United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Prohibits the Bureau of Labor Statistics from instituting any revision in the method of calculating the Consumer Price Index until such revision has been approved by resolution by either the Senate or the House of Representatives of the United States of America.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Provides, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, for the broadcasting of meetings, in addition to hearings, of House committees which are open to the public. (Amends House Rule XI, clause 33)
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
District of Columbia Campaign Finance Reform Act - Title I: Short Title, Definition - Defines the terms used in the Act. Title II: Financial Disclosures - Requires every political committee to have a chairman and treasurer, each of whom may authorize expenditures on behalf of political committees, in the District of Columbia. States that every person who receives a contribution of $10 or more for or on behalf of a political committee shall, on demand of the treasurer, and in any event within five days after receipt of such contribution, submit to the treasurer of such committee a detailed account thereof, including the amount, the name and address (including the occupation and the principal place of business, if any) of the person making such contribution, and the date on which such contribution was received. Requires the treasurer of a political committee, and each candidate, to keep a detailed and exact account of contributions and expenditures made to or by such committee or candidate. States that each candidate for office in the District of Columbia shall designate in writing one political committee as his principal campaign committee. Requires the treasurer of each such committee to file reports and statements of candidates designating such committee as his principal committee with the Division of Campaign Finance of the District of Columbia Board of Elections. Requires each political committee, and each candidate accepting contributions or making expenditures, to designate one national bank located in the District of Columbia as the campaign depository of that political committee or candidate. Permits the maintenance of a petty cash fund by political committees and candidates. Requires each political committee to file a statement of organization with the Division within ten days of organization, and specifies the items to be included in such statement of organization. Requires individual candidates to file a registration statement with the Division. Specifies the times at which political candidates and committees shall file reports with the Division, and the disclosures to be contained in such report. Requires contributors who contribute more than $50 within a year to a political committee or candidate to file with the Division a statement containing specified information. States that any candidate who anticipates spending or spends less than $250 in any one election, and who has not designated a principal campaign committee, shall be exempt from the provisions of this Act. Title III: Division of Campaign Finance - Establishes within the Board of Elections a Division of Campaign Finance, and specifies the composition and powers of the Division. Enumerates duties of the Division consonant with the purposes of and requirements established by this Act. Title IV: Finance Limitations - Enumerates maximum amounts which may be contributed and received in one year with respect to candidates running for specified offices in the District of Columbia. Enumerates maximum amounts which may be expended by any principal campaign committee for a candidate seeking a specified office. Title V: Penalties and Enforcement Tax Credits, Use of Surplus Campaign Funds, Voters' Information Pamphlets, Study of 1974 and Report by Council, Effective Dates, Amendments to District of Columbia Election Act, and Authorization - Provides that any person or political committee in the District of Columbia who violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be fined not more that $5,000, or imprisoned up to six months, or both. Provides for a tax credit of 50 percent of any contribution made to any candidate seeking any office referred to in this Act, provided, such credit shall not exceed $12.50. States that, not sooner than thirty-five days or later than twenty days prior to each election (except a runoff election), the Board shall mail to each registered qualified elector a voters' information pamphlet containing campaign statements and photographs of candidates in that election who submit such information, as provided in this Act. Provides for a study of the operation and necessity for modification of this Act and the District of Columbia Election Act during 1975 including hearings and investigations to consider, but not be limited to, specified items. Authorizes to be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia, such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
National Comprehensive Vision Care Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make annual grants to the States for the costs of establishing and operating programs under which students in public schools: (1) will receive free vision test; and (2) will be provided, without charge, appropriate necessary follow up services (including opthalmologic and optometric services and eyeglasses). Authorizes such grants to be used to train personnel to administer such tests. Directs the Secretary to establish a panel to advise him with respect to the standards to be prescribed by him under this Act for qualified vision tests. States that such panel shall be composed of four ophthalmologists and four optometrists who by virtue of their training and experience are especially qualified to advise the Secretary with respect to such standards. Requires the Secretary to make an annual report to the Congress respecting the grant program authorized under this Act and to include in such report his recommendations for such legislation as he deems appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust Funds, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Departments of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapters and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each trust fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administrating titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Provides that average monthly wage, quarters of coverage, and coverage credits derived from self-employment income for taxable years beginning before 1974 are to be determined on a basis of income credited to calendar quarters. Limits quarters coverage to quarters occuring before 1974 and makes additional modification to taxation of self-employed persons. Allocates, under the Social Security Act, coverage credits for earnings before 1974 based on quarters of coverage and after 1973 on the basis of earnings during the calendar year. Provides that a person will satisfy the requirements prerequisite to a determination of disability if he has 20 or more coverage credits which were credited to the period ending on the day the disability arose and consisting of that part of the current calendar year up until the day the disability began and the nine prior calendar years. Redefines a "fully insured individual" in terms of coverage credits rather than quarters of coverage. States that any person upon attaining the age of 62 with the proper number of coverage credits is fully insured. Provides that specified benefits be paid to individuals not citizens of the United States who amassed sufficient coverage credits. Title II: Amendments Preserving Relationship Between Railroad Retirement and Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, that in the calucalation of an employee's "average monthly remumeration" after calendar year 1974 an individual employee shall obtain the benefit of full allowable coverage credits, irrespective of whether particular quarters of coverage were otherwise available for calculation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Increases to $7,500 the amount of outside earnings which (subject to further increases under the automatic adjustment provisions) is permitted each year without any deductions from benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Food Program Technical Amendment - Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall use specified funds, including stocks of the Commodity Credit Corporation, to purchase agricultural commodities and products to maintain the traditional level of assistance for food assistance programs, including school lunch, institutions, supplemental feeding, and domestic relief distribution. Authorizes the Secretary to administer a food stamp program at the request of any tribal government of native Americans to provide eligible households with an opportunity to participate in the food stamp program. Authorizes the Secretary to pay a tribal government 100 percent of the costs for administration of food stamp programs on Indian reservations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Congressional Advisory Legislative Line - Establishes an office within the Congress with a toll-free telephone number, to be known as the Congressional Advisory Legislative Line (CALL), to provide the American people with free and open access to information, on an immediate basis, relating to the status of legislative proposals pending before the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
