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Rep. English, Glenn [D-OK-6]

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Bill· HRH.R. 11153 (95th)passed

Reclamation Safety of Dams Act

United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1978

Reclamation Safety of Dams Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to modify Bureau of Reclamation dams and related facilities in order to preserve structural safety.

Bill· HRH.R. 11122 (95th)reported

Agricultural Land Retention Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978

Agricultural Land Retention Act - Title I: Objectives - Declares that it is in the public interest to retain, protect and improve agricultural land, to reduce its conversion to nonagricultural uses, and to limit the encroachment of industrial activities. Title II: Research Program - Establishes an Agricultural Land Review Commission to study: (1) agricultural land in the United States; (2) the effects of industrial development, climate and other factors on the productivity of such land; (3) the acquisition of such land by persons not engaged in agricultural activities; and (4) methods of protecting and improving such land, and of reducing the amount of it being converted to nonagricultural uses. Authorizes the Commission to make grants to public or private groups or organizations or individuals to do research pursuant to its study. Requires the Commission to report its findings, conclusions and recommendations to the President and to Congress. Title III: Demonstration Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to pay up to 75 percent of the cost and to provide technical assistance to any State pilot project undertaken to demonstrate and test methods of reducing the amount of agricultural land being converted to nonagricultural uses. Requires all such projects to be completed within five years after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to report his findings, conclusions and recommendations to the President and to Congress. Title IV: General Provisions - Authorizes for Title II programs the appropriation of $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1979 through 1982. Authorizes for Title III programs the appropriation of $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1979 through 1982.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 749 (95th)referred

A resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to give citizens of the United States the right to enact and repeal laws by voting on legislation in a national election.

United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978

Constitutional Amendment -- Provides for popular enactment and repeal of laws, except those with respect to declaring war and similar matters. Requires a petition signed by a number of persons equalling at least three percent of the total number of persons voting in the last Presidential election both in each of at least ten States and nationwide to place such an issue on the ballot and a nationwide majority of votes cast to pass it.

Bill· HRH.R. 10880 (95th)referred

Veterans and Survivors Pension Improvement Act

United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1978

Veterans' and Survivors' Pension Improvement Act - Title I: Amendments to Pension Program for Non-service-connected Disability or Death - Revises the list of specified catagories of payments excluded from the determination of annual income for benefit payment purposes. Requires persons applying for a non-service-connected disability pension to report the income and estate of each spouse and child on account of whom added pension is applied for or received. Sets increased flat pension and aid-and-attendance allowance rates, reduced by the amount of a veteran's annual income, and in specified instances, by the amount of a spouse's or child's income which is reasonably available to or for such veteran. Sets increased flat benefit rates, with similar reductions, for the surviving spouses and children of such veterans. Requires annual adjustments in such pension and benefit rates in conjunction with cost-of-living increases in Social Security benefits. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions and Effective Dates - Sets the effective dates for provisions of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 10775 (95th)referred

A bill to establish a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution and to establish a trust fund to provide a stipend for such fellowship.

United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978

Amends the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 to establish a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution. Establishes the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Trust Fund in the Treasury.

Bill· HRH.R. 10724 (95th)referred

Agriculture Refinance Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978

Agriculture Refinance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit insured loans of up to $1,000,000 to farm owners and operators for refinancing existing indebtedness incurred between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1977. Allows a repayment period for refinancing loans of 40 years for real estate loans, 12 years for equipment loans, and five years for operating loans. Defers the first payment for the interest and principal of such loans for five years for real estate loans, for three years for equipment loans, and for two years for operating loans.

Bill· HRH.R. 10723 (95th)referred

Agriculture Refinance Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978

Agriculture Refinance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit insured loans of up to $1,000,000 to farm owners and operators for refinancing existing indebtedness incurred between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1977. Allows a repayment period for refinancing loans of 40 years for real estate loans, 12 years for equipment loans, and five years for operating loans. Defers the first payment for the interest and principal of such loans for five years for real estate loans, for three years for equipment loans, and for two years for operating loans.

