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United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Expresses the House of Representatives strong disapproval of efforts to expel Israel from the United Nations. States that if Israel is expelled the United States should reassess its relationship with the United Nations General Assembly. Provides that such reassessment shall include possible withdrawal from that body.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Public Service Employee Retirement Income Security Act - Title I: Protection of Public Service Employee Benefit Rights - Establishes a system of regulation for State and local government employee welfare and pension benefit plans. Requires every employee benefit plan to be established and maintained pursuant to a written instrument. Specifies that such instrument shall provide for one or more named fiduciaries who jointly or severally shall have authority to control and manage the operation and administration of the plan. Specifies that a fiduciary shall discharge his duties with respect to a plan solely in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries. Directs every employee benefit plan to: (1) provide a procedure for establishing and carrying out a funding policy and method consistent with the objectives of the plan and the requirements of this title; (2) describe any procedure under the plan for the allocation of responsibilities for the operation and administration of the plan; (3) provide a procedure for amending such plan, and for identifying the persons who have authority to amend the plan; and (4) specify the basis on which payments are made to and from the plan. Requires all assets of an employee benefit plan to be held in trust by one or more trustees. Specifies the method of appointment of the trustees and states that the trustees shall have exclusive authority and discretion to manage and control the assets of the plan subject to specified limitations. Prohibits a plan from engaging in a transaction which constitutes a direct or indirect: (1) sale or exchange, or leasing, of any property between the plan and a party in interest; (2) lending of money or other extension of credit between the plan and a party in interest; (3) furnishing of goods, services, or facilities between the plan and a party in interest; and (4) transfer to, or use by or for the benefit of, a party in interest, of any assets of the plan. Prohibits a plan from acquiring : (1) any employer security which is not a qualifying employer security, or (2) any employer real property which is not qualifying employer real property. Permits the Secretary of Labor to allow exemptions from prohibited transactions in specified situations. Provides for the mandatory bonding of all individuals who handle moneys or properties of an employee benefit plan. Makes any fiduciary who engages in a prohibited transaction liable for any losses resulting from such breach of his duties. Provides that a civil action may be brought by a participant or beneficiary of an employee benefit plan to recover benefits due to him under the terms of his plan, to enforce his rights under the terms of the plan, or to clarify his rights to future benefits under the terms of the plan. Specifies reporting and disclosure requirements to be followed by the Administrator of an employee benefit plan. Provides criminal penalties for violation of such requirements. Establishes minimum participation standards for employee benefit pension plans. Prohibits any pension plan from requiring, as a condition of participation in the plan, that an employee complete a period of service with the employer or employers maintaining the plan extending beyond the later of the following dates: (1) the date on which the employee attains the age of 25; or (2) the date on which he completes 1 year of service. Establishes minimum vesting standards for employee benefit pension plans. Requires an employee's rights in a pension plan to be nonforfeitable with regard to his own contributions. Requires specified percentages of the employer's contributions to be nonforfeitable depending upon the employee's years of service. Specifies benefit accrual requirements for employee benefit pension plans. Stipulates that if a pension plan provides for the payment of benefits in the form of an annuity, such plan shall provide for the payment of annuity benefits in a form having the effect of a qualified joint and survivor annuity. Requires each pension plan to provide that unless the participant otherwise elects, the payment of benefits under the plan to the participant shall begin not later than the 60th day after the latest of the close of the plan year in which: (1) the date on which the participant attains the earlier of age 65 or the normal retirement age specified under the plan; (2) occurs the 10th anniversary of the year in which the participant commenced participation in the plan; or (3) the participant terminates his service with the employer. Prohibits a pension plan from merging or consolidating with, transfering its assets or liabilities to, any other plan after the date of the enactment of this Act, unless each participant in the plan would (if the plan then terminated) receive a benefit immediately after the merger, consolidation, or transfer which is equal to or greater than the benefit he would have been entitled to receive immediately before the merger, consolidation, or transfer (if the plan had then terminated). Establishes minimum funding standards for employee benefit pension plans. Provides that if an employer is unable to satisfy the minimum funding standard for a plan year without substantial economic hardship and if application of the standard would be adverse to the interests of plan participants in the aggregate, the Secretary may waive such requirement for not more than 5 of any 15 consecutive plan years. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the Secretary to carry out his functions under this Act. Title II: Insurance - Includes State and local government employee benefit pension plans within the insurance coverage of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1975
