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United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1977
Entitles certain unremarried former spouses of members of the uniformed services to medical and dental benefits under the Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS).
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1977
Amends the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 to specify a separate method for determining economically disadvantaged and low-income individuals and families for purpose of youth and other special programs.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to require the appointment of persons to the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries every second calendar year beginning in 1978. Requires the President to separately submit pay recommendations for Members of Congress. Stipulates that such recommendations may not take effect prior to the Congress following the Congress during which they were transmitted. Declares that such recommendations shall take effect if not disapproved by resolution of either House. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to abolish automatic cost-of-living adjustments for Members of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Authorizes each Member of the House of Representatives, including the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the Delegates from Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia, to hire for two week of each year two senior citizen interns to serve within the District of Columbia. Makes available to each Member for the purpose of hiring such interns an annual gross allowance of $600.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1977
Declares that service during World War I by any female citizen of the United States as a member of a telephone operating unit of the Army Signal Corps shall be considered active duty in the Army for purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1977
Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States Postal Services should not reduce the frequency of mail delivery service for any user of the mails below the frequency of such service which was in effect for such user of June 1, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977
Indian and Alaska, Native Housing and Community Development Act - Creates, in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, an Office of Indian and Alaska Native Affairs, through which the Secretary of HUD shall carry out functions relating to Indian and Alaska Native Housing and Community Development. Creates the Office of Assistant Secretary for Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. Directs the Assistant Secretary to submit certain reports to Congress, and conduct an annual conference on Indian and Alaska Native Housing.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1977
Truth in Lending Reform and Simplification Act - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to eliminate credit transactions for agricultural purposes from coverage under such Act. Requires a State to enforce requirements under applicable State truth in lending law when such State has been exempted from application of Federal law governing credit transactions within the State because of such similar State law. Requires agencies enforcing such Act to obtain compliance by notifying the debtor of rights under such Act when the creditor fails to comply with its provisions or by publicizing the fact of a creditor's sustained and substantial violations. Grants such agencies the authority to assess civil penalties and to issue cease-and-desist orders. Sets limitations on the time within which civil actions may be brought to enforce such Act. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to issue model forms and clauses, for use in common transactions, describing the transaction in understandable language. Exempts creditors who use such forms from liability under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1977, to repeal the prohibition of expenditure of funds for claims for nonemergency inpatient hospital care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) when such care was available at a facility of the uniformed services within a 40-mile radius of the patient's residence.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate the week beginning on the Sunday preceding the fourth Thursday in November of each year as "National Family Week".
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1977
Directs that any alien who is a national of Chile and is not in the United States be issued a nonimmigrant visa and be admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant if the consular officer involved determines that such alien: (1) is being persecuted or is in danger of persecution in Chile on account of his political opinions; (2) is not otherwise excludable from the United States; and (3) has applied for such admission during the one year period following the enactment of this Act. States that admission under this Act shall be for a period of two years during which the aliens shall be allowed to accept employment. Directs the Attorney General to examine the case of the alien before the expiration of the two-year period and to grant permanent resident status to such eligible alien. Directs that any alien who: (1) is a national of Chile; (2) is in the United States on the date of enactment of this Act; and (3) would be persecuted or be in danger of persecution in Chile on account of his political opinions, be placed in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Requires that such alien be inspected and examined for admission into the United States according to the applicable provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Regards such resident aliens, as lawfully if found to be admissible after such examination, admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of the date of their arrival. Allows the spouse, child, or parents of a national of Chile who has been admitted to the United States pursuant to this Act, to be issued a nonimmigrant visa, admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant, and treated as other aliens issued nonimmigrant visas under this Act. Declares that aliens who acquire permanent residence status under this Act shall not be charged against the quota of immigrants allotted to Chile under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Directs the Attorney General to inform any alien who is a national of Chile or the spouse, child, or parent of a national of Chile of the treatment which may be applied for under this Act before such alien is excluded from admission into or deported from the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1977