Bill· HRH.R. 10584 (95th)passed

Agricultural Trade Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978

Agricultural Trade Act - Title I: Establishment of United States Agricultural Trade Offices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish abroad not less than six nor more than 25 United States Agricultural Trade Offices, for the purpose of developing, maintaining, and expanding international markets for United States agricultural commodities. Title II: Intermediate Commercial Credit - Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to require the Corporation to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities out of its own private stocks on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture: (1) an Assistant Secretary for Commodity Programs, to perform duties related to agricultural stabilization and conservation; and (2) an Under Secretary for International Affairs to perform duties related to foreign agriculture. Title IV: Agricultural Counselors - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to change the title of Agricultural Attaches to Agricultural Counselors, and to require each Counselor to submit to the Secretary an annual report detailing the social, political and economic factors affecting agriculture and agricultural trade in the country or area to which such Counselor is assigned. Title V: General Provisions - Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress annual reports on the activities and accomplishments of the Department, especially those of the United States Agricultural Trade Offices, in developing, maintaining, and expanding foreign markets for United States agricultural commodities.

Bill· HRH.R. 10539 (95th)referred

Agriculture Refinance Act

United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978

Agriculture Refinance Act - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit insured loans of up to $1,000,000 to farm owners and operators for refinancing existing indebtedness incurred between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1977. Allows a repayment period for refinancing loans of 40 years for real estate loans, 12 years for equipment loans, and five years for operating loans. Defers the first payment for the interest and principal of such loans for five years for real estate loans, and for two years for equipment and operating loans.

Bill· HRH.R. 10152 (95th)referred

Equal Housing Opportunity Amendments

United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1977

Equal Housing Opportunity Amendments - Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to require that loan guarantees from the Farmers Home Administration be under terms and restrictions no less favorable to borrowers than those offered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 420 (95th)referred

Concurrent resolution to assure equal access to quality health care for populations located in rural areas.

United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1977

Declares it the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare should not include in the National Guidelines for Health Planning any guidelines which would directly or indirectly cause the closing of any small, rural hospital which is the only hospital providing primary care services to a local community.

Bill· HRH.R. 9796 (95th)referred

Psychotropic Substances Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1977

Psychotropic Substances Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Public Health Service Act to meet obligations under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 389 (95th)referred

Concurrent resolution providing that residential telephone subscriber interests, especially those of citizens in rural areas, be protected as competition is permitted in the telecommunications industry.

United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1977

Requires the Federal Communications Commission in interpreting or implementing policy governing the nationwide telecommunications network, to consider specified matters affecting rural users of telecommunications services. Directs Congress: (1) to initiate studies to determine the potential economic impact of competition in the telecommunications industry; and (2) establish a national telecommunications policy which permits competition in such industry and assures that residents of less densely populated rural areas continue to receive telecommunications services on a par with urban areas.

Bill· HRH.R. 9618 (95th)referred

A bill to establish a Department of Education.

United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1977

Establishes a Department of Education within the executive branch of the Federal Government to take over specified functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; all of the functions of the Education Division and various educational functions handled by the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and Interior; the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities; the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities; and National Science Foundation. Creates the Federal Interagency Committee on Education and the National Advisory Commission on Education.

Bill· HRH.R. 9619 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the River and Harbor Act of 1960 relating to the conveyance of land by the Secretary of the Army for development of public port or industrial facilities.

United States · United States Congress · 18 October 1977

Amends the River and Harbor Act of 1960 to authorize the Secretary of the Army to consider commercial activities which will further the development of the public port or industrial facilities, which are under his jurisdiction as part of a water resources project, when determining whether conveyance of surplus real property to a State or political subdivision thereof is in the public interest.

Bill· HRH.R. 9500 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that before an alien who is likely to become a public charge may be admitted into the United States, such alien must have an immigration sponsor post a $5,000 bond on such immigrant's behalf.

United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1977

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit the admission into the United States of an alien who is likely to become a public charge unless a United States citizen posts a $5,000 bond on behalf of such alien. Terminates the liability of the sponsor upon the death of the alien, or three years after such bond is given.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 787 (95th)referred

Resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should establish a Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition.

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977

Declares that the President should establish a Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition which should: (1) collect and generate information and resources on food, hunger, malnutrition and related concerns; (2) assess current programs affecting domestic and international hunger and malnutrition; (3) analyze and report its findings and recommendations to the President, the Congress, and the public; and (4) assist the President and the Congress in implementing its recommendations.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 365 (95th)referred

Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with regard to the disposition by the United States of any right to, title to, or interest in the property of Canal Zone agencies and any real property located in the Canal Zone.

