United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the following student organizations provide exceptional motivational and learning experiences in career encouragement, leadership development, occupational understanding, civic responsibility, and social consciousness which improve the quality and relevance of their respecitve instructional programs for America's young people: (1) the Distributive Education Clubs of America; (2) the Future Business Leaders of America; (3) the Future Farmers of America; (4) the Future Homemakers of America; (5) the Office of Education Association; and (6) the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Removes the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Excludes from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code the gain from the sale or exchange of property which, during the 8-year period ending on the date of the sale or exchange, has been owned and used by the taxpayer as his principal residence for periods aggregating 5 years or more. Sets forth special rules governing: (1) property held jointly by husband and wife; (2) property of a deceased spouse; (3) tenant-stockholders in a cooperative housing corporation; and (4) involuntary conversions. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 121)
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Provides, under title XVIII (Medicare) and title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that qualified drugs requiring a physicians prescription or certification shall be included among the items and services covered under the hospital insurance program for the aged at a specified amount of payment. States that the reasonable allowance for eligible drugs furnished an individual pursuant to any one prescription and purchased by such individual at any one time shall be reduced by an amount equal to the applicable prescription copayment obligation which shall be $1. Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a Formulary Committee to compile and publish a Formulary listing the drugs deemed qualified for benefits under this Act, together with maximum allowable costs and additional information concerning such drugs. Makes provisions for selecting drugs for the Formulary.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code to a claimant who is domiciled in the United States and 65 years of age for a taxable year for the property taxes accrued or 25 percent of the gross rent actually paid by a household solely for its right of occupancy for such taxable year, or both. Sets forth a table of claims allowed under the provisions of this Act, based on household income and taxes paid. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate to make available suitable forms with instructions for claimants, including a form which may be included with or a part of the individual income tax form. Allows any person aggrieved by the denial in whole or in part of relief to appeal such denial to the Tax Court by filing a petition with such court within 90 days after such denial. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 1601-1605).
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Administration Act - Title I: Statement of Findings and Declaration of Purpose - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to undertake a national commitment to resolve the energy shortages and provide the means for achieving a national capability for energy self-sufficiency through socially and environmentally acceptable methods for producing, conserving, and utilizing all forms of energy. Title II: Establishment and Organization of Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Administration - Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch, the Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Administration (hereinafter referred to as the "Administration" or "ERDDA"). Provides that the management of ERDDA shall be vested in a Board of Governors composed of 15 members. Sets forth the composition of such Board, including Government officials and seven Governors appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides for an Administrator and Deputy Administrator, a General Counsel, and Assistant Administrator of ERDDA. Title III: Functions - Enumerates the duties and responsibilities of the Administrator. States that the Administration shall have all the authority incidental, necessary, or appropriate to implementing its responsibilities, including without limitations, authorization: (1) to ensure that full consideration and adequate support is given to advancing energy research and development of efficient and environmentally acceptable energy sources, technologies, and techniques, including coal gasification, shale oil development, solar energy, and cryogenic transmission of electric power; (2) to prescribe policies, procedures, and regulations; (3) to enter into contracts and grant agreements with public agencies and private organizations and persons; (4) to engage in joint projects of a research, developmental, and demonstration nature with public agencies and private organizations or individuals; (5) to acquire any of the following described rights if the property acquired thereby is for use by the Administration: (a) copyrights, patents, and applications for patents; (b) licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for patents; (c) releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of patents or copyrights; and (d) use of Federal lands; (6) to make special studies, and (7) to exercise any authority available by law, including appropriations Acts, to the official or agency from which functions were transferred. Title IV: Transfers - Transfers to the Administration such Federal energy research and development functions and programs as are essential to ERDDA's fulfilling its obligations under this Act, including energy research programs of the Atomic Energy Commission, of the Departments of Interior, Commerce, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and of independent agencies such as the General Services Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Title V: Savings Provisions - Provides that specified orders, permits, contracts, licenses, and privileges issued, in the performance of functions which are transferred by this Act shall continue in effect until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside or revoked. Enumerates the circumstances under which the provisions of this Act shall not have effect. Title VI: Funding - Establishes in the Treasury a trust fund to be known as the Federal Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Trust Fund. Provides that, commencing with fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and each fiscal year thereafter, all revenues from Federal lease sales of all energy sources, as well as royalties, shall, up to $2,000,000,000, be credited to the fund. Provides that in addition to such funds there is authorized to be appropriated to the fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and each fiscal year thereafter, such amount as is necessary to make the income of the fund $2,000,000,000 for each such fiscal year. Title VII: Nuclear Energy Commission - Provides that the Atomic Energy Commission shall retain its functions pertaining to uranium and thorium reserve assessment, and its functions pertaining to the licensing and related regulatory functions of the Commission. Renames the Atomic Energy Commission the Nuclear Energy Commission. Title VIII: Effective Date and Interim Appointment - States that the provisions of this Act dealing with title II shall take effect on the day of enactment and that all other provisions shall take effect thirty days thereafter. Title IX: Definitions and Administrative Provisions - Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title X: Separability - Provides that if any provision of this Act, or the application thereof, to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Tax Policy Review Act - Title I: Provisions to Terminate on January 1, 1975 - Provides that the following provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall terminate on January 1, 1975: (1) the $30,000 exemption and deduction of regular income taxes for the minimum tax on tax preferences, (2) treatment of group-term life insurance purchased for employees, (3) exclusion