Amends Titles XVIII (Medicare) and II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that eligible drugs, requiring a physician's 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 Medicare 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 · 12 May 1977
Foster Care and Adoption Reform Act - Amends the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program of Title IV of the Social Security Act to repeal the eligibility of children in foster homes for aid under such program. Establishes a separate program under Title IV of Federal assistance for foster care services. Requires each State, in order to receive assistance under such program, to develop a State plan for foster care and adoption services. Requires such State plans to assure that no child shall be placed in foster care unless the child and his family have been provided adequate preventive services designed to avoid unnecessary out-of-home placements or have refused such services. Requires State plans to prohibit the involuntary removal of a child from a home shared with a parent unless there has been a judicial determination that the home situation is dangerous to the child, or the child is in need of supervision or has committed a delinquent offense. Sets forth standards of care which must be established under State plans for foster children. Sets forth the duties of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in connection with the implementation and administration of the provisions of this Act. Establishes a program of "foster care support payments" as a form of aid to families with dependent children. Specifies the requirements for eligibility for such payments. Directs the Secretary to appoint a Committee on Uniform Adoption Regulations to propose to the Secretary, the President, and Congress a set of uniform adoption regulations which would facilitate adoption. Directs the Secretary, after appropriate hearings, to promulgate final uniform adoption regulations. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress annually on the adoption and foster care programs conducted pursuant to this Act. Requires each State having a plan approved under this Act to make payments to parents who adopt a child after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides for payments on behalf of foster children under circumstances specified in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977
Franchising Termination Practices Reform Act - Requires a franchisor to notify a franchisee at least 90 days in advance of the franchisor's intention to terminate the franchise and to state the reasons for termination. Prohibits a franchisor from cancelling a franchise or failing to renew a franchise unless the franchisor is effecting a market area withdrawal or the franchisor has good cause for failure to renew and has given proper notice. Makes any franchisor who has violated the requirements of this Act civilly liable to the aggrieved franchisee.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1977
Rural Housing Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend the availability of refinancing of indebtedness for rural housing assistance to elderly or handicapped families. Defines elderly or handicapped families for purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a system of escrow accounts to enable borrowers to make periodic payment for taxes, insurance, and other necessary expenses. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to conduct specified programs of research, study and analysis of rural housing. Authorizes the Secretary to make expenditures from the Rural Housing Insurance Fund in order to correct construction defects or to pay claims of the owner of property arising from such defects. Empowers the Secretary to foreclose on mortgages only if the borrower has been given prior notice and consideration of the availability of the moratorium on payments. Makes changes with respect to the Secretary's power to make rules and regulations. Authorizes increases in assistance to specified rural housing programs for fiscal years 1978 and 1979. Extends rural housing loans for elderly and handicapped facilities to include congregate housing facilities for families who require some supervision and central services. Requires that at least 60 percent of insured rural housing loans shall benefit persons of low income. Makes changes in the guaranteed housing loan program and with respect to homeownership subsidy for low and moderate income persons. Makes it mandatory for the Secretary to provide rural rental assistance. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary to withhold assistance for specified programs from any otherwise eligible borrower who fails to incorporate energy conservation features into any structure commenced by such borrower after January 1, 1978. Permits the payment of reasonable attorney's fees for the representation of persons and organizations seeking to enforce rights under Title V of the Housing Act of 1949 from the Rural Housing Insurance Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1977
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate the week of September 18 through September 24, 1977, as "National Lupus Week."
