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Title: Selected provisions of legislation in the 99th Congress affecting the homeless
Date: 1985

Title: Overview of state lottery operations
Date: 1985
Summary: The report uses published data to chronicle the historical experience of States now offering lotteries. Additional information is provided about suppliers and vendors, and for marketing techniques used by the States. The report also discusses the various organizational structures of lottery administrative agencies and commissions, and considers the effect Federal law and regulation have on State lotteries.

Title: Overtime provisions under the Fair Labor Standards Act for public fire protection or law enforcement employees
Date: 1985
Summary: As a result of a recent Supreme Court decision, State and local fire protection and law enforcement employees have come under the wage and overtime provisions of the Fair labor Standards Act. This report examines the overtime coverage.

Title: Pre- and post- Grove City judicial interpretation of "program or activity" as used in Title IX of the 1972 Education Act: Amendments and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Date: 1985

Title: Comparative energy risk assessments: Why they differ
Date: 1985
Summary: This report discusses the major factors which have made, and continue to make, the comparison of risks from different energy sources a difficult task. In particular, it addresses six areas of fundamental difficulty in making such comparisons. These areas include--portion of the fuel cycle included, technologies to be used, level of technology, assumptions of market penetration and siting, allocations between energy and non-energy risks, and comparing dissimilar risks. The report illustrates the magnitude of the problems of risk comparison by demonstrating the range of results obtained from some of the major energy risk assessments. A compilation of recent major energy risk assessments and energy risk comparisons in both the U.S. and other countries is also included.

Title: Distributional effects of the administration tax reform proposal
Date: 1985
Summary: This report provides estimates, based on disaggregate data, of the distributional effects of the Administration tax reform proposal announced in May 1985. This report is a supplement to CRS report no. 85-159 E.

Title: Mandatory retirement and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Date: 1985
Summary: The Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects most workers aged 40 through 69 against employment discrimination on account of age. Various issues under the Act are pending before the Supreme Court, in the executive branch regulatory process and in Congress. These include whether and how retirement ages for State and local public safety officers ought to be subject to current ADEA provisions; whether the Act's upper age limit of 70 for non-federal workers should be removed, thereby largely eliminating mandatory retirement on account of age; and what requirements the ADEA should impose on pension plans. Issues have also arisen related to other occupational groups-higher education faculty, airline pilots, and high level executives.