United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2025
Provides for the use and distribution of funds awarded in specified cases by the United States Court of Claims to: (1) the Blackfeet Tribe of the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana; (2) the Assiniboine Tribe of the of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana; and (3) the Gros Ventre tribe of the Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Authorizes the Capitol Police to protect, in any area of the United States, any Member or officer of the Congress and their immediate families if the Capitol Police Board determines that such protection is necessary. Authorizes the Capitol Police to make arrests without warrant for any offense or felony cognizable under Federal laws while in the performance of their protective duties. Sets forth penalties for any person who knowingly and willingly interferes with such protective functions. Includes the Capitol Police among those officers and employees of the United States the killing of whom requires punishment under the Federal homicide laws.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Interstate Compact - Grants the consent of Congress to the cooperative agreement between the States of New Hampshire and Vermont for the construction and operation of facilities for the processing or disposal of solid waste.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Paddy Creek Wilderness Act of 1981 - Designates the Paddy Creek Wilderness Area in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Validates the effectiveness of a plan for the use or distribution of funds appropriated to pay a judgment awarded to the San Carlos Apache Indian Tribe of Arizona.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 2026
Orphan Drug Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to promulgate regulations to exempt from such Act drugs intended solely for drug treatment investigations. Defines "drug treatment investigation" as an investigation of a drug which involves human participants with a rare disease or condition. Establishes in the Department of Health and Human Services an interagency committee known as the Committee on Orphan Drug Development. Makes it the function of such committee to promote the development of drugs for rare diseases or conditions (orphan drugs). Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to submit to the Committee an annual report on the rare disease and condition research activities of NIH. Requires the Committee to report by June 1 of each year to the appropriate congressional committees on its activities and the results of its evaluations, including the report submitted by NIH. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for qualified experimental expenses incurred while researching orphan drugs.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material Implementation Act of 1981 - Amends the Federal criminal code to establish penalties for: (1) intentionally possessing or transferring nuclear material which causes or is likely to cause death or serious injury to any person or substantial damage to property; or (2) stealing, embezzling, or threatening to use any such material.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Czechoslovakian Claims Settlement Act of 1981 - Approves the Agreement between the United States and Czechoslovakia on the settlement of certain financial issues that was initialed on November 6, 1981. Authorizes the President to execute technical changes in the agreement if they are necessary to facilitate its implementation. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to cover into the Czechoslovakian Claims Fund the amount paid by Czechoslovakia to discharge the claims of U.S. nationals pursuant to the agreement. Directs the Secretary to establish two accounts in the Fund. Requires a specified minimum amount to be placed in one account. Requires such account to be used to pay certified claims by U.S. nationals for losses resulting from the nationalization or other taking of property by Czechoslovakia between January 1, 1945, and August 8, 1958. Requires the other account into which a lesser amount of the funds shall be covered to be available to pay the certified claims of U.S. nationals for similar losses which occurred between August 8, 1958, and the date on which the agreement takes effect. Authorizes the Commission to determine the validity of such claims. Requires the Secretary to invest the funds in such accounts until the Secretary needs the funds to pay awards. Requires the interest on such investments to be deposited in the accounts. Sets forth the methods of certifying claims and paying awards. Requires such awards to include accumulated interest. Requires a claimant's right to payment to lapse if specified conditions are met. Requires the provisions of this Act to cease to be effective if, within 60 days after enactment, Czechoslovakia fails to make a specified payment to the United States. Authorizes the President to keep this Act effective for an additional 30 days if the President notifies the Congress of the reasons for doing so. Directs the Secretary of State to review and report to Congress on the agreement between the United States and Czechoslovakia providing for reciprocal social security payments to residents of the two countries.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Permits certain Farm Credit Administration regulations which expand the authority of financing institutions, other than farm credit system institutions, to borrow from and discount with Federal intermediate credit banks to become effective on the date of enactment of this Act. Declares that such provision shall not be deemed an expression of congressional approval of such regulations and the amendment thereto.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Amends the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to extend from April 1, 1982, to June 30, 1985: (1) the authority for oil companies to carry out voluntary agreements for implementing the allocation and information provisions of the international energy program; and (2) the antitrust exemption for oil companies participating in such program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Designates the following lands in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) the Cranberry Wilderness; (2) the Laurel Fork North Wilderness; and (3) the Laurel Fork South Wilderness. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire: (1) all nonfederally owned coal deposits and other mineral interests within the Cranberry Wilderness; and (2) contiguous interests and deposits outside the wilderness which are owned by the same nonfederal parties or are economically accessible only through the exercise of rights held within the wilderness. Provides that such acquisition shall be carried out through the exchange of federally owned coal deposits or other mineral interests. Sets forth the procedure for such an exchange. Authorizes appropriations to establish the values of the nonfederally owned and federally owned interests to be exchanged under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the other provisions of this Act. Permits exploration activities in the Cranberry Wilderness to determine the value of the non-federally owned mineral resources therein. Requires that the Secretary and the U.S. Government deal separately with each owner.
