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77 records where Rep. Bray, William G. [R-IN-6] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1974
Provides for the acceptance by the House of Representatives of a portrait of Charles Abraham Halleck of the State of Indiana to be displayed in the U. S. Capitol.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Prohibits the Federal Energy Administration from imposing any tax, fee, or charge on gasoline, unless approved by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Expresses the findings of Congress, including that Federal information reporting requirements have placed an unprecedented paperwork burden upon private citizens, recipients of Federal assistance, businesses, governmental contractors, and State and local governments. Establishes a Commission on Federal Paperwork to study procedures and practices of the Federal Government relating to information gathering, dissemination, and the management and control of information activities. Enumerates the areas to be considered by the Commission in its studies. Directs the Commission to make a final report to the Congress and the President within two years of the date of its first meeting. Sets forth the membership composition of the Commission and their compensation. Details the administrative powers of the Commission. Calls for cooperation between Federal agencies and the Commission. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1974
Fiscal Integrity Act - Expresses the findings of Congress, including that allowing the continuation of policies which lessen the fiscal integrity of the Government is detrimental to the general welfare of the people and ought, therefore, to be ended. Title I: Revenue and Budget Outlays Control - Establishes for each fiscal year a revenue and budget outlays limit for the Government. States that no appropriation shall be made for any fiscal year by the Congress in excess of the revenue and budget outlays limit for such fiscal year. Provides that if the revenue of the Government exceeds the limit established, the excess shall be used for the payment of the public debt of the Government. States that the revenue and budget outlays limit shall be derived by multiplying the estimated aggregate national income for such fiscal year by the Federal revenue factor. Defines "Federal revenue factor". Title II: Monetary Supply Control - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to insure that any rate of increase in the amount of currency in circulation and demand deposits is not greater than 1 1/4 percent per quarter fiscal year. Title III: Fiscal Disclosure - States that a bill or joint resolution introduced in either House of Congress or received by it from the other House shall be printed only when there appears at the bottom of the first page a fiscal note. Requires such fiscal note to state the amounts estimated to be the direct and indirect costs likely to be incurred or the direct and indirect savings likely to be achieved in carrying out the provisions of such bill or joint resolution in the fiscal year in which it is introduced or received and in each of the five fiscal years following such fiscal year, or for the authorized duration of any program authorized by such bill or joint resolution if less than five years, except that in the case of measures affecting revenue, the fiscal note shall state only the estimate of change in revenues for a one-year period. States that a copy of each such bill or joint resolution shall be transmitted immediately to the instrumentality of Government which will carry out its provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Comprehensive Right to Privacy Act - Requires that any organization of Federal, State, or local government maintaining an information system that includes personal information shall: (1) collect, maintain, use, and disseminate only personal information necessary to accomplish a proper purpose of the organization; (2) collect information to the greatest extent possible from the data subject directly; (3) maintain information in the system with accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and pertinence as necessary to assure fairness in determinations relating to a data subject; (4) make no dissemination to another system or any individual other than the data subject without specifying requirements for security and the use of information exclusively for the purpose set forth in the notice required under this Act; (5) maintain a complete and accurate record, including identity purpose, and date, of every access to any personal information in a system by persons or organizations not having regular access authority; and (6) collect no personal information concerning the political or religious beliefs, affiliations, and activities of data subjects maintained by any government agency unless expressly authorized by statute. Prohibits any Federal agency from requiring individuals to disclose for statistical purposes any personal information unless such disclosure is required by a constitutional provision or Act of Congress, and the individual is so informed. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to: (1) give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board; (2) give public notice of the existence and character of each existing system each year; and (3) assure that such public notice specifies the categories of data maintained, and the categories of all information sources, a description of types of use made of information, and the procedures whereby an individual can gain access to such information and contest its accuracy and the necessity for its retention. Requires any organization maintaining personal information to inform an individual asked to supply personal information whether he is legally required, or may refuse, to supply the information requested, and also of any specific consequences, which are known to the organization, of providing or not providing such information. Permits data subjects who dispute information about themselves to have such disputed information noted as being disputed when such information about him is disseminated. Requires, upon request, corrections in information to be sent to past recipients of information. Directs organizations maintaining information to inform, within two years and each year thereafter, individuals on whom data is stored of its content and where a copy of such data may be obtained. Allows the head of a Federal agency maintaining such information to exempt his agency from requirements of this Act in the interest of national defense. Makes it unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number, for any purpose in connection with any business transaction unless the disclosure or