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United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1976
Expresses the objection of Congress to the sale to Saudi Arabia of defense articles and services as described in the statement submitted by the President on September 1, 1976 (transmittal numbered 7T-39).
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1976
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Gifted Children Week."
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1976
Expresses the objection of Congress to the proposed sales to Iran of defense articles and services which are described in the certifications submitted by the President of the United States pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act on September 1, 1976, and covering transmittals numbered 7T-36 (a), 7T-36 (b), 7T-25, 7T-32, 7T-29, 7T-34, 7T-46, 7T-28 and 7T-31.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1976
Emergency Federal Power Act Amendments - Amends the Federal Power Act to require that the operation of proposed rate schedules become effective only upon a determination by the Federal Power Commission that such schedules are lawful. Authorizes the use of special interim proceedings whereby the Commission may order parts of proposed rate schedules into effect pending results of a final determination. Prohibits public utilities from proposing additional rate increases where such proposed increases were part of a rate schedule pending before the Commission for 18 months or less. Directs the Commission to require public utilities to report anticipated shortages of electric energy. Authorizes the Commission to order such utilities to take actions necessary to alleviate the effects of such shortages.
United States · United States Congress · 2 September 1976
Foreclosure Forebearance Standards Act - Requires any person who makes a federally related mortgage loan to maintain facilities sufficient to insure availability of information concerning such mortgage. States that within 60 days after payments on a mortgage become delinquent and within 30 days before the initiation of any foreclosure proceedings the following must occur: (1) a meeting with the mortgagor to work out a repayment plan; and (2) a transfer of information with respect to such proceedings to the mortgagor. Places restraints on the initiation proceedings, including the requirement that a mortgagee refrain from instituting such proceedings until at least three full monthly installments are due and unpaid, except where the mortgagor abandons the secured property. States that a mortgagee must cease foreclosure proceedings where a mortgagor tenders the total amount due plus attorney's fees. Provides that any mortgagee who fails to comply with state requirements shall no longer be eligible for Federal assistance. Defines the term "federally related mortgage loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 September 1976
Amends Rule XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives to provide that committee funds shall not be used for travel unless its official nature is established by resolution approved by majority vote of the committee involved. Requires that the official travel resolution set forth specific items including the purpose of each destination, the names of all persons who propose to take the trip, the anticipated benefit to the taxpayers, and the estimated total expense.
United States · United States Congress · 31 August 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to implement a five-year demonstration program to increase the average annual diversion of water from Lake Michigan.
United States · United States Congress · 30 August 1976
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Gifted Children Week."
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Volunteer Firemen Week."
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1976
Directs the House Committee on Armed Services to make a study of the murder by members of the North Korean Armed Forces serving as guards at Panmunjom of two American Army officers attached to the United Nations Command, and other recent North Korean violations of the armistice agreement. Requires the committee to transmit a report to the House containing a statement of the findings of the committee no later than January 3, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1976
Condemns North Korea for its continued acts of treachery culminating in the axe murders of two American officers and the wounding of five others. Directs the Speaker of the House to make known the regrets of the House to the wives and children and other survivors of Major Bonifas and Lieutenant Barrett.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should take such steps as may be necessary to place the threat to the peace created by the murder of two American Army officers attached to the United Nations Command by members of the North Korean Armed Forces serving as guards at Panmunjom, and other recent North Korean violations of the armistice agreement, on the agenda of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 August 1976
Condemns the Soviet Union's failure to observe the spirit of existing international conventions to which it is a party, especially the restriction respecting the delivery of parcels.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1976
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Gifted Children Week."
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1976
Amends rule XXXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives to allow specified present and former employees and Members of the House to enter the Hall of the House and rooms leading thereto. Provides that such persons shall not be admitted if they have any direct personal or pecuniary interest in any legislative measure coming up for consideration in the House.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1976
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Gifted Children Week."
