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Bill· HRH.R. 8451 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1980
Title I: Corporate Income Taxes, Simplified Cost Recovery Provisions - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual and corporate taxpayers an income tax deduction for a percentage of the cost of depreciable tangible property (recovery property) used in a trade or business or held for the production of income, which is placed in service after December 31, 1980. Establishes four classes and recovery periods for such property: (1) Class 1, two years; (2) Class 2, four years; (3) Class 3, seven years; and (4) Class 4, ten years. Requires assignment of property to the class which has a recovery period at least 40 percent shorter than its present midpoint useful life under the Asset Depreciation Range (ADR) system. Permits the taxpayer to elect placement of any item of property in the class with the next longer recovery period than the class to which it would otherwise belong. Defines the recovery percentage as the percentage (100 percent, 150 percent, or 200 percent) selected by the taxpayer for a class of items, divided by the number of years in the corresponding recovery period. Requires a taxpayer to establish a recovery account for each class of recovery property. Sets forth formulae for additions to and reductions in such account. Denies eligibility for the deduction to livestock, property subject to amortization, property depreciable on a basis other than time, public utility property, oil or gas fired boilers, and property used predominantly outside the United States. Increases from 20 percent to 30 percent the ADR variance from class life for public utility property. Shortens useful life requirements for investment tax credit property. Revises the applicable percentage for such property as follows: (1) 25 percent of the basis of an asset if its useful life is between two and four years (currently, 33 1/3 percent if useful life is between two and five years); (2) 60 percent of the basis of an asset if its useful life is between four and seven years (currently, 66 2/3 percent if useful life is between five and seven years); and (3) 100 percent of basis if useful life is seven years or greater (currently, the same). Makes the applicable percentage for recovery property for purposes of applying the energy percentage and employee plan percentage: (1) 66 2/3 percent of the basis of an asset if its useful life is between two and four years; and (2) 100 percent of basis if useful life is four years or greater. Allows election of: (1) 20 year straight line depreciation for structures and structural components; and (2) 15 year straight line depreciation for low income housing; and (3) 15 year depreciation computed under the declining balance method at a rate not exceeding 150 percent of the straight line depreciation rate for certain qualified owner-occupied industrial and commercial buildings. Disallows component depreciation for any taxpayer who elects either the 20 or 15 year straight line depreciation or the 15 year depreciation computed under the declining balance method. Sets forth rules for treatment of the depreciation allowance for any recovery property in computing the earnings and profits of a corporation. Increases from ten to 25 percent the rehabilitation tax credit for nonresidential structures. Title II: Refundability of the Investment Tax Credit - Provides for the refundability of the investment tax credit where such credit amount exceeds taxpayer liability. Limits the amount of any refund to $100,000. Title III: Nonrecognition of Gain on Certain Sales and Exchanges of Interests in Small Business Concerns - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer election to exclude from gross income gain from the sale of an equity interest in certain small business concerns if the taxpayer purchases a replacement equity interest in a small business within 18 months of the initial sale. Requires the recognition of any amount of gain from such sale which exceeds the cost to the taxpayer of the replacement equity interest. Title IV: Incentives for Research and Experimentation - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a nonrefundable income tax credit equal to 25 percent of the research and experimentation expenditures for the development and improvement of the taxpayer's trade or business. Title V: Contributions to Reserve for Research by Institutions of Higher Education - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an income tax credit equal to 25 percent of the cash contributions made to a tax-exempt reserve fund for business-related research performed by institutions of higher learning. Specifies that contributions made to such fund must be spent for research purposes within four years of contribution. Title VI: Election by Married Individuals to Be Taxed as Unmarried Individuals - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit married individuals who do not file joint returns with their spouses to be taxed as an unmarried individual.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 640 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1980
Designates February 1981 as "National PTA Membership Month."
Bill· HRH.R. 8392 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1980
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the formula by which certain limitations are placed upon the amount of basic grants to students ("Pell Grants").
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 212 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 November 1980
White House Conference on Education Act - Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference not later than June 30, 1981, to be planned and conducted under the direction of the Secretary of Education. Sets forth the purpose and composition of the Conference, as well as requirements for a final report. Sets forth provisions of the administration of the Conference. Directs the Secretary to submit annual reports, during the three-year period following the submission of such final report of the Conference, on the status and implementation of the findings and recommendations of the Conference. Authorizes appropriations for the Conference. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated to the Department of Education, other than funds appropriated pursuant to this resolution, to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution.
Bill· SS. 3223 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1980
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 by making a technical amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-374). Revises the formula by which certain limitations are placed upon the amount of basic grants to students ("Pell Grants").
Bill· HRH.R. 8376 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1980
Education Reorganization Act of 1980 - Title I: Establishment of the Department - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), to be administered by a Secretary appointed by the President, by and of HEW with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets forth provisions for the principal officers of such Department. Title II: Transfer of Agencies and Functions - Transfers to the Secretary all functions of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Transfers to the Department all offices of the Department of Health and Human Services. Transfers to the Secretary, and to the Department, all functions, and all offices, of the Secretary of Education and of the Department of Education, except for specified functions and offices relating to the operation of overseas schools for military dependents, which are transferred to the Secretary of Defense and the Department of Defense. Title III: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) appoint officers and employees to carry out the functions of the Secretary and the Department; and (2) obtain, as provided in appropriation Acts, the services of experts and consultants. Directs the Secretary, by the end of the first fiscal year beginning after the enactment of this Act, to submit to the President and the Congress legislative recommendations for redesigning or replacing HEW programs so that such programs can be administered by fewer personnel. Requires that the sum of the number of full-time permanent positions that perform functions to be transferred to the Department by this Act, plus the full-time equivelent of the number of experts and consultants hired, be reduced by one thousand by the end of the second such fiscal year and not increased thereafter. Sets forth general administrative provisions for the Department, including those relating to general authority, delegation, reorganization, rules, contracts, regional and field offices, acquisition and maintenance of authority, facilities at remote locations, use of facilities, copyrights and patents, gifts and bequests, technical advice, working capital fund, funds transfer, seal of department, and annual report. Authorizes appropriations for the Department for fiscal year 1982 and succeeding fiscal years. Titel IV: Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to the transfer and allocation of appropriations and personnel, the effect on personnel, agency terminations, and incidental transfers. Sets forth: (1) savings provisions; (2) provisions for separability; (3) conforming references, amendments, and redesignations; and (4) transition provisions. Title V: Effective Date and Interim Appointments - Sets forth the effective date for the provisions of this Act. Provides for interim appointments under specified conditions.
Bill· SS. 3197 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1980
Alien Education Assistance Act of 1980 - Title I: General Provisions - Defines the terms used in this Act, including the term "alien children" which is defined to mean undocumented aliens who receive educational services from State or local educational agencies. Authorizes appropriations in necessary amounts up to $200,000,000 per fiscal year for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for State educational programs and administrative costs under this Act. Provides that such entitlements shall be ratably reduced if sufficient funds are available. Authorizes up to one percent of such funds for Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to withhold funds from State educational agencies that fail to meet the requirements of this Act. Sets forth the procedures to be followed in such a situation. Permits the use of classroom facilities obtained by a local educational agency with assistance under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in any fiscal year for educational services for alien children if the number of alien children enrolled in the elementary or secondary public schools under the jurisdiction of such agency, during that fiscal year, is equal to at least 200 or at least two percent of the total number of students enrolled in the public elementary or secondary schools during such fiscal year, whichever is less. Exempts each local educational agency within a State in which there is a State law which requires a bilingual education program from specified proposed rules (or final rules based on them) which prohibit recipients of Federal financial assistance from denying equality of access to any student because of that student's limited proficiency in English. Title II: General Assistance for Local Educational Agencies - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 for assistance to local educational agencies in providing basic education for alien children. Sets the amount of the grant to which a State educational agency is entitled, per alien child enrolled in schools under the jurisdiction of each local agency within such State, at $1,500, or the average per pupil expenditure in such State, whichever is less. Sets forth grant application requirements and procedures.