furnishing of such number is specifically required by Federal law. Establishes the Federal Privacy Board whose five members shall be appointed by the President. Directs the Board to: (1) publish an annual Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system covered by this Act; (2) make rules to assure compliance with this Act; (3) upon the determination of a violation of a provision of this Act or regulation promulgated under the Act, and after opportunity for a hearing, order the organization violating such provision to cease and desist such violation; and (4) conduct open, public hearings on all petitions for exceptions or exemptions from provisions, application, or jurisdiction of this Act. States that any individual or organization or responsible officer of an organization who willfully: (1) keeps an information system without having notified the Federal Privacy Board; or (2) issues personal information in violation of this Act; or (3) solicits, uses, or otherwise acquires information in violation of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 in each instance or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Provides that any person, system, or agency which violates the provisions of the Act, or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, shall be liable to any person aggrieved thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1974
Prohibits, under the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947, the domestic intelligence activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1974
Authorizes the removal of present restrictions upon the setting of toll charges upon specified highway sections in Northern Indiana upon the repayment of $1,936,894 in Federal-aid highway funds by the State of Indiana to the United States Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Interstate Compact - Declares it to be the national policy to encourage and recognize the performance of functions by the States with respect to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. States that the Congress consents to the Midwest Interstate Nuclear Compact. Describes such Compact, setting forth its policies and purposes. Creates the Midwest Nuclear Board and enumerates its administrative powers.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1974
Authorizes the removal of present restrictions upon the setting of toll charges upon specified highway sections in Northern Indiana upon the repayment of $1,880,320 in Federal-aid highway funds by the State of Indiana to the United States Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1974
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provisions for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives of the United States that the Secretary of Defense shall issue no further reclassifications from missing in action or prisoner of war status to presumptive finding of death status until such time as the Government of North Vietnam complies with the Paris Peace Agreement, and until a determination is made that all possible means of ascertaining the fates of those listed as missing in action has been made.
United States · United States Congress · 16 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 those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnishing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism in the Middle East; (2) the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to (a) call upon all governments to condemn this inhuman act of violence against innocent victims; and (b) strongly urge the governments who harbor these groups and individuals to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terrorism and senseless violence; and (3) the President should request the American Ambassador to the United Nations to take appropriate action before that body in order to have introduced a Security Council resolution condemning this brutal act of violence.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Authorizes appropriations during the fiscal year 1975 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces. Prescribes the authorized personnel strength for each active duty component and of the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the Armed Forces and of civilian personnel of the Department of Defense. Prescribes military training student loads. States it to be the policy of the United States to modernize the strike forces of the United States Navy by the construction of nuclear powered major combatant vessels. Calls for an adequate industrial base for the research, development, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of such vessels. Requires that new construction major combatant vessels for the strike forces of the United States Navy authorized subsequent to the date this Act becomes law shall be nuclear powered, except as the Congress shall hereafter provide. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress each calendar year a written report regarding the application of nuclear propulsion to major combatant vehicles for such strike forces.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Provides that no court created by Act of Congress and having general jurisdiction, original or appellate, with respect to cases or controversies arising under the laws or Constitution of the United States, shall have any jurisdiction to hear or decide cases or controversies involving the public schools. Vests the jurisdiction terminated by this Act in the courts of the several States and, with respect to such cases and controversies arising in the District of Columbia or in any other territory or possession of the United States, in the Federal courts of an essentially local jurisdiction in such District, territory, or possession. Vests in the Supreme Court of the United States appellate jurisdiction by writ of certiorari to the highest State or territorial court exercising jurisdiction over such case or controversy.