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1,699 records where Rep. Chappell, Bill, Jr. [D-FL-4] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1976
Names the Veterans' Administration hospital located at Archer Road, Gainsville, Florida, the "D.R. (Billy) Matthews Veterans Administration Hospital."
United States · United States Congress · 1 July 1976
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the 2nd day of July, 1976, as "Bicentennial Day of Prayer of Thanksgiving and Guidance."
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1976
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a charitable deduction against the income, estate, and gift tax for contributions by an individual to a domestic fraternal society operating under the lodge system for the purpose of constructing or maintaining a building the principal purpose of which is to house such organization.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1976
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the fourth Sunday in September of each year as "National Good Neighbor Day."
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1976
Requires the appointment of an optometrist to the National Professional Standards Review Council and the participation by optometrists in the activities of local professional standards review organizations pursuant to the requirements of Title XI of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1976
Permits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to indemnify manufacturers producing vaccines for a comprehensive nationwide influenza immunization program against claims for injury related to innoculation with such vaccines.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1976
Utilization Control Amendments - Amends Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require each State to have in operation programs of control over utilization of: (1) inpatient services provided by hospitals; (2) services provided by skilled nursing facilities; (3) services provided by intermediate care facilities; and (4) services provided by mental hospitals. Requires such control programs to include: (1) certification by a physician that such services were required to have been given on an inpatient basis; (2) assurance that services provided were furnished under a plan established and periodically reviewed and evaluated by a physician; (3) adherence to existing cost control procedures established under Title XIX; and (4) except in the case of care provided by hospitals, annual review and evaluation of the professional management of each case by independent professional review teams. Provides for the reduction of the Federal share of Medicaid costs for each quarter during which one or more of such utilization control programs do not meet the requirements set forth in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1976
Requires, under the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act, that Federal agencies pay interest at an annual rate of at least 12 percent on any payment which is overdue by more than two weeks on a contract with a small business concern.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1976
National Commission on Regulatory Reform Act - Establishes the National Commission on Regulatory Reform. Directs the Commission to make a full and complete study of such regulatory activities of the independent regulatory agencies of the Federal Government as the Commission determines to be primarily economic in nature and to have a significant effect on the segments of the economy involving transportation, communication, the development and distribution of energy resources, or financial institutions. States that such study shall be undertaken to determine: (1) whether such regulatory activities have limited competition within such segments of the economy, and if they have, what the economic consequences have been; (2) whether such regulatory activities have, in other way, contributed to current economic difficulties, in particular inflation; and (3) whether changes need to be made with regard to such independent Federal establishments and their regulatory activities. Requires that such study shall include, with regard to each independent Federal establishment whose regulatory activities are included in such study: (1) an analysis of the purposes for which it was created, its structure and jurisdiction, the statutory framework governing its operation and activities, and the procedures and policies it has adopted; (2) an assessment of its effectiveness in carrying out its purposes; (3) an analysis of the costs and benefits of its various programs and policies, with particular reference to any adverse economic impact; and (4) an examination of the relationship between its regulatory activities and those of State and local regulatory agencies. Sets forth the membership, powers, and authority of the Commission. Directs the Commission to submit to the President and Congress within one year a report containing: (1) a statement of the status of the study being conducted pursuant to this Act; (2) a detailed statement of any findings made or conclusions reached by the Commission; and (3) any recommendations for legislation or administrative action, or both, deemed appropriate by the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1976
Grants judicial officers the power to deny pretrial release to persons charged with the commission of violent crimes if there is reason to believe that such persons would flee or pose a danger to others or the community. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 3146A; Amends 18 U.S.C. 3156a)
