(1) TECHNICAL CHANGES.-Section 130 a. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2159(a)) is amended (A) in the first sentence (i) by striking out "123 d.,"; and (ii) by striking out", and in addition, in the case of a proposed agreement for cooperation arranged pursuant to subsection 91 c., 144 b., or 144 c., the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate,"; and (B) in the proviso, by striking out "and if, in the case of a proposed agreement for cooperation arranged pursuant to subsection 91 c., 144 b., or 144 c. of this Act, the other relevant committee of that House has reported such a resolution, such committee shall be deemed discharged from further consideration of that resolution". (2) PROCEDURES FOR CONSIDERATION OF JOINT RESOLUTIONS.-Section 130 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 is amended (A) by amending subsection g.— (i) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as clauses (A) and (B); (ii) by striking out "g. For" and inserting in lieu thereof "g. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for"; and (iii) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(2) For purposes of this section insofar as it applies to section 123 "(A) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die at the end of a Congress; and "(B) the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days are excluded in the computation of any period of time in which Congress is in continuous session."; and (B) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "i. (1) For the purposes of this subsection, the term 'joint resolution' means a joint resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as follows: 'That the Congress (does or does not) favor the proposed agreement for cooperation transmitted to the Congress by the President on , with the date of the transmission of the proposed agreement for cooperation inserted in the blank, and the affirmative or negative phrase within the parenthetical appropriately selected. "(2) On the day on which a proposed agreement for cooperation is submitted to the House of Representatives and the Senate under section 123 d., a joint resolution with respect to such agreement for cooperation shall be introduced (by request) in the House by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for himself and the ranking minority member of the Committee, or by Members of the House designated by the chairman and ranking minority member; and shall be introduced (by request) in the Senate by the majority leader of the Senate, for himself and the minority leader of the Senate, or by Members of the Senate designated by the majority leader and minority leader of the Senate. If either House is not in session on the day on which such an agreement for cooperation is submitted, the joint resolution shall be introduced in that House, as provided in the preceding sentence, on the first day thereafter on which that House is in session. "(3) All joint resolutions introduced in the House of Representatives shall be referred to the appropriate committee or committees, and all joint resolutions introduced in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations and in addition, in the case of a proposed agreement for cooperation arranged pursuant to section 91 c., 144 b., or 144 c., the Committee on Armed Services. "(4) If the committee of either House to which a joint resolution has been referred has not reported it at the end of 45 days after its introduction, the committee shall be discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution or of any other joint resolution introduced with respect to the same matter; except that, in the case of a joint resolution which has been referred to more than one committee, if before the end of that 45-day period one such committee has reported the joint resolution, any other committee to which the joint resolution was referred shall be discharged from further consideration of the joint resolution or of any other joint resolution introduced with respect to the same matter. "(5) A joint resolution under this subsection shall be considered in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b)(4) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976. For the purpose of expediting the consideration and passage of joint resolutions reported or discharged pursuant to the provisions of this subsection, it shall be in order for the Committee on Rules of the House of Representatives to present for consideration a resolution of the House of Representatives providing procedures for the immediate consideration of a joint resolution under this subsection which may be similar, if applicable, to the proce dures set forth in section 601(b)(4) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976. "(6) In the case of a joint resolution described in paragraph (1), if prior to the passage by one House of a joint resolution of that House, that House receives a joint resolution with respect to the same matter from the other House, then "(A) the procedure in that House shall be the same as if no joint resolution had been received from the other House; but "(B) the vote on final passage shall be on the joint resolution of the other House.". (d) APPLICABILITY OF AMENDMENTS.-The amendments made by this section shall apply to any agreement for cooperation which is entered into after the date of the enactment of this Act. Approved July 12, 1985. Legislative history: House Report No. 99-180 (Comm. of Conference). Apr. 3, considered and passed Senate. Apr. 16, H.R. 1786 considered and passed House; S. 883, amended, passed in lieu. June 27, House and Senate agreed to conference report. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Vol. 21, No. 28 (1985): PUBLIC LAW 99-79 [S.J. Res. 180] JOINT RESOLUTION Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act. Whereas, on August 1, 1975, the United States joined thirty-four other nations, including the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact states, as signatories to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Final Act, and Whereas, the Final Act is a balanced document incorporating provisions concerning human rights and fundamental freedoms, military security, cooperation in the fields of economic, scientific, cultural and educational affairs, free flow of information, and humanitarian affairs, and Whereas, the Helsinki process has evolved into the primary tool of East-West human rights diplomacy and continues to serve as a beacon of hope to victims of oppression in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and Whereas, the United States, our NATO Allies and a number of neutral and nonaligned countries have documented and protested many serious violations of the human rights and human contacts provisions of the Final Act by the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact states, and Whereas, the Soviet Union displays contempt for basic civil and political rights, such as freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief; confines in prisons, labor camps and psychiatric institutions or internally exiles hundreds of citi zens who have sought to know and act upon their rights, among them thirtyseven imprisoned members of Helsinki monitoring groups, and Whereas, the Soviet Union callously disregards its pledge to facilitate human contacts and has drastically reduced the numbers of Soviet citizens permitted to emigrate; has consistently denied exit permission to Soviet citizens married to United States citizens and to other individuals who have claims to United States citizenship; and deliberately impedes the East-West flow of information by jamming Western radio broadcasts, and Whereas, disregard for human rights also is evident in the other Warsaw Pact states of Eastern Europe, and Whereas, inter alia, Bulgaria maintains virtually total control over the life of its people and recently has engaged in a campaign of forcible assimilation aimed at the Turkish minority population; Czechoslovakia harshly represses independent social, political, religious, minority and cultural expression and persecutes members of Charter '77 and VONS (Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Per secuted); The German Democratic Republic enforces a restrictive emigration policy; Hungary continually harasses citizens who publish or possess unofficial material; Poland outlaws the Solidarity Union, harasses and prosecutes Solidarity and human rights advocates and currently imprisons over two hundred per sons for exercising their human and workers' rights; Romania maintains a re pressive internal regime and seriously violates the freedoms of conscience, expression and association, as well as religious liberty and minority rights, and Whereas, meetings of Helsinki signatory states present important opportunities for Western democracies to call the Soviet Union and its allies to account for these human rights violations, and Whereas, at the recent Ottawa Human Rights Experts Meeting of Helsinki signatory states, East Bloc human rights violations were raised and deplored by United States Ambassador Richard Schifter and by other Western and Neutral envoys on behalf of their respective states, and Whereas, United States Secretary of State George P. Shultz will lead the United States Delegation to the tenth anniversary commemoration of the signing of the Final Act: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (1) the Congress strongly reaffirms the human rights principles and humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and the Madrid Concluding Document; (2) the Congress recognizes and condemns continued East Bloc violations of international obligations under the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the Helsinki Final Act, the Madrid Concluding Document, and other relevant international instruments; (3) the Congress requests that the President of the United States direct the United States Department of State to convey to the Soviet Union and its allies the United States deep and abiding human rights concerns; (4) the Congress urges the President to direct the United States Department of State to take full advantage of the opportunities provided by all upcoming meetings of Helsinki signatory states to call the Soviet Union and its allies to account for ongoing human rights violations and to work constructively with the governments of the other Western democracies to promote human rights progress in the Eastern signatory states; and (5) the Congress calls upon the President to use every opportunity to stress the inherent link-explicitly stated in the Helsinki Final Act and the Madrid Concluding Document-between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace. Approved August 2, 1985. Legislative history: Congressional Record, Vol. 131 (1985): July 29, considered and passed Senate. PUBLIC LAW 99-81 [S.J. Res. 161] JOINT RESOLUTION To appeal for the release of Soviet Jewry. Whereas President Reagan recently stated that "Soviet Jewry suffers from persecution, intimidation, and imprisonment within Soviet borders"; Whereas President Reagan stated further that "We will never relinquish our hope for their freedom and we will never cease to work for it," and that "If the Soviet Union truly wants peace, truly wants friendship, then let them release Anatoly Shcharansky and free Soviet Jewry.": Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in support of the President's position, the Congress calls on the Soviet Union, as an initial gesture (1) to release immediately Anatoly Shcharansky, Yosef Begun, and all other Prisoners of Conscience, and allow them to leave the Soviet Union; (2) to issue immediately exit permits to the many known long term "Refuseniks" such as Ida Nudel and Vladimir Slepak; and (3) to allow those thousands of Jews who wish to emigrate to join their relatives abroad, or to be repatriated to their historic homeland, to leave this year and pledge that such cases shall be dealt with expeditiously and in a humanitarian way during the next three years, thus enabling those who have requested exit permits to leave. Approved August 6, 1985. Legislative history: Congressional Record, Vol. 131 (1985): July 18, considered and passed Senate. PUBLIC LAW 99-83 [S. 960] AN ACT To authorize international development and security assistance programs and Peace Corps programs for fiscal years 1986 and 1987, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the "International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985". (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.