United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Amends Titles XVIII (Medicare) and II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that eligible drugs, requiring a physician's prescription or certification, shall be included among the items and services covered under the hospital insurance program for the aged at a specified amount of payment. States that the reasonable allowance for eligible drugs furnished an individual pursuant to any one prescription and purchased by such individual at any one time shall be reduced by an amount equal to the applicable prescription copayment obligation which shall be $1. Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a Medicare Formulary Committee to compile and publish a Formulary listing the drugs deemed qualified for benefits under this Act, together with maximum allowable costs and additional information concerning such drugs. Makes provisions for selecting drugs for the Formulary.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 and the Bankruptcy Act to repeal provisions of the law allowing automatic cost-of-living adjustments in the salaries of Members of Congress, persons paid pursuant to the Executive Schedule, the Vice President, and specified judicial positions including bankruptcy referees.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1977
Establishes in the Office of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and Office of Youth Camp Safety to be headed by a Director of Youth Camp Safety. Confers upon the Director the primary responsibility for the promulgation and enforcement of youth camp safety regulations. Defines, for the purposes of this Act, the term youth camp to mean, among other things, any residential camp, day camp, troop camp, travel camp, trip camp, primitive or out post camp, or Federal camp. Requires any State which desires to assume responsibility for the development and enforcement of youth camp safety standards to submit a State plan to the Director for his approval. Allows a State whose plan has been rejected to obtain review of the decision in a United States court of appeals. Authorizes the Director to make grants to States which have in effect to assist such states in training costs, and to States for the development of such plans. Requires the Director to provide consultative services to youth camps in States which do not have approved plans in effect. Prohibits the Director from issuing citations for any violations discovered during such consolidatives visit. Stipulates that a written notice describing such violation must be provided and a reasonable time period provided for abatement of such violation. Permits a citation to issue for failure to abate such violation within the prescribed period. Requires the Director to afford any youth camp director receiving a citation an opportunity for a hearing in accordance with certain requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act, and permits any camp director adversely affected by a decision of the Director to appeal such decision to a United States court of appeals. Authorizes the Director to enter and inspect youth camps and examine their records, practices and conditions. Authorizes the Director to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence in making his inspections and investigations. Prescribes penalties for each violation by a youth camp of the standards and requirements imposed by this Act. Grants jurisdiction to the United States district courts, upon a petition from the Director, to restrain any youth camp conditions or activities likely to present an imminent danger. Allows the Director to exempt camps from the requirements of this Act in certain situations, but requires notice of the exemption to parents and campers. Directs the Director to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Advisory Council on Youth Camp Safety. Requires the Director to submit annually to Congress and the President a report on his administration of this Act. Authorizes the Director to request and receive direct by from any department or agency of the Federal Government information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics needed to carry out his functions under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1977
Elementary and Secondary Career Education Act - Establishes a career education program for elementary and secondary schools to increase the emphasis such institutions place upon career awareness, exploration, decisionmaking, and planning. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out provisions of this Act for the next five fiscal years. Directs the Commissioner of Education to allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to the appropriated sums as such State's population, aged five to eighteen, bears to the total population, aged five to eighteen, of all the States. Stipulates that no State shall be allotted from such sums less than $100,000. Directs the Commissioner to allocate for each fiscal year an amount equal to three percent of the sums appropriated for that year to make grants to local educational agencies located in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Sets forth procedures for applying to the Commissioner for receiving such funds. Requires that an application contain specified assurances, including assurances that: (1) the State educational agency will be the agency responsible for planning the use and administering the expenditure of funds received under this Act; (2) the State educational agency or State Board of Education will adopt a statement of policy that career education is of prime importance in elementary and secondary schooling within the State; and (3) the State legislature and Governor have been notified of the State's application for such funds. Details the use of funds by the States which are permissible, including: (1) conducting inservice institutes for educational personnel; (2) training local career education coordinators; (3) collecting, evaluating, and disseminating career education materials; and (4) coordinating career education activities with other State and private agencies. Designates the Office of Career Education to be the administering agency within the Office of Education for the review of State plans, applications, and reports submitted pursuant to this Act. Provides that the Office of Career Education shall perform a national leadership role in furthering the purposes of career education. Directs the National Institute of Education to continue its complementary efforts in career education and calls for coordination between the Institute and the Office of Career Education in (1) identifying research and development priorities and (2) disseminating the products and findings of research and development undertaken by the Institute.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Amends the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1974 to extend for one year the emergency compensation program thereunder so as to permit benefits to be paid with respect to weeks ending before March 31, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct a replacement lock and dam project on the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake steps to provide for wildlife protection and recreational activities in conjunction with such project. Withdraws all authority for the Secretary of the Army to construct or study the feasibility of construction or modification of a channel in the Mississippi River north of its juncture with the Illinois River. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Transportation to study the bulk commodity freight requirements on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Waterway. Withdraws the authority of: (1) any Federal agency to study the feasibility of deepening the navigation channels in the Minnesota River, Minnesota; Black River, Wisconsin; Saint Croix River, Minnesota and Wisconsin; Illinois River, Illinois; and the Mississippi River north of its junction with the Missouri River, Missouri; and (2) the Secretary of the Army to study or construct a specified Mississippi River channel.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1977
Disapproves the recommendations of the President transmitted to Congress, pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967, recommending rates of pay for: (1) the Vice President, Members of Congress and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico; (2) specified positions in the legislative branch; (3) specified judicial personnel; (4) specified positions under the Executive Schedule; and (5) the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Declares the support of the House of Representatives for the President's intentions (1) to proceed with a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, (2) to seek ratification of the SALT II agreement, and (3) to seek an agreement with the Soviet Union for major reductions in atomic weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Exempts musical and social programs and activities designed for parents and students from the prohibition against sex discrimination in federally assisted educational activities imposed by the Education Amendments of 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to exempt sex segregated gymnastics classes from the prohibition against sex discrimination contained within such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to provide that units of general local government receiving grants, under the hold-harmless provisions of such Act, shall be entitled, after fiscal year 1977, to continue to receive the amount to which they are presently entitled.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Increases to $5,000 the amount of outside earnings which is permitted an individual each year without any deduction from benefits under Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Bridge Safety Act - Title I: Bridge Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to approve Federal participation in a State project to repair or replace unsafe highway bridges under a needs formula as established in this Act. Stipulates that the Federal share of any such project shall not exceed 90 percent of its cost. Amends the Highway Safety Act of 1976 to authorize appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund of $720,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1977 through 1990 for such purpose. Title II: Extension of Highway Trust Fund and Certain Related Provisions - Amends the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 to extend appropriations under such Act for the Highway Trust Fund through fiscal year 1990. Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to extend such fund through fiscal year 1990. Postpones specified excise tax reductions under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Elderly and Handicapped Americans Transportation Services Act - Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to allow airlines to offer free or reduced rate transportation to persons 65 years of age or older, and for handicapped persons and their necessary attendants. Amends the Interstate Commerce Act to allow common carriers subject to the provisions of such Act to provide free or reduced rate transportation to persons 65 years of age or older and to handicapped persons and their attendants. Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 to direct the Secretary of Transportation, in providing assistance under such Act, to give preferential treatment to State and local public bodies which agree to adopt and maintain specially reduced rates, not exceeding 50 percent of the regular rates, for handicapped persons and persons over 65. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to States and local public bodies in order to assist them in providing mass transportation services which will meet the needs of handicapped persons and persons over 65. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe standards for the design of buildings, structures, and facilities which are provided with financial assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act to insure that persons 65 or over and the physically or mentally handicapped will have ready access to, and use of, those buildings, structures, and facilities. Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for special transportation research and demonstration projects for the handicapped and the elderly. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 to carry out such grant program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a $5,000 tax exclusion from gross income for any amount received as an annuity, pension, or other retirement benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Older Americans' Tax Savings Act - Allows a reimbursement under the Internal Revenue Code for property taxes to persons 65 and over. Limits such reimbursement to the lesser of $480, or the property taxes accrued, and to claimant whose household income is lower than $5,000.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
National Employment Priorities Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act: (1) to require prenotification to employees and communities of dislocation of business concerns; (2) to prevent Federal support for unjustified dislocation; and (3) to provide assistance to employees, and affected communities threatened with dislocation. Defines the terms used in this Act. Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to establish in the Department of Labor a National Employment Relocation Administration, to be headed by an Administrator and Deputy Administrator appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to perform enumerated functions in order to carry out the purposes of this Act. Establishes a National Employment Relocation Advisory Council. Directs the members of such Council to perform enumerated functions, including to advise the Secretary and Administrator with respect to the activities of the National Employment Relocation Administration and to evaluate the effectiveness of programs carried out under this Act. Requires written notice to be given to the Secretary whenever: (1) a business concern intends to close or transfer all or part of the operations of an establishment of that business concern; and (2) at least 15 percent of the employees who are members of any labor organization or 15 percent of all employees in that establishment will suffer an eligible employment loss as a result of any such closing or transfer. Authorizes the Secretary to investigate a proposed closing or transfer of operations under specified circumstances. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of adjustment assistance for employees who become unemployed or receive a weekly wage of less than 85 percent of their former wage as a result of a closing or transfer of a business concern. Provides that such adjustment assistance shall include: (1) income maintenance payment; (2) maintenance of pension and health benefits; (3) job placement and retraining benefits; (4) relocation allowances; (5) early retirement benefits; (6) emergency mortgage and rent payments; and (7) food stamps and surplus commodities. Directs the Secretary to make every effort to place employees for substantially equivalent full employment in accordance with their capacity and prospective employment opportunities. Provides that a unit of local government is eligible for assistance under this Act upon determination by the Secretary that the closing or transfer of operations of business establishments has contributed substantially to an unemployment rate within such jurisdiction exceeding eight percent on a seasonally adjusted basis. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance to businesses within such areas. Authorizes the Secretary to develop a retraining program for employees who will be required to acquire new or additional skills as a result of the economic adjustment assistance proposal. Makes business concerns ineligible for specified benefits under the Internal Revenue Code if the Secretary makes certain determinations. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Prohibits the importation of any product manufactured or assembled outside the United States unless the product bears a label indicating country of origin. Prohibits the sale of a product assembled from components manufactured outside the United States without a label indicating imported components. Prohibits the advertisement of such products which do not bear required labels. Makes a violation of such prohibitions an unfair or deceptive practice in violation of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe rules to carry out this Act. Directs the Commission to prevent violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Young Adult Conservation Corps Act - Amends the Act which established the Youth Conservation Corps to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to jointly extend the Youth Conservation Corps so as to make possible the year-round employment of young adults. States that individuals employed as Corps members under this Act shall be either between the ages of 18 and 24 exclusively or school dropouts who are at least age 16; shall meet applicable physical standards; shall be given preference for employment if they reside in counties in which the unemployment rate was equal to or in excess of six percent for three consecutive months; and may be employed for a total of not more than 12 months. Specifies guidelines to be followed by the Secretaries in administering this Act, including those relative to the types of jobs and projects to be given preference and the wages to be paid Corps members. Extends the program under which grants are made to States and to assist them in meeting the cost of projects for the employment of young people to develop and maintain non-Federal public lands and waters. Designates a time period during which the Secretaries are to develop a plan to carry out the activities authorized by this Act and prepare the site location, facilities, and equipment selected in such plan. Directs the Secretaries, in performing such functions, to plan for a capacity of the extended Corps to employ 100,000 young adults during the first fiscal year of operation, 300,000 during the second, 400,000 during the third, and 500,000 during the fourth.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to (1) restore the entitlement of any person who lost their entitlement by reason of certain past increases in monthly social security benefits; and (2) pay in a lump sum to any such person any such compensation or pension that would have been payable to him but to such loss of entitlement.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Administrative Rule Making Reform Act - Requires a Federal agency preparing to hold a rule making session to make a reasonable effort to inform those likely to be affected by the proposed rule making. Requires that if the affected group is large, representatives of such group must be notified. Requires, in addition to present requirements, that the notice of rule making include the projected effective date of the rules, the purpose of the rule making, the text of the proposed rules, and the technical or other studies on which the agency intends to rely in the rule making proceedings. Applies the requirements of this Act to all rule making sessions except (1) those specifically authorized to be kept secret in the interest of national security, and (2) those relating to agency management. Requires public notice and public opportunity for comment of all rule making proceedings under this Act unless the agency finds that the rules to be proposed are emergency rules or are of routine or insignificant impact in which case the rule must be published with reasons for its adoption. Requires Federal agencies to give interested persons at least 45 days to participate in the rule making. Requires the agency to maintain a file of each proceeding to be made available to the courts, Congress, and to the public in connection with review of the rule. Limits the period for public comment to a maximum of 90 days. Requires a copy of all proposed rules to be sent to Congress. States that such rule, other than an emergency rule, shall not become effective if it is disapproved within 90 days by both Houses of Congress, or it is disapproved within 60 days by one House and no action is taken on the disapproval resolution by the other House. Provides that either House of Congress may, by resolution, require any agency to reconsider and resubmit any rule to which this Act applies. Requires that such proposed rule be repromulgated anew in accordance with all the provisions of this Act unless it is reconsidered and resubmitted to Congress within 180 days after the adoption of the resolution requiring such reconsideration. Requires the Administrative Conference of the United States to study Congressional review of agency rule making under this Act and report the effect of such review on such rule making before July 1, 1982. Authorizes to be appropriated $200,000 to finance such study. Makes this Act effective on the first day of the first session of the Ninety-fifth Congress. Terminates the Congressional review required by this Act at the adjournment of the Ninety-seventh Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Government Economy and Spending Reform Act - Title I: Authorizations of New Budget Authority - Terminates all budget authority for Federal programs on specified dates, according to the functional or subfunctional category of each program as set forth in the fiscal year 1977 budget. Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress by April 1, 1978 on specified programs with respect to the laws under which such programs are carried on, the amount of new budget authority received by such programs, during the four fiscal years ending before April 1, 1978, and to identify programs for which no outlays have been made during the last two fiscal years ending before April 1, 1978. Prohibits providing new budget authority after the applicable review date set forth in this Act unless the provision of such budget authority is specifically authorized by law or the standing rules of either House of Congress. Title II: Zero Base Program Review - Sets forth a timetable for Congressional zero-base review of new budget authority. Defines "zero base review" as an evaluation of a given program to determine the merits of its continuation at a level less than, equal to, or more than its existing level. Requires each congressional committee conducting a zero-based program review to adopt tentative and final review plans, receive reports from the Comptroller General and Federal agencies on the program being reviewed, and report to their respective House the results of such review of the program. Sets forth minimum objectives of inquiry for such reviews. Requires that any committee reporting pursuant to this Act recommend the extent to which any program reviewed should be continued or eliminated. Title III: Continuing Review - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 to require whenever the Comptroller General issues a report which discloses any substantial deficiency in the achievement of the objectives of any Federal program the agency conducting such program to report to specified congressional committees 60 days after such report and every six months thereafter to delineate the actions taken with respect to such deficiency. Requires that such agency continue to issue such reports until such time as the Comptroller General determines that no purpose is served by their submission. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the inclusion in the Budget of a statement of the specific objectives of each Government program, and a comparison, in each subsequent Budget, of the achievement of such objectives for the last completed fiscal year with the planned objectives of such year. Title IV: Citizens Bicentennial Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government - Establishes the Citizens' Bicentennial Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government, an independent agency of 18 members to study Federal agencies. Directs the Commission to make recommendations to the President and Congress for the restructuring of such agencies to improve their efficiency. Requires the Commission to submit its final report by September 30, 1980, and terminate it 90 days thereafter. Authorizes to be appropriated without fiscal years limitation $12,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Title. Title V: Zero Base Review of Tax Expenditures - Requires the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation to determine and recommend termination dates for all tax expenditure provisions, defined as any special exclusion, exemption, deduction from gross income, special credit, preferential tax rate or deferral of tax liability. Requires such date to be on December 31, of one to the five year beginning with 1980. Requires that a subsequent zero-base review be conducted every five years after the first such review of such tax expenditure provision. Requires that a bill be passed by the 95th Congress setting the first termination dates for such provisions. Makes any proposal to consider any bill in either House which contains a tax expenditure provision out of order unless such expenditure has a termination date and has been subjected to zero-base review as provided for by this Act. Sets both procedures and time deadlines for conducting zero-base review of tax expenditure provisions. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Requires the Director of Management and Budget to study the feasibility of zero-base budgeting for Federal agencies. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to study the feasibility of personnel ceilings on employees of the United States and their relationships to alternative methods of carrying out the activities of such employees. Requires that such reports be submitted to Congress. Requires Federal agency heads to report requests for new budget authority to Congress. Requires specified committees to study the effectiveness of the zero-base review procedure required by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Restricts payments of the United States to the United Nations to the ratio of the population of the United States to the total population of member nations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Foreign Investors Limitation Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to prohibit any person who is not a citizen of the United States or is owned or controlled by a person who is not a citizen of the United States from acquiring more than five percent of the voting securities, or more than 35 percent of the non-voting securities, of any issuer whose securities are registered under such Act. Prohibits a person covered by this Act who owns more than the specified percentages of securities from acquiring more of such securities. Directs the Commission to require all persons covered by this Act to register with the Commission prior to the acquisition of securities of any issuer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Mine Safety and Health Act - Amends the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act to change the short title to "Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety and Health Act." Amends such Act to impose a general duty on mine operators to furnish miners with employment and a place of employment which are free from hazards that are causing, or are likely to cause, death or injury. Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish additional mine safety standards pursuant to recommendations made by an advisory committee appointed by the Secretary. Requires that standards dealing with toxic materials or harmful physical agents allow miners and their representatives the opportunity for observation of monitoring techniques and access to pertinent records. Requires that standards impose labeling requirements and suitable protective equipment for miners. Establishes procedures for the granting of variances for affected mine operators from such standards. Authorizes inspections of mine sites by representatives of the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires special inspections upon the request of miners or their representatives where an imminent danger is alleged to exist. Requires investigations into mine accidents with a view to preventing their recurrence. Imposes reporting requirements on mine operators with respect to work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses. Stipulates that such information shall be obtained in a manner designed to impose a minimum burden on small business. Establishes a program of miner education and training. Requires that miners be informed of rights and obligations under this Act. Establishes procedures for enforcement of mine safety standards under this Act, including the closure of dangerous mine sites by the Secretary of Labor or his representative. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violation of provisions of this Act. Establishes the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety and Health Commission, as an independent agency, to appoint hearing examiners (to adjudicate disputes under the Act) and to review the decisions of such examiners. Establishes, in the Department of Labor, an Office of the Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health to be filled by Presidential appointment, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Creates the Advisory Committee on Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety and Health, to consult with the Assistant Secretary and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on the administration of the Act. Establishes procedures for congressional review and disapproval of regulations promulgated under this Act. Transfers the administration of the Act from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Labor. Authorizes the transfer of personnel to the Department of Labor. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act. Requires disclosure of known financial interests in mines and mine operators of employees or officials engaged in the administration of this Act, subject to criminal penalties.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
National Workers' Compensation Standards Act - Requires employers to provide workmen's compensation benefits in accordance with the minimum standards set forth in this Act. Specifies minimum standards with respect to the following: (1) maximum time and monetary limits on disability and survivor compensation, medical care, and rehabilitation services; (2) minimum disability and survivor compensation; (3) duration of and conditions relative to survivors benefits; (4) waiting period for benefits; (5) adjustments in disability and survivor compensation; (6) statutes of limitations for disability and death claims; and (7) jurisdictions in which claims may be filed. Stipulates that State law shall govern whether an injury was work-related. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make recommendations for appropriate standards for determining: (1) whether a disease arose out of and in the course of employment; and (2) whether death or disability was due to such disease. Directs the Secretary of Labor to review State workmen's compensation laws and certify those laws that meet the minimum standards set forth in this Act. Permits compensation claims to be brought in United States district courts in instances in which both State law and the decision of the appropriate State agency fail to comply with such standards. Requires employers in States whose laws are not certified under this Act to maintain evidence of financial ability, through insurance or other wise, to pay benefits in compliance with this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants to States to assist in carrying out programs for meeting the standards specified in this Act and in developing plans for improving the administration and enforcement of workmen's compensation laws. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop and maintain a program of collection, compilation, and analysis of workmen's compensation statistics. Establishes the National Worker's Compensation Advisory Commission. Lists the Commission's duties, including monitoring and advising the Secretary of Labor with respect to State workmen's compensation programs and assisting States to improve such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Authorizes the mailing of letter mail at no cost to the sender if mailed by a citizen to the President or to the Members of Congress from such citizen's State. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the Postal Service the amount of postage due for letter mail sent under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
National Presidential Elections Act - Provides that the President and the Vice President, and the respective candidates therefor, shall be elected by direct vote of the people of the States and the District of Columbia. Provides that a national presidential primary election for the selection of candidates in the general election of President shall be held in each of the several States and in the District of Columbia on the first Tuesday in September in each year immediately prior to the expiration of the term of office of the President incumbent in office. Sets forth the requirements for candidates in such primary. States that a political party is qualified to participate in a national presidential primary election when, in not less than two-thirds of the several States, the presidential candidate of that party has received, in the immediately preceding general election of the President, not less than 25 percent of the total vote cast in that State, or that party has filed with the chief elections officer of the State concerned a petition signed by at least 5 percent of the qualified voters of such State. Requires that the respective candidates for Vice President in the general election for President and Vice President be chosen, not later than the third Tuesday in the month of September in which the national presidential primary election is held, in such manner as the respective political parties, which have qualified under this Act, may determine. Provides that in the general election of President and Vice President, the candidates who receive a plurality of at least 45 percent of the total vote cast shall be elected to such office. Provides that if no candidates for the offices of President and Vice President receive a plurality of at least 45 percent of the vote for such office, a runoff election shall be held in which the names of the two presidential candidates and the two vice-presidential candidates who received the greatest number of votes for such offices shall be on the ballot in each State. Establishes a National Presidential Elections Commission to prescribe regulations with respect to the national presidential primary election and the general election of President and Vice President, determine questions and controversies pertaining to qualifications of political parties and candidates, and certify to the Congress the election of the President and Vice President. Provides that whoever violates or interferes with the right of any person to participate in a primary or general election under this Act or impedes of hinders the operation of this Act shall be imprisoned for not more than five years of fined not more than $10,000, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Opportunities Industrialization Centers Job Creation and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into a contract with Opportunities Industrialization Centers, Incorporated, in order to provide comprehensive employment services and jobs for unemployed persons through such centers. Requires the head of each Federal agency administering programs under specified Federal Acts to make arrangements with local agencies to assure that special consideration will be given to Opportunities Industrialization Centers for the provision of comprehensive employment services and job opportunities for the unemployed pursuant to such programs. Requires a contract entered into under this Act to contain provisions assuring that specific requirements are complied with, including requirements that (1) special consideration in providing jobs will be given to unemployed persons who are Vietnam veterans or who are most severely disadvantaged in terms of the length of time they have been unemployed; (2) due consideration will be given to persons who have participated in manpower training programs for whom unemployment opportunities would be otherwise available; and (3) the program will to the maximum extent feasible contribute to the elimination of artificial barriers to employment and occupational advancement. Sets forth special conditions to be met prior to providing financial assistance pursuant to a contract entered into under this Act. Requires the program to contribute, to the maximum extent feasible, to the occupational development or upward mobility of individual participants. Prohibits the Secretary from providing financial assistance unless he determines that: (1) periodic reports will be submitted to him to measure the effectiveness of the program;(2) there will be no discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, political affiliation, or beliefs within the program; and (3) the participants in the program will not be employed in the construction, operation, or maintenance of sectarian religious facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the authority administering any school system, educational institution, or other public building supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds to allow voluntary participation by students or others in prayer. Prohibits the authority administering such entities from prescribing the form or content of any prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits assignment of public school students to a particular school based upon their race, creed, or color. Grants Congress the power to enforce this amendment by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that total appropriations shall not exceed estimated revenues. Authorizes the suspension of such prohibition in time of war or by a concurrent resolution passed by the Senate and the House stating that a national emergency requires such suspension.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Extends due process and equal protection to an individual from the moment of conception. Prohibits the deprivation of human life on account of age, illness, or incapacity.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Declares that the House of Representatives does not favor energy action numbered 9, which would exempt motor gasoline from mandatory petroleum price controls.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Authorizes Representative Parren J. Mitchell to appear as a witness before the Superior Court of Baltimore City, State of Maryland, in response to the summons served to him.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Declares it the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the United States should maintain its rights and jurisdiction over the Panama Canal and the Panama Canal Zone.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1977
Declares it the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of delinquent debts of foreign nations. Declares it the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury shall submit a list of such debts to the Congress and make arrangements with foreign nations for such repayment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Amends the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated under such Act to $6,000,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 2 September 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to construct a replacement lock and dam project on the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake steps to provide for wildlife protection and recreational activities in conjunction with such project. Withdraws all authority for the Secretary of the Army to construct or study the feasibility of construction or modification of channels in the Mississippi River north of its juncture with the Illinois River. Directs the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission to prepare a master plan by 1981 for the management of the Upper Mississippi River. Requires public hearings on a preliminary plan prior to preparation of a final plan. Establishes criteria to be considered in preparing such master plan. Authorizes the appropriation of $20,000,000 to the Commission for such study.
United States · United States Congress · 30 August 1976
Provides that the automatic cost-of-living increases in benefits which are authorized under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act may be made on a semiannual basis (rather than only on an annual basis as at present).
United States · United States Congress · 30 August 1976
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to prepare, as part of the Consumer Price Index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a consumer price index (to be known as the Consumer Price Index for the Aged and Other Social Security Beneficiaries) designed to reflect the relevant price information for individuals, as a group, who are 65 years of age or older or are otherwise entitled to monthly benefits under Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 August 1976
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to exempt from the sex discrimination prohibition provision of such Act, musical or social programs or activities.
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Volunteer Firemen Week."
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