United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1975
Migration and Refugee Assistance Act - Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to assist aliens who: (1) because of persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion, fled from Cambodia or Vietnam; (2) cannot return there because of fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or political opinion; and (3) are in urgent need of assistance for the essentials of life. Stipulates that none of such funds shall be available for obligation for any purpose after September 30, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Delays until September 1, 1980, implementation of the order issued by the Secretary of Transportation setting a standard by hydraulic brake systems and associated parking brake systems originally scheduled to become effective September 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Provides that the regulations issued by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency setting noise emission standards for motor vehicles with gross weight in excess of 10,000 pounds shall not become effective until October 15, 1980 rather than October 15, 1975 as originally scheduled. Directs that the regulations established by the Secretary of Transportation for the enforcement of such standards shall be delayed until October 15, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides that no debt owned to the United States by any foreign country may be settled in an amount less than full value of such debt unless the Congress by concurrent resolution approves of such settlement.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person shall be a Member of Congress who at the time of taking office shall attained the age of 66 years. Provides that this article shall not affect the eligibility of any Member of Congress to complete the term of office which he or she occupied at the time of ratification of this article. Provides that no Justice of the Supreme Court or judge or magistrate in any lower court of the United States shall continue in such office after he or she shall have attained the age of 66 years.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Authorizes the diversion and withdrawal of additional water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway. Requires the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, to at all times have direct control and supervision of the amounts of water directly diverted from Lake Michigan under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1975
Vietnam Humanitarian Assistance and Evacuation Act - Authorizes $150,000,000 to be appropriated to the President to be used, not withstanding any other provision of law, on such terms as the President may deem necessary and appropriate for humanitarian assistance in, and evacuation programs from, South Vietnam. Defines evacuation as the removal to places of safety as expeditiously as possible, without the use of military force, if possible, but should it become necessary and essential, with the minimum use of necessary force, the following categories of persons: (1) American citizens; (2) dependents of American citizens and of permanent residents of the United States; (3) Vietnamese nationals eligible for immigration to the United States by reason of their relationships to American citizens; and (4) such other foreign nationals to whose lives a direct and imminent threat exists. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to abrogate any of the provisions of the War Powers Resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1975
Prohibits all persons, other than individuals, from making any political contributions to candidates for Federal office, or to any political committee for use in any election for Federal office. Prohibits individuals from making such contributions in excess of an aggregate of $1,000.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
Makes it a deportable offense under the Immigration and Nationality Act for an alien to obtain and collect unemployment, welfare, or other federally provided benefits. States that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to benefits collected prior to ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to budget and provide for the authorization of appropriations, and the use of those appropriated funds by the Secretary of the Air Force to assist the Civil Air Patrol in providing services in connection with the noncombatant mission of the Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975
Provides, under the Social Security Act, that an alien must have resided in the United States continuously for at least 36 months in order to qualify for aid to families with dependent children, supplemental security income benefits, medicaid benefits, or aid or assistance under any other Federal or federally financed welfare program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Increases, under the Internal Revenue Code, the estate tax exemption to $200,000 (previously $60,000). States that the amendments made by this Act shall apply to the estates of decedents dying after December 31, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the provisions of State unemployment compensation laws relating to availability for work or refusal to accept work to determine whether they are effective in preventing persons who refuse to accept employment from receiving unemployment compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Allows school systems to assign pupils on the basis of neighborhood attendance areas. Directs that no provision of the Constitution shall be construed to require such systems to assign pupils in any other manner. Gives Congress the power to enforce this article.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish national petroleum reserves on any reserved or unreserved public lands of the United States except lands in the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, the National Wilderness Preservation System, areas now under review for inclusion in the Wilderness System in accordance with provisions of the Wilderness Act of 1964, and lands in Alaska other than those in Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4. States that no national petroleum reserve that includes all or part of an existing naval petroleum reserve shall be established without prior consultation with the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the development of the oil and gas in the national petroleum reserves in the contiguous 48 States established pursuant to this Act. Requires competitive bidding procedures with prior public notice for any contract, lease, or operating agreement for development and production of oil and gas from a national petroleum reserve. States that the terms and conditions for such development, which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be subject to disapproval by Congress. Provides that any oil or gas produced from such petroleum reserves shall, with exceptions, be subject to all the limitations and licensing requirements of the Export Administration Act. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to explore for oil and gas on Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4 and to report annually to Congress on his plan for exploration of such reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Transfers the authority for the coordination of Federal reporting services from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the General Accounting Office under the Comptroller General. Establishes within the General Accounting Office a unit to review tax forms and other public use documents prepared by the Internal Revenue Service and to make recommendations for their simplification, the frequency with which such forms should be completed, and the scope of such forms. Sets forth a procedure by which the Comptroller General may order the simplification, combining, or completion less frequently of any such tax form.