United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1978
Space Industrialization Act - Title I: Establishment of Space Industrialization Corporation - Establishes, as a Federal agency, the Space Industrialization Corporation which shall promote the development of new processes and industries in space and encourage private industry to invest in such activities. Directs the Corporation to provide funds to industrial space ventures under negotiated management plans. Specifies that such funds shall be repaid with a profit if the venture is profitable and that full documentation is required if it is unprofitable. Establishes in the United States Treasury the "Space Industrialization Trust Fund" which shall be held and administered by the Secretary of the Treasury and made available to the Corporation for use in funding industrial space ventures. Authorizes to the Trust Fund appropriations not to exceed $50,000,000 per year for the first two fiscal years after enactment. Directs the President to aid in the planning, development, and review of a national program for the establishment and operation of a space industrial system. Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to advise, assist, and cooperate with the Corporation in the development of the space industrial system. Title II: Public Ownership of Space Industrialization Corporation - Provides that at such time as the Board of Directors and the President approve, the Corporation shall become a publicly owned entity, which shall be authorized to issue shares of capital stock, nonvoting securities, bonds, debentures, and other certificates of indebtedness as the corporation may determine. Requires all proceeds from such securities to be deposited in the Trust Fund established by Title I.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1978
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make phencyclidine (PCP) a Schedule I (most dangerous substances) rather than a Schedule III drug. Sets forth minimum mandatory prison terms for phencyclidine traffic. Revises provisions specifying penalties for sale of controlled substances to persons under 21 to: (1) repeal the requirement that the seller be at least 18 years old; and (2) set forth separate mandatory prison terms for the sale of phencyclidine.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that it pass no law which causes a substantial increase in fuel consumption unless the Department of Energy has submitted to Congress a detailed energy conservation impact statement concerning such law. Expresses the sense of Congress that no Federal agency or component of the Executive branch issue any rule rulemaking, or order which substantially increases fuel consumption unless the Department of Energy has studied such action and issued a detailed energy conservation impact statement concerning it.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1978
Press Protection Act - Prohibits any person acting under color of law, without a prior adversary court proceeding, from searching any place or seizing any things in the possession, custody, or control of any person engaged in the gathering or dissemination of news for the print or broadcast media, unless with a warrant issued by a court upon probable cause that such person has committed or is committing a criminal offense. Establishes a criminal fine of not more than $10,000 for violation of this Act, and creates a civil cause of action for any person aggrieved by a violation. Allows punitive damages of up to $10,000, and reasonable attorneys fees.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Declares that the Congress denounces the planned American Nazi Party march in Skokie, Illinois, as an affront to American Jews and an act that deserves the fullest condemnation. Extends the sympathy and support of the Congress to the citizens of Skokie and to all American Jews.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1978
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the levels of total budget outlay and new budget authority for any fiscal year from exceeding the corresponding level for the previous year by a percentage greater than the average annual percentage increase of the gross national product during the three calendar years immediately preceeding the beginning of the applicable fiscal year. Provides an exception to the restriction established by this Act in time of war or national emergency.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Expresses the sense of the House that the exchange of the Panama Canal Treaty instruments of ratification should not occur earlier than March 31, 1979, unless implementing legislation has been enacted prior to such exchange. Requires specific Congressional authorization by an Act of Congress prior to any conveyance, relinquishment, or disposition of U.S. property in the Panama Canal Zone to any foreign government.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978
Communications Act - Title I: General Provisions - Declares that the provisions of this Act apply to: (1) any interstate or foreign telecommunications which originate or are received within the United States, or which are both originated and received within the United States; (2) any person engaged within the United States in such telecommunications; and (3) the licensing and regulation of broadcasting facilities and nonbroadcasting radio facilities. Title II: Communications Regulatory Commission - Establishes the Communications Regulatory Commission, an independent regulatory agency. Directs the Commission to be composed of five Commissioners appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides for a sunset review of the Commission and its programs every ten years. Terminates the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to Title VIII of this Act. Establishes, within the Commission, an Office of Consumer Assistance. Requires the Office to: (1) assure that the