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United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1988
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 1054 (tort claims by armed forces members for injuries caused by medical care).
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1988
Expresses concern over recent events in Panama and the deterioration of U.S.-Panamanian relations. Reaffirms the Congress' commitment to the full implementation of the terms of the Panama Canal Treaties. Calls for General Noriega to resign as commander-in-chief of the Panamanian Defense Forces to facilitate a return to democracy and normalization of U.S.-Panamanian relations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1988
Defense Supplies Security and Control Reform Act of 1988 - Title I: Supply Inventory Management Studies, Demonstration Project, and Modernization Plan - Directs the Secretary of Defense: (1) no later than one year after the enactment of this Act, to carry out a study to determine the effectiveness of Department of Defense (DOD) procedures for ensuring the security and control of supplies at DOD depots; and (2) no later than 18 months after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) on the results of the study, and to provide the Comptroller General a copy of such report. Directs the Comptroller General to review such report, and to submit his or her findings and recommendations concerning such report to the defense committees. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the practice of selling surplus DOD munitions to the public; (2) develop improved methods for the identification and accounting of individual DOD munitions items; and (3) prepare a plan for the modernization of the supply facilities and distribution procedures of the military departments and defense agencies of DOD. Requires reports by the Secretary to the defense committees. Title II: Supply Security and Control Improvements - Directs the Secretary, not later than February 1 annually, to report to the defense committees on the security and control of supplies. Outlines information to be included in each such report, including inventory program plans, deficiencies discovered, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the current system of supply inventory security and control. Directs the Secretary to require an investigation of each discrepancy in an accounting for supplies of DOD involving an amount to be prescribed by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to require, to the extent feasible, that defense supply ordering and receiving functions be performed by different offices and individuals. Requires the Secretary to ensure that an individual's performance in accounting for defense supplies is taken into account in evaluating job performance, rating efficiency, or determining fitness for retention, promotion, or assignment to a position of command. Requires the Secretary to ensure that DOD employees and armed forces members performing defense supply functions are skilled in such positions and are not performing such functions merely for disciplinary reasons. Title III: Law Enforcement Enhancement Provisions - Urges the Secretary to continue to utilize undercover investigative techniques to detect and investigate thefts of Government property, including munitions, from the DOD supply system. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a centralized computer system for recording and organizing such investigative information. Amends the Federal criminal code to direct the Secretary to report the theft or other loss of any DOD supply to the Secretary of the Treasury within 24 hours after discovery. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any licensed importer, manufacturer, or other person to place a U.S. military model or serial number on any firearm unless such firearm is being imported or manufactured for use by the United States. Revises Federal provisions relating to the offenses of: (1) attempted embezzlement of public money, property, or records; and (2) purchase or receipt of military, naval, or veterans' facilities property. Provides that, upon the conviction of a person for the theft of Government property, any Federal benefits payable to him or her may be reduced, or (if the total value involved in the theft exceeds $500) terminated.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1988
United States Coast Guard Bicentennial Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design, strike, and sell a medal in commemoration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1990. Requires the design of the medal to be selected by the Secretary of the Treasury after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and the Commission of Fine Arts.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Veterans' Home Loan Program Improvements Act of 1988 - Establishes an independent Commission on the Veterans' Administration Home Loan Guaranty Program to assess the Veterans Administration (VA) home loan guaranty program. Directs the Commission, within 12 months after at least five Commission members have been appointed, to submit to the Administrator and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees a report on findings and recommendations with regard to: (1) ways to reduce defaults and foreclosures on VA home loans; (2) ways to reduce VA costs resulting from such foreclosures; (3) the management and disposition of loans made by the VA to finance the sale of properties acquired by the VA as a result of foreclosures; and (4) other administrative matters with regard to the operation of the VA home loan guaranty program. Directs the Administrator, no later than two months after such report is submitted, to submit an interim report to the veterans' committees containing the Administrator's views on the Commission's report and legislation or recommendations proposed by the Commission. Directs the Administrator to submit a final report to the veterans' committees, which includes any action taken up to that point, no later than six months after submission of the Commission's report, together with any recommendations. Terminates the Commission 90 days after the Administrator submits the final report. Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to authorize the Administrator to make loans to finance the sale of foreclosed property acquired by the VA at a lower-than-prevailing market rate in order to assure the saleability of such home and the solvency of the Veterans' Administration Home Loan Guaranty Revolving Fund. Makes provisions governing the assumption of VA housing loans applicable to purchases of foreclosed property acquired by the VA.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Authorizes the Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc., to construct a statue of a woman Vietnam veteran within the Vietnam Veterans Memorial site in Washington, D.C., to honor and recognize the women of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam conflict. Subjects the location and design of the statue to approval by the Secretary of the Interior, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Planning Commission. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the addition of the statue is well within the intent of the law authorizing the establishment of the Memorial; and (2) after the addition of such statue, such Memorial will be complete and no further additions to the site should be authorized or undertaken.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1988
