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United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Requires termination by July 1, 1975, of all weapons range activities conducted on or near the island of Culebra complex of the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range. Prohibits funds from being appropriated by the Congress after such date.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Increases payments in specified amounts to veterans under non-service-connected disability pension plans. Increases pension payments to widows of veterans who at the time of death were receiving compensation or retirement pay for a service-connected disability. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 521(b),(c); 541(b),(c))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
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. 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 · 22 January 1973
Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State education agencies to enable them to develop and carry out program to provide, through the use of students to institutions of higher education, tutoring and instructional assistance, under the supervision of a qualified teacher, for homebound handicapped children who, though able to benefit from preschool, elementary, or secondary education, are prevented by their handicaps from attending school. Requires local educational institutions that apply for funds under this program to give special consideration to veterans qualified for vocational financial need. Requires that the compensation for participating college students shall be between the Federal minimum wage set by the Commissioner and the maximum wage set by the Commissioner. Requires that the aim of such program shall be to integrate the handicapped into society, and to avoid the development of a segregated, permanent system of educcation for the handicapped. Provides that the Commissioner shall make grants under this Act to State educational agencies on the merits of their proporsal to him which shall be submitted on such application forms and under such guidelines as he shall prescribe. Authorizes $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and necessary funds for fiscal years 1975 and 1976, to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires the Commissioner to allocate the first 25 percent of such funds to each State in proporation to the ratio that the number of children aged three to twenty-one in the State bears to the number of such children in all the States. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State education agencies to enable them to develop and carry out programs to provide, through the use of students in institutions of higher education, tutoring and instructional assistance, under the supervision of a qualified teacher, for homebound handicapped children who, though able to benefit from preschool, elementary, or secondary education, are prevented by their handicaps from attending school. Requires local educational institutions that apply for funds under this program to give special consideration to veterans qualified for vocational rehabilitation, and to students with greater financial need. Requires that the compensation for participating college students shall be between the Federal minimum wage set by the Commissioner and the maximum wage set by the Commissioner. Requires that the aim of such program shall be to integrate the handicapped into society, and to avoid the development of a segregated, permanent system of education for the handicapped. Provides that the Commissioner shall make grants under this Act to State educational agencies on the merits of their proposals to him which shall be submitted on such application forms and under such guidelines as he shall prescribe. Authorizes $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and necessary funds for fiscal years 1975, and 1976, to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires the Commissioner to allocate the first 25 percent of such funds to each State in proportion to the ratio that the number of children aged three to twenty-one in the State bears to the number of such children in all the States.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the level of supplies of home heating oil has not been adequate to meet the needs of homes across the Nation; and (2) the major cause of the inadequate supply of such oil is the limitation on imports of petroleum and petroleum products. Provides that beginning on the date of enactment of this resolution, such limitation shall not apply to the importation of crude oil or number 2 fuel oil (home heating oil) until the ninety-first day after the date of enactment of this resolution (in the case of crude oil) or April 1, 1974 (in the case of number 2 fuel oil).
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Consumer Protection Agency Act - Title I: Office of Consumer Affairs - Creates an Office of Consumer Affairs within the Executive Office of the President. Provides that the office shall be headed by a Director and a Deputy Director, both of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Gives the Director powers to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Director to transmit to Congress and the President in January of each year a report of the activities of the Office during the preceding year including a summary of consumer complaints and recommendations for additional legislation deemed necessary to protect the interests of U.S. consumers. Provides that it shall be the function of the Office to: (1) coordinate the programs and activities of all Federal agencies relating to the interests of consumers in order to achieve effectiveness, avoid duplications and inconsistencies, and to promote the purposes of this title; (2) encourage and assist in the development and implementation of consumer programs and activities in the Federal Government; (3) assure that the interests of consumers are taken into consideration by appropriate Federal agencies both in the formulation of policies with respect to consumers and in the operation of programs that may affect consumer interests; (4) cooperate with and, when requested, provide assistance to the Administrator of the Consumer Protection Agency in carrying out its functions under title II of this Act; (5) advise and make recommendations to all Federal agencies with respect to general policy matters concerning the effectiveness of programs and activities relating to the interests of consumers; (6) submit recommendations to the Congress and the President on the means by which programs and activities relating to the interests of consumers can be improved; (7) conduct conferences and surveys concerning the needs, interests, and problems of consumers which are not duplicative in significant degree to similar activities conducted by other Federal agencies; (8) encourage, initiate, coordinate, and participate in consumer education and counseling programs (including credit counseling); (9) cooperate with and give technical assistance to State and local governments in the promotion and protection of consumer interests; (10) cooperate with and assist private enterprise in the promotion and protection of consumer interests; (11) publish and distribute in a Consumer Register material which will include notice of Federal hearings, proposed and final rules and orders, and other useful information, translated from its technical form into language which is understandable by the public; and (12) keep the appropriate committees of the Congress fully and currently informed of all its activities. Title II: Consumer Protection Agency - Establishes as an independent agency within the executive branch of the Government the Consumer Protection Agency, headed by an Administrator and a Deputy Administrator, both of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Gives the Agency powers to carry out the objective of this Act. States that the functions of the Agency shall be to: (1) represent the interests of consumers before Federal agencies and courts to the extent authorized by this title; (2) encourage and support research, studies, and testing leading to a better understanding of consumer products and improved products, services, and consumer information; (3) submit recommendations annually to the Congress and the President on measures to improve the operation of the Federal Government in the protection and promotion of the consumer interest; (4) publish and distribute material developed pursuant to carrying out its responsibilities under this Act which will inform consumers of matters of interest to them; (5) conduct conferences, surveys, and investigations, including economic surveys, concerning the needs, interests, and problems of consumers which are not duplicative in significant degree to similar activities conducted by other Federal agencies; (6) keep the appropriate committees of Congress fully and currently informed of all its activities; and (7) cooperate with and, when requested, provide assistance to the Director of the Office in the carrying out of his functions.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Designates the portion of the project for flood control protection on Chartiers Creek that is within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, as the "James G. Fulton Flood Protection Project".