Adds rule XLV to the Rules of the House of Representatives. Provides that the Congressional Record shall contain an accurate and verbatim account of remarks delivered on the floor of the House together with supportive data. Directs that revisions of the Record shall be limited to the correction of grammatical and typographical errors. Allows insertions in the Record of remarks not actually delivered on the floor by unanimous consent. Requires that such insertions be printed in a type face distinctively different from that used for verbatim remarks.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, to make visits to the work place of any employer, upon the request of the employer, to consult with and advise the employer concerning the obligations of the employer under such Act States that the Secretary shall give priority to small businesses and hazardous workplaces. Stipulates that no consultative visit made under this Act may serve as an inspection or investigation as otherwise provided for by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, except: (1) in the case of an employer who fails to eliminate a danger disclosed during such a vist; or (2) if conditions are found during such a vist which indicate the probability that death or serious harm could result to employees therefrom, the Secretary may notify the employer of such conditions and afford him a reasonable time to eliminate such conditions. Prohibits the transmission of information obtained during a consultative visit to representatives of the Secretary engaged in enforcement. Directs the Secretary to establish education programs to inform employers and employees of the hazards in particular industries. Authorizes the appropriation of funds through fiscal year 1978 for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day in each year as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Authorizes educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance to make expenditures for a sport from revenues derived from that sport, notwithstanding the provisions of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibiting sex discrimination. Authorizes the separation of students by sex in physical education classes of recipient institutions if equal facilities are provided for each sex.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Authorizes educational institutions receiving Federal financial assistance to make expenditures for a sport or team from revenues derived from that sport or team, notwithstanding the provisions of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibiting sex discrimination. Authorizes the separation of students by sex in physical education classes of recipient institutions if equal facilities are provided for each sex.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Adds rule XLV to the Rules of the House of Representatives. Provides that the Congressional Record shall contain an accurate and verbatim account of remarks delivered on the floor of the House together with supportive data. Directs that revisions of the Record shall be limited to the correction of grammatical and typographical errors. Allows insertions in the Record of remarks not actually delivered on the floor by unanimous consent. Requires that such insertions be printed in a type face distinctively different from that used for verbatim remarks.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Disapproves regulations submitted to the Congress on June 4, 1975, for the implementation of specified sections of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. States that such regulations are disapproved on the grounds of their inconsistency with the Act from which they derive their authority. Returns such regulations to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Disapproves regulations submitted to the Congress on June 4, 1975, for the implementation of specified sections of title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. States that such regulations are disapproved on the grounds of their inconsistency with the Act from which they derive their authority. Returns such regulations to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act to withhold a percentage of the total entitlement payment for any period to insure sufficient funds for final allocation of funds among the state and local units of government. Appropriates to the State and Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Funds: (1) $1,625,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, (2) $6,687,500,000 for fiscal year 1977, (3) $6,837,500,000 for fiscal year 1978, (4) $6,987,500,000 for fiscal year 1979, (5) $7,137,500,000 for fiscal year 1980, and (6) $7,287,500,000 fiscal year 1981. Appropriates to the Fund as noncontiguous States adjustments: (1) $1,195,000 for fiscal year 1976, and (2) $4,780,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976 through 1981. Exempts amounts appropriated to the Fund from the provisions of the Congressional Budget Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a report with appropriate recommendations to the Congress no later than September 30, 1980, concerning the extension of this title. Declares that if the entitlement of any Indian tribe or Alaskan native village is waived for any entitlement period, then the amount of such entitlement shall become part of the entitlement of the county government of the county in which such unit is located. Increases the maximum percentage points per entitlement period until it reaches 175 percent. Directs each State and local unit of government which receives funds under such Act to submit a report to the Secretary after the close of each entitlement period on the use of the funds received. Directs such unit of local government which expects to receive funds to submit a report to the Secretary on how it plans to use the funds it expects to receive. Empowers the Secretary whenever he determines that a unit of government has failed to comply with an applicable regulation to withhold all or a portion of the entitlement funds due such unit of government, to terminate the eligibility of such unit of government, and to require repayment of the entitlement funds expended. Requires units of government to provide an opportunity for citizens to give recommendations and views on the proposed expenditures of all funds within such units distributed under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Provides that the tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for charitable contributions of medical, surgical, or hospital supplies that is ordinary income property of the donor shall be reduced by only one-half of the amount of gain which would have been realized if the property contributed had been sold at its fair market value if the donee uses the property for a function related to its basis for tax exempt status.