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United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1982
Directs all pertinent parties to approve the inclusion in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in West Potomac Park in the District of Columbia of the flag, inscription, and statue as agreed upon in October 1982 by certain organizations and interested parties.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1982
Expresses the sense of Congress that all pertinent parties should approve the inclusion in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in West Potomac Park in the District of Columbia of the flag, inscription, and statue as agreed upon in October 1982 by certain organizations and interested parties.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1982
Requires that profits on negotiated contracts of the Department of Defense be reasonable. Uses the same factors set forth in the Renegotiation Act of 1951 to determine when profits are excessive. Directs the Comptroller General to examine each such contract in excess of $10,000,000 and to certify to Congress whether the amount of profit allowed is reasonable. Requires the Comptroller General to examine the contract again upon its completion and to certify to Congress whether the amount of profit actually paid was reasonable. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress annually on the reasonableness of profits paid on such contracts during the preceding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1982
Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to transfer the functions, duties, and responsibilities of the President under such Act to the Secretary of Defense.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the national security policy should reflect a national strategy of peace through strength. Sets forth the principles and goals of such a policy.
United States · United States Congress · 8 December 1982
Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to transport to the decedent's place of burial the remains of a member of the uniformed services entitled to retired or retainer pay who dies in a military medical facility.
United States · United States Senate · 7 December 1982
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982
Reaffirms the commitment of Congress to locating and repatriating Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Expresses congressional appreciation to the Lao Government for its expressed willingness to help. Supports the President's actions to locate and return missing Americans. Urges the President to respond to the indicated willingness of the Lao Government to cooperate in this effort.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Presidential Proclamation 4771, dated July 2, 1980 is valid and remains in effect and that therefore it remains the duty of young men to register with the Selective Service System in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1982
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1983 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Retired Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for retired military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, including the reserves. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense agencies, including their respective stock funds, reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, claims against the Department of Defense, and the Court of Military Appeals. Title IV: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Navy of aircraft and weapons, for conversion and ship building of vessels, and other equipment and materials. Prohibits the use of funds for the construction or conversion of naval vessels in foreign shipyards. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft, missiles, and other equipment and materials. Prohibits the expenditure of certain funds for procurement of five MX missiles until March 15, 1983 following the presentation of a written timetable by the Secretary of Defense to Congress concerning the production and delivery of such missiles. Appropriates funds for procurement by defense agencies. Title V: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for research, development, tests, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the expenses of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation. Title VI: Special Foreign Currency Program - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for excess payments in foreign currencies for expenses in carrying out the programs of the Department of Defense. Title VII: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of appropriations for consulting services to contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record. Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and of the military departments to procure the services of experts and consultants if advantageous to the national defense. Exempts the Defense Department from the prohibition against employing non-citizens. Makes appropriations available for specified expenses of the Department, including motor vehicle insurance, maintenance of prisoners-of-war, school transportation of military dependents, maintenance of facilities, ships, and equipment, exchange fees, and dependents' medical treatment. Directs the Secretary of Defense and each agency of the Department to assist American small and minority-owned businesses in their participation in defense contracts. Prohibits the use of funds for new metal scrap facilities unless such facilities are determined to be in the national interest. Permits the President to exempt appropriations available for military functions from the requirement that appropriations be distributed so as to prevent deficiencies or need for supplemental funding. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the cost of any increases in military personnel required by the President. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress monthly on the exercise of this authority. Prohibits the use of appropriations for specified practices, including: (1) certain expenses of commissaries except under specified conditions; (2) proficiency flying except under certain conditions; (3) excess household goods shippage and storage; (4) the obligation of more than 20 percent of appropriations during the last two months of the fiscal year; (5) the procurement of specified materials and goods not made in the United States; (6) the construction or operation of any bakery, laundry, or dry cleaning facilitity unless their services are commercially unavailable; (7) paying the advertizing costs of any defense contractor; (8) research on uninformed or nonvoluntary human beings; (9) requests to the Appropriation Committees for the reprogramming of funds; (10) certain medical benefits for military dependents; (11) the performance of abortions when the mother's life if not endangered; (12) providing unreimbursed, inpatient medical care to foreign military and diplomatic personnel or their dependents; (13) payment of excessive travel allowances for enlisted personnel; (14) payment of excessive retirement or retainer pay; (15) transfer of technical data packages or defense items from any Government-owned and -operated defense plant to any foreign government; or (16) the purchase of coal or coke from foreign nations for U.S. defense facilities in Europe. Title VIII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the Intelligence Community Staff and for the Central Intelligency Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1982
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to provide that a blind or disabled child accompanying a parent in the Armed Forces stationed overseas may receive SSI benefits even though the child is not a U.S. resident.
