United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that in the case of an employer with 50 or fewer employees, old-age, survivors, and disability insurance, and Federal income tax withholding payments shall not be required more than one time. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 6302 (d))
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1973
Provides that educational assistance afforded to eligible veterans under the Veterans' Educational Assistance Chapter shall remain available until used (presently available until 8 years after discharge). (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1973
Specifies the circumstances under which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may pay for care and treatment rendered to veterans by private hospitals in emergencies. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 625(a))
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1973
Allows, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, a credit against the individual income tax for expenses paid by the taxpayer for the higher education of any individual, including the taxpayer. Excludes scholarships and fellowship grants, and educational assistance benefits paid by the Veterans' Administration, from such expenses paid for education purposes under this Act. Limits the eligibility for tax credit. Provides that the credit allowed to the taxpayer during the taxable year shall not exceed an amount equal to the sum of: (1) 100 percent of so much of the education expenses as does not exceed $200; exceeds $200 but does not exceed $500; and (3) 25 percent of so much of such expenses as exceeds $500 but does not exceed $1500. Reduces the credit allowable under this Act by amount equal to 1 percent of the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income under the code exceeds $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973
Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973
Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on the Handicapped within two years of enactment in order to develop recommendations for further research and action in the field of the handicapped, and to further the policies set forth in this joint resolution. Provides that such conference shall be planned and conducted under the direction of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with the cooperation and assistance of such other Federal departments and agencies, including the assignment of personnel, as may be appropriate. Requires a final report of the White House Conference on the Handicapped to be submitted to the President not later than 120 days following the date on which the conference is called, and the findings and recommendations included therein to be made available immediately to the public. Requires the Secretary , within 90 days after the submission of such report, to transmit to the President and the Congress his recommendations for the administrative action and legislation necessary to implement the recommendations contained in such report. Gives the Secretary administrative powers to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish an Advisorty Committee on the White House Conference on the Handicapped composed of 28 members, of whom not less than 10 shall be handicapped or parents of handicapped persons. Provides that such Advisory Committee shall cease to exist 90 days after the submission of the final report required by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,000,000 to carry out this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1973
Declares that federally owned land specified in this Act is held by the United States in trust for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1973
Authorizes the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation to consolidate its landholdings in North Dakota and South Dakota. Provides that all lands acquired by the Tribe under the authority of the Act shall be exempt from State and local taxation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take action necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973
Prohibits under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act the importation of agricultural commodities when pesticides are used in connection with such commodities in a manner which is prohibited in the United States by any Federal law.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973
Provides, under the Federal Aviation Act, for reduced rate transportation on a space available basis for youth (between 12 and 22), elderly people (aged 65 and older), and military personnel who are members of the United States armed services traveling at their own expense, in uniform and while on official leave, furlough, or pass. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to prepare an estimate of the funds needed to carry out the statutory mandate for conducting a census of agriculture in 1974 and to submit such estimate to the Congress not more than thirty days after the date of enactment of this joint resolution. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to take such action as he deems necessary to insure that the data acquired from the 1974 Census of Agriculture be made available to the public through appropriate publication as soon as practicable following the taking of the census, and in all events in a shorter period than data was made available to the public following the 1964 and 1969 censuses of agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Provides that no person engaged in commerce in the business of refining petroleum into gasoline and furnishing gasoline to retail distributors for sale to the public shall fail to furnish gasoline to any independent retail distributors (including cooperative associations) who purchased gasoline from such person during the period from July 1, 1971, to June 30, 1972, as long as such person continues to furnish gasoline to other retail distributors which are wholly owned, controlled, or operated under a franchise granted by him.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1973
Authorizes the employment of student congressional interns, by Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners of the House of Representatives. Provides that the sum of $1,500 be made available to each member out of the House contingent fund to pay for the salaries of such interns.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1973