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Adds rule XLV to the Rules of the House of Representatives. Provides that the Congressional Record shall contain an accurate and verbatim account of remarks delivered on the floor of the House together with supportive data. Directs that revisions of the Record shall be limited to the correction of grammatical and typographical errors. Allows insertions in the Record of remarks not actually delivered on the floor by unanimous consent. Requires that such insertions be printed in a type face distinctively different from that used for verbatim remarks.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Adds rule XLV to the Rules of the House of Representatives. Provides that the Congressional Record shall contain an accurate and verbatim account of remarks delivered on the floor of the House together with supportive data. Directs that revisions of the Record shall be limited to the correction of grammatical and typographical errors. Allows insertions in the Record of remarks not actually delivered on the floor by unanimous consent. Requires that such insertions be printed in a type face distinctively different from that used for verbatim remarks.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Adds rule XLV to the Rules of the House of Representatives. Provides that the Congressional Record shall contain an accurate and verbatim account of remarks delivered on the floor of the House together with supportive data. Directs that revisions of the Record shall be limited to the correction of grammatical and typographical errors. Allows insertions in the Record of remarks not actually delivered on the floor by unanimous consent. Requires that such insertions be printed in a type face distinctively different from that used for verbatim remarks.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1975
Exempts specified transportation employees of private carriers of property by motor vehicle from the provisions of the Walsh-Healey Act relating to maximum and overtime hours of labor.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Eliminates the requirement, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, that annual reports with respect to the present value of employee pension benefit plan liabilities describe allocation by termination priority categories. Increases the period of time for determining as a variable the amounts necessary to amortize credits to the funding standard account from 5 to 30 plan years. Requires that changes in actuarial methods be taken into account in determining credits to the funding standard account. States that in situations where the assets of a plan are held by two or more trustees, each shall use reasonable care to prevent a co-trustee from committing a breach of fiduciary responsibility and they shall jointly manage the assets of the plan. Revises the standards and available procedures for determining when liability for the breach of a co-fiduciary attaches. Sets forth amended standards governing fiduciary responsiblity with respect to fund assets. Eliminates restrictions on specified fiduciaries to receive reasonable compensation for services rendered. Makes the development of a system under which risks with respect to contingent liability insurance are equitably distributed between the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and private insurers discretionary with the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to make such insurance available for employers by September 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Eliminates the requirement, under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, that annual reports with respect to the present value of employee pension benefit plan liabilities describe allocation by termination priority categories. Increases the period of time for determining as a variable the amounts necessary to amortize credits to the funding standard account from 5 to 30 plan years. Requires that changes in actuarial methods be taken into account in determining credits to the funding standard account. States that in situations where the assets of a plan are held by two or more trustees, each shall use reasonable care to prevent a co-trustee from committing a breach of fiduciary responsibility and they shall jointly manage the assets of the plan. Revises the standards and available procedures for determining when liability for the breach of a co-fiduciary attaches. Sets forth amended standards governing fiduciary responsiblity with respect to fund assets. Eliminates restrictions on specified fiduciaries to receive reasonable compensation for services rendered. Makes the development of a system under which risks with respect to contingent liability insurance are equitably distributed between the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and private insurers discretionary with the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to make such insurance available for employers by September 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Provides for a mid-decade sample survey of population to be taken as of April 1, 1985, and every 10 years thereafter. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to formulate the questions and type of information, subject to the approval of the appropriate committees of Congress, to be compiled in the decennial census and the mid-decade sample surveys not less than 3 years before the date of such census or survey. Allows the Secretary to submit, when circumstances necessitate, new questions during the remaining period before the decennial census or mid-decade sample survey. States that the geographic scope of each sample survey shall be the same as that of each decennial census. Authorizes the Secretary to call upon any other department, agency, or establishment of the Federal Government, or of the municipal government of the District of Columbia, for information pertinent to the work provided for in this title. Provides that the Secretary shall not have access to financial information contained in individual income tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service except as provided by law. Directs the Secretary to use information already available to the maximum extent possible instead of conducting direct inquiries. (Amends 13 U.S.C. 6, 141, and 191)
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that with respect to the right to life, the word 'person' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective dependency including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Authorizes the diversion and withdrawal of additional water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway. Requires the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, to at all times have direct control and supervision of the amounts of water directly diverted from Lake Michigan under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Provides for the Federal incorporation of the United States Submarine Veterans of World War II. Sets forth the powers of such corporation. Provides that the corporation, and its officers and directors shall not contribute to or otherwise support or assist any political party or candidate for elective public office.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States delegation to the European Security Conference should not agree to the recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and it should remain the policy of the United States not to recognize in any way the annexation of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that the House of Representatives of the 95th Congress and each succeeding Congress shall consider and adopt the rules of its proceedings. Limits general debate on the resolution incorporating the proposed rules to 10 hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the majority leader and the minority leader.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Correctional Services Improvement Act - Title I: Correctional Centers and Services - Authorizes the Attorney General to construct and operate correctional centers for specified criminal offenders, providing such services and correctional programs as educational, vocational, and recreational programs, medical, psychiatric, and dental care, and counseling. Specifies such centers as: (1) demonstration community treatment centers for the commitment or treatment of certain persons confined and awaiting trial, of persons sentenced to terms of more than one year, and of persons on probation or parole; (2) regional youth correctional centers for the commitment and treatment of youths and young adults sentenced pursuant to the Federal Youth Corrections Act; and (3) demonstration correctional centers for special offender groups of persons sentenced to terms in excess of one year or committed for an undetermined period, including such offender groups as the mentally ill or defective, the violent and dangerous, and women. Authorizes the Attorney General to contract with State and local authorities of the region in which a center is constructed for the use of the center's facilities, and to transfer title of such center to a State, without payment to the United States, after construction of the center and a determination that the center is operating efficiently and that the facilities will be available on a contractual basis for Federal offenders or other transferring States. Requires the center to be operated as such for at least twenty years after the transfer, and gives the United States the right of reverter in the event of breach of conditions of transfer. Creates a Federal Prison Review Board to: (1) prescribe minimum standards concerning the construction, operation, personnel training, and programs of jails and of correctional services owned or operated by a State or political subdivision in which persons accused or convicted under laws of the United States are confined or treated; (2) conduct subsequent periodic public hearings to review the extent of compliance with existing standards and the need for new standards; and (3) periodically inspect correctional facilities for the purpose of determining compliance with existing standards and the need for new standards. Authorizes the Attorney General to contract with appropriate State or local officials to pay the annual costs of implementing the prescribed standards, including capital expenditures for improvements and innovations in facilities. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the construction and improvement of centers as prescribed by this title. Title II: Coordination of Federal Correctional Activities - Creates a Federal Corrections Coordinating Council, and specifies as its functions: (1) to issue guidelines for the operation of the Bureau of Prisons, the Board of Parole, the Youth Division of the Board of Parole, and the Division of Probation of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to improve the administration of criminal justice and assure coordination of policies respecting the disposition, treatment, and correction of all persons convicted of crime; (2) to consider measures and suggest studies to promote the prevention of crime, delinquency and criminal recidivism; and (3) to establish a program of continuous research and experimentation to develop more effective methods for the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders. Provides