Prohibits funds appropriated to the Department of Transportation or the Coast Guard from being used to carry out the closing of the helicopter rescue operations of the Coast Guard at the Glenview Air Station, Chicago, Illinois, or to reduce the number of personnel engaged in such operation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1988
Amends Federal defense procurement provisions to revise and add new responsibilities to the position of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. Provides that the Under Secretary is to be the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense on acquisition matters in the Department of Defense (DOD) and shall report directly to the Secretary on such matters. Requires the Under Secretary to consult with and keep closely informed the Deputy Secretary of Defense and other appropriate officials, without being subject to the direction of any such official. Authorizes the Under Secretary to provide for management of any acquisition program involving more than one component of DOD through a joint program management organization headed by the Under Secretary or other appropriate means as determined by the Under Secretary. Authorizes the Under Secretary to review and make recommendations to the Secretary on all programming, budgetary, and financial matters relating to acquisition. Directs the Under Secretary to establish within DOD a single unified defense acquisition process based, to the extent possible, on sound business practices which include establishing a management information system to monitor and assess acquisition programs. Directs the Secretary of each military department and the head of any other component of DOD with acquisition responsibilities to: (1) provide the Under Secretary with any information directly or indirectly relating to acquisition matters; and (2) ensure that his department or component provides all information required by the Under Secretary for management information systems established under this Act. Prohibits any major defense acquisition program from proceeding into full-scale development unless approved by the Under Secretary, and allows the Under Secretary to terminate any defense acquisition program at any time. Prohibits the Secretary of a military department or the head of any other component of DOD from beginning a research and development program until the Under Secretary is notified of the program. Requires the annual DOD budget submitted to the President to set forth separately the budget and staff requirements of the Under Secretary proposed for that fiscal year. Directs the Under Secretary to submit a report to the Secretary each fiscal year on personnel and resources required for his office for that fiscal year, such report to be forwarded to the Congress without change. Directs the Under Secretary to establish policies to ensure that audit and oversight activities are carried out in a manner so as to prevent duplication by different elements of DOD. Directs the Secretaries of the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force to designate one of their Assistant Secretaries as the Service Acquisition Executive for their respective department, such Assistant Secretary to be the senior procurement executive of such Department.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1988
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to waive the maximum financed amount limitation with respect to veterans' home loans made for homes located in economically distressed areas.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1988
Veterans' Home Loan Program Emergency Amendments of 1988 - Authorizes the Veterans Administration (VA) to require down payments of less than five percent of property value to finance the sales of properties acquired as the result of foreclosures of VA-guaranteed loans, if necessary to market such properties competitively.
United States · United States Senate · 27 January 1988
United States · United States Senate · 26 January 1988
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1988
Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1988 - Directs the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to increase the rates of veterans' disability compensation and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation paid to the survivors of disabled veterans by the Veterans Administration. Provides that certain payments that were increased under the Veterans' Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 1987 are to be further increased by the same percentage that benefit amounts payable under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act are increased as of a specified date (such percentage increase being determined by the cost-of-living increase as referenced by the Consumer Price Index). Requires the Administrator to publish such increases in the Federal Register at the same time that increases under title II of the Social Security Act are required to be published.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1988
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to make grants to States to defray the expenses of operating and maintaining veterans' cemeteries. Sets a maximum yearly grant limit for each State. Makes States ineligible to receive both operation and maintenance grants and a plot allowance for the burial of certain veterans in State veterans' cemeteries.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1988
Directs the Secretary of Defense, on a quarterly basis, to adjust the rates of pay for members of the armed forces stationed overseas in order to offset the effects of foreign currency fluctuations against the value of the U.S. dollar. Excludes from such adjustment the pay of members serving unaccompanied tours of duty overseas whose dependents are residing in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1988
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 so 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 it is 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 rear 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 conditions 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 to 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 upon 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 Federlal 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, under 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 active 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.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1988
Amends Federal veterans' benefits provisions to provide for the prorating of veterans' disability compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension benefits for the month in which the death of a veteran occurs.