United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977

Expresses the sense of the Congress that any right to, title to, or interest in the property of the United States Government agencies in the Panama Canal Zone or any real property and improvements thereon located in the zone should not be conveyed, relinquished, or otherwise disposed of to any foreign government without specific authorization of such conveyance, relinquishment, or other disposition by any Act of Congress.

Bill· HRH.R. 9093 (95th)referred

Sunset Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977

Title I: Authorizations of New Budget Authority - Sunset Act - Sets forth a five-year schedule for review and reauthorization of all Federal programs according to budget function and subfunction as set forth in the Budget of the United States Government for Fiscal Year 1977. States that no program not specifically reauthorized by Congress pursuant to this Act shall continue to function after the review date set forth in such schedule. Excepts from the requirements of this Act specified programs such as health care services,general retirement and disability insurance, and Federal employment retirement and disability payments. Permits legislation authorizing Federal program review more often than every five years as required by this Act. Requires the Comptroller General to identify for Congress for each program being reviewed the type of budget authority such program has and those inactive programs for which no outlays have been made during fiscal years 1976 and 1977. Title II: Review of Programs - Requires the authorizing committees of the Senate and House of Representatives to conduct sunset reviews of all programs prior to the review date applicable to such program and to issue a report on the findings of such review. Sets forth guidelines for the content of such sunset reviews, including the identification of programs with duplicative objectives and an assessment of the impact of eliminating the program or funding it at a lower level. Provides the authorizing committees with assistance from the Government Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional Research Service in carrying out such sunset reviews. Title III: Citizens' Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government - Establishes a Citizens' Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government to study and make recommendations on ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal Government. Requires the Commission to submit its final report together with its findings and recommendations no later than September 30, 1980. Requires the Comptroller General to report once a year for two years after submission of the Commission's final report the status of actions taken as a result of the report. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Authorizes to be appropriated $12,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Title. Title IV: Tax Expenditures - Requires the Joint Committee on Taxation, after consultation with Secretary of the Treasury and the Budget Committees of the House and Senate, to prepare a reauthorization schedule for all tax expenditures, similar to the schedule set out in Title I for Federal programs, and to report its recommendations to the Committees on Ways and Means and Finance. Requires the Congress to take final action before the end of the 95th Congress on the schedule for tax expenditures. States that, following the adoption of the schedule, the Committees on Ways and Means and Finance are required to conduct sunset reviews of tax expenditures according to the schedule. Sets forth guidelines for such reviews similar to those set out in Title II for such programs. Title V: Miscellaneous - Requires Executive Department agency heads to submit to Congress after the President has submitted his budget a statement of that agency's request for new budget authority as transmitted to the Office of Management and Budget. Requires agency heads to furnish the authorizing committees of Congress information regarding supplemental budget requests and supplemental estimates of outlays. Provides for a one-year grace period for programs which have not been specifically reauthorized by the scheduled time.

Bill· HRH.R. 8954 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, as amended.

United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1977

Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to revise procedures for the registration of pesticides with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Authorizes the Administrator to waive certain data requirements of the Act pertaining to the efficacy of a pesticide. Authorizes the Administrator to conditionally register or amend the registration of a pesticide substantially similar to any currently registered pesticide. Authorizes the Administrator to conditionally amend the registration of a pesticide to permit additional uses, and to conditionally register a pesticide containing an active ingredient not contained in any currently registered pesticide for a period reasonably sufficient for the generation and submission of required data. Permits the classification of pesticides prior to registration. Sets forth the procedure for changing the classification of a registered pesticide from restricted to general use. Requires the Administrator to authorize any State to issue an experimental use permit for a pesticide. Permits the Administrator to consider restricting a pesticide's use as an alternative to cancellation. Sets forth the procedure for cancellation of conditional registrations. Revises the trade secrets provision of the Act to require the applicant to clearly mark and submit separately any data which such applicator considers to be trade secrets or commercial or financial information. Requires such applicant to submit an unmarked summary of each compilation of data marked as trade secrets or commercial or financial information. Sets forth revised disclosure procedures. Includes Indian tribes within the provisions of the Act relating to cooperative agreements with the Administrator for training and enforcement programs. Directs the Administrator to exempt certain pesticides from regulations promulgated under the Act. Requires the Administrator to delegate to the States the primary responsibility for the enforcement of pesticide use violations under the Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 8888 (95th)referred

