Bill· HRH.R. 17644 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1974
Provides, under Title XVI of the Social Security Act, for the payment of emergency financial assistance grants and special allowances for incidental expenses to recipients of supplemental security income benefits. Authorizes cost-of-living increases in such benefits and in State supplementary payments. Prevents reductions in such benefits because of social security benefit increases. Provides reimbursement to States for home relief payments to disabled applicants prior to determination of their disability. Permits the payment of such benefits directly to drug addicts and alcoholics (without a third party payee) upon certification of the chief medical officer of the therapeutic institution that the funds would not be misused. Entitles recipients of such benefits to participate in the food stamp and surplus commodities programs.
Law· HRH.R. 17628 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1974
Provides that the Oak Ridge National Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, shall hereafter be known as the "Holifield National Laboratory".
Law· HRH.R. 17558 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1974
Provides that there shall be a seven-year term of office for the Administrator of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (presently no limitation on the term of office). Repeals provisions providing for the appointment of a Deputy Administrator of the Corporation. Prescribes the terms of office for members of the Advisory Board of the Corporation. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 982).
Bill· HRH.R. 17465 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1974
Provides that tax returns are confidential, and, therefore, are not open to inspection, and that information contained in them shall not be disclosed. Permits, under regulations established by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the inspection of tax returns by the taxpayer, the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department, State tax authorities, the President, and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Requires a report to the Joint Committee of returns inspected and by whom inspected. Establishes criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure or receipt of tax return information.
Bill· HRH.R. 17390 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1974
Authorizes to be appropriated, under the Public Works and Economic Development Act, an additional sum, not to exceed $250,000,000 per fiscal year for fiscal years 1975 and 1976, for areas designated by the Secretary of Commerce as redevelopment areas. Expands the purposes for which the Secretary may make grants to eligible recipients to include short-term work projects to improve, beautify, or enhance the environment. Increases to $250,000,000 the sum authorized to be appropriated for each of the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 to provide special programs to meet the needs arising from threatened or severe unemployment and economic dislocation under such Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 17363 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1974
Excludes from gross income, under the Internal Revenue Code, the first $500 of interest on deposits in savings institutions, banks, and credit unions.
Bill· HRH.R. 17161 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1974
National Condominium and Tenants Rights Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares the purposes of the Act, including to establish minimum national standards governing the sale, ownership, conversion to, and extension of credit for condominiums. States that no condominium housing loan shall be made: (1) to any developer unless the creditor received a written property statement containing specified names, address, legal descriptions, costs and assurances; or (2) to any prospective purchaser unless the same written property statement has been submitted to such purchaser 21 days prior to to any legally obligating document's execution. Provides similar protection for tenants in cases of condominium conversions. Prohibits discrimination against condominium-unit purchasers in the extension of credit on the basis of age, sex, marital status, religion, race, or national origin. Provides for the designation of an Assistant Secretary for Condominiums in the Department of Housing and Urban Development and enumerates the duties to be performed. Requires each creditor subject to the provisions of this Act to file an annual report with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development showing the extent of compliance with the provisions of this Act. Creates a civil remedy against creditors by persons discriminated against in violation of this Act. States that any developer or creditor who violates the provisions of this Act shall be fined not more than $15,000 for each violation. Empowers the Secretary to encourage and make grants to State and local governments to help establish offices to administer and enforce State and local requirements with respect to condominiums. Enumerates the requirements to be met by any plan for the protection of purchasers of condominium units and those displaced by conversion to such units prior to the making of any grant. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out such grants. Defines the terms used in this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 1158 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1974
Designates the National Air and Space Museum in the District of Columbia as the "Charles A. Lindbergh National Air and Space Museum".
Bill· HRH.R. 16445 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment.