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1976
Directs the President to proclaim that Valentyn Moroz shall be an honorary citizen of the United States. Urges cooperation in observance of the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union as one of the signators to the Final Act should provide Valentyn Moroz with the opportunity to accept the invitation of Harvard University for the 1976-77 academic year.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1976
Directs the President to remove mandatory allocation controls from the class of petroleum products known as middle distillates. Stipulates that standby allocation authority shall remain in force with respect to such products. Defines the term "middle distillates" to include number 2 heating oil, number 2-D diesel, fuel, number 1 heating oil, number 1-D diesel fuel, and kerosone, as further defined in regulations issued pursuant to the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1976
Disapproves the Federal Energy Administration's proposed energy action numbered 3 which would exempt number 2 heating oil and number 2-D diesel fuel from mandatory petroleum allocation and price regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1976
Disapproves the Federal Energy Administration's proposed energy action numbered 4 which would exempt middle distillates (other than number 2 heating oil and number 2-D diesel fuel) from the mandatory petroleum allocation and price regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1976
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction to individuals who rent their principal residences for a portion of the real property taxes paid or accrued by their landlord.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1976
Disapproves the Federal Energy Administration's proposed energy action numbered 3 which would exempt number 2 heating oil and number 2-D diesel fuel from mandatory petroleum allocation and price regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1976
Condemns the Soviet Union's failure to observe existing international conventions to which it is a party, especially the restriction respecting the delivery of parcels.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1976
Disapproves the Federal Energy Administration's proposed energy action numbered 4 which would exempt middle distillates (other than number 2 heating oil and number 2-D diesel fuel) from the mandatory petroleum allocation and price regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1976
Directs the President to express the request of the United States Government that the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics provide Valentyn Moroz with the opportunity to accept the invitation of Harvard University to join the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute for the 1976-77 academic year.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1976
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service shall not close or suspend the operation of any post offices, unless there is a clear and compelling need to do so. Encourages the service to continue cost-cutting programs which do not affect levels of service.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Extends the delimiting period in the case of any eligible veteran who is pursuing, during his or her tenth year of eligibility, a program of education. Terminates such extension on whichever of the following dates first occurs: (1) the date on which the veteran completes, or ceases to pursue, the program he was pursuing in his tenth year of eligibility; or (2) the last day of the 11-year period beginning on the date of his discharge from active duty. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1662(e))
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1976
Increases the number of members of the Civil Service Commission from three to five. Empowers the Commissioners, rather than the Chairman, to appoint the Executive Director of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1976
States that in the case of a mentally retarded individual living in the household of a member of his or her immediate family and receiving support and maintenance in kind from such member, such support and maintenance shall not be included as unearned income for purposes of benefits under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income Program) of the Social Security Act. Provides that mentally retarded persons who are inmates at small community residences for the mentally retarded, at which there are no more than 15 residents, shall be eligible for supplemental security income benefits. Excludes from income for purposes of determining such benefits housing assistance payments made under the United States Housing Act. States that mentally retarded persons who are unable to continue working by reason of such impairment shall not be considered ineligible for benefits. Requires that applications for benefits shall be acted upon within a maximum of 60 days after filing. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to coordinate the administration of the supplemental security benefits program with the administration of other programs providing assistance, with a view to assuring that such recipients are aware of the availability of such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1976
Requires the appointment of an optometrist to the National Professional Standards Review Council and the participation by optometrists in the activities of local professional standards review organizations pursuant to the requirements of Title XI of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1976
Authorizes a taxpayer, under the Internal Revenue Code, to elect to treat qualified architectural and transportational barrier removal expenses which are paid or incurred during the taxable year as expenses which are not chargeable to capital account. Deems such expenses so treated as allowable tax deductible expenditures.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1976
Designates the Federal building located at 110 Michigan Avenue, Northwest, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the "Arthur H. Vandenberg Building".
