Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1983

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1983 - Title I: Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for FY 1983 for: (1) the Office of the Secretary; (2) international affairs; (3) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (4) the Bureau of Government Financial Operations; (5) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; (6) the United States Customs Service; (7) the Bureau of the Mint; (8) the Bureau of the Public Debt; (9) the Internal Revenue Service; (11) payments where energy credits exceed liability for tax; and (12) the United States Secret Service.

Makes appropriations to the Treasury Department in this Act available for uniforms or allowances.

Requires the conduct of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service in connection with collection of any underpayment of tax to comply with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated by this Act to disqualify or issue an unfavorable advance determination letter, with respect to any tax-qualified pension plan which has vesting requirements or provides for nonforfeitable rights to benefits equal to or more stringent than 4/40.

Prohibits the use of funds to implement changes shortening the time granted, or altering the mode of payment permitted, for payment of excise taxes by law or regulations in effect on January 1, 1981.

Prohibits the use of funds to impose or assess any excise tax on the manufacture of recreational equipment in all cases where less than fifty items are manufactured or produced per annum.

Requires the salaries and expenses of any full-time permanent, part-time and temporary personnel required by the Internal Revenue Service to be funded from this Act.

Title II: Postal Service Appropriation Act, 1983 - Postal Service Appropriation Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service for FY 1983 for payment to the Postal Service Fund.

Title III: Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations to the Executive Office of the President for FY 1983 for: (1) compensation of the President; (2) the Office of Administration; (3) the White House Office; (4) the Executive Residence at the White House; (5) the official residence of the Vice President; (6) special assistance to the President; (7) the Council of Economic Advisers; (8) the Office of Policy Development; (9) the National Security Council; (10) the Office of Management and Budget; (11) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; (12) the property review Board; and (13) unanticipated needs.

Title IV: Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1983 - Makes appropriations for FY 1983 to the following independent agencies: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (3) the Advisory Committee on Federal Pay; (4) the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severly Handicapped; (5) the Federal Election Commission; (6) the General Services Administration for the Federal Buildings Fund (with amounts for repairs and alterations to specified federal buildings); (7) the Federal Supply Service; (8) the Transportation and Public Utilities Service; (9) the Automated Data and Telecommunications Service (10) the National Archives and Records Service; (11) the Federal Property Resources Service; (12) the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund; (13) the William Langer Jewel Bearing Plant Revolving Fund; (14) general management and agency operations; (15) the Office of Inspector General; and (16) allowances and office staff for former presidents.

Makes funds available to the General Services Administration available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles.

Makes appropriations available for payment to the General Services Administration for charges for space, services, and public improvements to buildings and facilities.

Prohibits the use of specified funds for automatic data processing services for the joint General Services Administration-Department of Agriculture MCS project 97-72.

Permits funds in the Federal Buildings Fund to be transferred between activities only to the extent necessary for mandatory program requirements.

Permits the transfer, if approved in advance by the Appropriations Committees, of up to one percent of the personnel compensation made available in appropriations for operating expenses and salaries and expenses (excluding the Federal Buildings Fund) between such appropriations for mandatory program requirements.

Makes appropriations for FY 1983 for: (1) the Office of Personnel Management (including transfer of trust funds); (2) the government payment for annuitants and employees' health benefits; (3) the payment to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund; (4) the Merit Systems Protection Board (including a transfer of funds); (5) the Office of Special Counsel; (6) the Federal Labor Relations Authority; and (7) the United States Tax Court.

Title V: General Provisions (This Act) - Places limitations on expenses for travel expenses.

Prohibits the availability of any appropriations to pay the salary of any person filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who left to enter the armed forces and, after discharge, has made timely application for restoration.

Prohibits the use of any appropriation for the purchase or sale of real estate or for establishing new offices inside or outside the District of Columbia, except for programs approved by Congress and appropriated for.

Prohibits any appropriation contained in this Act from remaining available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided.

Prohibits the availability of any appropriation for the procurement of any hand or measuring tool not produced in the United States or its possessions except in the case of insufficient quantity and unsatisfactory quality.

Limits the expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through a procurement contract.

Denies funds for supervising the transfer between any Customs bonded warehouse and an exit point of any item of duty-free or tax-free merchandise intended for export on behalf of an individual departing from the United States, unless such merchandise is bought at a licensed duty-free store in the same part as the exit point.

Prohibits the use of any part of any appropriation contained in this Act for the procurement of stainless steel flatware not produced in the United States or its possessions.

Title VI: General Provisions (Department, Agencies, and Corporations) - Prohibits any appropriation in this Act from being used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States not heretofore authorized by Congress.

Fixes the maximum allowable amounts during the current fiscal year for the purchase of any passenger motor vehicle.

Prohibits any appropriation from being used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the Government of the United States whose post of duty is in the continental United States unless such person is: (1) a citizen of the United States; (2) eligible for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen and is residing in the United States; (3) owes allegiance to the United States; (4) an alien from one of a specified number of countries; or (5) a refugee from one of a specified number of countries.

Makes certain appropriations available for expenses of travel also available for quarters allowances and cost-of- living allowances.

Prohibits any appropriation from being paid to any person for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve such nomination.

Makes specified funds available for rent in the District of Columbia.

Permits the use by Federal agencies of foreign credits owed to or owned by the United States for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current fiscal year.

Prohibits the use of funds for publicity or propaganda purposes designed to support or defeat legislation pending before Congress.

Denies funds to pay the salary of any officer or employee of the U.S. Postal Service who tries to prevent other officers or employees from communicating with Members or committees of Congress (whistle blowing), or who tries to discipline any officer or employee who does so communicate.

Prohibits the use of appropriations made available by this Act for interagency financing of boards, commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups which do not have prior and specific statutory approval to receive financial support from more than one agency or instrumentality.

Makes specified funds available for the employment of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied by the United States or the Postal Service.

Prohibits the use of funds for the purchase of passenger automobiles with an EPA estimate of less than 22 miles per gallon, except in specified cases.

Prohibits the use of funds to pay for an abortion or the administrative expenses in connection with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefit program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term.

Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act to implement, administer, or enforce any regulaion which has been disapproved by a resolution of disapproval duly adopted.

Limits the amount that may be paid to any prevailing rate employee for FY 1983.

Amends the Federal criminal code to make it unlawful for any person to enter or remain in any building or grounds designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as a temporary residence of any person protected by the Secret Service.

Sets forth criminal penalties for threats against certain United States Secret Service protectees.

Makes threats to kidnap the President and successors to the Presidency a federal crime.

Limits to six months the Secret Service protection to a former President's spouse and children. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to extend or reinstate protection for such person after the six-month period if the Secretary deems such protection necessary.

Declares that no person receiving Secret Service protection on the date of enactment of this Act shall have such protection terminated by the amendments made by this Act.

Permits the Department of the Treasury to reimburse its agents for subsistence expenses when working on protective missions in a nontravel status on a 24 hour a day basis.

Limits the amount of funds that may be expended to renovate, remodel, furnish, or redecorate the office of any appointed Federal official.

Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to direct each executive agency to designate a person to establish and operate a central monitoring system for the oversight of agency motor vehicle operations and related activities.

Requires each executive agency to develop a system to identify, collect, and analyze data with respect to all costs incurred in operating motor vehicles.

Requires the head of each executive agency to include with the requests for appropriations for FY 1984 specified information concerning motor vehicles.

Sets forth other activities to be carried out by executive agencies concerning review, administration and maintenance of motor pools, and reduction of related costs.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to declare that the fact that the tax imposed upon residential real property is not measured by all of the gross receipts, but only a portion of the gross receipts, shall not effect its treatment as a general sales tax.

Declares that if the tax imposed upon the sale of residential real property is separately stated to the purchaser such tax shall be treated as a general sales tax.

Prohibits the use of the funds provided in any Act, with specified exceptions, for the transportation of any officer or employee of a department or agency between his domicile and his place of employment.

Limits the total amount of budget authority for FY 1983 which may be expended for consulting services, management and professional services, and special studies and analyses by all agencies, departments, and instrumentalities of the executive branch of the Government.