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United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Allows a business tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for expenses incurred for the care of one or more dependents if such care is for the purpose of enabling the taxpayer to carry on a trade or business, including the performance of services by the taxpayer as an employee.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Prohibits discrimination by creditors under the Truth in Lending Act against consumers on the basis of sex or marital status with respect to the extension of credit.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires the President to notify within ten days each House of the Congress by special message of every instance in which he impounds funds or authorizes such impoundment by any officer of the United States. States that such message must specify the amount of impounded funds, the specific programs affected, and the reasons for the impoundment of funds. Provides that the President shall cease the impounding of funds set forth in each special message within sixty days of continuous session after the message is received by the Congress unless the specific impoundment shall have been ratified by the Congress by the passage of a resolution in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Eliminates all the deductibles, coinsurance, and time limitations presently applicable to benefits under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare). Eliminates medicare taxes as the method of financing hospital insurance benefits and premium payments as the method of financing supplementary medical insurance benefits so that all benefits under title XVIII will be financed under general revenues. Extends coverage under title XVIII to eye care, dental care, hearing aids, prescription drugs, prosthetics, and various other items not now covered.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Department of Elder Affairs Act - Establishes the Department of Elder Affairs, and provides for the appointment of a Secretary of Elder Affairs. Provides for various officers to assist the Secretary. Directs the Department: (1) to serve as a clearinghouse for information related to problems of the elderly; (2) administer the grants provided by the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended; (3) develop, plan, conduct and arrange for research and demonstration programs in the field of the elderly; (4) provide technical assistance and consideration to States and political subdivisions thereof with respect to the elderly; (5) prepare, publish, and disseminate educational materials dealing with the welfare programs of the elderly; and (6) gather statistics in the field of the elderly in cooperation with other Federal agencies. Transfers to the Secretary all functions, powers, and duties of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and of all officers and employees of the Administration on Aging under the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended. Provides that the Secretary shall give full consideration to the need for operational continuity of the functions transferred. Provides that orders and actions of the Secretary in the exercise of functions, powers, and duties transferred under this Act and duties specifically assigned to the Secretary by this Act shall be in the same manner as if such orders and actions had been by the officer, department, or agency exercising such functions, powers, and duties immediately preceding their transfer. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the President on the activities of the Department under this Act. Provides that such report shall be submitted to the Congress. Prohibits any discrimination on the basis of sex in carrying out any provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, that for any portion of the period between October 27, 1972, and March 31, 1975, a State may continue to pay extended benefits without regard to provisions in the Act relating to the State "off" and "on" indicators. (Amends P.L. 92-599)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
National Cooperative Housing Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to establish a National Bank for Cooperative Housing in order to provide assurances to private and public housing developers that a continual supply of public funds is being and will be made available, at reasonably level rates during periods of high as well as low interest to encourage the building of low- and middle-income cooperative housing. Defines the terms used in the Act. Creates a body corporate to be known as the National Bank for Cooperative Housing. Provides that loans may not be made by the Bank unless the borrower is unable to obtain funds on reasonable terms from other sources. Vests the management of the Bank in a Board of Directors consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Labor, and ten other persons who shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that of the ten persons so appointed, one shall be an elected or an appointed official of a State government, and one shall be an elected or appointed official of a local government. Requires all of the other persons so appointed to be from the private sector. Provides for the appointment of officers and employees of the Bank. Provides that no director, officer, attorney, agent, or employee of the Bank shall in any manner, directly or indirectly, participate in the deliberations upon or the determination of any question affecting his personal interests, or the interests of any corporation, partnership, or association in which he is directly or indirectly personally interested. Provides that the Bank shall not engage in political activities nor provide financing for or assist in any manner any project or facility involving political parties, nor shall the directors, officers, employees, or agents of the Bank in any way use their connection with the Bank for the purpose of influencing the outcome of any election. Provides for a capital stock of $1,000,000,000 for the Bank. Provides for the purchase of Bank stock by the Treasury of the United States. Provides for the borrowing authority of the Bank. Declares that it shall be the function of the Bank to make and guarantee loans for the purchase or construction of low- and middle-income cooperative housing. Allows the Bank to make direct loans: (1) to State and local governments, public agencies, nonprofit private organizations, corporations, companies, partnerships, and individuals for the purchase of low- and middle-income cooperative housing constructed after 1959; and (2) to developers, contractors, subcontractors, and other persons to finance the construction of low- and middle-income cooperative housing. Requires that the financial transactions of the Bank be audited by the General Accounting Office. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,000,000,000 for subscription to the capital stock of the Bank. Authorizes payments of $125 a day to members of the Board of Directors of the Bank for each day they are engaged in the performance of duties under this Act. Provides that no person in the United States shall on the ground of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal assistance under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes free or reduced rate transportation under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 and Part I (Railroad Transportation) of the Interstate Commerce Act for persons who are sixty-two years of age or older. (Amends 49 U.S.C., 22, 1373 (b))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Housing for the Elderly Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans to corporations, consumer cooperatives, public bodies and agencies for the provision of rental or cooperative housing and related facilities exclusively for low-income or moderate-income elderly families or both. Sets forth conditions to be met by applicants for such loans. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $150,000,000 in each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 1973, to constitute a revolving fund to be used by the Secretary in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Prohibits the use of housing constructed with a loan made under this Act for transient or hotel purposes while such loan is outstanding. Authorizes the Secretary to make periodic interest-reduction payments on behalf of owners of rental housing projects designed for occupancy by elderly families of low-or moderate-income. Authorizes the Secretary to provide mortgage insurance for such housing. Provides for rehabilitation loans for housing owned and occupied by elderly families. Authorizes the appropriation of $75,000,000 to be used by the Secretary to provide such rehabilitation loans. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research and training in housing for the elderly. Authorizes an appropriation of $5,000,000 for each fiscal year for such grants. Provides for a seventh (presently, six) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to be designated Assistant Secretary for Housing for the Elderly. Establishes a Commission on Housing for the Elderly to study and investigate housing for the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes grants and loans to State and local public bodies and agencies thereof and to private nonprofit organizations to assist them in providing transportation services meeting the special needs of elderly and handicapped persons. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to use two percent of the annual appropriation for transportation research, development, and demonstration projects, to finance the programs of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Multifamily Housing Rehabilitation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make loans to non-profit organizations, or to any public body, agency, or organization, to assist in the rehabilitation of currently occupied multifamily housing for rental primarily to low-income or moderate-income persons or for purchase and occupancy by such persons as members of a tenant cooperative. Gives priority to applications for loans which give existing tenants the right to remain in the dwelling units. Provides that loans made under this Act shall bear no interest, shall not exceed $15,000 per dwelling unit, and shall not have a maturity date exceeding twenty years. Provides that of the original principal amount of any loan made under this Act: (1) an amount equal to 10 percent shall be canceled and forgiven each year over the first five years the loan is outstanding if the property is located in an area designated by the Secretary as a low-income area or in an urban renewal area, and (2) an amount equal to 5 percent shall be canceled and forgiven each year over the first five years the loan is outstanding if the property is located in an area designated by the Secretary as a middle-income or moderate-income area. Requires that at least fifty-five percent of the households occupying the property as tenants agree to the rehabilitation before any loan is granted. Provides that, if the Secretary deems an increase in rents is necessary, no tenant may be required to pay more than twenty-two percent of his income for rent. States that if in any month a sum equal to twenty-two percent of the income of each tenant is not sufficient to meet the loan repayment for that month, the Secretary shall forgive and cancel the payment for that month. Establishes guidelines regarding the acquisition price of property, payment of outstanding taxes and liens, and alternative procedures available in the event of a default in repayment of a loan made under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to employ qualified and expert individuals as rehabilitation agents to assist in planning and carrying out rehabilitation made with loans under this Act. Describes the duties of such agents. Allows the Secretary to issue and have outstanding at any one time notes and obligations for purchase by the Secretary of the Treasury in an amount not to exceed $20,000,000,000. Authorizes necessary appropriations, together with loan payments made by borrowers assisted with loans made under this Act, for payments on notes or other obligations issued by the Secretary. Provides that no person shall on the ground of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity administered or receiving assistance under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Declares that for the purposes of determining entitlement to monthly benefits or a lump sum death payment under the Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance provisions of the Social Security Act, an individual shall be deemed to have performed employment and to have been paid wages in each month during which he or she performed householder service. Provides that an individual shall be considered as performing householder service during any month if such individual: (1) has attained the age of 18 by the end of such month: (2) lives with and maintains a household for one or more other persons during all of such month; (3) is not the dependent of such other persons (except as the spouse of one of them); and (4) does not perform employment or engage in self employment at a rate of income which is sufficient to make the quarter in which such month falls a quarter of coverage. Establishes the procedure to be used by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to compute the monthly insurance benefit to which any individual is entitled, for the month in which this Act is enacted, on the basis of the self employment income of a person who has performed householder service. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare deems necessary to meet the additional cost of benefits paid under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Reduces from 20 to 5 years the length of time a divorced woman's marriage to an insured individual must have lasted in order for her to qualify for wife's or widow's benefits on his wage record under title II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 402)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Equal Credit Opportunity Act - Prohibits discrimination by any federally insured bank, savings and loan association, or credit union against any individual on the basis of sex or marital status in credit transactions and in connection with applications for credit. Provides civil and criminal penalties for persons violating this Act. Requires creditors subject to the provisions of this Act to annually prepare and file a report showing the extent of compliance with the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Adequate Nutrition Act - Defines the terms "operating agency" and "political subdivisions" for purposes of the Food Stamp Act of 1964. Provides under the Food Stamp Act that food stamp allotments will be cut commensurate with the number of individuals who are required to register for employment, but who refuse to do so (now the entire family is cut off if a single member refuses to work). Provides that before any such reduction is made the individual concerned shall be afforded a reasonable notice and opportunity for a fair hearing. Provides that the following individuals will not be required to register for employment under the Act: (1) anyone ill, incapacitated, disabled, or over sixty years of age; (2) a mother or other relative of an individual under the age of 18 who is caring for such individual; (3) persons under 18; (4) an individual over 18 who is regularly attending a school, college, or university or regularly attending a course of vocational or technical training designed to prepare him for gainful employment; (5) an individual whose presence in the home on a substantially continuous basis is required because of the illness or incapacity of another member of the household; or (6) an individual who is employed over 30 hours per week or who earns at least $48 per week. Requires that employment suitability consideration includes the degree of risk to the individuals health and safety, his physical fitness for the work, his prior training and experience, the length of his unemployment, his realistic prospects for obtaining work based on his potential and the distance of the available work from his residence. Provides that the employment shall not be considered suitable if the position offered is vacant as a direct result of a strike, lockout or other labor dispute, or if the wages for the job are payable at a rate less than