District of Columbia Urban Development Corporation Act - Title I: General Provisions - Declares that there exists in the District of Columbia substantial and persistent unemployment with the lack of sufficient educational housing facilities and private funding sources which make it necessary for Congress to institute the following policies: (1) promote the health, safety, and welfare of its inhabitants by the creation of a corporate public body to be known as the District of Columbia Urban Development Corporation; (2) the purpose of such Corporation shall be the improvement and rehabilitation of substandard areas within the District; (3) pursuant to this Act the District and Federal Governments shall cooperate to fulfill the goals of this Act; (4) the Corporation shall encourage local initiative and employment; and (5) the Corporation shall encourage a high standard of human living. Defines specific terms used in accordance with this Act. Title II: Organization of the Corporation - Establishes the District of Columbia Urban Development Corporation as an instrumentality apart from the United States Government or the District Government whose affairs shall be managed by a board of directors. Specifies that there shall be 15 directors. Directs that there shall be no salary paid to such directors with the exception of the president of the board of directors but that each shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary expenses provided that the aggregate of any per diem allowance shall not exceed the sum of $1,000 in any one year. Directs the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to remove any director appointed by him for neglect of duty or misconduct in office, after such director has had the opportunity to be heard as to the charges against him. Specifies that no officer or director or employee of the corporation shall be subject to personal liability while acting within the scope of his authority within the corporation. Requires that any director shall disqualify himself from participating in decisions in which he has a direct or indirect financial interest. Title III: Powers of the Corporation - Enumerates those powers granted to the corporation. Provides that under such powers the corporation, according to limits and specifications indicated in this Act, may undertake any of the following projects: (1) presidential projects; (2) redevelopment projects; (3) industrial projects; and (4) new community projects. Provides that in planning such projects the corporation is to consult with residents of the proposed project area and to the extent possible take account of the views of the residents of the proposed project area. Requires that no project be undertaken unless approved by an absolute majority of the board of directors. Directs the corporation within specified time periods to post a notice within the proposed project area informing persons to be affected of their opportunity to participate in the planning process. Provides that the corporation shall make available to the public the general project plan by filing such plans with the corporate officers, posting notices, and making announcements of the filing over at least one radio and television station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission for the District of Columbia. Specifies the time and place at which a public hearing shall be held on such project giving any person the opportunity to appear in person or to submit written comments. Requires that no project shall commence until the corporation has provided to all persons who appeared at the hearing copies of the corporation findings based on the hearings. Directs the corporation to comply with all local rules and requlations concerning real property and zoning unless a majority of the board finds that such compliance will obstruct a project and petition is made to the District of Columbia Council for an exemption to such regulations. Permits the corporation to sell or lease any project without public bidding and to give notice in the District of Columbia Register and one paper of general circulation in the District stating whom the transferee is and the proposed use except in such cases where sale or lease was made to a governmental agency or a nonprofit development corporation. Specifies that the corporation may exercise its powers through subsidiary branches and eminent domain. Provides that the corporation shall have the power to be appointed receiver of property upon petition and appointment by the Superior Court of the District. Indicates that the corporation shall have all the powers and duties of a receiver to remedy an existing substandard housing situation. Prohibits construction, improvement, or commencement of a project unless adequate provision is made for the relocation in decent and safe housing for all persons who will be displaced by the implementation of a proposed project. Directs that the corporation shall make dislocation payments to individuals displaced by the corporation in an amount equal to those payments provided to displaced persons under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Specifies those rules, regulations, and procedures under which contracts are to be awarded by the corporation. Title IV: Finances of the Corporation - Authorizes the corporation to meet such expenses as it may incur through any and all sources of money appropriated to it through Congress. Authorizes the corporation to issue negotiable bonds in an aggregate amount not to exceed $75,000,000 according to specified terms of sale, dates of maturity and rates of interest. Specifies those provisions which shall be a part of the contract between the holder of the bond and the corporation. Permits the corporation to enter into any deed of trust, indenture, or other agreement with any bank, individual or the United States which also has the power to enter into such agreement for the purpose of establishing security for such bonds. Specifies those provisions which may be included in such deed of trust or agreement. Specifies the provisions and procedures for refunding bonds. Authorizes the corporation to include a pledge of the United States Government and the District Government stating that neither will limit those rights vested in the corporation to fulfill the terms of agreements made with bondholders or impair the rights and remedies of the bondholder. Directs the manner in which moneys are to be paid to the corporation under this Act. Authorizes the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to examine the books and accounts of the corporation from time to time. Subjects the corporation to the payment of local and Federal taxes assessed against it. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the corporation to file an annual report with the District government, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and its principal office containing specified information including its operations, accomplishments, and a statement of its objectives. Provides that the corporation shall maintain and allow public access to its records and shall provide facilities for reproducing its records at reasonable costs. Subjects the corporation to liability for tortious acts committed by any of its agents acting within the scope of their authority. Authorizes an appropriation of $2,000,000 to enable the corporation to commence its operations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1974
States the finding of the Congress that: (1) an individual's personal privacy is directly affected by the kind of disclosure and use made of identifiable information about him in a record; (2) a record containing information about an individual in identifiable form must be governed by procedures that afford the individual a right to participate in deciding what the content of the record will be, and what disclosure and use will be made of the identifiable information in it; and (3) any recording, disclosure, and use of identifiable information by an agency not governed by such procedures must be prescribed as an unfair information practice unless such recording, disclosure, or use is specifically authorized by Federal statute. Declares the purpose of this Act to be to insure safeguards for personal privacy from Federal agencies. Requires each Federal agency that maintains records to: (1) refrain from disclosing the record or any information contained therein to any other Federal, State, or local agency or to any person not employed by the agency maintaining such record, except: (A) with consent or constructive consent of the individual concerned or, in the event such individual cannot be located or communicated with after reasonable effort, with permission from members of the individual's immediate family, guardian, or, only in the event that such individual, members of the individual's immediate family, and guardian cannot be located or communicated with after reasonable effort, upon good cause for such disclosure, or (B) that if disclosure of such record is required under this section of this chapter or by any other provision of law, including by means of compulsory legal process, the individual concerned shall be notified by mail at his last known address of any such required disclosure, and shall be afforded full access to the records at least ten days before they are made available in response to the demand; (2) refrain from disclosing the records to any individuals within that agency other than those individuals who need to examine such records in the performance of their duties; (3) maintain an accurate register which shall become