United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Flexible Hours Act - Authorizes each Federal agency to establish a program of flexible scheduling for employees' work hours for such positions as it deems appropriate. Requires that each agency shall submit a report to the Civil Service Commission within 13 months following the commencement of the flexible scheduling program. Directs that such report contain information which the Commission deems necessary to evaluate the first twelve months of such program. Establishes a congressional review period during which either House of Congress may repeal such programs. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6101(a)(1);554(2); adds 5 U.S.C. 6102)
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1975
Emergency Low-Income Housing Act - Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance for the purpose of producing 3,000,000 new dwelling units for low-income individuals. Authorizes additional appropriations under the National Housing Act and the Housing Act to finance the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1975
Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act - States that the current depressed condition of the national economy has had an especially heavy impact upon local governments, making it no longer possible for them to finance needed public facilities, thereby threatening the health, safety, and general welfare of their citizens. Declares it to be needless and unwise public policy for a vast pool of idle manpower to coexist with a backlog of needed and long overdue local public facilities work. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce acting through the Economic Development Administration to make grants to any State or local government for local public works projects, including but not limited to: (1) those public works projects of State and local governments for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act; and (2) the architectural design, engineering, and related planning of local public works projects. Provides that the Federal share of any project for which a grant is made under this Act shall be 100 percent of the cost of such project. Directs the Secretary to prescribe those rules, regulations, and procedures necessary to carry out this Act. States factors that the Secretary shall consider in accordance with the relative needs of the various sections of the country. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant for the purpose of increasing to 100 percent the Federal contribution to a public works project for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act. States that not more than 10 percent of all amounts authorized to carry out this Act shall be granted for local public works projects within any one State. Provides that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on projects assisted by this Act shall be paid wages a rate not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act. Authorizes to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1975
Declares that no provision of any law of the United States authorizes the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to permit lending institutions to offer loans secured by improved real estate with variable interest rates. Provides that the Board may not do so until Congress by law authorizes such variable interest rates.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1975
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 fiscal year 1976 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 fiscal year 1976 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 fiscal year 1976, 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.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1975
Authorizes payment under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for emergency inpatient hospital services furnished outside the United States to a qualified individual whose principal residence is within the United States, without regard to where the emergency occurred.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1975
Provides that the National Wildlife Refuge System shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Directs that lands within the National Wildlife Refuge System shall not be removed from such system except by the provisions of the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act or by Act of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
Revises the conditions under which post-hospital home health services may be provided udner part A and home health services may be provided under part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
Home Health Services Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies which will provide home health services in areas in which such services are not otherwise available. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants: (1) to meet the initial and expanding costs of such agencies; and (2) for programs for the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel to provide home health services. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Provides an individual tax credit under that Internal Revenue Code for the expenses incurred due to the evacuation by a taxpayer of his principal residence because of a natural disaster or the threat of a natural disaster. Limits such credit to $200 for each such disaster.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975
Ozone Protection Act - Declares that the release of chlorofluromethane may pose a danger to public health and safety. Provides for a study by the National Academy of Sciences of the nature and likelihood of potential effects on public health and the environment of the discharge of such gas. Directs the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to report to the Congress on such potential effects. Provides for a program of standards to limit the emissions of such gas from major sources. Provides for the enforcement of prohibitions upon the manufacture and sale of aerosol spray containers which discharge such gas, including penalties of up to $10,000 in civil fines per day of violation under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975