Bill· SS. 3192 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 November 1980
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Endowment Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make matching grants to assist in the development of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, located at the University of Oklahoma. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1986 to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 8253 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Alien Education Impact Aid Act of 1980 - Title I: General Provisions - Defines the terms used in this Act, including the term "alien children" which is defined to mean undocumented aliens to whom State or local educational agencies must provide educational services under Federal court order. Authorizes lump-sum appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1983 for State educational programs and administrative costs (up to one percent) under this Act. Provides that such entitlements shall be ratably reduced if sufficient funds are not available. Authorizes up to one percent of such funds for Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to withhold funds from State educational agencies that fail to meet the requirements of this Act. Sets forth the procedures to be followed in such a situation. Title II: General Assistance for Local Educational Agencies - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1981-1983 for assistance in providing basic education for alien children. States that such payments shall be $450 for each such child enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. Sets forth State application requirements. Requires the Secretary to give notice and opportunity for a hearing before final disapproval of an application. Title III: Special Impact Assistance for Substantial Increases in Attendance of Alien Children - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1981-1983 for supplementary public education costs for alien children in public and private elementary and secondary schools in eligible local educational agencies (based on the number of such children in their jurisdiction). Authorizes: (1) for fiscal year 1981, $750 for each child; (2) for fiscal year 1982, $750 for each new child, and $500 for each child enrolled in 1981; and (3) for fiscal year 1983, $750 for each new child, $500 for a child enrolled in either 1981 or 1982, and $350 for a child enrolled in both 1981 and 1982. Includes within such supplementary services, English language instruction, bilingual education, special materials and supplies, additional basic instructional services, and inservice training. Sets forth State application requirements. Requires a State educational agency to give notice and an opportunity for a hearing before final disapproval of a local educational agency's application for such funds.
Bill· HRH.R. 8249 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Education Improvement Act of 1980 - Title I: Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to continue to provide financial assistance to State and local educational agencies to meet the special needs of educationally deprived children, on the basis of entitlements calculated under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), in a manner which will eliminate burdensome and unproductive paperwork and free the schools of Federal supervision, direction, and control. Directs the Secretary of Education, during fiscal years 1982 through 1986, to make payments, in accordance with the provisions of this title, to State educational agencies for grants made on the basis of entitlements created under title I of ESEA and calculated in accordance with provisions of such title in effect on September 30, 1981. Directs the Secretary, in making such payments to continue to utilize specified provisions of title I of such Act, with the exception of provisions relating to local program requirements and applications and to State and Federal administration of programs and projects. Requires that State and local educational agencies use such payments for programs and projects (including the acquisition of equipment and, where necessary, the construction of school facilities) designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children. Requires that State agency programs be designed to serve those categories of children (migratory, handicapped, neglected and delinquent) counted for eligibility for grants under specified ESEA provisions in accordance with the requirements of this title. Requires that local educational agencies use ESEA funds received under this title only for programs and projects: (1) designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children identified in accordance with specified provisions of this title; and (2) included in an application for assistance approved by the State educational agency and containing specified assurances concerning such programs and projects. Provides for the participation of children enrolled in private schools in special educational services and arrangements. Sets forth requirements relating to: (1) maintenance of effort; (2) use of funds limited to excess costs; (3) Federal funds to supplement, not supplant regular non-Federal funds; (4) comparability of services; (5) exclusion of special State and local program funds; and (6) allocation of funds in certain States. Title II: Consolidation of Federal Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education - Declares it to be the purpose of this title: (1) to consolidate the program authorizations contained in titles II through IX of ESEA into a single authorization of grants to States for the same purposes set forth in such titles, but to be used in accordance with the educational needs and priorities of each State as determined by the State; and (2) to financially assist State and local educational agencies to improve elementary and secondary education (including preschool education) for public and private school children, in a manner which eliminates administrative and paperwork burdens on the schools. Vests basic responsibility for the administration of funds made available under this title in State educational agencies. Admonishes such agencies to discharge such responsibility in a manner which will not impose an unreasonable administrative burden. Declares the intent of Congress that the responsibility for the design and implementation of programs assisted under this title be mainly that of local boards of education, school superintendents and principals, and classroom teachers and supporting personnel. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1986 to carry out the purposes of this title. Sets forth provisions for allotments to States and for State grant applications. Requires that specified funds be used by State and local educational agencies to develop and implement a basic skills improvement program. Requires that at least 70 percent of such funds be allocated to local educational agencies. Authorizes State educational agencies to provide leadership and support services for the basic skills improvement program. Sets forth requirements for school level basic skills improvement programs which local educational agencies must meet in applying for program funds. Authorizes State education agencies to carry out selected activities from among the full range of programs and projects formerly authorized under titles IV, V, VI, and VII of ESEA (Educational Improvement, Resources, and Support; State Leadership; Emergency School Aid; and Bilingual Education Programs), in accordance with requirements of this title including a planned allocation of funds in the State application. Sets forth authorized activities under such programs and projects. Authorizes State educational agencies to carry out selected activities from among the full range of programs and projects formerly authorized under titles III, VIII, and IX of ESEA (Special Projects; Community Schools; and Additional Programs for Gifted and Talented Children, Educational Proficiency Standards, and Women's Educational Equity), in accordance with requirements of this title, including a planned allocation of funds set forth in the State application. Sets forth authorized activities under such programs and projects. Sets forth requirements relating to: (1) maintenance of effort; (2) Federal funds being supplementary to, and not supplanting, non-Federal funds; and (3) participation of children enrolled in private schools. Authorizes the Secretary to use discretionary reserved funds for activities relating to the purposes of and programs under this Act, such as: (1) a national information source to assess program effectiveness and the needs of those served; (2) research and demonstrations; (3) teacher training and improvement; and (4) implementation assistance for State and local educational agencies. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations relating to this Act: (1) on duties specifically assigned to the Secretary; (2) on proper fiscal accounting for appropriations and on the method of making payments authorized; and (3) which reasonably insure compliance with the specific requirements and assurances required. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing regulations on all other matters relating to the details of planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating State and local educational agency programs and projects. Permits the Secretary to consult with appropriate State, local, and private educational agencies and to provide, upon request, technical assistance, information, and suggested guidelines. Provides that regulations issued pursuant to this Act shall not have the standing of a Federal statute for the purposes of judicial review. Sets forth provisions for withholding of payments and for judicial review thereof. Provides that specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act (relating to "State Educational Agency Monitoring and Agency Application") shall not: (1) apply to programs authorized under this Act except to the extent that such provisions relate fiscal control and fund accounting procedures; and (2) be construed to authorize the Secretary to require any reports or take any actions not specifically authorized by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 8250 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1980
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to waive specified requirements for the use of title I special educational needs funds by local educational agencies participating in experimental programs designed to consolidate State categorical educational programs. Permits such waiver for any one of fiscal years 1982 through 1985, with possible renewal for an additional one-year period, of requirements that: (1) such Federal funds be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds for regular and certain special State and local programs; and (2) agencies receiving Federal assistance maintain, through use of non- Federal funds, services comparable to those provided by unassisted agencies. Prohibits the Secretary's approval of a waiver application unless it contains the following assurances plus an assurance that not more than 15 percent of the State's educationally deprived children shall be served under the experimental program. Requires an assurance, in the case of any waiver which enables local educational agencies to consolidate the administration and operation of programs for educationally deprived children and special education programs for handicapped children and for children with limited English-speaking ability, that the educationally deprived children in project areas will be provided with educational programs and services which are comparable to those such children would otherwise receive and that certain Federal funds shall be used to provide programs and services only to eligible children. Requires an assurance, in the case of any waiver which permits local educational agencies to transfer State and local funds among the special educational programs described above and programs for educationally deprived children, that the educationally deprived children shall receive the same level of Federal funds as they would receive in the absence of such waiver and that an accurate accounting of such funds is ensured. Requires an assurance, in the case of any waiver permitting local educational agencies to distribute State and local funds for the programs under this title to project areas and other school attendance areas, that the educationally deprived children at elementary and secondary schools in project areas receive a level of State and local funds not less than, and services from such funds comparable to, the level of such funds and the services from such funds received by elementary and secondary school children in other school attendance areas. Permits a waiver which enables local educational agencies to use funds available for programs under this title to improve educational programs for eligible children who have not met the requirements for grade promotion or for receipt of a high school diploma or to provide educational services to eligible children when required by applicable law or court order.