United States · United States Congress · 29 August 2025
Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax on coal sold by a producer from: (1) 50 cents per ton to $1 per ton for coal from underground mines; and (2) 25 cents per ton to 50 cents per ton for coal from surface mines. Increases the maximum amount of such tax from 2 percent to 4 percent of the price at which a ton of coal is sold by the producer. Terminates such increase on the earlier of January 1, 1996, or the first January 1 after 1981 when there is: (1) no balance of repayable advances made to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund; and (2) no unpaid interest on such advances. Creates a new subtitle I, "Trust Fund Code" as part of the Internal Revenue Code. Reestablishes in the U.S. Treasury, effective January 1, 1982, the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. Provides that such trust fund shall be treated for all purposes of law as the continuation of the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund established by the Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1977. Appropriates to the Trust Fund amounts equivalent to the revenues received from the excise tax on coal producers and the taxes on black lung benefit trusts relating to self-dealing, taxable expenditures and excess contributions. Authorizes to be appropriated, as repayable advances, such sums as may be necessary to make the required expenditures from the Trust Fund. Requires such advances to be repaid with interest. Makes amounts in the Trust Fund available, as provided by appropriation acts, for: (1) the payment of benefits where the Secretary of Labor determines that: (A) the operator liable for such payments has not made payments within a specified time, or (B) there is no operator who is liable for such payments; (2) the payment of obligations with respect to miners whose last employment was before January 1, 1970; (3) the repayment into the Treasury of an amount equal to the sum of certain claims paid before April 1, 1978; (4) the repayment of repayable advances; (5) the payment of certain administrative expenses incurred on or after March 1, 1978; (6) the reimbursement of operators for claims paid before April 1, 1978 to miners whose employment terminated before January 1, 1970; and (7) the reimbursement of operators and insurers for claims denied before March 1, 1978, but subsequently approved in accordance with the provisions of the Black Lung Benefits Act. Requires the transfer of amounts appropriated to the Trust Fund at least monthly. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the Trust Fund and report to the Congress annually on its financial condition and operations and its expected status during the next five fiscal years. Sets forth requirements for investment by the Trust Fund in interest-bearing obligations of the United States. Amends the Black Lung Benefits Act to set the rate of interest on operator liabilities. Repeals the provision which established the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund under the Black Lung Benefits Revenue Act of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the U.S. delegation to the February meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to tell the Commission that the Soviet Union should stop harassing Soviet Jews and should allow its citizens to practice their religion and to emigrate. Urges the Soviet Union to comply with its human rights obligations. Urges the President to: (1) express, to the Soviet Union, U.S. opposition to harassment of Soviet citizens and to restrictions on emigration; and (2) reiterate that the United States will consider the extent to which other nations honor their commitments under international law when evaluating its relations with such nations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Authorizes the Architect of the capitol to provide training, according to specified provisions of Federal law, for employees of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol and the Botanic Garden and other employees under the Architect's supervision.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 2025
Amends the Lanham Trademark Act to prohibit any State from requiring the alteration of or an additional trademark other than the trademark exhibited by the registrant in the certificate of registration issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Appropriates such amounts as may be necessary in fiscal year 1982 for projects or activities for which appropriations, funds or other authority would be available in specified appropriations Acts. Funds such activities to the extent and in the manner which would be provided by the pertinent appropriation Act. Declares that whenever the amount which would be made available or the authority which would be granted under such an appropriation Act as passed the House as of November 20, 1981, is different from that which would be available or granted under such Act as passed by the Senate as of November 20, 1981, the pertinent project or activity shall be continued under the lesser amount or the more restrictive authority. States that were an item included in only one version of an Act as passed by both Houses as of November 20, 1981, the pertinent project or activity shall be continued under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted by the one House, but at a rate for operations of the current rate or the rate permitted by the action of the one House, whichever is lower. Declares that when an appropriation Act has been reported to a House but not passed by that House as of November 20, 1981, it shall be deemed as having been passed by that House. Authorizes additional continuing appropriations for the following: (1) the low income home energy assistance program; (2) the foster care program authorized by the Social Security Act; (3) the Community Services Block Grant; and (4) the State Block Grant authorized by the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. Declares that funds which would be available under the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriation Act, 1982, for the Government payment of annuitants and employees health benefits, shall be available under the authority