A bill to encourage farmers to establish shelterbelts for the purposes of reducing soil erosion, protecting crops and livestock, and establishing wildlife habitat areas.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an income tax credit for expenses incurred in the conversion of farm and ranch land into qualified wind erosion control or wildlife habitat areas. Provides Federal local reimbursement to state and local governments for the real property taxes which would otherwise be collected on such property.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 577 (95th)referred

Joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets and elimination of the Federal indebtedness.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977

Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government, during any fiscal year, do not exceed the total receipts of the Government during such fiscal year. States that by the fourth fiscal year after the ratification of this amendment the budget shall be balanced. Permits expenditures to exceed national revenues in time of declared emergency, but states that such expenditures shall never exceed receipts by more than ten percent. Provides that during the fifth fiscal year beginning after the ratification of this amendment and for the next 19 succeeding fiscal years thereafter, the total receipts of the Government shall exceed outlays by an amount equal to five percent of the Federal indebtedness at the beginning of the fifth year fiscal year.

Law· HRH.R. 8588 (95th)open

Inspector General Act of 1978

United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977

Establishes an Office of Inspector General within each of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, and Transportation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Community Services, Energy Research and Development, Federal Energy, General Services, National Aeronautics and Space, Small Business, and Veterans' Administrations. Makes it the duty of such Offices to direct the auditing and investigation of the programs of the agency in which each such Office is established and to recommend policies to each respective agency to promote the efficiency and economy of and to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in the programs administered by each agency. Directs each such Office to coordinate the relationships between its agency and other Federal agencies, States, and local government agencies in carrying out its mission. Requires each such Office to keep Congress and the head of the respective agency fully informed concerning its activities and findings. Specifies the frequency and content of reports. Transfers to each Office the functions of specified existing audit and investigation offices within the appropriate agencies. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 5315; 5316)

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 277 (95th)referred

Concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the U.S. Postal Service should not reduce the frequency of mail delivery service.

United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1977

Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that the United States Postal Services should not reduce the frequency of mail delivery service for any user of the mails below the frequency of such service which was in effect for such user of June 1, 1977.

Bill· HRH.R. 8190 (95th)referred

Comprehensive Veterans Employment Training and Supportive Services Act

United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977

Comprehensive Veterans' Employment Training and Supportive Services Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to provide (1) such comprehensive, coordinated, and interrelated programs as are deemed necessary to facilitate training, readjustment, and rehabilitation, and (2) career, veterans benefits and rights, and personal adjustment and motivational counseling to promote the productive employment of Vietnam era veterans, especially disabled veterans.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 676 (95th)referred

Resolution relative to the U.S. retention of the Panama Canal.

United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977

Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the United States should maintain its rights and jurisdiction over the Panama Canal and the Panama Canal Zone.

Bill· HRH.R. 8102 (95th)referred

A bill to require that all reports concerning certain sales of meat and meat food products meet standards set by the Secretary of Agriculture concerning accuracy and completeness.

United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1977

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Packers and Stockyards Administration, to monitor sales and transfers of meat and meat food products of forty thousand pounds or more and to require persons involved in such sales and transfers to report information concerning prices and quantities. Imposes a $10,000 to $100,000 fine on any person who knowingly makes inaccurate or incomplete reports on such matters.

Bill· HRH.R. 7953 (95th)referred

Small Business Impact Statement Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977

Small Business Impact Statement Act - Directs the head of each Federal agency to prepare a small business impact statement in connection with each rule made by such agency unless the agency head, with the approval of the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration determines that such rule will not have a substantial effect on a significant number of small business. Sets forth information which must be present in each small business impact statement. Prescribes steps which each agency head must follow in preparing any small business impact statement including publication of the statement in the Federal Register.

Bill· HRH.R. 7884 (95th)referred

A bill to encourage the establishment of wind erosion control and wildlife habitat areas which meet standards prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.

United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1977

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an income tax credit for the amounts paid or incurred by the taxpayer to convert land held in the United States and formerly used for agriculture or raising livestock into an area used exclusively for providing vegetative cover for wind erosion control or wildlife habitat. Provides that such wind erosion control and wildlife habitat areas must: (1) meet such requirements as are established by the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) be no less than 20 feet, nor more than 60 feet in width; and (3) comprise no more than 15 percent of the area of any farm. Provides for the recapture of such credits to the extent that credit is taken for land which ceases to be a wind erosion control or wildlife habitat area, or is transferred by the taxpayer (except by reason of death, or in certain tax-free corporate acquisitions) within three years after the credit is taken. Provides for the carryover of allowable credit to the extent it exceeds the taxpayer's liability. Reduces the taxpayer's basis, and disallows any deduction of expenditures properly charged to capital account for which this credit is taken.

