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Resolution· HRESH.Res. 706 (93rd)referred

Resolution commending the President of the United States for his actions in the Middle East.

United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1973

Commends the President of the United States for his actions in the Middle East, particularly his efforts through the United Nations to create the atmosphere in which the negotiations could take place and his dialogue with the Soviet Union in an effort to reduce tensions.

Bill· HRH.R. 11294 (93rd)referred

State Lottery Exemption Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 November 1973

States Lottery Exemption Act - Exempts from the wagering tax, under the Internal Revenue Code, any wager placed in a sweepstakes, wagering pool, or lottery which is conducted by an agency of a State acting under authority of State law, but only if such wager is placed with the State agency conducting such sweepstakes, wagering pool, or lottery, or with its authorized employees or agents.

Bill· HRH.R. 11083 (93rd)referred

Real Estate Investment Trust Tax Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1973

Real Estate Investment Trust Tax Act - Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that if a determination with respect to a real estate investment trust results in any adjustment for any taxable year, a deduction shall be allowed for the amount of deficiency dividends for purposes of determining the deduction for dividends paid for such year. Sets forth the rules governing the application of such provision, including: (1) definition of the term "adjustment"; (2) interest and penalties based on the full amount of adjustment; (3) the amount of adjustment attributable to a determination; (4) the effect on shareholders or holders of beneficial interests; and (5) definitions of "determination" and "deficiency dividends". Provides that any real estate investment trust which is liable for interest for any period by reason of any determination with respect to which a deduction is allowed shall pay a penalty in an amount equal to the amount of such interest attributable solely to such determination. Requires the imposition of a tax in cases of a determination of failure to meet specified requirements. Prescribes rules for the treatment of foreclosure property with respect to a grace period and extensions and terminations of such grace period. Provides that property shall be treated as foreclosure property only if the real estate investment trust so elects on or before the due date for filing its return of tax. Imposes for each taxable year on the net income from foreclosure property and other property of every real estate investment trust a tax as if such income constituted the taxable income of a corporation. Increases the 90-percent gross income requirement to 95 percent. Defines the terms "rents from real property" and "independent contractor". Provides that real estate investment trusts may be incorporated. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Sets forth the effective dates for the provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 11047 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to prohibit the Secretary of Transportation from imposing certain seatbelt standards, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1973

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations within sixty days of the date of enactment of this Act prohibiting any motor vehicle from being equipped with any starter interlock system associated with seatbelts or upper torso restraints.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 615 (93rd)referred

Resolution to seek peace in the Middle East and to continue to support Israel's deterrent strength through transfer of Phantom aircraft and other military supplies.

United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1973

Declares it to be the sense of the House that the President, acting in accordance with the announced policy of the United States Government to maintain Israel's deterrent strength, and under existing authority, should continue to transfer to Israel the Phantom aircraft and other equipment in the quantities needed by Israel to repel the attack and to offset the military equipment and supplies furnished to the Arab States by the Soviet Union.

Bill· HRH.R. 10489 (93rd)referred

Multiprotection of Employee Retirement Income and Tax Act (MERIT Act)

United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973

Multiprotection of Employee Retirement Income and Tax Act (MERIT Act) - Title I: Fiduciary Responsibility and Disclosure - States that this title shall apply to any employee benefit plan if it is established or maintained: (1) by any employer engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce, or (2) by any employee organization in which employees engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce, or (3) by both. Requires that a description of any employee benefit plan shall be furnished to the Secretary of the Treasury, participants in such plan, and the beneficiaries within one hundred and twenty days after such plan becomes subject to this Act. Directs the administrator of an employee benefit plan to engage an independent qualified public accountant to conduct an examination of the books and records of the plan as may be necessary to enable him to form an opinion as to whether the financial statement required to be filed under this Act is accurate. Sets forth the requirements for such financial statements. Requires the administrator of any employee benefit plan subject to this Act to file with the Secretary a copy of the plan description at least once every five years, except that if there is any material modification in the terms of the plan, such description shall be furnished not later than one hundred and twenty days after the change takes effect. Provides penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. States that civil actions may be brought under this Act by the Secretary or any participant or beneficiary in any court of competent jurisdiction, State or Federal. States that the contents of the descriptions and reports filed with the Secretary pursuant to this Act shall be public information, and the Secretary may publish any such information and data. Sets forth procedures for the termination and distribution of assets of the pension plans established under this Act. Establishes an Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans. States that it shall be the duty of the Council to advise the Secretary with respect to the carrying out of his functions under this Act, and to submit to the Secretary recommendations with respect thereto. Title II: Vesting and Eligibility Requirements - Requires every pension plan subject to this Act to provide nonforfeitable pension benefits in accordance with specified rules. Provides that the benefits provided under the terms of a pension plan shall not be capable of assignment or alienation. Provides procedures for distribution of nonforfeitable benefits to participants who terminate coverage under the plan at or before age 65. Title III: Funding - States that the minimum contribution to any pension plan for each plan year shall be a contribution which results in the plan having no accumulated funding deficiency at the end of such plan year. Requires the administrator of the plan to file with the Secretary a funding status report. Establishes standards under which the Secretary may grant permission for a variance from the funding requirements of this Act. Title IV: Registration, Enforcement, and Miscellaneous Provisions - Requires every administrator of a pension plan to file with the Secretary an application for registration of such plan. States that such application shall be in such form and shall be accompanied by such documents as shall be prescribed by regulation of the Secretary. States that if at any time the Secretary determines that a plan required to qualify under this title is not qualified or is no longer qualified for registration he shall notify the administrator of the deficiency or deficiencies in the plan. States that if the Secretary determines that the deficiency or deficiencies have not been removed within a reasonable time, he shall enter an order denying or canceling the certificate of registration. Establishes a Variation Appeal Board to hear and determine appeals from such decisions of the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to submit annually a report to the Congress covering his administration of this Act for the preceding year. Authorizes the Secretary to establish and maintain within the Internal Revenue Service an Office of Employee Organizations. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out his functions and duties under this Act. Title V: Internal Revenue Code Amendments - Provides a tax deduction for retirement savings under the Internal Revenue Code. Sets forth requirements for a trust created or organized in the United States to constitute a qualified individual account under the Internal Revenue Code. Makes provisions for an excise tax on individual retirement accounts. Establishes an excise tax on prohibited pension, profit sharing, and stock bonus plans.

Bill· HRH.R. 8762 (93rd)referred

Budget Control Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1973

Budget Control Act - Title I: Changes in Rules of House and Senate - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on the Budget consisting of 21 members: 5 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 5 members from the Committee on Ways and Means, and 11 members who are members of other Committees. Provides for the selection of the chairman of the Committee. Refers to the Committee matters relating to: (1) the establishment of an overall limitation on budget outlays, and an overall limitation on new budget authority; (2) the determination of the overall level of Federal revenues, and the overall level of the public debt of the United States; (3) the determination of the appropriate level of surplus or deficit in the budget in the light of economic conditions and; (4) the allocation of the overall limitation on budget outlays, and the overall limitation on new budgetary authority. Requires the Committee to report during each regular session of Congress at least two concurrent resolutions concerning matters referred to the Committee and to make continuing studies of the effect on budget outlays of existing and proposed legislation and to report the results of these studies to the House of Representatives. Establishes in the United States Senate a Committee on the Budget consisting of 17 members: 4 members from the Committee on Appropriations, 4 members from the Committee on Finance, and 9 members who are members of other Committees. Grants to the Senate Committee the same matters for consideration and the same duties as the House Committee. Declares that annually, on or before July 1, Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for the fiscal year beginning January 1 of the next year. States that the concurrent resolution shall include with respect to budget outlays and with respect to new budget authority: (1) a general contingency reserve (for allocation only by a subsequent concurrent resolution on the budget) for possible new legislation (including enlargements of existing programs and activities); and (2) an emergency reserve (in amounts which do not exceed 2 percent of the amount of budget outlays otherwise allocated to the Committees on Appropriations and 2 percent of the amount of new budget authority otherwise allocated to such committees) which shall be available only for allocation by the Committees on Appropriations to specific programs and activities (or to subcommittees) to meet emergencies and other unforeseen contingencies. Provides for other matters which may be dealt with in the concurrent resolution. Sets forth a timetable for the first concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year. Requires Congress to adopt a final concurrent resolution on the budget before adjourning and provides for consideration of concurrent resolution to be expedited. Declares that a tax surcharge is required where the budget deficit will be greater, or the surplus will be smaller, than that determined to be appropriate. States the requirements for amendments to concurrent resolutions. Provides that legislation dealing with the congressional budget must be handled by budget committees and that the concurrent resolution on budget must be adopted before appropriations and changes in revenues and public debt limit are made. Sets forth the requirements for legislation and amendments providing new budget authority, and declares that budget authority legislation may be required to contain outlay limitations. Places limitations on new permanent budget authority and on new spending authority. Requires the legislative committees to authorize the enactment of new budget authority before the beginning of the fiscal year. Authorizes the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Appropriations to consider and to report legislation rescinding budget authority. Provides for technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives and to the Standing Rules of the United States Senate, as well as amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and 1970. Title II: Legislative Budget Director and Staff - Establishes a Joint Legislative Budget Staff headed by a Legislative Budget Director appointed by the record vote of a majority of the members of the Committee on the Budget of each House, and provides for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Legislative Budget Director to secure directly from any executive department or instrumentality of the government, information, data, estimates, and statistics relating to the function of the Joint Legislative Budget Staff. Directs the Joint Legislative Budget Staff to develop methods of using computers and other techniques for the analysis of information to improve not only the quantative but the qualitative evaluation of budgetary requirements.

