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United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1987
Designates the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Buffalo, New York, as the Major Robert J. DiTommaso Veterans' Administration Medical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1987
Waives a requirement of the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide for the consideration of a resolution providing for the further consideration of H.R. 1748 (armed forces funding).
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1987
States that the Administrator of Veterans Affairs should rescind certain regulations authorizing the reimbursement of travel expenses for travel to a Veterans Administration facility for the purpose of rehabilitation, counseling, or other medical treatment or care and reinstate previous regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Freedom of the Department of Defense Press Act of 1987 - Establishes the Commission on Freedom of the Department of Defense Press (the Commission). Directs the Commission to convene its first meeting within 15 days after the date on which all the members of the Commission have been appointed. Requires the Commission to: (1) examine the editorial policies and operations of the Department of Defense (DOD) and specified newspapers published by DOD in order to determine the amount of censorship and news management permitted within their editorial policies and operations; (2) identify and investigate complaints made to DOD and the Commission by members and former members of the Pacific and European editions of the Stars and Stripes with respect to the presence of censorship and news management practiced by such DOD publications; and (3) determine whether increased civilian participation in the editorial operations of such newspapers will decrease the likelihood of such censorship and news management practices. Directs the Commission, within 90 days after its first meeting, to report to the Secretary of Defense and to the Congress the results of its investigation, together with any appropriate recommendations. Authorizes the Commission to conduct hearings and secure information from various sources in order to aid its investigation. Outlines administrative procedures relating to the meetings and information-gathering powers of the Commission, including the ability to issue and enforce subpoenas; pay, travel expenses, and staff for members of the Commission; and the power to procure temporary and intermittent services in order to carry out its specified duties. Directs the Administrator of General Services to furnish the Commission, on a reimbursable basis, any administrative and support services requested by the Commission. Directs the Commission members, whenever possible, to use military transport when traveling to perform its functions. Terminates the Commission 60 days after the date on which the Commission submits its report, above. Directs payment of Commission expenses to be paid from Department of the Army funds.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to allow a designee of the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration to appoint and act upon the recommendations of disciplinary boards for employees. (Currently, only the Chief Medical Director can take such actions.) Limits the types of action which shall be appropriate for such disciplinary boards to those actions which propose the removal, suspension for more than 14 days, or demotion involving loss of grade or pay.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to grant a license to the Boy Scouts of America for the use of certain real property at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, as a permanent site for National Scout Jamborees.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Economic Diversification Act - Title I: Defense Economic Diversification-Adjustment Council - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Defense Economic Diversification-Adjustment Council (Council) in the interest of: (1) assisting affected persons in defense-dependent communities to make plans for nondefense economic alternatives to minimize dislocation in the event of a closure of a military installation or cancellation of a major defense contract; (2) providing incentives for business, industry, and the vocational education community to develop programs to retrain workers affected by such closures or terminations; and (3) notifying communities in advance of anticipated events that will require economic adjustments to nondefense alternatives. Directs the Council, among other things, to: (1) establish within the Executive Office of the President an Office of Economic Diversification-Adjustment to provide staff support for its work; (2) disseminate pertinent information to the appropriate Federal, State, and local authorities and to diversification-alternative use committees; (3) develop and coordinate data relating to defense economic diversification and adjustments; (4) serve as a resource for civilian job information for workers displaced from defense-related employment; (5) prepare and distribute a Diversification and Conversion Guidelines Handbook in accordance with prescribed content specifications outlined in this Act; and (6) make available for appropriate use information with respect to funds that could be used for diversification and conversion planning. Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) notify the Council one year in advance of any pending or proposed change in defense spending that would affect employment in the defense industry; and (2) furnish annually to the Council data with respect to future defense spending levels and contract progress. Title II: Community Economic Diversification - Adjustment Program - Directs the Council to establish a grant program to provide funds to be used for: (1) planning for economic diversification or conversion to avoid substantial dislocations; or (2) economic adjustment, in certain cases. Permits the awarding of grants to: (1) any community that is in the process of reducing a heavy dependency on defense-oriented activities or that is substantially affected by the reduction or elimination of Federal defense facilities or curtailment of defense contracts; (2) labor unions, business representatives, and private nonprofit economic development, job training, or education agencies located near or within such communities; and (3) the base management and civilian employees of a Federal military installation being closed or realigned. Directs the Council to establish grant eligibility criteria that will ensure assistance to the most vulnerable communities. Limits a community to a single grant for each major defense contract cancellation or military installation realignment. Instructs the Council to publish semiannually a listing of the currently eligible local government units. Permits any community not on such a listing to petition for inclusion. Requires every grantee to establish a diversification-alternative use committee to: (1) develop and review plans for the economic diversification of the defense-dependent area and for the alternative use of a major defense facility for other activity in the event of a Government decision affecting its continued role in defense; (2) review the industry-education partnership for training and retraining in defense-dependent areas and evaluate the particular manpower, environmental, and economic needs of the particular community; and (3) ensure that proper education and assistance are provided to employees displaced by defense-related facility closings. Sets forth criteria with respect to the contents of diversification and alternative use plans. Title III: Industry-Education Partnership - Amends the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act to establish a program of grants to the States to carry out industry-education partnership vocational education programs designed to train and retrain workers in defense-related facilities or defense-dependent communities to allow them to find nondefense-related employment. Sets forth general guidelines for such grant program. Authorizes the use of grant funds for: (1) necessary administrative costs; (2) the training and retraining of instructional and guidance personnel; and (3) curriculum development and acquisition. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Authorizes FY 1988 through 1990 appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Entitles former members of the armed forces who are totally disabled because of a service-connected disability to the same travel privileges on military aircraft as retired members of the armed forces.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, upon the request of the Secretary of the relevant military department (in some cases, the Secretary of Transportation) or of the Director of the Selective Service System, to disclose the mailing address of: (1) any member of the Ready Reserve who is required by law to notify the requesting Secretary of a change in address; or (2) any person who is required by law to register under the Military Selective Service Act and who has not done so. Restricts the use of the disclosed addresses to specified limited purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide to certain persons who served during the Vietnam era as overseas volunteers a medical examination to determine if such individuals have any adverse health effects as a result of such service due to exposure to phenoxy herbicides or other herbicides. Provides that all individuals eligible for such medical examinations shall also be treated as veterans for purposes of eligibility for veterans' readjustment counseling. Terminates the eligibility for such medical examinations and counseling three years after the enactment of this Act. 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 a joint report on the question of U.S. Government responsibility for providing such volunteer personnel with health care and compensation for disabilities related to their service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Requires such report to be submitted to the Comptroller General for review and comments before submission to the Congress. Requires such report to be submitted within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to determine whether women who served during the Vietnam era as overseas volunteer support personnel have experienced long-term adverse health effects (especially gender-specific adverse health effects) from either traumatic experiences during such service or from exposure to phenoxy herbicides or other chemicals during such service. Directs the Administrator, while making such determination, to consider the results of a similar study required under the Veterans' Health-Care Amendments of 1986, and to submit a report on the results of such study to the Congress not later than one year after the first report required under such Act is submitted.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1987
Sets forth the rule for the further consideration of H.R. 1748 (armed forces funding).