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1982
Authorizes the President to present a medal of honor posthumously to the family of Armando G. Leal, Jr., in recognition of his acts of valor as a Navy hospital corpsman on September 4, 1967, in Vietnam.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1982
Establishes a peacetime veterans' educational assistance program for persons who served on active duty or in the Selected Reserve after August 31, 1983. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for such assistance based on period and type of service. Creates a basic entitlement of 24 months of assistance for the first 24 months of service with an additional month of assistance for each additional month of service, up to a total of 36 months. Establishes a delimiting period for the use of such assistance of ten years after discharge. Excepts those suffering from a physical or mental disability which prevented their completing their education and persons held as prisoners of war. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in specified amounts. Permits educational benefits to be transferred by the eligible person to a spouse or child. States that appropriations for this program be considered as made for the functions of the Department of Defense rather than for the functions of the Veterans Administration. Prohibits persons eligible for this program from participating in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on whether the program should be expanded to attract and retain certain qualified persons. Permits the Secretary concerned to grant educational leave for up to 12 months if the person concerned agrees to serve two months for each month off. Sets forth other conditions of such leave, including pay and eligibility for retired pay. Permits such Secretary to cancel this leave in time of war or national emergency or if he determines the member is not pursuing his education satisfactorily. States that there shall be no increase in pay for members in pay grade E-1 in FY 1983 and 1984 unless an increase becomes unavoidable through the general pay increase requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Operational Testing and Evaluation Act of 1982 - Establishes the position of Director of Operational Testing and Evaluation of the Department of Defense to be the principal adviser to the Secretary on such matters. Requires the Director to report directly to the Secretary and to have access to all records of the Department. Authorizes the Director to require designated observers during the testing part of any operational testing and evaluation. Directs the Secretaries of the military departments to report all results of all operational testing and evaluation to the Director. Prohibits the expenditure of test funds without the Secretary's prior approval. Denies funding for any testing and evaluation that violates specified scope and conditions. Requires the President to include in each budget a separate budget authority for the Director. Grants the Comptroller General access to all records in the Department.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Authorizes the President to present gold medals to the families of Lieutenant Commander John C. Waldron, United States Navy, Lieutenant Commander Eugene E. Lindsey, United States Navy, and Lieutenant Commander Lance E. Massey, United States Navy, in recognition of heroic actions taken by these persons during the Battle of Midway. Authorizes appropriations after October 1, 1983, to carry out this provision. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the sale of bronze duplicates of the gold medals. Provides for the reimbursement of authorized appropriations from the sale of such duplicates.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Creates a presumption of service-connected disability for compensation purposes for any veteran who was exposed to radiation or toxic chemicals while actively serving in the armed forces and who is now suffering from a disability or disorder symptomatic of such exposure. Maintains such presumption even in the absence of records. Entitles to disability or death compensation and to dependency and indemnity compensation any children of such a veteran with a disability or defect which may reasonably be determined to have been caused by genetic damage in the veteran. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out a comprehensive program to screen veterans who may have been exposed to radiation or toxic chemicals during their active service to determine whether they incurred a disease or disability from such exposure. Requires the Administrator to provide outreach and counseling services. Directs the Administrator to establish a research and training program in the diagnosis and treatment of disabilities caused by exposure to radiation. Requires the establishment of a centralized registry of claims before the Veterans Administration or other agencies arising out of actual or possible exposure to radiation and toxic chemicals. Requires the Administrator to include in the annual report to Congress a comprehensive report on the administration and implementation of such screening and research activities.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Requires that members of the armed forces on active duty and their dependents residing in a State be considered in-State residents for purposes of tuition and fees charged by any public educational institution.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Amends the Federal criminal Code to make it a defense to a Federal prosecution that at the time of the offense, the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, did not understand the wrongfulness of his conduct. Places the burden of proof of insanity on the defendant. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty only by reason of insanity." Amends the Federal Rules of Evidence to prohibit expert witnesses from offering opinions on the issue of the insanity of the defendant. Provides for an initial screening examination to determine whether there is reasonable cause to believe that the defendant lacks competency. Allows for a more thorough examination of the defendant if the initial results suggest incompetency. Requires a hearing on the issue of competency and further examination on the issue of the likelihood the defendant's recovery. Allows for appropriate treatment if necessary. Requires in-patient treatment only when the defendant is dangerous, likely to flee, or in custody. Transfers to State officials for State civil commitment certain defendants who have received the maximum treatment under this section or are found incompetent with no substantial probability of improvement. Allows a person serving a sentence of imprisonment to be transferred to a mental institution upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence that the prisoner is in need of treatment. Establishes Federal commitment procedures for persons found "not guilty only by reason of insanity". Provides for a special examination of violent offenders in order to determine their dangerousness.