United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1973
Expresses the sense of Congress that in order to conserve gasoline supplies, speed limits for motor vehicles traveling on Federal-aid highways presently at or in excess of fifty-five miles an hour should be reduced immediately to fifty-five miles per hour or ten miles per hour lower than the speed limit posted on such Federal aid highway, whichever is the greater.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Provides that whoever robs any pharmacy of any narcotic drug shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than twenty years or both. Provides that whoever, in commiting or attempting to commit any offense described above, assaults any person, or puts in jeopardy the life of any person by the use of a dangerous weapon or device, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than twenty-five years or both. Provides that whoever, in commiting or attempting to commit any such offense, kills any person shall be imprisoned for not less than ten years.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973
Youth Camp Safety Act - Makes it the purpose of this Act to protect and safeguard the health and well-being of youth attending day camps, resident camps, and travel camps by providing for the establishment of Federal standards for the safe operation of youth camps. Confers upon the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare the primary responsibility for the promulgation and enforcement of Federal and State youth camp safety regulations. Requires any State which desires to assume responsibility for the development and modification of youth camp safety standards to submit a State plan to the Secretary for his approval. Allows a State whose plan has been rejected to obtain review of the decision in the United States Court of Appeals. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States which have in effect approved State plans, such grants not to exceed eighty percent of the cost of carrying out the State plan. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years such sums as may be necessary to make the grants provided for in this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to inspect youth camps. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Advisory Council on Youth Camp Safety and to submit to Congress at least once a year a comprehensive and detailed report on his administration under this Act. Authorizes penalties of up to $2,500 for each violation by youth camp operators of the standards promulgated pursuant to this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations for fiscal year 1973 and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years to carry out provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1973
Authorizes the employment of student congressional interns, by Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners of the House of Representatives. Provides that the sum of $1,500 be made available to each member out of the House contingent fund to pay for the salaries of such interns.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day in each year as "National Family Week".
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Provides for voluntary agreements between ministers and their employers to treat ministers as employed persons for purposes of coverage under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Provides for the deferral or cancellation of repayment of student loans under the National Defense Education Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965, for persons held as prisoners of war. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to pay to holders of such loans appropriate amounts due.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Prohibits any Government agency from distributing or selling to any person any list of names and addresses of: (1) employees or former employees; (2) persons licensed by or required to file information with the agency; or (3) members or former members of the Armed Forces. Permits an agency to make available such list if the person seeking the list certifies that it will not be used for commercial, solicitation, or unlawful purposes, or if the list is made available as a necessary part of the agency's statutory functions. Prescribes a penalty of imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of $10,000, or both, for violations of the provisions of this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C.552(c))
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of the longstanding debts which are delinquent in nature. Makes it the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury 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. Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury, through the appropriate departments and agencies, should, immediately after the filing of this report, begin consultations with foreign governments involved for the purpose of making arrangements for the prompt repayment of those longstanding debts which are delinquent.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Provides that, beginning one year after enactment of this Act, no law enforcement grants under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 will be made to State and local governments unless these units of government have instituted a law enforcement officer's grievance system and have enacted into law a "Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights" which will cover all law enforcement officers in the States. Declares that this Bill of Rights shall provide law enforcement officers statutory protection for certain rights enjoyed by other citizens. Requires the bill of rights to provide, at a minimum, the following: (1) law enforcement officers shall not be prohibited from engaging in political activity, except when on duty or acting in an official capacity; (2) when an officer is subject to an investigation that could lead to disciplinary action or criminal charges: (a) the investigation shall be conducted at a reasonable hour, preferably while the officer is on duty, (b) the investigation shall occur at the office of the investigating officer or at the precinct where the incident occurred, (c) there shall be one interrogator asking all questions to the officer and the names of all investigating officers shall be known by him, (d) the officer shall know the nature of the investigation and the names of complainants, (e) all civilian complaints must be duly sworn to before an official authorized to administer oaths, (f) interrogating sessions shall be of reasonable length, (g) the officer under investigation shall not be subject to abuse or threats, (h) all interrogations shall be recorded, (i) if the officer is to be placed under arrest, he shall be fully informed of his rights before interrogation, and (j) the officer shall have a right to counsel who shall be present during any interrogations dealing with the officer's continued fitness for law enforcement service; (3) citizen review boards having porportionate police representation; (r) law enforcement officers shall have recourse to civil actions for damages suffered or for abridgement of their civil rights arising out of the performance of official duties; (5) financial disclosures shall not be required unless obtained under legal procedures or there is evidence of a conflict of interests; (6) notice of and reasons for all disciplinary action is required; and (7) no officer shall be disciplined or discriminated against in any way by reason of his exercise of these rights. Establishes in each State and unit of local government a law enforcement officers grievance commission composed of an equal number of governmental representatives, law enforcement officers, and members of the general public which shall have the authority to receive, investigate, and determine complaints and grievances arising from claimed infringement of rights of any law enforcement officer. Allows employee organizations to act on the officer's behalf, at his request, regarding any complaint before the commission. Permits certified employee organizations to initiate actions on behalf of their members. Provides that, in addition to this grievance procedure, law enforcement officers may institute a civil action for redress of the grievances.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1973
