a single military department) as the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe. Sets forth provisions concerning the appointment of commanders to such combatant commands, together with their officers. Directs the Secretary, no later than February 15 annually, to report to the Congress concerning such commands. Directs the Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to jointly submit to the Congress a report containing their evaluation of the Unified Action Armed Forces Plan. Requires all such reports to include reports from the commanders of the specified combatant commands.
Bill· HRH.R. 4082 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1986
Amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require legislative branch employees who are cleared for access to information with a security classification of secret or higher to file annual financial disclosure statements.
Bill· HRH.R. 4068 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1986
Abolishes the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Contract Audit Agency. Transfers the functions of each agency to the Secretaries of the military departments concerned. Prohibits any personnel increases related to such transfers, and prohibits any further transfer of functions other than by law.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 365 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1986
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to grant jurisdiction to the Committee on Armed Services of all appropriations for the Department of Defense. (Currently, the House Committee on Appropriations has such jurisdiction.) Prohibits any standing committee of the House, other than the Committees on Armed Services and the Budget, from considering any measure or matter relating to defense or within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Armed Services.
Bill· HRH.R. 4032 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Amends veterans' benefits provisions to extend from December 31, 1982, to December 31, 1988, the date for submission of a report from the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to the President concerning special pay for physicians and dentists employed by the Veterans Administration. Requires updated reports every four years thereafter (currently, every two years).
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 358 (99th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1986
Declares that the Congress: (1) commends and concurs in measures taken by the President to meet the threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy from Libya and to discourage further terrorism from that country; and (2) supports the President's pledge to take further steps if Libyan leader Qaddafi continues to support terrorism.
Bill· HRH.R. 4014 (99th)open
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1986
Amends Federal law relating to the transportation of military personnel and supplies to prohibit the use of an aircraft chartered by the Department of Defense (DOD) for transporting members of the armed forces unless an inspection of the aircraft and check of its operators has taken place within 48 hours prior to its flight. Requires the Secretary of Defense to receive a report on each inspection performed by Federal Aviation Administration personnel on aircraft used by a firm that contracts with DOD to provide transportation for members by charter. Requires the Secretary to exclude from contracting with DOD firms found to be using unsafe aircraft.