interests of consumers are presented and considered in a timely manner by the Commission in the formulation of policies, in rulemaking and other proceedings conducted by the Commission, and in the operation of programs which affect the interests of consumers; (2) encourage the development of information of interest to consumers by the Commission, and the publication and distribution of materials which will inform consumers of matters of interest to them in readily understandable language; (3) assess the needs, interests, and problems of consumers in connection with matters within the jurisdiction of the Commission; (4) submit recommendations to the Commission with respect to the manner in which programs and activities of the Commission affecting consumers may be improved; and (5) encourage, initiate, and participate in consumer education programs and consumer counseling programs. Prohibits any Commissioner or supervisory employee of the Commission from engaging in any other business, vocation, or employment. Prohibits such persons from representing any person before the Commission during the one year period following the termination of service as a commissioner or supervisory employee. Title III: Common Carrier Telecommunications - Requires the Commission to determine whether any person is a common carrier and to classify carriers and interstate telecommunications services. Authorizes the Commission to prescribe different requirements for different classes of carriers. Requires every common carrier to furnish service when requested, and to establish connection with any other carrier when a reasonable request is made unless such connection would result in economic harm to the carrier from whom the connection is sought and such harm would exceed the public benefit which would be created by the connection. Requires every common carrier to file with the Commission schedules showing all rates and terms for any service which it provides. Requires the Commission in the exercise and performance of its powers and duties to: (1) place maximum feasible reliance on marketplace forces; (2) rely on competition to provide efficient, low-cost, quality telecommunication services; (3) establish fair competitive conditions; and (4) prevent practices which would allow any carrier to limit or exclude competition in the provision of telecommunication services. Authorizes any common carrier to hold or acquire shares of any separate company which engages in any activity determined to be telecommunications or incidental to telecommunications. Prohibits any person from providing a noncompetitive telecommunications service and engaging in the manufacture of equipment used to furnish domestic common carrier service. Requires the Commission to establish and administer a Universal Service Compensation Fund in order to maintain toll telephone service and local exchange telephone service at affordable levels and to ensure the nationwide availability of basic voice telephone service. Requires any person who provides an intercity telecommunications service or facility which is physically connected with local exchange switching facilities and plant to pay an access charge to such Fund. Authorizes the Communications Satellite Corporation to participate as the designated entity of the United States in: (1) the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization; and (2) the International Maritime Satellite Organization, in order to provide general and maritime telecommunications services. Requires the Corporation to establish a separate subsidiary to be considered as international service carrier to provide international telecommunications services. Authorizes the Corporation to establish, own, and operate satellite terminal stations and maritime satellite land terminal stations. Establishes a task force on international telecommunications facility planning. Establishes the Director of the National Telecommunications Agency as chairman of the task force. Authorizes the Corporation or any common carrier to construct international telecommunications facilities. Requires the President to aid in the planning and development of telecommunications systems operated by international organizations and in the planning and development of services provided by such organizations. Requires the Commission to establish procedures providing for the continuing review of the telecommunications activities of the Corporation in its role as the United States signatory in such international organizations. Title IV: Broadcasting Services and Nonbroadcasting Radio Services - Prohibits any person from using or operating any equipment for the provision of broadcasting services or nonbroadcasting radio services, except in accordance with the provisions of this Title. Requires the Commission to ensure the most efficient and diverse use of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum. Enumerates duties of the Commission in meeting such requirement. Includes in such duties the assignment of frequencies and determination of power to be used by each station licensed under this Act. Establishes on the books of the United States Treasury the Telecommunications Fund. Establishes in the Fund: (1) the Public Telecommunications Programming Endowment Account to facilitate the development of public telecommunications in which noncommercial educational and cultural programs of high quality will be made available; (2) the Rural Telecommunications Loan Account to furnish and improve telecommunications facilities, services, and systems in rural areas; and (3) the Minority Ownership Loan Account to increase diversity of ownership of television and radio broadcasting stations. Requires the Commission, subject to specified limitations, to grant to any applicant a license for the use or operation of any equipment for the provision of broadcasting services or nonbroadcasting radio services. Prohibits granting broadcasting licenses to any alien