Bill· HRH.R. 7858 (95th)referred

Consumer Communications Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1977

Consumer Communications Reform Act - States that Congress finds that the revenues from integrated interstate and foreign common carrier telecommunications services helped maintain a level of charges for telephone exchange service which is lower than otherwise would be required. Expresses the sense of Congress that the authorization of lines, facilities, or services of specialized carriers which duplicate the lines, facilities, or services of other telecommunications common carriers is contrary to the public interest. Reaffirms the intent of Congress that the complete authority to regulate terminal and station equipment used for telephone exchange service shall rest with the States even though such terminal and station equipment also may be used in connection with interstate services. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that no compensatory charges for or in connection with such communication service may be found to be unjust or unreasonable on the ground that it is too low. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from holding the charge of a carrier up to a particular level to protect the traffic or revenues from a communication service offered or provided by another carrier if such charge proposed by the carrier is compensation. Provides that the Commission shall not grant or authorize any construction permit, station license, or certificate, for the construction, acquisition, or operation of any communication or transmission line or facility, or extension thereof, or any modification or renewal thereof, unless the Commission shall find, after full opportunity for evidentiary hearing on the record, that such permit, license, or certificate will not result in increased charges or unnecessary duplication of communication lines.

Bill· HRH.R. 7776 (95th)referred

A bill to provide that in compiling unemployment statistics, the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall include farmers reporting net income losses for the preceding taxable year and shall include certain of their dependents, and to provide that Federal assistance distributed on the basis of unemployment shall take into account such farmers and dependents.

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977

Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in compiling unemployment statistics, to classify as unemployed: (1) any farmer who reports a farm net loss on his or her income tax return; and (2) any dependent of such farmer whose sole occupation consists of working 15 or more hours per week on the farm. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report the number of such farmers and dependents to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Requires any Federal programs in which funds are allocated, in whole or in part, on the basis of unemployment statistics, to base such allocations, after September 30, 1978, on unemployment statistics compiled pursuant to this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 7680 (95th)referred

Honey and Honey Products Inspection and Identification Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977

Honey and Honey Products Inspection and Identification Act -- Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to certify that imported honey originates from supplies which are pure and wholesome and that the foreign appraises and plants in which it is produced comply with minimum standards of sanitation comparable to standards recommended by the Secretary for domestic honey. Directs the Secretary to inspect imported honey to the extent necessary to insure compliance with such standards. Requires that every container of any food product made in whole or in part of any imported honey be labeled as such. Subjects all imported honey to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act after entry into the United States. Imposes criminal penalties for violation of the labeling requirements of this Act. Requires Congressional oversight of regulations issued pursuant to this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 7458 (95th)referred

Kaw Reservoir Water Conveyance Authorization Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1977

Kaw Reservoir Water Conveyance Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct treatment facilities and a regional conveyance system of water from Kaw Lake for non-Federal public members of the Kaw Reservoir Authority, Oklahoma.

Bill· HRH.R. 7483 (95th)referred

Social Security Rights Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1977

Social Security Rights Act - Requires that procedures be established for the expedited replacement of undelivered benefit checks under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Requires that decisions (and reconsiderations) on initial benefit claims be made within 90 days. Requires that payment of benefits on approved claims begin no later than the day regularly fixed for delivery of benefit checks in the second month following the month in which the claim was approved.

Bill· HRH.R. 7396 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the U.S. Grain Standards Act with respect to recordkeeping requirements and supervision fees.

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1977

Grants to the Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service, under the United States Grain Standards Act of 1976, discretion as to the transactions and processes about which he shall require agencies and persons receiving official grain inspection or weighing services to maintain complete and accurate records. Reduces the amount of fees paid for inspection or weighing from 100 percent to 50 percent of the costs of direct inspection or weighing, or the direct supervision of personnel performing such functions by the field office personnel of the Federal Grain Inspection Service. Permits the Secretary of Agriculture to delegate authority to the Service to perform related functions for grain and similar commodities and products thereof under other statutes administered by the Department of Agriculture. Establishes a 12-member advisory committee to advise the Administrator with respect to the implementation of the United States Grain Standards Act of 1976. Requires such committee to terminate 18 months after the enactment of this Act. Amends specified provisions of such Act to: (1) delete the general exception to the provision limiting the number of official agencies for inspection or weighing to one for any geographic area; (2) authorize the Administrator to make exceptions to the general prohibition against the inspection by an official agency of grain samples not physically located within the geographical area assigned to such agency; and (3) provide for the collection of reasonable fees to cover the estimated costs to the Service incident to the testing of inspection and weighing equipment. Prohibits any person from knowingly making any false representation that any weighing service under such Act has been performed. Extends the deadline dates for submission to the appropriate Committees of Congress of reports on specified studies being conducted regarding the present grain inspection and weighing system. Specifies the factors which the Administrator must consider in making a determination with regard to a possible conflict of interest in the employment of personnel in inspection or weighing. Prohibits any person acting under a license or authorization to perform official functions under the United States Grain Standards Act from certifying or stating in writing or performing any analysis to determine: (1) the subclass of Hard Red Winter wheat on the basis of color or on the basis of the dark, hard, and vitreous kernel content; or (2) the percentage of dark, hard and vitreous kernels in Hard Red Winter wheat.

Bill· HRH.R. 7340 (95th)referred

A bill providing that the tax treatment of certain transportation expenses between a taxpayer's residence and place of work shall be determined without regard to Revenue Ruling 76-453.

United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1977

Provides that the income tax treatment of certain transportation expenses between the taxpayer's residence and place of work shall be determined without regard to Revenue Ruling 76-453 or any other ruling, regulation or decision reaching the same result.

Bill· HRH.R. 7317 (95th)referred

Food Additive Safety Amendments

United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1977

Food Additive Safety Amendments - States that a food additive shall be deemed safe if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1) makes a finding, based on recommendations of an advisory committee, that the public benefit from permitting the use of such additive would exceed the public risk which might result from such use; (2) gives notice in the Federal Register of such a finding and invites public comment thereon; and (3) issues a final order not earlier than 120 days of such publication in the Federal Register of such findings. Specifies factors the Secretary must take into consideration when evaluating a food additive. Deems saccharin a safe food additive unless the Secretary declares it unsafe under the provisions of this Act.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 572 (95th)referred

Resolution to amend the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on Internal Security.

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1977

Amends the Rules of the House of Representatives to transfer the responsibility for investigating Communist and subversive organizations affecting the internal security of the United States to a standing Committee on Internal Security established by this Resolution. Confers upon such committee the responsibility for investigating all organizations within the United States aimed at overthrowing or altering the Government of the United States by force, insurrection or other unlawful means or inciting or employing violence to obstruct the authority of the Federal Government with respect to matters of internal security of the United States.

Bill· HRH.R. 7060 (95th)referred

A bill to extend the moratorium on post office closings.

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1977

Amends the Postal Reorganization Act Amendments of 1976 to extend to June 15, 1977, the period during which the Postal Service is prohibited from: (1) increasing rates and fees to levels exceeding those in effect on the date of enactment of the Act; (2) offering levels and types of services which are less than those available on July 1, 1976; and (3) closing certain postal facilities which were in operation on July 1, 1976.

Bill· HRH.R. 6937 (95th)referred

A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to take an enumeration of horses in 1978 and in every year thereafter.

United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1977

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Statistical Reporting Service, to take an annual enumeration of horses in the United States, by the "sampling" method if preferred beginning in 1978. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,250,000 for fiscal year 1978 and $1,250,000 for each following fiscal year.

Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 424 (95th)open

Joint resolution to authorize the Administrator of General Services to accept land, buildings, and equipment, without reimbursement, for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977

Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to accept land, buildings, and equipment, without reimbursement, for the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of the National Archives system. Provides that such acceptance shall not occur until after the expiration of 60 days of continuous congressional session following the date on which a report is submitted by the Administrator to Congress on any such proposed Presidential archival depository.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 475 (95th)referred

Resolution to establish a Select Committee on Population.

United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977

Creates a Select House Committee on Population to conduct an investigation and study of: (1) the major adverse effects of current population growth throughout the world; (2) approaches which have been shown to be effective in coping with excessive population growth; and (3) means to encourage countries with excessive population growth rates to adopt methods proven to be successful in reducing population growth rates.