National Child Abuse Prevention Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to make grants to specified State agencies for developing and carrying out child abuse and neglect treatment and prevention programs. Sets forth the definitions of the terms used in this Act, including "child abuse", which has such meaning as given under State laws; except that in any case it shall include the physical or mental injury, severe abuse, or maltreatment of a child under the age of eighteen by a person who is responsible for the child's household, occurring under circumstances which indicate that the child's health or welfare is harmed or threatened. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 for each fiscal year, l974 through l976. Specifies the requirements a State child abuse prevention plan must meet to qualify for assistance under this Act, including: (1) that such plan is in effect throughout the State; (2) that a designated State agency shall make reports to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; and (3) that the State has adequate child abuse laws or is initiating a legislative program of such laws. Sets forth the procedures a State must meet for the reporting of child abuse or neglect cases by doctors, schoolteachers, social and welfare workers. Provides that specified actions shall be taken when such report is submitted to the police, social service administration or judical authority, including the forwarding of the report to the appropriate State agency and to the Social and Rehabilitative Service in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to purchase from one or more life insurance companies a policy or policies of mortgage protection life insurance on a group basis for veterans unable to obtain commercial life insurance at a substandard rate because of a service-connected disability. Sets forth the maximum amount of insurance under a policy provided under this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to deduct insurance premiums from any compensation or other cash benefits payable to veterans by the Veterans' Administration, and to pay such premiums to the insurers. Provides that the United States shall bear all of the cost of the insurance provided under this Act, except the amount of premium rates. States that any amount of insurance in force under this Act on the date of death of an insured veteran shall be paid only to the holder of the mortgage loan on the veteran's home as a credit toward loan indebtedness. Requires each policy purchased under this Act to provide for the following: (1) reinsurance with other insurers which meet the Administrator's criteria; (2) that the Administrator may discontinue a whole policy, or exclude from coverage loans made after a date fixed by him; (3) issuance to each insured veteran of a certificate setting forth the benefits to which he is entitled; (4) any other provisions necessary to carry out this Act; and (5) an annual accounting to the Administrator of the amount of premiums paid, the total of all mortality and other claim charges incurred, and the amount of the insurer's expenses and risk charges. States that insurance under this Act shall terminate upon whichever of the following events first occurs: (1) satisfaction of the veteran's indebtedness under the loan upon which the insurance is based; (2) the veteran's 70th birthday; (3) termination of the veteran's ownership of the property securing the loan; (4) discontinuance of payment of premiums by the veteran; or (5) discontinuance of the entire contract or agreement. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 791-95)
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Provides that no license granted for the operation of a broadcasting station under the Communications Act of 1934 shall be for a longer term than five years. Provides for renewal of such license where the Federal Communications Commission finds that the public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served. Provides that an applicant for renewal who is legally, financially and technically qualified shall be awarded the license if such applicant shows that its broadcast service during the preceding license period has reflected a good-faith effort to serve the needs and interests of its area as represented in its immediately preceding and pending license renewal application and if it has not demonstrated a callous disregard for law or the Commission's regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Provides an itemized deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for individuals who rent their principal residences in an amount equal to 25 percent of the aggregate amount paid. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 219)
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government immediately should require the Forest Service to offer for sale, for domestic use only, greater amounts of lumber grown on lands owned by the United States. Provides that such amounts shall not exceed the allowable cut which has been determined as consistent with good forest management and the maintenance of a proper ecologic balance.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Authorizes the President, through the temporary Vietnam Children's Care Agency, to enter into arrangements with the Government of South Vietnam to provide assistance in improving the welfare of children in South Vietnam and to facilitate the adoption of orphaned or abandoned Vietnamese children, particularly children of United States fathers. Authorizes necessary funds to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes additional funds that may be necessary to assist the United Nations or any other multi-lateral or non-profit organization to perform functions which would otherwise be performed by the Agency under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Extends to all unmarried individuals the tax treatment of income splitting now utilized by married individuals filing joint returns under the Internal Revenue Code. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe and publish tables reflecting the amendments made by this Act which shall apply in lieu of the tables set forth in the Internal Revenue Code with respect to wages paid on or after the first day of the first month which begins more than 20 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Authorizes life imprisonment for persons convicted of illegally dealing in dangerous narcotic drugs in schedule I or II of the Controlled Substances Act. (Amends 21 U.S.C. 845)