part of the individual's record, of the names and job classifications of all persons to whom such records are disclosed and the purposes for which such disclosure was made; (4) permit any data subject to inspect his own record upon proper identification at a convenient local office or by mail, or by telephone, and have copies thereof made at his expense, which in no event shall be greater than the cost of reproduction; (5) permit any data subject to supplement the information contained in his record by the addition of any document or writing or photograph containing information such individual deems pertinent to his record, and notify all agencies and persons to whom the records were previously disclosed of the supplemental information; (6) remove from records and promptly destroy all erroneous or irrelevant information and notify all agencies or persons to whom such information has been previously transferred of its removal, and in case of dispute as to what constitutes erroneous or irrelevant information, the issue shall be determined by the Federal Privacy Board; (7) upon written request of any data subject, give notice to such individual, in the event that his record has been augmented, of the contents of the augmentation, the source of the augmentation, and the purpose for which the augmentation is being effected; (8) inform an individual asked to supply personal data for any agency record keeping system whether he is legally required, or may refuse, to supply the data requested, and also of any specific consequences for him, which are known to the agency, of providing or not providing such data; and (9) assure that no use of individually identifiable data is made that is not within the stated purposes of the system as reasonably understood by the individual, unless, in the case of each use of such date, the informed consent of the individual has been explicitly obtained. Makes exceptions to provisions of this Act for records authorized under criteria established by an Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy and the disclosure of which would: (1) endanger the active military plans or deployment of United States forces, (2) reveal details about current military technology or weaponry, or (3) endanger the life of any person engaged in foreign intelligence gathering operations of the United States Government. Requires the President to report to Congress before January 30 of each year on an agency-by-agency basis the number of records which were exempted from the application of this Act. Provides that any person who under the color of agency authority willingly or knowingly permits or causes to occur an unfair information practice shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year or suspended from employment without pay for not more than one year, or any combination thereof. Provides that any individual who has reason to believe that his records have been, are being, or are about to be disclosed in violation of this Act may bring an action in the appropriate district court of the United States to enjoin such disclosure, and upon a proper showing a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent injunction shall be granted without bond. Establishes the Federal Privacy Board. Requires such Board to periodically publish and distribute through local post offices a Citizen's Privacy Index which shall include: (1) the name and location of every agency data keeping system; (2) the title, name, and address of the person immediately responsible for the system; (3) the nature and purpose of the system; (4) the categories and number of persons on whom data are maintained; (5) the categories of data maintained, indicating which categories are stored in computer-accessible files; (6) each agency's policies and practices regarding data storage, duration of retention of data, and disposal thereof; (7) the categories of data sources; (8) a description of all types of use made of data, including all classes of users and the agency relationships among them; and (9) the procedures whereby an individual can (A) be informed if he is the subject of data in the systems; (B) gain access to such data; and (C) contest their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, pertinence, and the necessity for retaining such data.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
States that the House of Representatives salutes Henry Aaron as an "All-American Good Guy" and extends to him the congratulations, esteem, and affection of the House.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
District of Columbia Defender Services Act - Establishes a District of Columbia Defender Service to be governed by a Board of Trustees which shall provide or cause to be provided legal representation before the courts of the District of Columbia for persons financially unable to retain counsel. Provides that, after consultation with the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration in the District of Columbia and the bar of the District of Columbia, the Board shall establish and place in operation in the District of Columbia a plan for furnishing representation for any person who is financially unable to obtain adequate representation and: (1) who is charged with a felony, misdemeanor, or petty offense for which a jury trial may be required by the laws of the District of Columbia or the Constitution; (2) who is under arrest, when such representation is required by law; (3) who is subject to proceedings pursuant to the District of Columbia Code (hospitalization of the mentally ill); (4) who is a juvenile and alleged to be delinquent or in need of supervision; or (5) who is charged with violating a condition of probation or parole, in custody as a material witness, or seeking collateral relief. Stipulates that counsel furnishing representation under the plan shall in every case be selected from panels of attorneys designated and approved by the Service in accordance with procedures established by the Board. Provides that a person for whom counsel is appointed shall be represented at every stage of the proceedings from his initial appearance before the court through appeals, including ancillary matters appropriate to the proceedings. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year, out of any moneys in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia, such sums as may be necessary to implement the purposes of this Act. Directs the Director to employ a staff of attorneys and clerical and other personnel necessary to provide adequate and effective defense services. States that no attorney employed by the Service shall engage in private practice.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Title I: Amendments to District of Columbia Police and Fireman's Salary Act - District of Columbia Police and Fireman's Salary Act Amendments - Revises the salary schedule contained in the District of Columbia Police and Fireman's Salary Act of 1958. Title II: Police and Fire Disability Retirement Amendments - Provides, under the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act, that a policeman or fireman shall be retired for disability only upon recommendation of the Board of Police and Fire Surgeons, except that in any case in which he seeks his own retirement for disability, he shall provide the necessary evidence to form the basis for the approval of such retirement.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
District of Columbia Criminal Justice Act - Directs the Joint Committee on Judicial Administration to place in operation in the District of Columbia a plan for furnishing representation to a person in the District of Columbia a plan for furnishing representation to a person who is finacially unable to obtain adequate representation, including those for whom the sixth amendment to the Constitution requires the appointment of counsel or for whom, in a case in which he faces loss of liberty, any local law requires the appointment of counsel. Provides that a person for whom counsel is appointed shall be represented at every stage of the proceedings from his initial appearance before the court through appeals. Sets forth methods for determining payment rates for attorneys appointed pursuant to this Act. Provides that counsel for a person who is financially unable to obtain investigative, expert, or other services necessary for an adequate defense may request them in an ex parte application. Directs the Joint Committee to annually prepare and submit to the Commissioner of the District of Columbia its estimate of the amount needed for furnishing representation by private attorneys to persons entitled to representation in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the appropriation to the District of Columbia of such funds as may be necessary for the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Provides for the recovery from tortiously liable third persons of the cost of medical and hospital care and treatment, funeral expenses, and salary payments furnished or paid by the District of Columbia to members of the Metropolitan Police Force and the District of Columbia Fire Department. Provides that the District of Columbia shall have a lien, to the amount of the reasonable value of the care and treatment, funeral expenses, and wage payments, upon any recovery or sum received or collected or to be collected by an injured or deceased policeman or fireman, his guardian, personal representative, estate, dependents, or survivors, in a claim or action asserted or maintained by such policeman or fireman or his personal representative against a liable third person for damages.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Interstate Compact - Title I: District of Columbia Authorized to Adhere to Interstate Parole and Probation Compact - Defines the terms used in this Act. Gives the consent of Congress to States, including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the District of Columbia to enter into compacts for cooperative effort and mutual assistance in the prevention of crime and in the enforcement of their respective criminal laws and policies. Sets forth the terms and conditions of the compact. Title II: Increase Authority of Parole Board - Permits the time a prisoner was on parole to be taken into account, in the discretion of the Parole Board, to diminish the time for which the prisoner was sentenced.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
