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 95 STAT. 1680

90 Stat. 765.

PUBLIC LAW 97-127—DEC. 29, 1981

Agreement. Such joint resolution shall be considered in the Senate in accordance with the provisions of section 601(b) of the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act of 1976, and in the House of Representatives a motion to proceed to the consideration of such joint resolution after it has been reported by the appropriate committee shall be treated as highly privileged. SOCIAL SECURITY AGREEMENT

Reciprocal payments, review. 22 USC note prec. 1642.

Report to Congress.

SEC. 11. The Secretary of State shall conduct a detailed review of the exchange of letters between the United States and Czechoslovakia providing for reciprocal social security payments to residents of the two countries. Such review should include an examination of the extent to which Czechoslovakia is complying with the spirit and provisions of the letters, a comparison of the benefits being realized by residents of Czechoslovakia and of the United States under the letters, and an evaluation of the basis of differences in such benefits. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, shall report to the Congress, not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the results of such review, together with any recommendations for legislation or changes in the agreement made by the letters that may be necessary to achieve greater comparability and equity of benefits for the residents of the two countries. Such report should include specific assessments of the feasibility, likely effects, and advisability of terminating United States social security payments to residents of Czechoslovakia in response to inequities and incomparabilities of benefits payments under the exchange of letters. Approved December 29, 1981.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 1946 (H.R. 5125) (S. 754): HOUSE REPORT No. 97-385 accompanying H.R. 5125 (Comm. on Foreign Affairs). SENATE REPORTS: No. 97-189 (Comm. on Finance) and No. 97-211 (Comm. on Foreign Relations) both accompanying S. 754. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 127 (1981): Dec. 11, considered and passed Senate. Dec. 15, H.R. 5125 considered and passed House; passage vacated and S. 1946, amended, passed in lieu. Dec. 16, Senate concurred in House amendment with an amendment; House concurred in Senate amendment.

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