Bill· HRH.R. 16320 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1974
Solar Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is the policy of the United States to pursue a vigorous and adequately funded program with the objective of utilizing solar energy as a major source for our national energy needs. Defines the terms used in this Act. Establishes the Solar Energy Coordination and Management Project to have responsibility for management and coordination of a national solar energy research, development and demonstration program. Directs the Project to carry out its duties in cooperation with specified Federal agencies, including the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Power Commission. Makes conforming amendments to the National Science Foundation Act and the National Aeronautics and Space Act. Instructs the Project to initiate a solar energy resource determination and assessment program, emphasizing identification of promising areas for commercial exploitation and development. Enumerates the specific goals of the determination and assessment program. Directs the Project: (1) to initiate a research and development program for resolving the major technical problems inhibiting commercial utilization of solar energy in the United States; (2) to implement a research and development program to demonstrate the technical means for securing and utilizing the resource base; and (3) to initiate a program to design and construct facilities to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing the various forms of solar energy. Details the goals of each such program. Authorizes the National Science Foundation to support, coordinate, and encourage the development of policies set forth in this Act. Establishes a Solar Energy Research Institute to perform research functions in connection with the Project's activities under this Act. Calls for the creation of a Solar Energy Information Data Bank, specifying the content of data to be collected and compiled. Transfers specified functions, documents, and personnel to the Energy Research and Development Administration. Authorizes to be appropriated to the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 1975, $2,000,000 for use in the preparation of the comprehensive program. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out this Act, for fiscal years beginning after 1975, such sums as the Congress may hereafter authorize.
Bill· HRH.R. 16221 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1974
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
Bill· HRH.R. 16150 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1974
Public Service Employment Act - Declares that one of the purposes of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 is to provide employment opportunities to assure that no area in the United States has an unemployment rate in excess of seven percent. Defines "area of severe unemployment". Establishes in the Treasury the Public Service Employment Fund. Sets forth the amounts in such fund during each fiscal year and authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that eligible applicants shall be entitled to allotments from the fund in accordance with the excess number of unemployed persons residing in areas of severe unemployment. Makes technical and conforming amendments to specified Federal Acts.
Bill· HRH.R. 16093 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1974
Federal Aid Highway Act - Authorizes appropriations for the construction of specified highways in the United States. Sets forth regulations governing the erection and maintenance along the Interstate and primary highway systems of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices which are more than six hundred and sixty feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way, located outside of cities and villages, visible from the main traveled way of the system, and erected with the purpose of their message being read from such main traveled way. States that such signs shall be limited to: (1) directional and official signs and notices, which signs and notices may include, but not be limited to, signs and notices pertaining to information in the specific interest of the traveling public, such as, but not limited to, signs and notices pertaining to rest stops, camping grounds, food services, gas and automotive services, and lodging, and shall include signs and notices pertaining to natural wonders, scenic and historical attractions, which are required or authorized by law, which shall conform to national standards hereby authorized to be promulgated by the Secretary hereunder, which standards shall contain provisions concerning lighting, size, number, and spacing of signs, and such other requirements as may be appropriate to implement this section; (2) signs, displays, and devices advertising the sale or lease of property upon which they are located; and (3) signs, displays, and devices advertising activities conducted on the property on which they are located. Specifies that the Secretary of Transportation, during the implementation of State laws enacted to comply with the Federal-Aid Highway Act, shall encourage and assist the States to develop sign controls and programs which will assure that necessary directional information about facilities providing goods and services in the interest of the traveling public will continue to be available to motorists. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for projects for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of any off-system road (including, but not limited to, the replacement of bridges, the elimination of high hazard locations, and roadside obstacles.) Sets forth the formula to be followed by the Secretary in alloting the sums authorized to be appropriated among the various States. Directs the Secretary to carry out various specified demonstration projects. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or reconstruct access highways to public recreation areas on lakes in order to accommodate present and projected traffic density.