Law· SS. 3180 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1980
Amends the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 to repeal the provision providing for the accompanying transfer of appropriations with any transfer of refugee responsibilities from the Federal Emergency Management Administration to other Federal agencies.
Bill· HRH.R. 8226 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1980
Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Endowment Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make matching grants to assist in the development of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, located at the University of Oklahoma. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1986 to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 8167 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1980
Authorizes Congress to disapprove any final regulations promulgated by the Department of Education for specified proposed rules on nondiscrimination under programs receiving Federal financial assistance.
Bill· HRH.R. 8145 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1980
Directs the Education Appeal Board to dismiss all actions seeking the repayment of funds provided to State or local agencies for education of children from low-income families which are based on final audit determinations issued prior to a specified date.
Bill· HRH.R. 8053 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 August 1980
Alien Education Impact Aid Act of 1980 - Title I: General Provisions - Defines the terms used in this Act, including the term "alien children" which is defined to mean undocumented aliens to whom State or local educational agencies must provide educational services under Federal court order. Authorizes lump-sum appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1983 for State educational programs and administrative costs (up to one percent) under this Act. Provides that such entitlements shall be ratably reduced if sufficient funds are not available. Authorizes up to one percent of such funds for Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to withhold funds from State educational agencies that fail to meet the requirements of this Act. Sets forth the procedures to be followed in such a situation. Title II: General Assistance for Local Educational Agencies - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1981-1983 for assistance in providing basic education for alien children. States that such payments shall be $450 for each such child enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. Sets forth State application requirements. Requires the Secretary to give notice and opportunity for a hearing before final disapproval of an application. Title III: Special Impact Assistance for Substantial Increases in Attendance of Alien Children - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1981-1983 for supplementary public education costs for alien children in public and private elementary and secondary schools in eligible local educational agencies (based on the number of such children in their jurisdiction). Authorizes: (1) for fiscal year 1981, $750 for each child; (2) for fiscal year 1982, $750 for each new child, and $500 for each child enrolled in 1981; and (3) for fiscal year 1983, $750 for each new child, $500 for a child enrolled in either 1981 or 1982, and $350 for a child enrolled in both 1981 and 1982. Includes within such supplementary services, English language instruction, bilingual education, special materials and supplies, additional basic instructional services, and inservice training. Sets forth State application requirements. Requires a State educational agency to give notice and an opportunity for a hearing before final disapproval of a local educational agency's application for such funds.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 199 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Directs the President to designate the week of September 28-October 4, 1980, as "National High School Activities Week."
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 422 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1980
Directs the President to designate the week of September 28-October 4, 1980, as "National High School Activities Week."
Bill· HRH.R. 7999 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1980
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to repeal the authority of the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House to enter into arrangements with the Board of Education of the District of Columbia for the education of congressional pages. Amends such Act to establish the United States Capitol Page Board consisting of the Clerk and Doorkeeper of the House, the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, and the Architect of the Capitol. Directs the Board to develop and implement a comprehensive policy for the supervision, housing, and education of congressional pages. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 to exclude pages of the Supreme Court from utilizing facilities of the John W. McCormack Residential Page School. Authorizes the Page Board, with the approval of the appropriate congressional committees, to appoint and fix the salaries of necessary personnel for the Page School.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 766 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1980
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 7203 (Health services personnel).
Bill· SS. 3049 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1980
Directs the Secretary of Education to withdraw specified proposed rules relating to students with limited proficiency in English.
Bill· HRH.R. 7998 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1980
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1981 - Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for fiscal year 1981, and for other purposes, as follows. Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1981 - Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to the Department of Labor for the following agencies and purposes: (1) the Employment and Training Administration for program administration, employment and training assistance, temporary employment assistance, community service employment for older Americans, Federal unemployment benefits and allowances, grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment services, and advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and other funds; (2) the Labor-Management Services Administration for salaries and expenses; (3) the Employment Standards Administration for salaries and expenses, special benefits, and the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; (4) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses (with specified limitations on the use of such funds for the enforcement of specified civil penalties, regulations, administrative actions, monitoring visits, and inspections); (5) the Mine Safety and Health Administration for salaries and expenses; (6) the Bureau of Labor Statistics for salaries and expenses; and (7) departmental management for salaries and expenses and the special foreign currency program. Authorizes the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to make expenditures without fiscal year limitations during fiscal year 1981. Provides that appropriations in this Act available for salaries and expenses shall be available for supplies, services, and rental of conference space within the District of Columbia, as the Secretary of Labor shall deem necessary for settlement of labor-management disputes. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this title to: (1) pay any prisoner for work performed prior to 12 months before the presumptive release date of such prisoner; or (2) carry out activities for or on behalf of any individual who is an alien in the United States in violation of any Federal law relating to the immigration, exclusion, deportation, or expulsion of aliens. Title II: Department of Health and Human Services - Department of Health and Human Services Appropriation Act, 1981 - Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to the Department of Health and Human Services for the following agencies and purposes: (1) the Health Services Administration for health services; (2) the Center for Disease Control for preventive health services; (3) the National Institutes of Health for the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Dental Research, the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Eye Institute, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute on Aging, research resources and general research support grants (with limitations on amounts for indirect expenses), the John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences, the National Library of Medicine, buildings and facilities, and the Office of the Director; (4) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration for alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health programs and for St. Elizabeth's Hospital maintenance, operation, construction, and renovation; (5) the Health Resources Administration for health resources (but prohibits commitments for direct loans or loan guarantees being made during fiscal year 1981 from the Medical Facilities Guarantee and Loan Fund); (6) the Assistant Secretary for Health for salaries and expenses, the Health Maintenance Organization Loan and Loan Guarantee Fund, and retirement pay and medical benefits for commissioned officers; (7) the Health Care Financing Administration for grants to States for medicaid, payments to health care trust funds, and program management; (8) the Social Security Administration for payments to Social Security trust funds, special benefits for disabled coal miners, the Supplemental Security Income program, assistance payments programs, low income energy assistance, refugee assistance, and administrative expenses; (9) the Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services for grants to States for social and child welfare services, human development services, and a work incentive program; (10) departmental management for general departmental management, the Office of the Inspector General, the Office of Civil Rights, and policy research studies. Prohibits withholding funds appropriated by this title for grants-in- aid to cover State agencies operating expenses because of any disapproval of their personnel or manner of personnel selection if a merit system and classification and compensation plan is in operation. Prohibits use of funds appropriated under this title for: (1) paying research grant recipients amounts equal to as much as the entire cost of such research; (2) additional permanent positions in the Washington, D.C. area