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Download full textOffice of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, 2012
"Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2013" contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President's priorities, budget overviews organized by agency, and summary tables. The 2013 Budget contains a number of steps to put the country on a fiscally sustainable path. First, this Budget implements the tight…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Budgets, Federal Legislation, Presidents
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Small Business. – 1986
The text of a Senate Committee on Small Business hearing on the cost and availability of liability insurance for small business is presented in this document. The crisis faced by small business with skyrocketing insurance rates is described in statements by Senators Lowell Weicker, Jr., Robert Kasten, Jr., Dale Bumpers, Paul Trible, Jr., James…
Descriptors: Costs, Hearings, Insurance, Insurance Companies
Social Security Administration (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1976
The purpose of this publication is to make available to the public official rulings relating to the Federal old-age, survivors, disability, health insurance, supplemental security income, and miners' benefit programs. The rulings contain precedential case decisions, statements of policy and interpretations of the law and regulations. Included is a…
Descriptors: Bulletins, Court Litigation, Federal Legislation, Health Insurance
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1987
This document is the first volume of a two-volume Senate report describing actions taken during 1986 by the Congress, the administration, and the Senate Special Committee on Aging which are significant to older Americans. It summarizes and analyzes federal policies and programs that are of continuing importance for older persons and their…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Services, Employment, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1987
This document presents the texts of four Congressional hearings held in September of 1985 and February and March of 1986 to investigate the effects and the causes of the critical shortage of liability insurance in the United States. The first hearing examines the dimensions of the problem and offers insights into why objectives of having an…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Hearings, Individual Needs, Insurance
Peer reviewedRabban, David M. – Academe: Bulletin of the AAUP, 1980
TIAA-CREF, the largest college and university retirement system, reversed its prior policy and announced its intention to seek approval of a "unisex" mortality table for use in annuities. The Supreme Court decision in City of Los Angeles, Department of Water and Power v Manhart and related litigation are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Higher Education, Insurance, Legal Responsibility
Peer reviewedGray, John A. – Journal of Library Administration, 1988
Reviews common law contract and tort bases for malpractice liability and their applicability to reference librarians, special librarians, and information brokers. The discussion covers the legal bases for professional malpractice liability, the librarian-patron relationship, the likelihood of lawsuits, and the need for personal liability…
Descriptors: Information Scientists, Insurance, Legal Responsibility, Librarians
Markham, Walter G. – American School Board Journal, 1981
Narrates the history of an age discrimination suit against the West Hartford (Connecticut) Board of Education, arising from board attempts to limit hirings above certain salary levels. Suggests that school boards carry insurance against legal damages, retain hiring records, and hire administrators willing to be honest with unsuccessful job…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Age Discrimination, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Hartog-Rapp, Fay – 1987
This report discusses public school legal liability in the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) controversy with regard to the right of privacy of AIDS victims who are students and employees and the concern of risk of contagion to other students and employees and the public's right to know what is going on in their schools. Several steps…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Civil Liberties, Confidential Records, Confidentiality
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1985
This hearing was held to gather information, identify concerns relevant to reauthorization of Project Head Start, and collect program directors' input on some of the immediate day-to-day problems of program implementation, such as insurance and salaries. Witnesses affirmed the current administration's support for Head Start, mentioned some program…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Administration, Educational Needs, Educational Quality
White, Eileen – American School Board Journal, 1981
Discusses the legal ramifications of school personnel other than nurses providing health care in schools and offers guidelines for forming a school medication and emergency care policy. (WD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Health Services, Inservice Education, Insurance
Griffin, Richard A.; Fowler, Laura S. – School Business Affairs, 2001
The most overlooked facet of school construction is the dovetailing of permanent construction insurance and technology construction insurance. Advice is provided about technology and technology purchases, highlighting problems associated with costs, copyright infringements, delivery delays, electrical wiring, hardware, student records, vendors,…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Insurance
Splitt, David A. – Executive Educator, 1988
Summarizes several U.S. Supreme Court actions, including decisions to review a North Dakota case concerning fees for rural bus students and a Florida case involving differential contributions and benefits for male and female employees. The Court refused to hear certain cases involving school consolidation (Kansas City), mainstreaming of retarded…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Consolidated Schools, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedTytel, Judith E. – Journal of College and University Law, 1980
Various federal agencies and the courts are facing questions about the legality and potential discrimination in sex-segregated mortality tables and discrepancies in retirement and insurance benefits. By using unisex mortality tables, TIAA-CREF is an unwilling pioneer in the insurance industry, but the tables' ultimate form remains in question.…
Descriptors: Expectancy Tables, Financial Services, Higher Education, Insurance
Peer reviewedTaylor, Ellen T. – Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, 1978
After discussing the facts and reasoning of the two cases (General Electric Co. vs Gilbert and Nashville Gas Co. vs Satty), the author argues that the decisions are largely the product of pregnancy stereotypes and that the Court's reasoning is flawed and should not be applied outside the context of pregnancy. Journal availability: see EA 511 481.…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employees, Insurance, Leaves of Absence