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1976
Veterans Omnibus Health Care Act - Title I: General Veterans Health Care and Department of Medicine and Surgery Amendments - Requires cost studies to determine the actual cost of travel to or from Veterans' Administration health facilities incurred by veterans. Provides for the inclusion of transportation and incidental expenses within the term "domiciliary care" for purposes of such care reimbursed by the Veterans' Administration for veterans unable to defray the expense of transportation. Sets presumptions related to disability for veterans interred as prisoners of war. Specifies that the disability of a veteran interred for more than six months as a prisoner of war shall be deemed to have been incurred in active service under specified conditions. Sets eligibility standards for veterans under which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized to furnish readjustment professional counseling and to make psychological assessments. Authorizes the Administrator to contract for rehabilitative services through private industry or other sources outside the Veterans' Administration in providing for therapeutic work for remuneration for patients and members of the Armed Services in Veterans' Administration health care facilities. Establishes as a revolving fund in the Treasury the Veterans' Administration Special Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Activities Fund to maintain operating accounts to serve rehabilitative activities under this title. Provides for preventive health care services for veterans with service-connected disabilities. Institutes procedures for the protection of patient rights of veterans. Directs the Administrator to prescribe regulations establishing procedures to ensure that all medical and prosthetic research carried out shall be carried out only with the full and informed consent of the patient or his representative. Provides for the confidentiality of medical records pertaining to veterans covered by this Act. Prohibits Veterans' Administration health care facilities from discriminating against alcohol and drug abusers suffering from medical disabilities in admission or treatment. Title II: Veterans Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Amendments - Veterans Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Rehabilitation Act - Finds alcoholism and alcohol abuse to be among the most pervasive untreated diseases and disabilities afflicting the United States. Declares that the onset of such conditions often occur during military service. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out specialized medical programs providing inpatient treatment and rehabilitative services on a nationwide basis to eligible veterans suffering from alcoholic disability. Provides for special medical treatment and rehabilitative services for drug dependence or drug abuse disabilities. Authorizes the Administrator to furnish special medical treatment and rehabilitative services and domiciliary care to any veteran with a drug abuse disability. Directs the Administrator to give priority to community-based, multiple-modality treatment programs in furnishing treatment under this title. Title III: Medical Technical and Conforming Amendments - Veterans Medical Technical and Conforming Amendments - Authorizes the Administrator to furnish hospital care which he determines is needed to a veteran of any war or of service after January 31, 1955, for a non-service-connected disability if he is unable to defray the expenses of necessary nursing home care. Makes various technical and conforming amendments relating to medical care for veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1976
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service shall not close or suspend the operation of any post offices, unless there is a clear and compelling need to do so. Encourages the service to continue cost-cutting programs which do not affect levels of service.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1976
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate five-year goals in specified areas of rural development and to include a detailed accounting of the progress made and anticipated in meeting such goals in an annual report to Congress. Requires in such report an analysis of the legislative, financial, institutional and other capabilities and constraints which are relevant to meeting such goals. Requires the appointment of a new Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development within 60 days if a vacancy should occur in such position.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1976
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service at any time during World War I and who is not eligible for a non-service connected disability pension. Directs the Administrator to pay medical services costs required outside Veterans' Administration facilities if travel to such facilities would be a burden for the veteran. Provides for survivor pensions for the widows of such veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Provides for the relief of Rosario A. Calvin.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Includes within the meaning of the term "hospital" in Titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, rural health facilities of 50 beds or less.
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1976
Authorizes and requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation each year designating September 8 as "National Cancer Day".