that a court may require a person as conditions of probation, and that the Board of Parole may require a parolee, to reside in and participate in the program of a residential community treatment center, and to pay such costs incident to residence as deemed appropriate. Title III: Federal Corrections Institute - Establishes a Federal Corrections Institute to provide a coordinating center for the collection and dissemination of useful data regarding the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders and to provide training for representatives of Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers, judges and judicial personnel, probation and parole personnel, correctional personnel, welfare workers, and other persons, including lay personnel, connected with the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders. Authorizes the Institute: (a) to serve as an information bank by collecting systematically the data obtained from studies and research by public and private agencies on criminal behavior and recidivism, including, but not limited to, programs for prevention of crime and recidivism, training of corrections personnel, and rehabilitation and treatment of criminal offenders; (b) to publish data in forms useful to individuals, agencies, and organizations concerned with the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders; (c) to disseminate pertinent data and studies to individuals, agencies, and organizations concerned with prisoners, parolees, probationers, and other criminal offenders; (d) to devise and conduct in various geographical locations, seminars and workshops providing continuing studies for persons engaged in working directly with prisoners, parolees, probationers, and other criminal offenders; (e) to devise and conduct a training program of short-term instruction in the latest methods of treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders and prevention of recidivism for law envorcement officers, judges and judicial personnel, probation and parole personnel, correctional personnel, welfare workers, and other persons, including lay personnel, connected with the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders; and (f) to develop technical training teams to aid in the development of training programs within the several States and with the State and local agencies which work directly with prisoners, parolees, probationers, and other offenders. Places the overall supervision with regard to the policy and operations of the Institute in an Advisory Commission. Title IV: Commitment of Dangerous Persons Found Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity - Provides that, whenever any person is found not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the commission of the offense, the United States attorney, if he has reasonable cause to believe that such person if released unconditionally would constitute a danger to himself or others because of his mental condition, shall move for a judicial determination of the dangerousness of such person in the court in which the criminal proceedings were conducted. Makes provisions for this judicial determination, and for the commitment or release under custody of the Surgeon General of such person. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 4021-4025; 5041-5048; 4249; Amends 18 U.S.C. 5002, 3651, 4203)
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Requires, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that all committee meetings, including the mark-up of legislation, shall be open to the public, except when the committee determines in open session by roll call vote that the disclosure of the matter to be considered would endanger national security or violate any law or rule of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Requires, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that records of committee actions be made available for public inspection, except for information relating to the national security or which violates any law or rule of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to take immediate action to implement a plan for the audio and video broadcasting of House floor proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Requires that all House-Senate conferences shall be open to the public and that no conference report shall be in order for consideration unless all conference sessions were open.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that any member in committee may demand a rollcall vote on any matter, and that a rollcall vote shall be required on any motion to report a bill or resolution of a public character from committee.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that Members may not vote by proxy in committees.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Prohibits, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, a party caucus or conference from issuing binding instructions on a Member's committee or floor votes. Permits any Member so bound to raise a point of order.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to limit to one year the period during which the balance of an employees share distributions from an employees' trust or annuity must be paid to him on account of a termination, or a complete discontinuance of contributions under the pension plan in order to be excluded from gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Provides that individuals performing instructional, research, or administrative services for educational institutions shall not be eligible for unemployment compensation under the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974 for periods between academic years or terms.