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United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1976
Provides for the incorporation of the Gold Star Wives of America. Sets forth the objectives, purposes and powers of such corporation. Stipulates the nonpolitical nature the corporation is to be maintained.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1976
Authorizes the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct for the purpose of carrying out H. Res. 1042 to require, by subpena or otherwise, the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memorandums, papers, and documents as it deems necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Authorizes the expenditure of $35,000 by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct for inquiries and investigation. Allocates $18,000 to be expended for the procurement of consultant services.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1976
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to repeal the duty imposed on articles assembled abroad with components produced in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1975
Truth in Government Accounting Act - Requires that the United States Government prepare and make public annual consolidated financial statements utilizing the accrual method of accounting.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1975
Stipulates that as of October 1, 1976, no appropriation is authorized and no payment shall be made to the United Nations in excess of the amount arrived at by the division of the total assessment of such organization by the number of its member states which make up the United Nations General Assembly.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Government while engaged in a lessening of tensions with the People's Republic of China, do nothing to compromise continued close relations with the Republic of China.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1975
Declares that the Congress has not delegated to the Federal Trade Commission any authority to preempt the laws of the States or their political subdivisions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1975
Condemns the resolution adopted by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly which equates Zionism with racism, and urges the U.N. General Assembly to disapprove such resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 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 · 1 October 1975
Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to convey specifically described lands, without consideration or assessment of cost, to the city of Fayetteville, Georgia.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1975
Suspends, for one year, provisions of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: (1) relating to development of a standard form for the statement of settlement costs in all transactions involving federally related mortgage loans; (2) requiring advance disclosure of settlement costs to prospective borrowers; and (3) requiring the disclosure of the previous selling price of existing real property.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1975
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the lands, waters and interests to forty-eight-mile segment of the Chattahoochee River in Georgia. Provides that such area be set aside to establish the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Directs the Secretary to allow owners of land, within the recreation area, used for noncommercial residential or agricultural purposes to retain such land for a definite term not to exceed twenty-five years. Directs the Secretary of administer, protest, and develop the recreation area in accordance with the Atlanta Regional Commission Chattahoochee Corridor Study. Allows the Secretary to enter into written agreements with agencies of the State of Georgia for their participation in the administration and development of the recreation area.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1975
Disapproves the loan of three landing craft (LCM-8's) to Panama, as proposed by the letter from the Department of the Navy of May 5, 1975, to the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1975
Emergency Housing Act - Title I: Stimulation of Housing Construction - Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Amendments - States that mortgages purchased by the Government National Mortgage Association under the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act may not have an interest rate in excess of 7 1/2 percent. Increases the total amount of mortgage purchases and commitments which may be made by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under such Act to $10,000,000,000. Requires that at least 80 percent of such funds be used to purchase mortgages having original principal obligations not exceeding $36,000. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase specified mortgages of multifamily residences not purchasable under present law. Title II: Emergency Mortgage Relief - Emergency Homeowners' Relief Act - States it to be the purpose of this Act to prevent widespread mortgage foreclosure and distress sale of homes resulting from temporary loss of employment and income through a program of emergency loans and advances and mortgage relief payments to homeowners. Sets forth as conditions for the extension of assistance under this Act: (1) that the holder of the mortgage has indicated his intention to foreclose to the mortgagor; (2) that mortgage payments have been delinquent for at last three months; (3) that adverse economic conditions have caused the mortgagor to become involuntarily unemployed or underemployed and to have incurred a substantial reduction in income as a result; (4) that there is a reasonable prospect that the mortgagor will be able to make the adjustments necessary for a full resumption of mortgage payments; and (5) that the mortgaged property is the principal residence of the mortgagor. States that assistance provided under this Act will be in the form of either: (1) emergency mortgage relief loans or advances of credit; or (2) emergency mortgage relief payments. Sets the limits of such payments at $250 per month for up to 12 months with one 12-month extension available. Provides that payments be repaid on such terms as the Secretary prescribes. Authorizes the Secretary to insure financial institutions against losses which they might sustain as a result of emergency loans or advances of credit made pursuant to this Act. States that the aggregate amount of loans and advances insured shall not exceed $1,500,000 at any one time. Authorizes the Secretary to make emergency mortgage relief payments to certain mortgagees on behalf of distressed homeowners. Establishes the Emergency Homeowners' Relief Fund on the books of the United States Treasury for making mortgage relief loans and payments pursuant to this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary and the Federal supervisory agencies with respect to financial institutions to take steps to encourage forebearance in residential mortgage loan foreclosures, and to request all mortgagees to give such agencies at least 30 days notice prior to instituting foreclosure proceedings. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within 60 days after enactment and at 60-day intervals thereafter on the actions taken under this Act. Authorizes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to make such advances to any insured bank as the Corporation determines to be necessary to facilitate participation in the program authorized by this title.