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Credits female members of the armed forces, for purposes of computing years of active service in the armed forces, with service performed during World War I by such individuals as members of telephone operating units of the Army.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to accept land, buildings, and equipment, without reimbursement, for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the National Archives system. Provides that such acceptance shall not occur until after the expiration of 60 days of continuous congressional session following the date on which a report is submitted by the Administrator to Congress on any such proposed Presidential archival depository.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
Amends the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to extend the age limitation before which passenger ships delivered on or after December 1, 1952, can qualify for operating differential subsidies from 25 to 30 years.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to condition certain assistance to States, local governments, and agencies thereunder on the adoption of a law enforcement officers' bill of rights to include as a minimum the following: (1) allowing off-duty officers' to engage in political activities; (2) granting officers specified procedural rights in connection with investigations of their conduct on duty which may lead to a personnel action; (3) requiring officer representation on any police complaint review board established in the jurisdiction; (4) prohibiting mandatory disclosure of officers' finances; and (5) establishing a law enforcement officers' grievance commission in the jurisdiction to determine officer grievances.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Drought Assistance Amendment - Title I: Amendments to the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 - Declares the finding of Congress that droughts and other similar non-cataclysmic disasters require Federal assistance. Requires the President to appoint a Federal coordinator to operate in an area declared a drought emergency. Permits Federal agencies to provide assistance to drought emergency areas by performing any emergency service essential to save lives and property, including (1) conservation practices; (2) water supply investigations; (3) education training in conservation techniques for farmers and other affected persons; (4) provisions for water needs and the movement of supplies or persons; (5) the establishment of comprehensive employment and/or manpower training programs; and (6) contributions to State or local governments to carry out the provisions of this Act. Directs that where Federal funds for assistance activities may go by contract to private organizations or firms, preference be given to organizations or firms in the drought emergency area. Authorizes the President to make grants to States for the purpose of State grants to individuals or families adversely affected by a drought emergency to meet necessary expenses; and to make temporary mortgage or rental payments on behalf of individuals or families who have received written notice of foreclosure on land or equipment as a result o financial hardship caused by drought. Provides for loans to local governments losing revenues as a result of a drought emergency. Title II: Amendments to the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 - Extends to drought emergency areas assistance for economic recovery following the period of emergency aid and replacement of essential facilities and services. Extends coverage of federally-guaranteed loans to the purchase of land and facilities for farming usage. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Makes areas suffering an emergency of any sort eligible for Federal assistance for current school expenditures. Extends eligibility for small business loans under the Small Business Act to businesses in drought emergency areas and limits the interest rate on the Small Business Administrator's share of the loan to one percent annually.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Provides that the recipient of a veterans' pension or dependency and indemnity compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of cost-of-living increases in social security benefits, railroad retirement annuities, or other retirement benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that the automatic cost-of-living increases in benefits be made on a semiannual basis (rather than on an annual basis as at present).
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to prepare, as part of the Consumer Price Index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a consumer price index (to be known as the Consumer Price Index for the Aged and Other Social Security Beneficiaries) designed to reflect the relevant price information for individuals, as a group, who are 65 years of age or older or are otherwise entitled to monthly benefits under Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Allows any Federal employee or Member of Congress who is a Japanese-American World War II internee to credit, for civil service retirement purposes, the period during which such individual was detained or interned in a camp or similar facility.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
World Peace Tax Fund Act - Establishes within the Treasury of the United States a special trust fund to be known as the World Peace Tax Fund. Provides that any taxpayer who has qualified as a conscientious objector, or who declares that he or she is conscientiously opposed to participation in war, within the meaning of the Military Selective Service Act, shall qualify to designate the payment of his or her income taxes to the fund. Makes provisions for the designation of income, estate, or gift tax payments for transfer to the World Peace Tax Fund. Provides for the computation and publication of the percentage of annual expenditures for military purposes. Provides that this portion of monies in the Fund shall remain in the Fund to accrue interest, and that the remaining portion shall be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury of the United States, not to be appropriated for any military purposes. Establishes a Board of Trustees of eleven members to authorize expenditures out of the Fund for research into peaceful solutions to international conflict, and for improvement of international health, education, and welfare. Requires the Board to submit its budget to the Congress, report to the President and Congress annually, and provide a complete accounting of all funds received and disbursed according to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1977
