United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Makes funds available at the rate specified in enacted authorizing legislation in the event that a regular appropriations bill has not been enacted by the beginning of the fiscal year. Provides that if such legislation has not been enacted the funds will be available at the rate specified in the previous year's appropriation or in the President's request, whichever is lower.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow qualified pension funds and certain educational organizations to invest in working interests in oil and gas properties without incurring unrelated business taxable income.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Social Security Miscellaneous and Technical Improvements Act of 1982 - Title I: Cash Management - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to implement procedures for identifying social security benefit checks issued under title II which have not been negotiated within 12 months and to credit the appropriate social security trust fund on a monthly basis for the amount of all unnegotiated benefit checks drawn on such trust fund. Requires the Secretary to pay a benefit check presented for payment after it has been credited to one of the trust funds, if it is otherwise proper. Authorizes appropriations to reimburse the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Trust Fund for the total amount of unnegotiated benefit checks. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Treasury to jointly undertake a study on the maintenance and adjustment of the float periods (time periods) between the issuance of title II benefit checks from the general fund in the Treasury and the transfer of amounts to reimburse the general fund from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, whichever is appropriate. Requires the Secretaries to report their findings to the President and Congress. Provides for the Secretary of the Treasury to adjust procedures with respect to the float periods based upon the study. Amends title II of the Social Security Act to provide that the interest rate on late payments by States pursuant to State agreements for coverage of State and local employees under the old age, survivors and disability insurance program shall be at a rate equal to the coupon equivalent of the average yield in the 91-day Treasury bill auction most recently preceding the due date of the payments involved. (Currently, the interest rate on such late payments is six percent per annum.) Title II: Elimination of Gender-Based Distinctions - Enables a divorced man to qualify for husband's insurance benefits under title II on the same basis as a divorced woman may qualify for wife's benefits. (Currently, a man's entitlement to husband's benefits ceases upon his divorce.) Enables a widower to qualify for survivor's benefits based upon a deceased first wife's earnings if he remarries before age 60 but is widowed or divorced from his second wife when he applies for benefits. (Currently, a widower cannot qualify for widower's benefits based on a first wife's earnings if he has remarried.) Permits methods used to establish paternity to be used to establish maternity in order to determine whether an applicant for benefits qualifies as a child of the insured. Enables husbands and widowers of women who have transitional insured status to receive benefits based on their wives' records. (Currently, only wives and widows of men who have such status may receive such benefits.) Equalizes benefit amounts for husbands and wives who both qualify for the special benefits for individuals who reached age 72 before 1968. Extends benefits to a widowed or surviving divorced father while caring for a child. Repeals the requirement that an individual's wife's, child's, widow's, mother's, or parent's insurance benefit entitlement be terminated if such individual marries a person entitled to child's insurance benefits and such person ceases to be so entitled. Permits widowers of veterans to waive payment of a civil service survivor's annuity based on credit for military service which may be used to enable such widowers to qualify for survivor's benefits. (Currently, only widows may waive such payment.) Requires deductions from old age and survivors insurance benefits in the case of husbands or widowers who do not have children in their care. (Currently, deductions from benefits are made only in the case of wives or widows who do not have children in their care.) Title III: Coverage - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II of the Social Security Act to permit domestic corporations to enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services to extend social security coverage to U.S. citizens employed by foreign affiliates of such corporations. (Currently, such social security coverage may be extended only to U.S. citizens employed by foreign subsidiaries of domestic corporations.) Reduces the stock ownership requirement which qualifies a foreign trade or business as a foreign affiliate for purposes of such Act. Includes as "employment" for purposes of title II any service which is designated as employment or recognized as the equivalent of employment under an international social security agreement pursuant to which an individual may be entitled to social security benefits based on periods of coverage under both the U.S. social security system and under the social security of a foreign country. Provides social security coverage for non-resident aliens who are covered under such an agreement. Makes the foreign earned income exclusion from gross income inapplicable in the determination of the net earnings from self-employment with respect to a U.S. citizen or resident whose tax home is in a foreign country and who is present in a foreign country or countries for at least 330 full days of a 12-month period. (Currently, such exclusion does not apply in the case of an individual who has been a resident of the United States during the entire taxable year.) Includes as "wages" for purposes of title II coverage: (1) payments to a trust which are part of a qualified cash or deferred arrangement; and (2) payments made to an employee after he or she reaches age 62. Excludes from "wages" for purposes of title II coverage payments under a simplified employee pension if, at the time of the payments, the employee will be entitled to a deduction for retirement contributions. Prohibits the social security coverage of State and local employees in Utah from being affected by any change in the name of an employee group. Revises the effective date for international social security agreements. Title IV: Miscellaneous and Technical Amendments - Amends title II of the Social Security Act to revise the method for computing maximum insurance benefits. Amends the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America to revise the date upon which the social security program shall apply to the Northern Mariana Islands. Amends title II of the Social Security Act to require exclusion from the trust fund reimbursement computation of amounts attributable to benefits paid during the fiscal year to an individual who also received benefits attributable to wage credits for military service. Reduces from 72 to 70 the age beyond which no increases in old age insurance benefits on account of delayed retirement shall be made. Revises the insured status requirements for disability insurance benefit applications. Provides that an acknowledgment, court decree, or court order with respect to illegitimate children of disabled beneficiaries shall be treated as occurring on the first day of the month in which it actually occurs for purposes of determining eligibility for disability benefits. Provides for the continued payment of widow's or widower's benefits to a widow or widower who marries an individual entitled to old age or disability insurance benefits. Permits entitlement to widow's and widower's benefits for the month immediately preceding the month of application if the insured individual died in that preceding month. Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program under which States voluntarily contract with the Secretary to periodically furnish the Secretary with information on the death certificates filed with them so that necessary corrections may be made to the beneficiary records maintained under the social security program. Permits the Secretary, in the case of individuals whose benefits are provided by a Federal or State agency other than under the Social Security Act, to provide such agency with the corrected beneficiary records from the social security program.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Agricultural Commodities Export Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to sell U.S. farm products competitively on the world market. Defers the fifty-cent per hundredweight milk charge unless surplus U.S. dairy products are sold competitively on the world market. Eliminates 1983 through 1985 land diversion payment limitations. Provides for the replacement of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) officers and directors for failure to sell commodities competitively on the world market. Repeals CCC charter restrictions on domestic sales.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Anadromous Fish Conservation and Protection Act of 1982 - Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, the Salmon and Steelhead Conservation and Enhancement Act of 1980, the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, the Dingell-Johnson Fish Restoration Act, the Commercial Fisheries Research and Development Act of 1964, the Sikes Act, the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act, and other Federal laws to provide for the conservation and protection of naturally spawning anadromous fish populations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Makes appropriations for FY 1983 for specified purposes to provide for productive employment. Directs the appropriate congressional committees to: (1) study the current economic crisis with emphasis on long-term recovery and a strong private sector based a cooperative Government/industry partnership; and (2) present such study findings to the Congress by March 15, 1983, for appropriate action. Appropriates specified amounts for: (1) payment to the "Federal Buildings Fund," General Services Administration, for alterations and repairs; (2)interstate transfer grants-highways, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; (3) interstate transfer grants-transit, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Department of Transportation; (4) rehabilitation of highway bridges which cross over specified Northeast corridor rail transportation properties; (5) improvement of railroad rights-of-way (directs the Secretary of Transportation to make capital grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for such purpose); (6) medical care and facilities, Veterans Administration; (7) public housing modernization (increases specified budget authority for such purpose); (8) urban community development grants (an additional amount to be made available in accordance with specified provisions of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974); (9) a world market competition study, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce (directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and Commerce to carry out such study); (10) economic development assistance programs, Economic Development Administration (an additional amount to be used in accordance with the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and other specified laws); (11) loans to small businesses for employment of additional personnel additional capital for the "Business loan and investment fund" authorized by the Small Business Act); (12) grants to States and public institutions of higher education for small business oriented employment or natural resources development programs (an additional amount for the "Business Loan and Investment Fund," pursuant to the Small Business Act); (13) rehabilitation and innovation grants, "Urban Parks and Recreation Fund," under the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978; (14) park service road, trail, and facility improvement and maintenance, "Operation of the National Park System," National Park Service; (15) forest road, trail, and facility improvement and maintenance, "National Forest System"; (16) construction, Forest Service; (17) Indian health facilities construction, repair, and improvement; (18) maintenance of wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries, and research facilities, "Resource Management," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; (19) "Rural Water and Waste Disposal Grants," Farmers Home Administration (FHA) Department of Agriculture; (20) loans for rural water and waste disposal systems, "Rural Development Insurance Fund," Farmers Home Administration; (21) Farmers Home Administration salaries and expenses; (22) "Resource Conservation and Development," Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; (23) additional amounts for the Corps of Engineers -Civil, Department of the Army for "Construction, general" (for soil conservation, watersheds, and hydroelectric power), "Operation and maintenance, general: (for navigable waterway and flood control), and "Flood control, Mississippi River and tributaries" (for construction, maintenance, repair, and rescue work); (24) reclamation and irrigation projects, Soil Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; (25) additional loans under the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund of the Farmers Home Administration; (26) Federal, State, and local prison modernization, "Buildings and facilities," Federal Prison System, Department of Justice (with a specified portion to be transferred to "Support of United States Prisoners," Legal Activities of the Cooperative Agreement Program for State and local facilities confining Federal prisoners); (27) flood control, shore protection, water resources, and hydroelectric power, "Construction program," Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; (28) hydrogenerator uprating, soil and moisture conservation, levee construction, and recreation area improvement, "Operation and Maintenance," Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; (29) an emergency productive jobs program, administered by the Department of Labor, for temporary employment of unemployed individuals in repair, maintenance, and rehabilitation of public facilities and in conservation, rehabilitation of public lands (sets forth requirements for program eligibility, fund allocation, and administration); (30) employment and training assistance (with a portion for carrying out specified provisions of the Job Training Partnership Act); (31) administrative costs for grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment services, Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund; (32) State allotments for child day care services under the Social Security Act; (33) home health care services at community and migrant health centers under the Public Health Service Act; (34) an emergency food and shelter program, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (Requires that a special board of private voluntary organizations determine program fund distribution. Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation to process and distribute surplus food in cooperation with FEMA); (35) construction, maintenance, and modernization of housing units for military familites, to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force; military families, to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force; (36) low-income weatherization activities, "Energy conservation," Department of Energy; and (37) Federal motor vehicle procurement, General Supply Fund, General Services Administration. Prohibits any part of any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Tax Funded Advocacy Act of 1982 - Prohibits: (1) the disbursement of Federal funds to any person who engages in advocacy or who is allied with any nonprofit corporation which engages in advocacy; and (2) the use of Federal funds for lobbying or advocacy. Defines "advocacy" as any activity intended to influence public policy formation or to advance particular viewpoints with Congress or any legislative body, administrative office or individual, litigation, or the general public. Conditions eligibility for Federal funds on the certification by recipients that they do not and will not engage in advocacy. Makes it the responsibility of anyone disbursing Federal funds to establish that all applicants do not and will not engage in advocacy. Grants the United States a civil cause of action against persons who spend or receive money in violation of this Act. Entitles the Government to recover three times the amount so spent or received. Sets forth penalties for officers or employees of Federal agencies, Government corporations, or nonprofit corporations who violate this Act. Entitles any interested person to sue any violator of this Act and recover: (1) actual damages, but not less than specified liquidated damages; (2) equitable relief; (3) an order barring a recipient from receiving Federal funds; (4) legal expenses; (5) punitive damages; and (6) in the case of a person suing on behalf of the Government, ten percent of all moneys recovered for the Government. Requires self certification by recipients as to noninvolvement in advocacy prior to any renewal or extension of noninvolvement in advocacy prior to any renewal or extension of funding. Establishes intentional misrepresentation as a felony offense. Prescribes a penalty for failure by a person to comply with an order of the Department of Justice to appear and testify as a witness or to provide information in a proceeding arising under this Act. Directs Federal agencies which disburse funds to require that: (1) recipients certify that they will not engage in advocacy; (2) agency officers establish procedures necessary to guarantee that no recipient is engaged in advocacy; (3) recipients submit compliance reports; and (4) fund applications contain information necessary to insure compliance with this Act. Directs such agencies to conduct audits to insure compliance with this Act. Declares that any violation of this Act shall be the basis for total exclusion of Federal benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Joint Research and Development Ventures Act - Allows U.S. firms to conduct cooperative research and development programs by establishing qualified joint research and development ventures which shall be exempt from the antitrust laws. Includes as a U.S. firm any entity controlled by foreign firms or citizens if their nation provides U.S. firms and citizens equivalent access to research and development efforts in that nation. States the requirements for qualified ventures, including: (1) the use of identical terms for the same levels of participation by firms; (2) the identification of each research and development program to be conducted, and the contributions required, for a firm's participation in each program; and (3) a finding by the Department of Commerce that the participation of any firm that accounts for a large specified percentage of worldwide industry sales of a product is critical to the program's success, is in the national interest, and will not directly affect future production of such product; and (4) the notification of the Attorney General and the Department of Commerce of the formation of a venture, the parties to the venture, the programs to be conducted, the participants in the programs, and agreements under the venture. Limits a venture's activities to conducting one or more research and development programs (including programs in which universities participate) which are projected to be completed within ten years after their inception. Declares that a participant in a venture shall not be subject to restrictions on its own research and development activities or its exploitation of inventions resulting from the venture's findings. Vests authority for the management of a venture in a management board composed of one representative of each venture participant and at least three U.S. citizens representing nonparticipants. Directs each board to establish criteria for the selection of research and development programs, the admission or withdrawal of participants, and the licensing of venture technology. Specifies information to be considered by the board in establishing such criteria. Declares that the venture shall retain title to all inventions, patents, and know-how. Entitles any firm that is a participant in a program when an invention is discovered to irrevocable, nonexclusive, and equivalent licenses to all patents and know-how. Provides for rewarding participants according to the risks each assumed. Requires licenses to be made available to nonparticipant firms after the participants have held their licenses for three years. Directs the venture to collect any royalties on behalf of the participants. Permits the venture to retain part of the royalties as may be agreed to by the participants. Requires a venture to update its notice of formation annually if necessary. Grants qualified ventures, participants, and employees thereof immunity from Federal and State antitrust laws. Directs a court to award a defendant the costs of defending against a claim brought under the antitrust laws against a venture if the venture meets the requirements of this Act or the alleged conduct does not violate antitrust laws. Provides for the investigation of ventures by the Attorney General. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) notify a venture of the actions, if any, it must take to meet the requirements of this Act; and (2) commence a court action to dissolve a venture that fails to take such actions. Permits an aggrieved party to appeal an adverse court determination. Exempts from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act any information generated under such investigation or court action. Declares that a determination by the Attorney General, or by the district court, or by the court of appeals shall not be admissible as evidence in an administrative or judicial proceeding in support of any claim under the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Anadromous Fish Conservation and Protection Act of 1982 - Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976, the Salmon and Steelhead Conservation and Management Act of 1976, the Salmon and Steelhead Conservation and Enhancement Act of 1980, the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act, the Dingell-Johnson Fish Restoration Act, Commercial Fisheries Research and Development Act of 1964, the Sikes Act, the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act, and other Federal laws to provide for the conservation and protection of naturally spawning anadromous fish populations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Sets annual special use permit fees for all recreation residences on national forest system lands. Sets such fees at four percent of the value of the recreational residence, on the site under permit, as established by the county or other local tax assessing authority within which the property is located. Provides for Forest Service valuation of such residences where the county elects not to establish and furnish such valuation. Limits such annual fees to no less than $200 and no more than $3,000. Provides that: (1) 50 percent of such fee be credited to the local property assessing authority; (2) 25 percent be available for Forest Service recreation programs in the national forest where the permit is situated; and (3) 25 percent be deposited in the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury. Requires that such fees for new and reissued permits, issued after enactment of this Act, be determined according to this Act. Allows other permittees to voluntarily request to go under the fee system provided for in this Act or to remain under the existing fee system established by the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides for a five-year period of no increase in fees for permittees who volunteer to go under the new system. Provides that the amount of such a fee shall not be subject to administrative appeal before the Secretary or the Forest Service, if the fee is determined by the local tax assessing authority.