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1976
Interstate Horseracing Act - Expresses the findings of Congress with regard to the significance of the horseracing industry and the effects of off-track betting on such industry. Declares that the policy of the Congress is to assure continued revenue flow from horseracing to the States and to protect the horseracing industry. States that any person accepting any interstate off-track wages in violation of this Act shall be liable for damages to the host State (the State in which the race in held), the host racing association, and any horse owner whose horse participated in the horserace with respect to which the off-track wage was accepted.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1976
Amends the Social Security Act to authorize payment under the medicare program for specified services performed by chiropractors, including x-rays and physical examinations, and related routine laboratory tests.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1976
Interstate Horseracing Act - Expresses the findings of Congress with regard to the significance of the horseracing industry and the effects of off-track betting on such industry. Declares that the policy of the Congress is to assure continued revenue flow from horseracing to the States and to protect the horseracing industry. States that any person accepting any interstate off-track wages in violation of this Act shall be liable for damages to the host State (the State in which the race is held), the host racing association, and any horse owner whose horse participated in the horserace with respect to which the off-track wager was accepted.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1976
Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to permit any employer to hire an employee: (1) who is 16 or 17 years of age, or a full-time student between the ages of 15 and 21, at a wage rate not less than 80 percent of the minimum wage; or (2) who is 14 or 15 years of age at a wage rate not less than 60 percent of the minimum wage. Requires the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to insure that the enactment of this Act will not create a substantial probability of reducing the full-time employment opportunities of other individuals to whom this Act does not apply.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1976
Directs State boards receiving funds under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to use a portion of such funds for grants for research into the areas of inservice training in vocational education program development and the recruitment of skilled craftsmen and technicians employed in the community into the vocational education teaching profession.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1976
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to incorporate the National Center for Education Statistics into the process of the collection of statistics in the field of vocational education.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1976
Institutes the death penalty for specified destructive acts to airports, airplanes, and related things and places where death of any person results. Prescribes a fine of not more than $100,000, or imprisonment for any term of years, or both, where no death results. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 32)
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1976
Authorizes the use of Federal grants under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for programs designed to encourage skilled craftsmen and technicians to enter the teaching fields of vocational education and inservice training programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1976
Directs State boards receiving funds under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 to use a portion of such funds for grants for research into the areas of inservice training in vocational education program development and the recruitment of skilled craftsmen and technicians employed in the community into the vocational education teaching profession.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1976
Presecondary Vocational Education Amendments - Redefines "high school" for purposes of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 as including grades seven through 12. Sets forth minimum expenditure requirements by States receiving funds under such Act for vocational education programs for high school students. States that no authorized State vocational education program shall receive more than 33 percent of the total funds made available to the State. Requires that State plans submitted pursuant to such Act indicate that specified vocational education programs will be provided and will include students at junior high schools as well as senior high schools. Lowers the minimum age for participation in workstudy programs under such Act from 15 to 14.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1976
Increases from 50 to 60 percent the percentage of funds available to States for research and training programs in vocational education under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 which may be used by State boards for authorized programs under such Act. Requires that at least ten percent of such funds be used for programs to coordinate research and development with the specific short-and long-term labor needs of the State. Prohibits the Commissioner of Education from making payments to States for such research and training unless the State plan submitted pursuant to such Act meets the short-and long-term labor needs of that State.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1976
Provides for the incorporation of the Gold Star Wives of America. Sets forth the objectives, purposes and powers of such corporation. Stipulates the nonpolitical nature the corporation is to be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1976