District of Columbia Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Act - Title I: Prohibit the Unauthorized Use and Possession of Credit Cards in the District of Columbia - District of Columbia Credit Card Crime Act - Makes it a crime to illegally possess the credit card of another. Provides that such possession shall be punished by a fine of up to $500 and/or up to one year in prison. States that when such possession is with the intent to defraud, the punishment shall be a fine of up to $5,000 and/or imprisonment of not more than five years. Sets out penalties for the fraudulent use of revoked or expired credit cards and the fraudulent transfer of credit cards. Makes fraud by persons authorized to provide goods or services upon presentation of a credit card a criminal offense. Sets out the penalties for such fraud. Makes it illegal to possess machinery and other devices or counterfeit or incomplete credit cards. Title II: Licensing Second-Hand Dealers - Provides for the licensing of second hand dealers in the District of Columbia. Title III: Prohibit Possession of Flash Paper or Water Soluble Paper - Makes it illegal, in the District of Columbia, to possess "flash paper" or "water soluble paper". Defines those terms for the purposes of this Act. Title IV: Authority to Seize Motor Vehicles Used in Narcotics Violations - Authorizes the various District of Columbia law enforcement agencies to seize motor vehicles, aircraft, or vessels used or intended for use in narcotics violations. Makes limitations upon such seizures with regard to leinholders. Title V: Improvement of Trial Board Procedures - Authorizes the District of Columbia Council to make and modify, under such penalties as it may deem necessary, all needful rules and regulations for the proper government, conduct, discipline, and good name of the Metropolitan Police force. Authorizes the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to fine, suspend with or without pay, and dismiss any officer or member of said police force for any offense against the laws of the United States or the laws and ordinances or regulations of the District of Columbia, whether before or after conviction thereof in any court or courts, and for misconduct in office, or for any breaches or violations of the rules and regulations made by said Council for the government, conduct, discipline, and good name of said police force. Title VI: Prohibit Possession of a Knife With Unlawful Intent - Makes the possession of a knife with unlawful intent illegal without regard to length. Title VII: Technical Amendment - Makes technical amendments to the D.C. code. Title VIII: Dangerous or Deadly Weapons - Revises the definitions used in the Firearms control section of the D.C. code. Title IX: Burgulary - Revises the definition of what, in the District of Columbia, constitutes a burgulary. Title X: Removal of Vehicle Which Has Been Immobilized - Provides criminal penalties for the removal or towing of a vehicle which has been immobilized pursuant to the District of Columbia Traffic Act. Title XI: Increased Penalty For Traffic Violations - Authorizes the District Commissioners to prescribe reasonable penalties of a fine, or imprisonment not to exceed 90 days in lieu of or in addition to any fine, for the violation of any rule or regulation promulgated under the authority of the District of Columbia Traffic Act. Title XII: Service or Execution of Process on Sunday - States that no writ, process, order, judgment, or decree in any civil action shall be served or executed, or caused to be served or executed, on Sunday. Title XIII: Obtaining Communication Services By Unlawful Means - Makes it unlawful for any person to obtain or attempt to obtain, by the use of any scheme, device, means or method, telephone or telegraph service or the transmission of a message, signal or other communication by telephone or telegraph or over telephone or telegraph facilities with intent to avoid payment of lawful charges therefor. Sets out criminal penalties for such violation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
National Employment Priorities Act - Declares that it is the prupose of this Act: (1) to require prenotification to employees and communities of dislocation of business concerns; (2) to prevent Federal support for unjustified dislocation; and (3) to provide assistance to employees, and affected communities threatened with dislocation. Defines the terms used in this Act. Establishes in the Department of Labor a National Employment Relocation Administration, to be headed by an Administrator and Deputy Administrator appointed by the President, by and with the advise and consent of the Senate. Provides that, in order to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary is authorized to perform enumerated functions and duties, including: (1) conduct investigations on any proposed closing or transfer of operations of a business concern; (2) provide adjustment assistance to employees becuase of a closing or transfer of operations of an establishment of a business concern; and (3) conduct research into the problems of business closings, transfers of operations, and unemployment. Establishes a National Employment Relocation Advisory Council. Specifies the composition and compensation rates of members of such Council to perform enumerated functions, including to advise the Secretary and Administrator with respect to the activities of the National Employment Relocation Administration and to evaluate the effectiveness of programs carried out under this Act. Requires written notice be given to the Secretary whenever (1) a business concern intends to close or transfer all or part of the operations of an establishment of that business concern; and (2) at least 15 percent of the employees who are members of any labor organization or 15 percent of all employees in that establishment will suffer an eligible employment loss as a result of any such closing or transfer. Specifies the items to be included in such notice. Authorizes the Secretary to investigate a proposed closing or transfer of operations under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary to establsih a program of adjustment assistance for employees suffering an eligible employment loss. Provides that such adjustment assistance shall include: (1) income maintenance payment; (2) Maintenance of pension and health benefits; (3) job placement and retraining benefits; (4) relocation allowances; (5) early retirement benefits; (6) emergency mortgage and rent payments; and (7) food stamps and surplus commodities. Directs the Secretary to make every effort to place each employees for substantially equivalent full employment in accordance with their capacity and prospective employeent opportunities. Provides that a unit of local government is eligible for assistance under this Act upon determination by the Secretary that the closing or transfer of operations of business establishments has contributed substantially to an unemployment rate within such jurisdiction exceeding 8 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis. Enumerates the types of assistance available under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a retraining program for employees who will be required to acquire new or additional skills as a result of the economic adjustemnt assistance proposal. Provides that whenever the Secretary determines, after an investigation conducted under this Act that: (1) the closing or transfer of operations of an establishment or a business concern was not justified; or (2) if the transfer or closing could have been avoided if the business concern had accepted assistance under this Act; or (3) the eligible employment loss could have been avoided except for the failure to file a notice of intent to close or transfer, or because of some other unreasonable delay, bad faith or misrepresentation on the part of the business concern; or (4) the transfer of operations is to a new location outside the United States while other alternatives to such transfer of operations exist, then such business concern shall be ineligible for specified benefits under the Internal Revenue Code, for a period not to exceed 10 years. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Home Health Services Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies which will provide home health services in areas in which such services are not otherwise available. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants: (1) to meet the initial and expanding costs of such agencies; and (2) for programs for the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel to provide home health services. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
National Summer Youth Sports Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to make grants or enter into contracts for the conduct of an annual National Summer Youth Sports Program concentrated in the summer months, with opportunity for continued activities throughout the year, designed to offer disadvantaged youth living in areas of concentrated poverty an opportunity to receive educational instruction, sports instruction, and health and nutritional services, and to participate in educational programs and sports competitions. Provides that programs under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary, through grants or contracts with the National Collegiate Athletic Association or any other qualified national organization of colleges and universities. Provides that each such grant or contract shall contain provisions to assure that the program to be assisted will: (1) expand educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths, designed to provide an opportunity to engage in competitive sports and benefit from sports skills instruction; (2) help young people learn good health practices and become better citizens by utilizing the personnel and facilities of higher education; (3) enable the contractor and institutions of higher education located conveniently to areas of concentrated poverty and their personnel to participate more fully in community life and in the solution of community problems; (4) provide a combination of employment and on-the-job training in sports instruction and administration; and (5) serve major metropolitan centers of the United States as well as other areas, within the limits of program resources. Requires local projects under any such program to be conducted under approved contracts between the principal contractor or grantee and selected institutions of higher education qualified to carry out a program under this Act. Provides that, except where the Secretary determines that unusual circumstances make a larger percentage necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, a contract under this Act with respect to any program may not provide for payment of more than 80 percent of the direct costs incurred in carrying out the total program. Provides that the non-Federal share may be cash or in-kind contributions. Permits such payments to be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $7,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter prior to July 1, 1979, to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Abandonment Disaster Demonstration Relief Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a Neighborhood Protection Corporation which will have the authority, on a demonstration basis, to enter and take possession of abandoned residential properties in order to prevent the continued deterioration and destruction of neighborhoods and communities and to hold and assemble parcels of land for the orderly development and redevelopment of neighborhoods and communities. Establishes a corporation to be known as the Neighborhood Corporation, which shall be an independent agency of the United States. Prohibits the Corporation or any of its functions, powers, or duties from being transferred to or consolidated with any other department, agency, or establishment of the Federal Government. Requires the demonstration program to be conducted in three metropolitan housing areas. States that in the case of abandoned residential property subject to a mortgage which is insured or guaranteed by an agency of the United States, the Corporation may file in the United States district court wherein the property is located an action for forfeiture of such property to the United States, and an application for an order to seize and take possession of such property as the receiver of the court. Provides that not later than thirty days after the issuance of an order the court shall hold a hearing on the merits to determine whether forfeiture should be ordered. Directs the Corporation to acquire in exchange for obligations issued by it residential properties to which title is held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs at the fair market value of the property as of the date the title is passed to the corporation. Allows the Corporation to acquire real or residential properties by condemnation for the purpose of redeveloping a community or neighborhood. Permits the Corporation to construct, erect, remodel, repair, and rehabilitate structures on residential property, and or rent, lease, insure, maintain, exchange, convey, sell for cash or credit, or otherwise dispose of real or residential property, improvement or interest therein. States that the Corporation may acquire, in exchange for obligations issued by it, real properties, residential properties, mortgages on residential properties, and other obligations and liens secured by residential properties. Directs the Corporation to provide directly or by contract counseling on household management, property management, budgeting, and related counseling services which would assist low- and moderate-income families who purchase homes from the Corporation. Provides that the Corporation, when it sells property improved by dwellings for occupancy by fewer than five families to a purchaser, may originate and service the mortgage covering such property. Requires the Board of Directors of the Corporation to determine the minimum amount of capital stock in the Corporation and authorizes the Board to increase such capital stock from time to time in such amount as may be necessary, but not to exceed in the aggregate $35,000,000. Directs that, in its fourth annual report, the Corporation shall include its recommendations with respect to whether the demonstration authorized under this Act should be continued, expanded, or terminated.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1974
District of Columbia Election Campaign Act - Title I: Short Title, Purposes, Definitions - States the purpose of this Act relating to campaign contributions and expenditures in the District of Columbia. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Financial Disclosure - Provides that each candidate shall designate one or more Federal or State banks as his campaign depositories. Provides that the central campaign committee of that candidate, and any other political committee authorized by him to receive contributions or to make expenditures on his behalf, shall maintain a checking account at a depository so designated by the candidate and shall deposit any contributions received by the committee into that account. Provides that no expenditures may be made by any such committee on behalf of a candidate or to influence his election except by check drawn on that account, other than petty cash expenditures. Provides that each candidate shall within ten days after the date on which he has qualified under District of Columbia law as a candidate, or on which he, or any person authorized by him to do so, has received a contribution or made an expenditure in connection with his campaign or for the purposes of preparing to undertake his campaign, file with the District of Columbia Board of Elections a registration statement in such form as the Board may prescribe. Title III: Board of Elections, Additional Powers - Authorizes the Board to appear in and defend against any action filed under this Act. Authorizes the Board to appear in the Courts of the District of Columbia to seek recovery of any amounts determined to be payable as a result of examination and audit made pursuant to this Act or other examination and investigations made by the Board. Title IV: Finance Limitations - Provides that no person may make contributions to, or for the benefit of, a candidate for that candidate's campaign for nomination for election, or election, which in the aggregate, exceeds $1000. Provides that no candidate may knowingly accept a contribution for his campaign from any person which exceeds, in the aggregate, $1000. Sets forth penalties for violation of this title. Prohibits any corporation or labor organization from making any contribution or expenditure for any election in the District of Columbia. Provides that no person may make any expenditure advocating the election or defeat of a clearly indentified candidate during a calendar year which in the aggregate exceeds $1000. Provides that no candidate may make expenditures from his personal funds, or the personal funds of his immediate family, in connection with his campaigns for nominations for election, and for election, which exceed, in the aggregate, $25,000. Title V: Tax Credit - Revises the District of Columbia Income and Franchise Tax Act by allowing a tax credit for contributions to candidates for election. Title VI: Embezzlement - Prohibits the embezzlement of campaigns funds. Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay or defray the costs of attorney fees for the defense of any persons charged with the commission of a crime. Sets forth penalties for the violation of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1974