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Directs the Secretary of Defense to furnish the House of Representatives with data relating to the extent of the bombing of North Vietnam from December 17, 1972, through January 10, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Sales Promotion Game Act - Declares it to be an unfair method of competition for any manufacturer, producer, distributor, or wholesaler doing business in interstate commerce to require or encourage any retail seller to participate in a game in connection with the sale of any item, or for a retail seller to engage on his own in a game in connection with the sale of any item. Provides that whoever willfully violates the provisions of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years or both. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 41-58)
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Performance Life Disclosure Act - Requires manufacturers of durable consumer products, including appliances and electronic items, to disclose on a conspicuous label or tag affixed to each item sold at retail to consumers the performance life, under normal operating conditions, of each manufactured durable product. Authorizes the National Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce to make regulations for this Act, and to determine the performance life of products and components of products covered by this Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to prevent any person from violating the provisions of this Act in the same manner and with the same jurisdiction as though all applicable terms and provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act were incorporated into and made a part of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Authorizes and directs the President, under the Economic Stabilization Act, to issue whatever rules, regulations, or orders are necessary or appropriate to stabilize meat prices at their November 1972 retail price levels for a period of forty-five days beginning upon the date of enactment of this Act. Requires the President to submit a legislative proposal to the Congress, not later than forty-five days after the date of enactment of this Act, to insure: (1) an adequate meat supply for United States consumers; (2) noninflationary retail food and meat prices to consumers; and (3) a fair rate of return on invested capital to farmers, food processors, and food retailers.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Honest Label Act - Requires, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, that labels on packaged foods, drugs, and cosmetics contain the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer, and distributor.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Open Dating Perishable Food Act - Provides, under the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act, that no person who manufactures or packages a perishable or semiperishable food in the form in which it is sold by retail distributors to consumers may distribute for purposes of sale a perishable or semiperishable food in the form in which it is sold by retail distributors to consumers may distribute for purposes of sale a perishable or semiperishable food packaged by him in such form unless he has labeled such packages to show the pull date for such food and the optimum temperature and humidity conditions for its storage by the ultimate consumer. Provides, with certain excpetions, that no person engaged in business as a retail distributor of any packaged perishable or semiperishable food may sell, offer to sell, or display for sale any such food whose pull date, as specified on its packages label, has expired. States that no person engaged in the business of manufacturing, processing, packaging, or distributing perishable or semiperishable foods may place packages on such foods in shipping containers or wrappings unless such containers or wrappings are labeled by him to show the pull date on the labels of such packages. Provides that no person may change, alter, deface or remove before the sale of a packaged perishable or semiperishable food to the ultimate consumer any pull date required by this Act to be placed on the label of such food's package or shipping container or wrapping. States that any person who violates any provision of this Act shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $5,000, or both. Provides that if any person commits such a violation after a conviction of him under this part has become final, or commits such a violation with the intent to defraud or mislead, such person shall be imprisoned for not more than $25,000, or both. Provides that the United States district courts shall have jurisdiction to restrain violations of this Act. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit an annual report to the Congress concerning the enforcement of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Truth in Food Labeling Act - Requires the label on all food products to list in the order of their predominance after processing and by their common or usual name all ingredients present in the food, and to include an accurate statement of the amount (stated as a percentage) of each ingredient present in the food. Makes the provisions of this Act applicable to all food products containing any artificial flavoring, artificial coloring, or chemical preservative. (Amends 21 U.S.C. 343(g),(i),(k))
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Appliance Dating Act - Requires any consumer durable product determined by the Federal Trade Commission to be of a type whose design or performance features are changed on periodic bases in such a manner as to make its date of manufacture a relevant factor in connection with sales to consumers to be labeled by the manufacturer as to the month and year of manufacture.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Removes the import limitation on meat. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1202 nt.)
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Unit Pricing Act - Provides that no person engaged in business in the sale at retail of any packaged consumer commodity which has been distributed in commerce, or the distribution of which affects commerce, shall sell, offer for sale, or display for sale any such commodity unless: (1) the total selling price of such commodity is plainly marked by a stamp, tag, or label affixed to a principal display panel of the package or by a label or sign at the point of display of such package; and (2) the retail unit price of such commodity is plainly marked by: (a) stamp, tag, or label affixed to a principal display panel of the package, or (b) a label or sign in close proximity to the point of display of such package, which label or sign shall also contain the name and quantity of contents of such commodity. Exempts from the requirement of marking the unit price of commodities: (1) any individual retail outlet which sells or offers for sale packaged consumer commodities and whose total gross sales do not exceed $250,000 per annum, unless such an outlet is one of a number of outlets owned substantially or whose inventory is supplied substantially, by a single person, partnership, or corporation whose total gross sales exceed $500,000 perannum; (2) any retail outlet in any State or any political subdivision thereof which has enacted mandatory unit pricing laws and whose laws, in the judgment of the Federal promulgating authority, are in scope and comprehensiveness superior to the requirements of this Act; except that retailers (including chainstores and affiliated stores) who operate outlets in any such geographical area shall be subject to the unit pricing requirement of this Act if they also operate outlets in one or more other States or political subdivisions. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1453)
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Consumer Food Grading Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, after consultation with representatives of consumers, producers, and processors, to develop and promulgate a system of retail qualify grade designations for consumer food products expressed in a uniform nomenclature. Authorizes the Secretary to determine the manner in which the system of consumer food grade designations shall be displayed and disseminated to the public. Provides that in developing and updating quality grade standards, consideration shall be given to the nutritional quality and wholesomeness of food products, as well as the acceptability of the products. Requires that any food products sold more than nine months after the promulgation of applicable quality standards in accordance with this Act shall either be conspicuously labeled in accordance with such standards or shall be conspicuously labeled "not quality graded by the United States Department of Agriculture".