Bill· HRH.R. 15980 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1974
Provides that loan levels shall not be allowed to drop below designated minimums for cotton, soybeans, wheat and feed grain under the Agricultural Act of 1949. Provides for adjustments in established price levels for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 to reflect changes in prices for such crops for production items, interest, taxes, and wage rates in the preceding year. Establishes minimum sales prices through 1977 crops with respect to wheat, feed grain, cotton, and soybean stocks held by the Commodity Credit Corporation in the event that such stocks should fall below specified minimums. Provides that price support loans may not be recalled within three years of the date on which they were made unless the Secretary determines that the projected carryover of the commodity concerned will fall below the amount specified for such commodity in this Act. Establishes the minimum loan rate at 90 percent of the established price where the Secretary determines that, with respect to the 1974 through 1977 crops, the stocks of wheat, feed grain, cotton, and soybeans available will fall below the minimum established by this Act. Provides, upon such determination, that the Secretary may designate such a commodity as "critical" and require an export license for those wishing to export such commodity. Defines feed grains as corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats. States that quantities of a commodity in the disaster reserve shall be included in the computation of the carryover.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1239 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the House that: (1) the contribution by the United States to the growing economic and human crisis in the developing world should be primarily in the form of food and the means and technology to produce it; (2) the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture and their advisors should give the highest priority to the immediate expansion of American food assistance and (b) take such additional steps as might be necessary to expedite the transfer of American food commodities on concessional and donation terms to those nations most severely affected; (3) the United States should increase its matching pledge to the World Food Program for 1975-1976 and encourage other nations to do so; (4) the President and the Secretary of State should (a) negotiate with other major food exporting nations to seek to obtain their participation in this emergency effort proportionate to their share of world food exports and, (b) strongly encourage oil exporting nations to contribute a fair share to these efforts to assist the most severely affected nations; (5) the United States should announce its desire to work with the oil exporting and other nations in a major effort to increase world fertilizer production with the possibility of including the offer of American technology and capital; and (6) the President should encouarge the American people to reduce the non-critical, non-food-producing uses of fertilizer which now total nearly three million tons of nutrient a year, to make available increased fertilizer supplies for raising food production at home and in the developing world. Declares the sense of the House that the President of the United States and the Secretaries of State and Agriculture should, and are hereby urged and requested to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress; and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward formulating an American response in a cooperative framework to the world food crisis and the needs of the most severly affected developing countries.
Bill· HRH.R. 15747 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 15483 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1974
Provides additional Federal payments to States for the amounts in excess of the total quarterly public assistance expenditures with respect to Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos, native Hawaiians, and other aboriginal persons authorized under State public assistance programs established pursuant to the Social Security Act. Provides that such payments shall be in addition to those otherwise payable to States as the Federal share of aid or assistance under the Social Security Act. Defines the terms "Indians" and "native Hawaiian". Authorizes to be appropriated, for each fiscal year, the sums necessary to enable the Secretary to make payments authorized by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 15430 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Requires the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission to reopen and redetermine the claims of George Radin against the Government of Italy.
Bill· HRH.R. 15421 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1974
Provides under title II of the Social Security Act that the special procedure for expediting benefit payments (where such payments are not regularly made when due) shall apply to benefits based on disability in the same way it applies to other benefits under such title if entitlement has already been established and the benefits involved have been paid for one or more months.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 532 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
Bill· HRH.R. 15283 (93rd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Forest and Related Resources Planning Act - States that in recognition of the vital importance of America's forest and related resources to the Nation's social and economic well-being, and of the necessity for a long-term perspective in planning and undertaking forest and related resource programs administered by the Forest Service, the Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare a Forest and Related Resources Assessment. Stipulates that the assessment shall include but not be limited to: (1) an analysis of present and anticipated uses, demand for, and supply of the forest and related resources, with consideration of the international forest resource situation, and an analysis of pertinent supply and demand and price relationship trends; (2) an inventory, based on information available to the Forest Service and other Federal agencies, of present and potential forest and related resources, and an evaluation of opportunities for improving their yield of tangible and intangible goods and services, together with estimates of investment costs and direct and indirect returns to the Federal Government; (3) a description of Forest Service programs and responsibilities in research, cooperative programs, and management of the National Forest System, their interrelationships, and the relationship of these programs and responsibilities to public and private activities; (4) a detailed study of personnel requirements as needed to satisfy existing and ongoing programs; and (5) a discussion of important policy considerations, laws, regulations, and other factors expected to significantly influence and affect the use, ownership, and management of forest and related resource lands. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to prepare and transmit to the President a Forest and Related Resource Program displaying alternative objectives and associated programs which shall provide in appropriate detail for protection, management, and development of the National Forest System, including forest development roads and trails; for cooperative forestry programs; and for forest and related resources research. States that the Program shall include, but not be limited to: (1) an inventory of specific needs and opportunities for both public and private program investments; (2) specific identification of program outputs, results anticipated, and benefits associated with investments in such a manner that the anticipated costs can be directly compared with the total related benefits and direct and indirect returns to the Federal Government; and (3) a discussion of priorities for accomplishment of inventoried program opportunities, with specified costs, outputs, results, and benefits. Provides that, in carrying out this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall utilize information and data available from other Federal, State, and private organizations and shall avoid duplication and overlap of resource assessment and program planning efforts of other Federal agencies.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 520 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 516 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 1039 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations.
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