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Bill of Rights for the Mentally Retarded - States that the purpose of this Act is to establish standards which assure the humane care, treatment, habilitation, and protection of the mentally retarded in residential facilities, and to improve the system for the provision of services to the mentally retarded through the encouragement of and support for the planning and development of strategies to implement such standards, minimize inappropriate admissions to residential facilities and stimulate the development of regional and community programs integrating such residential facilities which conform to such standards. Provides for a new title to the Public Health Service Act: Title XI: Support of Residential Facilities for the Mentally Retarded - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to aid them with the cost of bringing existing residential facilities into compliance with the standards established under this Act, and to improve existing residential facilities for the mentally retarded. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 ($15,000,000 for each program) for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years, for such grants. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to make grants to States for the purpose of assisting States in meeting the expenses for bringing publicly operated facilities and publicly assisted facilities into conformity with the standards established by this Act. Stipulates that any State desiring to receive such a grant shall submit a plan to the Secretary setting forth a schedule for compliance with such standards. Provides that the total of the grants with respect to any such project bringing facilities into conformity with the standards imposed by this Act may not exceed 75 percent of the necessary cost thereof as determined by the Secretary. Requires, within five years after the date of enactment of this Act, that no residential facility for the mentally retarded shall be eligible to receive payments either directly or indirectly under any Federal law, unless such facility meets the standards promulgated under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any public or private non-profit agency, organization or institution to meet the costs of development, improvement, extension, or expansion of community resources and community living situations for the mentally retarded other than live-in-residential facilities for the mentally retarded. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Standards for Residential Facilities for the Mentally Retarded to: (1) advise the Secretary with respect to any regulations promulgated or proposed in the implementation of the standards established under this Act; (2) study and evaluate such standards authorized by this Act; and (3) recommend to the Secretary any changes, revisions, modifications, or improvements in the standards established under this Act. Provides that the ultimate aim of the residential facility shall be to foster those behaviors that maximize the human qualities of the resident, increase the complexity of his behavior, and enhance his ability to cope with his environment. Requires such facilities to be located within, and conveniently accessible to, the population served, so as to have access to necessary generic community services. Provides that the facility and the surrounding community should be encouraged to share their services and resources on a reciprocal basis. Provides that residents of the facility should be integrated to the greatest possible extent with the general population. Provides that the facility shall have a written outline of the philosophy, objectives, and goals it is striving to achieve. Requires such outline to be available for distribution to staff, consumer representatives, and the interested public. Provides that the governing body of the facility shall exercise general direction and shall establish policies concerning the operation of the individuals served. Provides that the administration of the facility shall provide for effective staff and resident participation and communication. Requires the facility to designate a percentage of its operating budget for self-renewal purposes. Provides that the facility shall have a description of services for residents that is available to the public. Provides that the facility shall provide for meaningful and extensive consumer-representative and public participation. Provides that a public education and information program should be established that utilizes all communication media, and all service, religious and civil groups, to develop attitudes of understanding and acceptance of mentally retarded persons in all aspects of community living. Provides that admission and release procedures shall: (1) encourage voluntary admission; (2) give equal priority to persons of comparable need; (3) facilitate emergency, partial, and short-term residential care; and (4) utilize the maximum feasible amount of voluntariness in each individual case. Authorizes the residential facility to admit only residents who have had a comprehensive evaluation. Provides that all admissions to the residential facility shall be considered temporary. Provides that there shall be a regular, at least annual, joint review of the status of each resident by all relevant personnel. Provides that at the time of permanent release or transfer there shall be recorded a summary of findings, progress, and plans for protective supervision and other followup services in the resident's new environment. Provides that the performance of each employee of the facility shall be evaluated at least annually. Provides that staffing shall be sufficient so that the facility is not dependent upon the use of residents or volunteers for productive services. Provides that food services shall recognize and provide for the physiological, emotional, and cultural needs of each resident, through provision of a planned, nutritionally adequate diet. Provides that each resident shall have an adequate allowance of neat, clean, fashionable, and seasonable clothing. Provides that residents shall be trained to exercise maximum independence in health, hygiene, and grooming practices. Provides that living unit components or groupings shall be small enough to insure the development of meaningful interpersonal relationships among residents and between residents and staff. Requires dental services to be provided all residents in order to maximize their general health by maintaining an optimal level of daily oral health, through preventive measures and correcting existing oral diseases. Provides that educational services, defined as deliberate attempts to facilitate the intellectual, sensorimotor, and affective development of the individual, shall be available to all residents, regardless of chronological age, degree of retardation, or accompanying disabilities or handicaps. Provides that food and nutrition services shall be provided in order to: (1) insure optimal nutritional status of each resident, thereby enhancing his physical, emotional, and social well-being; and (2) provide a nutritionally adequate diet, in a form consistent with developmental level, to meet the dietary needs of each resident. Makes library services, which include the location, acquisition, organization, utilization, retrieval, and delivery of materials in a variety of media, available to the facility, in order to support and strengthen its total habilitation program by providing complete and integrated multimedia information services to both staff and residents. Provides that medical services shall be provided in order to: (1) achieve and maintain an optimal level of general health for each resident; (2) maximize normal function and prevent disability; and (3) facilitate the optimal development of each resident. Provides that residents shall be provided with nursing services, in accordance with their needs, in order to: (1) develop and maintain an environment that will meet their total health