Gives Congressional endorsement to the efforts of the United States Delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea to achieve a multilateral treaty which articulates the principle that deep seabed resources are the common heritage of all people and should be utilized with a view to distributing revenues to all countries. Endorses particularly the establishment of an International Seabed Authority to regulate such a system.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to accept land, buildings, and equipment, without reimbursement, for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the National Archives system. Provides that such acceptance shall not occur until after the expiration of 60 days of continuous congressional session following the date on which a report is submitted by the Administrator to Congress on any such proposed Presidential archival depository.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Part-Time Career Opportunity Act - Sets forth a time schedule for the required introduction of part-time jobs in each grade in each Federal agency, at a rate of two percent each year for five years. Authorizes the Civil Service Commission to waive or reduce any such percentage minimum for a period not to exceed one year under specified circumstances. Deems such decision a final agency action for judicial review purposes. Declares the provisions of this Act to be nonapplicable to situations where a collective bargaining agreement is in effect which establishes the number of hours of employment in a week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Lifeline and Electric Rate Reform Act - Title I: General Provisions - Declares it the purpose of this Act to reform inequities in the structure of electric utility rates. Title II: Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act. Defines the scope of coverage under this Act. Stipulates that direct Federal regulation shall not apply where regulation is specifically reserved and effectively enforced by the States in accordance with applicable national minimum standards. Title III: Electric Energy Office - Creates an Electric Energy Office in the Federal Power Commission to establish and enforce National Minimum Standards for Ratemaking to be binding upon all electric utility regulatory agencies. Requires that all electric utilities and local distributors furnish monthly reports to the office disclosing information on the amount of electric energy supplied, the amount and rate of charges for each consumer class, and the amount and costs of fuel utilized by each utility. Imposes criminal and civil penalties for failure to make full disclosure of such information. Title IV: Rate Structures - Directs the Federal Power Commission, in the exercise of its regulatory functions, to accord highest priority to residential and small business users. Prohibits regulatory authorities from permitting the sale of electric energy to low priority users at rates less than those charged to high-priority consumers. Imposes criminal penalties for the furnishing of electric-energy at rates or charges which have not been specifically approved by the appropriate regulatory agency after public hearings. Directs the Federal Power Commission to encourage conservation of electric energy by requiring that rates be graduated progressively upward for consumption of electric energy in amounts above subsistence quantities. Title V: Lifeline Electric Rates - Requires that electric utility rate charges for subsistence quantities of electric energy to residential consumers not exceed the lowest rate charged to any other electric consumer. Requires the use of graduated rate structures for consumption of electric energy in amounts above subsistence quantities. Title VI: Electric Rates for Nonresidential Customers - Requires that electric utility rate changes for nonresidential customers be the lowest rate charged to any other electric consumer in the same class. Requires progressively higher rates for consumption in excess of the basic requirements of such nonresidential customers. Title VII: Effective Dates - Stipulates that the provisions of this Act shall become effective one year from the date of its passage, unless otherwise indicated.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1977
Renegotiation Reform Act - Excludes from the definition of the terms "contract" and "subcontract" under the Renegotiation Act of 1951 any lease financing transaction by a bank or a subsidiary of a bank holding company when such transaction is the functional equivalent of an extension of credit by the lessor. Amends such Act to limit the terms of office of members of the Renegotiation Board to five years. Sets the rate of compensation for the chairman of the Board at the rate of pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule and for the other members of the Board at the rate for level V of the Executive Schedules. Prohibits the use of the percentage-of-completion method of accounting for renegotiation contracts from which the Board finds excessive profits. Specifies other criteria to be used in such renegotiation. Eliminates the exemptions from the provisions of the Act currently afforded products of gas and oil wells and standard commercial services. Repeals provisions of the Act allowing any contractor or subcontractor subject to this Act to waive exemptions from the Act for standard commercial articles. Requires all such contractors and subcontractors to furnish complete cost and pricing data on all articles subject to exemption under the Act. Requires the Board to conduct a study of such cost and pricing data and report to Congress on the profitability of such exempted items. Raises the minimum amount of contracts subject to renegotiation under the Act from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000 and of subcontracts subject to renegotiation from $25,000 to $50,000. Changes from criminal to civil fines imposed under the Act for failure to file or for filing misleading information required to be filed under the Act. Declares the Chairman of the Board to be the Board's chief executive officer and confers upon him direction of all executive functions of the Board. Grants the Board the power to issue subpoenas. Requires the Board to audit all financial statements submitted to it pursuant to the Act. Directs the Board to report annually to the Secretary of each Department with respect to the contractors or subcontractors who have received or accrued during the past fiscal year amounts under contracts with such Department or subcontracts under contracts with such Department. Requires the General Accounting Office to review the activities of the Board annually and to submit a report of its findings to Congress. Makes provisions for refunds owed to contractors and subcontractors.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1977