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to set 1983 acreage reduction bases for wheat and feed grains for farms that had no 1982 acreage limitation.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a disabled taxpayer or a taxpayer with a disabled family member an income tax deduction for unreimbursed expenditures for removing architectural barriers.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Social Security Reform Act of 1983 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to treat as separate functional categories in the U.S. budget: (1) those disbursements from the Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund which are not intragovernmental transfers within the Government; and (2) employment related social security taxes. Amends titles II and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to consolidate the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund by creating the Federal Disability and Health Insurance Trust Fund. Appropriates to such Fund annually, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 100 percent of: (1) the disability and hospital insurance tax on employers, employees, and the self-employed established by this Act; and (2) the taxes imposed on married individuals filing joint returns and surviving spouses. Appropriates to the Federal Disability and Health Insurance Trust Fund, upon the depletion of such fund, such sums as may be necessary to assure that payments are made promptly for hospital insurance benefits, wife's insurance benefits, husband's insurance benefits, and child's insurance benefits. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the tax rates for employment related social security taxes. Imposes a disability and health insurance surtax of five percent of an individual's income taxes. Links cost of living increases to increases in the hourly earnings index for private nonfarm workers. Provides for the coverage of Federal employees under the Social Security Act. Exempts from such coverage Federal employees who have attained, as of enactment, a nonforfeitable right to accrued benefits under any Federal retirement system. Provides for the coverage of employees of religious, charitable, educational, and other tax exempt organizations under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the normalization rules of the investment tax credit shall apply to natural gas pipelines without restrictions imposed in the case where there is a Federal determination that natural gas is in short supply.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Directs all pertinent parties to approve the inclusion in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in West Potomac Park in the District of Columbia of the flag, inscription, and statue as agreed upon in October 1982 by certain organizations and interested parties.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Non-Immigrant Visa Waiver Act of 1982 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to establish a three-year pilot visa waiver program for up to eight countries providing a similar benefit to the United States. Sets forth program provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1982 - Extends copyright protection to mask works. Defines a mask work as a series of related images: (1) having the predetermined, three-dimensional pattern of metallic, insulating, or semiconductor material present or removed from the layers of a semiconductor chip product; and (2) in which series the relation of the images to one another is that each image has the pattern of the surface of one form of the chip product. Excludes masks and mask works from the pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works categories. Sets forth the exclusive rights the owner of copyright holds, including the right to: (1) embody the mask work in a mask, a two-dimensional partially transparent and opaque sheet; (2) distribute a mask embodying the mask work; (3) reproduce such work on material intended to be part of the semiconductor chip product; and (4) manufacture and distribute semiconductor chip products incorporating such masks. Sets forth limitations on such exclusive rights, including compulsory licensing, as specified. Sets the copyright term for masks at ten years from first authorized distribution, use, or manufacture. Excludes an innocent purchaser in good faith of a semiconductor chip product from infringement liability. Permits the impoundment and seizure of masks made or used in violation of the copyright owner's exclusive rights.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Congressional Pay Reform Act of 1982 - Declares that the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress shall be the rate payable on the date of enactment of this Act. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to revise the method of adjusting such pay. Requires a recorded vote on a concurrent resolution in each House for such adjustments. Sets forth the required wording for such resolutions. Sets forth the formula for determining the date on which any change in the rate of pay shall be effective under the Federal Salary Act of 1967. Prohibits either House from considering legislation which carries appropriations for compensation of Members, if such legislation carries appropriations for any other purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Joint Research and Development Ventures Act of 1982 - Allows U.S. firms to conduct cooperative research and development programs by establishing qualified joint research and development ventures which shall be exempt from the antitrust laws. Includes as a U.S. firm any entity controlled by foreign firms or citizens if their nation provides U.S. firms and citizens equivalent access to research and development efforts in that nation. States the requirements for qualified ventures, including: (1) the use of identical terms for the same levels of participation by firms; (2) the identification of each research and development program to be conducted, and the contributions required, for a firm's participation in each program; and (3) a finding by the Department of Commerce that the participation of any firm that accounts for a large specified percentage of worldwide industry sales of a product is critical to the program's success, is in the national interest, and will not directly affect future production of such product; and (4) the notification of the Attorney General and the Department of Commerce of the formation of a venture, the parties to the venture, the programs to be conducted, the participants in the programs, and agreements under the venture. Limits a venture's activities to conducting one or more research and development programs (including programs in which universities participate) which are projected to be completed within ten years after their inception. Declares that a participant in a venture shall not be subject to restrictions on its own research and development activities or its exploitation of inventions resulting from the venture's findings. Vests authority for the management of a venture in a management board composed of one representative of each venture participant and at least three U.S. citizens representing nonparticipants. Directs each board to establish criteria for the selection of research and development programs, the admission or withdrawal of participants, and the licensing of venture technology. Specifies information to be considered by the board in establishing such criteria. Declares that the venture shall retain title to all inventions, patents, and know-how. Entitles any firm that is a participant in a program when an invention is discovered to irrevocable, nonexclusive, and equivalent licenses to all patents and know-how. Provides for rewarding participants according to the risks each assumed. Requires licenses to be made available to nonparticipant firms after the participants have held their licenses for three years. Directs the venture to collect any royalties on behalf of the participants. Permits the venture to retain part of the royalties as may be agreed to by the participants. Requires a venture to update its notice of formation annually if necessary. Grants qualified ventures, participants, and employees thereof immunity from Federal and State antitrust laws. Directs a court to award a defendant the costs of defending against a claim brought under the antitrust laws against a venture if the venture meets the requirements of this Act or the alleged conduct does not violate antitrust laws. Provides for the investigation of ventures by the Attorney General. Directs the Attorney General to: (1) notify a venture of the actions, if any, it must take to meet the requirements of this Act; and (2) commence a court action to dissolve a venture that fails to take such actions. Permits an aggrieved party to appeal an adverse court determination. Exempts from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act any information generated under such investigation or court action. Declares that a determination by the Attorney General, the district court, or the court of appeals shall not be admissible as evidence in an administrative or judicial proceeding in support of any claim under the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Multiemployer Pension Plan Equity Act of 1982 - Title I: Amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to add special funding rules for multiemployer plans. Revises provisions relating to risk-related premiums. Requires that a single standard premium rate be prescribed for all multiemployer plans, with specified exceptions. Revises provisions for an annual premium rate payable for any plan year to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation by all plans for guaranteed basic benefits. Revises provisions relating to the sale of assets. Provides an exemption for employers from liability for withdrawals from fully funded plans. Provides an exemption for certain involuntary withdrawals. Revises provisions relating to payment of liability. Revises provisions relating to dispute resolution. Revises provisions for deadlines for either party's initiation of arbitration. Permits the parties to jointly agree in writing to extend the time limits for initiating arbitration. Requires that arbitration proceedings be conducted under specified rules until certain regulations are promulgated. Declares that arbitrators shall not be liable for arbitration decisions under such dispute resolution provisions. Provides that, where the employer and plan sponsor disagree on the choice of an arbitrator, the arbitrator shall be chosen by the plan sponsor and the employer alternately striking names from a list of arbitrators. Sets a 15-day deadline for payments after the employer's receipt of a final decision of the arbitrator. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to add special funding rules for multiemployer plans.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Revises provisions governing the meetings, officers, and board of directors of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Company, a federally-chartered corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Sentencing Improvement Act of 1982 - Amends the Federal criminal code to declare that imprisonment is an appropriate sanction for offenders who demonstrate by their offense or by their criminal history that they present a danger to society. States that imprisonment is inappropriate where the court finds that the offense does not involve the threat or use of force, endanger national security or threaten or cause serious physical harm to others. Requires a court, when imprisonment, fine, and probation are inappropriate, to direct the defendant to make restitution or perform community service. Entitles the ascertainable victim to receive restitution, or if no victim is known, allows the defendant to contribute to the Treasury an amount not exceeding the value of his or her gain from the commission of the crime. Authorizes the Treasurer of the United States to hold such moneys in a Victim Fund. Defines the nature of the sentence of community service. Allows the defendant to perform a specified number of hours of free service to governmental, charitable, or volunteer agencies. Allows for the modification or waiver of payment or performance of an alternative sentence upon petition by the defendant or a victim. Establishes a list of considerations the court must make in determining restitution or community service, such as: (1) the amount of the victim's loss; (2) the defendant's ability to pay; and (3) the defendant's criminal history.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act of 1982 - Establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC). Sets forth the composition of the Board of Directors of the RFC. Sets forth the general powers of the RFC. Authorizes the RFC to provide assistance, in the forms and under the terms and conditions set forth in this Act, to any eligible business concern. Defines "business concern" as any individual, corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, or other concern that is engaged in the manufacture or production of goods and services in the United States. Makes a business concern eligible for assistance when the Board of Directors has certified that the concern is likely to become insolvent, that its closure would adversely and severely affect the economy of the United States or any sizable region thereof, and that credit is not otherwise available to the concern on terms and conditions that are conducive to its survival. Sets forth the conditions under which the RFC may make loans to any eligible business concern, or guarantee the payment, in whole or in part, of interest, principal, or both, on loans made by non-Federal lenders. Authorizes the RFC to extend aid, under the terms and conditions set forth in this Act, to any eligible municipality. Declares that a municipality is eligible for aid if the Board has certified that the municipality is effectively unable to bring all of its expenditures, other than capital items, into balance with its revenues and to obtain credit in the public credit markets or elsewhere in amounts and terms sufficient to meet the municipality's financing needs. Sets forth the conditions under which the RFC may, in the discretion of its Board, lend money to any eligible municipality, or guarantee the payment, in whole or in part, of interest, principal, or both, on loans made by non-Federal lenders to such municipality. Limits the aggregate amount of assistance provided under this Act to any one business concern and its subsidiary or affiliated business entities, or any one municipality. Sets forth the terms and conditions for loans and loan guarantees under this Act. Prohibits any fee or commission from being paid by any applicant for a loan or a guarantee under this Act or in connection with any such application or any loan or a guarantee made under this Act. Prohibits any of the loans guaranteed under this Act from being eligible for purchase by sale or issuance to the Federal Financing Bank or any other Federal agency or department or concern owned in whole or in part by the United States. Provides for the capitalization of the RFC. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) the deposit of RFC moneys not otherwise employed; (2) the issuance of notes, debentures, and bonds; and (3) the sales of RFC obligations to the Treasury and public-debt transactions. Exempts any and all obligations issued by the RFC both as to principal and interest from all taxation (except surtaxes, estate, inheritance, and gift taxes). Exempts the RFC, including its franchise, its capital, reserves, and surplus, and its income from all taxation, except that any real property of the RFC shall be subject to State and local real property tax. Permits the RFC, when designated for that purpose by the Secretary: 1) to be a depository of public money; (2) to be employed as a financial agent of the government; and (3) to perform all such reasonable duties as may be required of it. Authorizes various Federal agencies to cooperate with the RFC in order to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the RFC to make and publish a quarterly report, the first of which shall be made not later than January 1, 1984, of its operations to Congress. Sets forth the information to be included in such report. Provides for audits of the financial transactions of the RFC. Sets forth criminal provisions concerning: (1) willful misrepresentations to the RFC; (2) counterfeiting and other mishandling of RFC obligations; (3) defrauding the RFC, its auditors, or the public; and (4) use of the words "Reconstruction Finance Corporation" by others. Authorizes appropriations as necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
National Art Bank Act of 1983 - Establishes within the National Endowment for the Arts an Art Bank headed by a Director chosen by the Chairman of the Endowment. Authorizes the Director to: (1) appoint ad hoc juries of artists and art experts to assist in the selection of visual works of art; (2) select works of art with such juries' assistance; (3) provide for their safety; (4) make them available for loan to Federal supervisory authorities and to museums; (5) require those who receive fellowships in the visual arts from the Endowment to donate one of their works to the Art Bank; and (6) sponsor exhibitions. Requires the Director, when selecting work for purchase, to consider the quality of the work and the need to encourage unknown and geographically disparate artists. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1984-1986.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 regarding the 1983 through 1985 crops of wheat, feed grains, rice, and upland cotton to exempt payments-in-kind from specified payment limitation and sales price restrictions.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Income Maintenance Fraud and Overpayment Control Act of 1982 - Amends title III (Unemployment Compensation Administration) of the Social Security Act to prohibit payments to a State for administration of the State's unemployment compensation law, unless such State's law requires individuals paying remuneration subject to contributions, under such State's law, to submit reports, at least quarterly, to the State agency administering the State law. Requires such reports to which show: (1) the name and address of each individual to whom remuneration is paid; (2) the amount of the remuneration; and (3) such other information as deemed necessary by the State agency. Requires the State agency to disclose, upon request and on a reimbursable basis, to a child support enforcement agency or to the administrators of a State's AFDC program (part A, Aid to Families With Dependent Children, of title IV of the Social Security Act): (1) wage information; (2) whether an individual is receiving or has applied for unemployment compensation; (3) the address of an individual; and (4) whether an individual has refused an offer of employment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Modifies the Richard B. Russell Dam and Lake project in South Carolina and Georgia to authorize the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to provide such power to the city of Abbeville, South Carolina, as may be necessary to mitigate the reduction in hydroelectric power produced at the city-owned hydroelectric power plant caused by the construction and operation of such project.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certified public accountants and enrolled agents authorized to practice before the Internal Revenue Service to represent taxpayers in certain Tax Court cases involving $5,000 or less.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to exempt from the collateral requirements of such Act extensions of credit by a member bank to an affiliate which is an export trading company.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 2025
Requires that profits on negotiated contracts of the Department of Defense be reasonable. Uses the same factors set forth in the Renegotiation Act of 1951 to determine when profits are excessive. Directs the Comptroller General to examine each such contract in excess of $10,000,000 and to certify to Congress whether the amount of profit allowed is reasonable. Requires the Comptroller General to examine the contract again upon its completion and to certify to Congress whether the amount of profit actually paid was reasonable. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress annually on the reasonableness of profits paid on such contracts during the preceding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Requires Federal disability annuitants who recover from their disability to be given the same reemployment, retention, and promotion rights as are provided to Federal employees who recover after receiving workers' compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Disapproves the governing international fishery agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea transmitted by the President to Congress on August 11, 1982. Terminates the existing agreement between such countries.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Board for International Broadcasting Supplemental Authorization Act, fiscal year 1983 - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act of 1973 to authorize additional appropriations for FY 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Atlantic Salmon Convention Act of 1982 - Requires the United States to be represented by three U.S. Commissioners on the Council and Commissions established under the Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean, signed at Reykjavik, Iceland, on March 2, 1982 (the Convention). Authorizes the Secretary of State to receive, on behalf of the United States, communications of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, to deal with regulatory measures proposed in accordance with the Convention, and to act upon other communications of the Organization. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, to promulgate regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of the Convention and this Act. Makes it unlawful for any individual, or any vessel, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States: (1) to conduct directed fishing for salmon within specified areas of the Atlantic Ocean; or (2) to violate any provision of the Convention or this Act. Subjects any individual who commits such an unlawful act to both civil and criminal penalties. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to enforce the provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Amends the Small Business Act to define "small agricultural cooperative", for purposes of eligibility for disaster loans under such Act, as an association: (1) acting pursuant to the Agriculture Marketing Act; (2) whose receipts do not exceed the size standard established for other agricultural small business concerns; and (3) whose board members or governing members each qualify as a small business concern.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Railroad Retirement Amendments Act of 1982 - Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to require the Railroad Retirement Board to report to the President and Congress for any fiscal year during which benefits must be reduced and taxes raised (currently, when benefits must be reduced). Repeals provisions excluding tips and voluntary tax payments by employers as compensation under such Act and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. Eliminates the time limitations on judicial review of Board decisions respecting personnel rights and liabilities.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to require the U.S. Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to oppose any credit drawing on the Fund by any country which practices apartheid.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require information concerning an AFDC applicant or recipient which is in the possession of the State agency administering the AFDC program to be made available to any Federal, State, or local law enforcement agency, if such information is needed for a felony investigation or prosecution.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends the Federal Supplemental Compensation Act of 1982 to extend to September 30, 1983, the period during which Federal supplemental unemployment compensation is payable under such Act. Raises the amount which must be established in a Federal supplemental compensation account for an eligible individual applicant's benefit year. Requires that such amount be reduced by the aggregate amount of extended compensation paid for such benefit year.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended by the No Net Cost Tobacco Program of 1982, to clarify that all tobacco lessors are liable for the No Net Cost Tobacco Fund assessments.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Regulatory Procedure Act of 1982 - Title I: The Analysis, Management, and Organization of Agency Functions - Requires each executive agency and each independent regulatory agency to include in the notice of a proposed rule an explanation of the agency's determination as to whether the rule is a major rule. Directs each agency, before or upon publishing notice of a proposed rulemaking proceeding for a major rule, to issue statements concerning: (1) the need for the rule; (2) the reasonable alternative approaches; (3) regional differences; (4) the benefits, costs, and effectiveness of the proposed rule and alternatives; (5) the advantages and disadvantages of adopting performance standards rather than design standards; (6) the technical information the agency will rely on in making the rule; and (7) the statutory authority of the agency to regulate any areas previously regulated only by State law. Requires that each agency issue additional statements upon providing notice of the promulgation of a major rule, including an analysis of the extent to which benefits of the rule justify its costs and an explanation of the selection of the rule over less costly alternatives. Directs each agency to: (1) include in the notice of each proposed and final major rule, instructions on how the public may obtain copies of agency statements on such rule; (2) send a copy of all statements required at the notice and publication of a major rule to the President; and (3) include such statements and any technical information considered in the rulemaking file. Requires agencies to provide for oral presentations at informal public hearings as part of the rulemaking proceedings for major rules. Directs agencies to allow cross-examination of persons presenting information if necessary to resolve significant issues of fact. Directs agencies to regulate such public hearings so as to ensure orderly and expeditious proceedings. Allows an agency to delay completing the rulemaking requirements of this Act if it publishes a finding that complying with such requirements before making the rule would be impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest. Requires an agency to complete such requirements as soon as practicable after promulgating the rule unless the rule will expire within two years. Sets forth provisions governing the judicial review of agency compliance with rulemaking and rule review requirements of this Act and the President's compliance with oversight requirements. Directs the President to: (1) establish procedures for agency implementation of the requirements of this title; (2) afford the public an opportunity to comment on such procedures before adoption; and (3) monitor, review, and comment on agency compliance with such requirements. Permits the Comptroller General to review agency compliance with this Act. Requires each agency to publish in the Federal Register, semiannually, a regulatory agenda containing a list of all rules the agency expects to propose, promulgate, repeal, modify, or review in the next year and specified information concerning such rules. Requires publication of the agendas of all agencies in a single issue of the Federal Register. Directs each agency to publish for public comment a proposed schedule for the review over a ten-year period of its existing major rules and other rules that may be added by the agency or the President. Directs each agency to publish its responses to public comments upon publishing the final schedule. Requires an agency to include with the publication of a major rule the date, within ten years, by which the rule must be reviewed. Requires agencies to review rules according to such schedule, excluding rules that are no longer considered to be major rules as of the review date. Directs each agency to: (1) publish a notice of the initiation of the review of a rule; (2) describe the costs, benefits, problems, and alternatives to the rule; (3) provide a period for public comment; and either (4) conduct a rulemaking proceeding to repeal or amend the rule; or (5) publish a justification of its decision to continue the rule. Permits the President to extend the review period to 15 years. Allows agencies to alter review schedules if the President agrees. Title II: Reorganizing and Improving Agency Proceedings - Amends the Administrative Procedure Act to eliminate the exemption of rules concerning loans, grants, and benefits from notice and comment rulemaking requirements. Requires that the notice of a proposed rulemaking include: (1) a statement of the objectives of the rule; (2) a statement that the agency seeks proposals from the public of alternative methods; and (3) a statement of where the file of the rulemaking proceeding may be inspected or how file copies may be obtained. Requires an agency to: (1) provide a period of at least 60 days after publishing a notice of proposed rulemaking for the public to submit comments on a proposed rule; and (2) include the agency's response to such comments in the statement published with the adopted rule. Prohibits an agency from relying on any material of central relevance in a rulemaking if the material is not included in the rulemaking file or the public has not had an opportunity to comment on the material. Directs each agency to maintain a public file on each rulemaking proceeding. Allows an agency to exclude from such file any material relied upon which is exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, if a statement of the basis for such exclusion is included. Requires a court reviewing an agency action: (1) not to accord any presumption in favor of or against agency action; (2) in determining questions of law other than statutory jurisdiction, to give the agency's interpretation such weight as it warrants considering the agency's authority under law; (3) in making determinations concerning statutory jurisdiction, to determine whether the action is within the agency's jurisdiction on the basis of the statutory language or other indications of legislative intent; and (4) in determining whether the adoption of a rule is in accordance with law, to consider whether there is substantial support in the rulemaking file for the agency's factual determinations. Declares that when proceedings for review of the same agency action are instituted in two or more courts of appeals within ten days, the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall select, by a system of random selection, the court in which the record shall be filed. Authorizes the courts to postpone the effective date of the agency action as necessary to permit designation of the court of record. Prohibits agencies from paying expenses of persons participating or intervening in agency proceedings except as specifically authorized by statute. Requires each agency to submit a copy of each newly promulgated rule (with specified exceptions) to each House of Congress. Prohibits the rule from taking effect if: (1) either House adopts a resolution disapproving it within 60 legislative days after the date the rule is submitted; and (2) the other House does not disagree to such resolution within 65 legislative days after such date. Provides that a rule shall take effect the day after either House disagrees to a resolution disapproving it within such periods. Prohibits an agency from promulgating a new rule identical to a disapproved rule unless a statute is enacted that affects the agency's authority over the subject matter. Authorizes either House to adopt a resolution directing an agency to reconsider an existing rule. Requires an agency to respond to such a resolution by: (1) publishing a notice that the agency reviewed the rule and found that no action is necessary; or (2) initiating appropriate rulemaking proceedings concerning the rule. Provides that a rule which was excluded from congressional review when promulgated must be subjected to congressional review if Congress adopts a resolution for reconsideration of such rule. Exempts rules promulgated pursuant to resolutions of reconsideration from certain rulemaking requirements for major rules under title I of this Act. Sets forth House and Senate procedures for considering such resolutions of disapproval or reconsideration. Amends the rules of the House to establish a Regulatory Review Calendar to which all such resolutions shall be referred. Terminates the force and effect of any existing law governing procedures for the congressional review of agency rules with respect to rules promulgated after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that interest on certain real estate mortgages made by savings and loan institutions will be exempt from Federal income tax.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to repeal specified changes to the extended unemployment compensation program. Repeals provisions of such Act relating to: (1) elimination of the national trigger; (2) exclusion of claims for extended or additional compensation in the determination of the insured unemployment rate; and (3) changes in the State trigger. Provides that the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 shall be applied as if the above provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act had not been enacted. Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to increase (from 50 to 75 percent) the percentage of sharable extended compensation and sharable regular compensation paid to individuals under State law which is reimbursed to States by the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Act of 1982 - Title I: Authorizations by the Secretary of Energy for Certain Activities Outside the United States - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require the publication in the Federal Register of authorizations for the production of special nuclear materials outside the United States. Provides that such an authorization will not become effective until at least 15 days after its publication. Requires reports submitted by the President to the Congress pursuant to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 to identify activities so authorized during the preceding year. Directs the Secretary of Energy to require persons who are engaged in activities requiring such authorization but who are not required to apply for authorization to report to the Secretary regarding such activities. Makes authorizations for the production of special nuclear material outside the United States effective with respect to a non-nuclear-weapon state only if the Secretary of Energy determines that such state adheres to the criteria governing U.S. nuclear exports for peaceful uses. Requires the Secretary to publicly issue and submit to the President any recommendation for such an authorization with respect to a non-nuclear-weapon state which does not adhere to such criteria. Title II: Highly Enriched Uranium - Authorizes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to issue export licenses for highly enriched uranium for nuclear reactors only if: (1) there is no alternative nuclear reactor fuel available; (2) the proposed recipient of the uranium has indicated that it will use an alternative nuclear reactor fuel when one becomes available; and (3) the executive branch is developing an alternative nuclear reactor fuel. Requires the NRC to determine a kilogram limit on the amount of highly enriched uranium of U.S. origin that will be allowed at any one time in each foreign country and at each reactor site in each such country. Requires the NRC and the executive branch to support efforts to improve physical security arrangements for exports of highly enriched uranium. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a plan for the development of alternative nuclear reactor fuels for use in foreign reactors. Title III: Arrangements Involving Reprocessing - Requires a determination by the NRC (currently only the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of State) that a significant increase of the risk of proliferation will not result from the Secretary of Energy entering into a subsequent arrangement for: (1) reprocessing of special nuclear material in a foreign facility which has not processed power reactor fuel assemblies or been the subject of such an arrangement prior to enactment of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978; or (2) retransfer to a non-nuclear-weapon state of plutonium, resulting from such reprocessing, in quantities greater than 500 grams. Requires a new or amended agreement for cooperation before approval is given to a nation or group of nations for: (1) retransfer to a third country for reprocessing of special nuclear material, in quantities greater than 31 metric tons, exported by the United States or produced through the use of nuclear material and equipment or sensitive nuclear technology exported by the United States; or (2) reprocessing of special nuclear material in quantities greater than 31 metric tons or the subsequent retransfer of plutonium, resulting from such reprocessing, in quantities greater than 240 kilograms. Title IV: Special Functions of the Secretary of Defense in Nuclear Nonproliferation Matters - Requires the approval of the Secretary of Defense for international cooperation agreements, export licenses, and subsequent arrangements with respect to nuclear material. Title V: Exports of Reprocessing Components and Technology - Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the exportation under a cooperation agreement of: (1) any component part or group of component parts determined by the President to be essential to the operation of a complete facility for nuclear fuel reprocessing; (2) any information, excluding Restricted Data, which is not available to the public and which is important to the design or operation of such a facility; or (3) other assistance essential to nuclear fuel reprocessing. Title VI: Exports Licensed by the Department of Commerce - Prohibits the issuance by the Secretary of Commerce of a validated license under the Export Administration Act of 1979 for the export to a non-nuclear-weapon state of goods or technology to be used in a production or utilization facility, unless the Secretary of Energy determines that such state adheres to the criteria governing U.S. nuclear exports for peaceful uses. Requires the Secretary of Energy, in the event a determination is made to issue a license prohibited under this provision, to publicly issue such decision and to submit the license application in question to the President. Authorizes the President to allow the issuance of such a license by executive order if withholding it would jeopardize the common defense and security, unless Congress, after reviewing such an order, adopts a concurrent resolution opposing the order. Provides that conduct which results in the termination of U.S. nuclear exports to another nation shall result also in the prohibition of the issuance of a license for the export of goods or technology to be used in any production or utilization facility.