from gross income of $5,000 employee's death benefit, (4) exemption from tax of $100 of dividends received by individuals, (5) treatment of loss from certain nonbusiness guaranties, (6) twenty-percent variation under the asset depreciation range system, (7) capital gain treatment for lump-sum distribution from pension funds, (8) treatment of employee stock options, (9) tax exemption of credit unions and mutual insurance funds for certain financial institutions, (10) treatment of bad debt reserves of banks and other financial institutions, (11) percentage depletion for oil, gas, and other minerals, (12) capital gain for timber, coal, and iron ore royalties, (13) exclusion of gross-up on dividends of less developed countries corporations, (14) exemption of earned income from foreign sources, (15) alternative tax on capital gains, (16) rules for recapture of depreciation on sale at gain of real property, and (17) special exemptions for excess deductions account for farm losses. Title II: Provisions to Terminate on January 1, 1976 - Provides that the following provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall terminate on January 1, 1976: (1) exclusion from gross income of amounts received as sick pay, (2) deduction of nonbusiness interest and taxes, (3) fast depreciation methods, (4) deduction of research and experimental expenditures, (5) deduction of soil and water conservation expenditures, (6) additional first-year depreciation allowance, (7) deduction of expenditures for clearing land, (8) amortization of railroad grading and tunnel bores, (9) deduction of intangible drilling and development costs, (10) deduction of development expenditures in the case of mines, (11) tax exemption for ships under foreign flag, (12) special deduction for a Western Hemisphere trade corporation, (13) exemption of income from sources within possessions of United States, (14) exclusion from subpart F income of shipping profits and certain dividends, interest, and gains, (15) tax exemption for a DISC, (16) step-up in tax basis of property acquired from decedent, and (17) capital gains on sale or exchange of patents. Title III: Provisions to Terminate on January 1, 1977 - Provides that the following provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 shall terminate on January 1, 1977: (1) corporate surtax exemption, (2) retirement income credit, (3) credit or deduction for contributions to candidates for public office, (4) investment credit, (5) tax-exempt interest, (6) exclusion from gross income of rental value of parsonages, (7) exclusion from gross income of scholarship and fellowship grants, (8) exclusion from gross income of gain on the sale of residence by person over 65, (9) additional exemption for age 65 or blindness of taxpayer or spouse, (10) exemption for child whose income exceeds $750, (11) deduction for nonbusiness casualty losses, (12) charitable contribution deductions, (13) medical expense deduction, (14) household and dependent care deduction, (15) deduction of moving expenses, (16) nonrecognition of gain on appreciated property used to redeem stock, (17) nonrecognition of gain in connection with certain liquidations, and (18) deduction for capital gains.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Federal Financial Disclosure Act - Requires the President, the Vice President, each Member of Congress, each officer and employee of the United States (including any member of a uniformed service) who is compensated at a rate in excess of $24,000 per annum, and any individual occupying the position of an officer or employee of the United States who performs duties of the type generally performed by an individual occupying grade GS-16 of the General Schedule or any higher grade or position, as determined by the Comptroller General, regardless of the rate of compensation of such individual to file annually, and each individual who is a candidate of a political party in a general election for the office of a Member of Congress but who, at the time he becomes a candidate, does not occupy any such office, to file within one month after he becomes a candidate for such office, with the Comptroller General a report containing a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount and source of each item of income, and each item of reimbursement for any expenditure and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source (other than gifts received from his spouse or any member of his immediate family) received by him or by him and his spouse jointly during the preceding calendar year which exceeds $100 in amount or value, including any fee or other honorarium received by him for or in connection with the preparation or delivery of any speech or address, attendance at any convention or other assembly of individuals, or the preparation of any article or other composition for publication, and the monetary value of subsistence, entertainment, travel, and other facilities received by him in kind; (2) the value of each asset held by him, or by him and his spouse jointly which has a value in excess of $1,000, and the amount of each liability owed by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which is in excess of $1,000 as of the close of the preceding calendar year; (3) any transactions in securities of any business entity by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in transactions in the securities of such business entity exceeds $1,000 during such year; (4) all transactions in commodities by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in such transactions exceeds $1,000; (5) any purchase or sale of real property or any interest therein by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, during the preceding calendar year if the value of property involved in such purchase or sale exceeds $1,000; and (6) any position held in any public or private organization, any service rendered to any person, and any employment other than employment by the United States, during the preceding calendar year, without regard to whether compensation was received for holding the position, rendering the service, or on account of that employment. Provides that such reports are to be filed no later than May 15 of each year. Provides that any person who willfully fails to file a report, or who knowingly and willfully files a false report, shall be fined $2,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years or both.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President of the United States direct the Secretary of the State to bring to the immediate attention of the Soviet Government the concern of U.S. citizens over the imprisonment of a Lithuanian seaman who unsuccessfully sought asylum aboard a United States Coast Guard ship and to urge his release from prison and return to his family.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Energy Information Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and the purposes of this Act. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title I: Bureau of Energy Information - Establishes as an agency within the Department of Commerce a Bureau of Energy Information to be a main line component of the Social and Economic Statistics Administration, coequal with the Bureau of the Census. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to perform the duties conferred upon the Bureau by this title or delegate any of them. Provides that the Bureau shall be headed by a Director of Energy Information to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. States that the principal function of the Bureau shall be to operate, maintain, and improve the National Energy Information System established by Title II of this Act. Enumerates the work priorities of the Bureau. Title II: National Energy Information System - Establishes a National Energy Information System, to be operated and maintained by the Bureau. Directs that the components of the System shall be: (1) a public library of energy information; (2) a confidential library of energy information for restricted governmental use; and (3) a secret library of energy information for use only in preparing anonymous statistics. Specifies the characteristics of the System. States that the purpose of the public library is to make available to the general public promptly and conveniently as much of the information in the System as can be released consistently with national security and reasonable competitive equities. States that the purpose of the secret library is to serve the Nation's need for accurate statistical information on mineral fuel reserves, natural energy resources, and energy industries. Directs the Director to place in the secret library information obtained under authority of this Act for which either the national security or reasonable competitive equities require that the information be wholly suppressed or be published only in statistical aggregations of a size and type sufficient to prevent any person from learning or inferring the data furnished by any particular establishment or individual. Prescribes the priorities for entry of information into the System. Enumerates the standards for entry of information into the public, confidential, and secret libraries. Imposes penalties on any employee of the Bureau or other employee who, having taken and subscribed the oath of office, publishes or communicates, without the written authority of the Secretary or the Director, any information coming into his possession by reason of his employment from or for entry in the confidential library or the secret library of the System. Penalizes refusal or neglect to provide information, and the providing of false information, under this Act. Title III: Energy Resources Inventories and Inspections by the Department of the Interior - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to compile, maintain, and keep current on not less than an annual basis an inventory of all mineral fuel reserves and natural energy resources in the public lands of the United States, including the Outer Continental Shelf. Specifies the content of such compilation. Title IV: Information on Mineral Fuel Reserves and Natural Energy Resources - Makes it the duty of every substantial energy resources company, foreign or domestic, engaged in commerce to report annually to the Director full and complete details of all mineral fuel reserves and natural energy resources which it, together with its affiliates, owns or controls anywhere in the world. Provides that all reports required by this title and title V shall be entered by the Director, immediately upon receipt, into one of the three libraries of the System. Title V: Information on the Energy Industries - Makes it the duty of every major energy company, foreign or domestic, engaged in commerce, to report annually to the Director on its assets and operations, worldwide, on an establishment basis. Specifies the content of such reports. Authorizes the requiring of additional reports, at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce or the Director. Title VI: General Accounting Office Oversight - Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to review and evaluate the procedures and activities of the Bureau. Title VII: Conformance of and with Other Statutes - Provides that whenever any of the information obtained from any major energy company under this Act is contained in any other report of such company, such report having been filed prior to the effective date of this Act, the Director may excuse such company from filing a report with him, containing the same information. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Freedom of Information Act and the Federal Reports Act. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Provides that if any provision of this Act or the applicability thereof is held invalid the remainder of this Act shall not be affected thereby. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Department of Commerce and the Department of the Interior such amounts, as may be requisite to full and efficient performance of the duties imposed upon such Departments by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Equal Credit Act - Makes unlawful any discrimination by a creditor or card issuer on account of sex or marital status against any individual with respect to approval or denial of terms of credit in connection with any sale, loan, or other extension of credit, or by a lessor with respect to the lease of real property. Requires creditors or card issuers to take into account the combined income of both spouses for the purpose of extending credit to a married couple or either spouse. Prohibits such creditors from relying on the probability or assumption that the income of any individual may be diminished because of the sex or marital status of such individual. Provides that any creditor who discriminates against an individual in such manner shall be liable to such individual for money damages. Provides for administrative enforcement of these requirements under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act in the case of banks; under the Home Owners Loan Act, the National Housing Act, and the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, in the case of any institutions subject to those Acts; and under the Federal Credit Union Act, in the case of any credit union. Provides that the Federal Trade Commission shall enforce all requirements not otherwise committed to some other agency. Provides criminal sanctions for violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Directs the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House and the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate to thoroughly investigate the negotiations to obtain release of prisoners of war in Southeast Asia, all information concerning the missing in action and dead, the noncooperation of North Vietnam and its allies concerning the Vietnam agreement and the joint communique in Paris in April, and the possibility of obtaining information in the future concerning the missing, captured, or dead in the Vietnam conflict. Directs the committees to report the results to their respective Houses and make recommendations to the appropriate branches of Government concerning the best way to resolve the impasse in the negotiations. Prohibits, in the interim, aid to North Vietnam or any other government supported by insurgent Communist forces in Southeast Asia, until the conflict concerning the missing, captured, or dead in the Vietnam conflict is resolved to the satisfaction of Congress. Requires that inquiries shall be made of all nations in the vicinity of Vietnam concerning any Americans being held in any nation as a result of the Vietnam conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1973
High Seas Oil Port Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant to eligible applicants licenses for the construction of high seas oil ports. Title I: Construction of High Seas Oil Ports - Sets forth standards under which the Secretary of the Interior may issue a license to an eligible applicant to construct a high seas oil port. States that any license issued under this Act shall be for a term of five years and may be extended for any additional period of time as the Secretary finds reasonably necessary for completion of construction. Authorizes the Secretary to include in any license issued or transferred any reasonable conditions which he finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that prior to the issuance of a license under this Act, the Secretary shall establish criteria for evaluating the potential impact of the construction or operation of the proposed high seas oil port on the marine environment. Authorizes the Secretary to issue reasonable rules and regulations prescribing procedures governing the application for and issuance of licenses pursuant to this Act. Provides that copies of any communications, documents, reports, or information received or sent by any applicant shall be made available to the public upon identifiable request, and at reasonable cost, unless such information concerns or relates to a trade secret. States that when an adjacent coastal State has an existing State program controlling, or other legislative requirements related to, land or water uses, upon which the construction of a high seas oil port will have a direct impact, the applicant shall include, in his application to the Secretary, a certification that in the applicant's best judgment the issuance of the license applied for would be consistent with applicable State requirements. Provides that within thirty days after receipt of an application filed under this Act, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register a notice containing a summary of the application. Requires that the Secretary's decision granting or denying the license shall be in writing and shall be made within one hundred twenty days following the conclusion of all hearings. Provides for judicial review of such decisions. Sets forth procedures for the Secretary to suspend or revoke a license. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974 and for each of the two succeeding fiscal years such sums, not exceeding $500,000 for any fiscal year, for the administration of this title. Title II: Operation of High Seas Oil Ports - States that upon receipt of the certification of the Secretary of the Interior of completion of construction, the license to construct a high seas oil port shall be converted into a license to operate the oil port. Provides that each license converted pursuant to this title shall be limited to a reasonable term in light of all circumstances concerning the project, but in no event for a term of more than thirty years. Authorizes the Secretary to issue reasonable rules and regulations prescribing procedures under which high seas oil ports shall be operated. Directs the Secretary to establish safety zones around such ports. Provides that State taxation laws shall not apply to any high seas oil port or to any component thereof located outside the tax jurisdiction of the State. Requires all United States officials to be afforded reasonable access to a high seas oil port for the purpose of enforcing laws under their jurisdictions. States that any person who violates any provision of this title or any rule or regulation issued pursuant thereto shall be liable for a civil penalty of $10,000 for each day during which the violation continues. Sets forth procedures for the suspension or revocation of a license to operate a high seas oil port. Authorizes to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1976 and for each of the three succeeding fiscal years such sums, not exceeding $2,500,000 for any fiscal year, for the administration of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1973
Electrical Appliance Standards Act - States that no manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer of electrical appliances shall sell or offer for sale in, or in any manner affecting, interstate commerce any electrical appliance after the effective date of a standard promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission under this Act applicable to that standard unless the appliance is labelled in accordance with the requirements of that standard as to the comparative efficiency with which that appliance utilizes electrical power. States that no manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer of electrical appliances shall advertise or cause to be advertised any such appliance for sale through any communications medium unless that advertisement contains a statement of the comparative efficiency with which that appliance utilizes electrical power in accordance with the requirements of such standard. Provides that the Federal Trade Commission shall by rule on the record after opportunity for an agency hearing promulgate standards for labelling electrical appliances with respect to their efficiency in utilizing electrical power relative to the efficiency of other electrical appliances of the same type. States that the Act of selling or offering for sale (including causing an advertisement to be published or broadcast) any electrical appliance in violation of the provisions of this Act constitutes an unfair or deceptive Act or practice in commerce in violation of the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45(A)(1)) States that any person who knowingly violates this Act shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $2,000 for each such violation. States that any person who knowingly and willfully violated this Act shall be fined not more than $50,000 or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. States that the United States District courts shall have jurisdiction to restrain any violation of this Act, or to restrain any person from advertising or distributing in commerce an electrical appliance which does not comply with the requirements of any applicable standard promulgated by the Commission under this Act. States that any person may commence a civil action on his own behalf: (1) against any manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer of electrical appliances who is alleged to be in violation of the provisions of this Act, or (2) against any Federal agency, where there is an alleged failure of the appropriate agency to perform any act or duty under this Act which is not discretionary.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to provide for the demonstration within a three-year period of the practical use of solar heating technology. Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate, support and carry out basic and applied research and development in solar heating and cooling technologies. Provides for the installation of solar heating systems in residential dwellings under the monitoring of the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Bureau of Standards and in consultation with the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Defense. Provides that such residential dwellings shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas (not less than three) in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of solar heating and cooling systems involved. Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to initiate, support and fund basic and applied research activities related to solar energy in support of the objectives of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $50,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1973
Declares it to be the sense of the House that the President, acting in accordance with the announced policy of the United States Government to maintain Israel's deterrent strength, and under existing authority, should continue to transfer to Israel the Phantom aircraft and other equipment in the quantities needed by Israel to repel the attack and to offset the military equipment and supplies furnished to the Arab States by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1973
Imposes, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, a tax on every new automobile manufactured, produced, or imported based upon its fuel consumption rate. Requires the public disclosure of the fuel consumption rate of every new automobile. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 4064)
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1973
Imposes, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, a tax on every new automobile manufactured, produced, or imported based upon its fuel consumption rate. Requires the public disclosure of the fuel consumption rate of every new automobile. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 4064)
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1973
Law Enforcement Officers Benefits Act - Provides for the payment of a gratuity of $50,000 to survivors of police officers, prison guards, and firemen killed in the line of duty, under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. Sets forth the following order of precedence in paying such gratuity: (a) to the spouse if no dependent child; (b) to the dependent children in equal shares if no spouse; (c) if both spouse and children one-half to the spouse and one-half to the children in equal shares; and (d) if no survivor in the above classes, to the parents. Makes the gratuity payable under this Act in addition to any other benefits payable under law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1973