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Provides that under specified circumstances exclusive territorial arrangements with respect to the manufacture, distribution, and sale of trademarked soft drink products shall not be deemed unlawful under the Federal Trade Commission Act. Provides that such products, and their sellers, must be in substantial and effective competition with other products and sellers of the same general class.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Modifies the labeling and packaging requirements on intrastate sales of colored oleomargarine by: (1) deleting the requirements that the word "oleomargarine" or "margarine" be in type or lettering at least as large as any other type or lettering on the label; and (2) deleting the requirement that each part of the contents of the package be contained in a wrapper which bears the word "oleomargarine" or "margarine" in 20-point type and substituting the requirement that each part of the contents be in a separate wrapper. Requires that notice of margarine being served in a public eating place be prominently and conspicuously displayed or labeled.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Creates a select committee in the House of Representatives with authority to conduct a full and complete investigation of the problem of United States servicemen missing in action or known to be dead whose bodies have not been recovered, as a result of military operations in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Provides that such investigation shall include an examination of the need for additional international inspection teams to determine whether there are servicemen still held as prisoner of war. Authorizes the Committee to hold hearings, issue subpenas, and maintain a staff as necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this resolution. Directs the committee to report to the House the results of its investigation no later than one year after adoption of this resolution. Provides that the committee's authority shall expire 30 days after the filing of such report. Directs that the expenses of the select committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the Chairman.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Administrative Rulemaking Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a procedure whereby Congress may review certain rulemaking activities of executive agencies, thereby exercising greater control and oversight over the operations of such agencies. Provides that an administrative rule, the violation of which subjects an individual to a criminal penalty, shall take effect only: (1) if published in the Federal Register; (2) after the expiration of 30 days of continuous session of Congress after the date on which the rule was published; and (3) if neither House of Congress passes a resolution disfavoring such a rule. Sets forth procedures governing the consideration of such rules by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Provides that any grant funds under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which were withheld from allotment by Presidential direction for fiscal years 1973, 1974, and 1975 shall be alloted among the States by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with a specified formula. Revises the distribution of such allotments to the States for fiscal years beginning with 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Declares it to be the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal and zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) that there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States sovereign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible, except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
Authorizes the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, in carrying out its functions and duties under the rules of the House of Representatives, to incur such expenses, not to exceed $35,000, as the committee considers appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides that Federal expenditures shall not exceed Federal revenues, except in time of war or economic necessity declared by the Congress. States that this act shall apply to fiscal years beginning after October 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Prohibits the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring, under the Clean Air Act, an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan. States that any rules or regulations with respect to the requirement of such review as a part of any such plan previously promulgated by the Administrator shall be void on the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provisions for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the medicare and medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Prohibits the transportation or use in interstate or foreign commerce of counterfeit, fictitious, altered, lost, or stolen transportation tickets.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Extends eligibility for dental services for a dental condition or disability to a veteran who was a prisoner-of-war for more than 180 days. ((Amends 38 U.S.C. 612(b))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Prescribes penalties for the use of firearms in the commission, and carrying firearms during the commission, of any felony with respect to which United States courts have exclusive and original jurisdiction. Prescribes penalties for the use of carrying of any firearm transported in interstate or foreign commerce in the commission of any crime punishable by imprisonment for more than one year upon conviction in a State court. Provides a sentence, in addition to the punishment set forth for the commission of such felony or crime, of a term of five to ten years imprisonment. States that in case of a second or subsequent conviction, such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years, or to life imprisonment. (Amends 18 U.SC. 924(c))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Directs the Federal Communications Commission, in its processing of renewal applications for broadcast licenses, to grant such applications if it finds that the public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served thereby. Provides that in its consideration of any such application the Commission may not consider the application of any other person for the facilities for which renewal is sought. Provides that if the Commission determines after hearing that a grant of the renewal application would not be in the public interest, convenience, and necessity, it may deny such application.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, that where violations are corrected within the prescribed abatement period no penalty shall be assessed.