United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
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 lawenforcement 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 · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
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 residential construction industry in promulgating health and safety standards. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 655)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
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. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 659, 660, 666)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that personal delivery of notification of death of servicemen to the next-of-kin be made only by commissioned officers or an officer appointed as chaplain. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1042)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) that a beneficiary who dies shall (if otherwise qualified) be entitled to a prorated benefit for the month of his death. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 402)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for the inclusion of .22 caliber rimfire ammunition in the catagories of ammunition for which persons holding a Federal license to do business as a firearms or ammunition importer, manufacturer, or dealer need not keep records on purchasers. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 4182(c))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, that exclusive territorial arrangements in any trademark licensing contract or agreement for the manufacture, distribution and sale of a trademarked food product shall not be deemed unlawful, provided: (1) that such product is in free and open competition with products of the same general class manufactured, distributed, and sold by others; (2) the licensee is in free and open competition with vendors of other products of the same general class; and (3) the licensor retains control over the nature and quality of such product in accordance with the provisions of the Trademark Act. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 41)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
Permits injured Federal employees to receive benefits of the Federal employees compensation program notwithstanding they are in receipt of military retired pay. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8116(a))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member of the Armed Forces 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 under provisions of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, shall be computed at current active duty pay rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates.
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 - Reserves to each State the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the organization and administration of all public schools and public school systems within the State. Reserves to the courts of each State the exclusive jurisdiction to determine all rights of the citizens of the State with respect to public schools and public school systems within the State. Forbids any officer or court of the United States to infringe upon any right so reserved to the States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
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 · 3 January 1973
Creates a Select Committee in the House of Representatives to be composed of eleven Members to be appointed by the Speaker to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the effect of Federal laws on the quality of education in the United States. Grants the Committee necessary powers.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires, under Rule XXI, the Committee on Appropriations, to the maximum extent practicable, to take such action as may be necessary to report all general appropriation measures for each fiscal year to the House for its consideration before the beginning of that fiscal year as will permit the enactment of all such measures into law before the beginning of that fiscal year. Provides that after June 15th of each calendar year appropriations measures providing funds for the operation of any branch of the Federal Government or its independent agencies for the ensuing year shall be in order for consideration notwithstanding the provisions of House Rules.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the United States maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the Panama Canal and that the United States Government in no way forfeit, cede, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights or jurisdiction to any other sovereign nation or to any international organization.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the right of any citizen to be assigned, within designated school districts, to the public school of his parents' or guardians' choice if a minor, or to the school of his choice if an adult, should not be denied or abridged either directly or by means of a condition precedent to the receipt of Federal financial assistance; and that there should be no compulsory transportation of school children from one school district to another to achieve racial balance in public schools.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the United States Government immediately cease its inhumane, imprudent, and economically and militarily disastrous policy of economic sanctions against Rhodesia; take necessary steps to restore normal trading relations; and accord full recognition and all diplomatic and consular rights attached thereto to the legal Government of Rhodesia.
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