Clean Elections Act - Title I: Federal Elections Commission - Creates a six-member independent Federal Elections Commission: 2 members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate, and 2 members appointed by the President. Specifies that the Commission shall have full legal powers. Authorizes the Commission to use the personnel and facilities of the General Accounting Office. Requires the Commission to submit its budget directly to Congress along with any recommendations it may have for legislation. Transfers specified functions of the Secretary of the Senate, the GAO and the Clerk of the House to the Commission. Requires each candidate for Federal office to have a central campaign committee through which all reports must pass. Requires the central committee to file its report with the Commission. Specifies that reports contain all contributions in excess of $100 and that cash contributions of $2,500 or more be reported within 24 hours. Requires a financial report to be filed 10 days before an election. Title II: Federal Matching Payment Entitlement Fund - Establishes on the books of the Treasury of the United States the Federal Matching Payment Entitlement Fund to remain available for expenditure without fiscal year limitation. Entitles candidates for Federal office or an official national party committee or an official congressional campaign committee to payments from the fund, during any calendar year, in an amount equal to the cmount of each contribution received by such candidate or committee not in excess of $50. Requires that the candidate or committee submit matching payment entitlement vouchers including the full name of the contributor together with the date, the exact amount of the contribution, and the complete address of the contributor. States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall make a payment from the fund to the candidate or the treasurer of the committee in the amount certified by the Commission. Sets forth the limitations on certification by the Commission. Title III: Limitations on Political Contributions - Declares a limitation on contributions, made by an individual and expenditures of not more than $2,500 in the case of a candidacy for President or Vice President or not more than $1,000 in a congressional campaign. Title IV: Tax Incentives for Contributions to Candidates for Public Office - Allows a maximum credit for a taxable year for contributions to candidates for public office of $50 ($100 for a joint return). Title V: Voter's Time - Provides for a schedule of televised political broadcasts by candidates for Federal office. Requires the television networks to make prime time available to the candidates at roles not exceeding the prevailing unit charge of the station for the same amount of program time in the same time period. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay fully all certified bills for Voter's Time not more than 10 days following receipt from the Registry of Election Finance.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1973
Grants to civilian employees who are retired members of the uniformed services full retention preference credit in reductions in force for total length of time in active service in the Armed Forces. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 3501, 3502)
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the following organizations provide outstanding experience for the career development of America's young people; (1) the Distributive Education Clubs of America; (2) the 4-H Clubs of America; (3) the Future Business Leaders of America; (4) the Future Farmers of America; (5) the Future Homemakers of America; (6) the Office of Education Association; and (7) the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. Makes it the sense of the Congress that each State should provide financial assistance to support the vocational and career student organizations set forth in the first section of this concurrent resolution active within that State.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 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 · 6 June 1973
Requires the Postal Service to establish, not later than two hundred forty days after the date of the enactment of this Act, a mail delivery insurance program which will enable any person transmitting any matter in the domestic mail to purchase, with respect to such matter, insurance against any loss sustained by that person because the insured matter was not delivered to the addressee, or delivered to the addressee after the insured delivery date. Provides that coverage under the mail delivery insurance program shall: (1) not exceed $2,500 with respect to each insured matter transmitted in the mail, and (2) not include the value of the insured matter itself, if such matter is damaged or lost, but only losses resulting from the late delivery or nondelivery of such matter. Directs the General Accounting Office to conduct an investigation and study of domestic mail service for the purpose of establishing a schedule of standard processing and delivery periods for such mail service.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1973
Makes it the policy of the Congress that our fishing industry be afforded all support necessary to have it strengthened, and all steps be taken to provide adequate protection for our coastal fisheries against excessive foreign fishing. Declares that the Congress recognizes, encourages, and intends to support the key responsibilities of the several States for conservation and scientific management of fisheries resources within United States territorial waters, and that the Congress particularly commends Federal programs designed to improve coordinated protection, enhancement, and scientific management of all United States fisheries, both coastal and distant, including presently successful Federal aid programs under the Commercial Fisheries, Research and Development Act of 1964, and the newly developing Federal-State fisheries management programs.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973
Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Office of Population Affairs to be directed by an Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs. Sets forth the duties of the Assistant Secretary. Establishes within the Department an Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Creates within the Administration a National Center for Family Planning Services, headed by a Director, which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Public information, program planning and evaluation, manpower development and training, supervision of field services, and grants management. Establishes within the Administration, a National Institute for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Reproductive physiology research, contraceptive development and evaluation, operational research, social science research, public information, manpower development and training, and grants management. Establishes a National Family Planning Services Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Center for Family Planning Services. Establishes a National Population Sciences Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Institute for Research on Human Reporduction and Population Change. Sets forth the functions of the Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such amounts as may be necessary to meet the administrative expenses of the Administration. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit a report to Congress on each January 1 for the five years following the enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974-1976 for the following: (1) special project grants for family planning services; (2) formula grants for family planning, public health services; (3) manpower development and program planning and evaluation; (4) research grants and contracts; (5) grants for support of population sciences, research centers; and (6) planning and population growth information distribution and educational materials development.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1973
