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Title: Liability insurance issues: Editorial commentary
Date: 1986
Summary: The rising cost and reduced availability of liability insurance in recent years has been a concern for business, government, and consumers. This Editorial Commentary looks at such liability insurance areas as products liability, malpractice, local government liability, and other forms of liability insurance. The Editorial Commentary is divided into two sections. The first contains an introductory news article on liability insurance and a chart showing what States have been doing about this problem. The second includes editorials selected from newspapers from all regions of the United States. This section is arranged in reverse chronological order.

Title: Tax reform and federal subsidy of the state-local sector: Is there a role for state-local tax deductibility?: A conceptual analysis
Date: 1985
Summary: This report explains the economic rationales for Federal subsidy of public spending by the State-local sector and evaluates the changes in deductibility of State-local taxes proposed by the Treasury, Bradley-Gephardt, and Kemp-Kasten tax reform plans for consistency with these rationales.

Title: Discorso sull’ Agricoltura
Date: 1569

Title: Tax amnesty: State and European experience
Date: 1984
Summary: This paper surveys the recent experience of States and European countries with tax amnesty programs. The introductory section reflects the surge of interest in providing a Federal program of similar scope to some of the State tax amnesty programs already offered with quotes from Members of Congress and the Administration. A brief history of prior Federal involvement with tax amnesty programs follows. General observations pertaining to the State programs, along with what appear to be certain keys to success for State programs, is followed by a more detailed summary of each of the eight State programs held to date. The information gathered for this section was obtained from interviews held with State officials. The final section discusses the experience of European tax amnesty programs in France, Italy, and Belgium and concludes with possible lessons the United States might draw from them.

Title: Summary of the Adult Education Act, as amended by the Education Amendments of 1984 (P.L. 98-511)
Date: 1984
Summary: The Education Amendments of 1984 amended the Adult Education Act, extending it through FY 1988, with $140 million authorized for Fy 1985. The 1984 amendments gave the States increased flexibility regarding advisory councils, but data reporting requirements were increased. The provision of programs to benefit educationally disadvantaged adults remains the basic program purpose.

Title: Tax incentives to train or retrain the work force
Date: 1987
Summary: Four Internal Revenue Code provisions that provide incentives for training or retraining of workers are covered in this report. These descriptions are current as of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and reflect changes made by the Act. Federal revenue costs associated with specific Code sections are given if available.

Title: Superfund: Editorial commentary
Date: 1986
Summary: This Editorial Commentary presents selected editorials on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, which authorized a five-year Superfund. The editorials, which present recent views from over 25 states, are arranged in chronological order. Most discuss reauthorization of Superfund; both the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed bills, but the bills differ considerably. An information sheet giving key dates and facts about Superfund precedes the editorials.

Title: Sharing the cost of acid rain control: An analysis of federal financing under H.R. 3400
Date: 1983

Title: Summary of information about foreign trade by states available from federal and non-federal sources
Date: 1984
Summary: Many congressional offices find it occasionally useful to review the significance of foreign trade, especially exports, in the economies of their States or some region of special interest to them. This report is designed to provide an overview of what information is available, evaluate its usefulness, and explain how to obtain existing data.

Title: A survey of State mandatory retirement laws
Date: 1985

Title: Tax-exempt bonds: A summary of changes made by the Tax Reform Act of 1986
Date: 1987
Summary: This report summarizes recent changes in the treatment of tax-exempt bonds issued by State and local governments. While many former rules have been retained in amended form, some new restrictions have been added.

Title: Summary of state severance taxes and other taxes on the unit or value of natural resources as of July 1, 1984
Date: 1984
Summary: The Census Bureau's report for fiscal year 1983 showed 32 States with a total of $7.4 billion from severance tax collections. Our compilation also includes seven States which use the same tax base, i.e., the unit or value of natural resources extracted, within a broad tax of general application. Eleven States do not levy a State severance tax or any other levy on the unit of value of natural resources extracted.

Title: Summary of oversight hearings on implementation of the Acid Precipitation Act of 1980
Date: 1984

Title: The Tax Reform Act of 1985 (H.R. 3838): Interpreting the revenue estimates
Date: 1986
Summary: Estimates show that over its first five years, the Tax Reform Act of 1985 (HR 3838) would be revenue neutral, with a reduction in revenue from the individual income tax just offset by an increase in revenue from the corporate income tax. This report describes the major changes in the individual and corporate income tax systems that would produce these revenue patterns. Notwithstanding the five-year revenue estimates, the report concludes that the bill would not significantly increase the tax burden on corporate-sector income. Further, in the long-run, the bill may lose tax revenue compared to revenue that would be generated under the current tax system.

Title: Summary of major differences between Congressional Research Service (CRS) and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) studies of prevailing non-federal retirement practices
Date: 1985

Title: Summary of pay equity/comparable worth activities by state governments
Date: 1985
Summary: Almost half the States have studies or are studying their civil service systems for discriminatory pay practices particularly in female-dominated classifications. These studies and their results may have implications for the Federal Government as there are similarities between the civil service systems of the state and the Federal Government. The report includes a table highlighting comparable worth activities in the States.

Title: U.S. agricultural trade: An overview
Date: 1987
Summary: The U.S. agricultural trade performance has deteriorated over the past six years. The value of exports has fallen some 40 percent, while import value has risen 20 percent, cutting into what had been a healthy agricultural trade surplus. This report examines the reasons behind the deteriorating agricultural trade performance, recent policy changes to increase U.S. agricultural trade competitiveness, and a number of other options likely to be considered by the 100th Congress.

Title: Title III of the Higher Education Act: FY 1986 budget proposal
Date: 1985
Summary: This paper reviews the current structure of the programs authorized by title III of the Higher Education Act and the structural changes proposed for this title in the FY 1986 budget. Title III programs currently provide funds to institutions of higher education for development projects designed to improve academic and financial management capabilities. The Administration proposes in its FY 1986 budget to eliminate two of the current programs and focus funding on endowment building. The proposed FY 1986 appropriation level of $141,208,000 is the same as the FY 1985 appropriation level.

Title: Transportation for elderly and handicapped people: Programs, regulations, and issues
Date: 1985
Summary: The Federal Government aids transportation-disabled people by providing communities with financial assistance to establish or operate special transportation programs for elderly and handicapped people, and by regulating public transportation services to ensure accessibility by handicapped people. This report reviews the principal financial assistance programs and the most recent Federal regulatory proposal concerning accessibility. It also discusses some current issues related to transportation of elderly and handicapped people.

Title: Trucking regulation: A selected bibliography
Date: 1984
Summary: The following bibliography lists important published information and opinion about the Federal regulation of trucking in the United States. The entries of the bibliography appeared in print from 1975, when the deregulation of Federal control over trucking routes, rates, entry, and exit became a prominent issue nationally, to June 1984, the date of this report.

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