Former Presidents Facilities and Services Reform Act of 1986

referredUnited States· United States Congress· EN

Introduced

1 May 1985

Last action

16 September 1986 · Referred

Status

Referred to Subcommittee on Civil Service.

Summary

Former Presidents Facilities and Services Reform Act of 1985 - Title I: Presidential Libraries - Authorizes the Archivist of the United States to accept gifts offered to make physical or material changes or additions to presidential archival depositories. Directs the Archivist to promulgate architectural and design standards for such depositories. Requires the Archivist to report to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House prior to accepting title to any land, facility, or equipment for a presidential depository, and prior to accepting any gifts to make changes to such depositories. Authorizes the Archivist to solicit gifts and bequests of money or other property to maintain a depository. Directs the Archivist to establish in the National Archives Trust Fund separate endowments to maintain each presidential depository. Prohibits the Archivist from accepting or taking title to land, facilities, or equipment to create a depository, or from accepting gifts to change a depository, unless there is an endowment sufficient to maintain such land, facility, or equipment. Makes such prohibitions effective for any President who takes the oath of office after May 9, 1984. Title II: Former Presidents - Changes the amount of the annual allowance to which the spouse of a deceased former President is entitled from $20,000 to two-thirds of the allowance to which a former President is entitled. Repeals the requirement that the spouse must waive the right to any other Government annuity or pension to qualify for such allowance. Authorizes the Administrator to provide to each former President, upon request: (1) one office; (2) compensation, without an aggregate ceiling, for members of an office staff who shall be subject to certain provisions of civil service laws; (3) payment for the travel and subsistence allowances for specified office employees; (4) communications services; (5) printing and binding expenses; and (6) appropriate equipment for such office. Allows any Federal employee to be detailed to the office staff of a former President with the consent of the employee's agency head. Declares that the cost of providing transportation by Government aircraft to former Presidents shall be paid from appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes the Administrator to provide a former Vice President with necessary services and facilities for concluding his or her office affairs which are similar to the services and facilities provided to a former President under this title. Prohibits the use of funds provided for necessary services and facilities of a former President or Vice President for partisan political activities or income generating activities. Permits a former President to use such funds to prepare his or her memoirs if the former President signs an agreement providing that the Public Printer will print and distribute such memoirs. Prohibits the expenditure of such funds for a former President any time beyond 90 days after the former President dies. Requires each former President to submit to Congress an annual report concerning activities carried out with the assistance of such funds. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this title concerning the services and facilities to be provided for former Presidents and Vice Presidents. Repeals specified provisions of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963. Title III: Protection of Former Presidents, Former Vice Presidents, and Their Families - Prohibits the United States Secret Service from protecting a former President, former Vice President, or the spouse, widow, widower, or minor child of a former President, except as authorized under this title. Authorizes the Secret Service to protect: (1) a former President for five years after the individual becomes a former President; (2) the spouse or minor child of a former President to the extent that such protection is incidental to the protection of the former President; and (3) the widow or widower of a former President for six months after the former President dies. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to reinstate the Secret Service protection of a former President for one year and of a spouse or minor child for six months after the original protection has been terminated upon finding that a serious threat warranting such protection exists. Authorizes additional extensions of such periods of protection if the Secretary has submitted a request for an extension to the Congress and 60 days of continuous session have expired after the date of such request. Authorizes the President to direct the Secret Service to protect a former President, or a spouse or child of a former President, if a threat warrants emergency action. Permits the Secretary to authorize Secret Service protection for a former Vice President for a period beginning on the last day of the individual's term and ending on the last day of the fiscal year in which the term expires, and upon finding that a threat exists which warrants such protection.

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Timeline

1 May 1985
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Source: IntroReferral
1 May 1985
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
16 May 1985
Committee
Committee on Governmental Affairs requested executive comment from GAO, OMB, GSA, Justice Department.
Source: Committee
19 June 1985
Committee
Committee on Governmental Affairs received executive comment from GAO.
Source: Committee
26 June 1985
Committee
Committee on Governmental Affairs received executive comment from GSA, Treasury Department.
Source: Committee
25 September 1985
Committee
Committee on Governmental Affairs received executive comment from OMB, National Archives.
Source: Committee
2 October 1985
Reported
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered favorably reported H.R. 1349 in lieu of Title I of this bill.
Source: Committee
19 November 1985
Reported
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Source: Committee
31 July 1986
Calendars
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 751.
Source: Calendars
31 July 1986
Reported
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Roth with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 99-349.
Source: Committee
31 July 1986
Reported
Committee on Governmental Affairs. Reported to Senate by Senator Roth with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 99-349.
Source: Committee
15 August 1986
Passed
Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Source: Floor
15 August 1986
Passed
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Source: Floor
8 September 1986
Introduced
Referred to House Committee on The Judiciary.
Source: IntroReferral
9 September 1986
Referred
Referred to Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations.
Source: Committee
16 September 1986
Referred
Referred to Subcommittee on Compensation and Employee Benefits.
Source: Committee

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Passed Senate amended
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Related records

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