Grand Jury Reform Act - Revises the procedures for finding a recalcitrant Federal grand Jury witness in contempt to require that 12 or more grand jury members vote to apply to the district court for a contempt order. Entitles recalcitrant grand jury witnesses to a hearing prior to being confined. Prohibits confining a recalcitrant witness more than once, for refusing to testifying about any specified transaction or set of transactions. Limits confinement to six months. Set forth guidelines relative to place of confinement and release pending appeal. Establishes as a defense to contempt for refusing to testify at a Federal grand jury proceeding the fact that the request for information is based on any violation of a witness' Federal constitutional or statutory rights. Prohibits a recalcitrant grand jury witness from being held in contempt unless he has consented to and has been given transactional immunity. Directs a district court to notify upon impanelment a grand jury of its rights and duties. Empowers a grand jury to inquire into alleged offenses committed against the United States within the appropriate judicial district by Federal, State, or local officials. Permits a grand jury to have a special attorney assist it in such an independent inquiry in lieu of an attorney for the government. Requires the attorney for the Government, or the special attorney, to take reasonable steps to notify any person of (1) any intention to present evidence against the person and request a presentment and (2) a right to testify and present evidence. Excepts from such notice requirements situations in which the attorney for the Government, or the special attorney, can prove that notice would result in flight, undue delay, or danger to other witnesses. Stipulates that a subpena summoning a witness to appear or present evidence before a grand jury may issue only upon an affirmative vote of 12 or more jurors. Requires that upon the service of any subpena the witness be given notice of the following: (1) the right to counsel set forth in this Act; (2) the privilege against self incrimination; (3) the subject matter of the grand jury investigation; (4) whether the witness's own conduct is under investigation; (5) the criminal statutes, violation of which is under consideration, if known; and (6) any other rights which the court deems appropriate. Sets forth jurisdictional and procedural rules regarding motions relative to subpenas to appear before grand juries. Entitles every grand jury witness to counsel during his testimony. Limits a grand jury's inquiry to offenses committed within the district in which it is convened. Authorizes a court to transfer its proceedings upon a finding of hardship to the witness or where justice so requires. Directs a district court to dismiss any indictment (1) based on insufficient or illegally obtained evidence or (2) issuing from a grand jury proceeding in which all exculpatory evidence was not presented. Entitles witnesses compelled to testify before Congress or a Federal agency to transactional immunity. Prohibits a grand jury inquiry into any transaction or event if another jury has failed to return an indictment based on the same occurrence, unless the court finds that additional relevant evidence has been discovered. Entitles a witness summoned to appear before a grand jury to examine and copy any relevant personal statements in the possession of the government, and a witness who has testified before a grand jury to copy and examine a transcript of such testimony. States that no person shall be required to testify or held in contempt for refusing to testify before a grand jury if it is shown (1) the primary purpose of the information sought is or will be to secure testimony for the trial or other information regarding a person already under formal accusation by the United States, a State, or a subdivision thereof for activities relative to testimony sought; (2) the witness has not been advised of his rights; (3) the evidence sought is not relevant to the grand jury investigation properly conducted within the grand jury's jurisdiction and (4) compliance with the subpena will be unreasonable or oppressive. Directs the Attorney General to annually report to Congress and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts with respect to specified aspects of grand jury proceedings, including: (1) the number of investigations conducted and the nature of each such investigation; (2) the number of requests for witness immunity and the nature of arrests, indictments, trials and convictions which resulted from orders granting such immunity; (3) the number of contempt citations and confinements; and (4) description of the procedures by which grand jury information is processed, stored, and used by the Department of Justice.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1977
Excludes industrially funded personnel from the computation of the end strength for civilian personnel within the Department of Defense for any fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1977
Suspends for two years with regard to regulations involving saccharin the operation of the proviso in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which prohibits regulatory approval of a food additive found to cause cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1977