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to establish in the Public Health Service the National Institute on Population Sciences to conduct research and training relating to population matters such as: (1) biomedical research in reproduction biology; (2) research in the development of fertility control technology; (3) research in the medical and other effects of fertility control methods; (4) research in the organization, delivery, and dissemination of fertility control methods and services; and (5) research in the social, behavioral, and demographic sciences. Establishes an Advisory Council to advise and consult with the Director of the Institute. Provides that the Council shall assume the duties of the National Advisory Health Council relating to population matters. Authorizes the Director to provide for the establishment of centers for basic, applied and directed research and other activities relating to human reproduction, fertility control, delivery of fertility control services, sterility, population growth, distribution, density, and change, and other factors which affect population dynamics. Authorizes the Director to make provisions for scientific peer review committees to evaluate research grants and programs established under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Provides that the President in every possible instance shall consult with the leadership and appropriate committees of the Congress before committing United States Armed Forces to hostilities or to situations where hostilities may be imminent, and after every such commitment shall consult regularly with such Members and committees until such United States Armed Forces are no longer engaged in hostilities or have been removed from areas where hostities may be imminent, and after every such commitment shall consult regularly with such Members and committees until such United States Armed Forces are no longer engaged in hostilities or have been removed from areas where hostilities may be imminent. States that, any case in which the President without a declaration of war by the Congress: (1) commits United States Armed Forces to hostilities outside the territory of the United States, its possessions and territories; (2) commits United States Armed Forces equipped for combat to the territory, airspace, or waters of a foreign nation, except for deployments which relate solely to supply, replacement, repair, or training of United States Armed Forces; or (3) substantially enlarges United States Armed Forces equipped for combat already located in a foreign nation; the President shall submit within forty-eight hours to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President pro tempore of the Senate a report, in writing, setting forth - (A) the circumstances necessitating his action; (B) the constitutional and legislative provisions under the authority of which he took such action; (C) the estimated scope of activities; (D) the estimated financial cost of such commitment or such enlargement of forces; and (E) such other information as the President may deem useful to the Congress in the fulfillment of its constitutional responsibilities with respect to committing the Nation to war and to the use of United States Armed Forces abroad. Provides that within one hundred and twenty calendar days after a report is submitted, the President shall terminate any commitment and remove any enlargement of United States Armed Forces with respect to which such report was submitted, unless the Congress enacts a declaration of war or a specific authorization for the use of United States Armed Forces. States that such forces shall be disengaged by the President if the Congress so directs by concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Office of Population Affairs to be directed by an Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs. Sets forth the duties of the Assistant Secretary. Establishes within the Department an Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Creates within the Administration a National Center for Family Planning Services, headed by a Director, which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Public information, program planning and evaluation, manpower development and training, supervision of field services, and grants management. Establishes within the Administration, a National Institute for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Reproductive physiology research, contraceptive development and evaluation, operational research, social science research, public information, manpower development and training, and grants management. Establishes a National Family Planning Services Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Center for Family Planning Services. Establishes a National Population Sciences Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Institute for Research on Human Reporduction and Population Change. Sets forth the functions of the Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such amounts as may be necessary to meet the administrative expenses of the Administration. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit a report to Congress on each January 1 for the five years following the enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974-1976 for the following: (1) special project grants for family planning services; (2) formula grants for family planning, public health services; (3) manpower development and program planning and evaluation; (4) research grants and contracts; (5) grants for support of population sciences, research centers; and (6) planning and population growth information distribution and educational materials development.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Permits a former President and his surviving spouse to send mail within the United States as franked mail, and international mail under the marking "Postage and Fees Paid" in the manner prescribed by the Postal Service. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3214) Specifies that the postage on such mailed matter shall be paid by reimbursement of the postal revenues each fiscal year out the general funds of the Treasury. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3216)
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
War Powers Resolution - Authorizes the President in the absence of a declaration of war or a specific authorization by the Congress to take action to involve the Armed Forces of the United States in hostilities, or in situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated, to respond to any act or situation that directly endangers the United States, its territories or possessions, or its citizens or nationals, when he determines that extraordinary and emergency circumstances do not permit specific prior authorization by the Congress. Requires the President in such cases to submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President pro tempore of the Senate a report setting forth: (1) a full account of circumstances under which he took such action; (2) his estimate of the scope of the United States involvement in any such hostilities or situation; (3) the constitutional, legislative, or treaty provisions, if any, under the authority of which he took such action; and (4) his reasons, if any, for seeking specific prior authorization by the Congress. Requires both Houses of the Congress immediately to consider authorization for such involvement of the Armed Forces of the United States and the expenditure of funds therefor whenever the President takes any action under this joint resolution involving the Armed Forces of the United States in hostilities. Provides that whenever the President takes any action resulting in involvement of the Armed Forces of the United States in armed conflict outside the United States, its territories and possessions, to respond to any act or situation that does not directly endanger the United States, its territories or possessions, or its citizens or nationals, the Congress may, by joint resolution, disapprove such action.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Rehabilitation Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide a statutory basis for the Rehabilitation Service Administration; to establish within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an Office for the Handicapped, and to authorize specified programs. Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Rehabilitation Services Administration which shall be administered by a Commissioner. Provides that the Commissioner shall carry out and administer all programs and direct the performance of all services for which authority is provided to the Secretary of H.E.W. under titles I through III of this Act. Creates within such administration a Division of Research, Training and Evaluation which shall be responsible for carrying out programs and projects under title III of this Act. Authorizes the inclusion of appropriations under this Act in appropriations for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for obligation. Provides that where funds are provided for a single project by more than one Federal agency to an agency or organization assisted under this Act, the Federal agency principally involved may be designated to act for all in administering such funds. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act. Title I: Vocational Rehabilitation Services - States it to be the purpose of this title to authorize grants to assist States to meet the current and future needs of handicapped individuals, so that such individuals may prepare for and engage in gainful employment to the extent of their capabilities. Authorizes to be appropriated $660,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $700,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $710,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for the purpose of making grants to States to assist them in meeting the costs of vocational rehabilitation services. Authorizes to be appropriated $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, for the purpose of making grants to States and public and nonprofit agencies to assist them in meeting the costs of projects to initiate or expand services to handicapped individuals. Sets forth the requirements of State plans to be submitted and approved for participation in programs under this title. Authorizes judicial review in United States district courts of decisions by the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration affecting State plans. Provides that the Commissioner shall insure that the individualized written rehabilitation program required in a State plan in the case of each handicapped individual shall be developed jointly by the vocational rehabilitation counselor or coordinator and the handicapped individual. Defines vocational rehabilitation services provided under this Act as any goods or services necessary to render a handicapped individual employable, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) evaluation of rehabilitation potential; (2) counseling, guidance, referral, and placement services for handicapped invididuals; (3) vocational and other training services for handicapped individuals; (4) physical and mental restoration services; (5) maintenance, not exceeding the estimated cost of subsistence, during rehabilitation; (6) interpreter services for the deaf, and reader services for the blind; (7) recruitment and training services for handicapped individuals; (8) rehabilitation teaching services and orientation and mobility services for the blind; (9) occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies; (10) transportation in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation services; and (11) telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices. Provides a formula for the allotment and payment of funds to States for providing rehabilitation services under this title. Directs the Commissioner to pay to a State or, at the option of the State, to a public or nonprofit organization or agency a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan to expand vocational rehabilitation services. Title II: Special Federal Responsibilities - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants and contracts for fiscal years 1974-76 to assist in meeting the costs of construction of public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities, initial staffing, and planning assistance. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or nonprofit organizations and agencies to pay up to 90 percent of the cost of projects for providing vocational training services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, in public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or non-profit agencies and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects and demonstrations: (1) for establishing facilities and providing services which hold promise of expanding or otherwise improving rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps; and (2) for applying new types or patterns of service or devices. Provides that the Commissioner may make contracts or jointly finance cooperative arrangements with employers and organizations for the establishment of projects designed to prepare handicapped individuals for gainful and suitable employment in the competitive labor market under which such handicapped individuals are provided training and employment in a realistic work setting and such other services as may be necessary for such individuals to continue to engage in such employment. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide technical assistance to rehabilitation facilities, and for the purpose of removal of architectural and transportation barriers, to any public or nonprofit agency, institution, organization or facility. Provides for a special study by the Secretary of the needs of severely handicapped persons who would otherwise be ineligible for services under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to establish national centers for spinal cord injuries. Establishes in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare a National Advisory Council on Rehabilitation of Handicapped Individuals consisting of twenty members appointed by the Commissioner. Provides that the council shall: (1) provide policy advice and consultation on the planning, conduct, and review of programs authorized under this Act; (2) review the administration and operation of vocational rehabilitation programs under this Act, make recommendations with respect thereto, and make annual reports to the Secretary and the Commissioner for transmittal to the Congress; (3) advise the Secretary and the Commissioner with respect to the conduct of independent evaluations of programs carried out under this Act; and (4) provide such other advisory services as the Secretary and Commissioner may request. Sets forth requirements for applications for assistance for construction projects under this title. Title III: Research and Training - Provides that the commissioner may make grants to, and contracts with, State public and nonprofit organizations to pay part of the cost of research projects which bear directly on the provision of services under this Act. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to pay all or part of the cost of specialized activities including the establishment and support of Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers. Authorizes the Secretary to pay part of the cost of projects for training, traineeships, and related activities designed to assist in increasing the numbers of personnel trained in providing vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purpose of this title. Title IV: Administration and Program and Project Evaluation - Sets forth the functions of the Commissioner in carrying out his duties under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct studies, investigations and evaluations of programs authorized by this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall measure and evaluate the impact of all programs authorized by this Act in order to determine their effectiveness in achieving stated goals. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report on such determination and review to the appropriate committees of the Congress. Authorizes appropriations to conduct such program and project evaluations. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the President and to the Congress on the activities carried out under this Act. Provides for a study of the role of sheltered workshops in the rehabilitation and employment of handicapped individuals. Title V: Office for the Handicapped - Establishes an Office for the Handicapped within the Office of the Secretary in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Provides that the Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall serve as a Special Assistant to the Secretary. Sets forth the functions of the Office. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of this title such sums as necessary. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Provides for the repeal of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Establishes an Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to investigate problems of handicapped persons in the areas of architecture and transportation, and to make legislative recommendations to the President and the Congress. Requires any contract in excess of $2500 entered into by any Federal department or agency for the procurement of personal property and nonpersonal services (including construction) for the United States to contain a provision requiring that, in employing persons to carry out such contract, the party contracting with the United States shall take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified handicapped individuals. States that no otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Fish Disease Control Act - States that communicable fish diseases constitute a major threat to the fish resources of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce to issue such regulations as deemed appropriate to prohibit or control the movement in interstate and foreign commerce of diseased fish or articles, and to specify by regulation those fish diseases and species of fish which pose a threat to the fish resources of the United States. Authorizes the Secretaries to create advisory panels to assist them in promulgating regulations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce, in order to develop an effective, coordinated fish disease control program for the protection of fishery resources, to enter into cooperative agreements with the appropriate agencies of the States. Makes provisions for such agreements. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce to order the owner of any fish or article specified as diseased to destroy, disinfect, or quarantine such fish or article, and to compensate the owner for any fish destroyed. Prescribes a fine not exceeding $1,000 and/or imprisonment up to one year for persons receiving or delivering for the transport in interstate or foreign commerce any fish or article infected or contaminated by a disease. Authorizes, with or without a warrant, the arrest of any person violating this Act, and the search and seizure of any fish or article taken in connection with a violation of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $3,000,000 for the two succeeding fiscal years and $4,000,000 for fiscal years 1977 and 1978 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Office of Population Affairs to be directed by an Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs. Sets forth the duties of the Assistant Secretary. Establishes within the Department an Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Creates within the Administration a National Center for Family Planning Services, headed by a Director, which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Public information, program planning and evaluation, manpower development and training, supervision of field services, and grants management. Establishes within the Administration, a National Institute for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Reproductive physiology research, contraceptive development and evaluation, operational research, social science research, public information, manpower development and training, and grants management. Establishes a National Family Planning Services Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Center for Family Planning Services. Establishes a National Population Sciences Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Institute for Research on Human Reporduction and Population Change. Sets forth the functions of the Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such amounts as may be necessary to meet the administrative expenses of the Administration. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit a report to Congress on each January 1 for the five years following the enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974-1976 for the following: (1) special project grants for family planning services; (2) formula grants for family planning, public health services; (3) manpower development and program planning and evaluation; (4) research grants and contracts; (5) grants for support of population sciences, research centers; and (6) planning and population growth information distribution and educational materials development.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Requires the Postal Service to establish, not later than two hundred forty days after the date of the enactment of this Act, a mail delivery insurance program which will enable any person transmitting any matter in the domestic mail to purchase, with respect to such matter, insurance against any loss sustained by that person because the insured matter was not delivered to the addressee, or delivered to the addressee after the insured delivery date. Provides that coverage under the mail delivery insurance program shall: (1) not exceed $2,500 with respect to each insured matter transmitted in the mail, and (2) not include the value of the insured matter itself, if such matter is damaged or lost, but only losses resulting from the late delivery or nondelivery of such matter. Directs the General Accounting Office to conduct an investigation and study of domestic mail service for the purpose of establishing a schedule of standard processing and delivery periods for such mail service.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, an Office of Population Affairs to be directed by an Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs. Sets forth the duties of the Assistant Secretary. Establishes within the Department an Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Creates within the Administration a National Center for Family Planning Services, headed by a Director, which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Public information, program planning and evaluation, manpower development and training, supervision of field services, and grants management. Establishes within the Administration, a National Institute for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change which shall establish identifiable units to carry out, at a minimum, the following functions: Reproductive physiology research, contraceptive development and evaluation, operational research, social science research, public information, manpower development and training, and grants management. Establishes a National Family Planning Services Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Director, at meetings held no less than two time each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Center for Family Planning Services. Establishes a National Population Sciences Advisory Council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations, to the Director, at meetings held no less than two times each year, on matters relating to the activities of the National Institute for Research on Human Reproduction and Population Change. Sets forth the functions of the Administration on Reproductive Research and Family Planning. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such amounts as may be necessary to meet the administrative expenses of the Administration. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit a report to Congress on each January 1 for the five years following the enactment of this Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974-1976 for the following: (1) special project grants for family planning services; (2) formula grants for family planning, public health services; (3) manpower development and program planning and evaluation; (4) research grants and contracts; (5) grants for support of population sciences research centers; and (6) planning and population growth information distribution and educational materials development.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Prohibits persons from loading or transporting any radiological, chemical or biological warfare agent, except as authorized by a permit, for the purpose of dumping it into ocean waters. Specifies, under the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, what constitutes "material" whose dumping into ocean waters is prohibited. Allows for the issuance of dumping permits by the Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency when such dumping will not unreasonably degrade or endanger human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities. Provides that it is the policy of the Congress that the President seek effective international action to ensure the implementation of the proposals of the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter.
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