Requires licensed undertakers in the District of Columbia to furnish financial statements when funeral arrangements are made and prior to payment therefor. Provides that any person found in violation of this Act shall be fined not more than $300, and in addition may have his undertaker's license suspended or revoked.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Energy Emergency Employment Act - Expresses the findings of Congress that it is the purpose of this Act to detect unemployment and underemployment as a result of the "energy crisis", to provide workers with assistance, to return workers to employment, and to provide areas with particularly heavy energy related joblessness special employment assistance. Title I: Energy Emergency Employment Board - Establishes within the Department of Labor an Energy Emergency Employment Board, consisting of five private members appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and two "ex officio" members: the Director of the Federal Energy Office and the Secretary of Labor, who will also serve as Chairman. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to: (1) oversee the implementation of the energy emergency employment programs authorized in this Act; (2) recommend programs that will return persons unemployed or underemployed, as a result of the energy emergency, to productive full-time employment as rapidly as possible; (3) develop an early energy unemployment warning system; and (4) undertake manpower planning projects to estimate long and short term energy emergency related employment trends. Requires the Board to make reports to the Congress and the President. Title II: Energy Emergency Employment Opportunity Program - Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into arrangements with public service employers in order to make financial assistance available for the purpose of providing employment opportunities, particularly for persons who are unemployed or underemployed as a result of the energy emergency, in jobs providing needed public services. Sets forth the procedures and requirements to be met by applications for financial assistance for the purpose of carrying out a public service employment program under this Act. Provides that the amounts appropriated pursuant to this Act for any fiscal year shall be allocated by the Secretary in such a manner as prescribed by the Board. Provides that 80 percent of such amount shall be apportioned among the States in that proportion which the total number of persons underemployed or unemployed in each such State bears to such total number of such persons, respectively, in the United States, and the remainder shall be available to carry out a special Energy Emergency Area Employment Assistance Program. States that the Secretary shall not provide financial assistance for any program or activity under this Act unless he determines that specified criteria are met, including that the program: (1) will result in an increase in employment opportunities over those which would otherwise be available; (2) will not result in the displacement of currently employed workers; (3) will not impair existing contracts for services or result in the substitution of Federal or other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed; and (4) will not substitute public service jobs for existing federally assisted jobs. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to develop and carry out a program of incentives to private industry to hire, and train if necessary, persons unemployed or underemployed as a result of the energy emergency. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out this title. Title III: Energy Emergency Employment Assistance - Provides that any person unemployed or underemployed as a result of the energy emergency may file an application with the Secretary for economic adjustment assistance provided under this title. States that economic adjustment assistance under this title consists of: (1) readjustment allowances; (2) training and counseling benefits; (3) relocation allowances; and (4) health benefits. Prescribes the requirements to be met by an adversely affected worker before readjustment allowances will be paid. Provides that payment or readjustment allowances shall not be made for more than twenty-six weeks, unless upon application to the Secretary for extension, that proof of a good faith effort to attain employment has been made, in which case one additional 26 week extension shall be allowed. Sets forth the qualifying requirements for relocation allowances and health benefits. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title IV: Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act, including "adversely affected worker" and "unemployed" or "underemployed person."
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that accurate and complete data on imports of oil and oil products into the United States, oil and oil products inventories in the United States or under the control of companies owned by United States citizens, and distribution of oil and oil products within and from out of the United States are essential to the national security of the United States, the safety of its citizens, and the proper conduct of its domestic and international commerce. Authorizes the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the importing, inventorying, and disposition of crude oil, residual fuel oil, and refined petroleum products.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1974
Provides that, effective January 1, 1974, the further expenses of the studies and investigations to be conducted pursuant to H. Res. 162, 93d Congress, by the Committee on the District of Columbia, acting as a whole or by subcommittee, not to exceed $275,000 including expenditures for the employment of investigators, attorneys, consultants, and experts, and clerical, stenographic, and other assistants, and all expenses necessary for travel and subsistence incurred by Members and employees while engaged in the activities of the committee or any subcommittee thereof, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on vouchers authorized and signed by the chairman of such committee and approved by the Committee on House Administration. States that not to exceed $50,000 of the amount provided by this resolution may be used to procure the temporary or intermittent services of individual consultants or organizations thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1974
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for reductions in Social Security taxes relating to the rate of tax on self-employment income for purposes of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance. States that such reductions shall apply in the case of taxes imposed with respect to self-employment income for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1974, and with respect to wages paid or received during calendar years after 1974. Provides for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II of the Social Security Act. Increases the earnings counted for benefit and tax purposes under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Provides, under title XVI of the Social Security Act (Grants to States for Aid to the Aged, Blind, or Disabled, or for such Aid and Medical Assistance for the Aged), for emergency Federal assistance grants to aged, blind, or disabled individuals whose supplemental security income checks (or the proceeds thereof) are lost, stolen, or undelivered.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Public Service Employment Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to provide unemployed and underemployed persons with employment in jobs providing needed public services and appropriate training and related services. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out this Act such sums as Congress determines necessary for each fiscal year ending prior to fiscal year 1978. Provides that the Secretary of Labor shall enter into arrangements with applicants for the purpose of providing financial assistance to public and private nonprofit agencies and institutions for the creation of jobs providing employment for unemployed or underemployed persons in carrying out needed public services. Provides that such eligible applicants shall be: (1) States, counties, cities, and other units or combinations of units of general local government which have established public service employment councils; and (2) other public and private agencies and institutions when government units of services are inadequate or nonexistent. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with eligible applicants, using 25 percent of the funds authorized under this Act, for the purpose of providing employment, for unemployed and underemployed persons residing in areas of substantial unemployment, in jobs providing needed public services, which shall be carried out to the maximum practicable extent within such areas. Provides for the establishment of a public service employment council. Provides that the Secretary shall not provide financial assistance for any program or activity under this Act unless he determines that: (1) the program will result in an increase in employment opportunities over those which would otherwise be available, will not result in the displacement of currently employed workers, will not impair existing contracts for services or result in the substitution of Federal for other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed, and will not substitute public service jobs for other federally assisted jobs; (2) persons employed in public service jobs assisted under this Act shall be paid wages which shall not be lower than whichever is the highest minimum wage which would be applicable to the employee under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, the State or local minimum wage for the most nearly comparable covered employment, or the prevailing rates of pay for persons employed in similar public occupations by the same employer; (3) funds under this Act will not be used to pay persons employed in public service jobs under this Act at a rate in excess of $12,000 per year; (4) all persons employed in public service jobs assisted under this Act will be assured of workmen's compensation, health insurance, unemployment insurance, and other benefits at the same levels and to the same extent as other employees of the employer and to the same working conditions and promotional opportunities as such other employees enjoy; (5) provisions of law relating to health and safety conditions shall apply to such program or activity; (6) the program will, to the maximum extent feasible, contribute to the occupational development or upward mobility of individual participants; (7) not to exceed 10 percent of the funds available for any program under this Act will be used for the acquisition or the rental or leasing of supplies, equipment, materials, or real property; and (8) every participant shall be advised prior to entering upon employment, of his rights and benefits in connection with such employment. Provides that the Secretary shall transmit at least annually a detailed report setting forth the activities conducted under this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall carry out a program of research and pilot projects into alternate ways and means to research full employment.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1974