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Uniform Criteria Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to specify appropriate criteria for the formulation of remedies for the orderly elimination of the vestiges of dual school systems. Title I: Assignment Provisions - States that the assignment by an educational agency of a student to the school nearest his place of residence which provides the appropriate grade level and type of education for such student is not a denial of equal protection of the laws unless such assignment is made for the purpose of segregating students on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin. Provides that the failure of an educational agency to attain a balance, on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, or socioeconomic status of students among its schools shall not constitute a denial of equal protection of the laws. Title II: Remedies - Requires a court, department, or agency of the United States in formulating a remedy for a denial of the equal protection of the laws, to seek or impose only such remedies as are essential to correct particular denials of equal protection of the laws. Provides that in formulating a remedy for a denial of the equal protection of the law, which may involve the transportation of students, a court, department, or agency of the United States shall consider and make specific findings on the efficacy in correcting such denial of specified remedies and shall require implementation of the remedies or on the first combination thereof which would remedy such denial: (1) assigning students to the schools closest to their places of residence which provide the appropriate grade level and type of education for such students, taking into account school capacities and natural physical barriers; (2) assigning students to the schools closest to their places of residence which provide the appropriate grade level and type of education for such student, taking into account only school capacities; (3) permitting students to transfer from a school in which a majority of the students are of their race, color, or national origin to a school in which a minority of the students are of their race, color, or national origin; (4) the creation or revision of attendance zones or grade structures without requiring transportation beyond the next closest school to a student's residence; or (5) the development and implementation of any other plan which is educationally sound and administratively feasible. Prohibits any court, department, or agency of the United States from ordering the implementation of a plan that would require the transportation of any student to a school other than the school closest or next closest to his place of residence which provides the appropriate grade level and type of education for such student. Prohibits any court, department, or agency of the United States from requiring directly or indirectly the transportation of any student if such transportation poses a risk to the health of such student or constitutes a significant impingement on the educational process with respect to such student. Provides that when a court of competent jurisdiction determines that a school system is desegregated, or that it meets the constitutional requirements, or that it is a unitary system, or that it has no vestiges of a dual system, and thereafter residential shifts in population occur which result in school population changes in any school within such a desegregated school system, no education agency shall because of such shifts be required by any court, department, or agency of the United States to formulate, or implement any new desegregation plan or modify or implement any modification of the court approved desegregation plan to compensate wholly or in part for such shifts in school population. States that in the formulation of remedies under this Act, the lines drawn by a State, subdividing its territory into separate school districts, shall not be ignored or altered except where it is established that the lines were drawn for the purpose of segregating children among public schools on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin. Asserts that nothing in this Act prohibits an educational agency from proposing, adopting, requiring, or implementing any plan of desegregation, otherwise lawful, that is at variance with the standards set out in this title, nor shall any court, department, or agency of the United States be prohibited from approving implementation of a plan which goes beyond what can be required under this title, if such plan is voluntarily proposed by the appropriate educational agency. Provides that on the application of an educational agency, court orders, or desegregation plans under title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in effect on the date of enactment of this Act and intended to end segregation of students on the basis of race, color, or national origin, shall be reopened and modified to comply with the provisions of this Act. States that any court order requiring the desegregation of a school system shall be terminated, if the court finds the schools of the defendant educational agency are a unitary school system, one within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of race, color, or national origin, and this shall be so, whether or not such school system was in the past segregated de jure or de facto. Title III: Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals the provision of the Emergency School Aid Act authorizing the construction of integrated education parks. Provides that if any provision of this Act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the provisions of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Student Antibusing Act - Provides that no court of the United States shall have the jurisdiction to make any decision, enter any judgment, or issue any order requiring pupils to be transported to or from school on the basis of their race, color, religion, or national origin. Provides that no department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States empowered to extend Federal financial assistance to any program or activity at any school by way of grant, loan, or otherwise, shall withhold or threaten to withhold any such Federal financial assistance in order to coerce or induce the implementation or continuation of any plan or program the effect of which would be to require that pupils be transported to or from school on the basis of their race, color, religion, or national origin. Provides that, notwithstanding any other law or provision of law, in the case of any order on the part of any United States district court the effect of which is or would be to require that pupils be transported to or from school on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin, the effectiveness of such order shall be postponed until all appeals in connection with such order have been exhausted or, in the event no appeals are taken, until the time for such appeals has expired. Gives the U.S. district courts exclusive jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this Act and sets forth the procedure for such proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Student Freedom of Choice Act - States that no department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States empowered to extend Federal financial assistance to any program or activity at any public school by way or grant, loan, or otherwise shall withhold, or threaten to withhold, such financial assistance from any such program or activity: (1) on account of the