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1976
Establishes an 11 member Commission on the Humane Treatment of Animals to study the treatment of animals. Requires that the membership include zoologists, veterinarians, and representatives from humane societies. Requires the Commission to determine if animals are caused needless pain or suffering as a result of their treatment: (1) on farms; (2) in zoos; (3) in laboratory experimentation; and (4) in other situations. Excludes the study or treatment of animals occurring in connection with the exercise of any religion. Directs the Commission to report its findings to the Congress and the President within two years after its last member is appointed. Terminates the Commission 60 days after it submits its final report. Authorizes appropriaions of $750,000 per year to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1976
Alaskan Natural Gas Pipeline Act - Expresses the intent of Congress to exercise its constitutional powers to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in directing the Federal Power Commission to take all necessary action to facilitate the completion of a transcontinental natural gas pipeline from the North Slope of Alaska through Canada to the contiguous 48 States. Amends the Natural Gas Act to direct the Commission, within 120 days after the enactment of this Act, to take all action it determines necessary to facilitate the construction, maintenance, and operation of such pipeline, including the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Stipulates that such action shall be consistent with the finding of the final environmental impact statement issued by the Commission. Stipulates that a certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be issued only to persons determined by the Commission to have adequate financial resources to complete the pipeline.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1976
Establishes in the House of Representatives the Select Committee on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Export Policy. Directs the Committee to conduct a full and complete study of: (1) the threat of nuclear proliferation; (2) the present policies of the United States concerning nuclear proliferation; (3) the decisionmaking process within the executive branch on nuclear export policies; and (4) any related areas which the committee deems necessary to investigate and study to discharge its responsibilities. Directs the committee to report to the House as soon as practicable the results of its investigation and study, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1976
Requires the United States Postal Service to consider specified factors in determining the need for an existing third- or fourth-class post office. Sets guidelines relating to with determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1976
Requires the United States Postal Service to consider specified factors in determining the need for an existing third- or fourth-class post office. Sets guidelines relating to with determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1976
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act - Title I: Franchise Protection - Prohibits a franchisor from prematurely cancelling a motor fuel franchise unless written notification of intent to terminate is furnished to the franchisee and the franchisee has failed to comply with reasonable terms of the franchise agreement. Permits cancellation of the franchise, with 180 days notice, when an event occurs which is relevant to the operation of the franchise relationship, as a result of which termination of the franchise is reasonable. Prohibits a franchisor from failing to renew a franchise unless written notification is provided to the franchisee and the franchisee has failed to comply with any reasonable term of the franchise, without reasonable excuse or justification. States that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to trial franchises. Authorizes civil actions in United States district courts to enforce the provisions of this Act. Title II: Moratorium on Refiners Increasing Percentage of Distribution of Gasoline Through Refiner Operated Retail Outlets - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to promulgate a rule under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 to require refiners to submit monthly reports for calendar years 1972 and 1975 on: (1) the total volume of gasoline distributed by such refiner for sales through retail outlets; and (2) the percentage of such volume distributed for sale through refiner operated retail outlets. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prohibit for a two year period any refiner from distributing gasoline for sale through refiner operated retail outlets if the volume of such gasoline exceeds a specified percentage. States that violation of such rule shall be considered an unfair method of competition affecting commerce. Directs the FTC to study and report to the Congress with respect to the legislative or regulatory means which the Commission recommends to promote competition in the marketing of automotive gasoline, including recommendations for appropriate prohibitions on discriminatory pricing practices and the appropriateness of specified price differentials and purchaser distinctions. Title III: Octane Disclosure - Requires the FTC to prescribe rules for determining octane ratings of gasoline and to display requirements of such ratings. Prohibits any distributor from making any representation respecting the octane rating of such gasoline unless the gasoline has been tested in accordance with such procedures and the results are fairly disclosed.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1976
Increases by $2,500,000,000, the amount authorized to be appropriated for long-term direct loans to nonprofit sponsors for construction of housing for the elderly and the handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1976
Petroleum Marketing Practices Act - Title I: Franchise Protection - Prohibits a franchisor from prematurely cancelling a motor fuel franchise unless written notification of intent to terminate is furnished to the franchisee and the franchisee has failed to comply with reasonable terms of the franchise agreement. Permits cancellation of the franchise, with 180 days notice, when an event occurs which is relevant to the operation of the franchise relationship, as a result of which termination of the franchise is reasonable. Prohibits a franchisor from failing to renew a franchise unless written notification is provided to the franchisee and the franchisee has failed to comply with any reasonable term of the franchise, without reasonable excuse or justification. States that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to trial franchises. Authorizes civil actions in United States district courts to enforce the provisions of this Act. Title II: Moratorium on Refiners Increasing Percentage of Distribution of Gasoline Through Refiner Operated Retail Outlets - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to promulgate a rule under the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974 to require refiners to submit monthly reports for calendar years 1972 and 1975 on: (1) the total volume of gasoline distributed by such refiner for sales through retail outlets; and (2) the percentage of such volume distributed for sale through refiner operated retail outlets. Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prohibit for a two year period any refiner from distributing gasoline for sale through refiner operated retail outlets if the volume of such gasoline exceeds a specified percentage. States that violation of such rule shall be considered an unfair method of competition affecting commerce. Directs the FTC to study and report to the Congress with respect to the legislative or regulatory means which the Commission recommends to promote competition in the marketing of automotive gasoline, including recommendations for appropriate prohibitions on discriminatory pricing practices and the appropriateness of specified price differentials and purchaser distinctions. Title III: Octane Disclosure - Requires the FTC to prescribe rules for determining octane ratings of gasoline and to display requirements of such ratings. Prohibits any distributor from making any representation respecting the octane rating of such gasoline unless the gasoline has been tested in accordance with such procedures and the results are fairly disclosed.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1976
Designates April 13, 1976 as "Thomas Jefferson Day."