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Student Loan Amendments - Provides for the elimination of the defense of infancy with respect to non-payment of federally insured student loans made pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965. Authorizes students who have elected to repay student loans in less than 5 years to, at any time prior to completion of repayment, extend the repayment period to 5 years. Provides for a minimum annual payment of $360 for married couples both of whom have loans outstanding. Provides that lenders may be paid interest on the aggregate amount of multiple disbursements to a student from the time the first disbursement is made for the particular period of enrollment. Mandates the availability to eligible educational institutions of the latest known address of the student borrower. Provides that defaulting students shall be ineligible for future student assistance. Eliminates proprietary institutions as eligible lenders under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Provides that educational loans, to be dischargeable in bankruptcy, must have the first installment due less than 5 years before the filing of the petition for bankruptcy.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Authorizes appropriations for programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965 for fiscal years 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides, under title II (old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that a policeman or fireman who has social security coverage pursuant to a State or local retirement system may elect to terminate such coverage if he is subsequently required to become a member of such a retirement system.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Authorizes $298,000 for a special investigation and study of welfare and pension plans to be conducted by the House Committee on Education and Labor. Directs that the funds be allocated to the Subcommittee on Labor Standards. Calls for reports and recommendations concerning the impact and effect of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 on private and public pension and welfare plans. Requests that a report be made to the House during the present Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Provides for a mid-decade sample survey of population to be taken as of April 1, 1985, and every ten years thereafter. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to formulate the questions and type of information, subject to the approval of the appropriate committees of Congress, to be compiled in the decennial census and the mid-decade sample surveys not less than three years before the date of such census or survey. Allows the Secretary to submit, when circumstances necessitate, new questions during the remaining period before the decennial census or mid-decade sample survey. States that the geographic scope of each sample survey shall be the same as that of each decennial census.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Designates the Federal office building to be located in Carbondale, Illinois, as the Kenneth S. Gray Federal Building. Provides that the Administrator of General Services is not permitted to change the designated name of such building.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
National Commission on Regulatory Reform Act - Establishes the National Commission on Regulatory Reform. Directs the Commission to make a full and complete study of such regulatory activities of the independent regulatory agencies of the Federal Government as the Commission determines to be primarily economic in nature and to have a significant effect on the segments of the economy involving transportation, communication, the development and distribution of energy resources, or financial institutions. States that such study shall be undertaken to determine: (1) whether such regulatory activities have limited competition within such segments of the economy, and if they have, what the economic consequences have been, (2) whether such regulatory activities have, in other way, contributed to current economic difficulties, in particular inflation; and (3) whether changes need to be made with regard to such independent Federal establishments and their regulatory activites. Requires that such study shall include, with regard to each independent Federal establishment whose regulatory activities are included in such study: (1) an analysis of the purposes for which it was created, its structure and jurisdiction, the statutory framework governing its operation and activities, and the procedures and policies it has adopted; (2) an assessment of its effectiveness in carrying out its purposes; (3) an analysis of the costs and benefits of its various programs and policies, with particular reference to any adverse economic impact; and (4) an examination of the relationship between its regulatory activities and those of State and local regulatory agencies. Sets forth the membership, powers, and authority of the Commission. Directs the Commission to submit to the President and Congress within one year a report containing: (1) a statement of the status of the study being conducted pursuant to this Act; (2) a detailed statement of any findings made or conclusions reached by the Commission; and (3) any recommendations for legislation or administrative action, or both, deemed appropriate by the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Provides that any employee who is a member of a religion or sect historically holding conscientious objection to joining or financially supporting a labor organization shall not be required to join such organization pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from conception, of life without due process of law; nor deny to any human being, from conception, within its jurisdiction, the equal protection of the law. States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human of life on account of age, illness, or incapacity.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual education scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of a Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award scholarships to persons who demonstrate outstanding potential for and who plan to pursue a career in public service. Directs the Foundation to provide for the conduct of a nationwide competition for the purpose of selecting Truman Scholars. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedures for expenditures from the fund. Authorizes appropriations of $30,000,000 to the fund.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1974