Bill· HRH.R. 8702 (93rd)referred

Equal Consumer Credit Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1973

Equal Consumer Credit Act - Prohibits, under the Truth in Lending Act, discrimination on account of sex or marital status against individuals seeking credit in connection with any consumer credit sale. Provides for penalties for any creditor or credit card issuer who discriminates against any individual in a matter prohibited by this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 8564 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 4941 (d) (2) (G) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1973

Sets forth, under the Internal Revenue Code, limitations on payment or reimbursement of traveling expenses for Government officials' who travel between a point in the United States and a point outside the United States. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 4941(d)(2))

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 240 (93rd)referred

Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the sale or abandonment of certain railroad lines.

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1973

Expresses the sense of Congress that until such time as the Congress has acted to dispose of pending legislation dealing with the current railroad crisis in the Northeastern United States, no court of the United States shall authorize any sale or abandonment of any railroad nor should the Interstate Commerce Commission approve or authorize any sale or abandonment.

Bill· HRH.R. 7256 (93rd)referred

A bill to eliminate racketeering in the sale and distribution of cigarettes and to assist State and local governments in the enforcement of cigarette taxes.

United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973

Prohibits the transportation of contraband cigarettes in interstate commerce. Defines contraband cigarettes as a quantity in excess of twenty thousand cigarettes, bearing no evidence of the payment of applicable state cigarette taxes, in the possession of unauthorized carriers. Provides for the swizure and fordeiture of cigarettes transported and vehicles used for such transportation in violation of State laws. Provides for a penalty of a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both, for anyone biolating this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 7157 (93rd)referred

Retirement Benefits Tax Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973

Retirement Benefits Tax Act - Sets minimum standards relating to funding eligibility & vesting. Defines "minimum funding standard" as the excess of the sum of (1) the normal cost of the plan for such year plus interest on the unfunded liability, computed under the funding method used to determine normal costs, 5 percent of the unfunded liability for nonforfeitable benefits under the plan (computed as the excess of the present value of the then accrued nonforfeitable benefits over the fair market value of the assets), and the total of the amounts determined under clauses (1) and (2) with respect to the plan for each of the preceding plan years beginning after December 31, 1973, over "the total of the amounts determined under clauses (1) (2) with respect to the plan for each of the preceding plan years beginning after December 31, 1973, over "the total of the amounts contributed to or under the plan for each of the preceding plan years beginning after December 31, 1973. Outlines the criteria which must be met in order for a trust to qualify under this Act and defines the term "employee's accrued benefits". States that a trust has vested when an employee's rights to his accrued benefit derived from his own contributions are nonforfeitable (other than by reason of death), and his rights in at least 50 percent of such accrued benefit derived from employer contributions are nonforfeitable (other than by reason of death) as of the close of the first plan year in which the sum of his age and the period of his active participation in the plan equals or exceeds 35 years, and his rights in the remaining percentage of all of his accrued benefit derived from employer contributions become nonforfeitable (other than by reason of death) not less rapidly than ratably over the next succeeding 5 plan year. Define those employees who are eligible as (1) any employee who has not attained the age of 30 years and has a period of continuous service with the employer of 3 or more years, (2) any employee who has attained the age of 35 years but has not attained the age of 35 years and has a period of continuous service with the employer of 2 or more years, and (3) any employee who has attained the age of 35 years and who has a period of continuous service with the employer of 1 or more years. Allows a deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for retirement savings where an individual paid cash amounts: (1) to or under a qualified individual retirement account which is exempt from tax, if the individual established such account, (2) to an employees' trust which is exempt from tax for his benefit, (3) for the purchase of an annuity contract for the individual under a plan which meets specified requirements of, or (4) to or under a qualified bond purchase plan, for his benefit. Outlines special rules and limitations under this Act for persons over 70 l/2 years of age, married persons; employer contributions and recontributed amounts. Outlines those special rules and definitions applying to trusts qualifying as individual retirement accounts. Imposes for each taxable year on the assets of a qualified individual retirement account which is exempt from tax a tax equal to 10 percent of an amount which bears the same ratio to the fair market value of the toal assets in such account at the beginning of the taxable year as the minimum ammount required to be distributed during such year reduced (but not below zero) by the total amount actually distributed during such year by the account to the individual who established such account or his beneficiary bears to the minimum amount required to be distributed during such year. Directs that the tax imposed by this provision shall apply only for taxable years beginning after the taxable year in which the individual who established such account attains the age of 70 l/2 years. Establishes special rules for contributions on behalf of self-employed indivuduals and share holder-employees of electing small business corporations. Imposes a tax with respect to qualified pension profit sharing and stock bonus plans on each prohibited transaction at the rate of 5 percent of the amount involved with respect to the prohibited transaction for each year in the taxable period. Defines "prohibited transaction" as that term is set forth under the Welfare & Pension Plans Disclosure Act of August 28, 1958 as amended. Makes conforming amendments under this section. Outlines rules applicable to custodial accounts and excess contributions. Specifies those amounts from the employer's contribution which should be included in gross income by the employee.

Bill· HRH.R. 6982 (93rd)referred

Forestry Incentives Act

United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973

Forestry Incentives Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and carry out a forestry incentives program to encourage the protection, development and management of small nonindustrial private lands and non-Federal public forest lands. Provides that the Secretary shall share up to 50 percent of the cost of forest practices on non-Federal public lands and small nonindustrial private lands. Provides that no private forest landowner shall receive cost sharing under this Act in excess of $2,500 in any one fiscal year. Requires the Secretary to cooperate with local associations or groups of nonindustrial forest owners, and to pay up to 50 percent of the cost of manpower, equipment, planting stock and other materials required to carry out essential forest management practices. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize the services of State and local committees established under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Sets forth factors to consider prior to the distribution of funds under this Act. Provides that Federal funds may be allocated for cost sharing on a bid basis with priority accorded landowners contracting to carry out approved forestry practices for the smallest Federal cost share. States that the Secretary shall consult with the State forester or other appropriate official of each State in the conduct of the forestry incentives program provided for in this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall coordinate the administration of this Act with other related programs. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $25,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 6838 (93rd)referred

A bill to limit the sale or distribution of mailing lists by Federal agencies.