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1987
Revises Federal law relating to the organization of the Office of the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration (the Department) to provide that such Office shall consist of the following: (1) not to exceed two Associate Deputy Chief Medical Directors; (2) not to exceed seven Assistant Chief Medical Directors; (3) such Medical Directors as may be appointed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs; (4) such directors of hospitals and other medical facilities as may be appointed by the Administrator; and (5) such other persons as may be appointed by the Chief Medical Director. Authorizes the Chief Medical Director to establish, modify, or abolish such positions and offices as are deemed necessary to carry out the needs of the Department. Outlines provisions concerning length of appointment to such offices and positions, and possible extensions or terminations of such appointment terms by the Administrator. Reduces the minimum and maximum annual salary rate for the position of Medical Director of the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Directs the head of each Federal department or agency holding records relating to sightings of U.S. military personnel in Southeast Asia since 1973 to make available to the public, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, all such records. Provides exceptions to such disclosures for information revealing intelligence sources and methods or the names of such personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Allies Fair Share Defense Act of 1987 - Prohibits, after the end of FY 1988, the funding of U.S. armed forces assigned to permanent duty in member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or in Japan at levels in excess of a specified troop strength. Directs that for 1990, 1991, and 1992, such levels shall be reduced by a specified number each year. Waives such reduction in troop strength for NATO countries if either of the following occur: (1) each member nation of NATO has increased its defense spending by a specified amount; or (2) the Secretary of Defense certifies to the Congress in writing that the member nations of NATO other than the United States have accomplished certain objectives relating to the increase of defensive measures and the overall significant improvement of their conventional defense capability. Waives such reduction in troop strength for Japan if Japan has either: (1) increased its defense spending by a specified amount; or (2) increased its capability to defend its sea lanes to specified distances. Provides for smaller reductions of U.S. armed forces in NATO-member countries and Japan if at least one of the above-described objectives have been met, or if some, but not all, of the objectives have been met. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than March 1 of each of the calendar years 1988 through 1992, to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on the status of the following matters as of January 1 of the year in which the report is submitted: (1) the supply of aerial and ground munitions of NATO-member nations; (2) the number of emergency operating facilities and semihardened aircraft shelters in such nations; and (3) other measures taken by such nations to improve their conventional defense capability. Outlines further information to be included in such reports concerning the attainment of objectives specified under this Act. States that this Act shall not apply if: (1) a declaration of war by the United States is in effect; (2) there is an armed attack on any NATO-member nation or Japan; or (3) the President declares a national state of emergency and immediately informs the Congress of such action and the reasons therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1987
Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations giving the commanding officer of each military installation the authority to contract out for commercial activities performed on such installation. Outlines the authority given to each such commanding officer to designate, and solicit contracts for, commercial activities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Expresses the sense of the Senate that, in the absence of the violation or abrogation by the Soviet Union of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, it is not in the national security interest of the United States during 1987 and 1988 to: (1) provide for early deployment of a strategic defense system or to conduct any other activity constrained by such treaty; or (2) proceed with the full-scale engineering development of any element of the Strategic Defense Initiative program or any other system designed to counter strategic ballistic missiles.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Universal National Service Act of 1987 - States that it is the obligation of each citizen of the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 to serve for one year with the United States, in accordance with this Act. Establishes in the executive branch the Agency for National Service (the Agency) to administer the national service program established by this Act, hear appeals of hardship deferment decisions, and prescribe necessary regulations to carry out this Act. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the composition, headquarters, and local placement centers of such Agency. Requires each citizen of the United States , within ten days after attaining age 18, to register with the Agency. Provides also for the registration of citizens currently over the age of 18 and under the age of 25. Requires each local placement center for the Agency to: (1) provide all such individuals with any necessary information concerning such required service; (2) provide counselors to assist such registrants; and (3) provide for the completion by such registrants of all forms necessary under this Act. Allows registrants to choose their form of service from the following options: (1) the armed forces; (2) the Peace Corps; or (3) the Community Service Program. Provides that any registrant who fails to make such an election shall be deemed to have chosen the armed forces for his or her form of service. Provides for the discharge of such service obligation if the registrant has exhausted all service options due to a refusal by any agency or program to accept such registrant. Directs the Agency to establish and administer a community service program for persons to fulfill their civilian service requirement, providing for education, recreation, and rehabilitation projects to be accomplished under such program. Exempts the following from any obligation to serve or to register under this Act: (1) cadets and midshipmen of the service academies; (2) all persons serving in the armed forces prior to December 31, 1988; and (3) all persons determined to be physically, mentally, or otherwise unfit for service under this Act. Provides temporary deferments from any obligations to serve or register under this Act for the following persons: (1) those found to be physically, mentally, or otherwise unfit for service under this Act on a temporary basis, the deferment lasting as long as such condition continues; (2) persons accepted into or attending graduate school; (3) persons accepted into or attending medical, dental, or law school (with certain alternate obligations required from such persons upon graduation from such schools); and (4) those granted a hardship deferment from a local placement center in accordance with this Act. Provides that the provisions of the Military Selective Service Act, as such Act applies to the Selective Service System, shall apply to those persons who fail to register and serve as required under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Amends Federal armed forces provisions to direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a program under which any member of the uniformed services who adopts a child shall be reimbursed for any adoption expenses. Allows a reimbursement only: (1) after the adoption becomes final; (2) if, at the time of adoption, the child is under 18 years of age and unmarried; and (3) if appropriate written application has been filed as may be required. Provides that a reimbursement shall be payable only if or to the extent that similar benefits have not met the full amount of adoption expenses. Prohibits a reimbursement from exceeding $2,000. Provides for the determination of reimbursement amounts when both adopting parents are eligible for reimbursement under this Act. Prohibits the denial of a reimbursement from being based on the marital status of the applicant.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Veterans' Housing Benefits Amendments of 1987 - Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide mortgage assistance to veterans with loans guaranteed by the Veterans Administration in order to avoid foreclosure of such loans. Provides that such assistance shall be in the form of a loan to the veteran not to exceed $8,400. Provides that such assistance may be provided only if: (1) the dwelling that secures the primary loan is the current residence of the veteran; (2) the veteran is at least six months delinquent in payments on the primary loan; (3) the veteran is unemployed or has had a substantial reduction in household income through no fault of the veteran; and (4) the Administrator determines that there is a reasonable prospect that the veteran will resume payment on the primary loan within six months after receiving such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1987
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an individual taxpayer an income tax deduction for travel, food, lodging, and transportation expenses paid or incurred in connection with the taxpayer's performance of services as a member of the armed forces reserves or the National Guard. Excludes the taxpayer's meal and entertainment expenses in such a context from deductibility limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1987
Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide to certain persons who served during the Vietnam era as overseas volunteers a medical examination to determine if such individuals have any adverse health effects as a result of such service due to exposure to phenoxy herbicides or other herbicides. Provides that all individuals eligible for such medical examinations shall also be treated as veterans for purposes of eligibility for veterans' readjustment counseling. Terminates the eligibility for such medical examinations and counseling three years after the enactment of this Act. 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 a joint report on the question of U.S. Government responsibility for providing such volunteer personnel with health care and compensation for disabilities related to their service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Requires such report to be submitted to the Comptroller General for review and comments before submission to the Congress. Requires such report to be submitted within one year after the enactment of this Act. Directs the Administrator to determine whether women who served during the Vietnam era as overseas volunteer support personnel have experienced long-term adverse health effects (especially gender-specific adverse health effects) from either traumatic experiences during such service or from exposure to phenoxy herbicides or other chemicals during such service. Directs the Administrator, while making such determination, to consider the results of a similar study required under the Veterans' Health-Care Amendments of 1986, and to submit a report on the results of such study to the Congress not later than one year after the first report required under such Act is submitted.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1987
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 1748 (armed forces funding).