if the total number of authorized positions in such area is allowed to exceed the proportion existing at the close of fiscal year 1966; (3) abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term; and (4) compensation of, or contracts to procure the services of, experts or consultants or organizations thereof, in excess of a specified amount. Makes available funds appropriated to specified agencies under this title for specified Public Health Service purposes and for sharing medical care facilities and resources. Title III: Department of Education - Department of Education Appropriation Act, 1981 - Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to the Department of Education for the following agencies, special institutions, and purposes: (1) elementary and secondary education; (2) school assistance in federally affected areas (with specified limitations on entitlements); (3) equal educational opportunities; (4) libraries and learning resources; (5) education for the handicapped; (6) rehabilitation services and handicapped research; (7) vocational and adult education; (8) student financial assistance; (9) student loan insurance; (10) higher and continuing education; (11) higher education facilities loans and insurance; (12) college housing loans; (13) school improvement; (14) the American Printing House for the Blind; (15) the National Technical Institute for the Deaf; (16) Gallaudet College; (17) Howard University; (18) the Office of Civil Rights for salaries and expenses; and (19) departmental management for salaries and expenses; educational statistics, research and related activities, educational, research, and training activities overseas (special foreign currency program). Prohibits withholding funds appropriated by this title for grants-in-aid to cover State agencies operating expenses because of any disapproval of their personnel or manner of personnel selection if a merit system and classification and compensation plan is in operation. Subjects funds appropriated in this Act to specified institutions to audit by the Secretary of Education. Prohibits use of funds appropriated under this title for: (1) paying research grant recipients amounts equal to as much as the entire cost of such research; (2) specified actions involving forced busing or the transportation of students under specified conditions; and (3) compensation of, or contracts to procure the services of, experts or consultants or organizations thereof, in excess of a specified amount. Limits the total full-time equivalent employment of the Department of Education during fiscal year 1981 to 7,500. Title IV: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1981 to the following agencies: (1) ACTION for operating expenses of domestic programs; (2) the Community Services Administration for the community services program, the Community Development Credit Unions Revolving Fund, and the Rural Development Loan Fund; (3) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for the Public Broadcasting Fund (with prohibitions on use of such funds for entertainment for government officials or employees or discriminatory activities); (4) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service for salaries and expenses; (5) the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (6) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science for salaries and expenses; (7) the National Labor Relations Board for salaries and expenses; (8) the National Mediation Board for salaries and expenses; (9) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for salaries and expenses; (10) the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine for salaries and expenses; (11) the Railroad Retirement Board for Federal payment to the Railroad Retirement Account and for administrative expenses; and (12) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home for operation and maintenance. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth authorized uses and limitations on uses of funds appropriated for salaries and expenses under this Act. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated under this Act for any loan, loan guarantee, grant, salary or other remuneration for any individual applying for admission, attending, employed by, teaching at, or doing research at an institution of higher education who has engaged in conduct on or after August 1, 1969, which involves the use of (or the assistance to others in the use of) force or the threat of force or the seizure of property under the control of an institution of higher education, to require or prevent the availability of certain curricula, or to prevent the faculty, administrative officials, or students in such institution from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution. Authorizes the Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services to transfer unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropriations provided in this Act, provided that such transferred balances are used for the same purposes, and for the same periods of time, for which they were originally appropriated. Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from: (1) remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, unless expressly provided; (2) being used for publicity or propaganda to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress, except in presentation to the Congress itself or for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships; (3) being used to pay for activities by grant or contract recipients or their agents designed to influence legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress; or (4) being used for research, experimental, or other activities presenting a danger to participants or subjects, without their written, informed consent (or that of parents or legal guardians, in the case of minors). Authorizes the Secretaries to make available a specified amount, respectively, from funds available for salaries and expenses under titles I, II, and III, for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board to make available specified amounts for such expenses.
Bill· HRH.R. 7959 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 August 1980
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to waive specified requirements for the use of title I special educational needs funds by local educational agencies participating in experimental programs designed to consolidate State categorical educational programs. Permits such waiver for any one of fiscal years 1982 through 1985, with possible renewal for an additional one-year period, of requirements that: (1) such Federal funds be used to supplement, not supplant, non-Federal funds for regular and certain special State and local programs; and (2) agencies receiving Federal assistance maintain, through use of non- Federal funds, services comparable to those provided by unassisted agencies. Prohibits the Secretary's approval of a waiver application unless it contains the following assurances plus an assurance that not more than 15 percent of the State's educationally deprived children shall be served under the experimental program. Requires an assurance, in the case of any waiver which enables local educational agencies to consolidate the administration and operation of programs for educationally deprived children and special education programs for handicapped children and for children with limited English-speaking ability, that the educationally deprived children in project areas will be provided with educational programs and services which are comparable to those such children would otherwise receive and that certain Federal funds shall be used to provide programs and services only to eligible children. Requires an assurance, in the case of any waiver which permits local educational agencies to transfer State and local funds among the special educational programs described above and programs for educationally deprived children, that the educationally deprived children shall receive the same level of Federal funds as they would receive in the absence of such waiver and that an accurate accounting of such funds is ensured. Requires an assurance, in the case of any waiver permitting local educational agencies to distribute State and local funds for the programs under this title to project areas and other school attendance areas, that the educationally deprived children at elementary and secondary schools in project areas receive a level of State and local funds not less than, and services from such funds comparable to, the level of such funds and the services from such funds received by elementary and secondary school children in other school attendance areas. Permits a waiver which enables local educational agencies to use funds available for programs under this title to improve educational programs for eligible children who have not met the requirements for grade promotion or for receipt of a high school diploma or to provide educational services to eligible children when required by applicable law or court order.
Bill· HRH.R. 7933 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1980
Establishes a Peacetime Veterans' Educational Assistance Program for persons who enter military service after September 30, 1980, and serve on active duty for a period of two years or more, or are discharged or released from such duty for a service-connected disability. Entitles eligible veterans to 36 months of educational assistance under such program. Makes such veterans eligible to participate in the Predischarge Education Program and eligible for education loans. Provides that such veterans are eligible for educational assistance for the ten-year period following their discharge or release date. Sets forth procedures extending any applicable time period for such veterans who are prevented from initiating or completing a program of education under certain circumstances. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay tuition costs and a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in the program. Makes technical and conforming amendments to existing laws relating to veterans' educational assistance. Terminates the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance program after September 30, 1982.
Bill· SS. 3005 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1980
Amends the Education Amendments of 1978 to authorize the Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution to receive donations, bequests, and devisements to be used to carry out its functions. Extends the deadline for the Commission's final report to January 31, 1981. Provides that funds appropriated for the Commission shall remain available for the fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year for which such funds were appropriated.
Bill· HRH.R. 7882 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1980
Education Improvement Act of 1980 - Title I: Financial Assistance to Meet Special Educational Needs of Children - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to continue to provide financial assistance to State and local educational agencies to meet the special needs of educationally deprived children, on the basis of entitlements calculated under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), in a manner which will eliminate burdensome and unproductive paperwork and free the schools of Federal supervision, direction, and control. Directs the Secretary of Education, during fiscal years 1982 through 1986, to make payments, in accordance with the provisions of this title, to State educational agencies for grants made on the basis of entitlements created under title I of ESEA and calculated in accordance with provisions of such title in effect on September 30, 1981. Directs the Secretary, in making such payments to continue to utilize specified provisions of title I of such Act, with the exception of provisions relating to local program requirements and applications and to State and Federal administration of programs and projects. Requires that State and local educational agencies use such payments for programs and projects (including the acquisition of equipment and, where necessary, the construction of school facilities) designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children. Requires that State agency programs be designed to serve those categories of children (migratory, handicapped, neglected and delinquent) counted for eligibility for grants under specified ESEA provisions in accordance with the requirements of this title. Requires that local educational agencies use ESEA funds received under this title only for programs and projects: (1) designed to meet the special educational needs of educationally deprived children identified in accordance with specified provisions of this title; and (2) included in an application for assistance approved by the State educational agency and containing specified assurances concerning such programs and projects. Provides for the participation of children enrolled in private schools in special educational services and arrangements. Sets forth requirements relating to: (1) maintenance of effort; (2) use of funds limited to excess costs; (3) Federal funds to supplement, not supplant regular non-Federal funds; (4) comparability of services; (5) exclusion of special State and local program funds; and (6) allocation of funds in certain States. Title II: Consolidation of Federal Programs for Elementary and Secondary Education - Declares it to be the purpose of this title: (1) to consolidate the program authorizations contained in titles II through IX of ESEA into a single authorization of grants to States for the same purposes set forth in such titles, but to be used in accordance with the educational needs and priorities of each State as determined by the State; and (2) to financially assist State and local educational agencies to improve elementary and secondary education (including preschool education) for public and private school children, in a manner which eliminates administrative and paperwork burdens on the schools. Vests basic responsibility for the administration of funds made available under this title in State educational agencies. Admonishes such agencies to discharge such responsibility in a manner which will not impose an unreasonable administrative burden. Declares the intent of Congress that the responsibility for the design and implementation of programs assisted under this title be mainly that of local boards of education, school superintendents and principals, and classroom teachers and supporting personnel. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1982 through 1986 to carry out the purposes of this title. Sets forth provisions for allotments to States and for State grant applications. Requires that specified funds be used by State and local educational agencies to develop and implement a basic skills improvement program. Requires that at least 70 percent of such funds be allocated to local educational agencies. Authorizes State educational agencies to provide leadership and support services for the basic skills improvement program. Sets forth requirements for school level basic skills improvement programs which local educational agencies must meet in applying for program funds. Authorizes State education agencies to carry out selected activities from among the full range of programs and projects formerly authorized under titles IV, V, VI, and VII of ESEA (Educational Improvement, Resources, and Support; State Leadership; Emergency School Aid; and Bilingual Education Programs), in accordance with requirements of this title including a planned allocation of funds in the State application. Sets forth authorized activities under such programs and projects. Authorizes State educational agencies to carry out selected activities from among the full range of programs and projects formerly authorized under titles III, VIII, and IX of ESEA (Special Projects; Community Schools; and Additional Programs for Gifted and Talented Children, Educational Proficiency Standards, and Women's Educational Equity), in accordance with requirements of this title, including a planned allocation of funds set forth in the State application. Sets forth authorized activities under such programs and projects. Sets forth requirements relating to: (1) maintenance of effort; (2) Federal funds being supplementary to, and not supplanting, non-Federal funds; and (3) participation of children enrolled in private schools. Authorizes the Secretary to use discretionary reserved funds for activities relating to the purposes of and programs under this Act, such as: (1) a national information source to assess program effectiveness and the needs of those served; (2) research and demonstrations; (3) teacher training and improvement; and (4) implementation assistance for State and local educational agencies. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations relating to this Act: (1) on duties specifically assigned to the Secretary; (2) on proper fiscal accounting for appropriations and on the method of making payments authorized; and (3) which reasonably insure compliance with the specific requirements and assurances required. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing regulations on all other matters relating to the details of planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating State and local educational agency programs and projects. Permits the Secretary to consult with appropriate State, local, and private educational agencies and to provide, upon request, technical assistance, information, and suggested guidelines. Provides that regulations issued pursuant to this Act shall not have the standing of a Federal statute for the purposes of judicial review. Sets forth provisions for withholding of payments and for judicial review thereof. Provides that specified provisions of the General Education Provisions Act (relating to "State Educational Agency Monitoring and Agency Application") shall not: (1) apply to programs authorized under this Act except to the extent that such provisions relate fiscal control and fund accounting procedures; and (2) be construed to authorize the Secretary to require any reports or take any actions not specifically authorized by this Act.
Law· HRH.R. 7859 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1980
Cuban and Haitian Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 - Title I: General Provisions - Defines "Cuban and Haitian refugee adults or children" to mean individuals who are natives of Cuba or Haiti and who were in the United States on or after November 1, 1979. Authorizes lump-sum appropriations for fiscal years 1981-1983 for State educational programs and administrative costs (not exceeding one percent of the total appropriations to the State) under this Act. Provides that such entitlements shall be ratably reduced if sufficient funds are not available. Authorizes up to one percent of the total funds appropriated to all States for Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to withhold funds from State educational agencies that fail to meet the requirements of this Act. Sets forth the procedures to be followed in such a situation. Title II: General Assistance for Local Educational Agencies - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1981-1983 for assistance in providing basic education for Cuban and Haitian refugee children. States that such payments shall be $450 for each such child enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools. Sets forth State application requirements. Requires the Secretary to give notice and opportunity for a hearing before final disapproval of an application. Title III: Special Impact Assistance for Substantial Increases in Refugee Attendance - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1981-1983 for supplementary public education costs for Cuban and Haitian refugee children in public and private elementary and secondary schools in eligible local educational agencies (based on the number of such children in their jurisdiction). Authorizes: (1) for fiscal year 1981, $750 for each child; (2) for fiscal year 1982, $750 for each new child, and $500 for each child enrolled in 1981; and (3) for fiscal year 1983, $750 for each new child, $500 for a child enrolled in either 1981 or 1982, and $350 for a child enrolled in both 1981 and 1982. Includes within such supplementary services English language instruction, bilingual education, special materials and supplies, additional basic instructional services, and inservice training. Sets forth State application requirements. Requires a State educational agency to give notice and an opportunity for a hearing before final disapproval of a local educational agency's application for such funds. Title IV: Adult Education Programs - Directs the Secretary to make payments to State agencies for fiscal years 1982-1983 for adult education programs for Cubans and Haitians aged 16 or over who are not enrolled in elementary or secondary school. Authorizes $300 for each eligible person. States that such funds may be used for: (1) basic adult education; (2) administrative costs; (3) support services, including guidance and employment counseling; and (4) special projects relating to occupational and job skills. Sets forth State application requirements. Requires the Secretary to give notice and opportunity for a hearing before final disapproval of an application.
Bill· SS. 2977 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1980
Veterans' and service members Education Benefits Act of 1980 - Establishes a Veterans' and service members Education Benefits Program for veterans who have served on active duty for a period of two years or more after December 31,1980. Entitles eligible veterans to one and one-half months of educational assistance for each month of such veteran's service and makes such veterans eligible for education loans. Provides that such veterans are eligible for educational assistance for the ten-year period following their discharge or release date. Sets forth procedures extending any applicable time period for such veterans who are prevented from initiating or completing a program of education under certain circumstances. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay an educational assistance allowance to eligible veterans in the program. Makes any person who, after December 31, 1980, performs four years of service as a member of the Selected Reserve eligible for educational assistance limited to a maximum of 36 months, and an educational assistance allowance equal to one-half that of an eligible veteran. Grants to eligible veterans, who have served on active duty for eight years or more, the right to transfer educational assistance entitlements to such veterans' spouses or children in such manner as prescribed by the Administrator and under limitations set forth in this Act. Increases the range of amounts of monthly deductions eligible veterans shall be allowed to contribute to the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans Education Account and the limitation on the maximum amount of such contributions. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions to such fund on behalf of any participant, thereby reducing such participant's deductions, when deemed necessary to encourage such persons to enter or remain in the Armed Forces. Terminates the Veterans' Educational Assistance program after December 31, 1989, or four years after any eligible veteran's discharge or release date, whichever is later.
Bill· HRH.R. 7800 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1980
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to exempt from restrictions on "oppressive child labor" the employment in any occupation of any person who is a graduate of a secondary school and who has received appropriate (as determined by the Secretary of Labor) vocational education in such occupation.
Bill· SS. 2938 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income Federal grants for tuition and related expenses at institutions of higher education, even though the grant recipient is required to perform future service as a Federal employee. Deems service in a health manpower shortage area as Federal service. Amends the Revenue Act of 1978 to extend for one year the exclusion from gross income amounts received as National Research Service Awards.
Bill· HRH.R. 7733 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a study of the possible relationship between exposure of military personnel to radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki immediately after World War II and any health problems they may presently have. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress and the Veterans Administration regarding such study.