United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973

Prohibits any Government agency from distributing or selling to any person any list of names and addresses of: (1) employees or former employees; (2) persons licensed by or required to file information with the agency; or (3) members or former members of the Armed Forces. Permits an agency to make available such list if the person seeking the list certifies that it will not be used for commercial, solicitation, or unlawful purposes, or if the list is made available as a necessary part of the agency's statutory functions. Prescribes a penalty of imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of $10,000, or both, for violations of the provisions of this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C.552(c))

Bill· HRH.R. 6767 (93rd)referred

Trade Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973

Trade Reform Act - States that the purposes of this Act are to provide authority in the trade field supporting United States participation in an interrelated effort to develop an open, nondiscriminatory, and fair world economic system; to facilitate international cooperation in economic affairs; to stimulate United States economic growth and enlarge foreign markets for United States exports; to establish a program of temporary import relief and to provide trade adjustment assistance to workers; to improve the means for dealing with unfair import competition; to provide additional authority for the President to obtain fair and equitable access to foreign markets for United States exports; to provide the President more flexible authority to deal with trade matters; to enable the United States to take advantage of new trade opportunities with countries with which it has not recently had trade agreement relations; and to enable United States participation in the effort by developed countries to provide generalized preferential treatment to products of developing countries. Title I: Authority for New Negotiations - Grants to the President authority to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries, and unlimited authority to modify, continue, or eliminate duties on imports persuant to such agreements. Provides that aggregate reductions in the rate of duty up to 3 percent ad valorem may be put into effect each year for five years. Allows the President to interrupt and to extend the staging period for such reductions as long as he deems appropriate for certain products. Allows the President to exempt from staging requirements reductions not in excess of 10 percent of the duty prior to reduction, by rounding fractions or decimals. Sets forth the findings of Congress on nontariff barriers to trade which reduce the growth of foreign markets for products of United States commerce, and diminish the intended mutual benefits of reciprocal trade concessions. Urges the President to negotiate mutual reduction, elimination, or harmonization of such barriers to trade with other countries. Grants the President advance authority to implement such agreements with respect to customs valuation, establishing the quantities on which assessments are made, and requirements for marking of country of origin. Establishes procedures for serving notice to the Congress 90 days before such agreements take effect. Sets forth prenegotiation requirements. Provides for the publication and transmission to the Tariff Commission by the President of lists of articles which may be considered for concessions in connection with any proposed trade agreement. Requires the Tariff Commission to advise the President on each article within six months of its judgment as to the probable economic effect of modifying or continuing duties on domestic industries producing like or directly competitive articles. Outlines the economic factors which the Tariff Commission shall investigate and analyze. Requires the Tariff Commission to hold public hearings during the course of preparing this advice. Requires the President, before entering into a trade agreement to seek information and advice with respect to each agreement from the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Interior, Labor, State, Treasury, and from the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations, and to seek information and advice as appropriate from other sources such as the Department of Transportation. Provides that meetings of selected industry, labor, and agriculture groups advising the President or any agency on United States negotiating objectives and bargaining positions in specific product sectors prior to entry into trade agreements shall be exempt from the requirements relating to open meetings and public participation under the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Requires the President to hold public hearings in connection with any proposed trade agreement under this title to enable interested persons to present their views with respect to the list of articles considered for change in duty status, any concessions which should be sought from foreign countries, and any other relevant matters. Requires the President to designate an agency or interagency committee to hold these hearing and to provide a summary to the President. Requires the President to receive such summary of the hearings before making an offer to modify or continue any duty or to continue duty-free treatment on any article in negotiations. Requires the President to transmit to each House of the Congress a copy of all trade agreements, with a statement of his reasons for entering into the agreement in the light of the Tariff Commission's advice and other relevant considerations. Title II: Relief from Disruption Caused by Fair Competition Outlines procedures to be followed by the Tariff Commission in conducting an investigation to determine the existence of injury to a domestic industry due to imports. Provides that a petition for eligibility for import relief may be filed with the Tariff Commission by an entity, such as a trade association, firm, or union, which is broadly representative of an industry. Requires that the petition include a statement describing the specific purpose for which import relief is sought, such as to facilitate the transfer of resources to alternative employment and other means to adjust to new competitive conditions. Requires the Tariff Commission to transmit a copy of any petitions to the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations and to the Government agencies which are directly concerned in particular cases, such as the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Labor, State, and Treasury. Requires the Tariff Commission to conduct an investigation to determine whether there is injury to a domestic industry caused primarily by substantially increased quantities of imports like or directly competitive with articles produced by the domestic industry, and offered at prices substantially below those of comparable domestic articles. Provides that, in making its determination with respect to injury, the Tariff Commission shall take into account all economic factors it considers relevant, including significant unemployment or underemployment in the industry, inability of a significant number of firms to operate at a reasonable level of profit and significant idling of productive facilities in the industry. Provides that determining whether imports are the primary cause of injury, the Commission shall consider relevant factors such as the extent to which current business conditions, changes in taste or technology, or competitive conditions within the industry may be contributed to the competitive difficulties experienced by firms in the industry. Requires the Tariff Commission to investigate and report on efforts by firms in the industry to compete more effectively with imports. Requires the Tariff Commission to hold public hearings in connection with any proceedings with regard to import relief for market disruption by imported goods. Requires the Tariff Commission to report to the President its findings relating to such import relief, and to publish a summary of its findings in the Federal Register. Provides for a determination by the President within 60 days whether to provide import relief following an affirmative finding by the Tariff Commission of injury to an industry due to imports. Enumerates factors which the President must take into account in this determination, including: the effectiveness of import relief as a means to promote adjustment and the impact of relief measures on domestic consumers, other industries and workers, and upon United States foreign economic interests. Authorizes the President to provide import relief to the extent and for such time as he deems necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury to a domestic industry. States that such relief shall be in the form of increased duties or restrictions on articles causing or threatening serious injury to domestic industry. Provides that the President may issue regulations governing the entry of an article covered by an orderly marketing agreement, and that the President may impose controls on import of articles from countries which are not parties to such agreements. Provides limitations of 5 years on the duration of import relief measures and requires the phasing out of such measures during the time of their application. Requires the Tariff Commission to keep under review developments with respect to the industry concerned as long as any import relief remains in effect, and report such developments to the President upon his request. Provides that whenever any action has been taken to increase or impose any duty or other import restriction, the President shall afford interested foreign countries an opportunity to consult with the United States with respect to concessions, if any, to be granted as compensation for the import restriction imposed. Provides for filing of petitions with the Secretary of Labor by groups of workers or their duly authorized representative for a certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance. Requires the Secretary to publish promptly in the Federal Register that he has received the petition and initiated an investigation. Provides that the Secretary shall provide for a public hearing if the petitioner, or any other person found by the Secretary to have a substantial interest in the proceedings, submits a request not later than ten days after the publication of notice. Provides criteria for certification by the Secretary of Labor of eligibilty of groups of workers applying for adjustment assistance. Requires the Secretary to make such determination of eligibility within 60 days after filing of a petitition by a group of workers. Requires the Secretary to publish promptly in the Federal Register a summary of his determination on such petititions. Provides for termination of such certifications of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance if the Secretary determines that total or partial separations are no longer attributable to the conditions for which the certification was granted. States the qualifications that an individual worker must have in order to obtain supplemental payments for weeks in which he is entitled to State unemployment insurance payments. Establishes that an adversely affected worker who receives State unemployment insurance for a week of unemployment and meets the qualifying requirements shall receive a supplemental payment equal to the amount (if any) of which the State unemployment insurance he receives for such week is less than the payment he would have received if under the State law his weekly benefit amount was one-half of his average weekly wage, or the maximum weekly benefit amount, whichever is less. Defines the terms used in establishing the weekly benefit amount on the basis of which the supplemental payment would be made. Provides that the Secretary shall make every reasonable effort to secure counseling, testing, and placement services, and supportive and other services provided for under any Federal law for adversely affected workers covered by a certification. Requires the Secretary to procure such services through agreements with cooperating State agencies whenever appropriate. Authorizes the Secretary to provide or assure provision of appropriate training to trade-impacted workers under manpower and related service programs established by law, on a priority basis. Authorizes supplemental assistance to defray transportation and subsistence costs when training is provided in facilities which are not within commuting distance. Provides that the Secretary shall not authorize training which begins more than one year after the certification or of the worker's last total or partial separation whichever is later. Provides that any worker refusing without good cause to accept or continue, or failing to make satisfactory progress in suitable training to which he was referred by the Secretary shall be disqualified from receiving payments under this chapter until he enters or resumes the training. Provides that workers covered by adjustment assistance certification may apply for a job search allowance, reimbursing the worker up to 80 percent of the cost of such job search, but not to exceed $500. Provides terms and conditions for relocation allowances for a head of a family adversely affected by imports and covered by certification. Provides for agreements between the Secretary of Labor and State agencies to carry out the provisions for testing, counseling, training and placement services for workers adversely affected by imports. Authorizes the Secretary to arrange by regulations for performance of such services where there is no agreement with a State agency. Provides for fair hearing for any worker whose application for payments is denied. Provides for review by the courts of final determination of entitlement to payments in the same manner and to the same extent as is provided by the judicial review provision for the social security program. Requires that all money paid to State under this Act shall be used solely for the purposes for which it is paid. Relieves certifying and disbursing officers, in the absence of gross negligence or intent to defraud the United States, from liability with respect to any properly certified payment. Provides that if a person has been found to have received any payment to which he was not entitled, as a result of false statements, such person shall be liable to repay such amount to the State agency or to the Secretary. Imposes penalties by fines of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for any person who knowingly makes false statements of, or fails to disclose material facts for the purpose of obtaining or increasing for himself or for any other individual any payment authorized to be paid under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of sums necessary to carry out his functions in connection with furnishing payments to workers under this Act. Sets forth definitions of terms necessary to interpretation and administration of this section. Requires the Secretary of Labor, in coordination with the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations to prescribe regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section. Title III: Relief from Unfair Trade Practices - Expands the authority of the President under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to respond to unreasonable or injustifiable foreign trade practices or discriminatory acts which burden or restrict United States commerce. Requires the President to take all appropriate and feasible steps to obtain the elimination of such import restrictions on United States exports. Provides that the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate must within six months or, in more complicated investigations, within nine months after a question of dumping is raised by or presented to him, make the determination required under present law as to whether there is reason to believe or suspect that the purchase price of imported merchandise is less, or the exporter's sales price is less or likely to be less, than the foreign market value or constructed value of the merchandise. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold appraisement of such merchandise entered on or after the date of publication of notice thereof in the Federal Register. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury or the Tariff Commission to hold a hearing prior to determination of dumping, and to publish in the Federal Register the basis for their findings and conclusions on all material issues presented on the record. Defines purchase price and the exporter's sales price of imported merchandise for purposes of this section. Provides for the application of countervailing duties on imports, equal to the net amount bestowed on such goods by a bounty or grant by any country. Requires a determination of material injury by the Tariff Commission for the application of countervailing duties to duty-free imports, for so long as such a determination is required by international obligations. Provides that the Secretary of the Treasury must determine within one year if a bounty or grant is being paid or bestowed. Provides discretionary authority for the Secretary to bar the application of countervailing duties in any particular case if he determines that such action would be detrimental to United States economic interests, or that existing quantitative limitations are an adequate substitute for the imposition of countervailing duties. Limits the discretion of the President over issuance of exclusion orders against articles concerned in unfair methods of competition to instances of patent infringement. Requires the Tariff Commission to investigate and regulate other alleged unfair methods of competition. Authorizes the Tariff Commission to issue temporary exclusion orders pending the completion of its full investigation if a prima facie showing of a violation has been established, and if immediate and substantial harm to the patentee would result if a temporary order were not issued. Provides that public hearings shall be held in connection with investigations under this section and that a transcript shall be made. Authorizes any person adversely affected by an action of the Commission to secure judicial review in the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. Title IV: Internal Trade Policy Management Grants explicit and more flexible authority than under existing legislation for the President to impose or liberalize restrictions on imports to deal with serious balance-of-payments problems. Permits the United States to exercise fully its GATT rights and obligations. Provides the President authority at least as extensive as his authority under trade agreements, and authority to maintain trade agreement rates in the absence of a trade agreement. Provides permanent authority for the President to negotiate and implement trade agreements of limited scope. Provides permanent authority for the President to compensate foreign countries for increases in United States import restrictions. Provides authority for the President to reduce import restrictions temporarily for the purpose of restraining inflation. Requires the reservation of certain articles for reductions in duties or other import restrictions during the course of trade negotiations for purposes of national security. Requires the application of trade agreement concessions on a most-favored-nation basis unless a deviation is specifically authorized. Provides authority for the President to terminate at any time actions to implement trade agreements. Provides that all trade agreements are subject to termination or withdrawal at the end of a specific time period. Provides for public hearings in connection with Presidential withdrawal of concessions or termination of prior trade agreements. Authorizes annual appropriations necessary for the payment by the United States of its share of the expenses of the contracting parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Title V: Trade Relations with Countries not Enjoying Most-Favored-Nation Tariff Treatment - Stipulates that except as otherwise provided, the President shall continue to deny most-favored-nation tariff treatment to products imported from any country or area which are subject to Column 2 rates of duty. Authorizes the President to deny such most-favored-nation treatment from any country when he deems it necessary for national security purposes. Authorizes the President to enter into bilateral commercial agreements to extend most-favored-nation treatment to imports from countries previously denied such treatment, provided that such agreements are in the national interest. Limits such agreements to an initial period of not more than three years. Subjects such agreements to suspension or termination at any time for national security reasons. Provides for consultations for the purpose of reviewing the operation of the agreement and relevant aspects of relations between the United States and the other party. Authorizes implementation of such agreements only if a majority of neither House of Congress adopts a resolution disapproving of such agreement within 90 days after the President delivers a copy of the agreement to the Congress. Lists examples of provisions which may be included in bilateral commercial agreements including arrangements to safeguard against domestic market disruption, to protect United States industrial rights and processes, trademarks, and copyrights, to settle commercial disputes, and arrangements to promote trade, for example, by establishing trade and tourist promotion offices, the sending of trade missions, and facilitating activities of commercial representatives. Authorizes the President to extend most-favored-nation treatment to imports from any country which has entered into a bilateral commercial agreement which has entered into force. Authorizes the President to issue an order extending most-favored-nation treatment to a country which has become a party to an appropriate multilateral trade agreement to which the United States is also a party, such as the GATT, subject to the Congressional veto procedure. Limits the application of most-favored-nation treatment to the duration of the bilateral agreement or to the period both countries are a party to a multilateral agreement. Authorizes the President at any time to suspend or withdraw the application of most-favored-nation treatment extended under this Section, thereby restoring the applicable Column 2 rate of duty on all products imported from the country. Provides criteria for determining whether market disruption injury to a domestic industry has occurred due to imports from countries which are granted most-favored-nation treatment. Requires the Tariff Commission to determine whether imports of such countries are causing material injury to a domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles. Authorizes the President to provide import relief in the form of higher duties or other restrictions on an article found to cause injury to domestic industry. Title VI: Generalized System of Preferences - Sets forth the finding of the Congress that the welfare and security of the United States are enhanced by efforts to further the economic development of the developing countries, and that such development may be assisted by providing increased access to markets in the developed countries, including the United States, for exports from developing countries. States that the purpose of this title is to promote the general welfare, foreign policy and security of the United States by enabling the United States to participate with other developed countries in granting generalized tariff preferences to exports of manufactured and semimanufactured products and of selected other products from developing countries. Authorizes the President to provide duty-free treatment for any eligible article imported from "developing" countries, which are considered an exception to the most-favored-nation principle of the Act. Outlines the procedures and criteria for determining eligibility of products for duty-free preferential treatment, including public hearings and a determination by the Tariff Commission of the anticipated impact of the imported goods on domestic industry. Requires that prior to granting duty-free treatment on any article, the President must publish and furnish to the Tariff Commission a list of articles which may be designated eligible articles for this purpose. Requires that eligible articles be imported directly from a beneficiary developing country in order to qualify for duty-free entry, and that the sum of the cost or value of materials produced in a beneficiary developing country plus the direct costs of processing operations performed in a beneficiary developing country shall equal or exceed the percentage of the appraised value of the article at the time of its entry into the United States which the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes by regulation. Grants the Secretary broad authority to determine without public hearings what constitutes direct costs and to prescribe rules governing direct importation. Prohibits the President from designating as eligible any article subject to import relief measures or to national security action. Authorizes the President to terminate preferential treatment in response to a finding by the Tariff Commission of injury to domestic industry from an article from a poor country. Outlines criteria for determining which developing countries may be beneficiaries of duty-free preferential treatment on eligible articles. Authorizes the President to designate any country a beneficiary developing country. Directs the President in making such designation to take into account: the level of economic development of the country, whether a country has indicated a desire to be designated a beneficiary of preferential treatment, whether other major developed countries are extending generalized tariff preferences to the country, and whether the country has nationalized, expropriated or seized ownership or control of property owned by a United States citizen without provision for the payment of prompt, adequate and effective compensation. Stipulates that no country which is not receiving most-favored-nation treatment can be designated a beneficiary of preferential treatment. Prohibits according preferential treatment to a "developing" country which accords preferential treatment to the products of a developed country other than the United States, unless such treatment is to be eliminated before January 1, 1976. Grants the President broad authority to modify, withdraw, suspend, or limit at any time the application of preferential treatment on any product or with respect to any country. Requires the President to withdraw or suspend preferential treatment from any country which ceases to receive most-favored-nation treatment, and from any country which has not or will not eliminate preferences granted to other developed countries before January 1, 1976. Provides that duty-free preferential treatment shall not apply to a particular article from a particular beneficiary developing country if that country has supplied 50 percent of the total value or over $25 million of United States imports of the article on an annual basis over a representative period. Sets limits on the effective period of general preferences which must be terminated 10 years after enactment of this Act or after December 31, 1974, whichever is earlier. Title VII: General Provisions - Authorizes the President to delegate the power, authority, and discretion conferred upon him by this Act to heads of agencies he deems appropriate. Authorizes such heads of agencies to authorize the head of any other agency to perform such functions, to prescribe rules and regulations necessary to perform such functions, and to procure the temporary services of experts on consultants. Provides for an annual report to the Congress by the President on the trade agreements program and on import relief and adjustment assistance to workers. Provides for a factual report to the Congress by the Tariff Commission on the operation of the trade agreement program at least once a year. Provides that the Tariff Commission may conduct preliminary investigations, determine the scope and manner of its proceedings, and consolidate its proceedings. Provides that, in performing functions under this Act, the Tariff Commission may exercise any authority granted to it under any other Act. Provides that the Tariff Commission shall keep informed at all times concerning the operation and effect of provisions relating to duties or other import restrictions of the United States contained in trade agreements. Insures that invalidity of any one provision of this Act will not affect the validity of the remainder of the Act. Defines terms used in the Act. Sets forth amendments to existing trade laws to bring about conformity with this Act. Directs the President to embody in the tariff schedules of the United States the substance of the relevant provisions of this Act, and of other Acts affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder, including modification, continuance or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction. Extends to the President upon recommendation of the Tariff Commission, authority to modify or amend the tariff schedules of the United States, including the establishment of new classifications, the abolition of existing classifications, or the transfer of particular articles from one classification to another. Excludes from such simplifications of the tariff schedules any modification of any rate of duty or other import restriction by more than one percent ad valorem (or ad valorem equivalent) unless annual imports of the article involved did not exceed $10,000 in each of the immediately preceding ten years. Requires the Tariff Commission, before making recommendations to the President, to publish in the Federal Register a notice of any proposed modification of the tariff schedules and to provide an opportunity for interested parties to to present their views to the Commission. Requires the Tariff Commission to keep the effect of modifications under observation for a period of five years, and to report to the President any substantial increase in the imports of such articles. Requires the President to terminate promptly the modification of the duty or other import restriction of any article which the President determines has been a imported in substantially increasing amounts in injury to domestic parties producing a like or directly competitive article. Authorizes the President to terminate at any time, in whole or in part, any action taken under his power to simplify and modify the tariff schedules of the United States.

