This Congressional report presents and examines the Adult Education Act Amendments of 1984. The Adult Education Act Amendments of 1984 are designed to amend the Adult Education Act in order to simplify requirements for States and other recipients participating in Federal adult education programs and also to amend certain stipulations of the act regarding educational research and evaluation, demonstration projects, programs for the elderly, State and National advisory councils on adult education, and educational opportunities and programming for adult American Indians and adult immigrants. Included in the report are the findings of an assessment of the need for these amendments, a statement of their purpose, their legislative history, a section-by-section analysis, committee views, an estimate of their cost and impact, and a discussion of the changes that they will effect in existing law. (MN)