needs; (2) foster optimal health; (3) encourage maximum self-care and independence; and (4) provide skilled nursing care. Provides that, where appropriate to the facility, there shall be a pharmacy and therapeutics committee, that includes one or more pharmacists, to develop policy on drug usage in the facility, and to develop and maintain a current formulary. Provides that physical and occupational therapy services shall be provided in order to: (1) prevent abnormal development and further disability; (2) facilitate the optimal development of each resident; and (3) enable the resident to be a contributing and participating member of the community in which he resides. Requires psychological services be provided in order to facilitate, through the application of psychological principles, techniques, and skills, the optimal development of each resident. Provides that recreation services should provide each resident with a program of activities that: (1) promotes physical and mental health; (2) promotes optimal sensorimotor, cognitive, affective, and social development; (3) encourages movement from dependent to independent and interdependent functioning; and (4) provides for the enjoyable use of leisure time. Make religious services available to residents, in accorance with their basic right to freedom of religion. Provides that all social services shall be available to all residents and their families in order to foster and facilitate: (1) maximum personal and social development of the resident; (2) positive family functioning; and (3) effective and satisfying social and community relationships. Provides that speech pathology and audiology services shall be available, in order to: (1) maximize the communications skills of all residents; and (2) provide for the evaluation, counseling, treatment, and rehabilitation of those residents with speech, hearing and/or language handicaps. Requires each facility to provide all its residents with rehabilitation services, which include the establishment, maintenance, and implementation of those programs that will ensure the optimal development or restoration of each resident physically, psychologically, socially and vocationally. Provides that volunteer services shall be provided in order to enhance opportunities for the fullest realization of the potential of each resident by: (1) increasing the amount, and improving the quality, of services and programs; and (2) facilitating positive relationships between the facility and the community which it serves. Provides that a record shall be maintained for each resident that is adequate for: (1) planning and continuous evaluating of the resident's habitation program; (2) providing a means of communication among all persons contributing to the resident's habilitation program; (3) furnishing documentary evidence of the resident's progress and of his response to his habilitation program; (4) serving as a basis for review, study, and evaluation of the overall programs provided by the facility for its residents; (5) protecting the legal rights of the residents, facility, and staff; and (6) providing data for use in research and education. Provides that the administration of the facility shall make provision for the design and conduct, or the supervision, of research that will objectively evaluate the effectiveness of program components and contribute to informed decisionmaking in the facility. Provides that the requirements of the Secretary shall be met, with specific reference to the following: (1) provision of adequate and alternate exits and doors; (2) provision of exit ramps, with nonskid surface and slope not exceeding one foot in twelve; and (3) provision for handrails on stairways. Provides that there shall be records that document strict compliance with the sanitation, health, and environmental safety codes of the State or local authorities having primary jurisdiction over the facility. Provides that adequate, modern administrative support shall be provided to efficiently meet the needs of, and contribute to, program services for residents, and to facilitate attainment of the goals and objectives of the facility. Provides that funds shall be budgeted and spent in accordance with the principles and procedures of program budgeting. Provides that there shall be written purchasing policies regarding authority and approvals for supplies, services, and equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act, that an individual who performed military service during a war service period may have such service credited for annuity purposes under that Act, even though he entered the military service before such war service period began.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
National Health Care Services Reorganization and Financing Act - Title I: Reorganization of National Health Services - National Health Care Services Reorganization Act - Includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam in the definition of "State." Establishes the Department of Health which shall be headed by a Secretary of Health appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides for the appointment by the President, by and with the consent of the Senate, of an Under Secretary who shall act for, and exercise the powers of, the Secretary during the absence or disability of the Secretary. States that the Under Secretary shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall from time to time prescribe. Provides that there shall be in the Department seven Assistant Secretaries, a General Counsel, and a Chief Medical Officer who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Transfers to the Secretary and in specified instances to the Chief Medical Officer all functions of the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under laws and provisions of law listed in this Act. Provides that within one hundred and eighty days of the effective date of this title the President may transfer to the Secretary any function not transferred to the Secretary by this title, if the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines that such function relates primarily to functions transferred by this title to the Secretary, or otherwise relates to health. Redesignates the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as the Department of Education and Welfare. Sets forth provisions concerning the administrative functions of the Department of Health. Requires the Secretary to make an annual report in writing to the President for submission to the Congress on the activities of the Department during the preceding fiscal year. Provides that all orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, contracts, certificates, licenses and privileges which have been issued under provisions of law transferred by this title and which are in effect at the time this title takes effect shall continue in effect until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or repealed by the Secretary, by any court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress within two years after the effective date of this title a proposed codification of all laws which contain functions transferred to the Secretary. Makes the Secretary responsible for the planning, administration, operation, coordination, and evaluation of all programs transferred to him under this title in addition to the Health Care Program authorized under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe such regulations as he deems necessary for the efficient administration of the Act. Establishes a National Health Services Advisory Council which shall consist of the Secretary and twenty members appointed by the