Establishes a Joint Congressional Committee on Forest Management Policy composed of six members of each House to study the appropriateness of existing forest management policy. Requires the Committee to submit to Congress an interim report no later than one year after enactment of this Act and a final report no later than two years after the enactment of this Act, each containing the Committee's findings and recommendations. Terminates the Committee 60 days after it submits its final report. States that the expenses of the Committee, which shall not exceed $100,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1976
Jobs Creation Act - Allows as a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code an amount equal to ten percent of the increase in the total amount of qualified savings deposits and investments of an individual. Stipulates that such credit shall not exceed $1,000. Increases the maximum tax deduction for retirement savings to $2,000. Excludes from gross income amounts received by an individual as dividends from domestic corporations. Allows a taxpayer to exclude from gross income up to $1,000 of gain from the sale or exchange of securities. Allows the nonrecognition of gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business property, at the election of the taxpayer, to the extent that the amount realized on such sale or exchange is reinvested in qualified small business property by the taxpayer during the reinvestment period beginning one year before the date of the sale or exchange and ending one year after such date. Allows the executor of an estate which includes an interest in a qualified closely held business which exceeds either 35 percent of the value of the gross estate or 50 percent of the value of the taxable estate, but is less than $300,000 to elect: (1) to pay the estate tax in up to 20 equal annual installments (presently ten); and (2) to defer the payment of the first installment until five years after the filing of the return. Reduces the corporate normal tax rate to 20 percent. Reduces the corporate surtax rate to 22 percent. Increases the corporate surtax exemption to $100,000. Revises the procedure for the determination of the investment credit to provide graduated rates of 25 percent of the qualified investment to the extent that the qualified investment does not exceed $25,000; 20 percent of the qualified investment to the extent that the qualified investment exceeds $25,000 and does not exceed $50,000; plus 15 percent of the qualified investment to the extent that qualified investment exceeds $50,000. Increases the allowable percentage variation from any class life prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury to 40 percent. Allows a taxpayer to elect to take a tax deduction for a capital recovery allowance on qualified tangible property in lieu of the depreciation allowance. Allows a taxpayer to elect a 12-month amortization period for pollution control facilities. Increases the exemption for specified small issues of industrial revenue bonds which allows the exclusion from gross income of investment received on such bonds to the extent that the bond issue does not exceed $10,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1976
Provides for a new Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs whose principal duty shall be the overall supervision of the reserve component affairs of the Department of Defense. Changes the existing position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 136)
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1976
Consumer Communications Reform Act - States that Congress finds that the revenues from integrated interstate and foreign common carrier telecommunications services helped maintain a level of charges for telephone exchange service which is lower than otherwise would be required. Expresses the sense of Congress that the authorization of lines, facilities, or services of specialized carriers which duplicate the lines, facilities, or services of other telecommunications common carriers is contrary to the public interest. Reaffirms the intent of Congress that the complete authority to regulate terminal and station equipment used for telephone exchange service shall rest with the States even though such terminal and station equipment also may be used in connection with interstate services. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that no compensatory charges for or in connection with such communication service may be found to be unjust or unreasonable on the ground that it is to low. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from holding the charge of a carrier up to a particular level to protect the traffic or revenues from a communication service offered or provided by another carrier if such charge proposed by the carrier is compensatory. Grants the Commission jurisdiction to approve the acquisition of control by a domestic common carrier of any other domestic common carrier or to approve the acquisition by a person which is not a common carrier of control of any domestic common carrier or the acquisition of the whole or any part of the property of a domestic common carrier after determining that the acquisition is in the public interest. Provides that the Commission shall not grant or authorize any construction permit, station license, or certificate, for the construction, acquisition, or operation of any communication or transmission line or facility, or extension thereof, or any modification or renewal thereof, unless the Commission shall find, after full opportunity for evidentiary hearing on the record, that such permit, license, or certificate will not result in increased charges or unnecessary duplication of communication lines.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1976
Regulatory Reform Act - States Congress' finding that Government economic regulation has become a burden to American business, consumers, and the economy. Requires the President to submit at least once a year for five years a plan to eliminate regulation which has led to inflationary consumer prices or a reduction of competition. Directs that each plan establish more efficient organizational and administrative forms for the regulation of commerce and include provisions necessary to modify or abolish existing agencies and functions so as to eliminate overlapping regulatory jurisdictions and anti-competitive regulations. Requires that such reformation plan be directed toward regulation in the areas of: (1) banking and finance; (2) energy and environment; (3) commerce, and transportation; (4) food, health, safety, and trade practices; and (5) labor, housing, and small business. Defines terms used in this Act. Provides for Congressional review of such plan. Provides that if Congress fails to pass any regulatory reform legislation by a specified date after the President submits his plan to the Congress, such plan shall become effective as of a specified date and all rules of any agency described in such plan shall be of no force or effect.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1976
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for the burial at the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, Arlington National Cemetery, of the remains of an unknown American soldier who lost his life in the American Revolutionary War.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1976
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act Amendments - Amends the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act to require shippers of hazardous materials (presently extremely hazardous) to file registration statements with the Secretary of Transportation. Authorizes appropriations of $7,000,000 annually for the fiscal years 1977 and 1978 to carry out programs relating to the transportation of hazardous materials and for other activities carried out pursuant to the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1976
Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Economic Development Administration, to make grants to any State or local government for local public works projects, including but not limited to: (1) those public works projects of State and local governments for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act; and (2) the architectural design, engineering, and related planning of local public works projects. Stipulates that the Federal share of any project for which a grant is made under this Act shall be 100 percent of the cost of such project. Authorizes the Secretary to make an additional grant for the purpose of increasing to 100 percent the Federal contribution to a public works project for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act. Stipulates that no such grants shall be made for any project which has as its principal purpose the channelization, damming, dredging, or diversion of a natural watercourse, or the enlargement of any canal other than a canal designated as a historic site. Directs the Secretary to prescribe rules, regulations, and procedures necessary to carry out this Act. Lists factors that the Secretary shall consider in accordance with the relative needs of the various sections of the country, with priority consideration to those areas where unemployment exceeds the national average. Stipulates that not less than one-half of one percent nor more than ten percent of all amounts authorized under this title shall be allocated for local public works projects within any one State. Authorizes the appropriation of $2,500,000,000 through fiscal year 1977 in order to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1976
Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to prohibit the issuance of solid waste management regulations with respect to the sale or distribution of beverage containers at Federal facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1976
Provides for a new Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs whose principal duty shall be the overall supervision of the reserve component affairs of the Department of Defense. Changes the existing position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 136)
United States · United States Congress · 30 March 1976
Names the Veterans' Administration hospital located at 13000 North Thirtieth Street, Tampa, Florida, the "James A. Haley Veterans' Administration Hospital."
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1976
Truth in Government Accounting Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and make public annual consolidated financial statements for all expenditures of the United States utilizing the accrual method of accounting.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Amends the Social Security Act to maintain the inpatient hospital deductible under the medicare program at the level which was applicable during calendar year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Interstate Horseracing Act - Title I: Findings and Policy - Expresses the findings of Congress with regard to the significance of the horseracing industry and the effects of off-track betting on such industry. Declares that the policy of the Congress is to assure continued revenue flow from horseracing to the States and to protect the horseracing industry. Title II: Regulation of Interstate Off-track Wagering - Prohibits the acceptance of a wager placed or accepted in one State (termed the "off-track State") on the outcome of a horse race in another State. Subjects any State or person violating this Act to a civil action which may be brought by the host racing association, the State in which the race is held (host State), or any owner of any horse participating in a race which is the subject of an interstate off-track wager on behalf of the host racing association, the host State and owners of all horses participating in a race which is the subject of an interstate off-track wager, to enjoin further violations of this Act and to recover damages in an amount equal to three times the amount of that portion of the interstate off-track wagers which the host State, the host racing association, and the owners of horses participating in the race, would have received if such wagers had been placed at the track where the race was held. States that in the event that a wager accepted in violation of this Act is of a type not accepted at the host track, damages shall be equal to three times the greater of the: (1) maximum takeout permitted for any type of parimutuel wager in the host State or (2) maximum takeout permitted for any type of parimutuel wager in the off-track State. Defines "take-out" as that portion of a wager which is deducted from the parimutuel pool or which is not included in the parimutuel pool and which is distributed to persons or entities other than those placing wagers. Grants jurisdiction over an action under this Act to the United States district court in the host State or State in which the off-track wager was alleged to have been made. Provides for damages awarded to be distributed to the host State, the host racing association, and the owners of the horses participating in the race upon which the interstate off-track wager was accepted.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1975