or foreign corporation. States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to give the Commission the power to censor or regulate the content of any transmission by any person using or operating any equipment for the provision of broadcasting services or nonbroadcasting radio services. States that radio broadcasting station licenses shall be granted for an indefinite period of time. Declares that television broadcasting station licenses shall be granted for no longer than five years. Establishes the duration of the renewal period of such license at five years. Prohibits any license from being issued to operate any broadcast station unless a permit for the construction of such station has been granted by the Commission and all construction has taken place under such permit. Requires the Commission to require television station licensees to: (1) provide new and locally produced programming throughout the days; and (2) treat controversial issues of public importance in an equitable manner. Directs that in any case in which a television broadcasting station licensee submits an application to the Commission for the renewal of a license, the Commission may not consider any competing application for such license in determining whether to renew such license. Requires television stations to announce the identity of any party paying for matter broadcast by the station if the station receives money or services for such broadcast. Requires television stations to afford equal opportunity to all legally qualified candidates for political office if such station permits a candidate to use its station. Exempts from such requirement candidates for the Office of President, Vice President, Senator, or other office for which statewide elections are held. Prohibits the Commission from approving any radio or television license application if such station will be operated in the same market as any other station operated by such licensee at the time of such application. Prohibits the approval of any application for a radio broadcasting license if such approval would result in the applicant's operating or controlling more than five radio broadcasting stations. Prohibits the approval of an application for a television broadcasting station license if the approval of such application would result in the applicant's operating or controlling more than five television broadcasting stations with more than three of such stations operating in any of the 50 largest U.S. markets. Requires any applicant for a license in connection with the provision of nonbroadcasting radio services to file an application with the Commission. Prohibits a license from being granted for more than ten years in connection with the provision of nonbroadcasting radio services. Title V: Administrative and Judicial Procedures; Penalties - Sets forth administrative procedures to be used in rulemaking, adjudications, review of certain actions, rehearings, orders of the Commission, and investigations by the Commission under the Act. Sets forth judicial procedures to be used in the enforcement of the Act. Sets forth penalties for the violation of this Act. Title VI: Public Telecommunications - Authorizes the establishment of a private, nonmembership, nonprofit corporation, to be known as the Public Telecommunications Programming Endowment. Declares the purposes of the Endowment to be: (1) the facilitation of the development of public telecommunications in which noncommercial educational and cultural programs and services of high quality and diversity will be made available to public telecommunications entities for dissemination to the public at times chosen by the entities; (2) the support of the development of noncommercial instructional television and radio programs and services designed for use by elementary schools or school systems, secondary schools or school systems, or institutions of higher education in connection with regular courses of study; and (3) the support of the development of local, regional, and national noncommercial television and radio programming and services to meet the needs and interests of the communities and communities-of-interest in the United States. Authorizes the Endowment, in order to carry out these purposes, to provide financial assistance to public telecommunications entities, States, and schools. Requires the Director of the National Telecommunications Agency to establish and carry out a program of grants to public broadcasting stations to assist in meeting the costs of facilities and operations of such stations. Limits the total amount of any payments made for such costs to not more than 50 percent of the total budget of the station. Requires the Director to establish and carry out a program of grants to: (1) assist in the planning and construction of new public telecommunications facilities designed to expand the availability of public communications services; (2) assist in meeting the costs of operation of noncommercial telecommunications entities; and (3) demonstrate innovative methods of expanding the availability of public telecommunications services. Requires the Director to arrange grants for the construction or lease of interconnection facilities suitable for distribution and transmission of noncommercial instructional, educational, and cultural television or radio programs and services to public telecommunications entities, except that the Agency may not own, operate, or otherwise control any such interconnection facilities. Prohibits any person responsible for operating or managing any interconnection system acquired or constructed through the use of such grants from: (1) producing or acquiring programs; (2) acting as a trade association representing public telecommunications entities; and (3) scheduling programs or services for dissemination by public telecommunications entities to the public at specific times. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants and contracts to carry out telecommunications demonstrations. Authorizes the Secretary to approve an application for such a grant if it is determined that: (1) the project will demonstrate innovative methods or techniques of utilizing nonbroadcast telecommunications equipment or facilities; and (2) the facilities and equipment acquired or developed will be used substantially for the transmission, distribution, and delivery of health, education, or public or social service information. Title VII: National Telecommunications Agency - Establishes an independent establishment in the executive branch of the Federal Government to be known as the National Telecommunications Agency. Requires the Agency to: (1) develop and implement a national telecommunications policy; (2) act as the arbiter of disputes between Government agencies in connection with the development and implementation of national telecommunications policy; and (3) exercise principal responsibility for allocation of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum for various uses. States that the head of the Agency shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Transfers all personnel, property, records, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to the Agency. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Transfers all personnel, property, records, obligations, commitments and unexpended balances of the Federal Communications Commission to the Communications Regulatory Commission. Makes conforming and technical amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Solar Energy Bank Act - Creates a Government corporation to be known as the Solar Energy Development Bank to make long-term, low-interest loans to encourage the use of solar energy in commercial and residential dwellings. Establishes procedures governing the processing and approval of loan applications by the Bank. Prohibits conflicts of interest, on the part of officers or employees of the Bank. Prohibits the Bank or its employees from utilizing the Solar Bank to finance political activities. Imposes criminal penalties for the furnishing of false or misleading information by applicants for loans under this Act. Declares that the Solar Bank and its assets shall be exempt by Federal, State, and local taxation. Establishes a Solar Energy Fund in the Treasury of the United States to pay the expenses of the Bank. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000,000 to the Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that it pass no law which causes a substantial increase in fuel consumption unless the Department of Energy has submitted to Congress a detailed energy conservation impact statement concerning such law. Expresses the sense of Congress that no Federal agency or component of the Executive branch issue any rule rulemaking, or order which substantially increases fuel consumption unless the Department of Energy has studied such action and issued a detailed energy conservation impact statement concerning it.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1978
Solar Energy Transition Act - Directs each Federal agency to use and encourage the use of solar energy technologies. Requires each agency to review the programs, projects, and policies it is administering and assess the feasibility of alternative approaches utilizing solar energy technologies. Directs the Secretary of Energy to develop guidelines and otherwise assist the Federal agencies in the review required by this Act. Establishes the National Solar Energy Advisory Council to advise the Secretary in the performance of his duties under this Act. Directs the Secretary to report to the President and Congress annually starting April 20, 1980 on the progress of the Federal Government and the nation in converting to solar energy.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1978
Public Telecommunications Financing Act - Title I: Construction and Planning of Facilities - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to establish new procedures for the planning and construction of public telecommunications facilities. Sets forth new requirements for the application to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for construction grants. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, upon approving an application with respect to any project for the construction of public telecommunications facilities, to make a grant of up to 75 percent of the cost of such project. Authorizes the Secretary to provide such funds as the Secretary deems necessary for the planning of such projects. Provides for the repayment of such grants if the recipient station ceases to be used for public radio or television purposes. Requires the Secretary, in consultation with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to establish criteria for making construction and planning grants. Requires the Secretary to develop a long-range plan to: (1) extend delivery of public telecommunications services to as many citizens of the United States as possible; (2) increase public telecommunications services and facilities available to and owned by minorities and women; and (3) strengthen the capability of existing public television and radio stations to provide educational and cultural services to the public. Title II: Telecommunications Demonstrations - States that a purpose of this Act is to promote the development of nonbroadcast telecommunications facilities and services for the transmission, distribution, and delivery of health, education, and public or social service information. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to carry out telecommunications demonstrations. Authorizes the Secretary to approve an application for such demonstrations if it is determined that: (1) the project will demonstrate innovative methods in nonbroadcast telecommunications equipment or facilities; and (2) the facilities and equipment acquired or developed pursuant to the application will be used substantially for the transmission, distribution, and delivery of health, education, or public or social service information. Defines "nonbroadcast telecommunications facilities" to include, but not be limited to, cable television systems, communications satellite systems and related terminal equipment, and other methods of transmitting, emitting, or receiving images and sounds or intelligence by means of wire, radio, optical, electromagnetic or other means. Title III: Corporation for Public Broadcasting - Directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to study the manner in which the personal services of volunteers should be included in determining the level of non-Federal financial support received by the Corporation. Authorizes appropriations to the Public Broadcasting Fund for fiscal years 1978 through 1983. Directs the Corporation to establish an annual budget according to which it shall make grants and contracts for production of public television or radio programs by independent production entities and public telecommunications entities, for acquisition of such programs by public telecommunications entities, for interconnection facilities and operations, for distribution of funds among noncommercial telecommunications entities, for provision of assistance to public telecommunications entities to improve management and train personnel, for engineering and program-related research, and for the enhancement of instructional and educational television and radio services. Requires funds for television and radio stations to be distributed to such stations in accordance with eligibility criteria that promote the public interest in public broadcasting, and on the basis of criteria designed to: (1) encourage innovative approaches to reaching new audiences; (2) encourage cost efficiencies; and (3) encourage programs to train women and minorities to increase their participation in public broadcasting. Requires any public broadcast station desiring to receive funds to establish a community advisory board. Stipulates that the role of such board shall be solely advisory in nature, except to the extent other responsibilities are delegated to such board by the governing body of such station. Requires the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to develop a system to be used by all public broadcast licensees receiving funds under this Act to account for all funds received and expended for public broadcasting purposes. Requires equal opportunity in employment to be afforded to all qualified persons by all public telecommunications entities receiving funds under this Act. Title IV: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act and amends existing definitions to conform to the amendments made by this Act to the Communications Act of 1934. Stipulates that no public telecommunications entity may support or oppose any candidate for political office.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1978
Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate a Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program to study technical problems regarding the viability of the solar power satellite concept. Requires the Secretary, after consultation with the Administrator, to submit to the Congress, by January 3, 1979, a comprehensive plan to implement the Program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Declares it the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the Secretary of State to request the Secretary General of the United Nations to work through existing United Nations agencies to secure a full accounting of Americans listed as missing in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Psychotropic Substances Act - Amends the Controlled Substances Act, the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and the Public Health Service Act to meet obligations under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that it pass no law which causes a substantial increase in fuel consumption unless the Department of Energy has submitted to Congress a detailed energy conservation impact statement concerning such law. Expresses the sense of Congress that no Federal agency or component of the Executive branch issue any rule rulemaking, or order which substantially increases fuel consumption unless the Department of Energy has studied such action and issued a detailed energy conservation impact statement concerning it.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain individuals to compute the amount of the deduction for retirement savings on the basis of the earned income of their spouses.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1978
Anti-Inflation Tax Reduction and Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide cost-of-living adjustments for the individual income tax rates and withholding tables.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1978
Solar Energy Bank Act - Creates a Government corporation to be known as the Solar Energy Development Bank to make long-term, low-interest loans to encourage the use of solar energy in commercial and residential structures. Prohibits conflicts of interest on the part of officers or employees of the Bank. Prohibits the Bank or its employees from utilizing the Solar Bank to finance political activities. Imposes criminal penalties for the furnishing of false or misleading information by applicants for loans under this Act. Allows the Solar Bank to make loans directly, or through lending institutions which are entitled to reasonable fees for their services. Sets the annual interest rates on such loans at not more than three percent and limits the loans to a maximum of 30 years duration. Requires that the detailed plans submitted with each loan application include installation, architectural, and design plans and fees, if applicable. Prohibits the approval of loans unless the Solar Bank finds that the proposed equipment and related