Bill· HRH.R. 7727 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1980
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase by $500 the amount per academic year of any basic educational grant to any individual who, on or after October 1, 1980, enlists, reenlists, or extends an enlistment in, or is originally appointed in, a Reserve component of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 7701 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Education to grant exceptions, requested by local educational agencies, from specified requirements relating to matching funds for services provided under schoolwide projects to children who are not educationally deprived, if a more efficient program would result and the quality of services to educationally deprived children would not diminish.
Bill· HRH.R. 7719 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to limit the authority of local educational agencies to use specified Federal funds for construction of a school facility if a reusable (at 50 percent or less of the project cost) closed public school facility is within three miles of the proposed school facility.
Bill· HRH.R. 7700 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1980
Establishes a Peacetime Veterans' Educational Assistance Program for persons who enter military service after September 30, 1980, and serve on active duty for a period of two years or more. Entitles eligible veterans to 36 months of educational assistance under such program. Makes such veterans eligible to participate in the Predischarge Education Program and eligible for education loans. Provides that such veterans are eligible for educational assistance for the ten-year period following their discharge or release date. Sets forth procedures extending any applicable time period for such veterans who are prevented from initiating or completing a program of education under certain circumstances. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay tuition costs and a subsistence allowance to eligible veterans in the program. Makes technical and conforming amendments to existing laws relating to veterans educational assistance. Terminates the Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance program after September 30, 1982.
Bill· SS. 2894 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1980
Amends the National School Lunch Act to permit schools and school food authorities to participate in a program to provide lunches nutritionally superior to those lunches which meet the minimum requirements. Increases the Federal payment for each nutritionally superior school lunch served. Sets forth the requirements for participation in such program, including the serving of fluid milk, lean meat, vegetables, and prohibiting the sale of sweets on school premises.
Bill· SS. 2879 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Amends the Department of Education Act to make the Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education responsible for assuring that the unique interests of rural elementary and secondary schools are met in all programs administered by the Department of Education.
Bill· HRH.R. 7664 (96th)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Child Nutrition Amendments of 1980 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to extend to fiscal year 1985 the authorization of appropriationss for the summer food program for children and the Secretary of Agriculture's commodity purchasing authority. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend to fiscal year 1985 authorizations of appropriations for: (1) special payments to schools without food service programs or hot meal facilities; (2) State administrative expenses, including unused fund availability; (3) special supplemental food programs for pregnant women, infants, and young children; and (4) nutrition education and information programs. Requires a school governing authority to hold public hearings if it refuses to implement a school breakfast program in any school year in which not less than ten percent of the parents of children enrolled request such a program. Requires each State educational agency to submit to the Secretary for approval a plan of child nutrition operations for the following school year. Directs that such plan include a component pertaining to the school breakfast program which sets forth the manner in which such agency shall encourage participation in such program by schools serving low-income areas and the number of schools in such State which: (1) qualify for severe need reimbursement; (2) qualify for food service equipment; and (3) will or will not offer the breakfast program during the year such plan is in effect. Requires such plan and a list of schools which have received food service equipment assistance to be made available to the public. Requires a school given funding priority by a State under the Summer Food Service Program for children to notify such State by a specified date as to whether such school desires to operate such program. Directs the State to select an appropriate service institution to operate such program as specified. Restricts the use of funds made available to schools under the food service equipment assistance program to facilities which enable such schools to prepare, cook, or receive meals, for a kitchen which serves the schools, or to enable specified institutions to provide the school lunch or breakfast for children attending such schools. Eliminates the requirement that such meals be hot. Requires each State to use bilingual materials for outreach and informational services where appropriate. Requires each State agency to set-aside special supplemental food program funds in amounts sufficient to service migrant farmworkers who reside or are or will be employed in the State. Permits such agencies to make reserved funds available to local agencies which intend to initiate such programs in areas in which large numbers of migrant farmworkers reside or are employed. Directs the Secretary to evaluate State projections of the amount of funds required to provide services to such workers. Requires the State to conduct outreach services in such areas. Permits the Secretary to make additional amounts available to the States based on the number of local agencies serving migrant farmworkers and the number of such farmworkers served. Requires the State agency to advance funding for administrative expenses to specified local agencies and to reallocate projected unexpended funds of any local agency to other such agencies. Directs the Secretary to provide to State agencies and schools for which the Secretary directly administers the school lunch program materials describing those programs which have been successful in avoiding discrimination against children eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Increases from 19 to 21 the number of members on the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition. Requires two such members to be involved in the conduct or supervision of school lunch programs in nonprofit private schools. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a school lunch eligibility study to determine how States are utilizing Federal funds provided to them for the child nutrition programs authorized by the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine the threshold at which it becomes cost effective to provide free lunches to all children attending a school or schools within the jurisdiction of a local educational agency in which a large percentage of children receive free or reduced-price lunches. Directs the Secretary to prepare guidelines relating to: (1) severe need assistance under the school breakfast program; (2) outreach for the school breakfast program; (3) the school lunch program under the National School Lunch Act; (4) the summer food service program for children; and (5) the child care food program, to suggest the manner in which the objectives of such programs can best be achieved. Requires school food authorities and institutions which operate any of such programs to promote activities to involve students and parents in such programs. Requires regulations promulgated under the National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to be transmitted to Congress before becoming effective, if not disapproved by Congress. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to submit annual reports during fiscal years 1981-1985 to the appropriate committees of Congress listing any projects or studies being conducted by the Department of Agriculture relating to feeding programs or to nutrition generally.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 730 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1980
Extends the congratulations of the House of Representatives to Wayland Academy of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, on 125 years of achievement in the field of education.
Bill· SS. 2869 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1980
Vocational Education Alcohol Fuels Program Act - Amends the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to establish a national Alcohol Fuels Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1981 through 1983 to carry out such program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make grants and enter into contracts with local educational agencies to carry out experimental vocational education alcohol fuels programs emphasizing gasohol, and including: (1) the preparation of vegetation; (2) the construction and operation of stills; (3) the marketing of stills and fuels; and (4) experimentation with alcohol fuels. Sets forth application requirements for such grants and contracts. Directs the Secretary to assure an equitable distribution of assistance between urban and rural areas.
Bill· HRH.R. 7646 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1980
Title I: Surplus School Conversion Grants - Surplus School Conversion Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to local educational agencies to provide up to 80 percent of the costs of renovating underutilized school buildings. Directs the Secretary to give priority to grant applications to renovate buildings for educational or social service purposes. Prohibits grants for renovation of buildings which will be used for storage purposes only. Permits the inclusion of planning costs among the expenses which such grants cover. Directs the Secretary to make available planning and technical assistance to agencies utilizing such funds. Sets forth grant application requirements. Directs the Secretary to consider certain factors in approving applications. Provides for the recapture of such payments by the United States. Sets forth reporting requirements. Title II: Amendment to the Energy Policy and Conservation Act - Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include among guidelines which the Secretary of Energy must prescribe for State plans for the implementation of energy conservation projects in schools and hospitals a requirement that State energy agencies in making grants for such projects for school facilities give priority to facilities in local educational agency jurisdictions with a student enrollment for the school year in which the application is submitted of not more than 90 percent of the enrollment for the second preceding school year.