racial composition of the student body at any public school or in any class at any public school in any case whatever where the school board operating such public school or class maintains, in respect to such public school and class, a freedom of choice system; (2) to coerce or induce the school board operating such public school to transport students from such public school to any other public school for the purpose of altering in any way the racial composition of the student body at such public school or any other public school; (3) to coerce or induce any school board operating such public school system to close any public school, and transfer the students from it to another public school for the purpose of altering in any way the recial composition of the student body at any public school; and (4) to coerce or induce the school board operating such public school system to transfer any member of any public school faculty from the public school in which the member of the faculty contracts to serve to some other public school for the purpose of altering the racial composition of the faculty at any public school. Provides that whenever any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States violates or threatens to violate this Act, the school board aggrieved by the violation or threatened violation, or the parent of any student affected or to be affected by the violation or threatened violation, or any member of any faculty affected or to be effected by the violation or threatened violation may bring a civil action against the United States in a district court of the United States complaining of the violation or threatened violation. Provides that no court of the United States shall have jurisdiction ot make any decision, enter judgment, or issue any order requiring any school board to make any change in the racial composition of the student body at any public school or in any class at any public school to which students are assigned in conformity with a freedom of choice system, or requiring any school board to transport any students from one public school to another public school or from one place to another place or from one school district to another school district in order to effect a change in the racial composition of the student body at any school or place or in any school district, or denying to any student the right or privilege of attending any public school or class any any public school chosen by the parent of such student in conformity with freedom of choice system, or requiring any school board to close any school and transfer the students from the closed school to any other school for the purpose of altering the racial composition of the student body at any public school, or precluding any school board from carrying into effect any provision of any contract between it and any member of the faculty of any public school it operates specifying the public school where the member of the faculty is to perform his or her duties under the contract.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Increases the number of authorized Deputy Chiefs of Staff for the Army Staff to four (presently three).
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1974
Provides for the Federal incorporation of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Sets forth the powers of such corporation. Provides that the corporation, and its officers and directors shall not contribute to or otherwise support or assist any political party or candidate for elective public office.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Military Construction Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Defense to establish or develop military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, converting, rehabilitating or installing permanent or temporary public works, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment at designated projects to the extent of the dollar amounts designated by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to construct family housing units and mobile home facilities, after consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the locations designated by this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of funds needed to carry out the provisions of this Act. Reserve Forces Facilities Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop additional facilities for the Reserve Forces of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air National Guard, the Air Force Reserve, and the Army National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Includes coverage under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to all Indiana State employees who performed services in part-time postions during the period from January 1, 1969, to October 1, 1973, notwithstanding any other provision of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Authorizes the negotiated sale by the Department of Defense of equipment, materials, and obsolete spare parts to United States purchasers.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1974
Establishes as the penalty for kidnapping a term of imprisonment not less than ten years without opportunity for suspension of sentence, probation, or parole. Requires the death penalty where the victim is not returned physically unharmed. Provides that the unexplained disappearance of any person for more than 24 hours, if there is any evidence of a kidnap, shall create a rebuttable presumption that such person has been transported in interstate or foreign commerce. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 1201)
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides, under the provisions of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, for a roll back of the wholesale and retail prices of propane gas. Requires that the President shall, in the administration of the pricing authority under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, provide for the equitable allocation of costs among different petroleum products covered by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides that, immediately upon the adoption of this resolution, the resolution (H. Res. 807) to disapprove the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, hereby is taken from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, and the same is hereby agreed to.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1974
Creates a Joint Committee on Energy to be composed of twenty-four members. Provides that the joint committee shall select a chairman and a vice chairman from among its members at the beginning of each Congress. Directs the joint committee to: (1) make a continuing study of the development, use, and control of all forms of energy; (2) examine current proposals for legislation relating to the development, use, and control of energy; and (3) review the policies and actions of the agencies of the executive branch with respect to the development, use, and control of energy. Enumerates the powers of the joint committee.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1974