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1987
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1988 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1988 - Title I: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations to the Army for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and for other procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to enter into multiyear contracts for the procurement of specified equipment, provided the cost is no more than 88 percent of the cost of such procurement through annual contracts. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for Marine Corps procurement and for Navy procurement of aircraft, weapons, shipbuilding and conversion, and for other procurement of the Navy. Prohibits multiyear procurements of certain missile programs by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes appropriations for the Air Force for FY 1988 for the procurement of aircraft and missiles and for other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for the defense agencies for FY 1988. Authorizes appropriations for procurement of aircraft, vehicles, and communications and other miscellaneous equipment for the reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1988. Authorizes additional appropriations and sets forth FY 1988 limitations on obligations for unbudgeted items of such reserve components. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions in accordance with the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Extends through FY 1988 certain authority provided to the Secretary of Defense in connection with the NATO Airborne Warning and Control System. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Army to take specified action on, or place certain obligation limitations upon, specified Army procurement programs for FY 1988. Sets forth certain procurement limitations on specified Navy aircraft programs. Transfers funds originally appropriated for the terminated Air Force T-46 program to naval aircraft procurement. Transfers certain other Air Force funds, sets forth certain limitations, and requires certain reports from the Secretary of the Air Force concerning specified Air Force programs. Directs the Secretary of Defense: (1) by January 1, 1988, to issue an environmental impact statement concerning the chemical stockpile demilitarization program; (2) by February 1, 1988, to decide how to carry out such program; (3) by March 15, 1988, to submit to certain congressional committees a revised concept plan for the program; and (4) to conduct an ongoing surveillance and assessment program of the stockpile. Directs the Secretary to provide for an assessment of the ability of the B-1B aircraft to penetrate air defenses of potential enemies. Directs the Secretary to appoint a panel of experts from the private sector to conduct such assessment. Outlines topics to be considered by such panel as part of the assessment, and requires the Secretary to periodically report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees on the panel's assessment. Earmarks specified FY 1988 Air Force funds for use by the panel in conducting such assessment. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations and Program Limitations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation. Sets forth specified funding limitations for certain programs of the Army and the Navy, and requires certain studies and reports. Establishes an Advanced Submarine Technology Program to be carried out by the Secretary of Defense through the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Requires certain reports from the Secretary of Defense concerning such program. Earmarks specified funds for such program. Sets forth funding limitations and requires certain independent studies concerning specified submarine programs. Sets forth funding limitations concerning specified systems and components of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. Sets forth funding and enhancement limitations and requires quarterly status reports in relation to the B-1B Bomber program. Requires an evaluation of the flight test program of such aircraft by the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation of DOD. Outlines funding limitations for various research, development, test, and evaluation programs of the defense agencies. Prohibits funding for the Advanced Tactical Fighter aircraft until the Secretary certifies that it will satisfy Navy requirements for aircraft carrier catapults and arresting gear. Limits funds and outlines other requirements concerning the electronic warfare programs, including congressional reporting requirements. Provides that, in this Act, the Congress continues the program of Conventional Defense Initiatives to emphasize the improvement of conventional weapons of the armed forces and to enhance cooperation with other member nations of NATO as well as other major non-NATO allies. Earmarks specified funds for each branch of the armed forces for: (1) technology base programs; and (2) conventional defense initiative programs. Prohibits the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 1988, from testing electromagnetic pulse in the Chesapeake Bay area in connection with a specified program. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Specifies the funding level for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to submit specified congressional reports concerning such program. Prohibits any funds appropriated to DOD from being used to develop, test, or deploy an antiballistic missile (ABM) system or component which is sea-based, air-based, space-based, or mobile land-based. Removes such limitations upon certain certifications to the Congress by the President. Part C: Advanced Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile Projects - Earmarks specified funds for certain demonstration projects under the SDI program relating to anti-tactical ballistic missile systems. Part D: Miscellaneous - Earmarks specified funds for cooperative medical research to be administered jointly by the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to contract with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a modernization and expansion project at the Lincoln Laboratory complex at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. Outlines project cost, duration, and other administrative provisions concerning such project. Earmarks specified funds for cooperative research and development projects with major non-NATO allies. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Authorizes appropriations for operation and maintenance funds for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the National Guard, the reserve components, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, defense claims, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and military health care. Authorizes additional appropriations for unbudgeted increases in fuel costs and for unbudgeted increases as the result of inflation. Limits the obligation of funds under this provision. Limits the use of such funds for the purchase of investment items. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 and 1989 for working capital funds for the armed forces. Requires the Secretary of Defense to ensure that U.S. wines are given equitable treatment when selling alcoholic beverage products in a U.S. military installation outside the United States. Requires certain reports from the Secretary to establish uniform pricing policies for merchandise authorized to be sold at commissaries on a foreign U.S. military installation. Earmarks specified funds and provides civilian personnel strengths for Army depot maintenance functions. Prohibits the managing of civilian personnel by end strengths. Eliminates the requirement that civilian personnel end strengths be authorized by law. Requires a certain report from the Secretary of Defense to the Congress concerning the operating and support costs of major weapons systems. Sets forth a funding limitation and requires a specified study on dual source maintenance for F-15 aircraft. Requires a report on the results of such study. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Armed Services Committees on efforts to measure military readiness and relate such measurement to the budget process. Extends through FY 1988 the authorization for the transportation of relief supplies to Afghan refugees under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Extends through FY 1989 the authorization for the transportation of relief supplies to certain third-world countries under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Repeals a specified provision of Federal law requiring that reimbursement of incidental expenses incurred while providing certain voluntary services for the benefit of the armed forces shall be made only from nonappropriated funds. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to provide free shuttle service for military members and their families to military installations determined by such Secretary to be located in remote areas. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces as of September 30, 1988. Delays until the end of FY 1990 a required percentage reduction in the number of active-duty officers in the armed forces. Requires the Comptroller General to complete a study regarding the growth in the size of such officer corps, and to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) on such study no later than December 31, 1987. Reduces certain amounts authorized for military personnel for FY 1988 due to certain cost savings attributable to reductions in the size of the officer corps. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for personnel for the reserve components for FY 1988, providing for certain adjustments to such end strengths. Authorizes end strengths for reserves on active-duty in support of the reserves for FY 1988. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to vary such end strengths for such support forces by not more than five percent. Increases the number of members in certain military grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1988, together with permissible adjustments to such loads. Title V: Military Personnel - Extends through FY 1989 the authority to make temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Extends through FY 1989 certain reserve officer management programs. Extends through FY 1990 the authority for the enlistment of single parents in the reserves. Authorizes the Commandant of the Judge Advocate General's School of the Army to confer the degree of master of laws in military law under appropriate circumstances. Requires the withholding of State and local income taxes for National Guard and reserve drill pay. Provides a one-year delay (until the end of FY 1989) in the requirement that a certain minimum percentage of Air Force enlistees must be women. Prohibits certain interagency fund transfers within DOD. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Congress a plan to enable the Coast Guard to meet 95 percent of its wartime mobilization requirements by September 30, 1988. Requires such report to be submitted no later than 60 days after the enactment of this Act. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay (in conformity with annual GS-level increases), authorizing instead a three percent increase in basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence, as well as a three percent increase in cadet and midshipman pay, all effective as of January 1, 1988. Part B: Travel and Transportation - Amends Federal military pay provisions to authorize the payment of a transportation allowance for members and their dependents if such member is stationed outside the United States and agrees to extend his or her tour of duty by at least one-half of the original enlistment period. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 requiring a congressional certification prior to the implementation of certain amendments allowing the payment of lodging plus per diem expenses for military members, in certain cases. Part C: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Provides for the payment of special pay to members who are also entitled to basic pay while such member is performing sea duty, at specified rates. Extends through FY 1989 the payment of special pay for aviation officers who continue in the service beyond their duty period. Extends through FY 1992 and through FY 1990, respectively, the enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for the performance of active and reserve duty. Part D: Miscellaneous -Authorizes the withdrawal of certain remarried persons from participation in the Survivor Benefit Plan. Revises Federal provisions concerning occupancy by Coast Guard personnel of substandard family housing units. Authorizes the collection of amounts owed to service relief societies from the final pay of military members. Limits the lump-sum amount authorized to be paid by the Secretary concerned during FY 1988 and 1989 under the Selected Reenlistment Program. Prohibits FY 1988 DOD funds from being used to pay the temporary lodging expenses of certain specified military personnel. Limits the amount that may be spent for reserve unit and individual training during FY 1988. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Defense Health Care Amendments of 1987 - Part A: Medical Readiness - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to establish and maintain a program to provide financial assistance to persons engaged in health professions training while a member of the reserve forces. Authorizes such Secretary to pay a stipend to physicians and graduate nurses engaging in specialties determined critical to wartime needs, and to baccalaureate students about to engage in such critical specialties upon graduation from accredited institutions. Sets forth provisions concerning such agreements, including the amounts to be paid to each such person and the period required to be served after the provision of such financial assistance. Outlines penalties for the failure to complete any agreed-upon training program or period of duty following such financial assistance, and repeals the prior financial assistance program established under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986. Sets forth funding limitations for such program during FY 1988. Revises provisions of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship Program to allow the Secretary of Defense to require, as part of an agreement under such program, that a person must agree to accept residency training in a skill designated by the Secretary as a critically needed wartime skill. Targets 2500 of the 6000 scholarships to be awarded under such program for critically needed wartime skills. Extends to October 1, 1990, the date for initial appointment under the Education Loan Repayment Program for health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserves. Authorizes constructive credit under each branch of the armed forces and the reserve forces for those entering such service with experience in the health professions. Removes a specified ceiling on the payment of special pay to medical officers serving in the armed forces. Part B: Peacetime Health Care - Limits the per-family payment for catastrophic loss protection for dependents of active-duty personnel under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Prohibits the Secretary of Defense, during FY 1988 and 1989, from imposing a fee for the receipt of outpatient medical or dental care at a military medical treatment facility. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to take certain action to ensure the proper representation of health profession personnel in naval officer appointments and end strength increases for the Navy during FY 1988 and 1989. Part C: Health Care Management - Directs the Secretary of Defense to request, in the budget request for each fiscal year, appropriations for the Military Health Care Account for the implementation of CHAMPUS programs. Deletes a specified provision of Federal law describing the military health enrollment system. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct two projects, beginning during FY 1988 and continuing for not less than two years, designed to demonstrate an alternative military health care delivery system in which the commander of a military medical facility is responsible for all funding and all medical care of the covered beneficiaries of that facility. Outlines other requirements and requires a report to the defense committees concerning such alternate system. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 to require the Secretary of Defense to develop a methodology to be used in the evaluation of a CHAMPUS reform demonstration project required under such Act. Prohibits the Secretary from obligating or expending any funds for such demonstration project until a new solicitation is issued for the awarding of such project. Outlines additional requirements concerning the solicitation, the demonstration project and the reform initiative. Amends such Act further to: (1) add a certain requirement to the conduct of medical systems information operational tests by vendors of such systems; and (2) extend through FY 1988 the Veterans Administration's decentralized hospital computer program. Prohibits acquisition funding for the Composite Health Care System until the operational testing referred to above is completed. Revises provisions under such Act concerning a reporting requirement on the operational testing of the medical information system. Title VIII: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer amounts authorized in titles I through III of this Act between DOD authorizations, as necessary, as long as the Secretary promptly notifies the Congress of any such transfer. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1987 to include any nonprofit research institution that was an integral part of a historically Black college or university before a specified date among those institutions with which the Department may enter contracts to satisfy a goal for contracts with minorities. Revises a certain limitation pertaining to the contracting-out for short-term naval vessel repair work. Sets forth the rate of progress payments to be made by the Secretary of the Navy for the repair or maintenance of naval vessels. Requires the Secretary of Defense, at the same time that the President's budget is submitted, to submit to the defense committees an unclassified report setting forth the total amount requested in that budget for special access programs of DOD (a program which in any manner conceals the existence or scope of the program). Requires annual notice of and justification for the designation of any special access programs, and authorizes access to such disclosed information by any member of the defense committees. Requires specified reports to the defense committees by the Secretary relating to such special access programs or changes in the criteria used to designate such programs. Establishes within DOD a Conventional Defense Advisory Board which shall examine and survey all aspects of the conventional warfare capabilities of the armed forces and recommend changes for any deficiencies found in such capabilities. Outlines membership requirements for the Board, and requires the Board to report to the Secretary of Defense on March 1 annually on its findings and recommendations. Directs the Secretary of the Army to reactivate Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant, California, no later than September 30, 1988. Directs the Secretary of Defense to require that any payment that would normally be made to a contractor of DOD during the last ten days of September 1988 shall be made no earlier than October 1, 1988. Makes any major non-NATO ally eligible to bid under competitive procedures on any DOD contract for maintenance, repair, and overhaul associated with the European Workload Program. Authorizes such contract to be carried out in the ally's facilities or in facilities in Europe. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act, 1988 - 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, to carry out construction design activities, and to improve such existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1987 for specified military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Earmarks a specified amount for certain community planning assistance near the Light Infantry Division Post at Ft. Drum, New York. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain FY 1984, 1985, and 1986 military construction projects. 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, to carry out construction design activities, to improve existing units, and to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation to construct defense access roads in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1987 for specified military construction, land acquisition, and military housing functions of the Department of the Navy. Limits the total cost of all such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out specified constitution projects and housing improvements for which funds have been appropriated prior to enactment of this Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for specified FY 1984 and 1986 military construction projects. 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 family housing units, to carry out construction design activities, and to improve existing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads at Havre Air Force Station, Montana, in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Air Force. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified military construction projects for which funds have been appropriated prior to enactment of this Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for certain specified military construction projects. 