Allows a deduction from gross income under the Internal Revenue code of up to $1250 ($625 in the case of a married individual filing separately) for social agency, legal, and related expenses incurred in connection with the adoption of a child by the taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Exempts the first sale of the share of a State or local government or a subdivision thereof in crude oil produced in the United States from the mineral or leasehold estate of any State or local government or subdivision-owned lands for purposes of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Provides that an individual may qualify for disability insurance benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance program of the Social Security Act and the disability freeze if he has 40 quarters of coverage, regardless of when such quarters were earned.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Provides that a conservation publication published by a State agency which is responsible for management and conservation of fish or wildlife resources shall be considered a publication of a qualified nonprofit organization which qualifies for second-class mail rates. (Adds 39 U.S.C. 3626 (b))
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Requires the Director of the United States Information Agency to make available a master copy of four specified films ("Echoes," "Santa Fe," "The Numbers Start With the River," and "The Copland Portrait") prepared by such agency to the Administrator of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. Directs the Administrator to provide for the distribution of copies of such films for public viewing in commemoration of the Bicentennial.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a delegation of eight members of the House to attend the International Womens' Year Conference in Mexico City, June 19,1975, to July 2, 1975. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as may be necessary to meet the expenses of such delegation.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Emergency Homeowners' Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, under specified conditions, to make repayable emergency mortgage relief payments on behalf of homeowners who are delinquent in their mortgage payments. Provides that such payments shall include the principal, interest, taxes, ground rents, hazard insurance, and mortgage insurance premiums not to exceed $250 per month. Directs that such payments may continue for a period of up to twelve months. Requires that the Secretary make periodic reports to Congress of action under this program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Creates a select committee in the House of Representatives with authority to conduct a full and complete investigation of the problem of United States servicemen missing in action or known to be dead whose bodies have not been recovered, as a result of military operations in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Provides that such investigation shall include an examination of the need for additional international inspection teams to determine whether there are servicemen still held as prisoner of war. Authorizes the Committee to hold hearings, issue subpenas, and maintain a staff as necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this resolution. Directs the committee to report to the House the results of its investigation no later than one year after adoption of this resolution. Provides that the committee's authority shall expire 30 days after the filing of such report. Directs that the expenses of the select committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the Chairman.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Allows an individual under the Privacy Act of 1974 to correct, expunge, update, or supplement such portion of a Federal records system as the individual believes is not legally maintained. Repeals the exemption of the Central Intelligence Agency from specified requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Prohibits, except as provided in this Act, the inspection of tax returns and the disclosure of information contained in such returns. Authorizes the inspection of returns by or disclosure to (1) the taxpayer or his representative; (2) employees of the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice solely for purposes of enforcement of the tax laws; (3) State agencies charged with administration of the tax laws only for that purpose; (4) the President of the United States in the performance of his official duties; and (5) the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation for statistical purposes only. Increases the criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure or receipt of information under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Establishes a national adoption information exchange system in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to aid in the placement of children for adoption. Authorizes $1,000,000 to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975 and such sums as may be necessary for succeeding fiscal years, to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Emergency Middle-Income Housing Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to reduce interest rates on home mortgages for middle- income families by making, and contracting to make, periodic interest reduction payments, interest rate differential payments and by purchasing below-market-interest-rate mortgages. Defines terms as used in this Act. Provides that the aggregate amount of mortgages assisted under this Act shall not exceed $12,000,000,000. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carryout the provisions of this Act. Sets forth the guidelines the Secretary shall follow in allocating such assistance. Specifies that the Secretary shall take steps to encourage the construction or sale of dwelling units which he determines will contribute to the conservation of land and energy resources. Directs that authority to enter into such financial assistance obligations as provided in this Act shall expire June 30, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Records Management Act - Requires the establishment of standards and procedures to assure efficient and effective Government records management. States that such standards and procedures shall seek to effectuate the following goals: (1) accurate and complete documentation of the policies and transactions for the Federal Government; (2) control of the quantity and quality of records produced by the Federal Government; (3) simplification of the processes through which records are created, stored, retrieved, and used; (4) the judicious preservation and disposal of records; (5) the establishment and maintenance of a system which focuses continuous attention upon records from their initial creation to their final disposition; (6) the establishment and maintenance of mechanisms of control with respect to records creation, in order to assure the prevention of unnessary records; and (7) the establishment and maintenance of such other systems or techniques as the Administrator considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the Administrator shall provide guidance and assistance to Federal agencies with respect to records