Bill· HRH.R. 6509 (93rd)referred

Rehabilitation Act

United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1973

Rehabilitation Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide a statutory basis for the Rehabilitation Service Administration; to establish within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an Office for the Handicapped, and to authorize specified programs. Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Rehabilitation Services Administration which shall be administered by a Commissioner. Provides that the Commissioner shall carry out and administer all programs and direct the performance of all services for which authority is provided to the Secretary of H.E.W. under titles I through III of this Act. Creates within such administration a Division of Research, Training and Evaluation which shall be responsible for carrying out programs and projects under title III of this Act. Authorizes the inclusion of appropriations under this Act in appropriations for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for obligation. Provides that where funds are provided for a single project by more than one Federal agency to an agency or organization assisted under this Act, the Federal agency principally involved may be designated to act for all in administering such funds. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act. Title I: Vocational Rehabilitation Services - States it to be the purpose of this title to authorize grants to assist States to meet the current and future needs of handicapped individuals, so that such individuals may prepare for and engage in gainful employment to the extent of their capabilities. Authorizes to be appropriated $660,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $700,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $710,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for the purpose of making grants to States to assist them in meeting the costs of vocational rehabilitation services. Authorizes to be appropriated $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, for the purpose of making grants to States and public and nonprofit agencies to assist them in meeting the costs of projects to initiate or expand services to handicapped individuals. Sets forth the requirements of State plans to be submitted and approved for participation in programs under this title. Authorizes judicial review in United States district courts of decisions by the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration affecting State plans. Provides that the Commissioner shall insure that the individualized written rehabilitation program required in a State plan in the case of each handicapped individual shall be developed jointly by the vocational rehabilitation counselor or coordinator and the handicapped individual. Defines vocational rehabilitation services provided under this Act as any goods or services necessary to render a handicapped individual employable, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) evaluation of rehabilitation potential; (2) counseling, guidance, referral, and placement services for handicapped invididuals; (3) vocational and other training services for handicapped individuals; (4) physical and mental restoration services; (5) maintenance, not exceeding the estimated cost of subsistence, during rehabilitation; (6) interpreter services for the deaf, and reader services for the blind; (7) recruitment and training services for handicapped individuals; (8) rehabilitation teaching services and orientation and mobility services for the blind; (9) occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies; (10) transportation in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation services; and (11) telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices. Provides a formula for the allotment and payment of funds to States for providing rehabilitation services under this title. Directs the Commissioner to pay to a State or, at the option of the State, to a public or nonprofit organization or agency a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan to expand vocational rehabilitation services. Title II: Special Federal Responsibilities - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants and contracts for fiscal years 1974-76 to assist in meeting the costs of construction of public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities, initial staffing, and planning assistance. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or nonprofit organizations and agencies to pay up to 90 percent of the cost of projects for providing vocational training services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, in public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or non-profit agencies and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects and demonstrations: (1) for establishing facilities and providing services which hold promise of expanding or otherwise improving rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps; and (2) for applying new types or patterns of service or devices. Provides that the Commissioner may make contracts or jointly finance cooperative arrangements with employers and organizations for the establishment of projects designed to prepare handicapped individuals for gainful and suitable employment in the competitive labor market under which such handicapped individuals are provided training and employment in a realistic work setting and such other services as may be necessary for such individuals to continue to engage in such employment. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide technical assistance to rehabilitation facilities, and for the purpose of removal of architectural and transportation barriers, to any public or nonprofit agency, institution, organization or facility. Provides for a special study by the Secretary of the needs of severely handicapped persons who would otherwise be ineligible for services under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to establish national centers for spinal cord injuries. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare a National Advisory Council on Rehabilitation of Handicapped Individuals consisting of twenty members appointed by the Commissioner. Provides that the council shall: (1) provide policy advice and consultation on the planning, conduct, and review of programs authorized under this Act; (2) review the administration and operation of vocational rehabilitation programs under this Act, make recommendations with respect thereto, and make annual reports to the Secretary and the Commissioner for transmittal to the Congress; (3) advise the Secretary and the Commissioner with respect to the conduct of independent evaluations of programs carried out under this Act; and (4) provide such other advisory services as the Secretary and Commissioner may request. Sets forth requirements for applications for assistance for construction projects under this title. Title III: Research and Training - Provides that the commissioner may make grants to, and contracts with, State public and nonprofit organizations to pay part of the cost of research projects which bear directly on the provision of services under this Act. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to pay all or part of the cost of specialized activities including the establishment and support of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers. Authorizes the Secretary to pay part of the cost of projects for training, traineeships, and related activities designed to assist in increasing the numbers of personnel trained in providing vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purpose of this title. Title IV: Administration and Program and Project Evaluation - Sets forth the functions of the Commissioner in carrying out his duties under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct studies, investigations and evaluations of programs authorized by this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall measure and evaluate the impact of all programs authorized by this Act in order to determine their effectiveness in achieving stated goals. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report on such determination and review to the appropriate committees of the Congress. Authorizes appropriations to conduct such program and project evaluations. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the President and to the Congress on the activities carried out under this Act. Provides for a study of the role of sheltered workshops in the rehabilitation and employment of handicapped individuals. Title V: Office for the Handicapped - Establishes an Office for the Handicapped within the Office of the Secretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Provides that the Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall serve as a Special Assistant to the Secretary. Sets forth the functions of the Office. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of this title such sums as necessary. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Provides for the repeal of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Establishes an Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to investigate problems of handicapped persons in the areas of architecture and transportation, and to make legislative recommendations to the President and the Congress. Requires any contract in excess of $2500 entered into by any Federal department or agency for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction) for the United States to contain a provision requiring that, in employing persons to carry out such contract, the party contracting with the United States shall take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified handicapped individuals. States that no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 169 (93rd)referred

Concurrent resolution providing recognition for Columbus.