Provides for television and radio coverage of proceedings in the Chamber of the House of Representatives on any resolution to impeach the President of the United States. Authorizes the Speaker to appoint a committee of five members to provide such arrangements as may be necessary in connection with such a broadcast.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1974
District of Columbia Law Revision Commission Act - Establishes in the District of Columbia a District of Columbia Law Revision Commission. Prescribes the method of appointing members and requires members to be District of Columbia residents. Sets forth the compensation for such members. Directs the Commission to examine and propose revisions to the common law and statutes of the District of Columbia, giving priority to the criminal law. Directs the Commission to prepare and recommend uniform rules of practice for judicial and administrative proceedings. Terminates the Commission in four years. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Authorizes the diversion and withdrawal of additional water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway. Requires the Chief of Enginers, Department of the Army, to at all times have direct control and supervision of the amounts of water directly diverted from Lake Michigan under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Provides that the owner, lessee, and manager of any theatre, circus, athletic grounds used for athletic games, or place of public entertainment or amusement to have printed on all tickets issued for admission thereto the price of such ticket, and the number on the seat, when such seats are numbered. Sets forth penalties for the selling of any such admission ticket at a price in excess of $1.00 more than the advertised or printed rate thereon. Sets forth penalties for the forging of any such admission ticket.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Provides that a person shall be entitled to vote in an election in the District of Columbia only if he is a qualified elector and is duly registered in the District on the date of such election. Provides that a qualified elector shall be considered duly registered in the District if he registers under this Act after July 1, 1968, and if after the date he registers no four-year period elapses during which he fails to vote in an election held under this Act. Sets forth the procedures and requirements for voter registration. Sets forth procedures for distribution and use of voter registration forms. Sets forth penalties for fraudulent voter registration and for voting more than once in the same election. Sets forth the procedure for appeal for persons not permitted to register under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1974
Specifies that the provisions of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stocks Piling Act regarding the acquisition and development of strategic raw materials shall not apply to regulations or prohibitions pertaining to economic relations and/or communications with foreign nations or foreign nationals which are established under the authority of the United Nations Participation Act in response to sanctions imposed by the United Nations. (Amends 22 U.S.C. 287 c(a))
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Provides for the establishment of advisory neighborhood councils, under the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, if a majority of the registered qualified voters of the District voting on this issue in this referendum vote for the establishment of such councils.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Requires the Secretary of Defense to take such action as is necessary to insure that any member of the Armed Forces who is discharged shall receive a discharge certificate which shall indicate that such member was so discharged and which shall not bear any indication of the conditions under which such separation occured. States that the reason why such member was so separated (other than by reason of discharged dismissal pursuant to a sentence of a general or special court-martial) and all other records or documents pertaining to such reason or reasons shall be treated as confidential and shall not be made known to or otherwise released to any private person or any public agency (whether Federal, State, or local) without the prior written consent of the member concerned. Sets forth the conditions under which an enlisted member of the Armed Forces may be discharged under other than honorable conditions. Establishes procedures for military review panels in considering the dishonorable discharge of enlisted personnel. Requires military review panels to conduct hearings which afford the enlisted member concerned an opportunity to: (1) appear before the panel and present evidence in his own behalf; (2) be represented by counsel; (3) confront the witnesses against him; and (4) examine documentary and real evidence against him. States that the recommendation of a review panel appointed under the provisions of this Act for separation under other than honorable conditions may be appealed to an appeal board established by the Judge Advocate General concerned, or the General Counsel of the Department of Transportation, as appropriate. Authorizes the Secretaries concerned to prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Secretaries concerned, after consultation with the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, to establish such number (but not less than ten) of regional boards of review throughout the United States. States that the function of the regional boards shall be to reveiw the discharge or dismissal (other than a discharge or dismissal by a general or special court-martial) of any former member of an Armed Forces under the jurisdiction of the military department concerned. Provides that if a request for the review of a discharge or dismissal of any person who was discharged or dismissed from the Armed Forces within the fifteen-year period immediately preceding the effective date of this subsection was filed before such effective date and such review resulted in no change to the discharge or dismissal, or no new discharge was issued, another request for review of that discharge or dismissal pursuant to this section may be filed and such review shall be acted upon without prejudice, if such request for reveiw is filed with the appropriate regional board of review within the one-year period immediately following such effective date.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1973
Provides for adoption of an amendment to the Senate amendments to the District of Columbia Self-Governmental Reorganization Act (H.R. 6186). States that in order to provide continuity in the Government of the District of Columbia during the transition from the appointed Government to the elected Government provided for under the Act, no person employed by the United States or by the government of the District of Columbia shall be prohibited by reason of such employment: (1) from being a candidate in the first election held under the Act for, or (2) if such a candidate, from taking an active part in political management or political campaigns in such election which relate to, the office of Mayor or Chairman or member of the Council of the District of Columbia provided for under Title IV of the Act. Provides for the amending of the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1947 regarding taxability of dividends received by a corporation from insurance companies, banks, and other savings institutions, with Senate amendments thereto, and agree to the Senate amendments numbered l and 2 and agree to Senate amendment numbered 3, with an amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 17 December 1973
Provides that in the enrollment of the bill (S. 1435), to reorganize the governmental structure of the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Senate shall make specified corrections.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1973
Provides for the designation of the United States Courthouse and Federal Office Building at 110 Michigan Street, N.W., Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the "Gerald R. Ford Federal Office Building".