creation, records maintenance and use, and records disposition. Directs the Administrator of General Services to: (1) conduct inspections or paperwork studies, at regular intervals as determined to be necessary by the Administrator, of the records and records management practices and and programs of every Federal agency; (2) require the head of every Federal agency to transmit a report to the Administrator with respect to the records and records management practices and programs of each such Federal agency during each period of two calendar years; (3) prescribe rules with respect to records management; and (4) order, to the extent he considers necessary, the head of any Federal agency to take specific action with respect to the records or records management practices of his agency. Establishes in the executive branch a Records Review Board to review any order issued by the Administrator under the provisions of this Act upon appeal by any Federal agency. Directs the head of each Federal agency to make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the Federal agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Federal Government and of persons directly affected by the activities of the Federal agency. Requires each agency head to establish safeguards against the removal or loss of records he determines to be necessary and required by the rules of the Administrator.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Provides that pension or annuity plans to qualify for tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code shall provide for payments to the participant's survivor beginning on the earliest date that the participant could have collected annuity benefits under such plan.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Exempts the first sale of the share of a State or local government or a subdivision thereof in crude oil produced in the United States from the mineral or leasehold estate of any State or local government or subdivision-owned lands for purposes of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Equality Act - Prohibits discrimination under the Civil Rights Act on the basis of sex or marital status in: (1) public facilities; (2) public accomodations; (3) public education programs and schools; (4) federally assisted programs; (5) employment; and (6) housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage services. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to pay up to 60 percent of the cost of commissions, boards, and advisory panels established by the States to study: (1) the denial of equal protection under the law to women; (2) private discrimination practices against women; and (3) affirmative steps necessary to insure equality of opportunity to women. Authorizes appropriations of $2,000,000 to provide for such a program. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress within two years his recommendations for legislation to equalize the status of women with that of men under specific provisions of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Commissioner of Education to survey educational institutions to determine the extent to which equality of educational opportunity is being denied to U.S. citizens and on the basis of sex, and to submit to Congress within 18 months his recommendations for remedial legislation. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Exempts the first sale of the share of a State or local government or a subdivision thereof in crude oil produced in the United States from the mineral or leasehold estate of any State or local government or subdivision-owned lands for purposes of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Permits the payment of benefits to a married couple based on their combined average monthly wage as computed under title II of the Social Security Act (relating to Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) multiplied by a factor of 75 percent. Eliminates the special dependency requirement for entitlement to husband's or widower's benefits under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides for the payment of benefits to widowed fathers with minor children, and makes the retirement test inapplicable to individuals with minor children who are entitled to mother's or father's benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
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 · 6 March 1975
Comprehensive Child Development Act - States the finding of Congress that: (1) millions of children are suffering from lack of child development services; (2) comprehensive child development programs should be available to all children; (3) priority be given to preschool children with the greatest economic and social needs; (4) no mother may be forced to work in order for children to receive services; and (5) such programs should be undertaken as a partnership of parents, community, and local government. States it to be the purpose of this Act to establish and expand comprehensive child development programs, building on the Headstart experience, with emphasis on economically disadvantaged individuals and including children of working mothers and single parents, involving parents and community groups in the decision-making process, and establishing the legislative framework for eventual universally available child development programs. Title I: Comprehensive Child Development Programs; Direction to Establish Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to direct programs under this title. Lists activities for which funds can be provided, including: planning and development of programs; establishing, maintaining, and operating comprehensive programs with a broad range of activities; design, acquisition, construction, alteration, renovation or remodeling of facilities including mobile facilities; training programs for professionals, paraprofessionals, parents, older family members and prospective parents; public information activities; child advocate staff; and administrative expenses. Authorizes any State, city, county, combination of units of local government, or federally recognized Indian reservation to serve as prime sponsors. Permits the Secretary to designate such prime sponsor upon receipt of an application which: (1) establishes a Child Development Council (CDC) to plan, conduct, coordinate, and monitor programs; (2) establishes Local Policy Councils (LPC's) elected by parents of eligible children to serve appropriate subdivisions within the prime sponsorship area; and (3) delegates administrative responsibility to an appropriate local agency. Authorizes a public or private non-profit agency or organization to become a prime sponsor if the appropriate unit of local government has not submitted an application or is out of compliance, or