-The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. TITLE I-MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES AND RELATED PROGRAMS Sec. 101. Foreign military sales credits. Sec. 102. Terms of foreign military sales credits. Sec. 103. Military assistance. Sec. 104. International military education and training. Sec. 105. Peacekeeping operations. Sec. 106. Guaranty Reserve Fund. Sec. 107. Valuation of certain defense articles. Sec. 108. Full costing of FMS sales of training. Sec. 109. Administrative surcharge. Sec. 110. Contract administration services. Sec. 111. Catalog data and services. Sec. 112. Reports on cash flow financing. Sec. 113. Report on international volume of arms traffic. Sec. 114. Security assistance surveys. Sec. 115. North Atlantic Treaty Organization cooperative projects. Sec. 116. Exchange of training and related support. Sec. 117. Quarterly reports on United States military advisors abroad. Sec. 118. Sensitive technology. Sec. 119. Increase in criminal penalties for certain violations of the Arms Export Control Act. Sec. 121. Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Sec. 122. Leasing authority. Sec. 123. Military assistance costs; waiver of net proceeds for sale of MAP items. Sec. 124. Stockpiling of defense articles for foreign countries. Sec. 125. Security assistance organizations. Sec. 126. Exchange training. Sec. 127. Training in maritime skills. Sec. 128. Special waiver authority. Sec. 129. Conventional arms transfers. Sec. 130. Foreign military sales for Jordan. Sec. 131. Certification concerning AWACS sold to Saudi Arabia. Sec. 132. Cooperative agreements on air defense in Central Europe. TITLE II-ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND Sec. 201. Purposes and uses of ESF; authorizations of appropriations. Sec. 202. Assistance for the Middle East. Sec. 203. Assistance for Cyprus. Sec. 204. Assistance for Portugal. Sec. 205. Acquisition of agricultural commodities under commodity import programs. Sec. 207. Restriction on use of funds for nuclear facilities. Sec. 208. Fiscal year 1985 supplemental authorization. TITLE III-DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE Sec. 301. Development assistance policy. Sec. 302. Agriculture, rural development, and nutrition. Sec. 304. Child Survival Fund. Sec. 305. Promotion of immunization and oral rehydration. Sec. 306. Education and human resources development. Sec. 307 Energy, private voluntary organizations, and selected development activities. Sec. 309. Private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives in overseas development. Sec. 311. Use of private and voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and the private sector. Sec. 313. Housing and other guaranty programs. Sec. 315. Minority set-aside. TITLE IV-OTHER FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Sec. 401 American schools and hospitals abroad. Sec. 402. Voluntary contributions to international organizations and programs. Sec. 403. Withholding of United States proportionate share for certain programs of international organizations. Sec. 404. International disaster assistance. Sec. 405. Trade and development program. Sec. 406. Operating expenses. TITLE V-INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND FOREIGN AIRPORT SECURITY Part A-International Terrorism Generally Sec. 501. Anti-terrorism assistance program. Sec. 502 Coordination of all United States anti-terrorism assistance to foreign countries. Sec. 505. Ban on importing goods and services from countries supporting terrorism. Sec. 507. International terrorism control treaty. Sec. 508. State terrorism. Part B-Foreign Airport Security Sec. 551. Security standards for foreign air transportation. Sec. 552. Travel advisory and suspension of foreign assistance. Sec. 553. United States airmarshal program. Sec. 554. Enforcement of International Civil Aviation Organization standards. Sec. 555. International civil aviation boycott of countries supporting international terrorism. Sec. 556. Multilateral and bilateral agreements with respect to aircraft sabotage, aircraft hijacking, and airport security. Sec. 557. Research on airport security techniques for detecting explosives. Sec. 558. Hijacking of TWA flight 847 and other acts of terrorism. Sec. 559. Effective date. TITLE VI-INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL Sec. 601. Short title. Sec. 602. Authorizations for international narcotics control assistance. Sec. 603. Development and illicit narcotics production. Sec. 604. Reports on international narcotics control assistance. Sec. 605. Exemption from ban on involvement of United States personnel in arrest actions in narcotics control efforts abroad. Sec. 606. Annual reports on involvement of foreign countries in illicit drug traffic. Sec. 607. Procurement of weapons to defend aircraft involved in narcotics control efforts. Sec. 608. Requirement for cost-sharing in international narcotics control assistance programs. Sec. 609. Prohibition on use of foreign assistance for reimbursements for drug crop eradications. Sec. 610. Assistance for Jamaica. Sec. 611. Assistance for Bolivia. Sec. 612. Assistance to Peru. Sec. 613. Reallocation of funds if conditions not met. Sec. 614. Conditions on United States contributions to the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control. Sec. 616. Greater effort by United States Armed Forces to support narcotics control efforts abroad. Sec. 617. Cuban drug trafficking. Sec. 618. Prohibition on assistance to countries which do not take adequate steps to halt drug trafficking. TITLE VII-WESTERN HEMISPHERE Sec. 701. Central America democracy, peace, and development initiative. Sec. 702. El Salvador. Sec. 703. Assistance for Guatemala. Sec. 704. Refugees in Honduras. Sec. 705. Promoting the development of the Haitian people and providing for orderly emigration from Haiti. Sec. 706. Military assistance for Paraguay. Sec. 707. Assistance for Peru. Sec. 708. Inter-American Foundation. Sec. 709. Comprehensive reports on assistance for Latin America and the Caribbean. Sec. 710. Use of private and voluntary organizations. Sec. 711. Assistance for law enforcement agencies. Sec. 712. Administration of justice. Sec. 713. Use of employee stock ownership plans in development efforts. Sec. 714. International Advisory Commission for the Caribbean Region. Sec. 715. Exemption of certain safety-related equipment from prohibition on military sales to Chile. Sec. 716. Rural electrification. Sec. 717. Facilitating international commerce through Mexico. Sec. 718. Condemning human rights violations and the subversion of other governments by the Government of Cuba. |