Provides, under the provisions of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, for a roll back of the wholesale and retail prices of propane gas. Requires that the President shall, in the administration of the pricing authority under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, provide for the equitable allocation of costs among different petroleum products covered by such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Federal Paperwork Burden Relief Act - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the reporting requirements of Federal regulatory programs to determine the extent to which these requirements may be revised to lessen the burden upon small and independent business establishments. Requires the Comptroller General to report the results of such study to the Congress one year from the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Suspends emissions controls on motor vehicles and engines in the continental United States except vehicles registered to residents of designated air quality regions until June 30, 1977, or sixty days after the President determines there is no significant shortage of petroleum fuels, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate, subject to the limitations of the Act, geographic areas of the United States in which there is significant auto emissions related air pollution. Provides that each State shall, not later than sixty days following enactment of this Act, submit to the Administrator a plan for implementing the Act. Provides that if a State fails to submit a plan under the Act or if the Administrator determines (after notice and opportunity for hearing) that such State is not adequately enforcing such a plan, then such State shall lose its entitlement to, and may not thereafter receive, any Federal grant or loan assistance under this Act or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Declares that willful and deliberate violation of any provision of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Department of Defense Supplemental Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations during the fiscal year 1974 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, and other weapons and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces, and authorizes construction at the installations designated in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations during fiscal year 1975 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces. Prescribes the authorized personnel strength for each active duty component and of the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the Armed Forces and of civilian personnel of the Department of Defense. Authorizes the average military training student loads for each component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
States that the House of Representatives disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Deep Seabed Hard Minerals Act - Sets forth the findings of Congress and the purposes of the Act. Defines the terms used in the Act. Declares that, except as authorized pursuant to the provisions of this Act or under a treaty ratified by the United States, no person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall engage directly or indirectly in the development of hard mineral resources of the deep seabed. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to accept applications from and to issue licenses to eligible applicants for the development of hard mineral resources of the deep seabed. Sets forth the provisions for the issuing of such licenses. Declares that in no event shall any license under this Act authorize the commercial recovery of such resources prior to January 1, 1976, and that except to the extent that such licenses are authorized pursuant to the provisions of an international agreement establishing a regime for the development of mineral resources of the international seabed area beyond the limits of coastal State territorial or resource jurisdiction, no licenses shall be issued under this Act subsequent to the ratification by the United States of any such international agreement. Provides that every license issued under this Act shall remain in force for 10 years. Makes provisions for licensing procedures under this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Interior, prior to the issuance of any license under this Act, to establish and apply criteria for evaluating the potential impact on the marine environment of deep seabed hard mineral mining operation. Sets forth a table of minimum expenditures per licensed block until commercial recovery from such block is initiated. Authorizes the Secretary to begin commercial recovery and for the withdrawal of areas from licensing. Makes the provisions for investment guaranty and insurance through the Secretary of Commerce. Provides a civil penalty of $10,000 per day during which violations of this Act occur and a criminal penalty of $25,000 per day for willful and knowing violations of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for the current fiscal year and the two succeeding fiscal years such sums as may be necessary for the administration of this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal years 1976 - 1978 for the implementations of the investment quaranty provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1973
Revises the National Emissions Standards Act by rescinding the prohibition against motor vehicle dealers to knowingly remove air pollution control devices from vehicles. Prohibits any State from prohibiting the removal of air pollution control devices from motor vehicles as part of an implementation plan under the Clean Air Act except as otherwise provided under this Act. Provides that motor vehicle emission standards prescribed under this Act shall not apply to any motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine manufactured in model year 1974 through model year 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1973
Expresses the concurrence of the Congress in naming the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CVN-70 as the United States ship Carl Vinson.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1973
Expresses the concurrence of the Congress in naming the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CVN-70 as the United States ship Carl Vinson.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1973