the highest of the state or local minimum wage or $1.60 an hour or the minimum hourly rate applicable under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, or the prevailing rate of pay in the same labor market area for persons employed in similar work in the locality. Increases the value of coupon allotments under the Act by a low-cost plan which will increase such allotments from $106 per month for a family of four to $134 a month for a family of four. Provides that certification of eligible households will be by execution of a simplified statement containing the necessary information on a family's income and other factors to establish the family's eligibility and requires eligibility to be certified within seven days. Provides that certification will remain in effect when a family moves to another political subdivision for a period of 60 days from the time the family moved. Requires the State plan to provide that the state make every effort to insure that all eligible households are certified to participate in the program. Provides that if by April 1, 1974, a food stamp program is not being operated by the State agency in every political subdivision of any State, the Governor of the State shall have the right directly to administer the program in that area and if he fails to act by May 1, 1974, the Secretary of Agriculture shall directly administer the program through any appropriate Federal, State or county agency or through any public agency or private nonprofit organizaiton approved by the Secretary. Requires the program to be in operation no later than June 30, 1974. Provides that if, 180 days after a food stamp program has begun to operate in a political subdivision, a three-month period shall occur in which the number of persons participating is less than 50 percent of those determined to be from households whose annual income is below the poverty level as determined by the Secretary, the Governor of the State shall have the authority to administer the program and if he fails to do so within 30 days, the Secretary shall directly administer the program. Authorizes the Secretary to pay each State agency an amount equal to 75 percent of the salary and other expenses of personnel involved in carrying out the administration of the certification procedures of this Act and directs the Secretary to pay 50 percent of the cost of issuing coupons to eligible households and of collecting the sums required from participants. Directs the Secretary to pay 100 percent of these costs if the program is covering more than 66-2/3 percent of those in poverty in the area. Provides that, in the event that the Secretary authorizes a public agency or non-profit private organization to operate the program, the Secretary is directed to reimburse that agency for all of the administrative costs of the program. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the Food Stamp program of $2,500,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $3,500,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1975 and 1976. Permits needy families to purchase their food coupons on a monthly, bi-monthly, or weekly basis.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Equality Act - Prohibits, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, discrimination on account of sex in places of public accommodation, and under color of State law. Provides for civil actions by the Attorney General where there is discrimination on account of sex in public facilities or in public education. Prohibits discrimination on account of sex in federally assisted programs, and in housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage services. Provides for equal pay for women in executive, administrative, and professional positions. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to pay up to fifty percent of the cost of State commissions established to study discriminatory measures against women within the States, and to study necessary remedies. Authorizes $2,000,000 for this purpose. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make studies and recommendations in specified areas of Social Security Act and Internal Revenue Code concerning women.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Prohibits, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, the imposition of any deduction, cost sharing, coinsurance, enrollment fee, premium, or similar charge with respect to individuals receiving services under a State plan for medical assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Exempts child care services from the ceiling on the amount payable to States as grants for social services pursuant to the State and local Assistance Act of 1972. (Amends P.L. 92-512)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Allows a credit against income taxes inposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 based upon the amount of property taxes or rent constituting property taxes accrued for a taxable year by claimants filing a claim under this Act who are domiciled in the United States and 62 years of age or over during the entire taxable year preceding the year in which such claim is filed. Defines the terms used in this Act. Requires claimants under this Act to supply reasonable proof of age, rent paid, property taxes accrued, changes of homestead, household membership, household income, size, and nature of property claimed as the homestead. Permits any person aggrieved by the denial of relief claimed under this Act to appeal such denial to the U.S. Tax Court. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 1601-1605)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Foreign Investment and Multinational Corporation Control Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to insure that the production of goods which have historically been produced in the United States is continue and maintained, to encourage the return of production of goods that have been transferred abroad, and to encourage the development of new product production in the United States. Title I: Provides that if a foreign corporation is a controlled foreign corporation for an uninterrupted period of 30 days or more during any taxable year, every United States shareholder of such corporation who owns stock in such corporation on the last day in such year on which such corporation is a controlled foreign corporation shall include in its gross income, for its taxable year in which or with which such taxable year of the corporation ends, its pro rata share of the corporations' earnings and profits for such year. Defines the pro rata share of the stockholder and the earnings and incomes of such corporations. Provides that the earnings and profits of a foreign corporation attributable to amounts which are, or have been, included in the gross income of a United States shareholder shall not, when distributed to such shareholder or to a domestic trust of which such shareholder is a beneficiary, be again included in the gross income of such United States shareholder or trust. Provides that under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, or his delegate, the basis of a United States shareholder's stock in a controlled foreign corporation shall be increased by the amount required to be included in its gross income with respect to such stock, but only to the extent to which such amount was included in the gross income of such United States shareholder. Authorizes the Secretary or his delegate to require by regulation that each person who is or has been a United States shareholder of a foreign corporation to maintain such records as may be prescribed. Repeals the foreign tax credit allowed corporations. Requires the Treasury Department, by December 31, 1973, to submit to Congress a report on the administration of the income tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code as it applies to business activities carried on outside the United States by United States corporations. Title II: United States foreign Trade and investment Commission - Provides that the United States Foreign Trade and Investment Commission shall be composed of three commissioners to be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Prescribes the qualifications for the Commissioners. Title III: Amendments to the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Acts - Provides that whenever a class or kind of foreign merchandise is being sold in the United States at less than its fair value and an industry in the United States is being hurt or prevented from being established by reason of the importation of such merchandise, there shall be levied in addition to other duties a special dumping duty in an amount equal to the difference between the purchase price or the exporter's sales price and the foreign market value. Authorizes an additional duty where any country pays a bounty for the production of any goods and those goods are then imported into the United States, the duty to be equal to the bounty. Title IV: Amendments to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Adjustment Assistance - Provides for the presentation, consideration, and disposition of petitions for tariff adjustments. Title V: Foreign Investment and Technology Export Controls - Authorizes the President to prohibit any person within the jurisdiction of the United States from engaging in any transaction involving a direct or indirect transfer of capital to or within any foreign country or to any national thereof when in the judgment of the President the transfer would result in a net decrease in employment in the United States. Imposes a fine of not more than $100,000 and imprisonment of not more than one year for each violation. Title VI: Other Foreign Trade Provisions - Requires the Export-Import Bank of Washington to submit to Congress semi-annually a complete report of its operations. Requires that all goods having foreign made components be clearly marked, indicating the origin of such foreign made components. Title VII: General Provisions - Provides that the provisions of title V of this Act shall take effect six months after the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
War Resisters Exoneration Act - Grants general amnesty, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to any person for violation of laws involving the following prohibited acts during the period between August 4, 1964, and the date of enactment: draft evasion, draft evasion abetting, and draft card destruction; advising another to desert the Armed Forces; deserting from the Armed Forces; missing the movement of a ship, aircraft, or unit with which it is required in the course of duty to move; using contemptuous words against various executive and State officials where present as a commissioned officer in the Armed Forces; concealing or assising any person who has deserted from the Armed Forces; and attempting to cause insubordination by any member of the military or naval forces of the United States, with the intent to interfere with the loyalty or discipline of the military or naval forces of the United States. Makes the effect of such general amnesty to restore to the grantee all civil, political, citizenship and property rights which have been or might be lost, suspended, or otherwise limited as a consequence of such violation. Includes within this general amnesty the granting of an honorable discharge to any person who received a less than honorable discharge because of such violations. Establishes an Amnesty Commission composed of five members to grant general amnesty to individuals whose violation of the above laws was in substantial part motivated by the individual's opposition to, or protest against, the involvement of the United States in Indochina; and who was not personally responsible for any significant property damage or substantial personal injury to others in the course of his violation of such law. Gives the Commission jurisdiction to hear and determine applications from individuals entitled to automatic amnesty by this Act and aggrieved by the refusal of the military board to grant an honorable discharge to him. Makes provisions for applications for amnesty, and for judicial review of a decision by the Commission. Provides that, upon petition to any U.S. district court, the United States citizenship of any former citizen solely or partly because of disapproval of the involvement of the United States in Indochina shall be fully and unconditionally restored. Gives the district courts of the United States jurisdiction without regard to the amount in controversy to hear actions brought to redress the deprivation of rights that are restored by this act, and to grant such legal and equitable relief as may be appropriate. Authorizes such appropriations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Provides that if any provision or application of this Act is held invalid, the remainder of the Act shall not be affected thereby. Makes this Act effective upon the date of cessation of United States military operations in Indochina, which date shall be proclaimed by the President and shall not be later than three months after the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Public Works and Economic Development Act Amendments - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, where he determines that an applicant for a project grant for a redevelopment area under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 is unable to immediately contribute the full amount of the required non-Federal share, to waive or reduce the non-Federal share. Authorizes appropriations for the Act, not to exceed $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and for each fiscal year through 1978. Authorizes to be appropriated $100,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973-1975, for grants for the acquisition or development of land and improvements for mass transportation facility usage in connection with projects in redevelopment areas. Authorizes additional appropriations of $50,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973-1975 for grants to development areas. Increases appropriations to $350,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973 through 1978 for public works and development facility loans and for business loans. Specifies business loans which the Secretary may guarantee under this section. Prescribes the terms and conditions for loan assistance under this section. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973 through 1978 for technical assistance in alleviating unemployment in redevelopment areas. Provides for assistance to redevelopment areas impacted by rural migration.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Middle-Aged and Older Workers Full Employment Act - Title I: Statement of Findings and Declaration of Purpose - States that middle-aged and older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment and to regain employment when displaced; that legislation supplementary to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act is needed to end age discrimination in employment and to provide employment opportunities; that millions of persons age 45 and over live in poverty; and that more than a million men between 55 and 64 have given up the active search for employment primarily because of loss of hope for employment. Sets forth as the purpose of the Act the establishment and stimulation of programs which will: (1) afford the older worker a range of real and reasonable alternatives from among which he can make a free choice depending on his individual needs and capacities; (2) help clear the obstacles which confront the older jobseeker and eliminate arbitrary discriminatory practices which deny work to qualified persons solely on account of age; (3) increase the availability of jobs by finding new work opportunities, including part-time employment in needed community services to supplement income and to facilitate the transition to full retirement or the return to full-time work; (4) improve and extend existing programs intended to facilitate the matching of skills and jobs, and to cushion the impact of unemployment; (5) pave the way for older workers, employers, labor unions, and educational institutions to prepare for, and adjust to, anticipated changes in technology in jobs, in educational requirements, and in personnel practices, and to prepare for satisfying retirement; and (6) make maximum use of existing programs and agencies and provide the special efforts required to improve significantly the employment prospects of older workers. Title II: Midcareer Development Service and Special Problems in the Department of Labor for Middle-Aged and Older Persons - Establishes in the Department of Labor the Midcareer Development Service. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor through the bureau to make loans and grants for job training to persons age 45 or older. Permits such grants or loans to include stipends for the living expenses of trainees and their dependents. Provides for direct application by the prospective trainee and authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements to guarantee the loans of lending institutions. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Health,, Education, and Welfare, to develop and operate a program to train persons to train and retrain older workers. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to recruit and train personnel for a special unit to be made available, upon request, to provide recruitment placement, and counseling services in a locality where a substantial number of persons are unemployed as a result of mass layoffs. Directs the Secretary to establish and operate counseling services through the bureau. Authorizes the recruitment and necessary training of retired personnel directors. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of federally assisted job training programs to determine whether they are responsive to the needs of persons age 45 or older and requires a report of such findings and recommendation to the President for transmittal to the Congress not later than July 1, 1974. Permits payments pursuant to a grant or loan to be made in installments and in advance or by way of reimbursement. Title III: Work Opportunities and Community Service Programs - Directs the Secretary to review future Federal programs and identify those requiring significant numbers of employees. Permits the Secretary, for the purpose of effectuating the Act, to require contracting agencies to require all bidders to file a report of staffing patterns or other estimates of the kind and number of employees to be used. Authorizes the Secretary, upon finding that such a contractor may need additional workers, to make arrangements for training older persons for such employment. States that this provision shall not be construed to obligate any employer to hire individuals so trained. Requires the Secretary to consult with and advise the heads of agencies responsible for programs under the Economic Opportunity Act for the purpose of maximizing employment opportunities for older persons. Authorizes the Secretary, through the Federal-State employment service, or with the advise and assistance of such service, to make grants or contracts with nonprofit volunteer agencies for services related to the part-time or temporary employment of older persons. Authorizes the Secretary to foster and promote useful part-time community service work for older persons. Requires the Secretary to assist and cooperate with public and private agencies for such purpose. Authorizes agreements for the payment of up to 90 percent of the cost of a State or local program if he determines that: (1) only individuals aged fifty-five and over will provide services in the program (except for administrative purposes) and such services will be performed in the community where such individuals reside or in nearby communities either: (a) on publicly owned and operated facilities or projects; or (b) on local projects sponsored by private nonprofit organizations (other than political parties), other than projects involving the construction, operation, or maintenance of so much of any facility used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship; (2) the program will permit or contribute to an undertaking or service in the public interest that would not otherwise be provided; (3) the program will not result in the displacement of employed workers or impair existing contracts for services; (4) the program will utilize methods of recruitment and selection which will assure the assignment of qualified persons; (5) the program includes short-term training; (6) any rates of pay and other conditions of service, which may be fixed by the sponsor of each individual project, will be appropriate and reasonable and will in no case be less than the Federal minimum wage; (7) the program is being established and will be carried out with the advice of competent persons; (8) the program shall assure that safe conditions of work will be provided; and (9) the program shall assure that adequate workmen's compensation is afforded under such a program, except where equivalent protection is afforded from collateral sources. Requires the Secretary to obtain from State Employment Services: (1) recommendations concerning the localities in which community senior service programs are most needed; and (2) evaluation of the conformance of project sponsors with paragraphs 2 through 7 above. States that persons providing their services under a community service program shall not be Federal employees. Requires the Secretary to establish criteria to achieve an equal distribution of assistance to the States, but provides that no State shall receive more than 12 percent of the funds appropriated. Title IV: Expanding Opportunities for Employment, Education, and Retirement - Authorizes the Secretary to conduct, through services and facilities within his authority and through grants to public or private non-profit organizations and contracts with nonprofit agencies or with individuals, research into the problems related to the employment and retirement of older persons. Empowers the President to appoint a Commission on Lifelong Adult Education composed of twelve members appointed from outside the Government with a competency in the areas to be dealt with by the Commission. Requires the Commission to be broadly representative with not less than six members drawn equally from labor, management, and education. Requires the Secretary to study the feasibility and advisability of a program of transitional allowances for unemployed workers between age 55 and 65 who have inadequate financial resources, have exhausted their unemployment compensation, and have no prospects of employment. Requires a report to the Congress and the President by February 1, 1973 on such program. Title V: General - Sets forth administrative powers of the Secretary in carrying out his responsibilities under the Act. Authorizes the appropriation of necessary funds through fiscal year 1978 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Title VI: Federal Employment Opportunities for Middle-Aged and Older Workers - Authorizes and directs the Civil Service Commission to undertake a study of part-time employment in the executive branch of the Government and to report its findings to Congress by July 1, 1974. Provides that such study shall determine the extent of such employment and the limitation thereon and the measures which may be taken to increase the number of part-time positions filled by older persons. Directs the Commission to study and report on the feasibility of redesigning positions with a view to increasing the number of positions available to older persons. Directs the Commission to undertake special work and training programs to provide persons age 45 or older who are unemployed or in a low-income category with job opportunities in the executive branch of the Government. Title VII: Sex Discrimination - Prohibits discrimination in programs or activities under the Act on the basis of sex. Provides non-exclusive remedies through provisions and rules similar to those already established with respect to other forms of discrimination under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for an immediate end to United States involvement in hostilities in and over Indochina. Provides for the signing of a peace agreement with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Provides for the withdrawal of all United States Armed Forces and Defense Department personnel from Indochina. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for any offshore bombardment of Indochina after enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the United States Housing Act, for grants to local public housing agencies to assist in financing security arrangements designed to prevent crimes and otherwise insure the safety and well-being of low rent housing tenants. Authorizes to be appropriated $70,000,000 for such purpose for each fiscal year ending after June 30, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Reduces from 25 to 20 percent of the tenant's income the maximum rent which may be charged for a dwelling unit qualifying for assistance under the rent supplement program of the National Housing Act and the Housing and Urban Development Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that medical care for former members of the uniformed service shall include abortions, sterilizations, and family planning services and authorizes such medical treatment to be performed in facilities of the uniformed services. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1074, 1089)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