and conditions set forth in such Act as reported to the Senate on September 22, 1981. Declares that, for the purposes of this joint resolution, the Senate reported level of such Act shall be the level reported by the Senate on September 22, 1981 (S. Rept. No. 97-192). Declares that whenever an appropriation Act has been passed by only one House as of November 20, 1981, the pertinent project or activity shall be continued under the appropriation granted by the one House, but at a rate for operations of the current rate or the rate permitted by the one House, whichever is lower. Declares that no provision which is included in an appropriation Act enumerated in this Act but which was not included in the applicable appropriation Act of 1981, and which is applicable to more than one appropriation shall be applicable to any appropriation unless such provision is included in identical form in such bill as enacted by both the House and the Senate. Appropriates additional funds for training, job search allowances, and relocation allowances under the Trade Act of 1974. Appropriates necessary funds for projects or activities provided for in the Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1982, at a rate for operations not in excess of the current rate provided in fiscal year 1981 or the rate provided in the budget estimate, whichever is lower. Appropriates necessary funds for projects or activities provided for in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, at a rate for operations and to the extent and in the manner provided for in the conference report filed in the House on November 13, 1981, as if such Act had been enacted into law. Provides continuing appropriations for projects or activities provided for in the following: (1) the Department of Housing and Urban Development - Independent Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, at a rate for operations provided for in the conference report filed in the House on September 11, 1981, as amended by the Senate on November 21, 1981, as if such Act had been enacted into law; (2) the Department of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, at a rate for operations provided for in the conference report as approved by the House on November 12, 1981, as if such Act had been enacted into law; and (3) the Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, at a rate for operations provided for in the conference report filed in the House on November 4, 1981. Makes such sums as necessary available until the transfer and closure proceedings are completed and for the continued operation and improvement of existing facilities not proposed for closure but not in excess of, and under the conditions of the budget request transmitted on November 9, 1981, for operation, improvement, transfer, and closure of Public Health Service hospitals and clinics. Declares that specified provisions of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1982, shall apply to any appropriation, fund, or authority made available for the period October 1, 1981, through September 30, 1982, by this or any other Act. Appropriates such sums as necessary for projects or activities provided for in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, at the rate provided in and under the authority, conditions, allocations, and limitations provided in H.R. 4169 as passed the House on September 9, 1981, except that for the following items funds shall be at a specified rate. Title I: Department of Commerce - Sets forth the amounts appropriated for: (1) the Bureau of the Census for salaries and expenses and periodic censuses and programs; (2) the Economic Development Administration for economic development assistance programs; (3) the International Trade Administration for operations and administration; (4) the United States Travel and Tourism Administration for salaries and expenses; (5) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for operations, research, and facilities, coastal zone management, the Fisheries Loan Fund, the Foreign Fishing Observer Fund, and the Fishermen's Guaranty Fund; (6) Science and Technical Research for scientific and technical research and services; (7) the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for salaries and expenses and public telecommunications facilities, planning and construction; and (8) the Maritime Administration for operations and training. Makes continuing appropriations for salaries and expenses to the following related agencies: (1) the Federal Communications Commission; (2) the Federal Maritime Commission; (3) the Federal Trade Commission; (4) the International Trade Commission; (5) the Office of the United States Trade Representative; expenses; (6) the Securities and Exchange Commission; (7) the Small Business Administration; and (8) the United States Metric Board. Title II: Department of Justice - Makes continuing appropriations to the Department of Justice for the following: (1) General Administration, salaries and expenses; (2) the United States Parole Commission for salaries and expenses; (3) legal activities; salaries and expenses; (4) salaries and expenses, United States attorneys and marshals; (5) support of United States prisoners; (6) fees and expenses of witnesses; (7) salaries and expenses, Community Relations Service; (8) the Federal Bureau of Investigation for salaries and expenses; (9) the Immigration and Naturalization Service for salaries and expenses; (10) the Federal Prison System, National Institute of Corrections, and buildings and facilities; and (11) the Office of Justice Assistance, Research, and Statistics, Law Enforcement Assistance. Makes continuing appropriations to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for salaries and expenses. Title III: Department of State - Authorizes additional continuing appropriations to the Department of State for: (1) the Administration of Foreign Affairs; (2) contributions to international organizations; (3) specified international commissions; and (4) the Asia Foundation. Makes continuing appropriations to the following related agencies: (1) the Board for International Broadcasting for grants and expenses; (2) the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe for salaries and expenses; and (3) the International Communication Agency for salaries and expenses. Title IV: The Judiciary - Makes additional continuing appropriations to the Judiciary for the Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and other Judicial Services. Grants specified funds to the following subject to approval by specified Congressional committees: (1) a transfer of funds to the Department of Commerce for general administration; (2) the Federal Communications Commission for salaries and expenses; and (3) the Securities and Exchange Commission for salaries and expenses. Declares that appropriations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until: (1) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; or (2) enactment of the applicable appropriation Act; or (3) September 30, 1982, whichever occurs first. Makes additional continuing appropriations to the Public Health Service for grants for the construction or expansion of two teaching facilities. Prohibits any of the funds made available pursuant to this resolution from being used to accomplish or implement a proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms before March 30, 1982. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer up to two percent from any appropriation account provided by this joint resolution for the Department of the Treasury to any other such appropriation account. Permits funds available to the Federal Building Fund within the General Services Administration to be used to initiate new construction, advance design, and repairs and alteration line-item projects and lease construction projects which are included in either H.R. 4121, as passed by the House, or in H.R. 4121, as reported by the Senate on September 22, 1981. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the President should not include in his recommendations for revenue enhancements any recommendations which would have the effect of reducing Federal tax incentives for energy conservation or the development of renewable energy sources. Withholds funds provided under this joint resolution for the special supplemental food program and the commodity supplemental food program from obligation unless and until a special message specifying a deferral or rescission of budget authority for such programs is officially submitted to the Congress, when the Congress is in session. Prohibits the use of any of the funds provided in this or any other Act by the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve railroad branchline abandonments in the State of North Dakota by the Burlington Northern Railroad in excess of a total of 350 miles. Requires the funds provided for nonurban formula grants and urban formula grants to be apportioned and allocated using data from the 1970 decennial census for one-half of the sums and the remainder apportioned and allocated on the basis of the 1980 decennial census. Makes the funds made available by this joint resolution for school assistance in federally affected areas available under the authority and conditions set forth in H.R. 4560 as passed the House on October 6, 1981. Makes continuing appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services for the operations of the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs. Sets forth the levels of funding for specified sections of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 and for the Refugee Act of 1980. Subjects the funds made available by this joint resolution which would be available under H.R. 4560, the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, as reported to the Senate on November 9, 1981, for Student Financial Assistance to specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Senate to expend from the contingent fund of the Senate such amount as may be necessary to obtain the services of a professional archivist. Authorizes continuing appropriations to carry out the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the International Health Research Act of 1960. Directs the Attorney General to exercise efforts to ensure that none of the funds appropriated by this joint resolution may be obligated or expended after March 1, 1982, for the detention of any entrant, any applicant for political asylum or for refugee status, or any other alien which would cause the total number of aliens to exceed specified amounts in the State of Florida. Authorizes additional continuing appropriations for the payment of windfall benefits as provided under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974. Requires that each State establish fiscal control procedures to assure that funds made available under this resolution for the low-income energy assistance program are used for payments in accordance with the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981. Prohibits any of the funds appropriated for the Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration from being obligated or expended to prescribe, issue, administer or enforce any standard, rule, regulation or order under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 with respect to any independent construction contractor who is engaged by an operator for the construction, repair or alteration of structures or roads located on the surface areas of any coal or other mine separate from actual mining or extraction activities. Authorizes continuing appropriations for: (1) the Maternal and Child Health Care Block Grant Act; (2) activities under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 1981; (3) the Job Corps; and (4) damaged highways in the area affected by eruptions of the Mount Saint Helens volcano. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to approve, upon the request of the State of Indiana, the construction of a specified interchange. Requires any proposal for deferral of budget authority with respect to expenses related to the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project to be referred to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. Prohibits any of the funds appropriated by this joint resolution or by any other Act from being obligated or expended to increase any salary of any Federal judge or Justice of the Supreme Court, except as may be specifically authorized by Act of Congress. Sets forth the level of salary or basic pay which is payable to any individual for or an account of services performed after December 31, 1981, if such individual has an office or position the salary or pay for which corresponds to the rate of basic pay for levels III, IV, and V of the Executive Schedule. Reduces appropriations made available by this joint resolution by specified percentages for programs, projects, or activities for which provision would be made in specified appropriation Acts. Reduces appropriations made available to the Department of Agriculture in this joint resolution in areas not involving direct assistance to those engaged in agriculture by specified amounts. Reduces appropriations made available by this joint resolution for the projects or activities provided for in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1982, by specified amounts. Declares that such reductions shall not apply to appropriations for those activities involving new spending authority. Prohibits any account, activity, program or project from being terminated as a result of such reductions. Makes continuing appropriations to the Postal Service fund for revenue foregone on free and reduced-rate mail. Directs the Postal Service to promptly adjust preferred rates so as to recover the difference between the amount which was authorized to be appropriated and the amount hereby appropriated. Sets forth procedures for making such adjustments. Makes the provisions of Public Law 97-51 concerning dollar limits on tax deductions for living expenses of Members of Congress while away from home applicable to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Title I: Guam - Amends the Organic Act of Guam to grant Guam the right of initiative and referendum. Makes the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and the members of the legislature subject to removal from office by a referendum election. Title II: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - Changes the date by which all federally owned personal property located in the Trust Territory and all personal property owned by the Trust Territory government must be transferred to the various island governments. Title III: Virgin Islands - Authorizes appropriations for the planning of an institution for Caribbean educational, cultural, and technical interchange by the College of the Virgin Islands. Title IV: Miscellaneous - States that certain funds that have been authorized but not appropriated may remain available for appropriation in succeeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Title I: Federal Royalties Collection - Federal Royalties and Rents Collection Act of 1981 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: establish a comprehensive system for accounts applicable to: (1) all mineral interests under the Secretary's jurisdiction; and (2) all revenues collected in connection with the sale or lease of such mineral interests. Requires the Secretary, upon promulgation of such system, to submit to Congress: (1) a report concerning such system; and (2) a report concerning the outstanding accounts due the United States from the sale or lease of U.S. mineral interests. Provides for an annual independent audit of Department of Interior accounts relating to the sale or lease of minerals. Makes individuals handling money in connection with a mineral sale or lease liable for negligent losses and requires such individuals to be bonded. Title II: State Collection of Federal Royalties - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 to direct the Secretary to collect all money due in connection with public land sales, rentals, interest, and penalties unless there is a State management program for the management of Federal leases. Requires 50 percent of all money collected to be paid to the State within which the leased lands or deposits are or were located, except that the rate shall be 90 percent for Alaska. Requires the Secretary, upon a State's request, to relinquish the administration of all contracts and leases issued by the Secretary within that State to the State, subject to stated requirements. Title III: Miscellaneous Amendments to the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920 - Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations applicable to lessees of oil or gas leases requiring certain: (1) recordkeeping practices; (2) accountability to the Secretary; and (3) reports to the Secretary. Sets forth provisions relating to enforcement of this Act. Title IV: Indian Access to Certain Records - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: promulgate regulations to make certain records available for mining purposes to lessees of Indian lands.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 2025
Permits Indian tribes to enter into certain agreements for the disposition of tribal mineral resources, upon approval by the Secretary of the Interior. Sets forth approval procedures. Grants tribes an opportunity for Presidential review of disapprovals of such agreements. Grants the Secretary discretionary authority to approve such agreements for individual Indians owning trust or restricted minerals.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Extends, until February 3, 1982, the continuing appropriations made by Public Law 97-51 for specified Federal projects and activities which have not yet received funds beyond fiscal year 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Declares that the United States holds certain lands in Nevada, which are presently administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, in trust for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. Declares such lands to be part of the Washoe Indian Reservation. Specifies that this Act does not deprive any person or entity of any legal right or legal interest in such lands. Requires that such lands be used primarily for agricultural purposes. Directs the Bureau of Indian Affairs to transfer the administration of certain other lands in Nevada to the U.S. Forest Service within 180 days after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Amends the Capitol Reef National Park Act to permit an individual who holds grazing privileges on Federal lands within the Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, or an heir, successor, or assign of such individual, to have such grazing privileges renewed for his or her lifetime and the lifetime of heirs, successors, or assigns who were members of such individual's immediate family on the date of enactment of such Act. (Currently, such grazing privileges last for the period of a lease, permit, or license issued by the U.S. Government and one period of renewal thereafter.) Prohibits the withdrawal of grazing privileges appurtenant to privately owned lands within the park until title to such lands is vested in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Amends the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians Act to extend the deadline by which the Commission must submit a report of its findings and recommendations to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Revises provisions concerning conservation and management of U.S. fisheries. Allows foreign fishing vessels to engage in recreational fishing within specified U.S. waters and in compliance with restrictions set forth by the Secretary of Commerce and others. Makes certain reporting requirements of the Regional Fishery Management Councils discretionary. Declares that specified guidelines established by the Secretary shall not have the force of law. Revises the organization of the eight Regional Fishery Management Councils. Describes changes in the contents and implementation of fishery management plans prepared by the Councils.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 2024
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1982 - Title I: Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for military and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force. Title II: Retired Military Personnel - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for retired military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, including the reserves. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for the operation and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Defense agencies, including their respective stock funds, reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, claims against the Department of Defense, and the Court of Military Appeals. Title IV: Procurement: - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for the procurement by the Army of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Navy of aircraft, weapons, shipbuilding and conversion of vessels, and other equipment and materials. Appropriates funds for Marine Corps procurement. Appropriates funds for procurement by the Air Force of aircraft, missiles, and other equipment and materials. Title V: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for research, development, tests, and evaluation by the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the expenses of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation. Title VI: Special Foreign Currency Program - Appropriates funds for fiscal year 1982 for excess payments in foreign currencies for expenses in carrying out the programs of the Department of Defense. Title VII: General Provisions - Limits the expenditure of appropriations for consulting services to contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record. Prohibits the use of appropriations for unauthorized publicity or propaganda. Authorizes the Secretaries of Defense and of the service departments to procure the services of experts and consultants if advantageous to the national defense. Exempts the Defense department from the prohibition against employing non-citizens. Makes appropriations available for specified expenses of the department, including motor vehicle insurance, maintenance of prisoners-of-war, school transportation of military dependents, maintenance of facilities, ships, and equipment, exchange fees, and dependents' medical treatment. Directs the Secretary of Defense and each agency of the department to assist American small and minority-owned businesses in their participation in defense contracts. Permits the President to exempt appropriations available for military functions from the requirement that appropriations be distributed so as to prevent deficiencies or need for supplemental funding. Authorizes the Secretary to provide for the cost of any increases in military personnel required by the President. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress monthly on the exercise of this authority. Prohibits the use of appropriations as specified, including funds for the operation of commissaries, proficiency flying, and excess household goods shippage and storage. Prohibits the expenditure of more than 20 percent of the appropriations limited to fiscal year 1982 during the last two months of the year. Permits the Defense department to use real property from foreign countries in accordance with mutual defense agreements. Requires the Secretary to make quarterly reports to Congress concerning the property and any commodities received. Limits the use of appropriations for specified activities, including education and training courses, legislative liaison activities, and payment to the Federal Employees Compensation fund. Requires each department and agency to improve the collection of overdue debts owed the United States. Title VIII: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for the Intelligence Community Staff and for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 2025
