United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides that additional amounts received by retired servicemen employed in the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps shall be treated as subsistence or uniform allowances or as amounts received as commutation of quarters. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 2031(d)(1))
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Exempts any nonmanufacturing business, or any business having twenty-five or less employees, in States having laws regulating safety in such businesses, from the Federal standards created under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, or his designee, to convey two parcels of land at Fort Sam Houston Military Reservation in exchange for another parcel of land.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provisions of Federal law or any court decision to the contrary, the contractual relationship between the Federal and State governments shall be ended with respect to all portions of the San Antonio North Expressway between Interstate Highway 35 and Interstate Loop 410, and the expressway shall cease to be a Federal-aid project.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other regulation, no State shall receive a lesser allocation of water pollution control funds in fiscal year 1973 or fiscal year 1974 than it received in fiscal year 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Fair International Trade Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to prevent the destructive effects of an undue increase of imports on the domestic economy while providing for the expansion of imports in proportion to the domestic market for the same or similar products. Directs the Tariff Commission to make an investigation as required by this Act upon the request of the President, upon resolution of either the Senate Committee on Finance or the House Committee on Ways and Means, upon its own motion, or upon a filing of a petition by a trade association, a national labor union, or other interested party,u. Defines terms such as "domestic consumption," for purposes of this Act. Authorizes the President, within 120 days after the effective date of this Act, to limit the total quantity of each category of imported domestic goods produced after January 1, 1973, to the average annual quantity of such category of goods as was imported during the three-year period of 1969-1971, as determined by the Tariff Commission. Provides exceptions from these import limitations: (1) if the average imports of the article during the 2 most recent calendar year periods have not increased more than 20 percent over the average imports during the next preceding 2-year period, and if the average share of apparent domestic consumption supplied by imports of the article was less than 10 percent thereof during the most recent 2-year period; (2) if a quantitative limitation on importation of the article is in effect in pursuance of any other United States statute; (3) if a limitation on importation of the article would, in the judgment of the Tariff Commission, cause a serious increase in the price of the article in the domestic market; (4) if the Tariff Commission finds that the domestic industry producing the article has failed to adopt the necessary technological improvements in production to remain competitive with the imported article; or (5) if the article is on the free list and is not bound on the free list in a trade agreement. Prohibits the importation of any article on which an unexpired patent has been issued by the United States Patent Office to a domestic consumption of the same article in the United States during the first five years after the issuance of the patent, or more than 10 percent of such consumption during the second five-year period, or more than 15 percent after the third five year period after the issuance of the patent. Provides for quantitative import limitations where excessive imports are concentrated in one or more regional areas of the United States. Requires the Secretary of Commerce upon the request of the Tariff Commission to supply such import statistics as the Commission may need in order to carry out the provisions of this Act. Provides for quantitative limitations on imports of agricultural products under the same conditions with respect to the share of domestic consumption supplied by imports as govern other articles under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Permits a taxpayer to elect a specified schedule for computing the valuation of a decedent's interest in a closely held business for estate tax purposes under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires a public notice, at least ten days in advance, to be posted in the local post office of a time and place where a public hearing is to be held concerning any application involving interest reduction payments or mortgage insurance with respect to cooperative housing projects for lower income families pursuant to the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968. Provides that, before approval of any such application is made, the following findings must be made: (1) that such a project shall not unduly burden the local schools by causing an influx of additional students; (2) that the location of the project would not be likely to adversely affect local property values; (3) that local utilities where the project would be located would be adequate; (4) that the project would not significantly affect the nature and progress of local community developments; and (5) that such a project has been approved by the governing body of the locality where such a project is to be located.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that the payment of benefits to a married couple shall be made on the basis of their combined earnings record where that method of computation produces a higher combined benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the National Labor Relations Act, that employers shall not be required to bargain with labor organizations whose representative status has not been established by a secret ballot election as provided for in such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that no social security account number shall be assigned, no record of wages and self-employment income shall be established, and no card or other document evidencing such a number or record shall be issued, after the date of the enactment of this Act, under the Social Security Act, in the case of any individual who has not satisfactorily demonstrated (in such manner and form and in accordance with such procedures as the Secretary of HEW shall by regulations prescribe) that he is a citzen of the United States, an alien lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, or an alien otherwise legally in the United States under applicable Federal law. Requires the Secretary to take such action and enter into such arrangements with Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies and other persons as may be necessary or appropriate to provide for the cancellation of any outstanding social security account number which has been assigned to an alien not entitled to such a number under this Act, and the deletion from his records of any entries under such number with respect to wages paid or self-employment income derived after confiscation of any card or other document evidencing such number. Specifies penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. Prohibits the payment of aid or assistance under approved State public assistance plans, or the provision of assistance in any form under any other Federal or federally aided program, to such aliens.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Increases, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, to $3,000 the amount of outside earnings permitted each year without any deductions from benefits thereunder.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Establishes the Amistad National Recreation Area in the State of Texas. Authorizes to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $1,020,000 for acquisition of land and $18,000,000 for development of the area.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes it unlawful and contrary to the public policy of the United States for any labor organization in concert with any other labor organization (whether or not affiliated with the same national or international union) to combine, agree, conspire, or reach or attempt to reach a common understanding with respect to wages, rates of pay, or any other terms or conditions which any such labor organization shall seek or demand from any employer or employers in an industry affecting commerce. States that it shall be unlawful and contrary to the public policy of the United States for any labor organization to strike or engage in any other course of action for the purpose of inducing, persuading, or compelling any employer in an industry affecting commerce to accede to or grant or otherwise put into effect any demand for wages, rates of pay, or any other terms and conditions made pursuant to any combination, agreement, conspiracy, or understanding declared unlawful under this Act where the effect may be to substantially or materially affect the production, use, cost, distribution, selling, or otherwise handling of any commodity or service in commerce. Provides that, for the purpose of this Act, no action or plan of action, including strikes, picketing, and boycotts, undertaken by an individual labor organization in furtherance of or in relation to any purpose of such organization and which is not undertaken or carried out in concert with any other labor organization or with any employer or other person, shall be deemed to be in restraint of trade or commerce.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for the designation of the 11th day of November of each year as Veterans Day (previously the fourth Monday in October). (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
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