States that the authority of the President under the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 shall not be exercised to limit any fringe benefit offered in connection with a contract of employment. (Amends 12 U.S.C. 1904nt)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Health Security Act - Title I: Health Security Benefits - Provides that every resident of the U.S. (and every non-resident citizen when in the U.S.) will be eligible for covered services. Permits reciprocal and "buy-in" agreements for groups of non-resident aliens, and in some cases benefits to U.S. residents when visiting in other countries. Entitles every eligible person to have payments made by the Health Security Board for covered services provided within the United States by a participating provider. Provides that all necessary professional services of physicians, wherever furnished are covered, including preventive care, with two important restrictions: (1) specialist services are covered only when performed by a qualified specialist except in emergency situations, and generally only on referral from a primary physician; and (2) psychiatric services to an ambulatory patient are covered only for active preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic or rehabilitative service with respect to mental illness. Provides that comprehensive dental services (exclusive of most orthodontic services) are covered for children under age 15, with the covered age group increasing by two years each year until all those under age 25 are covered. Provides that: (1) inpatient and outpatient hospital services and services of a home health agency are covered without arbitrary limitation; (2) pathology and radiology services are specifically included as parts of institutional services; and (3) custodial care is specifically excluded in specified institutional settings. Limits payment for skilled nursing home care to 120 days per spell of illness, except that this limit may be increased when the nursing home is owned or managed by a hospital and payment for care is made through the hospital's budget. Limits the psychiatric hospital benefit to 45 consecutive days of active treatment during a spell of illness. Provides coverage for two categories of drug use: prescribed medicines administered to inpatients or outpatients within participating hospitals; or to enrollees of comprehensive health service organizations, and drugs necessary for the treatment of specified chronic illnesses or conditions requiring long or expensive therapy. Requires the Board and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish two lists of approved drugs, taking into account the safety, efficacy and cost of each drug. Provides a broad list of approved medicines available for use in institutions and by comprehensive health service organizations and a more restricted list which is available for use outside such organized settings. Provides that the appliances benefit is similar in concept and operation to the drug benefit, subject to a limitation on aggregate cost. Asserts that the professional services of optometrists and podiatrists are covered, subject to regulations, as are diagnostic or therapeutic services furnished by independent pathology laboratories and radiology services. States that health services furnished or paid for under a workmen's compensation law are not covered. Provides that the services of a professional practitioner are not covered if they are furnished in a hospital which is not a participating provider. Requires that participating providers meet standards established in this title or by the Board. Requires that such providers must agree to provide services without discrimination, to make no unauthorized charge to the patient for any covered service, and to furnish data necessary for utilization review by professional peers, statistical studies by the Board, and verification of information for payments. Makes professional practitioners, licensed when the program begins, eligible to practice in the State where they are licensed and requires that all newly licensed applicants for participation meet national standards established by the Board in addition to those required by his State. Establishes conditions of participation for general hospitals similar to those required under Medicare. States that the two requirements not found in the Medicare program are: (1) that the hospital must not discriminate in granting staff privileges on any grounds unrelated to professional qualifications; and (2) that it establish a pharmacy and drug therapeutics committee for supervision of hospital drug therapy. Provides that psychiatric hospitals will be eligible to participate only if the Board finds that the hospital (or a distinct part of the hospital) is engaged in furnishing active diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services to mentally ill patients. Establishes conditions of participation for skilled nursing homes similar to those established for extended care facilities under Medicare. Makes provisions for the participation of home health service agencies. Describes as eligible a health maintenance organization which undertakes to provide an enrolled population either with complete health care or with complete health security services (other than institutional services, mental health or dental services) for the maintenance of the health and care of ambulatory patients. Permits a foundation sponsored by a county or other local medical society to participate as a provider of services. Authorizes the Board to deal separately with the primary care portion of a system of comprehensive health care where it is necessary to rely on arrangements with other providers. Permits the Board to contract directly with public or other nonprofit mental health centers and mental health day care services. Specifies the broad and general conditions under which independent pathology laboratories, independent radiological services, and providers of drugs, devices, appliances, equipment, or ambulance services may qualify as providers under Health Security. Requires that a participating skilled nursing home have in effect an agreement with at least one participating hospital for the transfer of patients and medical and other information as medically appropriate. Prohibits in malpractice judgments any damages to be awarded to the injured party for the cost of remedial services which he is entitled to receive under this Act. Excludes the institutions of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, and institutions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare serving merchant seamen or Indians or Alaskan natives, from serving as participating providers, as well as any employee of these institutions when he is acting as an employee. Provides reimbursement for any services furnished by these institutions or agencies to eligible persons who are not a part of their normal clientele. Permits a physician, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist, licensed in one State and meeting the national standards, to furnish Health Security benefits in any other State, the scope of his permissible practice being governed by the law of the State in which he is practicing. Grants a similar authority to other health professional and nonprofessional personnel. Establishes the Health Security Trust Fund, to receive the net assets of existing (Medicare) funds taken over by the Health Security program, the yield of the Health Security