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Establishes new formulas with respect to the computation of the payment of benefits and/or compensation for the month in which the death of a veteran occurs. Provides that the amount of veterans benefits to which any payee was entitled under this title for the month in which his death occurs shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount of such benefits to which such payee would have been entitled had he lived for the entire month, as the number of days such payee lived in such a month bears to the total number of days in such month. Provides that the amount of death compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or death pension to which a payee shall be entitled for the month in which the death of the individual occurred on which the payment of such compensation or pension is based shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount of such compensation or pension, as the case may be, which would be payable for such entire month, as the number of days remaining in such month after the date on which such death occurred bears to the total number of days in such month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of State to restrict the travel of United States citizens to a foreign country or area at war, or in armed hostilities, or engaged in armed conflict with the United States or when the national interest would be seriously impaired; and sets forth a penalty of 5 years imprisonment or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both for violation of these travel restrictions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to annually increase or decrease, in an amount equal to the percentage by which the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index increased or decreased since rates were last changed, the monthly rates of the following veterans' benefits: compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, pensions, subsistence allowances, educational assistance allowances, and special training allowances.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Suspends emissions controls on motor vehicles and engines in the continental United States except vehicles registered to residents of designated air quality regions until June 30, 1977, or sixty days after the President determines there is no significant shortage of petroleum fuels, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate, subject to the limitations of the Act, geographic areas of the United States in which there is significant auto emissions related to air pollution. Provides that each State shall, not later than sixty days following enactment of this Act, submit to the Administrator a plan for implementing the Act. Provides that if a State fails to submit a plan under the Act or if the Administrator determines (after notice and opportunity for hearing) that such State is not adequately enforcing such a plan, then such State shall lose its entitlement to, and may not thereafter receive, any Federal grant or loan assistance under this Act or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Declares that willful and deliberate violation of any provision of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Makes the question of whether something is obscene a fact determination which shall be made by the jury without the comment of the court based on the weight of the evidence relevant to the question. Prohibits judicial review of any determination made by a jury on the question whether something is obscene by any court in the United States. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1466; 28 U.S.C. 3001)
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Requires the Administrator of General Services to notify in writing each Member of the House of Representatives and Senate of the intended disposition of federally owned real property in the district the Representative represents and State that the Senator represents.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Requires that personal delivery of notification of death of servicemen to the next of kin shall be made only by officers.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that daylight savings time shall extend until the first Monday of September (presently the last Sunday of October). (Amends 15 U.S.C. 260(a))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Requires the Secretary of Labor, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, to recognize the difference in hazards to employees between the heavy construction industry and the light construction industry in promulgating health and safety standards.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that the beneficiary of an insured individual who dies shall (if otherwise qualified under the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program) be entitled to a prorated benefit for the month of death of the insured.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Abolishes the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Makes it a Federal crime to kill or assault a fireman or law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties when the offender travels in interstate commerce or uses any facility of interstate commerce for such purpose. Prescribes a penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment or a $10,000 fine, or both for an assault, and imprisonment for any term of years or the death penalty for killing a fireman or law enforcement officer. Provides similar penalties for a conspiracy to kill or feloniously assault such persons. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1116)
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides for ninety-eight copies of the daily edition of the Congressional Record to be furnished to each Representative, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner in Congress (presently sixty-eight furnished to each Representative and Resident Commissioner). (Amends 44 U.S.C. 906)
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member who was on active duty or in an active status on or before May 31, 1958, and who became or will become entitled to receive retired pay based upon age, length of service or physical disability shall be computed at current active duty rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates. Provides that the enactment of this Act shall not reduce the retired pay to which a member or former member was entitled on the day before the effective date of this Act, nor create any retroactive entitlement to additional retired pay.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education to whom shall be transferred all functions of the Office of Education and of the Commissioner of Education. Transfers to the Secretary of Education specified functions of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Assistant Secretary of Education. Provides for the redesignation of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare. Grants to the Secretary of Education the administrative powers necessary to the performance of his functions. Makes amendments to other Federal laws to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this Act. Provides that any matter of legal privilege or prohibition which has become effective under any provision of law amended by this Act shall continue in effect according to its terms until modified, terminated, or superceded by order of the Secretary, court of competent jurisdiction, or operation of law.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall prohibit the authority and administering any school, school system, educational institution, or other public building supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds from providing for or permitting the voluntary participation by students or others in prayer. Stipulates that nothing contained in this article shall authorize any such authority to prescribe the form or content of any prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Designates the 11th day of November of each year as Veterans Day, and makes such day a legal public holiday. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that each State shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the organization and administration of all public school systems within the State. Requires that the courts of each State shall have exclusive jurisdiction to determine all rights, privileges, and immunities of citizens of the State with respect to public schools and public school systems within the State.