Forest Conservation and Improvement Act - Sets forth the findings of Congress and defines the terms used in the Act. Provides for the preparation of comprehensive management plans by the Secretary of Agriculture for each national forest and other commercial forest land under his jurisdiction and by the Secretary of the Interior for each unit of the commercial forest lands under his jurisdiction, to be preceded by at least one public hearing in the major population center of the State affected and by the publication of the proposed plan in the Federal Register not less than 60 days before each public hearing. Declares that after consideration of comments at the public hearings, the respective Secretary shall promulgate a comprehensive management plan by publishing the plan in the Federal Register, at which time he shall submit the plan and a map to the House and Senate Committees on Agriculture or Interior and Insular Affairs. Provides for the plan to take effect 120 days after submission unless disapproved by the committees, and requires at least one review of the plan, including public hearings, before December 31, 1986. States that the plan shall be developed in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Directs the respective Secretary, with regard to the commercial forest lands, to establish policies to assure that small business concerns obtain a fair proportion of commercial timber and other forest products. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a Forest Conservation and Improvement Fund to be available to the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, and directs the respective Secretary to submit to the President and the Congress by March 1 an annual report describing the activities supported by the fund. Provides for the establishment of uniform rules and standards with respect to the appraisal, sale and removal of timber and other forest products from commercial forest lands, and for at least one public hearing in each of the five forest regions of the United States and in Alaska. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a complete inventory of all non-Federal forest lands and private forest lands within the United States and to report the results to the Congress within 3 years from the date of enactment. Prohibits the exporting of timber harvested from any commercial forest lands after January 1, 1974, unless the timber has been exempted from domestic processing under provisions of any Federal timber sale contract awarded prior to March 1, 1973. Limits to 1,500,000,000 broad feet of timber the amount harvested from non-Federal or privately owned forest lands to be exported from the United States in any year after January 1, 1974; and provides after January 1, 1975 for the annual licensing, by the Secretary of Commerce, of exporters of timber from these lands, with quotas on the amount to be exported and a requirement to export an amount of furnished wood products, excluding cants, equal in dollar amount to the amount of timber exported. Provides criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to promulgate necessary rules and regulations for this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Makes it a Federal crime to carry out any research activity on a human fetus or to intentionally take any action to kill or hasten the death of a human fetus in any Federally supported facility or activity. Provides criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 246)
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Prohibits the inspection of income tax records by the Department of Agriculture. Allows limited information from such records concerning farming operations to be furnished to the Department. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 36103(g))
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Provides that the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, socities, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals, and pursuant to and for the purposes of the "due process" and "equal protection" clauses of the Constitution of the United States shall mean any animate combination of viable human cells capable of becoming or being an actual independent living human (singular or plural) entity.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day in each year as "National Family Week".
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that if during any period of one or more consecutive sessions of Congress an individual holding the office of Senator or Representative fails to be recorded in person on 75 percent of three hundred consecutive recorded or rollcall votes of the House of which he or she is a Member, taken during a session of the Congress, such office shall become vacant, and the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, shall notify the executive authority of the State from which such individual was elected of the vacancy.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1973
Schoolbus Safety Act - Authorizes, under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, safety design standards for schoolbuses. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish safety standards for schoolbuses. Requires the National Transportation Safety Board to investigate schoolbus accidents.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive, nationwide study of the effects of railroad abandonments. Requires that such study include the impact upon the heavy economic system of the transportation of freight and the movement of bulk commodities. Prohibits the Interstate Commerce Commission from authorizing any further abandonments of railway freight facilities until six months after the study has been completed.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Establishes a special commission of inquiry to investigate alleged criminal, irregular, or wrongful conduct in the Presidential election campaign of 1972. Requires the Commission to publish recommendations and reports to safeguard the election process and perfrct the procedures thereto. Outlines the composition and structure of such Commission. Directs the Commission to 1) hold hearings, take testimony, receive evidence and administer oaths to witnesses as is necessary; 2) secure from any Government agency or department information necessary to enable the Commission to carry out this Act; 3) obtain from the Administrator of General Services on a reimbursable basis such administrative support as is necessary; and 4) issue subpenas requiring the attendance of witnesses and production of evidence. Requires the Commission to transmit a report to each House of Congress not later than one year after the date of the first meeting of the Commission. Terminates the existence of the Commission on the 60th day after the date of transmission of its report. Appropriates those sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Extends insurance coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act to all areas of the United States and to all agricultural commodities. Removes the appropriation limit on amounts that may be authorized under the Act. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1508(a), 1516(a))
