A joint resolution to designate 1982 as the "National Year of Disabled Persons".
1982-02-26: Became Public Law No: 97-149.
A bill to define the affirmative defense of insanity and to provide a procedure for the commitment of offenders suffering from a mental disease or defect, and for other purposes.
1982-09-14: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 792.
A bill to expand the membership of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to include elected school board officials.
1982-07-07: Committee on Governmental Affairs received executive comment from Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
A joint resolution to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation designating March 21, 1982, as Afghanistan Day, a day to commemorate the struggle of the people of Afghanistan against the occupation of their country by Soviet Forces.
1982-03-10: Became Public Law No: 97-151.
Community Home Health Services Act of 1981
1982-03-23: Committee on Labor and Human Resources filed written report. Report No. 97-325.
A bill to place a moratorium on decisions by the Federal Trade Commission in shared monopoly proceedings until the Congress establish the existence of the violation and defines its elements.
1981-05-27: Committee on Commerce received executive comment from Federal Trade Commission. Unfavorably.
A bill to protect firearms owners constitutional rights, civil liberties and rights to privacy.
1982-06-18: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 678.
A bill to amend the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978 to further the objectives of national energy policy of conserving oil and natural gas through removing excessive burdens on the production of coal.
1981-01-21: Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
A bill to amend the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 and the Act entitled " An Act to provide for the protection of land resources against soil erosion, and for other purposes ", to require that the Chief Forester of the Forest Service and the Administrator of the Soil Conservation Service be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and for other purposes.
1982-04-23: Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.
A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with regard to mortgage investments.
1982-01-26: Subcommittee on Labor. Hearings held.
Orphan Drug Act
1982-02-26: Committee on Labor and Human Resources requested executive comment from Health and Human Services Department; GAO; OMB.
A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that the amount of any unnegotiated social security check shall be returned to the trust fund from which the check was issued.
1982-03-05: Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB; Treasury Department.
A joint resolution expressing the sense of Congress that the Government of the Soviet Union should respect the rights of its citizens to practice their religion and to emigrate, and that these matters should be among the issues raised at the thirty-eighth meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights at Geneva in February 1982.
1982-03-04: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.