Title I: Emergency Natural Gas Authority - Natural Gas Emergency Standby Act - Declares the finding of the Congress that the Nation will suffer severe shortages of natural gas during the heating season from November 1975 through March 1976. Grants the Federal Power Commission authority to allow natural gas companies which transport natural gas in interstate commerce with inadequate quantities of natural gas to meet the requirements of their high priority consumers of natural gas, to purchase natural gas from sources not in interstate commerce and from other such companies on an emergency basis free from specified requirements of the Natural Gas Act. Grants the Federal Energy Administration the authority to prohibit the use of natural gas as boiler fuel. Grants the President the standby authority to allocate propane gas during periods of actual or threatened severe shortages of natural gas. Authorizes civil penalties of not more than $2,500 for each violation or violations of orders or regulations issued by the President under such standby authority. Provides that this title shall expire on midnight April 4, 1976. Title II: Natural Gas Act Amendments - Provides for the termination of the regulation by the Federal Power Commission of the sale of new natural gas to natural gas companies for resale in interstate commerce pursuant to the Natural Gas Act. Directs the Commission to conduct studies of the production, gathering, shortage, distribution, and sale of natural, artificial, or synthetic gas throughout the United States and its possessions. Requires the Commission to secure and keep information regarding the ownership, management, and control of all facilities for production and distribution of such gas. Requires a report by the Commission to the President and the Congress. Directs the Commission to establish a national ceiling for rates and charges for the sale or transfer in interstate commerce by any person of new natural gas produced from offshore Federal lands on or after January 1, 1975, through December 31, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1975
Requires the payment of 12 percent interest by Federal agencies on overdue contract payments payable to any small business concern.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1975
National Commission on Regulatory Reform Act - Establishes the National Commission on Regulatory Reform. Directs the Commission to make a full and complete study of such regulatory activities of the independent regulatory agencies of the Federal Government as the Commission determines to be primarily economic in nature and to have a significant effect on the segments of the economy involving transportation, communication, the development and distribution of energy resources, or financial institutions. States that such study shall be undertaken to determine: (1) whether such regulatory activities have limited competition within such segments of the economy, and if they have, what the economic consequences have been, (2) whether such regulatory activities have, in other way, contributed to current economic difficulties, in particular inflation; and (3) whether changes need to be made with regard to such independent Federal establishments and their regulatory activites. Requires that such study shall include, with regard to each independent Federal establishment whose regulatory activities are included in such study: (1) an analysis of the purposes for which it was created, its structure and jurisdiction, the statutory framework governing its operation and activities, and the procedures and policies it has adopted; (2) an assessment of its effectiveness in carrying out its purposes; (3) an analysis of the costs and benefits of its various programs and policies, with particular reference to any adverse economic impact; and (4) an examination of the relationship between its regulatory activities and those of State and local regulatory agencies. Sets forth the membership, powers, and authority of the Commission. Directs the Commission to submit to the President and Congress within one year a report containing: (1) a statement of the status of the study being conducted pursuant to this Act; (2) a detailed statement of any findings made or conclusions reached by the Commission; and (3) any recommendations for legislation or administrative action, or both, deemed appropriate by the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 2 December 1975
Declares that the Congress has not delegated to the Federal Trade Commission any authority to preempt the laws of the States or their political subdivisions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to sell all rights in phosphate deposits reserved to the United States on specified lands in Marian County in the State of Florida.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1975
Creates a body corporate to be known as the United States Athletic Hall of Fame, Incorporated. Makes it a purpose of the corporation to establish a hall for the display of memorabilia relating to the history of organized sports in the United States. Provides for an Advisory Committee to guide the activities of the corporation. Sets forth the duties and powers of the corporation. Prohibits specified political activities by the corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1975
Expresses the gratitude of Congress to Bob Hope for distinguished and meritorious service to the Nation and to the cause of freedom.