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Authorizes the President to designate April 24, 1975, as "National Day of Remembrance of Man's Inhumanity to Man" for remembrance of all the victims of genocide, especially those of Armenian ancestry who succumbed to the genocide perpetrated in Turkey in 1915.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Small Business Tax Relief Act - Allows an investment tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code to small businesses for depreciable property on which construction begins after December 31, 1974, or which is acquired after such time, equal to 10 percent of the qualified investment (the applicable percentage of the basis of each new such property and cost of each used such property placed in service by the taxpayer during the taxable year) up to $20,000 and 7 percent of such investment in excess of $20,000. Increases the additional first-year depreciation allowance under the Internal Revenue Code for a small business from 20 to 25 percent. Increases the cost allowance of such property on which such deduction is based from $10,000 to $15,000. Prescribes a formula for computing the last-in-first-out (LIFO) inventory adjustment for small businesses whose closing inventory is less than $200,000 and who do not use the LIFO inventory methods described in the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Allows small businesses a carryover for 10 years of a net operating loss.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1975
Repeals the provisions of the postal law relating to the private carriage of letters. Eliminates criminal penalties for conveying letters and packets on a private express basis. (Repeals 39 U.S.C. 601, 602: 18 U.S.C. 1694 - 1697; Amends 18 U.S.C. 1698 - 1699)
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Provides that Federal entitlements to local education agencies based on the number of people who reside or work on Federal property shall be phased out after September 30, 1978. States that the U.S. Commissioner of Education shall, beginning with fiscal year 1976 and ending with fiscal year 1978, reduce by 25, 50, and 75 percent respectively the number of children counted for entitlements with respect to any local educational agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Provides that States may not have less strict standards with respect to marking, labeling, packaging, and ingredient requirements than those made under the Federal Meat Inspection Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President of the United States. States that each elector shall cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Stipulates that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Authorizes Congress to provide by law for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States delegation to the European Security Conference should not agree to the recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and it should remain the policy of the United States not to recognize in any way the annexation of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Requires that the heads of Federal agencies make payments to owners of small businesses who are displaced from their place of business as a result of Federal or federally assisted programs. States that such payment shall be the amount necessary, up to $4,000, to enable such displaced person to lease, rent, or make a downpayment on a decent, safe, and sanitary place of business. Stipulates that in the case of a downpayment exceeding $2,000, the displaced person must equally match any amount over $2,000 in making the payment.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Requires the annual filing with the Comptroller General of statements by Federal employees disclosing any income or gift exceeding $1000 received by such employees or their spouses during the preceding calendar year. Sets forth penalties for those covered by this Act who willfully fail to file the reports covered by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Provides that the Administrator of the Small Business Administration may render onsite consultation and advice to small business employers who request such assistance in writing to assist such employers in providing safe and healthful working conditions for their employees. Provides that the Administration may issue recommendations and/or written notice with respect to hazards and/or serious violations under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, but no citation or civil penalty shall follow directly from such onsite consultation and advice.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1975
Emergency Housing Reemployment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make, and to contract to make, periodic assistance payments on behalf of homeowners to mortgages holding mortgages: (1) executed during the 90-day period following the enactment of this Act; and (2) secured by a newly constructed single- family dwelling unit, including a unit in a condominium housing project, the purchase of which was contracted for and title to which was acquired by the homeowner following enactment of this Act and intended to be used as the principal residence of the homeowner. States that such assistance payments shall be in an amount not to exceed the difference between the amount of principal and interest due under the mortgage and the amount of principal and interest that would be due if the mortgage were to bear interest at the rate of 7 percent per annum. Provides that in no case shall the assistance payments exceed that amount necessary to provide for a reduction in interest of more than one and a half percent. Authorizes to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Foreign Investment Control Act - Declares that the Congress finds that recent international economic and monetary changes have stimulated investment by foreign persons in industries and real property in the United States. Establishes the National Foreign Investment Commission. Specifies the duties, powers, and composition of the Commission. States that, within one hundred and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act, and at the end of each six-month period thereafter, the Commission shall determine and notify each issuer which is substantially involved in any area essential to the United States national security and/or economic security, and each issuer which is substantially involved in any area important to the United States national security and/or economic security, as defined and described in this Act. Requires the Commission to publish in the Federal Register the names of all issuers so determined under this Act. Requires each such issuer to submit to the Commission (within sixty days after receiving notification from the Commission) the names and nationalities of all individuals not citizens of the United States, and the names of all persons other than individuals, who own voting securities of such issuers. States that such list shall also be transmitted to the Securities Exchange Commission which shall, in turn, require each broker, dealer, and bank registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (1) not to sell to any individual who is not a citizen of the United States any right, title, or interest in any security of an issuer on the list which is substantially involved in any area essential to our national security and/or economic security; (2) to contact the Commission for approval before it sells to any person who is not an individual (or to any individual acting as an agent for such a person) any right, title, or interest in any security of an issuer on the list which is substantially involved in any area essential to our national security and/or economic security; and (3) to inform the Commission immediately after it sells to any person any right, title, or interest in any security of an issuer on the list which is substantially involved in any area important to our national security and/or economic security. States that the Commission shall order (1) each individual whose name was submitted under this Act and (2) each person which the Commission determines is owned or controlled by a person not a citizen of the United States, who owns any right, title, or interest in any voting security of any issuer substantially involved in any area essential to our national security and/or economic security, to sell (within a period of sixty days after such order) all such securities to any citizen of the United States, or (with the Commission's prior approval) to any person not included in the prohibitions of this Act. Provides that, within a period of one hundred and eighty days after the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall determine which minerals, fertile realty for agriculture, timber lands, and other resources are to be included in a list of resources which are strategic to the national security and/or economic security of the United States. States that after such list is so published, if any seller or lessor of real estate located in the United States, or his agent, knows or has reason to know that such real estate contains resources on such list in commercially exploitable amounts, he shall not sell or lease such real estate to any individual who is not a citizen of the United States, or to such individual's agent. States that whoever fails to comply with specified requirements of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 for each such failure.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of the General Services Administration to dispose of, under specified circumstances, approximately 1,553,500 pounds of cadmium from the national stockpile established pursuant to the Critical Materials Stockpile Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Prohibits a petroleum refiner or distributor from cancelling, failing to renew, or otherwise terminating a franchise unless he furnishes notification in writing to each affected distributor or retailer by certified mail not less than ninety days prior to the date on which such franchise will be canceled, together with a statement of the reasons of such cancellation and of the remedies available. Provides that a petroleum refiner or distributor shall not cancel, fail to renew, or otherwise terminate a franchise unless the retailer or distributor whose franchise is terminated failed to comply substantially with any essential and reasonable requirement of such franchise or failed to act in good faith in carrying out the terms of such franchise. States that if a refiner or distributor engages in conduct prohibited under this Act, a retailer or distributor may maintain a suit against such refiner or distributor.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Provides that the House of Representatives of the 95th Congress and each succeeding Congress shall consider and adopt the rules of its proceedings. Limits general debate on the resolution incorporating the proposed rules to 10 hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the majority leader and the minority leader.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Provides, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that no rules shall be suspended for the purpose of considering any matter reported from a committee unless the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee, or a majority of the committee, in open session, with a quorum present, by a rollcall vote, requests that such matter be considered by a suspension of the rules.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Requires, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that all committee meetings, including the mark-up of legislation, shall be open to the public, except when the committee determines in open session by roll call vote that the disclosure of the matter to be considered would endanger national security or violate any law or rule of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to take immediate action to implement a plan for the audio and video broadcasting of House floor proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Provides, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that any member in committee may demand a rollcall vote on any matter, and that a rollcall vote shall be required on any motion to report a bill or resolution of a public character from committee.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Prohibits, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, a party caucus or conference from issuing binding instructions on a Member's committee or floor votes. Permits any Member so bound to raise a point of order.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish on specified public lands of the United States national petroleum reserves the development of which needs to be regulated in a manner consistent with the total energy needs of the Nation, including but not limited to, national defense. Requires the Secretary to review the potential for oil and gas production, in the State of Alaska, and to submit to Congress within one year a plan of development.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Terminates all price-support programs for tobacco beginning with the 1976 crop of tobacco, and provides that no export subsidy may be paid to any person under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act for the export of tobacco to any foreign country after December 31, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 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 · 5 February 1975
Imposes a minimum tax under the Internal Revenue Code, in addition to other taxes, on individuals and on corporations whose income equals or exceeds $20,000.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of the State should take the necessary steps, including the renewal of negotiations between the parties, signatory to the Paris agreement and the agreement with the Lao Patriotic Front, to finally determine the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President who is requested to report to the House in 90 days on steps taken to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Authorizes to be appropriated, under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, to the President $222,000,000 for additional military assistance for Cambodia for fiscal year 1975. Repeals the overall ceiling of $377,000,000 on economic and military assistance to Cambodia (no more than $200,000,000 of which may have been for military assistance). Establishes a limitation of $75,000,000 on the exercise of the President's "draw-down" authority for military assistance in Cambodia for fiscal year 1975.
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