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1973
Social Services Amendments - Outlines the objectives to be achieved under this Act, including: (1) the goal of self-support; (2) the goal of family care or self-care; (3) the goal of community-based care; and (4) the institutional care goal. Provides, under the Social Security Act, for maximum freedom for each State to determine which services will be made available, the persons eligible for such services, the manner in which such services are provided, and any limitations on the receipt of such services. Requires that social services to be offered at the option of the States to all eligible persons shall include: (1) day care services for children; (2) day care services for children with special needs; (3) service for children in foster care; (4) protective services for children; (5) family planning services; (6) protective services for adults; (7) services for adults in foster care; (8) homemaker services for individuals in their own homes; (9) chore services; (10) home delivered or congregate meals; (11) day care services for adults; (12) health related services; (13) home management and other functional education services; (14) housing improvement services; (15) a full range of legal services; (16) transportation services necessary to travel to and from community facilities or resources for receipt of services; (17) educational and training services; (18) employment services; (19) information, referral, and determination of eligibility and the need for services, without regard to individual eligibility criteria; (20) special services for the mentally retarded, or special adaptations of generic services; (21) special services for the blind; (22) services for alcoholism and drug addiction; (23) special services for the emotionally disturbed as defined by the State; (24) special services for the physically handicapped as defined by the State; and (25) any other proposed services at the request of a State. Provides that States are entitled to Federal financial participation for the delivery of mandatory and optional social services under the State plan to the extent of the appropriations allocated by the Congress. Requires that State plans submitted with respect to the services program shall contain a provision for a fair hearing, under which applicants and recipients may appeal exclusion from a service program. Provides that State plans shall provide for the establishment of a social services advisory committee, to include members representative of recipients of such services.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1973
Special Prosecution Conservancy Act - Vests the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia with supervisory jurisdiction to issue and enforce all orders necessary and appropriate to insure the integrity and inviolability of all files, notes, correspondence, memoranda, documents, physical evidence, and other records and work product compiled, obtained, or otherwise produced and maintained by the office of Special Prosecutor from the date of assumption of that office on May 24, 1973, until the appointment of a successor Special Prosecutor pursuant to this Act. Vests the Chief Judge of the United States District Court with authority to appoint a Special Prosecutor for the purposes and with the powers set forth in this Act, and to replace such officer only for extraordinary improprieties in the exercise of his responsibilities. Sets forth the authority and responsibilities of the Special Prosecutor. States that the prosecutor shall have exclusive authority to conduct all grand jury presentments and all other criminal proceedings arising from the following acts or transactions: (1) offenses arising out of the unauthorized entry into Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate; (2) offenses arising out of the 1972 Presidential election; (3) allegations of criminal offenses involving the President, members of the White House Staff, or other Presidential appointees; and (4) such other matters as bear a relation to the foregoing and which the Special Prosecutor consents to accept. Sets forth powers of the Special Prosecutor, including: (1) the power to determine whether and how far to contest the assertion of executive privilege or any other testimonial or evidentiary privilege, and (2) the power to decide whether or not to prosecute any person and how to conduct and argue any appeals or petitions arising out of his prosecutorial activities. Authorizes the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to extend the term of the Grand Jury of that Court which was impaneled on June 5, 1972, for additional periods of six months, until the court determines that the business of that Grand Jury has been completed. Authorizes to be appropriated to the office of the Special Prosecutor such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1973
Right to Financial Privacy Act - States that the purposes of this Act are to protect and preserve the confidential relationship between financial institutions and their customers and the constitutional rights of those customers, and to promote commerce by prescribing policies and procedures to insure that customers have the same right to protect against unwarranted disclosure of customer records as if the records were in their possession. Prohibits any Federal agency or employee, or any State or local government from obtaining copies of, access to, or the information contained in, the financial records of any customer from a financial institution unless the financial records are described with particularity and : (1) such customer has authorized such disclosure in accordance with this Act; (2) such financial records are disclosed in response to an administrative subpena or summons; (3) such financial records are disclosed in response to a court order; or (4) such financial records are disclosed in response to a judicial subpena. States that no financial institution may provide to a Federal agency or employee, or to any State or local government, copies of or the information contained in the financial records of any customer except in accordance with the requirements of this Act. Provides that a customer may authorize disclosure if he or those seeking disclosure furnish to the financial institution a signed and dated statement by which the customer: (1) authorizes such disclosure for a period not in excess of one year; (2) identifies the financial records which are authorized to be disclosed; and (3) specifies the purposes for which, and the agencies to which, such records may be disclosed. Requires the financial institution to keep a record of all examinations of the customer's financial records and to notify the customer that he has the right at any time to revoke any authorization of disclosure and to obtain a copy of the aforementioned record of examinations. Sets forth provisions governing customer authorization, administrative subpenas and summons, and judicial subpenas. Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from requiring an institution to maintain financial records or to transmit reports on customers, unless such records are required by a supervisory agency or the Internal Revenue Service. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act. Provides for injunctive relief for persons aggrieved by violation or threatened violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1973
Federal Election Campaign Fund Act - Sets forth the definitions of the terms used in this Act as it applies to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, a candidate of a political party in a federal election shall, in writing, agree to: (1) obtain and furnish to the Comptroller General such evidence as he may request of the qualified campaign expenses with respect to which payment is sought; (2) keep and furnish to the Comptroller General such records and books; (3) an audit; and (4) furnish statements of qualified campaign expenses. Prescribes additional requirements to be fulfilled and agreed to prior to eligibility of major and minor party candidates to receive payments from the fund. Sets forth the amounts to which eligible candidates are entitled. Provides that, on the basis of information furnished by the eligible candidates of a political party, the Comptroller General shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the payments to which candidates are entitled. Establishes a special fund to be known as the "Federal Election Campaign Fund." Directs the Secretary to transfer to the fund a specified amount, and such additional sums as Congress may appropriate. States that, after each federal election, the Comptroller General shall conduct a thorough examination and audit of the qualified campaign expenses of the candidates of each political party for federal office. Requires repayment of campaign expenses upon specified findings of the Comptroller General. States that if the Comptroller General determines that any amount of any payment made to an eligible candidate of a political party was used for any purpose other than: (1) to defray the qqualified campaign expenses with respect to which such payment was made, or (2) to repay loans the proceeds of which were used, or otherwise to restore funds, he shall notify such candidate of the amount so used, and such candidate shall pay to the Secretary an amount equal to such amount. Requires a candidate of a political party for federal office in a federal election to furnish to the Comptroller General a detailed statement of the qualified campaign expenses incurred by him and the expenses which he and his authorized committees propose to incur. Directs the Comptroller General to, as soon as practicable after each federal election, submit a full report to the Senate and House of Representatives setting forth enumerated items. Authorizes the Comptroller General to appear in and defend against any action filed pursuant to this Act by attorneys employed in his office or by counsel whom he may appoint. Provides for judicial review of any certification, determination or other action by the Comptroller General taken pursuant to the provisions of this Act by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Collumbia upon petition filed in such court by any interested person. Makes it unlawful for an eligible candidate of a political party for federal office in a federal election or any of his authorized committees knowingly and willfully to incur qualified campaign expenses in excess of the aggregate payments to which the eligible candidates of a major party are entitled. Provides criminal penalties for violations of this Act, including: (1) the unlawful use of payments; (2) false statements to the Comptroller General; (3) kickbacks and illegal payments; (4) unauthorized expenditures and contributions; and (5) unauthorized disclosure of information. Establishes an Advisory board to be known as the Federal Election Campaign Fund Advisory Board to Counsel and assist the Comptroller General in the performance of the duties and functions imposed on him under the Federal Election Campaign Fund Act. Sets forth the composition and compensation of the board members. Provides procedures for designation of inccome tax payments to the Federal Election Campaign Fund. States that every individual whose adjusted gross income for the taxable year is $2 or more may designate that $2 shall be paid over to the Federal Election Campaign Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Prohibits the importation of Rhodesian chrome into the United States, in conformity with a resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations urging an international boycott of such chrome.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1973
Provides that the benefits provided under the public assistance provisions of the Social Security Act to provide that benefits thereunder (including supplemental security income benefits) shall be made available and financed in the case of Guam and the Virgin Islands on the same basis as in the case of other States.
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