United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973

Authorizes and directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Christopher Columbus and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee.

Bill· HRH.R. 6148 (93rd)referred

Drug Pushers Elimination Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973

Drug Pushers Elimination Act - Title I : Increased Penalties - Increases, under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, the penalties for the manufacture or distribution of a controlled narcotic drug to : (1) not less than 5 years, nor more than 25 years, imprisonment, and a fine of up to $50,000; (2) not less than 10 years and up to life imprisonment, and a fine of up to $100,000 if a person had a previous felony conviction relating to controlled substances; (3) not less than 10 years and up to life imprisonment and a fine of up to $100,000 if the crime was committed while such person was on release from a charge of violating this Act. Excepts addicted persons from the minimum term of imprisonment in all three categories of this Act. Provides that a conspiracy to commit any offense of this Act shall be punished as prescribed for the commission of the offense. Title II: Conditions of Release - Adds, for the judicial officer's consideration in setting conditions of release, the element of whether the person poses a danger to the safety of other persons, himself, the community, and the property of others. Sets forth procedures to govern the pretrial and posttrial release of persons charged with offenses involving specified narcotic drugs. Title III: Miscellaneous - Adds to the list of property which is subject to forfeiture all moneys used, or intended for use, in manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or acquiring any controlled substances.

Bill· HRH.R. 6019 (93rd)referred

A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to make a comprehensive study of the wolf for the purpose of developing adequate conservation measures.

United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973

Requires the Secretary of the Interior, to make a comprehensive study of the wolf, taking into consideration, among other things, the distribution, migrations, and population of these mammals and the effects of hunting, disease, pesticides and other chemicals, and food shortages on them, for the purpose of developing adequate and effective measures, including appropriate laws and regulations, to conserve such mammals and to insure humane treatment in all cases. Provides that the Secretary of the Interior shall submit, through the President, a report on the study, together with such recommendations, including suggested legislation, that he deems appropriate, to the Congress no later than January 1, 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated the sum of $25,000 for fiscal year 1972, and for each of the three succeeding fiscal years, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 5989 (93rd)referred

A bill to clarify the exempt status of joint activities of educational organizations under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973

Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that an educational organization shall be treated as an organization organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes if: (1) such organization is organized and operated solely to perform, on a centralized basis, one or more of the following services which, if performed on its own behalf by a tax exempt organization would constitute activities in exercising or performing the purpose or function constituting the basis for its exemption: computer service, purchasing, warehousing, billing and collection, food, industrial engineering, library, investment, research, laboratory, printing, communications, record center, instructional services, solicitation of financial support, academic personnel, and student services; and (2) such organization is not operated for profit, and amounts payable by such educational institutions for services performed for them are determined on the basis of the amount of services so performed and are intended in each case not to exceed the allocable cost of such services and are not in fact in any case significantly in excess thereof. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 501)

Bill· HRH.R. 5585 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 231 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, to permit the extension of trade agreement concessions on a reciprocal basis to products of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia.

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973

Permits the President to extend trade agreement concessions on a reciprocal basis to products of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia. Provides that each determination shall be transmitted to the Congress and then be made public immediately following such transmittal. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1861)

Bill· HRH.R. 5584 (93rd)referred

Environmental Protection Tax Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973

Environmental Protection Tax Act - Title I: Short Title, Et Cetera - Specifies that all amendments contained in the Act are amendments to the Internal Revenue Code. Title II: Preservation of Coastal Wetlands - Provides that the depreciation deduction for property constructed, reconstructed, or erected in the coastal wetlands may be computed only by use of the straight- line method of depreciation. States that the limitation of depreciation methods will apply with respect to property placed in service after December 31, 1973. Provides that any gain on the disposition of improvements located in coastal wetlands will be treated as ordinary income to the extent of all depreciation deductions claimed with respect to such improvements. Provides that land clearing expenditures and certain soil and water conservation expenditures with regard to coastal wetlands are not deductible under the special rules of the Internal Revenue Code. Provides for a deduction for interest and taxes where it is attributable to land under development and associated improvements in the coastal wetlands. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act. Title III: Historic Preservation - Permits a 5-year write-off of rehabilitation expenditures incurred with respect to historic structures which are used in the taxpayer's trade or business or held for the production of income provided that property acquired in connection with such expenditure is otherwise eligible for the depreciation allowance. Provides that, upon the disposition of a certified historic structure, the gain will be treated as ordinary income to the extent that the deduction provided under this Act exceeded the depreciation deduction which would have otherwise been allowable. Provides that no deduction would be allowed for amounts expended in the demolition of a registered historic structure, or for any loss sustained on account of such demolition. Title IV: Rehabilitation - Permits a taxpayer, if he substantially rehabilitated depreciable property, to elect to compute depreciation with respect to his preexisting basis in the building as though the entire structure was first placed in service by him. States that in order to qualify for this treatment, the amounts added to capital account during a 24-month period must be at least $5,000 in amount and must be greater than the undepreciated cost of the property, determined at the beginning of the 24-month period. Title V: Charitable Transfers for Conservation Purposes - Provides that a charitable deduction will not be denied on the transfer of a partial interest in property, where the interest is an easement of 30 or more years duration granted exclusively for conservation purposes. Defines the term "conservation purposes" to mean the perservation of open land areas for public outdoor recreation or education, or scenic enjoyment; the preservation of historically important land areas or structures; or the protection of natural environmental systems.

Bill· HRH.R. 5491 (93rd)referred

A bill relating to the income tax treatment of charitable contributions of inventory and certain other ordinary income property.

United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973

Provides that in the case of a charitable contribution of inventory, by a corporation or by an association taxable as a corporation, to an organization operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, and exempt from taxation, the income tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for such contribution shall be reduced by only half the reduction required as the amount of gain which would not have been long-term capital gain if the property contributed had been sold by the taxpayer at its fair market value. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 170(e))

Bill· HRH.R. 5396 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 956(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, to eliminate from the concept of U.S. property certain debt obligations acquired by controlled foreign corporations engaged in the banking business.

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973

Excludes as United States property, for purposes of taxation of investments of controlled foreign corporations under the Internal Revenue Code, any obligation of a U.S. person acquired by a foreign corporation which in engaged in the banking or financing business if such U.S. person is not an individual, corporation, or trust which controls the corporation, and if such obligation is acquired as a result of a direct loan. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 956(b))

Bill· HRH.R. 5026 (93rd)referred

A bill to exempt from duty certain aircraft components and materials installed in aircraft previously exported from the United States where the aircraft is returned without having been advanced in value or improved in condition while abroad.

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1973

Exempts from duty under the Tariff Schedules of the United States, aircraft components and materials installed in aircraft previously exported from the United States where the aircraft is returned without having been advanced in value or improved in condition while abroad.

Bill· HRH.R. 4708 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require more complete disclosure of Federal campaign funds.

United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1973

Specifies additional limitations on Federal campaign contributions and expenditures, pursuant to the Federal Election Campaign Act, and provides penalties for violations thereof. States that use of campaign contributions for personal purposes by a candidate or holder of Federal office shall be punished by a fine of up to $50,000 or imprisonment for one year, or both. Establishes a Federal Election Commission, consisting of five members to be appointed by the President. States that a candidate shall not in his campaign for nomination or in his campaign for election make expenditures in excess of the amount which he may lawfully make under the laws of the State in which he is a candidate, nor under the provisions of this Act. Directs that the total amount expended by a candidate for nomination shall not exceed: (1) in the case of a candidate for the office of Representative (other than a Representative elected at large), the amount shall be the product obtained by multiplying the population of the congressional district by 25 cents; (2) in the case of a candidate for the office of Senator or of a Representative elected at large, such amount shall be the product obtained by multiplying the population of the State by 25 cents; and (3) in the case of a candidate for the office of President in a State primary election the amount shall be the product obtained by multiplying the population of the State by 25 cents or the product obtained by multiplying the population of all the States by 1.25 cents, whichever is the greater. Provides that in an election campaign, the total amount expended by a candidate for election shall not exceed the total population of the congressional district (for a Representative), the state (for a Senator or Representative at large), or the country (for the President and Vice President) multiplied by 25 cents. Prohibits use of the franking privilege by Members of Congress for postal patron and other simplified address mailings in the period between qualification as a candidate and general election.

Bill· HRH.R. 4675 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 112, 692, 6012, and 7508 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 for the relief of certain members of the Armed Forces of the United States returning from the Vietnam conflict combat zone.

United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973

Exempts from the income tax the compensation of members of the Armed Forces during the period of time in which they are hospitalized as a result of disease or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone, whether or not combatant activities are continuing. Exempts from the income tax the compensation of members of the Armed Forces paid during the last year in which they were in missing in action status. Permits the spouse of a serviceman or civilian missing in action as a result of service in a combat zone to file a joint return for any taxable year in which he is in a missing status. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 112(a)(2),(b)(2); 692(1); 6013(f); 7508)

Bill· HRH.R. 4613 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the act of August 13, 1946, relating to Federal participation in the cost of protecting the shores of the United States, its territories and possessions, to include privately owned property.

United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973

Includes privately owned property within the provisions of the Act relating to Federal participation in the cost of protecting the shores of the United States, its territories and possessions. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 426e(b))

Bill· HRH.R. 4358 (93rd)referred

A bill to further the purposes of the Wilderness Act of 1964 by designating certain lands for inclusion in the national wilderness preservation system, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1973

Designates specified lands, including the following, as wilderness, in furtherance of the provisions of the Wilderness Act: (1) certain lands in the Bankhead National Forest, Alabama; (2) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas; (3) certain lands in the Ozark National Forest, Arkansas; (4) certain lands in the Appalachicola National Forest, Florida; (5) certain lands in the Chattahooche and Cherokee National Forests, Georgia and Tennessee; (6) certain lands in the White Mountain National Forest, Maine; (7) certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri; (8) certain lands in the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire; (9) certain lands in the Nantahala and Cherokee National Forests, North Carolina and Tennessee; (10) certain lands in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia; (11) certain lands in the George Washington National Forest, Virginia and West Virginia; (12) certain lands in the Jefferson National Forest, Virginia; (13) certain lands in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky; (14) certain lands in the Sumter National Forest, South Carolina; (15) certain lands in the Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont; (16) certain lands in the Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin; (17) certain lands in the Clark National Forest, Missouri; and (18) certain lands in the Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 216 (93rd)referred

Resolution on U.S. oceans policy at the Law of the Sea Conference.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973

Declares that the House of Representatives endorses the following objectives, envisioned in the President's Ocean Policy statement of May 23, 1970, and which are now being pursued by the United States delegation to the Seabed Committee preparing for the Law of the Sea Conference: (1) protection of the freedoms of the high seas, beyond a twelve-mile territorial sea, for navigation, communication, and scientific research, including unimpeded transit through international straits; (2) recognition of the following international community rights: (a) protection from ocean pollution, (b) assurance of the integrity of investments, (c) substantial sharing of revenues derived from exploitation of the seabeds particularly for the benefit of developing countries, (d) compulsory settlement of disputes, and (e) protection of other reasonable uses of the oceans beyond the territorial sea including any economic intermediate zone (if agreed upon); (3) an effective International Seabed Authority to regulate orderly and just development of the mineral resources of the deep seabed as the common heritage of mankind, protecting the interests of both developing and developed countries; and (4) conservation and protection of living resources with fisheries regulated for maximum sustainable yield, with coastal zone management of coastal and anadromous species and international management of such migratory species as tuna. Declares that the House commends the United States delegation to the Seabed Committee preparing for the Law of the Sea Conference for its excellent work, and encourages the delegation to continue to work diligently for early agreement on an ocean treaty embodying the goals stated in this resolution.

Bill· HRH.R. 3792 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 832(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973

Provides that in the case of any taxable year beginning after December 31, 1970, the provision of the Internal Revenue Code allowing a special deduction and income account shall also apply in all respects to a company which writes lease guaranty insurance or insurance or governmental obligations the interest on which is excludable from gross income. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 832 (e)(6))

Bill· HRH.R. 3582 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the act of June 27, 1960 (74 Stat. 220), relating to the preservation of historical and archeological data.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1973

Provides for the preservation of historical and archeological data. Extends coverage to all Federal and federally assisted or licensed programs which alter the terrain and potentially cause loss of scientific, prehistorical, historical or archeological data. Directs Federal agencies to notify the Secretary of the Interior if in their operations archeological or other scientific data is revealed or threatened. Provides that whenever any Federal agency finds or is made aware by a responsible authority that its operations in connection with any Federal, federally assisted, or federally licensed activity or program affects or may affect adversely significant scientific, prehistorical, historical, or archeological data, such agency may request the Secretary to undertake protection measures, or may itself expend program or activity funds for the recovery, protection, and preservation of such data (including preliminary survey, analysis, and publication) and shall provide the Secretary with appropriate information concerning the project and the investigation. Provides that the Secretary shall keep the responsible agency notified at all times of the progress of any survey or other investigation made under this Act, or of any work undertaken as a result of such survey, in order that there will be as little disruption or delay as possible in the carrying out of the functions of such agency. Provides that the Secretary in the administration of this Act shall: (1) accept and utilize funds transferred to him by any Federal agency; (2) enter into contracts or make cooperative agreements with any Federal or State agency, any educational or scientific organization, or any institution, corporation, association, or qualified individual; (3) obtain the services of experts and consultants or organizations thereof; and (4) accept and utilize funds made available for salvage archeological purposes by any private person or corporation. Authorizes such appropriations as necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 3364 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to correct an inequity with respect to the applicability of the rules involving carryback and carryover of unused credits for investment in certain depreciable property.

United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973

Makes the rules governing carryback and carryover of unused credits for investment in specified depreciable property under the Internal Revenue Code, applicable to tax years beginning after August 31, 1970. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 46(b))

Bill· HRH.R. 3242 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend section 584 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the treatment of affiliated banks for purposes of the common trust fund provisions of such Code.

United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973

Provides that, for purposes of the common trust fund provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, two or more banks which are members of the same affiliated group shall be treated as one bank for the period of affiliation. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 584(a))

Bill· HRH.R. 3075 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend subchapter G of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating to the accumulated earnings tax).

United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973

Provides under the Internal Revenue Code of 1959 that a corporation prove by a preponderance of evidence that accumulation of earings and profits beyond the reasonable needs of the business was not done with the purpose of avoiding income tax with respect to shareholders. Provides that in any proceeding before the Tax Court the burden of proving the allegation that all or any part of the earnings and profits have been permitted to accumulate beyond the reasonable needs of the business shall be on the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate with respect to grounds not set forth in the notice of deficiency to the taxpayer. Requires that the notification informing a taxpayer of the proposed notice of deficiency state the grounds and facts sufficient to show the basis thereof on which the Secretary or his delegate has relied in determining that all or part of the earnings and profits of the taxpayer have been permitted to accumulate beyond the reasonable needs of its business. Increases the accumulated earnings credit (presently $100,000) in accordance with the following table: 1973-$150,000, 1974-$200,000, 1975 and thereafter $250,000.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 225 (93rd)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of the President and Vice President.

United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973

Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each State shall choose a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress. Specifies that the electors assigned to each State with its Senators shall be elected by the people thereof, and that each of the electors apportioned with its Representatives shall be elected by the people of a single-member electoral district formed by the legislature of the State. Requies each candidate for the office of elector of President and Vice President to file in writing under oath a declaration of the identity of the persons for whom he will vote for President and Vice President, which declaration shall be binding upon any successor to his office. States that the electors shall meet in their respective States, fill any vacancies in their number as directed by the State legislature, and vote by signed ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves. Provides that they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President. Requires them to make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, the number of votes for each, and the name and electoral district, if any, of each elector who cast his vote for each such person, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. Provides that the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted. States that any vote cast by an elector contrary to the declaration made by him shall be counted as a vote cast in accordance with his declaration. Specifies that the person having the greatest number of electoral votes for President shall be the President, and the person having the greatest number of electoral votes for Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such numbers are a majority of the whole number of electors chosen. Provides that if two persons have the same total number of electoral votes, which number is one-half of the whole number of electors chosen, the person having the greatest number of votes cast by electors chosen from electoral districts shall be President, or Vice President, as the case may be. Provides that if no person voted for as President has such a majority, then from the persons having the three highest numbers of votes for President, the Senate and House of Representatives together, each member having one vote, shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. States that if no person voted for as Vice President has such a majority, then the Vice President shall be chosen from the persons having the three highest numbers of votes for Vice President in the same manner as herein provided for choosing the President. Specifies that this article supercedes the second and third paragraphs of section 1, article II, of the Constitution, the twelfth article of amendment to the Constitution, and section 4 of the twentieth article of amendment to the Constitution.

Bill· HRH.R. 2600 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Railroad Labor Act and the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, to provide more effective means for protecting the public interest in national emergency disputes, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973

Title I: Railway Labor Act - Provides, under the Railway Labor Act, that when a dispute is not adjusted under the provisions of this Act, employees may selectively strike any of the carriers or carrier systems to whom their proposal was directed. Provides that whenever a selective strike or a strike of any combination of carriers occurs, such carriers and representatives of the employees on strike shall provide service and transportation for such persons and commodities as may be directed by the President, on a finding by the President, that such services or transportation cannot in any way be provided by alternate rail, truck, water, or air transportation, and that the termination of such services or transportation would immediately imperil the national health or safety. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any carrier to lock out any craft or class of its employees or any segment of any such class or craft unless such carrier is caused to diminish such service by a strike of all or some portion of its employees. Provides that any agreements affecting rates of pay, rules, or working conditions between employees and any carrier so selectively struck shall be immediately offered jointly, without change, to all carriers who have been jointly or concurrently involved in the previous handling of the dispute under this Act. Provides, under a new title III of the Railway Labor Act, that in the event a dispute is not settled under this Act, any changes in rate, pay, or working conditions made unilaterally subsequent to this Act shall be recinded and the original conditions reinstated, and any selective strike in progress under the provisions of this Act shall be terminated immediately, and for sixty days thereafter, and no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the parties to the controversy in the conditions out of which the dispute arose. Provides that the National Mediation Board shall recommend to the President specific actions which it deems most appropriate to the settlement of the dispute and the protection of the public interest. Provides that, during such sixty day period, the President may create a board to investigate and make, for transmittal to the parties in the dispute, a report respecting such dispute. Provides that if no resolution is reached at the end of such sixty days, and if the President finds that the dispute threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services, the President may: (1) order an additional sixty-day "cooling-off period" during which the parties shall continue collective bargaining under the National Mediation Board; or (2) permit the continuance of the selective strike under the limitations he deems necessary to protect the health or safety of the Nation or any region thereof; or (3) order the parties to submit final offers to the Secretary of Labor and submit such offers to a three-member panel for final settlement. Provides that such panel shall accept one of the final offers without compromise or alteration, except in the case of a settlement being reached by the parties through continued negotiation before such panel makes a final determination. Provides that the final offer selected by such panel shall be deemed to represent the contract between the parties and shall be conclusive unless found arbitrary and capricious. Title II: Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 - Broadens the powers of the President in labor disputes to cover situations which may imperil the health or safety of a substantial part of the Nation's population or territory (presently a threat to the national health or safety is required) and to cover situations which may deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services. Provides that the report of a Board of Inquiry appointed by the President shall contain the Board's recommendations for settlement. Provides that, upon receiving the report and until a final agreement to the labor dispute is reached, the President may issue an order for a specified period not to exceed thirty days that work shall resume or continue with no change in conditions, or he may issue an order for partial operation specifying the extent and condition of such operation. Provides that such orders shall be conclusive unless found arbitrary or capricious by a three-judge Federal district court (presently the President must direct the Attorney General to petition a district court for an injunction). Permits the President to modify his order upon notice to the parties. Requires the President to direct each party to submit a sealed final offer to the Secretary of Labor within five days. Permits each party to submit one alternative final offer. Deems the last offer of a party during previous negotiations to be the final offer if such party refuses to submit a final offer. Permits the parties within ten days to select a three-member panel composed of disinterested persons to act as a final offer selector. Provides that the President shall select the panel if the parties cannot agree. Provides that the Secretary shall transmit the final offers to the panel thirty days after its selection and requires the panel to select the most reasonable offer within five days thereafter. Sets forth factors which the panel may take into account in making its selection. Provides that the panel shall not alter the content of the offer selected. Directs the parties to undertake collective bargaining under the auspices of the Board of Inquiry throughout the period and provides that any complete agreement reached before the selection of a final offer shall be final and binding. Makes the final offer selected by the panel conclusive unless found arbitrary or capricious. Provides that members of the Board or panel shall receive compensation at the daily rate prescribed for the GS-18 level. Makes the provisions of this title enforceable upon suit by the Attorney General brought before a three-judge district court.

Bill· HRH.R. 2360 (93rd)referred

A bill to prohibit travel at Government expense outside the United States by Members of Congress who have been defeated, or who have resigned, or retired.

United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973

Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.

Bill· HRH.R. 2304 (93rd)referred

Romania Trade Act

United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973

Romania Trade Act - States that the purposes of this Act are to promote constructive relations with Romania, to contribute to international stability, to promote international trade, to provide a framework helpful to private United States firms conducting business relations with Romania and to promote the expansion of United States exports. Provides that the President may enter into a commercial agreement with Romania under this Act, with provision concerning: (1) arrangements for the promotion of trade between the United States and Romania; (2) the extension of most-favored-nation treatment with respect to duties or other restrictions on the import of products of the other country; (3) arrangements for the protection of industrial rights and processes; (4) arrangements for the settlement of commercial difference and disputes; (5) arrangements, for establishment or expansion of trade and tourist promotion offices, for facilitation of activities of governmental commercial officers, participation in trade fairs and exhibits and the sending of trade missions, and for facilitation of entry and travel of commercial representatives; and (6) such other arrangements of a commercial nature as will promote the purposes of this Act. Requires the President to report to the Congress on any commercial agreement or amendment thereto entered into under this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 2259 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to certain charitable contributions.

United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973

Includes as a charitable organization, for purposes of deductions under the Internal Revenue Code, an organization which on or before May 26, 1969, operated and maintained facilities for the long-term care of resident permanently and totally disabled persons, elderly persons, needy widows or children. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 170(b)(1)(A)(iii))

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 141 (93rd)referred

Resolution to establish a House authorized budget.

United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973

Directs the Committee on Appropriations, not later than sixty days after the President's annual budget message has been received at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, to report to the House a resolution containing a House-authorized Federal budget for the ensuring fiscal year. Provides that the budget shall include: (1) the total of estimated Federal receipts from all sources; (2) the maximum amount to be provided in obligational authority in each appropriation bill or resolution and in such other legislative provisions of obligational authority as may be specified, and the estimated budget outlay related to each, including those outlays from funds provided in prior years; and (3) a table showing the relationship of total estimated receipts as shown in (1) to the aggregate of the maximum amounts to be provided in obligational authority and the aggregate of the estimated budget outlays as shown in (2). Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution by the House. Provides that a conference report on a bill or resolution carrying appropriations or otherwise providing obligational authority shall require the approval of two-thirds of those Members present and voting, a quorum being present, if the effect of the adoption of the report would be to provide an amount in excess of that contained in the House-authorized Federal budget for such year. Provides that, within fifteen calendar days after adoption of the House-authorized Federal budget, the Committee on Ways and Means is authorized and directed to report a resolution containing recommendations as to the levels of public debt and aggregate Federal revenues necessitated by figures on outlays and receipts contained in the House-authorized Federal budget. Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution.