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United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to subject Federal land banks, Federal land bank associations, and Federal intermediate credit banks to the corporate taxes imposed by such Code.
United States · United States Congress · 21 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 · 21 March 1975
States that Congress urges President Ford to utilize every appropriate means for the transmission of a request to the Government of the Soviet Union that it release from prison Valentyn Moroz and Leonid Plyuskck, and that it permit them and their immediate families to emigrate from the Soviet Union to the country of their choice.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Provides for the relief of Elizabeth A. Gordon.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that no ceiling on social security benefits be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1975
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for reductions in Social Security taxes relating to the rate of tax on self-employment income for purposes of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance. States that such reductions shall apply in the case of taxes imposed with respect to self-employment income for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1975, and with respect to wages paid or received during calendar years after 1975. Provides for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II of the Social Security Act. Increases the earnings counted for benefit and tax purposes under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1975
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Authorizes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses incurred during the taxable year in removing architectural and transportational barriers to the elderly and handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Marine Resources Conservation and Development Act - Provides for the distrubution of revenues from outer continental shelf lands pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Creates a Marine Resources Conservation and Development Fund to be available for use for marine resources conservation and development programs and the costs of their administration.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Allows a tax deduction up to $750 for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred by a taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code in making repairs and improvements to his residence during the taxable year. Allows the owner of rental housing to amortize at an accelerated rate (over a 60-month period) the cost of rehabilitating or restoring such housing. Authorizes the taxpayer to switch from such accelerated amortization to the regular depreciation deduction allowable under the Internal Revenue Code for property used in a trade or business or held for the production of income.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Requires, under the United States Housing Act that future increases in social security benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act be excluded in determining the eligibility of an individual or family for admission to or occupancy of low-income housing and the amount of the rent payable for accommodations in such housing. Provides a similar exclusion under the Housing Act, the National Housing Act, the Housing and Urban Development Act, or any other Federal or federally assisted housing program.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Automobile Fuel Consumption Tax Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to encourage the development and manufacture of passenger automobiles which are efficient in fuel consumption. Imposes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a tax on all passenger automobiles sold by the manufacturer, producer, or importer, at a graduated rate determined by the fuel consumption rate, in miles per gallon, of each such automobile. States that the taxable fuel consumption rate shall be the rate set forth in the Atuomobile Fuel Consumption Schedule specified in this Act. Imposes a floor stocks tax on new automobiles held by a dealer for sale. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to periodically study the fuel consumption rates of passenger automobiles and revise the Automobile Fuel Consumption Schedule. Requires that a label describing the fuel consumption rate and the amount of the fuel consumption tax must be affixed to all new cars sold.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should convene immediately a meeting of the heads of all appropriate Federal departments and agencies for the purpose of taking such steps as may be necessary to prevent Arab discrimination against American business enterprises which have Jewish individuals serving in positions of major responsibility or which do business with Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Designates the 11th day of November of each year as Veterans Day, and makes such day a legal public holiday. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Lowers the population requirements from 100,000 to 50,000 for a unit of local government to be eligible to be a prime sponsor under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
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 · 5 March 1975
Emergency Public Service Employment Extension Act - Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the emergency jobs program under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Designates the Veterans' Administration hospital in Loma Linda, California, as the "Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans' Hospital. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide a memorial at such hospital in memory of the late Jerry L. Pettis.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Authorizes additional appropriations of such sums as are necessary for fiscal years 1976 and 1977 to carry out programs authorized by the National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976 and 1977 to provide cash grants to State health departments, Indian tribes, or the Indian Health Service for Supplemental food for pregnant and latating women and infants whose diet is nutritionally inadequate.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Provides, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, for the extension of specified provisions for an additional 20 years. Makes permanent the ban against requiring compliance with tests and devices as a prerequisite to voting.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to allow as a deduction from gross income a maximum of $150 paid by an individual during the taxable year as a premium on a motor vehicle insurance policy which insures a motor vehicle owned by the taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Provides that up to $1000 of an amount deposited as prepayment of funeral and burial expenses shall be excluded from financial resources in determining eligibility for State grants to the aged, blind, and disabled under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Increases to $3,600 the amount of outside earnings which is permitted an individual each year without any deductions from benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
National Condominium Act - Provides for the designation of an Assistant Secretary for Condominiums under the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to assist in the planning, development, construction, or operation of condominiums or the purchase of condominium units. Establishes minimum national standards for all condominium units the sale of which is financed with Federal assistance in any form, and encourages the States through a new program of Federal grants to establish such standards to protect both the residents of previously leased units to be converted and the potential purchasers of such units from undue hardships and unexpected economic expenses. States that any person who willfully violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be fined not less than $15,000 and be imprisoned for not less than two years.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Provides that the entitlement of an insured individual and his or her dependents under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to old-age or disability insurance benfits shall continue through the month of such individual's death (now terminates with the preceding month). States that if the amount of benefits such individual is entitled to in the month of his death would be greater if such individual had died in the month preceding the actual month of death, such individual will be deemed to have died in such earlier month.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Authorizes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses incurred during the taxable year in removing architectural and transportational barriers to the elderly and handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that no ceiling on social security benefits be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for reductions in Social Security taxes relating to the rate of tax on self-employment income for purposes of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance. States that such reductions shall apply in the case of taxes imposed with respect to self-employment income for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1975, and with respect to wages paid or received during calendar years after 1975. Provides for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II of the Social Security Act. Increases the earnings counted for benefit and tax purposes under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Extends the coverage for benefit purposes under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) to homemakers. States that for the purposes of this Act, an individual shall be considered as a homemaker during any month in which that individual conducts or supervises the affairs of a household, not for a wage or salary, and: (1) is not less than 18 years of age (at the beginning of such month) nor more than 65 years of age (at the beginning of such month) nor more than 65 years of age (at the close of such month); (2) is not entitled to a monthly insurance benefit under this title; and (3) does not perform employment or engage in self-employment (other than service as a homemaker under this Act), or both for a total of more than 135 hours. Provides a method for determining the amount of the net earnings from self-employment which an individual is deemed to have derived from homemaker service. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to jointly prescribe such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out this Act, and to publish for each taxable year a schedule showing the amounts to be derived (for such year) under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Removes the exclusion of service performed in the employ of the United States from the definition of the term "employment" for purposes of eligibility under the Social Security Act. Permits officers and employees of the Federal Government to elect coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance of the Social Security Act. Requires a person electing such coverage to file a certificate indicating his election within two years of the enactment of this Act. States that such an election will be irrevocable. Provides an additional filing period of six months, to begin five years after the close of the initial filing period, for those who could have filed within the initial period but did not do so. Requires a person filing a certificate pursuant to this Act to give notice to his employer at or before the time of filing such certificate. States that a certificate filed pursuant to this Act will be effective for the entire calendar quarter and all subsequent calendar quarters. Specifies conditions under which the certificate may be effective up to four calendar quarters immediately preceding the calendar quarter in which it is filed. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate regulations requiring the heads of the various Federal agencies to know which of their employees qualify for elective coverage under this Act, or, in the alternative, to provide for the collection of the tax from a Federal employee electing such coverage, where it is not feasible for the head of the Federal agency or instrumentality involved to do so.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Authorizes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses incurred during the taxable year in removing architectural and transportational barriers to the elderly and handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for the taxable year of $10 for each ton of post-consumer waste paper processed in the United States by the taxpayer during the taxable year into new commercially marketable pulp, paper, paperboard or other similar products.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Home and Family Vegetable Garden Tax Credit Act - Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, a tax credit to individuals for the purchase of home garden tools, equal to 7 percent of the expense of such tools, but not to exceed $100.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that no ceiling on social security benefits be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that no ceiling on social security benefits be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII (Medicare) and title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that qualified drugs requiring a physicians prescription or certification shall be included among the items and services covered under the hospital insurance program for the aged at a specified amount of payment. States that the reasonable allowance for eligible drugs furnished an individual pursuant to any one prescription and purchased by such individual at any one time shall be reduced by an amount equal to the applicable prescription copayment obligation which shall be $1. Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a Formulary Committee to compile and publish a Formulary listing the drugs deemed qualified for benefits under this Act, together with maximum allowable costs and additional information concerning such drugs. Makes provisions for selecting drugs for the Formulary.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
National Aquaculture Development Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to provide for a national program for aquaculture development in order to increase sources of marine protein for the consumer; to increase the availability and quality level of consumer fishery products; to develop new resources; to improve or maintain recreational fisheries; and to initiate new business, industry, and employment. Requires the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with interested Federal agencies and other public and private organizations and with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior, to establish national objectives for aquaculture development. Requires the Secretary to act as the interagency coordinator for all Federal programs and activities in aquaculture. Sets forth activities regarding aquaculture development which the Secretary may, as he deems appropriate, carry out pursuant to this Act, including: (1) construction, operation, and maintenance of hatcheries or similar facilities and undertaking of natural habitat improvement activities; (2) assistance to public and private organizations and individuals interested or engaged in aquaculture through advisory and other services; (3) consultation and cooperation with Federal, State, and local governments, regional commissions, institutions of higher learning, and private industry; and (4) performance of basic and applied research to establish a sound information base for the development of aquaculture. Provides that the Secretary, in consultation with affected States, shall locate, construct, operate, and maintain such pilot aquaculture facilities as he deems appropriate in order to develop aquaculture technology relative to particular species of fish and shellfish. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such functions and duties authorized by this Act as he deems appropriate through grants to or contracts with the States, regional commissions, local governments, institutions of higher learning, private industry, and other public and private organizations. Authorizes an appropriation for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 1975, equal to 30 percent of the gross receipts from duties collected under the customs laws on fishery products during the period January 1 to December 31, both inclusive, preceding the beginning of each such fiscal year. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out such other research as he deems appropriate in order to perform his functions and duties under this Act. Provides that the authority contained in this Act shall expire at the end of the fiscal year during which occurs the fifth anniversary of the date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides that no person shall manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, or introduce or deliver for introduction in interstate commerce any nonreturnable container of glass, plastic, or metal or any combination thereof, with respect to which no reasonable refundable money deposit is required from the consumer for use in packing or marketing any beverage for human consumption. Provides that whoever violates this Act shall be fined not more than $1,000, or improsoned for not more than six months, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who have been citizens of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
National Tay-Sachs Disease Screening and Counseling Act - Provides that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program, under the Public Health Service Act, for voluntary Tay-Sachs disease screening and counseling. Authorizes appropriations of $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1976 for making grants to public and nonprofit entities to establish and operate such screening programs. Sets forth the procedure for applications for and administration of such grants.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Provides for the disposal under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 of surplus real property at not less than 25 percent of fair market value to States and their political subdivisions, agencies, and instrumentalities for economic development purposes where such areas meet special needs arising from actual or threatened severe unemployment arising from the closing of Federal facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
American Folklife Preservation Act - Creates an American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Provides that the center shall be subject to the supervision and direction of a board of trustees. Specifies the composition of the board, including: four members appointed by the President, eight members appointed by the Librarian of Congress, the Librarian of Congress and the director of the Center. Authorizes the Center to establish and implement a program of contracts, grants, revitalize and scholarships to preserve, protect, revitalize and disseminate American folklife traditions and arts. Provides that no payment shall be made pursuant to this Act to carry out any research or training over a period in excess of two years, with specified exceptions. Provides that no former employee of the Federal government shall be eligible to receive any grant or other assistance under this Act in the two year period following the termination of such employment. Requires the Center to submit to the Librarian of Congress, for inclusion in its annual report to the Congress, an annual report of its operations under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Center to carry out the provisions of this Act $167,750 for fiscal year 1976, $710,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $1,716,000 for fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Provides for the relief of Miss Malgorzata Kuzniarek Czapowski.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Authorizes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses incurred during the taxable year in removing architectural and transportational barriers to the elderly and handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Reduces the rate of tax imposed under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 on the self-employed, employees, and employers for the payment of the cost of the old-age, survivors and disability insurance and the hospital insurance programs of the Social Security Act. Increases the contribution and benefit base for tax determination purposes under the old-age, suriviors and disability insurance program. Increases by 50 percent the annual Federal contribution to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Authorizes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses incurred during the taxable year in removing architectural and transportational barriers to the elderly and handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Authorizes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses incurred during the taxable year in removing architectural and transportational barriers to the elderly and handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
States that veterans with service-connected disabilities rated as total are entitled, to the same extent as retired military personnel, to travel on a space-available basis on unscheduled military flights within the continental United States and on scheduled overseas flights operated by the Military Airlift Command. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 314(+))
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that no ceiling on social security benefits be enacted.