expenses are appropriate and reasonable and will result in a meaningful reduction in the conventional energy dependence of the user. Requires the Solar Bank to establish guidelines for the distribution of its loans among commercial and residential uses and requires that at least 60 percent of such monies loaned be for residential purposes. Establishes procedures governing the processing and approval of loan applications by the Bank. Provides penalties for the violation of the loan contract or for fraud in the obtaining of such a loan. Exempts the Solar Bank and its assets from taxation, except that the real and tangible personal property of the Bank shall be subject to Federal, State, and local taxation to the same extent as that of private corporations. Directs the General Accounting Office (GAO) to audit the financial transactions of the Bank, and grants the GAO access to all its books, records and accounts. Establishes a Solar Energy Fund in the Treasury of the United States to pay the expenses of the Bank. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000,000 to the fund.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1978
Title I: Small Business Act Amendments - Empowers the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to make loans to assist any small business concern in financing plant construction and equipment acquisition for the production, installation, or maintenance of solar energy equipment or other energy conservation equipment. Permits the Administration to make grants to non-profit organizations for the establishment of training seminars that teach small business concerns methods of design, installation, and maintenance of solar energy equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Solar Global Marketing Survey Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to conduct a global market survey to determine which foreign countries might serve as markets for solar energy equipment manufactured in the United States. Requires such survey be computed by September 1, 1980. Limits the amount which may be authorized to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Foreign Mission Solar Energy Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of State to demonstrate solar energy and other renewable energy technologies by using such energy sources in Foreign Service buildings located abroad. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Secretary of Energy concerning the most viable techniques adaptable to the local resources and environmental conditions of the host country. Requires the Secretary of State to insure that projects under this Act are demonstrated to, and are available for inspection by, officials and other citizens of the host country. Directs the Secretary to give priority to projects in less developed countries.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Declares it the sense of Congress that the United States should encourage the United Nations to hold a World Alternate Energy Conference to consider alternate ways to meet the world's energy needs and to establish an International Alternate Energy Commission to encourage worldwide use of alternate energy sources.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1978
Directs the Postal Service to issue a commemorative postage stamp in observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the modern State of Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to apply the same tax rates to married persons filing separate returns as are presently applicable to unmarried individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1978
Expresses the sense of the House that the national motto, "In God We Trust," shall continue to be engraved and printed on the currency of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1978
Expresses the condemnation by the Congress of the March 11, 1978, attack on Israel by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the expressed intention of the PLO to continue such attacks and to disrupt the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Requests the President to make the disapproval of the Congress known to governments approving the PLO attack. Expresses Congressional approval of the peace efforts between Israel and Egypt. Urges other Middle East countries to join such efforts. Declares negotiation to be the best way to bring peace to the Middle East.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1978
Expresses United States determination (1) to prevent the aggressive activities of the Soviet Union and Cuba in the Western Hemisphere, (2) to prevent the creation of externally supported Cuban military capability, and (3) to work with the Organization of American States for hemisphere security.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development programs, construction of facilities, and research and program management.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop research, development, and demonstration programs concerning the use of solar photovoltaic energy systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to 75 percent of the purchase and installation costs of selected systems used for research purposes. Requires the Secretary to formulate definitive performance criteria concerning solar photovoltaic systems and to develop a system of certification for conforming systems. Directs the Secretary to consult with relevant Federal agencies concerning the use of solar photovoltaic systems in Federal facilities. Requires the Secretary to set up a development and demonstration program of prototype photovoltaic systems at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. Directs the Secretary to establish a solar energy data bank at the Golden facility. Requires relevant Federal officials to ensure that small business concerns are granted realistic and adequate opportunities to participate, to the maximum extent possible, in the programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Families with Alcoholism Assistance Act - Amends the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 to require research into the need for education, counseling, and treatment of the families of alcohol abusers and alcoholics.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1978
International Maritime Telecommunications Satellite Act - Authorizes the Communications Satellite Corporation, subject to specified exceptions, to participate as the designated operating entity of the United States in the International Maritime Satellite Corporation or any other agency designed to provide international maritime satellite telecommunications services. Authorizes the Corporation to establish, own, and operate satellite earth terminal stations and to interconnect such stations with the facilities of United States domestic common carriers. Directs the Federal Communications Commission to determine the operational arrangements under which the Corporation shall interconnect its satellite earth terminal stations with such common carriers. Authorizes the President to exercise such supervision over the corporation as necessary in connections with its relationships with international entities. Authorizes the Commission to establish procedures for the continuing review of the telecommunications activities of the Corporation. Directs the Commission to conduct a study of public maritime coast station services in order to best establish a systematic approach for the provision of modern and effective maritime telecommunications systems.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1978
Urges the Secretary of Defense not to include within the competitive rate program (under which services are procured for the movement of the household goods of Department of Defense employees) the movement of household goods of Department personnel who are being transferred between the continental United States and Alaska or Hawaii.
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1978
Condemns the recent poisoning of Israeli oranges. Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that the President direct the United States delegations to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament and the United Nations Special Session on Disarmament to urge that the poisoning incident be placed high on the agenda of these organizations. Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that the President direct the United States delegation to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to recommit itself to efforts to negotiate an effective prohibition of chemical weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 14 February 1978
Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, l978 to repeal the provision of such Act which prohibits the payment of lodging expenses for individuals away from their post of duty on official business when adequate government quarters are available but are not occupied by such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Small Business Tax Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to replace the corporate income tax rates with a graduated, five-tier rate schedule, imposing the uppermost (48 percent) marginal rate upon income in excess of $100,000.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Veterans' and Survivors' Pension Improvement Act - Title I: Amendments to Pension Program for Non-service-connected Disability or Death - Revises the list of specified catagories of payments excluded from the determination of annual income for benefit payment purposes. Requires persons applying for a non-service-connected disability pension to report the income and estate of each spouse and child on account of whom added pension is applied for or received. Sets increased flat pension and aid-and-attendance allowance rates, reduced by the amount of a veteran's annual income, and in specified instances, by the amount of a spouse's or child's income which is reasonably available to or for such veteran. Sets increased flat benefit rates, with similar reductions, for the surviving spouses and children of such veterans. Requires annual adjustments in such pension and benefit rates in conjunction with cost-of-living increases in Social Security benefits. Title II: Miscellaneous Provisions and Effective Dates - Sets the effective dates for provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers to deduct all current expenditures for plants and facilities which are otherwise chargeable to capital account and which are certified as required by Federal law and as not significantly increasing the plant's or facility's value or productivity.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1978
Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate a Solar Power Satellite Research, Development, and Demonstration Program to study technical problems regarding the viability of the solar power satellite concept. Requires the Secretary to cooperate with the Administrator in the submission to Congress, by September 30, 1978, of a comprehensive plan to implement the Program.
United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction of up to $1,500 for household expenses to any taxpayer who maintains a household in which a dependent aged 65 or over resides.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Prohibits commerce in contraband cigarettes. Defines "contraband cigarettes" as a quantity of more than 20,000 cigarettes, bearing no evidence of payment of applicable State cigarette taxes, which are in the possession of any person other than (1) a person licensed by the State where the cigarettes are found or by the Internal Revenue Service, (2) a common or contract carrier, or (3) a government agent in the performance of duties. Subjects dealers in cigarettes to such reporting requirements as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
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