if the Secretary determines such prime sponsor is necessary to meet the needs of economically disadvantaged children. Provides an opportunity for a State to comment on all applications for designation, notice and hearing before the Secretary makes any adverse decision on any designation. Requires submission by a prime sponsor and the Secretary's approval of a Comprehensive Child Development Plan before a governmental prime sponsor may receive financial assistance under this title. Requires that each such plan must: (1) identify needs and goals and describe purposes for which funds will be used; (2) meet the needs of children in the area including infant care and before and after school programs including 24-hour child care services; (3) give priority to economically disadvantaged children by reserving funds equal to the highest level of funds expended in the prime sponsorship area under Headstart in fiscal years 1973-1974 and then reserving the following percentages; 65 percent for fiscal year 1975, 60 percent for fiscal year 1976, and 55 percent for fiscal year 1977; (4) give priority thereafter to children of single parents and working mothers; (5-6) provide free services for economically disadvantaged children and fees on a sliding scale for others; (7) require cooperative arrangements of State and local agencies serving the handicapped; (8) provide jobs and training in so far as possible for residents of the community; (9) provide in so far as possible for socioeconomic mixture in centers; (10-11) provide for special needs of minority, bilingual migrant and Indian children in the area; (12) assure benefits for children in nonpublic preschool and school programs; (13) coordinate programs so family members relate to each other during the day; (14) provide for parental participating in plans and programs; (15) provide for paraprofessional volunteers, including parents, senior citizens, students, other children, and those preparing for child development careers; (16) provide for dissemination of program information in language of parents; (17) eliminate barriers pertaining to State teacher certification standards; (18-20) assure coordination with schools and other child development programs in the community; and (21) provide that emphasis will be given to continued funding of on-going projects. Requires such a plan to assure payment of the non-Federal share, to provide for fiscal control and fund accounting procedures, to provide for continuing evaluation and analysis of needs and reports to the Secretary to emphasize on-going programs, and to provide adequate staff and administrative expenses of LPCs. Provides the opportunity for comment by a Governor, Mayor or community action agency, Headstart agency or educational agency; and provides for notice and hearing before an adverse decision is made on a plan by the Secretary. Authorizes funding by a prime sponsor of a qualified public or private agency which submits an application to run a child development program, which provides comprehensive services for children served, assures adequate personnel, and meets the appropriate provisions of the Comprehensive Child Development Plan. Authorizes funding by the Secretary of a non-governmental prime sponsor which submits a project application. Allows construction only of facilities essential to provide child development services, where use of existing facilities is shown to be not practicable. Provides for 20-year use of facilities for child development programs or for return of a proportionate value of the facility to the Federal Government. Authorizes the Secretary to establish interests rates for construction loans, with a 3 percent minimum rate. Provides grants and loans for construction limited to 50 percent of the total cost except for private nonprofit groups, and limits construction to 15 percent of total allotment to a prime sponsor and limits grants for construction to 7 1/2 percent of the total. Provides for the Federal Government to share 80 percent (with allowance for Secretary to pay up to 100 percent if necessary to provide services) of the costs to prime sponsors of programs for economically disadvantaged children; 50 percent Federal share of cost to prime sponsors of programs for children not economically disadvantaged; and 100 percent Federal share of migrant and Indian programs. Provides that the non-Federal share may be in cash or kind including fees paid by parents. Reserves for the Secretary funds for migrant and Indian programs at a ratio equal to the ratio of such children to the total number of economically disadvantaged children in the nation; 5 percent for the Secretary's discretionary use, with the remainder apportioned among the States as follows: (1) 50 percent according to the ratio of economically disadvantaged children in the States; (2) 25 percent according to the ratio of children through age 5; and (3) 25 percent according to the ratio of children of working mothers and single parents. Allots State's apportionments among prime sponsors according to the same formula. Provides for reallotment of unused funds among prime sponsors and among States. Prohibits any State or local government from reducing its expenditures for child development or day care. Establishes an Office of Child Development (OCD) to be the principal agency to administer this Act. Provides for the promulgation of Federal Standards of Child Development Services, applicable to all programs receiving assistance under this Act. Provides for the promulgation of a Minimum Uniform Code for Facilities, which shall replace State and local standards for all facilities which receive assistance under this Act or in which programs which receive assistance under this Act are operated. Provides for maximum utilization of existing Federal, State, and local public facilities, including school buildings, for child development programs. Repeals, consolidates, and coordinates existing child development programs, effective October 1, 1977. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, $3,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977, and $4,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1978 to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Facilities for Child Development Programs - Authorizes a program of mortgage insurance for child development facilities, administered by the Secretary of HEW, to provide a source of funds in addition to the direct grants and loans authorized in Title I for the construction of such facilities. Title III: Training of Child Development Personnel - Authorizes $20,000,000 for programs to train professional child development personnel and for programs to train paraprofessionals child development personnel under the Higher Education Act. Authorizes National Defense Education Act loans for the training of full-time teachers in child development programs. Authorizes training grants to individuals and child development programs. Authorizes a $5,000,000 annual appropriation for such grants. Title IV: Federal Government Child Development Programs - Authorizes direct grants to establish and operate programs for children of Federal employees. Authorizes $5,000,000 in fiscal year 1974 and for each fiscal year thereafter to operate such program. Title V: Evaluation and Technical Assistance - Authorizes the Office of Child Development to evaluate Federal involvement in child development and to provide technical assistance to prime sponsors and project applicants. Authorizes such funds as necessary to carry out such activities. Title VI: National Center for Child Development and Education - Establishes a National Center for Child Development and Education within the Office of Child Development to conduct, coordinate, and disseminate research on child development. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary to operate the Center. Title VII: General Provisions - Provides for advance appropriations and advance funding of programs. Assures public information, without charge. Prohibits Federal control of programs under this Act. Defines the terms used in this Act. Prohibits sex discrimination in the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Makes it unlawful to limit the availability or scope of the insurance coverage normally written with respect to a risk of loss because of the insured's sex or marital status. Makes exceptions to such provision for rates based on relevant actuarial data.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Removes the requirement for a widower to be dependent in order to be eligible for payments from the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Provides that at the time of retirement, the annuity of a married participant in such fund shall be reduced by $300 to provide for the surviving spouse a minimum annuity of $2,400, except that, if the annuity of the participant is more than $4,800, the participant may elect up to 50 percent of such annuity for the surviving spouse, and if such election is made, the annuity of the participant shall be further reduced by 10 percent of the difference between $4,800 and the base the participant specifies for the survivor benefit. (Amends 22 U.S.C. 1064, 1076(b), 1082(b))
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Authorizes, under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, the donation of surplus Federal property to child care centers. Defines the term "child care center" for purposes of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Directs the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to establish a National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape. Directs the Administration to conduct a continuing study and evaluation of rape including the adequacy of existing Federal and State laws dealing with rape. Requires a study of the treatment of rape victims. Makes it the duty of the Center to: (1) develop and transmit to Congress annually specific recommendations for legislation dealing with the prevention, control, and treatment of rape; (2) develop guidelines for the operation of projects by private and public agencies dealing with the prevention, control, and treatment of rape; and (3) develop recommendations for legislation which can serve as a model to the States and localities in the reform of existing laws dealing with rape, with the goal of encouraging uniformity in the laws of such States and localities. Directs the Administrator, through the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape to make grants to private, nonprofit organizations and public agencies (determined by the Administration to be qualified) for the purpose of conducting model projects designed to prevent or control rape, or treat the victims of rape. Provides that such projects shall include, but not be limited to: (1) special rape investigation units established by State and local police departments; (2) special units for the treatment of rape victims in hospitals; (3) preventive programs, including public education on rape prevention and self-defense courses; and (4) rape crisis centers. Makes it a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment for up to one year, or both, to disclose records maintained under this Act without the consent of the individual to whom the record pertains. Defines the term "rape" as including any intentional, nonconsensual, criminal sexual assaults.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Eliminates the requirement that husbands and widowers of Armed Forces personnel receive over one-half their support from the Armed Forces member in order to qualify for dependent benefits. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1072(2))
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Provides for investigations and studies by standing committees of the House of Representatives to ascertain and identify those areas in which differences in treatment or application, on the basis of sex, exist in connection with the administration and operation of those provisions of law under their respective jurisdiction. States that the provisions of this resolution do not apply to the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on House Administration, the Committee on Rules, and the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Creates, as an independent agency in the executive branch, the Federal Zoological and Aquarium Board. States that the Board shall consist of fifteen members to be chosen by the President from specified agencies and associations, the Director of the National Zoological Park, and the Comptroller General of the United States. States that the Board shall establish standards for the national accreditation of zoos and aquariums. Authorizes the Board to provide technical and financial assistance, including loans the aggregate value of which shall not exceed $25,000,000, to aid any zoo or aquarium in complying with such accreditation standards. Authorizes the Board to make grants to any nonprofit zoo or aquarium, agency, or organization for humane research and pilot projects which would serve as models for zoos or aquariums, and for the establishment of survival centers for the breeding, care and perpetuation of endangered species.