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Reaffirms the commitment of Congress to locating and repatriating Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia. Expresses congressional appreciation to the Lao Government for its expressed willingness to help. Supports the President's actions to locate and return missing Americans. Urges the President to respond to the indicated willingness of the Lao Government to cooperate in this effort.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately notify the Soviet Union that the United States is willing to reconvene bilateral negotiations on a treaty to prohibit the further development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons and to provide for the destruction of existing chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately notify the Soviet Union that the United States is willing to reconvene bilateral negotiations on a treaty to prohibit the further development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons and to provide for the destruction of existing chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Permits the Secretary of Defense to lease rather than construct specifically authorized family housing projects within the United States, Puerto Rico, and Guam. Requires that the Armed Services Committees be given 30 days notice of any lease in excess of $250,000 annual rental.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Defense Economic Adjustment Act - Title I: Defense Economic Adjustment Council - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Defense Economic Adjustment Council to be cochaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor. Establishes in the Executive Office an Office of Economic Adjustment, headed by a Director, to provide staff support to the Council. Directs the Council to disseminate information from the Secretary of Defense to Federal, State, and local agencies concerning proposed or pending changes in defense spending which would affect employment in the defense industry. Requires the Council to perform other duties, including: (1) soliciting, directing, and coordinating plans for private and public projects which will provide new employment opportunities; (2) providing technical assistance to communities to plan for economic conversion; (3) coordinating its activities with the Center for Utilization of Federal Technology; (4) monitoring the existing job services information bank in the Department of Labor; and (5) determining criteria for eligibility for assistance. Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide the pertinent information to the Council in advance of any change and to furnish the Council with projected future defense spending levels. Directs the Council to prepare and distribute a Conversion Guidelines Handbook to outline requirements of programs for professional retraining of personnel. Title II: Alternative Use Committees - Requires the establishment of separate management and labor alternative use committees by each defense facility and contractor employing at least 100 persons to plan for economic conversion in the event of closure or reduction. Penalizes any contractor who fails to submit an alternative use plan or carry out one approved by the Council by making such contractor ineligible for future defense contracts for three years. Directs such committees to: (1) evaluate the assets of the facilities and the resources and requirements of the local community; (2) develop at least biennially a detailed plan for conversion of the facility to non-defense-related productive activity; and (3) provide retraining and reemployment counseling service. Requires conversion plans: (1) to describe the new use to which the converted facility would be put; (2) to maximize the pool of skills of available personnel; and (3) to specify in detail the composition of the work force and plant, material, and financing requirements. Title III: Economic Adjustment Fund - Establishes in the Treasury an Economic Adjustment Fund to finance the activities of the Alternative Use Committees. Requires defense contractors to pay a specified percentage of their contract amounts into the fund. Title IV: Community Economic Adjustment Planning - Makes eligible for Federal assistance for planning for economic adjustment any community which is substantially affected by reduction or elimination of defense facilities or curtailment or conclusion of defense contracts. Directs the Council to utilize data from other departments to develop criteria which insure that assistance is directed to those communities which are most vulnerable economically to reductions in defense expenditures. Requires the Council to publish a semiannual list of eligible communities. Requires excess property resulting from a closing or reduction in a Government-owned facility to be appraised for purposes of resale to the community. Title V: Economic Adjustment Loans and Loan Guarantees - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make or guarantee loans on terms prescribed by the Council to assist contractors and communities to carry out conversion plans. Title VI: Urgent National Requirements for Non-Defense Sectors of the Economy - Directs the Council to designate urgent national requirements for nondefense sectors of the economy for purposes of allocating independent research and development money.
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Reserve Officers Association is deserving of public recognition and commendation on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Authorizes the sale of a U.S. naval vessel, an auxiliary drydock, to Ecuador. Authorizes the leasing of U.S. naval vessels as follows: (1) two patrol combatants to Colombia; (2) three fast patrol boats to the Dominican Republic; (3) one oceanographic research ship to Mexico; (4) one destroyer tender to Pakistan; and (5) one destroyer tender to Turkey. Excludes such leases from certain requirements of the Arms Export Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Extends from September 30, 1982, to December 15, 1982, the expiration date of the Defense Production Act of 1950.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1982
Urges the President and the Secretary of Defense to comply with the National Cemeteries Act of 1973 and arrange for the burial of an unknown soldier from the Vietnam era at Arlington National Cemetery.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1982
Title I: Extension of Defense Production Act of 1950 - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to extend it through FY 1983. Title II: Contracts for Improved Defense Preparedness - Defense Production Act Amendments of 1982 (Defense Preparedness) - Amends the Defense Production Act of 1950 to permit the President to make contracts for purchases or to encourage the mining of critical and strategic minerals, metals, and materials. Limits such a contract to a $500,000,000 maximum unless the Armed Services Committees are given 30 days notice and neither House adopts a resolution of disapproval. Requires such contracts to give the President the right to refuse delivery and to pay only the amount by which the contract price exceeds the market price at time of delivery. Directs the President to report to Congress at least once a year on the gross amounts of each such transaction. Makes funds available from specified appropriations for such contracts. Directs the President to minimize the financial risk and commitment to the Federal Government when making loan guarantees, loans to private enterprises, and development contracts. Requires the President to report to Congress not later than January 31 of each year concerning the operation of these provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1982