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Provides that if the total budget receipts for any fiscal year do not equal or exceed total outlays, no allocation or payment shall be made under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 to any State or unit of local government for any entitlement which begins in that fiscal year. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the general fund of the Treasury all amounts which are not paid out of such entitlement period by reason of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of the longstanding debts which are delinquent in nature. Makes it the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury submit to the Congress within ninety days of passage of this resolution a list and report on the extent of such indebtedness on the part of foreign nations. Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury, through the appropriate departments and agencies, should, immediately after the filing of this report, begin consultations with foreign governments involved for the purpose of making arrangements for the prompt repayment of those longstanding debts which are delinquent.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Extends eligibility for coverage under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to: (1) a person on active duty, active duty for training, or inactive duty training in the uniformed services in a commissioned, warrant, or enlisted rank or grade,or a cadet or midshipman at the United States Military Academy, United States Naval Academy, United States Air Force Academy, or the United States Coast Guard Academy; (2) a person who volunteers for assignment to the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service and is assigned to a unit or position in which he may be required to perform active duty, or active duty for training, and each year will be scheduled to perform at least twelve periods of inactive duty training that is creditable for retirement purposes, (3) a person assigned to, or who upon application would be eligible for assignment to, the Retired Reserve of a uniformed service who has not received the first increment of retirement annuities or has not yet reached sixty-one years of age and has completed at least twenty years of satisfactory service creditable for retirement purposes, and (4) a member, cadet, or midshipman of the Reserve Officers Training Corps while attending field training or practice cruises. Provides that an insurance policy for a member of the Ready Reserve shall cease 120 days after separation or release from such assignment unless on the date of separation the member is totally disabled or has completed 20 years of service creditable for retirement purposes. Continues the insurance policy of a member of the Retired Reserve until such time as the member receives the first increment of retirement annuity, or the member's sixty-first birthday, whichever occurs earlier. Makes provisions for the conversion of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance following termination to a policy with a participating life insurance company. Provides for the payment of premiums by a deduction from the pay of a member of the reserve or Ready Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, to allow a member of the National Guard who is not on active duty to make allotments from his pay for the payment of premiums under a group life insurance program sponsored by the military department of the State in which such member holds his national guard membership or by the national guard association of such State. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 765-771; Adds 37 U.S.C. 707)
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1973
Small Business Pollution Abatement Loan Assistance and Worker's Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Assistance to Small Business - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make: (1) planning grants of up to $100,000 or 100 percent of the cost of meeting pollution requirements, whichever is less, to small business firms; and (2) loans of up to $500,000 or 100 percent of the costs for meeting the costs of compliance with State or Federal laws, rules or regulations relating to pollution abatement, whichever is less. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to small businesses for purposes of tying into municipal waste treatment facilities. Provides that no such loan shall exceed $500,000 in amount. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $4,000,000,000 to carry out this title. Title II: Assistance to Workers - Authorizes the Secretary to pay a readjustment allowance to adversely affected workers meeting the qualifying requirements set out in this title who have been totally or partially separated from their jobs after the date or enactment of this Act on account of the enforcement of State or Federal pollution abatement measures. Provides that the readjustment allowance authorized under this title for a week of unemployment may be an amount equal to his average weekly wage over the last 6 months of his employment. Provides for reductions in such allowance based upon the amount of unemployment insurance the worker is receiving. Sets forth time limitations on such allowance payments. Provides for training of workers covered by this Act in accordance with such workers capabilities and prospective employment opportunities. Provides for relocation allowances for such workers. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the functions authorized in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Health Programs Extension Act - Title I: Amendments to Public Health Service Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Public Health Service Act: (1) health services research and development, (2) national health surveys and studies, (3) public health training, (4) migrant health (5) comprehensive health planning and services (6) assistance to medical libraries (7) Hill-Burton programs for construction of medical library facilities (8) training in the allied health professions, (9) regional medical programs, and (10) population research and family planning. Title II: Amendments to the Community Mental Health Centers Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Community Mental Health Centers Act: (1) construction assistance for mental health centers, (2) staffing assistance for mental health centers, (3) alcoholism programs (4) drug abuse programs, (5)consultation services, and (6) mental health of children. Title III: Amendments to the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for construction, services, and planning under the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act. Title IV: Funding Assurances - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for programs under the Medical Facilities Construction and Modernization Amendment of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Provides for the inclusion of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition in the catagories of ammunition for which persons holding a Federal license to do business as a firearms or ammunition importer, manufacturer, or dealer need not keep records on purchasers. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 4182(c))
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Establishes the Select Committee on the Cost and Availability of Food, to be composed of twelve Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker, to conduct a full and complete investigation of all matters affecting, influencing, and pertaining to the cost and availability of food to the American consumer. Requires the committee to report to the House as soon as practicable during the present Congress the results of its investigation and study, together with such findings, conclusions, and recommendations as it deems advisable. Grants the committee various powers to carry out the objectives of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to construct and provide shoreside facilities for the education and convenience of visitors to the United States Ship Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, and to transfer responsibility for their operation and maintenance to the National Park Service. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,500,000 for the planning, construction, equipping, and furnishing of such facilities, such sum to be in addition to the regular budgetary appropriations for the Department of the Navy.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Allows a deduction from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code, for social agency, legal, and related expenses incurred in connection with the adoption of a child by the taxpayer. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 219)
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Establishes the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund, consisting of: (1) all notes, liens, mortgages, and property delivered to the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration pursuant to loans heretofore or hereafter made under the Rural Electrification Act; (2) undisbursed balances of electric and telephone loans; (3) appropriations for interest subsidies and losses which may hereafter be made by the Congress; (4) moneys borrowed from the Secretary of the Treasury; and (5) shares of the capital stock of the Rural Telephone Bank. Specifies that the assets of the Fund shall be available only for the following purposes: (1) loans which can be insured under this Act; (2) payment of principal on outstanding loans from the Secretary of the Treasury for electrification and telephone purposes; (3) payment of amounts to which the holder of notes is entitled on insured loans, or on any defaulted installment; (4) purchase of notes; (5) payment in compliance with contracts of guarantee; (6) payment of taxes, insurance, prior liens, and other specified expenses; and (7) payment of the purchase price and any costs of acquiring property under the Act. Authorizes the Administrator to make and issue interim notes to the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain funds necessary for discharging obligations of the Fund and for making loan advances, and authorized expenditures from the Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase for resale obligations insured through the Fund when offered by the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to make insured loans under this Act and at specified interest rates (2 percent as special rate, 5 percent as standard rate) to the full extent of the assets available in the Fund, subject only to limitations imposed by Congress. Permits the Administrator to provide financial assistance to borrowers for purposes provided in the Rural Electrification Act, by guaranteeing loans, in the full amount thereof, made by the Rural Telephone Bank, National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, and any other legally organized lending agency, or by accommodating or subordinating liens or mortgages in the Fund held by the Administrator as owner or as trustee or custodian for purchasers of notes from the Fund. Directs the Administrator, at the request of the borrower, to refinance with loans which may be insured under the Act, any loans made for rural electric and telephone facilities under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to use the Rural Housing Insurance Fund for the purpose of making loans for housing and buildings on farms in the amounts specified in appropriation Acts for such purpose. Provides that 10 percent of such funds shall be used to grant low interest rate loans to low and moderate income persons and families. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 1487(c))
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1973
Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that should United States gold be offered for public sale, the sale of such gold must be restricted to the domestic market and American citizens for a period of 30 days before being offered on the world market.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Wilderness Study Act - Provides for a study of various lands enumerated in this Act to determine their suitability for designation as wilderness in accordance with the Wilderness Act of 1964. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report the findings of such study to the President within five years after the date of the enactment of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Designates lands in the Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee, as the North Cohutta Wilderness Preserve.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Designates specified lands in the following national forests for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System including: (1) Bankhead National Forest, Alabama; (2) Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas; (3) Ozark National Forest, Arkansas; (4) Appalachicola National Forest, Florida; (5) Chattahooche and Cherokee National Forests, Georgia and Tennessee; (6) White Mountain National Forest, Maine; (7) Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri; (8) White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire; (9) Natahala and Cherokee National Forests, North Carolina and Tennessee; (10) Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia; (11) George Washington National Forest, Virginia and West Virginia; (12) Jefferson National Forest, Virginia; (13) Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky; (14) Sumter National Forest, South Carolina, (15) Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont; (16) Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin; (17) Clark National Forest, Missouri, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan; and (18) Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
National Priorities Act - Provides that, except to determine the location and take care of the graves of the American war dead so as to facilitate the exhumation and repatriation of the remains, no money shall be drawn from the Treasury of the United States for expenditure in the democratic Republic of Vietnam until all funds appropriated (a) for the creation and care of the graves of the American war dead, (b) for compensation to be granted to American prisoners of war, (c) for the care and retraining of veterans, and (d) for other purposes as may be determined by Congress shall have been either expended or made available for expenditure.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Provides an additional income tax exemption for a taxpayer supporting a dependent who is mentally retarded. Defines the term "mentally retarded" as used in this Act. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 151(f))
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that gross income does not include any amount received as a pension, annuity, or similar benefit to the extent that such pension, annuity, or benefit is based on service which was performed as a full-time policeman or other law enforcement officer, or as a full-time fireman, in the employ of a Federal, State or local government or governmental entity. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 123)
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Foreign Trade and Investment Act - Declares the purpose of the Act to insure that the production of goods which have historically been produced in the United States is continued and maintained, to encourage the return of production of goods that has been transferred abroad, and to encourage the development of new product production in the United States. Title I : - Provides that if a foreign corporation is a controlled foreign corporation for an uninterrupted period of 30 days or more during any taxable year, every United States shareholder of such corporation who owns stock in such corporation on the last day in such year on which such corporation is a controlled foreign corporation shall include in its gross income, for the taxable year on which the corporation ends, its pro rata share of the corporations' earnings and profits for such year. Defines the pro rata share of the stockholder and the earnings and incomes of such corporations. Provides that the earnings and profits of a foreign corporation attributable to amounts which are, or have been, included in the gross income of a United States shareholder shall not, when distributed to such shareholder or to a trust of which such shareholder is a beneficiary, be again included in the gross income of such United States shareholder or trust. Provides that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate, the basis of a United States shareholder's stock in a controlled foreign corporation shall be increased by the amount required to be included in its gross income with respect to such stock, but only to the extent to which such amount was included in the gross income of such United States shareholder. Authorizes the Secretary or his delegate to require by regulation that each person who is or has been a United States shareholder of a foreign corporation to maintain such records as may be prescribed. Repeals the foreign tax credit allowed corporations. Requires the Treasury Department, by December 31, 1974, to submit to Congress a report on the administration of the income tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code as it applies to business activities carried on outside the United States by United States corporations. Title II: United States Foreign Trade and Investment Commission - Provides that the United States Foreign Trade and Investment Commission shall be composed of three commissioners to be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Prescribes the qualifications for the Commissioners. Title III: Quantitative Restraints on Imports - Limits the total quantity of each category of goods produced in a foreign country which may be entered during the calendar year 1974 to the average annual quantity determined by the Commission to have entered during the calendar years 1965 to 1969. Limits the total quantity of such goods which may be entered during any calendar year after 1974 to the total determined as above plus the increase estimated by the Commission to be necessary to make the total quantity of imports in each category bear the same relationship to United States production of goods in such category as existed during the period 1965-1969. Authorizes the President to make bilateral or multilateral arrangements for regulating the quantity of articles produced in such foreign countries which may be imported into the United States. Title IV: Amendments to the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Acts - Provides that whenever a class or kind of foreign merchandise is being sold in the United States at less than its fair value and an industry in the United States is being hurt or prevented from being established by reason of the importation of such merchandise, there shall be levied in addition to other duties a special dumping duty in an amount equal to the difference between the purchase price or the exporter's sales price and the foreign market value. Authorizes an additional duty where any country pays a bounty for the production of any goods and those goods are then imported into the United States, the duty to be equal to the bounty. Title V: Amendments to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 - Adjustment Assistance - Provides for the presentation, consideration, and disposition of petitions for tariff adjustments. Title VI: Foreign Investment and Technology Export Controls - Authorizes the President to prohibit any person within the jurisdiction of the United States from engaging in any transaction involving a direct or indirect transfer of capital to or within any foreign country or to any national thereof when in the judgment of the President the transfer would result in the net decrease in employment in the United States. Imposes a fine of not more than $100,000 and imprisonment of not more than one year for each violation. Title VII: Other Foreign Trade Provisions - Requires the Export-Import Bank of Washington to submit to Congress semi-annually a complete report of its operations. Requires that all goods having foreign made components be clearly marked, indicating the origin of such foreign made components.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Prohibits United States rehabilitation and reconstruction aid to the Republic of Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or any other country in Indochina until: (1) all Americans held prisoner in Indochina are released and all Americans missing in action have been accounted for; (2) the $7,000,000,000 in nonmilitary funds appropriated by Congress for fiscal year 1973 and impounded by the President are expended or made available for expenditure; and (3) the parties to the conflict reach an agreement guaranteed by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China, stating that United State aid, either financial or material, will not be used in any way to violate the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Permits any returned prisoner of war of the Vietnam conflict to import free of duty additional personal and household effects during the one-year period after his return to the jurisdiction of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Permits attendance, without loss of pay or deduction from annual leave, of United States Postal Service employees who are veterans at funerals of honorably discharged members of the United States Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Prisoner of War Bonus Benefits Act - Entitles members of the armed forces who were in a missing status for any period during the Vietnam conflict to double credit for such period for retirement purposes. Specifies additional pay and allowances and medical benefits to which such persons are entitled. Provides for double retirement credit to Federal employees in such status during the conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and any sum appropriated to satisfy the annual need of the Federal Government shall not exceed a computed sum equal to the aggregate of the average of the total appropriations for the three consecutive fiscal years immediately preceding the current fiscal year plus the multiple product of the annual per centum rate of interest paid by the Federal Government, unless Congress shall first declare a national emergency in justification of any appropriation in addition thereto; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
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