taxes, and the Government's contribution from general revenues amounting to 100 percent of the yield from these taxes. Provides that three separate accounts shall be established in the Health Security Trust Fund: a Health Service Account, a Health Resources Development Account, and an Administration Account. Provides that in each of the first two years of the program operation, 2 percent of the Trust Fund shall be set aside for the Health Resources Development Fund; and the allocation shall increase by 1 percent at two-year intervals to 5 percent within the next 6 years. Provides for allocation of the Health Services account among the regions of the country. Provides that the allocation to each region shall be based on the aggregate sum expended during the most recent 12-month period for covered services (with appropriate modification for estimated changes in the consumer price index, the expected number of eligible beneficiaries, and estimated changes in the number of participating providers). Provides that the Board will divide the allocation to each region into funds available to pay: institutional services; physician services; dental services; furnishing of drugs; furnishing of devices, applications, and equipment; and miscellaneous services. Provides that payments for covered services provided to eligible persons by participating providers will be made from the Health Service Account in the Trust Fund. Describes the method to be used in applying, as between practitioners electing the various methods of payment fee for service, the monies available in each health service area for payment to each category of professional providers. Authorizes the Board to experiment with other methods of reimbursement so long as the experimental method does not increase the cost of service or lead to overutilization or underutilization of services. Provides that skilled nursing homes and home health agencies will be paid in the same manner as a general hospital (on an approved annual budget basis). Provides that a health maintenance organization will be paid for covered services, on the basis of a fixed capitation rate multiplied by the number of eligible enrollees. Contains a series of provisions for developing a continuous process of health service planning and for assisting in the recruitment, education, and training of health personnel. Authorizes special improvement grants: (1) to any public or other nonprofit health agency or institution to establish improved coordination and linkages with other providers of services, and (2) to organizations providing comprehensive ambulatory care to improve their utilization review, budget, statistical, or records and information retrieval systems, to acquire equipment needed for those purposes, or to acquire equipment useful for mass screening or for other diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Sets forth the responsibilities and duties of the Secretary of HEW and the Board with regard to this title. Creates an administrative structure within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with exclusive responsibility for administration of the Health Security program. Establishes a five-member full-time Health Security Board serving under the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that the members shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, for five-year overlapping terms. Creates the position of an Executive Director, appointed by the Board with the approval of the Secretary. Provides that the Executive Director shall serve as secretary to the Board and shall perform such duties in the administration of the program as the Board assigns to him. Provides that the program will be administered through the regional offices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires the establishment of sub-regional (service area) offices. Establishes a National Health Security Advisory Council, with the Chairman of the Board serving as the Council's Chairman and 20 additional members not in the employ of the Federal Government. Authorizes the Advisory Council to appoint professional or technical committees to assist in its functions. Provides that the Advisory Council will advise the Board on matters of general policy in the administration of the program, the formulation of regulations and the allocation of funds for services. Charges the Board with responsibility for informing the public and providers about the administration and operation of the Health Security program. Requires the Board to make a continuing study and evaluation of the program, including adequacy, quality and costs of services. Authorizes the Board directly or by contract to make detailed statistical and other studies on a national, regional, or local basis of any aspect of the title; to develop and test incentive systems for improving quality of care, methods of peer review of drug utilization and of other service performances; to develop and test systems of information retrieval, budget programs, instrumentation for multiphasic screening or patient services, reimbursement systems for drugs; and to make such other studies which it considers would improve the quality of services of administration of the program. Grants authority to the Board, in accordance with regulations, to make determinations of who are participating providers of services, determinations of eligibility, of whether services are covered, and the amount to be paid to providers. Allows a provider of services who is dissatisfied with a final Board determination to obtain a hearing before a Board panel, and judicial review of a final decision. Authorizes the Board, with the advice and assistance of the Commission on the Quality of Health Care, to issue and review regulations assuring the quality of care furnished under this Act. Requires continuing professional education by physicians, dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists. Provides for the appointment of a Deputy Secretary of HEW and an Under Secretary for Health and Science. States that no provision of this Act shall alter any contractual obligation of an employer to provide health services to his employees and their dependents. Title II: Health Security Taxes - Converts the existing Medicare hospital insurance payroll taxes into Health Security taxes, and raises the rates to 1 percent on employees and 3.5 percent on employers. Raises the wage base for the employee tax from the present $7,800 to $15,000 or, if higher 125 percent of the contribution and benefit base. Broadens the definitions of covered employment to include foreign agricultural workers, employees of the U.S. and its instrumentalities (other than members of the armed forces and the President, Vice-President, and Members of Congress), employees of charitable and similar organizations, railroad employees, and (for the employee tax only) employees of States and their political subdivisions and instrumentalities. Excludes from the gross income of employees, for income tax purposes, payment by their employers of part or all of the Health Security taxes on the employees. Spells out the precise effective dates of the new payroll tax provisions. Converts the existing Medicare self-employment tax into a Health Security self-employment tax, and raises the rate to 2.5 percent, and raises the maximum taxable self-employment income from $7,800 to $15,000. Adds a new 1 percent Health Security tax on unearned income (unless such income is less than $400 a year), subject to the same maximum on taxable income as is applicable to the employee and self-employment taxes. Title III: Commission on the Quality of Health Care - Establishes in the Department of HEW a Commission on the Quality of Health Care, with the primary responsibility of: (1) initiating and continuing development of methods of assessing the quality of health care furnished under the Health Security Act, and (2) submitting to the Secretary and the Health Security Board its findings and recommendations. Stipulates that in carrying out its duties the Commissioner shall emphasize, and give first consideration to, care furnished for those illnesses and conditions which have relatively high incidence in the population and which are relatively amenable to medical or other care. Title IV: Repeal or Amendment of Other Acts - Makes various