Military Widows and Surviving Children Benefits Restoration Act - Directs the head of a designated agency to make monthly payments to the surviving spouse of a veteran in the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the head of a designated agency to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to certain children between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning. Limits eligibility for such payments to children of veterans who died on active duty before August 13, 1981, or from a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide the designated agency head with information necessary to carry out this Act. Sets forth provisions determining time and percentage of increases in benefits, including a requirement that all payments be rounded down to the next lower multiple of $1. Directs the Secretary of Defense during FY 1983 to transfer funds from the Retired Pay, Defense account to whomever is chosen to administer this program. Requires such head to establish an account in his or her agency to receive such payments. Permits such head and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to combine specified payments into a single monthly payment.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1983 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Retired Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for retired military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, including the reserves. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense agencies, including their respective stock funds, reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, claims against the Department of Defense, and the Court of Military Appeals. Title IV: Procurement - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Navy of aircraft and weapons, for conversion and shipbuilding of vessels (including SSN-688 submarines), and for other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft, missiles, and other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for procurement by the reserve components and the National Guard. Appropriates funds for procurement by defense agencies. Title V: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for research, development, tests, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the expenses of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation. Title VI: Special Foreign Currency Program - Appropriates funds for FY 1983 for excess payments in foreign currencies for expenses in carrying out the programs of the Department of Defense. Title VII: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of appropriations for consulting services to contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record. Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and of the military departments to procure the services of experts and consultants if advantageous to the national defense. Exempts the Defense Department from the prohibition against employing non-citizens. Makes appropriations available for specified expenses of the Department, including motor vehicle insurance, maintenance of prisoners-of-war, school transportation of military dependents, maintenance of facilities, ships, and equipment, exchange fees, and dependents' medical treatment. Directs the Secretary of Defense and each agency of the Department to assist American small and minority-owned businesses in their participation in defense contracts. Prohibits the use of funds for new metal scrap facilities unless such facilities are determined to be in the national interest. Permits the President to exempt appropriations available for military functions from the requirement that appropriations be distributed so as to prevent deficiencies or need for supplemental funding. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the cost of any increases in military personnel required by the President. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress monthly on the exercise of this authority. Prohibits the use of appropriations for specified practices, including: (1) certain expenses of commissaries except under specified conditions; (2) proficiency flying except under certain conditions; (3) excess household goods shippage and storage; (4) the obligation of more than 20 percent of appropriations during the last two months of the fiscal year; (5) the procurement of specified materials and goods not made in the United States; (6) the construction or operation of any bakery, laundry, or dry cleaning facilitity unless their services are commercially unavailable; (7) paying the advertising costs of any defense contractor; (8) research on uninformed or nonvoluntary human beings; (9) requests to the Appropriation Committees for the reprogramming of funds; (10) certain medical benefits for military dependents; (11) the performance of abortions when the mother's life is not endangered; (12) providing unreimbursed, inpatient medical care to foreign military and diplomatic personnel or their dependents; (13) payment of excessive travel allowances for enlisted personnel; (14) payment of excessive retirement or retainer pay; (15) transfer of technical data packages or defense items from any Government-owned and -operated defense plant to any foreign government; (16) employment of more than 35 persons at the executive level; (17) establishing the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force as a unified command; or (18) the purchase of coal or coke from foreign nations for U.S. defense facilities in Europe. Prohibits the sale of silver from the National Defense Stockpile until the President redetermines that the silver authorized for disposal is indeed excess. Sets forth the relevant factors to be considered. Requires the prior approval of Congress. Requires Indian labor and products to be used whenever possible. Title VIII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the Intelligence Community Staff and for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1982
Strategic and Critical Minerals Inventory Act of 1982 - Requires the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to report to Congress within 180 days on the National Defense Stockpile. Requires such report to include: (1) an inventory of minerals contained; (2) a list of minerals and where they come from or are produced; (3) the location of reserves of each mineral necessary during a national emergency; and (4) an analysis of the consequences to the United States if the foreign supply of any strategic mineral were cut off. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress within six months concerning the current and possible future uses of U.S. agricultural products at U.S. military installations overseas.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Uniformed Services Pay Act of 1982 - Title I: Compensation Issues - States that the required adjustment in military pay, commensurate with adjustments made for Federal civilian employees, shall not be made. Increases the pay of the uniformed services by four percent in FY 1983. Includes time spent as an enlisted member as well as a warrant officer in computing the basic pay of certain commissioned officers. Extends through FY 1987 enlistment and reenlistment bonuses for the armed forces. Freezes certain travel allowances for dependents and for transportation of baggage and household effects during FY 1983. Authorizes hazardous duty pay for persons involved in testing aircraft or missile systems during which highly toxic fuels or propellants are used. Revises eligibility criteria for certain members' separation pay. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to permit members or former members who would have been eligible to participate in the Survivor Benefit Plan but for the fact that they were under 60 years of age to do so. Extends eligibility for a minimum income to widows who were widowed as of a specified date. Modifies the Reserve Officer Training Corps' Scholarship Program to extend eligibility to students whose approved program includes a fifth academic year. Extends eligibility for a subsistence allowance to members of precommissioning programs from 20 to 30 months. Requires as a condition of assistance for specially selected members as cadets or midshipmen that the Secretary concerned have the option of requiring reimbursement should the member fail to complete the educational requirements. Requires such members to accept an appointment, if offered, as a commissioned officer of one of the uniformed services and to serve in a reserve component for a specified period. Title II: Computation of Retired Pay - Requires that years of service for computing retired pay be determined by considering any full month of service as one-twelfth of a year, whether or not a member has more or less than six full months. Title III: Personnel Management Issues - Permits the President, with the consent of the officer involved, to transfer a commissioned officer from one branch of the uniformed services to another. Credits officers of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service with the number of years in service for retirement purposes and, with regard to the Public Health Service only, for purposes of grade and rank when transferred to an armed force. Authorizes the appointment of one cadet from American Samoa and one from the children of U.S. civilian personnel in Panama to each of the military academies. Permits citizens of the Northern Mariana Islands to be appointed as officers in the U.S. armed forces. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1980 to prohibit the contracting-out of a commercial or industrial type function of the Department of Defense if the Secretary determines that the national defense requires that such function be performed by personnel of the Department. Directs the Secretary to include within a report to Congress an assessment as to which functions necessitate Department personnel performance, including a cost comparison. Extends medical malpractice protection to health-care personnel of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Eliminates the requirement that former military or civilian employees of the Department previously or subsequently employed by defense contractors must report details of such employment to the Secretary. Permits the Secretary of a military department to accept voluntary services for a museum or family support program operated by the department.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) provide for the maximum feasible use of U.S. agricultural products at military installations overseas; and (2) devise new ways to use surplus agricultural commodities now in the reserves of the Commodity Credit Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1982
Urges the President to declassify and publicize to the American people existing intelligence information on the military threat to the United States and its allies posed by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Uniformed Services Pay Act of 1982 - Title I: Compensation Matters - Increases the pay of uniformed services by four percent for FY 1983. Extends through FY 1984 the authority for enlistment and reenlistment bonuses. Extends through FY 1984 special pay for aviation career officers extending their period of active duty. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to report to Congress by July 1, 1983 on the payment of such special pay. Permits the payment of travel and transportation allowances for travel from overseas for education purposeds of dependent children of a member of the uniformed services permanently assigned outside the United States. Permits the advance payment of such allowances for escorts and attendants of dependents. Establishes a limit for FY 1983 for the reimbursement for accommodations in place of quarters for members on sea duty. Freezes specified allowances relating to transportation of dependents and household effects at FY 1981 levels. Places restrictions on the allowance for transportation of a motor vehicle from an old to a new duty station. Title II: Retired Pay Matters - Requires retired pay and survivor annuities to be rounded to the next lower dollar. Limits the applicability of the one year look-back provision for adjusting pensions to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index. Title III: Personnel Management Matters - Increases temporarily the number of general and flag officers on active duty during FY 1984. Transfers Public Health Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officers to the uniformed services. Extends the period during which certain accumulated leave may be used. Permits the Secretary concerned to waive the age requirements for original appointment as a commissioned officer. Increases from seven to ten the number of Assistant Secretaries of Defense. Makes one the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. Title IV: Reserve Matters - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend the period of enlistment in the Reserves from six to eight years. Permits the payment of a bonus for enlistment or reenlistment in elements of the Reserve other than the Selected Reserve. Extends entitlement for medical and dental care for members for injuries incurred or aggravated during travel to and from inactive duty training and during certain other periods before and after the performance of such duty. Expands from 90 to 180 days the period of time the Selected Reserve may be ordered to active duty other than during a war or national emergency. Permits the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force to retain in active status on officer in the reserves who is subject to elimination from active because of failure of promotion. Authorizes the recall to active duty of certain retired members of a reserve component of an armed force. Permits certain reserve commissioned officers on active duty to serve, where vacancy permits, in the higher reserve grade to which they are promoted during such active duty tour. Excludes experience and education credits from the computation of years of service of a reserve commissioned officer to determine whether he or she may be transferred to the Retired Reserve or discharged. Title V: Health Care and Related Matters - Increases the amount of pay for a contract surgeon serving full time with a uniformed service. Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct studies and demonstration projects on the health care delivery system of the uniformed services with a view to improving its quality and cost effectiveness. Requires that alternative progrms for dental care for dependents be studied and suggests that alternative methods of payment for services and cost-sharing by eligible beneficiaries also be included. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress periodically on such studies and projects, the first report being due by March 1, 1983. Directs the Secretary to conduct a feasibility study on the establishment within the Department of a Defense Health Agency. Requires the Secretary to report to the Armed Services Committees within 180 days with recommendations. Directs the Secretary to make an annual report to Congress on malpractice claims made against medical personnel of the military departments. Requires such report to include the current accreditation status of military hospitals and the success of the quality assurance/risk management program of each military department. Title VI: Surviving Spouses' and Children's Benefits - Directs the head of a designated agency to make monthly payments to the surviving spouse of a veteran in the amount such spouse would have received under the Social Security Act were she caring for a child under 16 (when such child is actually between 16 and 18 years of age). Directs the head of a designated agency to make monthly payments equivalent to the child's insurance benefit under the Social Security Act before the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to certain children between the ages of 18 and 22 attending institutions of higher learning. Limits eligibility for such payments to children of veterans who died on active duty before August 13, 1981, or from a service-connected disability. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide the designated agency head with information necessary to carry out this Act. Sets forth provisions determining time and percentage of increases in benefits, including a requirement that all payments be rounded down to the next lower multiple of $1. Directs the Secretary of Defense during FY 1983 to transfer funds from the Retired Pay, Defense account to whomever is chosen to administer this program. Requires such head to establish an account in his agency to receive such payments. Permits such head and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to combine specified payments into a single monthly payment. Title VII: Miscellaneous Matters - States that funds must be specifically authorized by law before they may be appropriated. Permits the Secretary concerned to conduct a safety investigation of any accident involving an aircraft under his jurisdiction. Prohibits the unauthorized release of such report outside the armed force concerned. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 to prohibit the contracting out of a commercial or industrial function if the Secretary determines that such function must be performed within the Department for national defense needs. Directs the Secretary to include in his notification to Congress an assessment by the military commander responsible for determining whether the function in question is necessary to meet national defense needs. Sets forth cost comparison guidelines. Prohibits reprisals against employees of certain nonappropriated fund instrumentalities for disclosure of information which evidences a violation of the law or regulations or mismanagement or abuse of authority. Title VIII: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Authorizes the President, for purposes of the War Powers Resolution, to involve U.S. forces in hostilities in Lebanon to the extent necessary to enable the Lebanese Government to resume full sovereignty over Beirut.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982
Establishes a presumption of service-connection for wartime disability compensation purposes for the disease of chloracne manifest to a degree of at least ten percent in veterans serving in Vietnam during the Vietnam era.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to make it an affirmative defense to a Federal prosecution that the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked the capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law. Places the burden of proof of insanity on the defendant. Provides for commitment in a suitable Federal facility if the defendant was found "not guilty by reason of insanity" and caused, threatened to cause, or created a substantial risk of serious injury to any person. Requires that within 45 days of confinement the court determine whether the person presents a risk of bodily injury to himself or others and requires further commitment. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create risk of injury. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Veterans' Compensation, Education, and Employment Amendments of 1982 - Title I: Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Rate - Increases and Program Improvement - Increases the rates of: (1) disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses; (5) dependency and indemnity compensation for children; and (6) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for children. Entitles veterans with service-connected total blindness without light perception in both eyes to the same rate of monthly compensation as is paid for the anatomical loss of both eyes. Extends dependency and indemnity compensation to survivors of veterans who were entitled to but because of error did not receive service-connected disability compensation. Supercedes specified provisions of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1982 concerning compensation. Title II: Amendments of Veterans' Education and Rehabilitation Programs - Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to station veterans benefits counselor's at locations other than Veterans' Administration offices including schools. Permits the payment of a subsistence allowance to a veteran pursuing a rehabilitation program while residing in a halfway house or participating in a work-release program. Increases from $75 to $100 the maximum monthly deduction from a person's military pay for contribution to a matching fund for educational assistance. Provides for the transfer of funds from the Secretary of a military department to the Administrator for the administration of an educational assistance program. Repeals the ten year delimiting period for the use of educational assistance for veterans who are discharged or released from duty after December 31, 1979. Directs the Secretary of Defense to reimburse the Administrator for educational assistance paid out after December 31, 1979. Eliminates the requirement that a vocational school prove 50 percent employment among its graduates to prevent the Administrator's disapproving a veteran's enrollment . Prohibits the Administrator from approving the enrollment of an eligible veteran or person in any sales or sales management course which does not provide specialized training. Prohibits the payment of anything but a books and supplies allowance for non-tuition courses. Permits the Administrator to discontinue educational assistance to eligible veterans and persons enrolled at institutions or in courses with uncorrected violations of specified requirements. Lessens the detail required in the Administrator's annual report to Congress on the default of educational loans. Tolls the delimiting period for any veteran prevented from participating in a vocational rehabilitation program because of an alcohol or drug dependence or abuse condition. Requires (at present, only permits) the Administrator to provide educational assistance to Vietnam era veterans in apprenticeship or on-the-job training programs, orin courses with approval vocational objectives, unless a particular veteran does not need such a program or course to obtain suitable and stable employment. Requires publication in the Federal Register of proposed regulations implementing this requirement within 30 days after enactment of this Act. Title III: Veterans Employment Amendments - Requires that priorities in jobs training programs be given to disabled and vietnam era, veterans. Changes the position of State veterans' employment representative to that of State Director for Veterans' Employment. Makes such directors functionally responsible for supervising the participation of veterans in Federal employment and training programs, job listings, discrimination complaints, and other speclified duties. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment to supervise the use of funds in the disabled veterans' outreach program. Permits a waiver of limitation on the percentage of outreach specialists which shall be stationed at local employment service offices in a State. Requires outreach specialists to develop programs with the Veterans Administration vocational rehabilitation staff and others to assure maximum assistance to veterans. Directs the Assistant Secretary to monitor the employment of such specialists. Directs the Secretary of Labor to estimate the funds necessary for the administration of the employment training and reemployment rights programs, including the amounts necessary to fund the disabled veterans' outreach program specialists. Requires the Secretary's annual report to include a report on activities under such program. Requires each Federal contractor who must take affirmative action to employ such veterans to make annual reports on the number and characteristics of new hires with the State veterans' employment director. Directs the Secretary, through the Assistant Secretary, to assist in the placement of veterans using existing Federal and State agencies. Repeals the exemplary rehabilitation certificates program. Title IV: Miscellaneous Improvements - Sets forth the conditions under which the assignee of a beneficiary of a National Service Life Insurance policy or a U.S. Government Life Insurance policy may resolve disputes concerning the proceeds. Eliminates the four year cut-off for payment of claims under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance and Veterans' Group Life Insurance programs. Prohibits the escheat of payments to the State. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay the burial expenses of certain veterans of war whose bodies are held by a State and not claimed. Permits the Administrator to guarantee a loan to refinance an existing loan for the purchase of a manufactured home or the lot on which such home will be placed. Requires applications for recovery of payments or over payments of benefits under laws administered by the Veterans Administration to be made within 180 days rather than within two years. Modifies the minimum service requirement for the receipt of veterans' benefits by a veteran or his survivor or dependent. Permits the pursuit of correspondence training as specified. Prohibits the contracting out of veterans' medical care unless a particular medical care activity is not a direct patient care activity or incident to direct patient care and to contract out would be more cost-effective. Title V: Effective Dates - Sets forth effective dates for the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the President to sell defense articles to U.S. companies for incorporation into end items that will be sold by such companies to a friendly foreign country or international organization. Requires that the price of such articles shall not be less than their replacement or actual cost. Authorizes the President to sell defense services in support of such sales of defense articles if specified conditions are met. Permits such sales of defense articles and services only if: (1) the end item to which the articles apply is to be procured for the armed forces of a friendly country or international organization; (2) the articles would be supplied to the prime contractor as government-furnished equipment or materials if the end item were being procured for the use of the U.S. armed forces; and (3) the articles and services are available to the prime contractor only from U.S. Government sources or are not available from U.S. commercial sources as necessary to meet the prime contractor's delivery schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Amends Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to authorize a new plea of "guilty but insane" for any criminal defendant whose actions constitute all necessary elements of the offense charged but who lacks the requisite state of mind as a result of mental disease or defect. Adopts the current notice provisions for a defense of insanity for the new plea of guilty but insane. Permits the jury or the court in a non-jury trial to find a defendant guilty but insane. Requires the court in any such case to hold a hearing to determine the present mental condition of the convicted person. Directs the court to commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the person is presently suffering from a mental disease or defect as a result of which release would create a substantial danger to himself or to the person or property of another. Directs the Attorney General to release such person to a State which will assume responsibility for his custody and treatment or otherwise to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Requires the court to hold a hearing upon the certification by the director of the facility that such person's release will no longer create a substantial danger to himself or the person or property of another. Directs the court to order the discharge of a person who is found to have recovered. Provides for the hospitalization of persons found guilty, imprisoned persons, and persons due for release, who are found to suffer from mental disease or defect.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs should consider designating the Naval Regional Medical Center on Guam as a joint-medical facility for military personnel, dependents, and veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1982 - Establishes a new educational assistance program for the all-volunteer force. Entitles veterans who are graduates of a secondary school and who have served in the armed forces on continuous active duty for at least three years to basic educational assistance. Entitles veterans of the Selected Reserve who are graduates of secondary school and who have served at least two years of continuous active duty in the armed forces and at least four years of continuous duty in the Selected Reserve to basic educational assistance. Sets forth the formula for determining the length of such assistance based on the length of time served. Entitles such veterans to a monthly assistance allowance of $300 for a full-time approved program of education. Permits the Secretary concerned to establish a higher rate of assistance for individuals possessing a skill or specialty designated as being in critical shortage. Permits enrollment, if eligible, in a program of education while an individual continues to perform his duties. Permits a member of the armed forces who is eligible for such assistance and who reenlists or, if an officer, agrees to remain on active duty for a specified period to elect to receive a lump-sum amount in lieu of such assistance. Limits such amount to not more than 25 percent of the value of the educational assistance to which the member would otherwise be entitled. Entitles veterans who have served three or more consecutive years of active duty in addition to those required for basic educational assistance to supplemental educational assistance. Entitles veterans of the Selected Reserve who have served two or more consecutive years of active duty and four or more consecutive years of duty in the reserves in addition to that required for basic educational assistance to supplemental educational assistance. Entitles such veterans to a monthly supplemental assistance allowance of $300 a month. Permits the provision of assistance at a higher rate an individual entitled to basic educational assistance who has a skill or specialty in which there is a critical shortage of personnel. Permits the Secretary of Defense to authorize specified individuals to transfer to a dependent part or all of such an individual's entitlement to educational assistance. Sets forth the conditions under which transferred benefits may be provided. Establishes a ten year delimiting period for educational assistance. Excludes time spent as a prisoner of war subsequent to discharge and time spent physically or mentally disabled. Limits educational assistance to individuals being furnished subsistence to the amount an institution would charge similarly circumstanced nonveterans. Prohibits participation in more than one program of educational assistance. Allocates the administration and costs of such programs to the Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense. Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator to submit to Congress a biennial report on the operations of such programs. Amends the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Act of 1977 to terminate the right to enroll in the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance Program after December 31, 1981. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1981 to extend the pilot Department of Defense educational loan repayment program through October 1, 1983. Permits the Secretary concerned to grant an eligible member a leave of absence of not more than two years for such member to pursue a program of education. Sets forth the terms and conditions for such leave. Requires the Secretary concerned to provide individual predischarge counseling which includes a discussion of educational benefit entitlements.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Authorizes the transfer of nine U.S. naval vessels as follows: (1) two patrol combatants to be leased to Colombia; (2) three fast patrol boats to be leased to the Dominican Republic; (3) one auxiliary drydock to be sold to Ecuador; (4) one oceanographic research ship leased to Mexico; (5) one destroyer tender to be leased to Pakistan; and (6) one destroyer tender to be leased to Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Establishes a presumption of service-connection for the disease of soft-tissue sarcoma manifest to a degree of ten percent or more in veterans who served in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Renders such veterans and their dependents eligible for disability compensation and dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1982
Amends the Military Selective Service Act to permit a retired member of the armed forces to serve on a local board of the Selective Service System.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund Reorganization Act of 1982 - Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to exclude budget authority and revenues of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund from the Federal budget. Eliminates the requirement that the Armed Services Committees be given 30 days notice of any changes in the quantity of any material to be stockpiled. Eliminates the requirement that certain expenditures for and disposals from the stockpile must be specifically authorized. Permits the President to dispose of materials as he determines necessary. Permits the President to waive the requirement that dispositions be made by competitive procedures without giving the Armed Services Committees 30 days notice of such intent. Eliminates the requirement that the President report to the Armed Services Committees whenever he exercises his disposal authority. Eliminates the President's biannual and annual reports to Congress concerning the operation of the stockpile.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Amends the Federal criminal code to make it an affirmative defense to a Federal prosecution that at the time of the offense the defendant, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked entirely the ability to understand the nature and the quality of his acts and to distinguish right from wrong. Places the burden of proving insanity on the defendant. Requires the court to hold a hearing to determine the present mental condition of the defendant. Directs the court to commit such person to the custody of the Attorney General upon a finding by a preponderance of the evidence that the person is presently suffering from a mental disease or defect, rendering him mentally incompetent. Directs the Attorney General to hospitalize such person in a suitable facility. Provides that when the defendant has recovered and is able to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against him, the court will order his release and set a date for trial. Authorizes a special verdict of "not guilty only by reason of insanity" for any criminal defendant who raises the issue of insanity by notice as provided by Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Provides for the hospitalization of persons found not guilty only by reason of insanity, convicted persons, imprisoned persons, and persons due for release who are found to suffer from mental disease or defect. Allows for discharge when such person is found to have recovered. Requires reimprisonment of any such person for whom a term of prison sentence has not yet expired.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1982
Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services to entitle members, former members, and dependents of members of the uniformed services to chiropractic care. Permits the appointment of chiropractors as commissioned officers in the Medical Service Corps. Entitles such officers to the same special pay received by dental officers.