Authorizes increased production of petroleum from the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve at a rate to help insure that the needs of national defense are met, but not to exceed the maximum efficient rate in accordance with sound engineering and economic principles. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of the production herein authorized by means of sales effected by competitive bid. Provides that full and equal opportunity for acquisition of the oil shall be accorded to all interested companies, including major and independent oil refineries alike. Establishes the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account. States that funds in the Account shall be available for the expenses of: (1) production, including preparation for production, as authorized by this resolution and as may hereafter be authorized; (2) all capital costs necessary for facilities both within and outside the reserve incident to production and delivery of crude petroleum; and (3) exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1973
Authorizes the President to designate the nuclear powered aircraft carrier CVN-70 as the United States ship Carl Vinson.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1973
Creates the House Select Committee on Privacy composed of 9 members of the House of Representatives to conduct a study and investigation of the development and proliferation of technology in American society, plus the use of technology, drugs, surgery, and other scientific and medical advances which would claim to alter the basic personality of the individual. Directs the Committee to study the use of computers and other tecnnical instruments in gathering and centralizing information on individuals in data banks and the effect of such activity on human rights. Resolution creating a Select Committee on Privacy.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1973
States that no court established by or under the Constitution of the United States shall have jurisdiction to order the transfer or transportation of any student to carry out a plan for the desegregation of any public educational facility if such facility is operated in good faith on an open enrollment basis by a local educational agency. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to make grants to each local educational agency (as defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) for 50 percent of the increased cost borne by such local educational agency in establishing or operating an open enrollment basis school system.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1973
Provides that the recommendations of the President transmitted to the Congress under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (relating to salaries of members of Congress and certain members of the executive and judicial branches of the Federal government) shall become effective at the beginning of the first pay period which begins after the first period of thirty calendar days of continuous session following the transmittal of such recommendations, unless there has been enacted into law a statute which establishes rates of pay other than those proposed by all or part of such recommendations, or unless between the date of transmittal and the end of the thirty day period either House adopts a resolution disapproving all or part of such recommendations. Provides that if the Committee, to which a resolution has been referred disapproving the recommendations of the President. Provides that the House has not reported the resolution after ten calendar days, it is in order to discharge the committee from further consideration of the resolution. Directs that such motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring the resolution and debate thereon is limited to not more than one hour divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. Directs that the motion to discharge may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any other resolution concerning the same recommendations. Specifies that when the committee has reported, or has been discharged from the further consideration of such resolution, it is in order to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. Stipulates that such motion is not debatable and may not be amended. Limits debate on the resolution to not more than two hours to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. Provides that motions to postpone, motions to proceed to the consideration of other business and appeals from the decisions of the chair shall be decided without debate. Authorizes any part of the recommendations of the President, in accordance with express provisions of such recommendations, to be made operative on a date later than a date on which such recommendations otherwise are to take effect. (Amends 2 U.S.C. 359)
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Provides that no court established by or under the Constitution shall have jurisdiction to order the transfer of any student to carry out a plan for the desegregation of any public educational facility if such facility is operated in good faith, on an open enrollment basis by a local educational agency which operates its system of free public education or an exclusively open enrollment basis.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries omit recommendations for pay increases for Members of Congress in its report to the President on the results of its 1973 salary studies.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1973
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations during the fiscal year 1974 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces. Prescribes the authorized personnel strength for each active duty component and of the Selected Reserve of each reserve component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1973
Establishes a Joint Committee on Energy in the Congress of the United States. Provides that such Joint Committee shall make a continuing investigation and study of the problems relating to the development and use of all forms of energy.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1973
Authorizes the President to issue annually a proclamation designating the fourth Sunday of November of each year as "National Grandparents' Day". Calls upon the people of the United States and interested groups and organizations to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1973
Requires public hearings on specified regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Labor. Requires that the findings of such public hearings shall be made and submitted to the Congress. States that such regulations shall not become effective until Congress has had thirty days to review such findings.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day in each year as "National Family Week".