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1976
Defines terms for purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make loans available through the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund to agricultural producers who suffer losses as a result of having their agricultural commodities or livestock quarantined or condemned because such commodities or livestock have been found to contain toxic chemicals dangerous to the public health.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1976
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to make expenditures to correct serious structural defects in dwellings securing loans guaranteed or insured by the Administrator if the defect is one that existed on the date of issuance of the loan and is one that a proper inspection could reasonably be expected to disclose (presently, the dwellings must have been actually inspected by either the VA or FHA during construction). (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1827(a)).
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1976
Amends the National Housing Act to authorize expenditures by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for repair of major structural defects which create a serious danger to the life and safety of inhabitants of any one-, two-, three-, or four-family dwelling covered by any mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1976
National Educational Opportunities Act - Title I: Definition and Guarantee of a Unitary School System and Equal Educational Opportunity - Provides that each State and its local educational agencies shall establish and maintain desegregated, unitary school systems which offer equal educational opportunities to all students, regardless of race, color, or national origin. States that a desegregrated unitary school system shall be presumed to exist unless a State or local educational agency denies equal educational opportunities to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by specified acts which have the natural, probable, foreseeable, or actual effect of segregating students on the basis of race, color or national origin. Prohibits local educational agencies from denying equal educational opportunity to an individual on account of race, color, or national origin by maintenance of practices or provision of resources in schools in which minority students are concentrated that are less favorable for educational success and advancement than in schools attended primarily by students of any other race, color, or national origin. Gives examples of such denials of equal educational opportunity. Authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action in Federal court for equitable relief in any case where he has reasonable cause to believe that the provisions of this Act are being violated. Title II: State Equal Educational Opportunities Plans - Requires each State to prepare and submit to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for his approval a plan to carry out the purpose of this Act. Requires that such plan shall provide for the establishment of State and local advisory bodies to advise State and local educational agencies on development and participation in such plans. Requires such plans to provide a viable mechanism for States and local educational systems to implement a policy of equal educational opportunities that delineates the fundamental prerequisites for a desegregated, unitary school system. Provides that such State plans shall include specific means for implementing some or all of the following components: (1) a majority transfer plan on both an intradistrict and interdistrict basis; (2) a school district reorganization plan; and (3) an approved, concentrated compensatory education program for basic instructional programs, supportive services, and vocational guidance and for programs having potential for improving the achievement performance of educationally deprived students. Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out this title not in excess of $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $500,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $500,000,000 for each fiscal year for the next three fiscal years. Provides a formula for allotment of such funds to the States and for allocation among various programs and agencies. States that whenever the Secretary, after reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing: (1) disapproves such a plan; or (2) finds that no plan has been submitted by a State, that a State plan approved under this Act has been so changed that it no longer complies with the requirements of this Act, that plan administration fails to comply substantially with any such provisions, or that a grantee is in violation of title II of this Act, the Secretary shall notify the grantee that further payments will not be made to the grantee under this title or any other educational assistance program until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any failure to comply. Provides that, until he is so satisfied, the Secretary shall make no further payments under such titles. Provides for review of the Secretary's action in such cases by the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the claimant State is located. Title III: General Provisions and Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1976
Electric Utility Rate Reform and Regulatory Improvement Act - Title I: General Provisions -- Declares it the purpose of this Act to reform inequities in the structure of electric utility rates. Title II: Utility Rate Reform - Defines terms as used in this title. Limits applicability of this title to sales of electric energy for purposes other than resale by an electric utility, where sales by such utility for purposes other than resale exceed 200 million kilowatt-hours during the second preceding calendar year. Imposes national minimum standards on utility rate structures, to be enforced by State regulatory authorities. Prohibits rate structures which allow lower rates for increased consumption without a showing that such lower rates actually reflect decreased costs. Eliminates price differentials for residential users of subsistence quantities of electricity, unless the Governor of the State has determined that an adequate alternative means to alleviate the burden to low-income residential consumers has been implemented. Stipulates that promotional and advertising costs may not be treated by a utility as an operating expense for purposes of rate determination. Requires evidentiary hearings by regulatory authorities on proposed rate increases. Limits the amount of actual increases pursuant to an automatic adjustment clause which may