Bill· SS. 2859 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1980
National Library and Information Services Act - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983 through 1987 to make grants to States for: (1) interlibrary cooperation programs under title I of this Act; (2) public library services under title II: (3) public library construction under title III; (4) public library programs to meet special user needs under title IV; and (5) planning and development, public awareness, and library personnel training programs under title V. Sets forth procedures relating to such appropriations and their availability. Directs the Secretary of Education to make allotments of such appropriations to States according to specified formulas and procedures. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1983 through 1987 for program evaluation. Directs the Secretary to pay from such allotments, to each State which has an approved basic State plan, an annual program, and a long-range program an amount equal to the Federal share of the total sums expended by such State and its political subdivisions in carrying out such plan. Conditions such payment on a determination of the availability of specified sums from State and local sources. Sets forth formulas for determining the Federal share of programs under this Act (100 percent of costs under titles I, IV, and V; a sliding scale from 33 to 66 percent, based on each State's per capita income, of the costs under titles II and III, with specified exceptions for certain territories and possessions of the United States). Establishes in the Department of Education an Office of Libraries and Learning Technologies, to be headed by a Deputy Assistant Secretary. Directs the Secretary, through such Office, to carry out financial assistance programs authorized under this Act and to encourage, assist, conduct, cooperate with, plan and implement, or administer various other programs relating to library and information services. Sets forth the administrative authority of the Secretary under this Act. Requires that any State, in order to receive its allotment for any purpose under this Act: (1) have a basic State plan in effect; (2) submit an annual program; (3) submit a long-range program; and (4) establish a State Advisory Council on Libraries. Sets forth required provisions of basic State plans and long-range programs, as well as procedures for approval. Title I: Interlibrary Cooperation and Network Support - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of grants to States which have an approved basic State plan and have submitted a long-range program and an annual program for interlibrary cooperation and network support programs among school, public, academic, and special libraries and information centers. Sets forth conditions for uses of such Federal funds and requirements for State annual programs for interlibrary cooperation and network support. Title II: Public Library Services - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of grants to States which have approved basic State plan and have submitted long-range programs and annual programs for the provision, extension, and improvement of public library services. Sets forth conditions for uses of such Federal funds and requirements for State annual programs for public library services. Title III: Public Library Construction - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of grants to States which have an approved basic State plan and have submitted a long-range program and an appropriately updated annual program for the construction of public libraries. Sets forth conditions for uses of such Federal funds and requirements for State annual programs for the construction of public libraries. Title IV: Public Library Programs to Meet Special User Needs - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of grants to States which have an approved basic State plan and have submitted a long-range program and an annual program for public library programs to meet special user needs. Sets forth conditions for uses of Federal funds and a requirement for State annual programs for public library programs to meet special user needs. Directs the Secretary to consult with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies to coordinate programs assisted under this title with the activities of such agencies. Title V: Planning and Development - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program of grants to States which have an approved basic State plan and have submitted a long- range program and an annual program for planning and development. Sets forth conditions for uses of such Federal funds and requirements for State annual programs for planning and development. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets October 1, 1981, as the effective date of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 7602 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1980
National Library Resources Sharing Act of 1980 - Amends the Library Services and Construction Act to permit grants to States under such Act to be used (along with other permissible uses) to make funds available to State library administrative agencies to develop long-range plans for library services of all types. Requires that 15 percent of amounts appropriated under such Act be made available for direct grants to existing regional and national cooperative networks of libraries. Requires that applications for such grants be approved by the Assistant Secretary for Library and Information Services, with the endorsement of at least one State library agency. Declares that nothing contained in the Communication Act of 1934 or in any other law shall be construed to prevent U. S. communications common carriers from rendering, subject to Federal Communications Commission regulation, free or reduced rate communications interconnection services for interconnection systems for nonprofit library and educational activities. Amends the Department of Education Organization Act to establish in the Department of Education: (1) a position of Assistant Secretary for Library and Information Services; and (2) an Office of Library and Information Services, to be administered by such Assistant Secretary. Directs the Secretary of Education to delegate to such Assistant Secretary all functions administered before the effective date of this Act by the Office of Libraries and Learning Resources of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and other appropriate functions.
Bill· HRH.R. 7580 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1980
Foreign Language Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to State educational agencies applying to reimburse local educational agencies for part of the costs of foreign language instruction for students in grades one through six, at a rate of $20 per student. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a survey of the effectiveness of foreign language training in grades seven through 12, and in community colleges; and (2) report to Congress within two years on the results of such survey. Directs the Secretary to make grants to applicant institutions of higher education as reimbursement for part of the costs of foreign language instruction. Conditions eligibility for such grants upon an institution's: (1) having more than five percent of its total number of students enrolled in qualified postsecondary language courses; and (2) meeting such standards and reporting requirements for assisted instructional programs as the Secretary may establish. Sets rates for such grants, per student beyond the minimum five percent of total enrollment, of $30 for first or second year language courses and $40 for courses above second-year level, with an additional $20 for less commonly taught languages. Directs the Secretary to make grants to each institution of higher education which requires at least two academic years of secondary school foreign language credits or knowledge of a foreign language for each graduating student, at a rate of $30 per number of students enrolled (as full-time students or the full-time equivalent of the number of part-time students) at such institution. Provides that grants under this Act shall be ratably reduced if sums appropriated are not sufficient for full payment. Prohibits the making of a grant, or entering into a contract, under this Act except to such extent, or in such amounts, as provided in appropriation Acts. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act for fiscal year 1982.
Bill· SS. 2810 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Amendments Act of 1980 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to reduce the national average payment by two and one half cents to any school authority in which less than 60 percent of the children participating in the program received free and reduced-price lunches. Modifies the formula for determining the amount of direct Federal expenditures for carrying out this Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Modifies the level of commodity assistance to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from offering commodity assistance based on the number of breakfasts served under the school breakfast program for the school year ending June 30, 1981. Authorizes the Secretary, in subsequent years, to donate foods in an amount of three cents per school breakfast. Requires the modification of such amount to reflect changes in the Price Index for Food Used in Schools and Institutions. Reduces the national average value of donated foods or cash payments in lieu thereof by two cents. Requires all students in any grade level in any junior high school or middle school which participates in the school lunch program to accept offered foods. Requires each school participating in such program to offer no less than two alternative food choices for each of the five food items contained within the four food components of the school lunch program. Requires at least one of the two alternative choices of milk items to be whole milk. Prescribes such income guidelines for reduced-price lunches at 85 percent (rather than 95 percent) above the income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize social security numbers and conduct a pilot test to verify information submitted by an applicant for such program. Directs the Secretary to allow a standard deduction of $60 a month for each household in computing household income in all but specified States. Requires the annual adjustment of such deduction to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for items other than food. Sets forth a formula for determining the standard deduction for noncontiguous States and jurisdictions. Reformulates the computation of special assistance payments. Directs the Secretary to annually rather than semiannually prescribe adjustments in the national average rates for lunches served and the special-assistance factor for lunches served under the National School Lunch Act and the national average rates for breakfasts served under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Excludes Job Corps Centers from the definition of school for the purposes of the National School Lunch Act. Directs the Secretary to make adjustments for the differences in food program costs for participating States and territories not a part of the continental United States. Limits Federal reimbursement (rather than total reimbursement) to school food authorities to an amount not to exceed the combined cost of operating both the lunch and breakfast programs. Requires claims for reimbursement for meals served under the National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to be submitted to the State agency within a specified period of time. Redefines "service institutions" for the purposes of the summer food service program for children to include private nonprofit institutions that serve meals primarily to migrant children. Requires a school given funding priority by a State under such program to notify such State by a specified date as to whether such school desires to operate such program. Directs the State to select an appropriate service institution to operate such program as specified. Directs each State to conduct active outreach efforts to identify eligible institutions to participate in such program in areas with large concentrations of low-income families. Permits any service institution to serve lunch and either breakfast or a supplement (rather than three meals, including a supplement) each day of operation. Permits any service institution which is a camp or which serves meals primarily to migrant children to serve up to four meals per day of operation. Authorizes service institutions to use a preapproved portion of the available reimbursement for the operating and administrative expenses of such program, as specified. Directs the Secretary to make available to States administering such program an amount of up to two percent of the funds expended by such State for such purpose. Sets forth a formula for determining payments to each State for administrative costs. Sets forth the recordkeeping requirements for States and service institutions participating in such program. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose through fiscal year 1984. Authorizes appropriations for the commodity distribution program through fiscal year 1984. Requires each State agency that distributes such commodities and other foods to schools under such program to establish procedures to permit a school to receive the desired amounts and types of commodity assistance, including the delivery of alternative commodities when available. Reduces the number of members on the National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition from 19 to 18. Sets forth the required credentials for specified members of such council. Requires the Council to submit to the President and to Congress a biennial rather than an annual report. Directs the Secretary to adjust annually rather than semiannually the national average payment rate to the States for the child care food program. Requires the average payment rate for supplements to be three cents lower than such adjustment. Reduces the amount available to the Secretary to provide equipment assistance to enable institutions to establish, maintain, and expand the child care food program. Permits the Secretary to establish special procedures for the conduct of audits of participating institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to require each State to establish a standard form of contract for use by institutions in purchasing meals. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to establish the rate of reimbursement per half-pint of milk served to children not eligible for free milk under the special milk program at five cents. Requires annual rather than semiannual adjustments in the maximum payment for each free breakfast served at schools that are in severe need. Entitles any school to additional assistance when the appropriate State educational agency determines that not less than 40 percent of such school's lunches were served free or at a reduced price, the rate per meal established by the Secretary is insufficient, and not less than 25 percent of those receiving such assistance for lunch also participate in the school breakfast program. Permits the State agency to deny such assistance to any school under a school food authority if such schools qualify because a school feeding program at one such school was terminated to create eligibility for such additional assistance. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the food service equipment assistance program. Directs the Secretary to reapportion unused funds. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds for State administrative expenses to the agencies responsible for the administration of the programs authorized under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, excepting the special supplemental food program. Permits the States to use the allocated funds as needed in meeting the administrative costs of such programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for State administrative expenses through fiscal year 1984. Excludes Job Corps Centers from the definition of school for the purposes of the Child Nutrition Act. Grants the Secretary the power to determine the amount of and settle and adjust any claim arising under the provisions of such Acts. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the special supplemental food program through fiscal year 1984. Requires organizations and professionals with a demonstrated interest in such programs to be notified by the State agency of the public hearings to be held prior to such agency's submission of its plan of operation and administration for such programs to the Governor of such State. Requires each State agency to set aside special supplemental food program funds in amounts sufficient to service migrant farmworkers who reside or are or will be employed in the State. Permits such agencies to make funds available to local agencies which intend to initiate such program in areas in which large numbers of migrant farmworkers reside or are employed. Directs the Secretary to evaluate State projections of the amount of funds required to provide services to such workers. Requires the State to conduct outreach services in such areas. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the special supplemental food program and State administrative expenses through fiscal year 1984. Permits the Secretary to make additional amounts available to the States based on the number of local agencies serving migrant farmworkers and the number of such farmworkers served. Requires the State agency to advance funding for administrative expenses to specified local agencies. Requires the Secretary to consider changes in the flow of the migrant stream from one State to another when reallocating unspent program funds. Requires the State coordinator to hold public hearings or establish an advisory council to participate in the development of the State plan for nutrition education. Requires each State educational agency to submit to the Secretary for approval such plan, including a description of plans to publicize the availability of grants and contracts and activities to be undertaken in the plan year. Extends the authorization of appropriations for nutrition education through fiscal year 1984. Requires school food authorities and institutions which operate any of such programs to promote activities to involve students and parents in such programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 7535 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Amends the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act to eliminate the limitation on the amount of leave that may accumulate to the credit of a teacher employed by the Department of Defense (DOD) in a school located overseas. Requires that any person appointed to such a teaching position receive credit for any sick leave accumulated at a prior job with the Federal Government or the District of Columbia government, or at a job which is determined to have been a teaching position, provided the break in service does not exceed three years. Declares that any DOD teacher who is reappointed to another agency without a break in service exceeding three years shall receive credit for any sick leave or teacher's leave earned while the teacher worked for DOD.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 702 (96th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1980
Sets forth the rule for the consideration of H.R. 6711 (youth employment and education programs funding).
Bill· SS. 2799 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1980
School Lunch and Child Nutrition Amendments Act of 1980 - Amends the National School Lunch Act to reduce the national average value of donated foods or alternative cash payments by one cent per lunch. Eliminates the updating of the income poverty guidelines for the purpose of determining eligibility for participation in the school lunch program. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture, the State, and local school authorities to seek verification of the data submitted in an application for participation in such program. Requires as a condition of participation in such program that the social security account numbers of all members of an applying household be furnished to such authorities. Permits the use of such numbers for the vertification of submitted data. Prescribes the income guidelines for free lunches at 20 percent (rather then 25 percent) above the applicable family size income levels in the income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Secretary. Prescribes the income guidelines for reduced price lunches at 75 percent (rather than 95 percent) above such guidelines. Modifies the income poverty guidelines for the purposes of this Act. Reformulates the computation of special assistance payments. Directs the Secretary to prescribe annually (rather than semiannually) adjustments in the national average rates for lunches served and the special-assistance factor for lunches served under the National School Lunch Act and the national average rates for breakfasts served under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Excludes Job Corps Centers from the definition of school for the purposes of the National School Lunch Act. Requires claims for reimbursement for meals served under the National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to be submitted to the State agency within a specified period of time. Authorizes appropriations for the commodity distribution program through fiscal year 1983. Requires each State agency that distributes commodities and other foods to schools under such program to establish procedures to permit a school to receive the desired amounts and types of commodity assistance, including the delivery of alternative commodities when available. Directs the Secretary to adjust annually (rather than semiannually) the national average payment rate to the States for the child care food program. Requires the average payment rate for supplements to be three cents lower than such adjustment. Reduces the amount available to the Secretary to provide equipment assistance to enable institutions to establish, maintain, and expand the child care food program. Permits the Secretary to establish special procedures for the conduct of audits of participating institutions. Authorizes the Secretary to require each State to establish a standard form of contract for use by institutions in purchasing meals. Requires regulations issued under the National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to be submitted to Congress before becoming effective. Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to establish the rate of reimbursement per half-pint of milk served to children not eligible for free milk under the special milk program at five cents. Requires whole milk to be also offered in the school lunch program whenever other milks are required to be offered. Requires annual rather than semiannual adjustments in the maximum payment for each free breakfast served at schools that are in severe need. Extends through fiscal year 1983 the authorization of appropriations for the food service equipment assistance program. Directs the Secretary to reapportion unused funds. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds for State administrative expenses to the agencies responsible for the administration of the programs authorized under the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, excepting the special supplemental food program. Permits the States to use the allocated funds as needed in meeting the administrative costs of such programs. Extends the authorization of appropriations for State administrative expenses through fiscal year 1983. Excludes Job Corps Centers from the definition of school for the purposes of the Child Nutrition Act. Grants the Secretary the power to determine the amount of and settle and adjust any claim arising under the provisions of such Acts. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the special supplemental food program through fiscal year 1983. Prohibits the dual receipt of benefits under such program and the commodity supplemental food program authorized under the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. Reformulates the income eligibility guidelines for such program. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the nutrition education and training program through fiscal year 1983. Directs the Secretary to give special emphasis to high protein foods when providing commodity assistance. Limits Federal reimbursement to the combined operating costs for both the lunch and breakfast programs. Modifies the formula for determining the amount of special assistance payments.
Bill· HRH.R. 7459 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1980
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a new Computers in Education program under title III (Special Projects) of such Act. Directs the Secretary of Education, subject to the availability of funds, to carry out such program, to award grants for the establishment and operation of National Centers for Personal Computers in Education to: (1) instruct students in the use of personal computers; and (2) develop programs designed to utilize personal computers and microcomputers as educational tools at all educational levels. Provides that such grants shall be sufficient for operation of a Center for a three-year period beginning with fiscal year 1982, subject to the availability of funds and the Secretary's determination at the end of each fiscal year of operation that the recipient has complied with assurances contained in the grant application. Sets forth the responsibilities of such Centers and application and reporting requirements for grant recipients. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1982, to remain available through fiscal year 1984.
Resolution· SRESS.Res. 444 (96th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1980
Extends the congratulations of the Senate to the Wayland Academy on 125 years of achievement and overall excellence in the field of education.