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 military family housing and to improve such existing housing in specified amounts at classified locations. Directs the Secretary of Defense to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the construction of defense access roads at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of such projects to amounts authorized in this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Extends a certain prior-year authorization for the elementary and high school at Florennes, Belgium. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended during FY 1987 and 1988 for the construction of a medical facility at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. Directs the Secretary of Defense, no later than March 1, 1988, to report to the defense committees of the Congress on certain cost estimates in connection with such construction. Repeals a specified provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, 1987 authorizing the Secretary to enter into contracts, in advance of appropriations therefor, for the design and construction of such facility at such location. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make limited contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program, and authorizes additional appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for such purpose. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after FY 1987 for the costs of acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the National Guard and reserve forces. Title VII: General Provisions - Part A: Expiration of Authorizations; Effective Date - Provides that all authorizations contained in titles I through V of this Act shall expire on October 1, 1989, or on the date of enactment of the Military Construction Authorization Act for fiscal year 1990, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to enter into long-term contracts for the construction of hospital or medical facilities. Extends through FY 1988 the authority to enter into all such authorized long-term contracts. Directs each Secretary entering into such a contract to report to the defense committees by February 15, 1988, concerning such contracts and recommendations as to whether such contract authority should be extended. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay meritorious contractor claims that arise under military construction contracts or military family housing contracts, using previously unobligated funds. Increases the per-project limit of guard and reserve minor construction projects for which operation and maintenance funds are authorized to be used. Increases the per-unit threshold limit permissible for family housing improvement projects. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to enter into a specified number of family housing leasing contracts. Exempts military family housing units acquired at no cost from being counted in the limitation of such units authorized to be acquired by each department, as long as the Secretary concerned complies with certain congressional notice-and-wait requirements. Increases the per-unit expenditure limit for the rental of family housing in foreign countries. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants, conclude cooperative agreements, and otherwise act to assist State and local governments and regional organizations in planning community adjustment necessitated by the closure or establishment of military installations, the cancellation of a defense contract or program, or the encroachment of the surrounding community on a military installation. Places specified restrictions (including a maximum funding limitation) on minor military construction projects performed outside the continental United States. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and carry out a pilot program to assist local governments in increasing the amount of affordable family housing available to military personnel. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the implementation of the pilot program, and directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees no later than March 15 of the years 1988 through 1991 with respect to activities carried out under such program. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 through 1990, and terminates such program on September 30, 1990. Designates Fort DeRussy, Hawaii, as the primary Armed Forces Recreation Center for the Pacific. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being used to sell, lease, rent, or otherwise dispose of the land constituting Fort DeRussy. Prohibits FY 1988 DOD funds from being used for: (1) diminishing any part of the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada; (2) the closure or realignment of Mather Air Force Base, California; and (3) relocating the headquarters and other parts of the Joint Tactical Command, Control, and Communications Agency at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Prohibits funds appropriated under specified provisions of this Act and the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 from being used for strategic homeporting at the Naval Station in Everett, Washington, until specified conditions are met. Prohibits funds available to DOD in FY 1988 from being used to diminish any part of the 5th Fighter Intercepter Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota. Prohibits funding for military construction contracts on Guam using nonimmigrant workers. Repeals a provision of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 authorizing plans for the design of a Pentagon Annex. Part D: Real Property Transactions - Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into a lease with the City and County of San Francisco, California, providing for the use by such City and County of a Public Health Service facility located in the Presidio of San Francisco. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell and replace certain property on the Kapalama Military Reservation, Hawaii. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to sell to Lawrence Township of Marion County, Indiana, a specified portion of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to the Administrator of Veterans Affairs certain portions of the Rock Island Arsenal in Rock Island, Illinois, and Fort Sam Houston, Texas, for cemeteries. Directs the Administrator of General Services to transfer to the Secretary of the Navy certain property located near Fort Hamilton, New York, for rehabilitation and use as military family housing. Division C: Other National Defense Authorizations - Title I: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1988 - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1988 for operating expenses and for plant and capital equipment in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; (7) naval reactors development; and (8) capital equipment not related to construction. Sets forth funding limitations for the research, development, and testing of nuclear-directed energy weapons. Earmarks specified funds for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title in excess of the lesser of: (1) 105 percent of the amount authorized for a program; or (2) $10,000,000 over the authorized amount. Prohibits the use of funds authorized by this Act for programs which have not been presented to or requested of the Congress unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have expired since such statement was submitted. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Sets forth procedures for the approval of certain construction projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost, and exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the appropriation is made. Authorizes the Secretary to perform construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total cost does not exceed $2,000,000. Outlines other limits related to such funding. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design whenever necessary to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds authorized for operating expenses and plant and capital equipment under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Allows authorizations provided in this title to be adjusted for pay and benefits increases for Federal employees. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1986 to exclude from allowable contractor costs certain costs incurred to provide information to the Congress or a State legislature. Renames the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at Livermore, California, as the Livermore National Laboratory. Repeals a specified provision of the Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act of 1980 which provides its current designation. Directs the President to conduct a study and formulate a plan for the modernization of the nuclear weapons complex in order to provide the overall size and productive capacity necessary to support national security objectives. Directs the President to report to specified congressional committees concerning such plan no later than February 15, 1988. Provides that the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition is to be chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council. (Currently, the Director of Defense Research and Engineering holds such position.) Establishes the position of Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy, who shall advise the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons matters. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should continue a reasonable nuclear test program, so long as the United States relies on nuclear deterrence as an element of national defense strategy. Title II: National Defense Stockpile - Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Amendments of 1987 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to provide that it is the intent of the Congress that: (1) the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) be used to serve national defense purposes only; and (2) quantities of materials stockpiled should be sufficient to sustain the United States for at least three years in the event of a war emergency. Requires stockpile requirements to be established by law. Transfers certain stockpiling functions under such Act from the President to the Secretary of Defense. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Congress annually a report on the stockpile requirements. Outlines stockpile matters to be included in each such report. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an interagency agreement with the head of any other department or agency for the performance of certain stockpiling functions. Provides that appropriations for the requirements of NDS and for deposit to the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund shall be made as appropriations to DOD for military functions. Extends the uses of such Fund to cover NDS acquisitions and upgrading. Title III: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 to carry out certain civil defense functions under the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Prohibits any funds made available to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for civil defense assistance to States from being withheld from any State on the basis of such State's failure to participate in a simulated nuclear attack exercise.