Miscellaneous Revenue Act of 1981 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the limitations placed on income tax deductions for expenses in connection with the business or rental use of a home shall not apply to rentals to a family member or a person who has an interest in the dwelling unit pursuant to a shared equity financing agreement if such person pays a fair rental and uses such residence as his principal place of residence. Defines "shared equity financing agreement" for purposes of this Act. Permits reasonable litigation costs, including attorneys' fees, to be awarded to the prevailing party (other than the United States or a creditor of the prevailing party) in any civil proceeding in any court of the United States for the determination, collection, or refund of any tax, interest, or penalty imposed under the Internal Revenue Code if it is determined that the position of the United States was unreasonable. Requires such party to have exhausted the available administrative remedies within the Internal Revenue Service. Disallows costs of proceedings involving declaratory judgments, except those involving the revocation of an organization's status as a tax-exempt public charity. Includes as attorneys' fees any amounts paid to an individual who is not an attorney but who is authorized to practice before the Tax Court. Defines "prevailing party" as a party who substantially prevails with respect to the amount in controversy or the most significant issue or set of issues. Disqualifies costs of proceedings commenced after September 30, 1984. Increases from $500 to $5,000 the maximum penalty for instituting Tax Court proceedings for purposes of delay and imposes such penalty for the bringing of proceedings which are frivolous or groundless. Revises the test for whether proceedings are brought for purposes of delay. Exempts accrual basis taxpayers from the application of tax rules limiting the acceleration of accrual of taxes by a taxing jurisdiction if they so elect or if they were not liable for any tax prior to the effective period of acceleration. Sets forth rules for the accounting of accruals in the case of taxpayers who make such an election. Revises the formula used for purposes of the personal holding company tax to determine whether the sum of the deductions directly allocable to the conduct of a lending or finance business allows the exclusion of such a business from the definition of a personal holding company. Increases from 60 to 144 months the limitation on the maturity of commercial paper and loans dealt in or made by a lending or finance business. Excepts from the definition of "lending or finance business" the making of loans, notes, or installment obligations under open end credit agreements. Amends the Tax Reform Act of 1976 to defer until 1984 the effective date of special rules limiting net operating loss carryovers. Amends the Energy Tax Act of 1978, with respect to refunds resulting from the repeal of the manufacturers excise tax on buses, to extend to December 31, 1982, the period for reimbursement of tax to the ultimate purchaser and revise requirements regarding proof of reimbursement.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Amends title 11 (Bankruptcy) of the United States Code to define, for the purposes of such title, "securities clearing agency" as a person that is registered as a clearing agency under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or whose business is confined to the performance of functions of a clearing agency with respect to exempted securities, as defined in such Act. Amends the definition of a "security" under title 11, which includes only securities registered under the Securities Act of 1933, to include any security which should be so registered. Makes the provisions of title 11 concerning commodity broker liquidation applicable only in a case concerning a commodity broker. Includes an application filed under the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 within the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code which provide for an automatic stay applicable to specified entities. Prohibits the trustee from avoiding a transfer that is a margin payment or settlement payment made by or to a commodity broker, forward contract merchant, stockbroker, or securities clearing agency that is made before the commencement of the bankruptcy case. States that the exercise of a contractual right of a stockbroker or securities clearing agency to cause the liquidation of a securities contract shall not be stayed, avoided, or otherwise limited by operation of any provision of this title or by order of a court or administrative agency in any proceeding under this title unless such order is authorized under the provisions of the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970 or any statute administered by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Declares that the contractual right of a commodity broker or forward contract merchant to cause the liquidation of a commodity contract and the right to a variation or maintenance margin payment received from a trustee with respect to open commodity contracts or forward contracts, shall not be stayed, avoided, or otherwise limited by operation of any provision of this title or by the order of a court in any proceeding under this title. Prohibits the trustee from avoiding a transfer made before five days after the order for relief if such transfer is approved by the Commission by rule or order, either before or after such transfer, and if such transfer is: (1) a transfer of a securities contract entered into or carried by or through the debtor on behalf of a customer, and of any cash, security, or other property margining or securing such securities contract; or (2) the liquidation of a securities contract entered into or carried by or through the debtor on behalf of a customer. Apportions any cash or security remaining after the liquidation of a security interest created under a security agreement made by the debtor, excluding certain property, between the general estate and customer property in the same proportion as the general estate of the debtor and customer property were subject to such security interest. Includes within the definition of "margin payment" mark-to-market payments, settlement payments, variation payments, daily settlement payments, and final settlement payments made as adjustments to settlement prices. Prohibits the payment of a customer net equity claim based on a proprietary account out of customer property unless all other customer net equity claims have been paid in full.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire such oil, gas, coal, or other mineral interests owned by, or held in trust for, the Osage Tribe of Indians, to the extent necessary for the construction of works relating to Skiatook Lake in Oklahoma and its operation and maintenance as part of a project for improvement of the Verdigris River and tributaries in Oklahoma and Kansas under the Flood Control Act of 1962. Authorizes the Osage Tribal Council and the Secretary of the Army to negotiate a contract, subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of such mineral subordination. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to disburse the proceeds of such contract payment by the Secretary of the Army to the Osage Tribe of Indians. Limits contract and payment authority under this Act to the extent and amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts. Provides that any direct or indirect authorization of the enactment of new budget authority by this Act shall be effective only for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 2023
Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to add items to the definition of "capital project" so that they may be financed by District bonds. Exempts specified provisions from the requirement that Congress must approve obligations of District funds. Authorizes the Mayor to make the required payments on the interest and principal of general obligation bonds and notes issued to finance capital projects. Authorizes the Mayor to take certain actions concerning bonds that created a security interest in District revenues. Changes the times at which the interest on District bonds issued for capital projects is payable. Requires that the District must hold elections on whether to issue bonds for capital projects. Requires such elections to be held before the legislation authorizing the issuance of the bonds is sent to Congress. Requires the Mayor to publish a notice in a District newspaper whenever legislation authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds is enacted. Sets forth the limitation period between the time such legislation is enacted and the time it is deemed immune from certain court challenges. Authorizes the Mayor to issue the bonds after the Council of the District of Columbia authorizes their issuance. Sets forth the methods of payment, execution, and authentication of such bonds. Authorizes the Mayor to sell bonds by private as well as public sale if the bonds are sold after a specified date and if they are secured by District revenues. Authorizes the Council to create a security interest in District revenues to secure bonds for capital projects. Sets forth the priority of such security interest. Authorizes the Council to issue short-term general obligation notes to meet appropriations made by Congress if no unappropriated revenues are available to meet such appropriations. Authorizes the Council to issue such notes in anticipation of collecting or receiving revenues. Retains the current provisions creating a special debt service fund by levying a special tax, requiring an audit of such fund, and pledging the District's full faith and credit to pay the principal of and interest on certain general obligation bonds. Directs the Council to provide in each annual District budget for payment of the principal of and interest on bonds issued for capital projects, meeting appropriations, or revenue anticipation. Directs the Mayor to insure payment of such principal and interest. Requires using the annual Federal payment to pay such principal and interest if no other funds are available. States that the full faith and credit of the United States is not pledged for bonds issued by the District under its borrowing authority. Revises the provisions for the issuance of revenue bonds and other obligations by the Council.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Establishes the position of Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs in the Department of Commerce. Declares that the Under Secretary shall be appointed by the President with the Senate's approval. Eliminates one of the positions of Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 2026
Interstate Compact - Grants the consent of Congress to the compact between Mississippi and Louisiana which establishes a commission to study the feasibility of providing rapid rail transit service between the two States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2024
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to disburse certain trust funds of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. Requires that such disbursement be used to cover or reduce a bank overdraft incurred by the tribe in support of administration of Federal contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the tribe if the United States adjusts the accounts of Indian tribes or organizations administering Federal contracts for the underrecovery of contract support money.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
International Banking Facility Deposit Insurance Act - Amends the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to declare that any international banking facility deposit, including an international banking facility time deposit, shall not be a deposit for any of the purposes of such Act or be included as part of total deposits, or of an insured deposit, of a bank insured under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 2026
Establishes a permanent boundary for the portion of Acadia National Park which lies within the town of Isle au Haut, Maine. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the town all Federal interests in lands outside the park boundary and within the town, subject to certain covenants. Provides for management of the park on a limited entry, minimal impact basis.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 2024
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, a specially struck gold medal to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in recognition of the bicentennial anniversary of diplomatic and trade relations between the Netherlands and the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to coin and sell bronze duplicates of such medal. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 2025
Requires the Maritime Administration to set aside specified surplus government ships for the use of LIFE International, a private nonprofit organization, to provide humanitarian services to developing countries. States that such set aside authority shall not apply when the ships are needed for national security purposes.