Omnibus Intelligence Community Reorganization and Reform Act - Title I: Foreign Intelligence Community - Establishes within the National Security Council (NSC) the Committee on Foreign Intelligence to assist the Director of Central Intelligence (an office established by this Act) and the Foreign Activities Committee (established by this Act) in advising the President with respect to sensitive intelligence collection activities of intelligence agencies. Requires all new sensitive intelligence collection activities to be submitted to the Foreign Activities Committee for approval. Establishes within the NSC the Counterintelligence Committee to coordinate all counterintelligence activities of the United States and assure that they are legally conducted. Establishes as an independent establishment in the executive branch the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence to coordinate and oversee the entire foreign intelligence community of the United States. Establishes within such Office the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to investigate any misconduct by any intelligence agency and report any such misconduct to the Attorney General. Creates within such Office a National Intelligence Board to advise the Director of Central Intelligence with respect to the supervision and control of intelligence agencies and to review finished intelligence estimates. Gives the Secretary of Defense authority over all foreign intelligence operations and activities in time of war. Places the Central Intelligence Agency under the NSC and the Office of the Director of Central of Intelligence. Changes the name of the head of such Agency to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Repeals provisions permitting the selection of the Director of such Agency from the ranks of commissioned officers of the armed forces. Limits the functions of the Agency to conducting a counterintelligence activities outside the United States. Prohibits collection of information concerning an American except at the request of the Department of Justice to assist in a criminal investigation or in the investigation of an employee of the Agency who may have violated security. Establishes within the Central Intelligence Agency a General Counsel to report any illegal action of the Agency. Creates under the NSC and the Director of Central Intelligence an Intelligence Research and Analysis Agency to assume the functions of the Central Intelligence Agency with respect to production, analysis, and dissemination of foreign intelligence. Removes the National Security Agency from the Department of Defense and makes it an independent establishment in the executive branch. Transfers the powers and duties of the Secretary of Defense with respect to such Agency to the Director of the National Security Agency. States that the Agency shall protect from unauthorized access official communications of the United States transmitted by electronic or mechanical means and collect intelligence from foreign communications transmitted by any electronic or mechanical device. Prohibits the monitoring of domestic communications or accepting records of such communications from any commercial carrier. Authorizes the Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, upon reasonable suspicion that a breach of security has occurred, to conduct a surveillance of the employee involved for not more than 15 days. Requires the fruits of such surveillance to be turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) if there is reason to believe that a crime has been committed. Abolishes the Defense Intelligence Agency. Limits the intelligence components of the Department of Defense and the Armed Forces to conducting foreign counterintelligence activities for the protection of military installations and personnel. Prohibits the clandestine collection of foreign intelligence by human beings through espionage or other covert techniques except in time of war. Restricts liaison with foreign intelligence services and domestic police. Prohibits the use of clergy, journalists, and persons who promote the arts, humanities, or cultural affairs to obtain intelligence information. Requires an annual report to the President and the appropriate congressional committee with respect to all commercial organizations owned in whole or in part by any intelligence agency. Prohibits the transfer of funds between intelligence agencies, the reprograming of funds within agencies, and the expenditure of contingency funds in connection with any intelligence collection activity. Permits the General Accounting Office to conduct full and complete management and financial audits of any intelligence agency. Title II: Domestic Intelligence Activites - Prohibits surveillance which is political in nature or designed to interfere with the first amendment activity of any person. Restricts the FBI to investigating incidents in which there exist reasonable suspicion that a person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a specific act which violates a Federal criminal statute. Prohibits criminal investigations which are not authorized by the Director of the FBI and generally limits the length of such investigation to 90 days. Requires the approval of the Attorney General for any investigation which may pose a danger to first amendment rights. Limits the use of financial records and mail covers. Sets forth warrant procedures and requirements for use of informants and undercover agents. Sets forth warrant requirements and procedures for inspection of records with and without prior notice, and for mail covers. Specifies the authority of the Attorney General over the FBI. Requires the Attorney General to approve the budget of the FBI and to review its investigative procedures at least annually. Limits the term of the Director of the FBI to ten years. Establishes within the FBI the position of Inspector General of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to report any activity of the FBI which appears to have been conducted illegally. Abolishes the Internal Security Branch of the Intelligence Division of the FBI and terminates its functions. Prohibits the collection by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of any information about any American on behalf of any intelligence agency. Places other restrictions on the collection and dissemination of information collected by the IRS. Title III: Remedies - Repeals specified provisions of law respecting seditious conspiracy, advocating the overthrow of government, registration of organizations, and activities affecting the armed forces generally. Repeals provisions permitting specified electronic surveillance under color of law. Repeals the provision specifying that unwarranted searches of businesses must be done maliciously to be illegal. Sets penalties for misrepresentation of membership in political groups and assassinations by intelligence personnel. Imposes penalties for the experimental administration of drugs to any person without his or her prior informed consent, and for disciplining any Federal officer or employee for disclosing specified information, refusing to partake in illegal activity, or responding to