United States · United States Senate · 23 April 1987
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Veterans Administration Insurance Amendments of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to periodically adjust the monthly installments payable to a veterans' beneficiary under the National Service Life Insurance, the Veterans Special Life Insurance, or the Veterans Reopened Insurance programs. Directs the Administrator to take specified action with regard to the trust funds set up to pay such insurance proceeds. Authorizes the Administrator to make similar adjustments to the monthly installments payable to a beneficiary of United States Government Life Insurance who is receiving such proceeds under a life annuity settlement option, requiring the Administrator to take specified action with regard to the trust fund set up to pay such insurance proceeds. Exempts any premiums paid under a veterans' life insurance policy from any State taxation. Amends Federal provisions relating to veterans' mortgage life insurance to require the United States to automatically insure any eligible veteran receiving housing assistance against the death of the veteran, with certain exceptions. Revises provisions governing the initial amount of such insurance to be paid for each housing unit, along with other administrative provisions regarding the payment of such insurance and the premiums charged for such insurance. Directs the Administrator to issue to each insured veteran a certificate setting forth the benefits to which he or she is entitled. Terminates reinsurance and accounting requirements for such insurance policies. Provides that, effective October 1, 1987, the Administrator shall discontinue the policy of insurance currently in effect under specified Federal law.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
State Home Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends Federal provisions relating to the acquisition by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs of facilities for veterans' State homes to authorize the Administrator to award and record as an obligation of the United States a grant for a project for which a State has submitted drawings and specifications that are 80 percent complete and which will meet all remaining requirements within six months. Prohibits the Administrator from certifying any amount for project payment until all requirements for such facilities are met. Directs the Administrator to rescind the contract award and deobligate such funds if all requirement are not met within the six-month deadline. Authorizes the Administrator to increase by up to ten percent the grant amount awarded, in certain circumstances. Authorizes the Administrator, between June 30th and October 1, 1987, to award a grant for a project for construction or acquisition of State home facilities if, prior to July 1, 1987, the Administrator notified the State submitting the grant application of the availability of funding for the grant and if the Administrator makes certain findings relating to the grant, the project, and the State's application for such project, including a finding that the grant amount does not exceed 65 percent of the project's estimated cost of construction.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1987
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to extend until October 1, 1990, the period for transition from the provision of readjustment counseling services for veterans in facilities set apart from general Veterans Administration (VA) health-care facilities to the provision of such counseling services primarily through VA general health-care facilities. Extends until April 1, 1988, the deadline for a report to the Congress by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs concerning the effectiveness of providing such readjustment counseling to veterans. Extends by one year various other reporting dates required of the Administrator under the readjustment counseling program. Revises certain reporting requirements of the Administrator under such program. Directs the Administrator to maintain in operation until October 1, 1988, the same number of readjustment counseling centers as were in operation on April 1, 1987. Amends the Veterans' Health Care Amendments of 1983 to extend until October 1, 1987, the deadline for a report to the Congress by the Administrator on the results of a study of post-traumatic stress disorder and other post-war psychological problems of Vietnam veterans.
United States · United States Senate · 22 April 1987
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1987
Intelligence Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1988 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1988 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in specified departments and agencies of the Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense. Declares that the authorized amounts and personnel ceilings for such intelligence activities are those specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations prepared by the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence to employ civilian personnel in excess of the ceiling for such personnel when necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions. Restricts support for military and paramilitary operations in Nicaragua. States that only funds specifically authorized by the Congress in accordance with the National Security Act of 1947 may be obligated or expended for intelligence or intelligence-related activities. Title II: Intelligence Community Staff - Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Staff for FY 1988. Establishes an end strength ceiling of 237 full-time Intelligence Community Staff employees. Provides that such staff shall be administered in the same manner as the CIA. Title III: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for FY 1988. Title IV: Retirement and Death in Service Benefits - Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain Employees to provide that certain former spouses of CIA employees are entitled to retirement benefits and survivor annuities. Title V: DOD Intelligence Personnel Improvements - Allows the Secretary of Defense to pay a uniform allowance for civilian employees of the Defense Attache Offices outside the United States. Extends through FY 1988 the Secretary's special authority to terminate the employment of Defense Intelligence Agency employees, military department employees, and civilian intelligence officers. Title VI: Study of Intelligence Personnel Systems - Establishes the Commission on Intelligence Personnel Systems to review and analyze all personnel management and compensation systems affecting civilian intelligence community personnel. Authorizes appropriations for Commission activities for FY 1988. Directs the Commission to report its findings and recommendations to the President and to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Amends Federal pay provisions for health-care employees within the Veterans Administration to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide ten percent of the hourly overtime rate for on call pay to certain civil service health-care personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Veterans Administration Tort Claims and Hospital Cost Collections Amendments of 1987 - Title I: Hospital Cost Collections - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions relating to recovery by the United States of the cost of care and services provided to veterans for non-service-connected disabilities to provide a six-year statute of limitations for the bringing of a recovery action (measured from the last day on which such services were provided). Title II: Tort Claims - Excludes from immunity from suit (thereby allowing tort claims to be brought against) a negligent or wrongful act or omission of a person while exercising duties in or for the Veterans Administration's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to settle any claims arising under the Federal Tort Claims Act to the extent delegated by the Attorney General, within specified limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Revises Federal law concerning the performance evaluation and disciplinary actions for certain health care employees of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration. Allows review boards to review the performance of such employees at any time during the two-year probationary period following their appointment and to recommend appropriate personnel actions to the Chief Medical Director. Permits the Director to accept, reject, or modify such recommendations. Requires the Director to justify any action taken which was not so recommended.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Terminates the application of certain Veterans Administration (VA) regulations relating to the reimbursement of transportation costs of claimants and beneficiaries in connection with medical care provided by the VA.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1987