conforming amendments to the medicare, medicaid, vocational rehabilitation, and Federal employees health benefits statutes to bring it into conformity with this Act. Requires that, after the effective date of benefits, no State shall be required to furnish any service covered under Health Security as a part of its State plan for participation under Medicaid, and that the Federal government will have no responsibility to reimburse any State for the cost of providing a service which is covered under Health Security. Provides that funds available under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act or the Maternal and Child Health title of the Social Security Act shall not be used to pay for personal health services after the effective date of benefits, except (to the extent prescribed in regulations by the Secretary of HEW) to pay for services which are more extensive than those covered under Health Security. Title V: Studies Related to Health Security - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Treasury to study the coverage of health services for U.S. residents in other countries. Directs the Secretary of HEW to study the feasibility and desirability of coordinating the Federal health benefit programs for merchant seamen, and Indians and Alaskan natives, and veterans and members of the Armed Forces, with the Health Security Benefit Program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that all meetings of any Government agency at which any official action is considered or discussed shall be open to the public. Provides that the above provision shall not apply to that portion of any meeting in which the action or proposed action to be taken, considered, or discussed by an agency: (1) relates to a matter affecting the national security; (2) relates solely to the internal management of such agency; (3) might tend to reflect adversely on the character or reputation of any individual who is subject to any proposed or potential sanction by such agency; or (4) might divulge matters required to be kept confidential under specific statutory provisions. Requires each agency subject to the requirements of this Act to establish, through publication in the Federal Register, procedures for providing public notice of meetings required by this Act to be open to the public. Revises the Legislative Reorganization Act to bring the procedures of the Congress into substantial conformity with the above standards. (Amends 2 U.S.C. 190a). Provides that the district courts of the United States shall have original jurisdiction of actions to render declaratory judgments or to enforce, by injunction or otherwise, the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Designates August 26 of each year as "Women's Equality Day". Authorizes the President to issue an annual proclamation in commemoration of the day in 1920 on which women were first guaranteed the right to vote.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Establishes a Commission on Railroad Transportation in the Northeast to keep itself closely informed on all developments in the Matter of Penn Central Transportation Company, Debtor, Numbered 70-347, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Provides that whenever the Commission finds that there is no reasonable prospect of achieving a traditional income-based reorganization of the Company without the abandonment of subsidization of lines of road reasonably needed for useful transportation or the reduction of its work force to a degree not consistent with efficient, nonburdensome and safe operations, or the subsidization of intercity or commuter passenger operations to a degree more favorable than those generally prevailing, then the Commission shall so determine and declare. Establishes a Federal corporation to be known as the Northeast Transportation Authority. Provides that in the event the Commission makes the above determination and declaration, then all property, real or personal, owned or operated under the direction of the trustees of the Company and which is used or useful in the conduct of transportation shall become the property of the United States of America, and title thereto, with power to deal therewith, shall be vested in the Northeast Transportation Authority. Directs the Commission to negotiate with bankruptcy trustees of the Company in an effort to agree upon a sum of money that will constitute just and reasonable compensation for such property passing to the United States. Provides that the trustees shall distribute the transportation properties of the debtor together with the proceeds of liquidation of such other properties as the debtor may own, to the creditors and holders of other interests in the debtor in accordance with the laws applicable to bankruptcies and under the direction of the bankruptcy court. Provides that the Authority shall be deemed a common carrier, and shall be subject to all provisions of the Interstate Commerce Act. Provides that the primary objective of the Northeast Transportation Authority's operations shall be to provide the public with the most economic, attractive, safe, and useful railroad transportation service that can be furnished, while maintaining rates of pay, rules, and working conditions for employees at a level not less than that prevailing in the railroad industry in the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act, together with such sums as may be shown from time to time to be necessary to conduct the operations of the Authority in accordance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Repeals the Military Selective Service Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Directs the President and the Secretary of Defense to furnish the House of Representatives, within ten days after the adoption of this resolution, with full and complete information on the following: (1) the number of sorties flown by United States military airplanes, for bombing purposes, over North Vietnam during the period December 17, 1972 through January 3, 1973; (2) the tonnage of bombs and shells fired or dropped on North Vietnam during the period December 17, 1972 through January 3, 1973; (3) the number and nomenclature of airplanes lost by the United States over North Vietnam or its territorial waters during the period December 17, 1972 through January 3, 1973; (4) the number of American men killed, wounded, captured, and missing in action while participating in flights over North Vietnam during the period December 17, 1972 through January 3, 1973; (5) the best available estimate of casualties among the North Vietnamese during the period December 17, 1972 through January 3, 1973; (6) the cost of all bombing and shelling carried on by the United States in or over North Vietnam during the period December 17, 1972 through January 3, 1973; and (7) the extent of damage to any and all facilities struck by bombs, including "after action reports" and such other data as is available to the Defense Department.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Abolishes the Committee on Internal Security of the House of Representatives. Enlarges the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives to include those activities involving sabotage and other overt acts affecting internal security.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Establishes a Committee on Environment in the House of Representatives, consisting of 25 members. Provides that such Committee shall deal with all measures relating to the quality of the physical environment of the United States and its possessions, including: (1) water quality; (2) air quality; (3) weather modification; (4) waste disposal and management; (5) pesticides and herbicides; and (6) acoustic problems.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that the President should immediately take the necessary steps to initiate active negotiations seeking agreement with the Soviet Union on a comprehensive ban on all nuclear test explosions. Makes it the sense of Congress that the President should take the necessary steps to work toward extension of a prohibition against nuclear testing to the other nuclear powers, including France and China. Makes it the sense of Congress that the President should immediately declare an indefinite moratorium on all nuclear test explosions.