a congressional request. Establishes within the Department of Justice an Office of the Special Prosecutor for Intelligence Crimes to exercise exclusive and independent jurisdiction over the investigation and prosecution of all offenses committed by an officer or employee of the United States arising out of an intelligence activity conducted in violation of this Act. Provides for congressional oversight of the activities of the Special Prosecutor. Permits any individual who has suffered a deprivation of rights by a Federal official acting under color of law to bring a civil suit against such officer and be awarded the greater of actual damages or $250 for each day of each such deprivation up to $2,500. Makes the United States liable to pay such damages but gives the United States the right to subrogate such award against the official whose action gave rise to such damages. Permits such suit to be brought in Federal court irrespective of the amount in controversy. Permits the granting of equitable relief for such activity. Places a two-year statute of limitations on such actions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1977
Constituent Postal Card Act - Sets the postage rate for a postal card mailed to the official address of a Member of Congress by a Constituent of such Member at an amount equal to the cost of the manufacture, printing, and delivery of such card.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1977
Equity in Social Security Act - Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act: (1) to eliminate the requirement that a husband be receiving at least one-half of his support from his wife, and that a widower be receiving at least one-half of his support from his wife at the time of her death in order to qualify for husband's and widower's insurance benefits; (2) to extend eligibility for such benefits to unmarried divorced husbands and widowers; (3) to extend without regard to any age limitation, husband's benefits to a husband who has in his care a minor child who is entitled to child's insurance benefits under Title II; and (4) to extend to widowers and surviving divorced fathers the same benefits as are available to widows and surviving divorced mothers with minor children in their care. Permits the payment of old-age insurance benefits to a married couple on their combined earnings record.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1977
Food Additive Safety Amendments - States that a food additive shall be deemed safe if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1) makes a finding, based on recommendations of an advisory committee, that the public benefit from permitting the use of such additive would exceed the public risk which might result from such use; (2) gives notice in the Federal Register of such a finding and invites public comment thereon; and (3) issues a final order not earlier than 120 days of such publication in the Federal Register of such findings. Specifies factors the Secretary must take into consideration when evaluating a food additive. Deems saccharin a safe food additive unless the Secretary declares it unsafe under the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977
Amends the Service Contract Act to deny until a collective bargaining agreement is concluded further progress payments and the exercising of any options to certain Federal contractors and subcontractors found by a factfinding panel appointed by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to have control over, or to have caused, a work stoppage. Authorizes termination of a contract with respect to which such a work stoppage occurs if no collective bargaining agreement is signed within 45 days of the stoppage and the contractor or subcontractor has failed to meet its obligation in a timely fashion during that period.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977
Amends the Service Contract Act of 1965 to require that contracts entered into by any of the armed forces contain a provision which requires the contractor or subcontractor to notify the head of the armed force involved in the event of a strike. Requires the head of such armed force to terminate such a contract if, after notice and hearing, a determination is made that the contractor or subcontractor has replaced, or attempted to replace, any service employee participating in the strike. Prohibits contracts with such a contractor or subcontractor for the services of such employees for the duration of the strike.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977
Amends the Walsh-Healey Act to impose penalties upon a government contractor which replaces or attempts to replace public contract employees who are on strike pursuant to a dispute between the contractor and their collective bargaining representative.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977
Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to impose penalties upon a public works contractor which replaces or attempts to replace contract employees who are on strike pursuant to a dispute between the contractor and their collective bargaining representative.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977
Amends the Walsh-Healey Act to deny until a collective bargaining agreement is concluded further progress payments and the exercising of any options to (certain Federal contractors and subcontractors found by a factfinding panel) appointed by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to have control over, or to have caused, a work stoppage. Authorizes termination of a contract with respect to which such a work stoppage occurs if no collective bargaining agreement is signed within 45 days of the stoppage and the contractor or subcontractor has failed to meet its obligations in a timely fashion during the period.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1977
Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to deny until a collective bargaining agreement is concluded further progress payments and the exercising of any options to certain Federal contractors and subcontractors found by a factfinding panel appointed by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to have control over, or to have caused, a work stoppage. Authorizes termination of a contract with respect to which such a work stoppage occurs if no collective bargaining agreement is signed within 45 days of the stoppage and the contractor or subcontractor has failed to meet its obligations in a timely fashion during the period.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1977