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Vocational Education Amendments - Declares the purposes of this Act in revising the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Provides that any State desiring to participate in the program authorized by this Act shall fulfill specified administrative requirements, including designating a State board as the sole agency for administration of a State plan for vocational education. Directs the Commissioner of Education to assure that adequate staffing is available to the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education to make certain that the Bureau's responsibilities are accomplished. Enumerates such responsibilities, including to provide leadership to assist State vocational education agencies to expand and improve their programs. Requires that the President appoint, during 1978, a Panel of Consultants on Vocational Education to review the administration of vocational education programs. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Vocational Education to perform specified functions, including to advise the President, Congress, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Commissioner concerning vocational education programs supported under this Act and the Higher Education Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $500,000 for each fiscal year. Requires any State which desires to receive a grant under this Act to establish an independent State advisory council. Specifies the membership composition of such council. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these purposes $4,315,844 for each fiscal year. Provides that a State board shall have the primary responsibility for preparing statewide plans for vocational education, and shall designate a planning group to prepare such plans. Authorizes to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each fiscal year, from which the Commissioner shall make a grant to each participating State for purposes of preparing statewide plans. Defines the terms used in this Act. Declares that it is the purpose of this part of this Act to implement that portion to the career education concept in which vocational education plays an important role. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1980 for carrying out such purpose and directs the Secretary to make grants to each State which has approved administrative arrangements for prevocational education programs. Enumerates the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes appropriations for vocational education program support, providing for the allotment of such funds among the States. Authorizes appropriations for vocational education program services and empowers the Secretary to make grants to each State from such funds for programs of: (1) teacher education; (2) placement and followup services; and (3) student support. Directs the Commissioner to make available three-year leadership development grants to specified persons in order meet the need in all the States for qualified vocational education personnel with high potential to advance to policymaking and leadership positions. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Provides for grants for applied research, curriculum development, demonstration programs and leadership development. Authorizes appropriations for such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Postsecondary Vocational Education Act - Establishes a division of funds between secondary vocational and postsecondary occupational education in allotments to States under the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Provides that funds granted to States for occupational education may be used for: (1) strengthening State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education in order that they may effectively carry out the additional functions imposed by this Act; and (2) enabling the States to initiate and conduct a program of planning, including the development of a long-range strategy for placing occupational education on an equal footing with traditional academic education. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to the States for specific projects relating to the design, establishment, and conduct of post secondary occupational education programs. Directs any State desiring to receive the amount of its occupational education allotment for a fiscal year to submit a State plan for occupational education at such time, in such detail, and containing such information as the Commissioner of Education may prescribe. Sets forth criteria to be met for approval of State plans by the Commissioner. Provides that the Commission shall pay, from the State's occupational education allotment for a fiscal year, an amount equal to 50 percent of the total expenditures made in carrying out the State's approved plan. Directs each State to establish a local coordinating committee for each locality in the State. Provides that each local coordinating committee shall make a continuing study of the needs in its locality for vocational education, occupational education, and manpower training programs. States that on the basis of the information derived from such study, the local coordinating committee shall develop and propose a strategy which will present a coherent, integrated, and comprehensive set of vocational education, occupational education, and manpower training programs designed to meet such needs. Stipulates that aggregate expenditures for administration may not exceed 5 percent and guidance, counseling, and technical assistance may not exceed 15 percent of the State's vocational education allotment for that year. Provides for the consolidation, under the Vocational Education Act, of programs for research and training, exemplary programs, and project and curriculum development. Sets forth provisions governing how appropriated sums shall be divided by the Commissioner among specific projects. Authorizes appropriations of $135,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the improvement of vocational and occupational education programs pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Part-Time Career Opportunity Act - Phases in, at the rate of 2 percent each year for five years up to a maximum of 10 percent, part-time jobs in the Federal Civil Service. Authorizes the Civil Service Commission to waive or reduce any such percentage minimum for a period not to exceed one year under specified circumstances. States that a decision of the Commission to waive or reduce any such percentage minimum shall include the reasons and justification therefor. Authorizes to be appropriated the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare) for payment under the hospital insurance program for care and treatment furnished at a central radiation therapy treatment facility. Provides full payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for radiation therapy services furnished by physicians to inpatients or outpatients of any hospital or any such facility. Defines the terms used in this Act.
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