Alternative Care Amendments Act of 1987 - Extends: (1) through FY 1991 the adult day health care program provided under the Veterans' Health Care Amendments of 1983; and (2) until February 1, 1991, the deadline for the report of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs on extending such program. Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator to contract for the care and treatment in community-based treatment facilities, including halfway houses, of veterans suffering from a chronic psychiatric disability. Authorizes such contractual care program through FY 1991. Directs the Administrator, no later than March 31, 1991, to report to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees concerning the operation of the program.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Veterans' Employment and Training Amendments of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to make each disabled veterans' outreach program specialist responsible to State Directors and Assistant State Directors for Veterans' Employment and Training. Directs the Secretary of Labor, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Veterans' Employment and Training, to make available for use in each State funds necessary to support the assignment of a specified number of local veterans' employment representatives based on the number of veterans registered with, or residing in the service area of, each local employment service office. Requires each local veterans' employment representative to be a veteran, with preference to be given to disabled veterans. Includes as a duty of such representative the provision of counseling services to veterans eligible for such services under the Veterans' Job Training Act. Requires each budget submission with respect to veterans' job program funds to include the number, by State, of the local veterans' employment representatives assigned. Directs the Secretary to develop and implement standards for the performance of disabled veterans' outreach specialists and local veterans' employment representatives. Requires the State Directors and Assistant Directors of Veterans' Employment and Training to monitor such performance and participate in performance reviews. Requires the Secretary of Defense, in order to assist the Secretary and the Administrator of Veterans Affairs in identifying potential employers of veterans under the Veterans' Job Training Act, to provide to each, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, a current list of employers participating in the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, and to update such information on the fifteenth day of each month. Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish and operate a National Veterans' Employment and Training Service Institute for the training of disabled veterans' outreach program specialists, local veterans' employment representatives, State and Assistant State Directors for Veterans' Employment and Training, and other personnel involved in such veterans' job training and placement assistance. Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to require each regional office of the Veterans Administration to provide to appropriate employment service offices and Department of Labor offices the names and addresses of employers that offer job training programs which have been approved by the Administrator under the VJTA. Amends the VJTA to revise the amount paid by the Administrator to an employer of a veteran participating in an approved program of job training under such Act. Requires the Administrator and the Secretary to jointly provide for: (1) a case manager for each veteran participating in a job training program; (2) counseling services; and (3) information services for participating employers and veterans in such job training programs. Requires that any veteran who is terminated from a job training program under such Act be provided vocational counseling before being recertified for participation in another such program. Directs the Secretary, not less frequently than on a quarterly basis, to collect from State employment agencies and State Directors for Veterans' Employment and Training information with respect to the number of veterans who receive counseling services during the course of their participation in job training programs, are referred to employers participating in such programs, participate in such programs, and complete such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Veterans' Radiation Exposure Disability and Death Benefits Act of 1987 - Sets forth findings, including the following: (1) a significant portion of the veterans present at nuclear detonations were exposed to ionizing radiation which was measured by what proved to be an inaccurate method of determining the amount of such dosage; (2) the present process for adjudicating claims by veterans based on such radiation exposure has not resulted in fair resolution of such claims, due in part to the inaccurate measurement of health risk caused by such radiation dosages; and (3) certain body organs have shown a high susceptibility to the induction of cancers by ionizing radiation, creating a much higher possibility of cancer in various organs and areas of the body. Sets forth purposes of this Act, including: (1) to provide a monthly death or disability benefit for veterans who have died or are suffering from illnesses strongly or moderately associated with radiation exposure after participating in the nuclear weapons testing program or in the American occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki, Japan, during and after World War II; and (2) to provide special consideration of claims for compensation for veterans suffering from diseases somewhat associated with such radiation exposure. Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to provide either a monthly disability or a monthly death benefit to a veteran who has died or is suffering from a disease based on the Government's testing of nuclear weapons or on the American occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Specifies the diseases based on such radiation exposure for which such benefits shall be paid, requiring manifestation of such disease within a specified period following exposure to such ionizing radiation. Bases the rates of compensation to be paid on the rates of compensation for service-connected death or disability benefits. Requires the Administrator to give special consideration to claims for compensation or dependency and indemnity compensation based on such radiation exposure and involving specific forms of cancer manifesting themselves within five or more years after exposure. Denies the payment of any such benefits when there is affirmative evidence that the disease was not incurred as a result of a veteran's exposure to testing or involvement in the occupation of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Treats any benefits paid under this Act as service-connected benefits for purposes of the applicability of other veterans' benefits provisions. Defines a veteran's estimated service-related radiation exposure for purposes of adjudicating a claim for benefits provided under this Act. Extends existing provisions concerning veterans' eligibility for hospital care on the basis of radiation exposure until termination of the provisions of this Act. Amends the Veterans' Dioxin and Radiation Exposure Compensation Standards Act to require a certain advisory committee's report concerning the possible adverse effects resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation to be forwarded to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees. Terminates the provisions of this Act with respect to any claim for benefits filed after September 30, 1990.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Overseas Facilities Security Act of 1987 - Requires every current or prospective Government employee (including members of the Foreign Service and the Armed Forces of the United States) to take a polygraph examination prior to entering on duty in any position directly involving the security of any Government facility in a foreign country. Limits the scope of such an examination to determining the possible vulnerability of the employee to recruitment or manipulation by a foreign intelligence service for the purpose of engaging in espionage against the United States. Prohibits an employee from continuing in such a position if the results of such an examination indicate possible vulnerability to such recruitment or manipulation. Requires that each such employee have at least one such examination every 12 months. Requires each employee for whom such an examination indicates possible vulnerability to such recruitment or manipulation to be placed on administrative leave pending completion of a security investigation. Requires that a determination be made by the appropriate supervisory official regarding the fitness of such employee to continue in a security-related position. Provides that if such investigation or determination is undertaken in a foreign country, the full details must be reported to the Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security. Requires the Ambassadors to certain Communist-controlled countries to submit an annual report to the Under Secretary of State for Management concerning: (1) the security of U.S. diplomatic facilities in such countries and the integrity of personnel attached to such facilities; (2) any efforts by a foreign government to penetrate or compromise the security of U.S. diplomatic facilities or to recruit or manipulate U.S. Government employees; and (3) the security program at such facilities. Requires the Under Secretary to transmit such reports to the Congress together with an evaluation of the security programs and recommendations regarding the security of U.S. diplomatic facilities and personnel. Limits to 18 months the tour of duty of any Government employee providing physical security to U.S. diplomatic facilities in specified Communist-controlled countries, unless the Under Secretary certifies in writing to the Congress that such a tour of duty is required to protect the national security interests of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Commends the U.S. Coast Guard for its courage and skill shown in the dangerous rescue of 37 Russian crew members from the Soviet freighter Komsomolets on March 14, 1987.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Philippine Scout Retirement Pay Equity Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army to redetermine the retired pay for those persons serving as Philippine Scouts during World War II to bring such retired pay in conformity with retired pay payable to other members of the armed forces with the same grade and the same length of service. Directs the Secretary to make similar adjustments for the calculation of benefits for survivors of such Philippine Scouts.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1987
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Agency Act - Establishes in the executive branch the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Agency (the Agency), headed by an Administrator. Requires the Administrator to issue standards providing for the protection of the health and safety of the public from radioactive emissions resulting from activities carried out at nuclear facilities of the Department of Energy (DOE). Grants the Administrator necessary powers to issue such standards, including the authority to inspect current DOE nuclear facilities and to issue subpoenas commanding the testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence. Authorizes the appropriate district court to enforce such subpoena power. Authorizes the Administrator to suspend operations at any DOE nuclear facility if the health and safety of the public are not reasonably protected. Authorizes the Administrator to order construction of a new DOE nuclear facility suspended if such construction is not being carried out in accordance with applicable standards issued under this Act. Directs the Administrator to notify the Secretary of Energy of any suspensions of construction or operation of a DOE nuclear facility. Directs the Administrator to report to the Congress after any such suspension is ordered, giving the reasons for such order. Directs the Administrator, not less than once every three months, to report to the Congress describing the extent to which DOE nuclear facilities are complying with applicable standards issued in accordance with this Act. Directs the Administrator, no later than January 31 of each year, to report to the Congress an estimate of the budget authority required by the Secretary of Energy to comply with applicable standards issued under this Act. Provides certain administrative authority to the Administrator. Provides for protection against conflicts of interest of any supervisory employee of the Agency. Authorizes the Administrator to delegate certain duties, and to procure experts and consultants in order to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the transfer of personnel to the Agency in order to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Administrator to issue regulations necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make contributions to local authorities for construction projects on land adjacent to national cemeteries in order to facilitate safe entry to and exit from such cemeteries.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Designates the burial site of Arlington National Cemetery where the remains of four unknown service members are interred as the Tomb of the Unknowns.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Veterans' Health Care Benefits Administration Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to contract with non-Veterans Administration (VA) facilities for the provision of medical emergency care for veterans in authorized community nursing homes when VA facilities are not capable of providing such emergency service. Adds hospitalization for observation and examination to determine VA benefit eligibility to those services authorized to be contracted out. Allows the per diem cost of community nursing home care purchased by the VA in Alaska and Hawaii to equal 50 percent of VA-purchased hospital care in such States. Authorizes the Administrator to furnish hospital care and medical services to a veteran who is sojourning or residing abroad: (1) for a service-connected disability; or (2) when needed in a vocational rehabilitation program outside the United States. (Currently, such benefits are available only for veterans with service-connected disabilities who: (1) are citizens of the United States sojourning or residing abroad; or (2) are in the Republic of the Philippines.) Amends the Veterans' Health Care Amendments of 1979 to repeal a specified provision requiring annual reports from the Chief Medical Director of the VA to the Congress concerning the implementation of certain contracting-out provisions under such Act, and on the number of veterans provided contract treatment in each State.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Amends Federal pay provisions for health-care employees within the Veterans Administration to authorize the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide ten percent of the hourly overtime rate for on call pay to certain civil service health-care personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Alternative Care Amendments Act of 1987 - Extends: (1) through FY 1991 the adult day health care program provided under the Veterans' Health Care Amendments of 1983; and (2) until February 1, 1991, the deadline for the report of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs on extending such program. Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator to contract for the care and treatment in community-based treatment facilities, including halfway houses, of veterans suffering from a chronic psychiatric disability. Authorizes such contractual care program through FY 1991. Directs the Administrator, no later than March 31, 1991, to report to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees concerning the operation of the program.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
VA Health Care Amendments Act of 1987 - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to redefine "nursing home care" for purposes of eligibility for such benefits. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to provide public or private recreational activity facilities for VA hospital, nursing home, and domiciliary care patients. Authorizes the Administrator to furnish domiciliary care to any veteran in need of such care if such veteran is unable to defray the expenses of necessary care. (Currently, only a limited number of veterans, such as disabled veterans or veterans receiving disability compensation, are eligible for such care.) Revises provisions concerning the furnishing of medical treatment to certain disabled veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Amends Federal provisions relating to the Veterans Administration's Department of Medicine and Surgery to authorize the Chief Medical Director of such Department to waive any applicable State licensing requirements for registered, practical, or vocational nurses and physical therapists who are: (1) to be used in a research or academic post where there is no direct responsibility for patient care; or (2) to serve in a foreign country where such nurse or physical therapist is duly licensed under the laws of such country.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Revises Federal law concerning the performance evaluation and disciplinary actions for certain health care employees of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration. Allows review boards to review the performance of such employees at any time during the two-year probationary period following their appointment and to recommend appropriate personnel actions to the Chief Medical Director. Permits the Director to accept, reject, or modify such recommendations. Requires the Director to justify any action taken which was not so recommended.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Revises Federal law relating to the organization of the Office of the Chief Medical Director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans Administration (the Department) to provide that such Office shall consist of the following: (1) not to exceed two Associate Deputy Chief Medical Directors; (2) not to exceed seven Assistant Chief Medical Directors; (3) such Medical Directors as may be appointed by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs; (4) such directors of hospitals and other medical facilities as may be appointed by the Administrator; and (5) such other persons as may be appointed by the Chief Medical Director. Authorizes the Chief Medical Director to establish, modify, or abolish such positions and offices as are deemed necessary to carry out the needs of the Department. Outlines provisions concerning length of appointment to such offices and positions, and possible extensions or terminations of such appointment terms by the Administrator. Reduces the minimum and maximum annual salary rate for the position of Medical Director of the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1987
Veterans' Administration Tort Claims and Hospital Cost Collections Amendments of 1987 - Title I: Hospital Cost Collections - Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions relating to recovery by the United States of the cost of care and services provided to veterans for non-service-connected disabilities to provide a six-year statute of limitations for the bringing of a recovery action (measured from the last day on which such services were provided). Title II: Tort Claims - Excludes from immunity from suit (thereby allowing tort claims to be brought against) a negligent or wrongful act or omission of a person while exercising duties in or for the Veterans Administration's Department of Medicine and Surgery. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to settle any claims arising under the Federal Tort Claims Act to the extent delegated by the Attorney General, within specified limitations.