National Commission of Regulatory Reform Act - Establishes as an independent instrumentality in the executive branch a National Commission on Regulatory Reform to be comprised of specified membership. States that the Commission shall identify regulatory activities of the independent regulatory agencies for detailed review, and conduct such review which shall include, but shall not be limited to: (1) an analysis of the purposes and objectives of the regulatory activities; (2) an assessment of actual performance in achieving the purposes and objectives; (3) an analysis of the costs and benefits of each activity; and (4) an examination of State and local governmental regulatory activities which interact with the Federal independent regulatory system. Directs Federal departments and agencies to assist the Commission in the performance of its functions. Requires the Commission to report to the President and the Congress not later than one full year after its appointment. Provides that the Commission shall be terminated ninety days after the submission of such report. Authorizes to be appropriated $500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1974
Excludes from gross income, under the Internal Revenue Code, the first $500 of interest on deposits in savings institutions, banks, and credit unions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Expresses the findings of Congress, including that Federal information reporting requirements have placed an unprecedented paperwork burden upon private citizens, recipients of Federal assistance, businesses, governmental contractors, and State and local governments. Establishes a Commission on Federal Paperwork to study procedures and practices of the Federal Government relating to information gathering, dissemination, and the management and control of information activities. Enumerates the areas to be considered by the Commission in its studies. Directs the Commission to make a final report to the Congress and the President within two years of the date of its first meeting. Sets forth the membership composition of the Commission and their compensation. Details the administrative powers of the Commission. Calls for cooperation between Federal agencies and the Commission. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Provides, under the National Labor Relations Act, that any employee who is a member of a religion or sect historically holding conscientious objection to joining or financially supporting a labor organization shall not be required to do so.
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1974
Privacy Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to provide safeguards for an individual against an invasion of personal privacy by requiring each Federal agency to: (1) permit an individual to determine what records pertaining to him are collected, maintained, used, and disseminated by each such agency; (2) permit an individual to prevent records pertaining to him obtained by each such agency for a particular purpose from being used or made available for another purpose without his consent; (3) permit an individual to gain access to certain Federal agency records pertaining to him, to have a copy made of all or any portion thereof, and to correct or amend such records; (4) collect, maintain, use, or disseminate any record of identifiable personal information in a manner that assures that such action is for a necessary and lawful purpose, that the information is current and accurate for its intended use, and that adequate safeguards are provided to prevent misuse of such information;(5) permit deviations from the requirements with respect to records provided in this Act only in those cases where there is an important public policy need for such deviation which has been determined by specific statutory authority; and (6) be subject to civil suit for any damages which occur as a result of willful or negligent action which violates any individual's rights under this Act. Stipulates that no agency shall disclose any record to any person, or to another agency, except pursuant to a written request by, or with the prior written consent of, the individual to whom the record pertains, unless disclosure would be: (1) to those officers and employees of that agency who have a need for such record in the performance of their duties; (2) required pursuant to Federal statute; (3) for a routine use described in any rule promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this Act; (4) to the Bureau of the Census for purposes of planning or carrying out a census or survey; (5) transferred to the National Archives of the United States as a record which has sufficient historical or other value to warrant its continued preservation by the United States Government, or for evaluation by the Administrator of General Services or his designee to determine whether the record has such value; (6) to another agency or to an instrumentality of any governmental jurisdiction within or under the control of the United States for a law enforcement activity if such activity is authorized by statue and if the head of such agency or instrumentality has made a written request to the agency which maintains the record specifying the particular portion desired and the law enforcement activity for which the record is sought; or (7) pursuant to a showing of compelling circumstances affecting the health, safety, or identification of an individual, if upon such disclosure notification is transmitted to the last known address of such individual. Sets forth procedures regulating the disclosure by each agency of records under its control. Requires each agency to promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of this Act. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that no Federal agency shall maintain any record concerning the political or religious belief or activity of any individual, unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained.