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United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States and the various political entities thereof should adopt "911" as the nationwide, uniform, emergency telephone number.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Exempts .22 caliber ammunition from the recordkeeping requirements imposed on the specified types of firearms and firearm components under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Foreign Investors Limitation Act - Restricts persons, under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, who are not citizens of the United States from acquiring more than 35 percent of the nonvoting securities or more than 5 percent of the voting securities of any issuer whose securities are registered under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Increases to $4,000 the amount of outside earnings permitted each year without deductions from benefits under title II (old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Federal Records Management Act - Defines terms used in this Act and declares that the purpose of this Act is to require the establishment of standards and procedures to assure efficient and effective records management in the Federal Government. States that such standards and procedures shall seek to effectuate specified goals, including: (1) accurate and complete documentation of the policies and transactions of the Federal Government; (2) control of the quantity and quality of records produced by the Federal Government; and (3) simplification of the processes through which records are created, stored, retrieved, and used. Directs that the Administrator of General Services shall provide guidance and assistance to Federal agencies with respect to records creation, records maintenance and use, and records disposition. Requires the Administrator to conduct inspections or paperwork studies of the records, records practices, and records management programs of every Federal agency. Authorizes and directs the Administrator to charge any Federal agency for the cost of any paperwork study. Directs the Administrator to transmit yearly reports to Congress. Enumerates the types of information that such report shall contain. Establishes the Records Review Board as an independent organization in the executive branch, such Board to consist of five members. Sets the rates of pay for Board members. Allows the Board to appoint and fix the pay of such personnel as it deems necessary to carry out its functions under this Act. Empowers any executive agency to appeal to the Board any order issued by the Administrator pursuant to this Act. Requires the head of each Federal agency to make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of such Agency. Grants the Administrator immediate custody and control of the National Archives Building and its contents. Directs the Administrator to establish standards for the selective retention of records of continuing value. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and operate records centers for specified purposes and centralized microfilming services for Federal agencies. States that the head of each Federal agency shall establish safeguards against the removal or loss of records he determines to be necessary and required by the rules of the Administrator. Authorizes the Administrator to prescribe such rules as he considers essential to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for carrying out the programs authorized under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, including (1) comprehensive manpower services, (2) public employment programs, and (3) Job Corps.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to declare the fourth Saturday of each September "National Hunting and Fishing Day".
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Requests the President to express the concern of the United States Government for the safety and freedom of Valentyn Moroz, historian, writer, and spokesman for the cultural integrity of the Ukranian people.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Treats the amounts paid for custodial care by institutions of dependents afflicted by Down's syndrome as amounts paid for medical care for purposes of deductibility from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Prohibits a petroleum refiner or distributor from cancelling, failing to renew, or otherwise terminating a franchise unless he furnishes notification in writing to each affected distributor or retailer by certified mail not less than ninety days prior to the date on which such franchise will be canceled, together with a statement of the reasons of such cancellation and of the remedies available. Provides that a petroleum refiner or distributor shall not cancel, fail to renew, or otherwise terminate a franchise unless the retailer or distributor whose franchise is terminated failed to comply substantially with any essential and reasonable requirement of such franchise or failed to act in good faith in carrying out the terms of such franchise. States that if a refiner or distributor engages in conduct prohibited under this Act, a retailer or distributor may maintain a suit against such refiner or distributor.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Provides, under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, for the extension of specified provisions for an additional 20 years. Makes permanent the ban against requiring compliance with tests and devices as a prerequisite to voting.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Comprehensive Right to Privacy Act - Requires that any organization of State or local government maintaining an information system that includes personal information shall: (1) collect, maintain, use, and disseminate only personal information necessary to accomplish a proper purpose of the organization; (2) collect information to the greatest extent possible from the data subject directly; (3) maintain information in the system with accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and pertinence as necessary to assure fairness in determinations relating to a data subject; (4) make no dissemination to another system or any individual other than the data subject without specifying requirements for security and the use of information exclusively for the purpose set forth in the notice required under this Act; (5) maintain a complete and accurate record, including identity purpose, and date, of every access to any personal information in a system by persons or organizations not having regular access authority; and (6) collect no personal information concerning the political or religious beliefs, affiliations, and activities of data subjects maintained by any government agency unless expressly authorized by statute. Prohibits any State or local government from requiring individuals to disclose for statistical purposes any personal information unless such disclosure is required by a constitutional provision or Act of Congress, and the individual is so informed. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to: (1) give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board; (2) give public notice of the existence and character of each existing system each year; and (3) assure that such public notice specifies the categories of data maintained, and the categories of all information sources, a description of types of use made of information, and the procedures whereby an individual can gain access to such information and contest its accuracy and the necessity for its retention. Requires any organization maintaining personal information to inform an individual asked to supply personal information whether he is legally required, or may refuse, to supply the information requested, and also of any specific consequences, which are known to the organization, of providing or not providing such information. Permits data subjects who dispute information about themselves to have such disputed information noted as being disputed when such information about him is disseminated. Requires, upon request, corrections in information to be sent to past recipients of information. Directs organizations maintaining information to inform, within two years and each year thereafter, individuals on whom data is stored of its content and where a copy of such data may be obtained. Sets forth exemptions to the provisions of this Act. Makes it unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number, for any purpose in connection with any business transaction unless the disclosure or furnishing of such number is specifically required by Federal law. Establishes the Federal Privacy Board whose five members shall be appointed by the President. Directs the Board to: (1) publish an annual Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system covered by this Act; (2) make rules to assure compliance with this Act; (3) upon the determination of a violation of a provision of this Act or regulation promulgated under the Act, and after opportunity for a hearing, order the organization violating such provision to cease and desist such violation; and (4) conduct open, public hearings on all petitions for exceptions or exemptions from provisions, application, or jurisdiction of this Act. States that any individual or organization or responsible officer of an organization who willfully: (1) keeps an information system without having notified the Federal Privacy Board; or (2) issues personal information in violation of this Act; or (3) solicits, uses, or otherwise acquires information in violation of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 in each instance or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Provides that any person, system, or agency which violates the provisions of the Act, or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, shall be liable to any person aggrieved thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1975
Provides, under title XVIII (Medicare) and title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that qualified drugs requiring a physicians 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 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 · 6 February 1975
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Authorizes, under the Internal Revenue Code, a taxpayer to deduct expenses incurred during the taxable year in removing architectural and transportational barriers to the elderly and handicapped.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Black Lung Benefit Act - Defines "total disability" under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act as having the meaning given it by regulation of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, except that: (1) in the case of a living miner, such regulations shall provide that a miner shall be considered totally disabled when pneumoconiosis prevents him from engaging in gainful employment requiring the skills and abilities comparable to those of any employment in a mine or mines in which he previously engaged with some regularity and over a substantial period of time; (2) in the case of a deceased miner, such regulations shall provide that the fact that a miner was employed by a mine at the time of his death shall not be used as evidence that the miner was not totally disabled; and (3) such regulations shall not provide more restrictive criteria than those applicable under the Social Security Act. States that if a miner was employed for 15 years or more in one or more underground coal mines, there shall be an irrebuttable presumption that he is totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis or that at the time of his dealth he was totally disabled by pneumoconiosis. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to pay benefits to all previous claimants who have become eligible for benefits as a result of the enactment of this Act. Requires that at least 5 members of the Advisory Committee on Coal Mine Health Research be miners or retired miners.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides for a credit under the Internal Revenue Code for 20 percent of the amounts deposited by the taxpayer in an educational savings plan for himself or a dependent. Sets limitations on the amount of such credit, dependent upon the nature of the account. Defines "educational savings plan" and other terms used in this Act. Provides for the recapture of any such credit allocable to nonqualified noneducational uses or for failure to use the account. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 42)
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Prohibits any agency of the Federal Government, under the Equal Educational Opportunities Act, from requiring schools or other educational institutions, as a prerequisite to the receipt of Federal funds, to provide such agency with access to records concerning race, religion, sex, or national origin maintained by such schools, or other institutions, exept as provided in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of the State should take the necessary steps, including the renewal of negotiations between the parties, signatory to the Paris agreement and the agreement with the Lao Patriotic Front, to finally determine the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President who is requested to report to the House in 90 days on steps taken to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Dairy Import Sanitation Act - Provides for the inspection of imported dairy products in order to protect the public health and welfare. Requires that such products comply with minimum standards for sanitation established by the Secretary of Agriculture and that the dairy farms on which milk is produced and the plants in which such products are produced meet minimum standards of sanitation. States that such standards shall be comparable to the standards of purity, wholesomeness, and sanitation recommended by the Secretary for domestic dairy products. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the administration and supervision of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Prohibits the interstate shipment of dogs trained for or intended to be used in dogfights for purposes of sport, wagering, or entertainment. Specifies punishments for persons involved in such commerce and for promoters of and participants in activities which include such dogfights if any one of the dogs involved had been moved in such commerce. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 48)
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Voter Registration Act - Provides that the Administration shall (1) establish and administer a voter registration program in accordance with this Act for all Federal elections; (2) collect, analyze, and arrange for the publication and sale by the Government Printing Office of information concerning elections in the United States (but this publication shall not disclose any information which permits the identification of individual voters); (3) provide assistance to State officials concerning voter registration-by-mail and election problems generally; and (4) provide the Congress with such information as the Congress may from time to time request, and prepare and submit to the President and the Congress a report on its activities, and on voter registration and elections generally in the United States, immediately following each biennial general Federal election. States that an individual who fulfills the requirements to be a qualified voter under State law and who is registered to vote under the provision of this Act shall be entitled to vote in Federal elections in that State, except that each State shall provide for the registration or other means of qualification of all residents of such States who apply, not later than thirty days immediately prior to any Federal election, for registration or qualification to vote in such election. Provides that, whenever a Federal election is held in any State, the Administration may, upon the request of any State official, furnish officers and employees and such other assistance as the Administration and the State official may agree upon to assist State officials in the registration of individuals applying to register in that State under the provisions of this Act. Directs the Administration to prepare voter registration forms in such a way as to provide a simple method of registering to vote by mail. States that registration forms shall include such matter as State law requires and as the Administration determines appropriate to ascertain the positive identification and voter qualifications of an individual applying to register under the provisions of this Act, to provide for the return delivery of the completed registration form to the appropriate State official, and to prevent fraudulent registration. Provides criminal penalties for fraudulent registration and for any person who attempts to deprive any other person of rights under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated up to $50,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides an additional income tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code of $750 for a taxpayer supporting a dependent who is mentally retarded.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides that employers of 50 or less employees shall not be required to pay or deposit employment taxes more often than once each quarter under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act - Establishes a body corporate known as the "Reconstruction Finance Corporation" with a principal office to be located in the District of Columbia. Provides that the Corporation shall have a capital stock of $2,000,000,000 to be appropriated from the Treasury of the United States. Specifies the membership of the Board of Directors of such Corporation and grants the Corporation the powers necessary to function as such. Authorizes the Corporation, in order to aid in financing agriculture, commerce, and industry, to make loans to any business concern: (1) to enable such business concern to finance plant construction, conversion, or expansion, or the acquisition of equipment, facilities, machinery, supplies, or materials; (2) to supply such business concern with working capital; or (3) to aid such business concern in the payment of current debts or obligations, if such aid is considered by the Board of Directors to be in the public interest. Provides that no loan may be made to any business concern under this Act unless such business concern is unable to obtain a loan on reasonable terms. Provides that each loan made under this Act may be made for a period not exceeding 10 years, and the Corporation may extend the time of payment of any such loan up to 12 years from the date upon which such loan was made originally. States that each such loan shall bear interest at a rate equal to the current average yield (as certified by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Corporation) on all outstanding obligations of the United States as of the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which the loan is made. Authorizes the Corporation to guarantee the payment of principal and interest on a loan made to such business concern by a non-Federal lender under the same circumstances in which the business would be eligible for a loan from the Corporation if it was not available on reasonable terms from any other source. Provides that the aggregate of the principal amounts of the loans outstanding at any time with respect to which guarantees have been made under this section shall not exceed $2,000,000,000. Authorizes the Corporation to have outstanding at any one time, obligations in an aggregate amount not exceeding three times its subscribed capital. Provides that such obligations shall be free from taxation. Provides criminal sanctions for: (1) false statements in the attempt to secure loans under this Act; (2) false statements or fraudulent acts in connection with any obligation incurred by the Corporation under this Act; or (3) willful misapplication of funds by any individual entrusted with such funds under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
National Presidential Election 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. Provides 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 presidental 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. Provides that the respective candidates for Vice President in the general election for President and Vice President must 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 or hinders the operation of this Act shall be imprisoned for not more than five years or fined not more than $10,000, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Expands the membership of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to include elected school board officials.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Increases to $1,200 the personal income tax exemptions of a taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code (including the exemption for a spouse, the exemptions for dependents, and the additional exemptions for old age and blindness). Increases the amounts of the withholding exemptions applicable for purposes of the collection of income tax at the source in order to reduce the amount withheld at the source.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
States that notwithstanding any other law or provision of law, in the case of any order on the part of any United States district court which requires the transfer or transportation of any students from any school attendance area prescribed by competent State or local authority, the effectiveness of such order shall be postponed until all appeals, including to the Supreme Court, in connection with such order have been exhausted or, in the event no appeals are taken, until the time for such appeals has expired.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides that the total contribution of the United States to the United Nations for any calendar year after 1975 shall not exceed an amount which bears the same ratio to the United Nations budget as the total population of the United States bears to the total population of the United Nations member states.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Designates the 11th day of November of each year as Veterans Day, and makes such day a legal public holiday. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall prohibit the authority and administering any school, school system, educational institution, or other public building supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds from providing for or permitting the voluntary participation by students or others in prayer. Stipulates that nothing contained in this article shall authorize any such authority to prescribe the form or content of any prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that neither the United States nor any State shall deprive any human being, from the moment of conception, of life without due process and equal protection of the laws. Directs that neither shall the United States nor any State deprive any human being of life on account of illness, age or incapacity.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that the Congress shall not have power for any fiscal accounting period to draw money from the Treasury in consequence of appropriations made by law in an amount which exceeds in the aggregate the total amount of the revenues of the United States (exclusive of borrowed sums) during the previous fiscal accounting period and five percent of those revenues, except where Congress by two-thirds vote of both Houses during a fiscal accounting period shall determine that a national emergency requires that additional money be drawn from the Treasury during that same fiscal accounting period.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
States that the House of Representatives disapproves the deferral of budget authority relating to atomic energy which is proposed by the President in his message of November 26, 1974, transmitted under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the provisions of the National School Lunch Act which require that the national average value of donated foods (or cash payments in lieu thereof), the special assistance factor for payments for free and reduced price lunches, and the national average rate for lunches and breakfasts served under the school lunch program and the school breakfast program shall reflect changes in the series of food away from home of the Consumer Price Index are necessary provisions of such Act which maintain the stability of the national school lunch and school breakfast programs in the current period of inflation.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Authorizes, under the Communications Act of 1934, grants to States and units of local government for the establishment, equipping, and operation of emergency communications centers to make the national emergency telephone number 911 available throughout the United States. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 and $7,500,000 for fiscal years 1975 and 1976, respectively, to make grants under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Emergency Homeowners' Relief Act - Declares that the purpose of this Act is to prevent widespread mortgage defaults and the distress-sale of homes as a result of adverse economic conditions. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make repayable emergency mortgage relief payments on behalf of distressed homeowners when he determines that such action is necessary and that there is a reasonable prospect that the homeowner will be able to make necessary adjustments for the full resumption of mortgage payments. Defines "distressed homeower" as one or more persons who own and occupy a dwelling as a principal residence and whose income has declined by more than 20 percent as the result of unemployment or other adverse economic conditions. Limits relief payments to a period not exceeding two years. Provides that payments be repaid on such terms as the Secretary prescribes. Empowers the Secretary to delegate any of his functions under this Act to other Federal agencies or private entities. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a revolving fund for mortgage relief payments and other specified purposes, including payment of obligations issued to the Secretary of the Treasury to enable the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to carry out his functions under this Act. Provides for a payment expiration date of July 1, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that no ceiling on social security benefits be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Interim Fisheries Zone Extension and Management Act - Extends the jurisdiction of the United States over specified ocean areas and fish for purposes of protecting the domestic fishing industry. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to conduct research in order to promote the conservation of fish originating in the United States territorial sea and contiguous fisheries zone. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $1,000,000 in any fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Provides for the abolishment of the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries established under the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Prohibits increases in the amount required to be paid by households for food stamp allotments under the Food Stamp Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Reduces the retirement annuity of a Member of Congress by 10 percent for each full year by which the age of the Member at the time of retirement exceeds 70.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Declares that for 90 days following enactment of this Act the President shall have no authority to adjust imports of petroleum or petroleum products under the Trade Expansion Act or any other Federal law. Provides that in the event of a declaration of war, an attack upon the United States, or other involvement in hostilities by the Armed Forces within the 90 day period, this provision shall not thereafter apply. Provides that any action taken by the President between January 15, 1975, and the date of enactment of this Act which results in the imposition of a duty tax or fee on petroleum or petroleum products shall cease to have effect on the date of enactment. Allows a rebate of any amount paid as a tax or fee on petroleum products which was imposed by the President after January 15, 1975, and before enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of the longstanding debts of foreign nations which are delinquent in nature. Directs the Department of the Treasury to submit to the Congress within ninety days of passage of this resolution a list and report on the extent of such indebtedness on the part of foreign nations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should not impose any tariff or other import restriction on petroleum or petroleum products before April 1, 1975, so as to give the Congress a reasonable period of time in which to act legislatively on such matter if it determines such action is necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who have been citizens of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.