Secretary. Sets forth the terms of office of the members of the Council. Authorizes the Council to: (1) advise the Secretary on matters of general policy in the administration of this title and in the formation of regulations, and (2) study the operation of this title and the activities of State Health Commission, Health Care Corporations, and other providers. Requires the Council to make an annual report to the Secretary for transmittal to the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial and technical assistance for the early planning, development, establishment, and initial operation of Health Care Corporations, including incentives for the use of the capitation payment method of health care and for the development and improvement of outpatient care centers. States that the Secretary may provide such assistance by means of grants and contracts. Provides that in making such grants and contracts the Secretary shall take into account existing health care resources and health care delivery systems, the relative need of the States and areas within the States for assistance, and the need for an equitable distribution of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to State Health Commissions to facilitate and expedite the submission of State plans to the Secretary as required by this title. Authorizes to be appropriated for planning grants such sums as may be necessary for each of three fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted. Provides for a Federal payment of 90 percent of the sums expended for the proper and efficient administration of an approved State plan. Decreases such payment over a specified time period to 75 percent of the State expenditures. Sets forth penalties for criminal violations of this Act. Declares that States will be in compliance with this Act if: (1) the State has created, within the executive branch of the State government, a State agency headed by a State Health Commission for carrying out the responsibilities devolving upon the State under this Act; (2) there is established in such agency a State Advisory Council; and (3) there is in effect an approved State plan, submitted by the State Health Commission, for carrying out the State's responsibilities under this title. Provides that a State Health Commission shall be composed of three or five members appointed by the Governor of the State for staggered terms which shall be renewable. States that not more than two members of a three-member commission, nor three-members of a five member commission shall be members of the same political party. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that members of a State Health Commission should be chosen with a view to their ability to bring to the commission highly qualified, effective, and disinterested policy direction. Provides that the Advisory Council to the State Health Commission shall be appointed by the Governor of the State and consist of persons representative of providers and consumers of health care. States that the Council shall consult with the commission in the development and carrying out of the State plan. Requires the State Health Commission of each participating State to conduct a study and survey with a view to the approval of service areas for applicant Health Care Corporations as a basis for the issuance of certificates of approval by the commission, with the objective of affording to all the people in the State equal and ready access to the full range of comprehensive health care of high quality provided for in this title. Provides that a State plan shall make provision for stimulating and encouraging the organization of Health Care Corporations. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct the functions of a State Health Commission through the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, when such a Commission has not been established in a State under this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall encourage and assist the States and their State Health Commissions in carrying out cooperatively with other States their respective functions, including the making of agreements between States for that purpose with respect to the establishment, admission, and approval of Health Care Corporations, the establishment of joint health care areas and assignment of such corporations thereto, and the exchange of information. Requires the Secretary to develop and encourage the enactment of model State legislation in the fields covered by this title. Defines a Health Care Corporation as a nonprofit private or governmental corporation which is organized for the purpose of furnishing comprehensive and coordinated personal health services to persons registered with the corporation, furnishing personal health services to other persons to the extent authorized by this title, and engaging in educational, research, and other activities incidental or related to the furnishing of personal health services, and which provides effective and equitable representation, on its governing board, of registrants with the corporation and affiliated institutional and professional providers furnishing services on its behalf. Provides that a Health Care Corporation shall assume responsibility for making available and furnishing to each registrant with the corporation all services for which he has Comprehensive Health Care Benefits coverage and which are medically necessary. Provides that services may be provided through an affiliated provider by contract with the Health Care Corporation. Provides that the Corporation shall as rapidly as practicable develop, by affiliation with existing organizations or otherwise, a system of outpatient care centers throughout the approved service area. Provides that a Health Care Corporation shall assume responsibility for the quality of all services furnished by it either through its own facilities and personnel or by providers affiliated or acting under arrangements with it. Provides that a Corporation shall provide an opportunity to all practitioners in an approved service area to furnish services on its behalf, either as members of its professional staff or as affiliated providers. Provides that a Corporation shall develop and keep current a continuing personal health record for each registrant of the corporation. Provides that the corporation shall establish methods by which registrants may express their views with regard to the policies and operation of the corporation, the health needs of the community, and the need for any modification or expansion of the services furnished by the corporation. Provides that in recruitment and registration a Health Care Corporation shall not discriminate on the ground of race, creed, color, national origin, age, sex, occupation, economic status, or condition of health. Provides that the National Health Services Advisory Council shall conduct a full and complete study and investigation of methods of supplying supplemental capital and other funding for Health Care Corporations and related health care organizations in the United States. States that the Council shall give particular consideration to the development of a program which: (1) establishes and utilizes as its basic source of funds a national trust fund; (2) provides for the distribution of amounts in the fund to State health commissions in a manner reflecting population, per capita income, and health care needs; (3) recognizes the need for adequate planning for health care services and facilities; (4) encourages and facilitates the continuing provision of funds for these purposes from sources other than the trust fund; (5) leaves to each State health commission, under general regulations of the Secretary, the determination of how the funds distributed to the commission are to be allocated; and (6) contains or is subject to such other provisions, conditions, and limitations as may be necessary or appropriate to assure that the study will be effectively carried out. Requires the Council, within one year after the effective date of this Act, to submit to the Secretary, for transmission to the Congress, a full and complete report of its study and investigation. Title II: Financing of National Health Services - National Health Care Services Financing Act - Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that every employer shall be required to provide benefits under this Act equivalent to the hospital insurance benefits available under title XVIII (Health Insurance for the Aged) of the Social Security Act, to provide Catastrophic Expense Benefits coverage and to provide Comprehensive Health Care Benefits covered under this Act, to each of his employees and for the members of the family of each such employee. Provides, under title IX of the Social Security Act, that every individual who is receiving benefits under any Federal or State unemployment compensation law shall be entitled to coverage for benefits under this Act equivalent to the hospital insurance benefits available under title XVIII of the Social Security Act and Catastrophic Expense Benefits coverage and Comprehensive Expense Benefits coverage under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to contract for or to subsidize Comprehensive Health Care Benefits to elderly and medically indigent individuals, provided, in the latter case, that entitlement to coverage contracted for by the Secretary shall be subject to the condition that the individual or family concerned contributes to the carriers annual premium charge for such coverage. Allows a tax deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code, to an individual for all of the expenses paid during the taxable year for Comprehensive Health Care Benefits coverage under this Act. Provides that a State shall not be required to provide Medicaid payments to the extent that individuals otherwise entitled thereto are covered by this Act. Provides that coverage of a registrant for Comprehensive Health Care Benefits shall entitle the registrant, with listed exceptions, to have the carrier pay the approved predetermined charges of the Health Care Corporation for services and items furnished to him. Provides a table of Comprehensive Health Care Benefits to be covered by this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall submit to Congress recommendations for the expansion of benefits after the program under this Act is in operation, giving special consideration to the expansion of benefits for dental and vision services based on the availability of resources. Sets forth the requirements to be met by carriers for participation in Comprehensive Health Care Benefits under this Act. Title III: Effective Dates - Provides that the program under this Act shall be fully in operation on and after the first day of the fifth fiscal year which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Tax Deduction for Volunteer Services Act - Title I - Short Title and Definitions - Permits a tax deduction by an individual on Federal income tax returns for time contributed in non-salaried volunteer social or charitable work in direct assistance to the aged, infirm, economically disadvantaged, or minor children. Title II - Method of Administration and Determination - Provides that the monetary value may not exceed the prevailing specified Federal minimum wage multiplied by the number of hours of volunteer work certifiably performed.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that: (1) the producers and distributors of motion pictures and television and radio programs should cease the production and distribution of those films and programs which defame, sterotype, ridicule, demean, or degrade ethnic, racial, or religious groups; (2) those responsible persons in the motion picture and broadcasting industries who are desirous of contributing to the vitality of democratic institutions by promoting ethnic, racial, and religious harmony should establish adequate standards for the production of films and broadcasts which portray ethnic, racial, or religious groups and that such standards should be rigorously enforced by the motion picture and broadcasting industries; and (3) if within one year after the enactment of this resolution the motion picture and broadcasting industries have failed to establish and enforce adequate standards for the production of films and broadcasts which portray ethnic, racial, or religious groups, appropriate committees of the House and Senate shall formulate and propose such measures as are necessary to establish and implement such standards.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to include in cooperative agreements between the Forest Service and public or private agencies, organizations, institutions, and persons, arrangements for reimbursement of such cooperators by the Forest Service for the performance of work by them for the benefit of programs and activities of the Forest Service.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Permits persons who are aged, blind, or disabled and receiving assistance under title XVI of the Social Security Act (Aid and Medical Assistance to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) to participate in specified food stamp and surplus commodities programs. (Repeals Sec. 411 of Pub. 92-603)
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Provides that no person contracting to insure another against any loss shall deny to the insured or otherwise limit the insurance normally written with respect to the risk of such loss solely because of the insured's sex. Prohibits refusals to contract for insurance where such a refusal is based upon the applicant's sex. Grants the courts of the United States the jurisdiction to give appropriate civil relief to any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Provides, for purposes of computing retired pay for members of the Armed Forces, an additional credit of service equal to all periods of time spent by any such member as a prisoner of war.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Commission on the Capability of the National Guard to Control Civil Distrubances: (1) to establish minimum training, doctrine, and equipment standards for the National Guard with respect to its use in civil disturbances; (2) to perform annual inspection of all National Guard units to determine whether or not such standards are being implemented and adhered to at the unit level and on a statewide basis; (3) to take such action as is authorized under this Act in order to insure that such standards are met; (4) to perform comprehensive reviews and critiques of the operations of any National Guard unit when used in civil disturbance control duty; (5) to contract for studies and for research and development for the purpose of devising effective nonlethal weapons and devices suitable for civil disturbance control use; (6) to act as principal coordinator between State National Guards and State and local law enforcement agencies with respect to the formulation of contingency plans and preparations for the control of civil disturbances and the exchange of relevant information and technology; and (7) to report at least annually to Congress with respect to the administration of this Act and the readiness and capability (including the availability and sufficiency of recommended protective clothing and devices, communications equipment, and nonlethal weapons) of the National Guard of each State to perform civil disturbance functions in accordance with the prescribed standards. Provides that, if the Commission finds that any unit of a State National Guard has refused to implement any of the standards prescribed by the Commission under this Act does not routinely meet or enforce any such standards, or, when deployed in civil disturbance, violates any such standards, the Commission shall bar the National Guard unit concerned from receiving money or any other aid, benefit, or privilege authorized by law until such time as the Commission determines that the unit has taken such actions as the Commission deems appropriate and necessary to insure that such unit will thereafter comply with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education. Provides that the function and purpose of the Department shall be to promote the cause and advancement of education throughout the Nation. Establishes, in the Department, the offices of Secretary, an Under Secretary, four Assistant Secretaries, and a General Counsel, each of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Transfers to the Department, the United States Office of Education, together with all of its functions, personnel, property, records, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations and other funds. Transfers the National Institute of Education, together with all of its functions, personnel, property, records, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances of appropriations, to the Department of Education. Provides that the Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each calendar year, make a report to the President for the submission to the Congress on the activities of the Department during the preceding calendar year. Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Education to study and recommend such actions as may be necessary to assure effective coordination of Federal programs affecting education. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Department to carry out the provisions of this title and to perform any other duties which may be imposed upon it by law.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for specified percentages of the amounts paid during the taxable year by the taxpayer to purchase recycled solid waste materials for manufacture by the taxpayer into useful raw materials or salable products. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, by regulation and after a hearing, to disallow such deduction with respect to any solid waste material if the Administrator finds that such deduction is not required to alleviate the depletion of any virgin natural resource. Allows every taxpayer, at his election in lieu of any depreciation deduction, to deduct the amortized basis of any solid waste recycling facility based on a period of 60 months. Provides that the taxpayer may, at any time after making such election, discontinue the amortization deduction with respect to the remainder of the amortization. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 189, 190)
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Requires each Member of Congress and each employee of the Congress to file, not later than May 15 of each year or not more than three months after the last day he occupies such office or position (if he leaves such position before May 15), with the Comptroller General, a report containing a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount and source of each item of income, each item of reimbursement for any expenditure, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source (other than gifts received from his spouse or any member of his immediate family) recieved by him or by him and his spouse jointly during the preceding calander year which exceeds $100 in amount or value; (2) the value of each asset held by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which has a value in excess of $5,000, and the amount of each liability owed by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which is in excess of $5,000 as of the close of the preceding calander year; and (3) any business transaction by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting in his behalf, during the preceding calander year if the aggregate amount involved in such transaction exceeds $5,000 during such year. Provides that the reports required by this Act shall be in such form and detail as the Comptroller General may prescribe. Establishes a penalty of $2,000, or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both for whoever willfully fails to file a report or knowingly files a false report under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1973
Criminal Injuries Compensation Act - Title I: Short Title and Definitions - Defines for the purposes of this Act, "child", "Commission", "dependents", "personal injury", "relative", and "victim". Title II: Establishment of Violent Crimes Compensation Commission - Establishes a three member Violent Crimes Compensation Commission. Sets forth the terms and provisions for compensation of its members. Directs the Commission to maintain an office for service of process within the District of Columbia. Enumerates the powers and procedures of the Commission with respect to, inter alia, hearings, subpenas, applications by those seeking relief, and the production and introduction of evidence. Provides that rules of admissability of evidence shall not apply. Makes a final judgment of a court of law conclusive evidence as to the Commission's proceedings. Limits any attorney's fee to 15 percent of the amount awarded the claimant, provided such award exceeds $1,000. Prescribes a penalty not to exceed $2,000 or one year's imprisonment, or both, for any attorney demanding or receiving a fee larger than allowed by this Act. Makes orders and decisions of the Commission final. Title III: Award and Payment of Compensation - Provides that the Commission may award compensation to or on behalf of the victim for injuries, care and pecuniary loss, or to the dependents of a deceased victim. Eliminates the requirement for criminal intent on the part of the person whose act or omission caused injury to the claimant. Allows consideration of the victims's conduct and other mitigating circumstances in determining the payment of compensation under this Act. Asserts that no prosecution or conviction shall be a necessary condition precedent to the making of an order compensating the victim. Applies this Act to injuries resulting from criminal offenses which are felonies under State or Federal law. Prescribes limitations on the time for applying for, and notifying the Commission that application shall be made for, compensation under this Act. Bars relief when: (1) the amount sought is less than $300; (2) the victim is related to the offender; and (3) the victim and offender lived as members of the same household. Limits recovery to $25,000. Reduces any award under this Act by the amount the victim or his dependents may receive from Federal, State, and local political divisions (except by the operation of this Act), or from the offender or one acting on his behalf. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Provides for an annual report by the Commission to the President and Congress. Prescribes penalties for willful falsification of any application, statement, document or information presented to the Commission under this Act not to exceed $10,000, or five years' imprisonment, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1973
Removes the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1973
Provides that no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Lists specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Provides for the burial in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, of the remains of an unknown American who lost his life while serving overseas in the Armed Forces of the United States during the Vietnam conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Act for Freedom of Emigration in East-West Trade - States that after October 15, 1972, products from any nonmarket economy country shall not be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment, such country shall not participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly, and the President of the United States shall not conclude any commercial agreement with any such country during the period beginning with the date on which the President determines that such country: (1) denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate; (2) imposes more than a nominal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents required for emigration, for any purpose or cause whatsoever; or (3) imposes more than a nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice. Provides that, before any of the aforementioned commercial agreements are entered into with any foreign country, the President shall submit to the Congress a report indicating that such country is not in violation of any of the requirements of the preceding paragraph.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973
Provides for Federal acquisition of specified Klamath Indian Tribe lands offered for sale by the trustees of the Klamath Indian Tribe. States that the lands shall become a part of the Winema National Forest, Oregon.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
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 · 29 January 1973
Requires the President to notify within ten days each House of the Congress by special message of every instance in which he impounds funds or authorizes such impoundment by any officer of the United States. States that such message must specify the amount of impounded funds, the specific programs affected, and the reasons for the impoundment of funds. Provides that the President shall cease the impounding of funds set forth in each special message within sixty days of continuous session after the message is received by the Congress unless the specific impoundment shall have been ratified by the Congress by the passage of a resolution in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Provides that no person inducted for training and service in the Armed Forces shall be assigned, without his express consent, to serve in any area of armed conflict in which the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged except during a period of a war declared by Congress, or except under the following conditions: (1) upon determination by the President that a situation exists which requires the immediate dispatch of the Armed Forces of the United States into an area of armed conflict, he may dispatch such forces as he deems necessary or appropriate, with or without the express consent of the Congress, and so employ those forces for a period of ninety consecutive days commencing on the date of first dispatch; (2) at the close of the ninety-day period specified above persons inducted may continue to serve in such area of armed conflict for an additional period of ninety consecutive days if Congress adopts a concurrent resolution in support of continued employment of the Armed Forces of the United States in such area; and (3) the President shall insure the ability to evacuate all Armed Forces of the United States from such area of armed conflict and so execute that evacuation before the close of the one hundred and eighty-first day after the day of first dispatch of the Armed Forces unless Congress formally declares war before the close of the one hundred and eighty-first day.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Provides for the establishment of the Hells Canyon National Forest Parklands in the States of Idaho and Oregon. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the parklands area in such a manner as in his judgement will best provide for: (1) public outdoor recreation benefits; (2) conservation of scenic, scientific, fish and wildlife, geologic, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment; and (3) the management, utilization, or disposal of natural resources.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Public Interest Economic Judiciary Act - Provides that the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a Chief Justice and six Associated justices who shall constitute a court to be known as the United States High Court of Settlement. States that such justices shall hold office during good behavior for a term of fourteen years except that upon its establishment the President shall appoint the Chief Justice to a term of fourteen years and shall appoint the Associate Justices for terms of twelve, ten, eight, six, four and two years respectively. States that the President may, in the event of any threatening work stoppages in industries and other enterprises affecting interstate commerce and the public interest, ask the Court to immediately examine the issues and disputes involved. Provides that the High Court may elect to take jurisdiction over the dispute and invoke its powers to enjoin, adjudicate, and settle such dispute. Sets forth the power and duties of the court. Provides that the decisions of the court shall be final and the court shall have the power of decreeing parties in contempt of its orders and directives, but questions of violation of any rights conferred by the Constitution shall remain the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court, upon a petition for a writ of certiorai.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Eliminates the special tariff treatment accorded to articles assembled abroad with components produced in the United States, and metal articles manufactured in the United States and exported for further processing. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1202)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that no person inducted for training and service in the Armed Forces shall be assigned, without his express consent, to serve in any area of armed conflict in which the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged except during a period of a war declared by Congress, or except under the following conditions: (1) upon determination by the President that a situation exists which requires the immediate dispatch of the Armed Forces of the United States into an area of armed conflict, he may dispatch such forces as he deems necessary or appropriate, with or without the express consent of the Congress, and so employ those forces for a period of ninety consecutive days commencing on the date of first dispatch; (2) at the close of the ninety-day period specified above persons inducted may continue to serve in such area of armed conflict for an additional period of ninety consecutive days if Congress adopts a concurrent resolution in support of continued employment of the Armed Forces of the United States in such area; and (3) the President shall insure the ability to evacuate all Armed Forces of the United States from such area of armed conflict and so execute that evacuation before the close of the one hundred and eighty-first day after the day of first dispatch of the Armed Forces unless Congress formally declares war before the close of the one hundred and eighty-first day.
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