become effective without such a hearing. Requires that regulatory authorities annually review existing utility rate schedules. Authorizes State regulatory authorities to prescribe variances upon application by individual electric consumers unduly hardshipped by rate schedules. Directs State authorities to prescribe load management techniques to reduce maximum kilowatt demand on electric utilities. Establishes procedures to be followed in determining marginal costs of service to electric consumers. Establishes an Electric Utility Rate-making Assistance Office in the Federal Energy Administration to provide information and assistance with respect to ratemaking policies and procedures established by this Act. Title III: Economic Regulation of Bulk Power Supply - Amends the Federal Power Act to require that public utilities make new, increased, or retired capacity in bulk power facilities available to others engaged in the sale or transmission of electric energy in the same geographical area. Establishes additional requirements and procedures to insure continuation of service in cases of anticipated deficiencies in the available supplies of electric power. Requires that the Federal Power Commission hold evidentiary hearings on proposed rate increases. Limits the amount of actual increases pursuant to an automatic adjustment clause which may becomes effective without such a hearing. Requires the establishment of an Office of Public Counsel in the Federal Power Commission for the purpose of adequate representation of consumer interests before the Commission. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1978 and $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 to such Office. Authorizes the Commission to pay reasonable fees to certain participants in evidentiary hearings, not to exceed $1,000,000 for all such persons in any fiscal year. Directs the Commission to prescribe minimum standards to assure a reliable supply of electric energy. Requires electric utilities to develop a quality control program to assure compliance with such reliability standards. Directs the Commission, upon consultation with the Federal Trade Commission, to study the desirability and means of increasing competition within the electric utility industry. Directs the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration to conduct a study on the feasibility of generating electricity near the place of consumption. Title IV: Financial Assistance to State Regulatory Authorities - Authorizes the Electric Utility Ratemaking Assistance Office (established by title II of this Act) to make grants to State regulatory authorities for the following purposes: (1) to increase the quantity and quality of State regulatory staff; (2) to establish programs to meet Federal consumer representation requirements; and (3) to demonstrate innovative rate structures. Prescribes criteria on the allotment of funds to the States. Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 in any fiscal year for grants to improve staffing. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000 for grants for consumer representation, and $5,000,000 for grants for rate structure innovation. Title V: Coordination of Planning and Siting of Bulk Power Facilities - Requires that electric utilities which control bulk power facilities prepare an annual long-range plan for the use of each such facility. Establishes areawide planning councils to review such plans and submit area plans for bulk power facilities to the Commission. Directs the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission to supervise the overall approval process for the siting of bulk power facilities. Establishes procedures to assist in coordinating the Federal approval process.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1976
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for hearing aids and dentures.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1976
Authorizes the President to designate the second full calendar week in March of 1976 as "National Employ the Older Worker Week."
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1976
Congressional General Election Campaign Financing Reform Act - Adds a new chapter 97 to the Internal Revenue Code entitled "Congressional General Election Campaign Fund Act". Establishes, within the Internal Revenue Code, procedures by which candidates for nomination for election, or for election to either House of Congress may receive payments of public funds in amounts matching contributions made to the candidates' nomination or election campaign funds. Defines terms used in the Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund a separate amount to be known as the Congressional General Election Payment Account. Directs the Secretary to deposit into the Congressional General Election Payment Account that portion of the annual amounts designated by taxpayers on their income tax returns that equals the excess above 30 percent of the total amount made available in the last Presidential election. Limits to $100 the amount of a contribution which an individual may make to one candidate's primary election campaign or to that candidate's general election campaign. Authorizes the Federal Election Commission to examine and audit the qualified campaign expenses of every candidate and to require the candidate to repay to the Secretary the amount of any excess payments made by the Secretary. Requires the Commission to report to Congress at the end of each Federal general election year on the qualified campaign expenses of each candidate, the amount paid to each candidate, and the amount of repayments required from candidates. Authorizes the Commission to bring action in any United States district court to recover any amounts deemed payable to the Secretary as the result of an audit. Establishes a criminal penalty consisting of a fine of up to $25,000, or one year in prison or both for violation of the limitations on expenditures. Increases fines for violations of the limitations set for contributions and expenditures in Presidential and Congressional campaigns.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1976
Requires each Armed Forces medical facility and public and private medical facility receiving Federal financial assistance to establish policies to permit women undergoing childbirth at such facilities to be accompanied by the person of their choice. Permits the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to Armed Forces medical facilities and private and public medical facilities receiving Federal financial assistance, respectively, to authorize the imposition of restrictions on such attendance which are required for the protection of health.