Entitles Federal employees who have completed 30 years of services to an annuity, regardless of age.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals an income tax deduction of up to $100 in drought losses of grass, trees, shrubs, flowers, and vegetables on their residential property and family gardens.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to increase to $900,000,000 from $600,000,000 in fiscal year 1978 and $750,000,000 in fiscal year 1979 the amount of income to be produced by such Fund in such fiscal years. Authorizes the appropriation to such Fund of such sums, in addition to collected revenues, as are necessary to make the income of the Fund not less than $900,000,000 in fiscal year 1978 and each year thereafter through fiscal year 1989. Credits to a special account within the Fund the additional income to be produced by the Fund in fiscal years 1978 and 1979 in accordance with the amendments made by this Act. States that the special account shall remain available until appropriated for the acquisition of national or federally administered lands. Provides that appropriations allotted for the acquisition of land or waters for Recreation Areas of the National Park System and the National Forest System be available notwithstanding any statutory ceiling on such appropriations contained in any other provision of law enacted prior to the convening of the 95th Congress, except that such expenditures may not exceed such ceiling by a specified excess amount. Permits the Secretary of the Interior, following notice to specified committees in Congress, to modify boundaries of an area of the national park system and acquire land, waters or interests adjacent to such area. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to issue free lifetime admission permits to designated units of the National Park System to persons 60 years of age or older and to specified blind or disabled persons.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1977
Equity in Social Security for Individuals and Families Act - Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to permit married couples to elect to share their income for social security purposes in a manner similar to the filing of a joint tax return. Provides that, for any year a husband and wife file a joint income tax return, both the husband and the wife shall each be considered to have been paid wages or to have derived self-employment income in such year for the purpose of determining the average monthly wage of the husband and the wife for Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance purposes. States that the amount with which each spouse will be credited shall be equal to the higher of: (1) one- half the total of the wages and self-employment income paid to or derived by both of them in such year; or (2) three-fourths of the wages and self-employment income paid to or derived by whichever of them had the larger amount of such wages and self-employment income for such year. States that any person who: (1) is the spouse of a person entitled to old-age or disability insurance and who has no wages or self-employment income; or (2) is the surviving spouse of a fully insured individual shall be credited with the amount of any benefits received under such insurance in determining the average monthly wage of such person for Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance purposes. Lowers from 62 to 50 the age at which individuals become eligible for wife's, husband's widow's, and widower's insurance benefits under the Old-Age, Survivor's, and Disability Insurance program. Establishes the percentage of the benefit amount of an eligible spouse to which an ineligible or surviving spouse shall be entitled at 75 percent of the amount to which the eligible spouse is or was entitled under Title II. States that, when the ineligible spouse becomes entitled to benefits in his or her own right, the portion of the other spouse's benefit amount to which the previously ineligible spouse shall be entitled shall be decreased to 25 percent. States that a spouse or surviving spouse not entitled to benefits under Title II but who is or was married to an individual who is or was insured for disability insurance benefits shall be considered insured for benefits with a primary insurance amount equal to the primary insurance amount of the insured spouse. Eliminates the requirement that husbands and widowers be receiving support from their wives in order to qualify for husband's and widower's benefits. Enables a child who is entitled to more than one child's insurance benefit to receive the total amount of all such benefits as a single monthly insurance benefit..
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1977
Equal Opportunity for Second Careers Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to allot grants to regional employment councils to assist second career programs for individuals aged 40 or over who are unemployed or underemployed. States that regional allotments shall be based on a formula derived from the respective characteristics of each region. Requires that applications for grants under this Act include assurances that funds under such grant will be used only for a second career program, for individuals aged 40 and over. States that second career programs shall include: (1) a search and inventory of all jobs currently available in the jurisdiction to be served; (2) a detailed plan for special outreach and promotion efforts to locate individuals eligible for assistance under this plan; (3) screening and appraisal procedures to meet the needs and abilities of individuals eligible to participate in the program; (4) job-matching services; (5) job referral, trial work experience, and placement services; and (6) special counseling services and techniques. Directs the Secretary to conduct research by means of grants and contracts, which will develop data, information, and conclusions to help unemployed and underemployed aged 40 and over to enter, reenter, remain, and advance in the labor force.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1977
Creates a Select House Committee on Population to conduct an investigation and study of: (1) the major adverse effects of current population growth throughout the world; (2) approaches which have been shown to be effective in coping with excessive population growth; and (3) means to encourage countries with excessive population growth rates to adopt methods proven to be successful in reducing population growth rates.