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Nutritional Labeling Act - Requires any packaged consumer food product to be labeled by the processor in conformity with the following information: (1) with respect to processed food products, an analysis of nutritional contents including fat content, vitamin and protein value, fats and fatty acids, calories, and any other nutritional information deemed appropriate; (2) in the case of any canned or frozen product whose packing medium constitutes a substantial proportion of its total weight, the net weight, and drained weight of the product; and (3) in the case of any combination food item, the major ingredients by percentage weight after processing determined pursuant to the regulations of the appropriate agency. Requires such label to contain a statement of the nutritional value of the food commodity, and to appear in conspicuous and easily legible type on the package. Provides that the label of any packaged consumer product which has been packaged in a container of any given net content (by weight or volume) and which afterwards is packaged in a container of a different net content, shall conspicuously set forth the amount of difference. States that the appropriate Federal agencies shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act, containing such classifications, provisions, and exceptions as are necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act and to prevent evasion thereof. Provides for injunctions in Federal courts to assure compliance with this Act. Prescribes a civil penalty of not to exceed $1,000 for any willful violation of this Act; such sum to be assessed by the appropriate agency and enforced in a Federal court in the name of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Comprehensive Older Americans Services Amendments - Title I: Declaration of Objectives - States that the general purpose of this Act is to make available comprehensive health, education, and social service programs to our older citizens. Title II: Administration on Aging - Establishes in the office of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, an Administration on Aging to carry out this Act. Declares that the Commissioner on Aging shall be the principal officer of the Administration. Establishes within the Administration on Aging a National Information and Resource Clearing House for the Aging to collect, review, operate, publish, and disseminate information and data related to the particular problems caused by aging, including information describing measures which are or may be employed for meeting such problems. Establishes the Federal Council on the Aging to advise and assist the President as he may direct on matters relating to the special needs of Older Americans: to assist the Commissioner on Aging in carrying out his functions under this Act; to review and evaluate programs of the Federal Government; and to make recommendations to the President, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Commissioner, and Congress on policies and programs for the aged. Provides that, not later than one hundred and twenty days after the close of each fiscal year, the Commissioner shall prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a complete report on the activities carried out under this Act. Title III: Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging - Prescribes standards and procedures for the establishment by the several States of State and area social service programs to concentrate resources in order to develop a greater capacity and foster development or comprehensive systems to serve older persons, to include services designed to assist older Americans in avoiding institutionalization. Authorizes appropriations totalling $600,000,000 for such programs for fiscal years 1973, 1974, and 1975. Provides that the Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any State plan, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Title IV: Training and Research - Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State agencies and educational institutions for the purpose of: (1) publicizing available opportunities for careers in the field of aging; (2) encouraging qualified persons to enter or re-enter the field of aging; (3) encouraging persons from other professions to undertake assignments on a parttime bais in the field of aging; and (4) assisting in covering the cost of courses of training or study. Authorizes the Commissioner to conduct a study of the transportation problems of older Americans, with emphasis upon solutions that are practicable and can be implemented in a timely fashion. Authorizes the appropriation of $7,500,000 for fiscal year 1973, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for purposes of such transportation studies and demonstration projects. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants for the purpose of: (1) establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology to recruit and train personnel; (2) conducting basic research on the problem of the aged; (3) providing consultation to public and voluntary organizations; and (4) creating opportunities for research projects with respect to aging. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the purposes of attracting personnel to, and training personnel in, the field of aging; and for research and development projects. Authorizes appropriations for $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology. Title V: Multipurpose Senior Centers - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to units of general purpose local government or other public or nonprofit private agencies to pay not to exceed 75 percent of the cost of leasing, altering, or renovating existing facilities to serve as multipurpose senior centers. Establishes standards to be followed by the Commissioner in making such grants and authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973-1975 to carry out the provisions of this section. Creates a Multipurpose Senior Center Insurance Fund to be administered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to insure mortgages on multipurpose senior centers. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making grants to meet the costs of compensation of professional and technical personnel for the initial operation of multipurpose senior centers. Title VI: National Older Americans Volunteer Program - Provides that no compensation paid to individual volunteers under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program under the Older Americans Act shall be considered income for any purposes. Authorizes appropriations for such program in the amount of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the continuation of the Foster Grandparent Program under the Older Americans Act. Title VII: Nutrition Programs - Provides, under the Older Americans Act of 1965, that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation may donate specified products acquired by them to a recipient of a grant or contract for providing nutritional services for the elderly. Title VIII: Amendments to Other Acts - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States which have submitted a long-range program and an annual program for library services for older persons. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to institutions in planning, developing, and carrying out programs specifically designed to apply the resources of higher education to the problems of the elderly. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State and local educational agencies or other public or private nonprofit agencies for educational programs for elderly persons whose ability to speak and read the English language is limited and who live in an area with a culture different from their own. Title IX: Community Service Employment for Older Americans - Older Americans Community Service Employment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish an older American community service program in order to promote useful part-time work opportunities in community service activities for unemployed low-income persons 55 years old or older who have poor employment prospects. Makes provisions for allotment of funds to State, local, and private organizations to further the purposes of the program. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1973 and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 to carry out this title. Title X: Middle-Aged and Older Workers Training - Middle-Aged and Older Workers Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, through the Manpower Administration, to make loans and grants for manpower training, including on-the-job, institutional, residential, and other training, designed to upgrade the work skills and capabilities of middle-aged and older persons. Authorizes the Secretary to make such studies, rules and provisions as necessary to carry out this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out this title in fiscal year 1973 from funds otherwise available for similar programs. Authorizes appropriations in fiscal year 1974 of $100,000,000 for the purposes of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides that in the determination of the annual income of recipients of vetetans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall not reduce the amount of such pension or compensation because of increases in monthly social security benefits under Public law 92-336. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4) 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Rehabilitation Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide a statutory basis for the Rehabilitation Service Administration and to establish within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare an Office for the Handicapped, and to authorize specified programs. Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Rehabilitation Services Administration which shall be administered by a Commissioner. Provides that the Commissioner shall carry out and administer all programs and direct the performance of all services for which authority is provided to the Secretary of H.E.W. under titles I through IV of this Act. Creates within such administration a Division of Research, Training and Evaluation which shall be responsible for carrying out programs and projects under title IV of this Act. Authorizes the inclusion of appropriations under this Act in appropriations for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for obligation. Provides that where funds are provided for a single project by more than one Federal agency to an agency or organization assisted under this Act, the Federal agency principally involved may be designated to act for all in administering such funds, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the President. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act. Title I: Vocational Rehabilitation Services - States it to be the purpose of this title to authorize grants to assist States to meet the current and future needs of handicapped individuals, so that such individuals may prepare for and engage in gainful employment to the extent of their capabilities. Authorizes to be appropriated $800,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $975,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 for the purpose of making grants to States to assist them in meeting the costs of vocational rehabilitation services. Authorizes to be appropriated $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the purpose of making grants to States and public and nonprofit agencies to assist them in meeting the costs of projects to initiate or expand services to handicapped individuals. Sets forth the requirements of State plans to be submitted and approved for participation in programs under this title and under title II of this Act. Authorizes judicial review in United States district courts of decisions by the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration affecting State plans. Provides that the Commissioner shall insure that the individualized written rehabilitation program required in a State plan in the case of each handicapped individual shall be developed jointly by the vocational rehabilitation counselor or coordinator and the handicapped individual. Defines vocational rehabilitation services provided under this Act as any goods or services necessary to render a handicapped individual employable, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) evaluation of rehabilitation potential; (2) counseling, guidance, referral, and placement services for handicapped individuals; (3) vocational and other training services for handicapped individuals; (4) physical and mental restoration services; (5) maintenance, not exceeding the estimated cost of subsistence, during rehabilitation; (6) interpreter services for the deaf, and reader services for the blind; (7) recruitment and training services for handicapped individuals; (8) rehabilitation teaching services and orientation and mobility services for the blind; (9) occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies; (10) transportation in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation services; and (11) telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices. Provides a formula for the allotment and payment of funds to States for providing rehabilitation services under this title. Directs the Commissioner to establish offices in ten to twenty geographically dispersed regions for client assistance pilot projects to provide counselors to inform and advise all clients and client applicants in the project area of all available benefits under this Act and to assist them in their relationships with projects, programs, and facilities providing services to them under this Act. Directs the Commissioner to pay to a State or, at the option of the State, to a public or nonprofit organization or agency a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan to expand vocational rehabilitation services. Title II: Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services - States it to be the purpose of this title to authorize grants to assist the several States in developing and implementing continuing plans for meeting the current and future needs of handicapped individuals for whom a vocational goal is not possible or feasible authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $80,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for grants to carry out the purposes of this title. Specifies the formula to be utilized in alloting such funds to the States. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States and public and nonprofit agencies or organizations to pay part of the cost of projects for research and demonstration and training which hold promise of making a substantial contribution to the solution of problems related to the rehabilitation of individuals under this title. Title III: Special Federal Responsibilities Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants and contracts to assist in meeting the costs of construction of public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities, initial staffing, and planning assistance. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or nonprofit organizations and agencies to pay up to 90 percent of the cost of projects for providing vocational training services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, in public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the Commissioner to insure up to 100 percent of any mortgage on the construction of facilities for programs for handicapped individuals. Creates a Rehabilitation Facilities Insurance Fund to be used by the Commissioner as a revolving fund for carrying out the insurance provisions of this part. Provides that the total amount of outstanding mortgages shall not exceed $250,000,000. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for initial capital for such Fund. Authorizes the Commissioner to make annual interest grants to assist States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations to reduce the cost of borrowing from other sources for the construction of rehabilitation facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the payment of annual interest grants in accordance with this part. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects and demonstrations: (1) for establishing facilities and providing services which hold promise of expanding or otherwise improving rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps; and (2) for applying new types or patterns of service or devices. Allows the Commissioner to make grants to pay up to 90 percent of the cost of projects or demonstrations for the provision of vocational or comprehensive rehabilitation services to handicappped individuals who are migratory agricultural workers or seasonal farmworkers, and to members of their families who are with them. Provides that the Commissioner may make contracts or jointly finance cooperative arrangements with employers and organizations for the establishment of projects designed to prepare handicapped individuals for gainful and suitable employment in the competitive labor market under which such handicapped individuals are provided training and employment in a realistic work setting and such other services as may be necessary for such individuals to continue to engage in such employment. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide technical assistance to rehabilitation facilities, and for the purpose of removal of architectural and transportation barriers, to any public or nonprofit agency, institution, organization or facility. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the purpose of making grants under this part, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $125,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for construction, $800,000 for operations for fiscal year 1973, $1,200,000 for operations for fiscal year 1974, and $2,000,000 for operations for fiscal year 1975, for establishing and operating a National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $4,000,000 for fiscal 1974, and $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and for making grants and contracts for the expansion and improvement of vocational or comprehensive rehabilitation services for deaf and blind individuals. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the purpose of establishing and operating National Centers for Spinal Cord Injuries, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated, for providing services for the treatment of individuals suffering from end-stage renal disease, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Rehabilitation of Handicapped Individuals in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to: (1) provide policy advice and consultation to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Commissioner; (2) review the administration and operation of vocational rehabilitation programs under this Act; and (3) advise the Secretary and the Commissioner with respect to the conduct of independent evaluations of programs carried out under this Act. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000 for fiscal year 1973 and $150,000 for each of fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the functions of the Council. Title IV: Research and Training - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to and contracts with States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations to pay part of the cost of projects for the purpose of planning and conducting research, demonstrations, and related activities, which bear directly on the development of methods, procedures, and devices to assist in the provision of vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps. Authorizes to be appropriated for such research activities $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to and contracts with States and public and nonprofit agencies and organizations to pay part of the cost of projects for training, traineeships, and related activities designed to assist in increasing the numbers of personnel trained in providing vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals and in performing other functions necessary to the development of such services. Authorizes to be appropriated for such training grants $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Title V: Administration and Program and Project Evaluation - Provides that, in carrying out his duties under this Act, the Commissioner shall: (1) cooperate with, and render technical assistance to States in matters relating to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals; (2) provide short-term training and instruction in technical matters relating to vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services; and (3) disseminate information relating to vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services, and otherwise promote the cause of the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals and their greater utilization in gainful and suitable employment. Directs the Secretary to measure and evaluate the impact of all programs authorized by this Act. Title VI: Office for the Handicapped - Establishes an Office for the Handicapped in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to: (1) prepare a long-range projection for the provisions of comprehensive services to handicapped individuals; (2) analyze program operations; (3) encourage coordinated and cooperative planning; (4) provide assistance to other committees advising the Secretary; (5) develop means of promoting scientific research to bring about the full integration of handicapped individuals into all aspects of society; and (6) provide a central clearinghouse for information and resource availability for handicapped individuals. Authorizes to be appropriated for purposes of this title $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Provides that the Vocational Rehabilitation Act is repealed ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Handicapped Employees to insure the adequacy of hiring, placement, and advancement practices with respect to handicapped individuals by each department, agency, and instrumentality of the executive branch of Government. Establishes a National Commission on Transportation and Housing for Handicapped Individuals to identify and eliminate transportation barriers that impede the mobility of handicapped individuals and aged handicapped individuals, and to prepare plans and proposals for such further action as may be necessary to the goals of adequate transportation and housing for handicapped individuals. Establishes an Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to investigate and examine alternative approaches to the architectural, transportation, and attitudinal barriers confronting handicapped individuals. Authorizes appropriations of $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1973; $1,250,000 for fiscal year 1974; and $1,500,000 for fiscal year 1975 to carry out the duties and functions of the Board.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
Public Service Employment Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into arrangements with eligible applicants in order to make financial assistance available for the purposes of providing, during each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975, employment for five hundred thousand unemployed and underemployed persons in jobs providing needed public services. Requires at least eighty-five percent of the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act to be expended only for wages and employment benefits. Provides that programs assisted under this Act shall be designed with a view toward: (1) developing new careers; (2) providing opportunities for career advancement; (3) providing opportunities for continued training, including on the job training; or (4) providing transitional public service employment which will enable the individuals so employed to move into public or private employment. Requires applications for financial assistance for a public service employment program under this Act to include provisions enumerated in this Act. Directs that the amounts authorized to be appropriated for any fiscal year be allocated by the Secretary among the States on the basis of the proportion which the total number of unemployed persons in each such State bears to the total number of such persons in the United States, determined on the basis of the monthly average for the fourth calendar quarter of the fiscal year immediately preceding the one for which the apportionment is made. States that the Secretary shall not provide financial assistance for any program or activity under this Act unless he determines that specified goals and requirements will be met by such program or activity. Requires the Secretary to transmit to the Congress at least annually a detailed report setting forth the activities conducted under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated during each of fiscal years 1974 and 1975 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for the relief of Private First Class James Watson, Junior, United States Marine Corps Reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Prohibits funds authorized or appropriated for United States forces and military actions in Indochina to be used for any purpose other than the withdrawal from protection of forces in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Requires such withdrawal of forces within 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, provided there is a release of all prisoners of war by the Government of North Vietnam and its allies within that period. Requires an accounting of United States servicemen missing in action by the Government of North Vietnam and its allies before the completion of withdrawal. Provides that no air bombing operations by United States forces shall be carried out in or over North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos after the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that the Federal government will withhold sums from its employees' compensation whenever a city provides for tax collection by withholding the tax on employees. Forbids Federal agencies from accepting compensation from the State or city for services of withholding tax. Defines "city" to mean only a city which is incorporated under State law, and which had a population of at least sixty thousand according to the last decennial census.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that the prohibition against the tax-exempt status on interest on industrial development bonds shall not apply to any obligation issued as part of an issue the aggregate authorized face amount of which is $15,000,000 or less and substantially all the proceeds of which are to be used for the reconstruction of property which was damaged as a result of Hurricane Agnes and occurring in an area declared by the President of the United States on June 23, 1972, to warrant assistance by the Federal Government under the Disaster Relief Act of 1970. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 103(c))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Criminal Injuries Compensation Act - Title I: Short Title and Definitions - Defines such terms as "child," "dependent," and "relative." Title II: Establishment of Violent Crimes Compensation Commission - Establishes an independent agency within the executive branch of the Federal government to be known as the Violent Crimes Compensation Commission. Provides that the Commission shall be composed of three members to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that the President shall designate one of the members of the Commission as Chairman, who shall have been a member of the bar of a Federal court or of the highest court of a State for at least eight years. Provides that there shall be appointed, by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Executive Secretary and a General Counsel to perform such duties as the Commission shall prescribe in accordance with the objectives of this Act. Provides that, in order to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Commission shall: (1) receive and process applications under the provisions of this Act for compensation for personal injury resulting from violent acts in accordance with title III of this Act; (2) pay compensation to victims and other beneficiaries in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (3) hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, and take such testimony as the Commission or any member thereof may deem advisable; (4) promulgate standards and such other criteria; and (5) make grants in accordance with the provisions of title V of this Act. Allows the Commission to subpena and require production of documents in the manner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and such provisions shall be applicable to all persons summoned by subpena or otherwise to attend or testify or produce such documents as are described therein before the Commission, except under the signature of the Chairman, and application to any court for aid in enforcing such subpena may be made only by the Chairman. Provides that subpenas shall be served by any person designated by the Chairman. Title III: Award and Payment of Compensation - Provides that, in any case in which a person is injured or killed by any act or omission of any other person which is within the description of the offenses listed in this Act, the Commission may, in its discretion, upon an application, order the payment of, and pay, compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Act, if such act or omission occurs: (1) within the "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States" as defined in section 7 of title 18 of the United States Code; or (2) within the District of Columbia. Provides that the Commission may order the payment of compensation: (1) to or on behalf of the injured person; (2) in the case of the personal injury of the victim, where the compensation is for pecuniary loss suffered or expenses incurred by any person responsible for the maintenance of the victim, to that person; (3) in the case of the death of the victim, to or for the benefit of the dependents or closest relative of the deceased victim, or any one or more of such dependents; (4) in the case of a payment for the benefit of a child or incompetent the payee shall file an accounting with the Commission no later than January 31 of each year for the previous calendar year; (5) in the case of the death of the victim, to any one or more persons who suffered pecuniary loss with relation to funeral expenses. Allows the Commission to order the payment of, and pay, compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Act for personal injury or death which resulted from offenses in the following categories: (1) assault with intent to kill, rob, rape; (2) assault with intent to commit mayhem; (3) assault with a dangerous weapon; (4) assault; (5) mayhem; (6) malicious disfiguring; (7) threats to do bodily harm; (8) lewd, indecent, or obscene acts; (9) indecent, or obscent acts with children; (10) arson; (11) kidnapping; (12) robbery; (13) murder; (14) manslaughter, voluntary; (15) attempted murder; (16) rape, (17) attempted rape; or (18) other crimes involving force to the person. Title IV: Recovery of Compensation - Provides that, whenever any person is convicted of an offense and an order for the payment of compensation is or has been made under this Act for a personal injury or death resulting from the act or omission constituting such offense, the Attorney General may institute an action against such person for the recovery of the whole or any specified part of such compensation in the district court of the United States for any judicial district in which such person resides or is found. Provides that such court shall have jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render judgment in any action. Delcares that, whenever it appears to the court in which any action is pending that other parties should be brought before the court in such action, the court may cause such other parties to be summoned from any judicial district of the United States. Declares that the Commission shall provide the Attorney General such information, data, and reports as the Attorney General may require to institute such actions. Title V: Violent Crimes Compensation Grants - Provides that, under the supervision and direction of the Commission, the Executive Secretary is authorized to make grants to States to pay the Federal share of the costs of State programs to compensate victims of violent crimes. Provides that a State is eligible for assistance under this title only if the Executive Secretary, after consultation with the Attorney General, determines, pursuant to objective criteria established by the Commission, that such State has enacted legislation of general applicabliity within such State: (1) establishing a State agency having the capacity to hear and determine claims brought by or on behalf of victims of violent crimes and order the payment of such claims; (2) providing for the payment of compensation for personal injuries or death resulting from offenses in the categories established; (3) providing for the payment of compensation for: (A) expenses actually and reasonably incurred as a result of the personal injury or death of the victim; (B) loss of earning power as a result of total or partial incapacity of such victim; (C) pecuniary loss to the dependents of the deceased victim; (D) pain and suffering of the victim; and (E) any other pecuniary loss resulting from the personal injury or death of the victim which the Commission determines to be reasonable, and which is based on a schedule substantially similar to that provided in title III of this Act; and (4) containing adequate provisions for the recovery of compensation substantially similar to those contained in title IV of this Act. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Provides that the Commission shall transmit to the President and to the Congress annually a report of its activities under this Act including the name of each applicant, a brief description of the facts in each case, and the amount, if any, of compensation awarded, and the number and amount of grants to States under title V.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Removes the import limitation on meat. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1202 nt.)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes additional immigrant visas available for immigrants from any foreign State which had less than three-fourths of the average annual number of visas under the quota system during the ten-fiscal-year period beginning July 1, 1955. Directs that the additional number of visas be equal to the difference between the number of visas made to them and three-fourths of the average made to other immigrants under the quota system, but limits the total number of visas to any foreign State to 10,000 in any fiscal year. Directs the allocation of the additional visas.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for tuition paid by a taxpayer during the taxable year to any private nonprofit elementary or secondary school for the education as a full-time student of any dependent with respect to whom the taxpayer is allowed an income tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code. Limits the tax credit to 50 percent of the tuition paid by the taxpayer or $200, whichever is less. Provides that any payment which is taken into account in determining the tax credit shall not be treated as an amount paid by the taxpayer for purposes of determining entitlement to a tax deduction. Allows any U.S. taxpayer to commence a proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, within the three month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, to determine whether the provisions of this Act are valid legislation under the U.S. Constitution. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 42)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires an areawide health planning council, in order to be eligible for Federal assistance, to have in its membership and governing body representatives of the governing board of community based health organizations, citizens of communities and neighborhoods served by such community based health organizations, and citizens of communities and neighborhoods served by public, voluntary, and nonprofit private health organizations. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 246(b)(2)(A)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Declares various Congressional findings relating to the insufficiency of existing Federal and State laws to protect persons from the harmful effects of pollution. Provides that any person who is engaged in any activity which affects interstate commerce and who is responsible for any pollution of air, water, land, or public trust of the United States shall be subject to declaratory or other equitable relief in a class action brought by any person representing the interest of a group or class of persons similarly situated, for the protection from unreasonable pollution. Grants the appropriate United States district courts jurisdiction to such class actions without regard to the amount in controversy. Provides that when the plaintiff has made a prima facie showing that the defendant's activity may result in unreasonable pollution, the defendant shall have the burden of establishing: (1) that there is no feasible alternative and that the activity is required for the public health and welfare and (2) that the social and economic benefits of the activity outweigh the social and economic costs. Provides for the appointment by the Court of a master to take testimony and make a report to the Court in the action.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Comprehensive Child Development Act - States the finding of Congress that: (1) millions of children are suffering from lack of child development services; (2) comprehensive child development programs should be available to all children; (3) priority be given to preschool children with greatest economic and social needs; (4) no mother may be forced to work in order for children to receive services; and (5) such programs should be undertaken as a partnership of parents, community, and local government. States it to be the purpose of this Act to establish and expand comprehensive child development programs, building on the Headstart experience, with emphasis on economically disadvantaged and including children of working mothers and single parents, involving parents and community groups in the decision-making process, and establishing the legislative framework for eventual universally available child development programs. Title I: Comprehensive Child Development Programs; Direction to Establish Program - Authorizes the Secretary of HEW to direct programs under this title. Lists activities for which funds can be provided, including: planning and development of programs; establishing, maintaining, and operating comprehensive programs with a broad range of activities; design, acquisition, construction, alteration, renovation or remodeling of facilities including mobile facilities; training programs for professionals, paraprofessionals, parents, older family members and prospective parents; public information activities; child advocate staff; and administrative expenses. Authorizes any State, city, county, combination of units of local government, or federally recognized Indian reservation to serve as prime sponsors. Permits the Secretary to designate such prime sponsor upon receipt of an application which: (1) establishes a Child Development Council to plan, conduct, coordinate, and monitor programs; (2) establishes Local Policy Councils elected by parents of eligible children to serve appropriate subdivisions within the prime sponsorship area; and (3) delegates administrative responsibility to an appropriate local agency. Authorizes a public or private non-profit agency or organization to become a prime sponsor if the appropriate unit of local government has not submitted an application or is out of compliance, or if the Secretary determines such prime sponsor is necessary to meet the needs of economically disadvantaged children. Provides an opportunity for a State to comment on all applications for designation, notice and hearing before the Secretary makes any adverse decision on any designation, and for judicial review of the Secretary's final action. Requires submission by a prime sponsor and the Secretary's approval of a Comprehensive Child Development Plan before a governmental prime sponsor may receive financial assistance under this title. Requires that each such plan must: (1) identify needs and goals and describe purposes for which funds will be used; (2) meet the needs of children in the area including infant care and before and after school programs including 24 hour child care services; (3) give priority to economically disadvantaged children by reserving funds equal to funds expended in the prime sponsorship area under Headstart in fiscal year 1972 and then reserving 65 percent for programs for children from low-income families; (4) give priority thereafter to children of single parents and working mothers; (5-6) provide free services for economically disadvantaged children and fees on a sliding scale for others; (7) require cooperative arrangements of State and local agencies serving the handicapped; (8) provide jobs and training in so far as possible for residents of the community; (9) provide in so far as possible for socioeconomic mixture in centers; (10-11) provide for special needs of minority, bilingual, migrant and Indian children in the area; (12) assure benefits for children in nonpublic preschool and school programs; (13) coordinate programs so family members relate to each other during the day; (14) provide for parental participation in plans and programs; (15) provide for paraprofessional and volunteers, including parents, senior citizens, students, other children, and those preparing for child development careers; (16) provide for dissemination of program information in the language of parents; (17) eliminate barriers pertaining to State teacher certification standards; (18-20) assure coordination with schools and other child development programs in the community; (21) arrange for the support of business, labor, and other community groups; (22) provide assurances that non-Federal share requirements will be met; (23) establish fiscal control and accounting procedures; (24) submit annual reports and evaluations; (25) consider public, private, and non-profit organization applicants with emphasis on on-going programs; and (26) provide adequate provision for staff and administrative expenses of local policy councils. Provides for the opportunity for comment by a Governor, Mayor or community action agency, Headstart agency or educational agency; and provides for notice and hearing before an adverse decision is made on a plan by the Secretary. Authorizes funding by a prime sponsor of a qualified public or private agency which submits an application to run a child development program, which provides comprehensive services for children served, assures adequate personnel, and meets the appropriate provisions of the Comprehensive Child Development Plan. Authorizes funding by the Secretary of a non-governmental prime sponsor which submits a project application. Allows construction only of facilities essential to provide child development services, where use of existing facilities is shown to be not practicable. Provides for 20 year use of facilities for child development programs or for return of a proportionate value of the facility to the Federal government. Authorizes the Secretary to establish interests rates for construction loans, with a 3 percent minimum rate. Provides grants and loans for construction limited to 50 percent of the total cost except for private nonprofit groups, and limits construction to 15 percent of the total allotment to a prime sponsor and limits grants for construction to 7-1/2 percent of the total. Provides for the Federal Government to share 80 percent (with allowance for Secretary to pay up to 100 percent if necessary to provide services) of the costs to prime sponsors of programs for economically disadvantaged children; 50 percent Federal share of cost to prime sponsors of programs for children not economically disadvantaged; and 100 percent Federal share of migrant and Indian programs. Provides that the non-Federal share may be in cash or kind including fees paid by parents. Provides open-ended authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 1973 and each succeeding fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this title. Reserves for the Secretary funds for migrant and Indian programs at a ratio equal to the ratio of such children to the total number of economically disadvantaged children in the nation; 5 percent for the Secretary's discretionary use, with the remainder apportioned among the States as follows: (1) 50 percent according to the ratio of economically disadvantaged children in the State, (2) 25 percent according to the ratio of children through age 5; (3) 25 percent according to the ratio of children of working mothers and single parents. Allows States to make apportionments among prime sponsors according to the same formula. Provides for reallotment of unused funds among prime sponsors and among States. Prohibits any State or local government from reducing its expenditures for child development or day care. Establishes an Office of Child Development to be the principal agency to administer this Act. Provides for the promulgation of Federal Standards of Child Development Services, applicable to all programs receiving assistance under this Act. Provides for the promulgation of a Minimum Uniform Code for Facilities, which shall replace State and local standards for all facilities which receive assistance under this Act or in which programs which receive assistance under this Act are operated. Provides for maximum utilization of existing Federal, State, and local public facilities, including school buildings, for child development programs. Repeals, consolidates, and coordinates existing child development programs, effective July 1, 1973. Title II: Facilities for Child Development Programs - Authorizes a program of mortgage insurance for child development facilities, administered by the Secretary of HEW, to provide a source of funds in addition to the direct grants and loans authorized in Title I for construction of such facilities. Title III: Training of Child Development Personnel - Authorizes $20,000,000 for each program to train professional child development personnel and for programs to train paraprofessional child development personnel under the Higher Education Act. Authorizes National Defense Education Act loans for training of full-time teachers in child development programs. Authorizes training grants to individuals for child development programs. Authorizes $5,000,000 annual appropriation for such grants. Title IV: Federal Government Child Development Programs - Authorizes direct grants to establish and operate programs for children of Federal employees. Authorizes $5 million in fiscal year 1972 and each fiscal year thereafter to operate such program. Title V: Evaluation and Technical Assistance - Authorizes the Office of Child Development to evaluate Federal involvement in child development programs and to provide technical assistance to prime sponsors and project applicants. Authorizes such funds as necessary to carry out such activities. Title VI: National Center For Child Development and Education - Establishes a National Center within the Office of Child Development to conduct, coordinate, and disseminate research on child development. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary to operate the Center. Title VII: General Provisions - Provides for advance appropriations and advance funding of programs. Assures public information, without charge. Prohibits Federal control of programs under this Act. Defines the terms used in this Act to insure accurate interpretation of its intent.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Prison Reform Act - Authorizes the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make grants to State planning agencies whose application: (1) sets forth a comprehensive statewide program for the construction, acquisition, or renovation of correctional institutions and facilities in the State and the improvement of correctional programs and practices throughout the State; (2) provides satisfactory assurances that the control of the funds and title to property derived therefrom shall be in a public agency for the uses and purposes provided in this part and that a public agency will administer those funds and that property; (3) provides satisfactory assurances that the availability of funds under this Act shall not reduce the amount of funds under this Act; (4) provides satisfactory emphasis on the development and operation of community-based correctional facilities and programs; (5) provides for advanced techniques in the design of institutions and facilities; (6) provides, where feasible and desirable, for the sharing of correctional institutions and facilities on a regional basis; (7) provides satisfactory assurances that the personnel standards and programs of the institutions and facilities will reflect advanced practices; and (8) provides satisfactory assurances that the State is engaging in programs to improve the quality of personnel employed in correctional activities. Establishes procedures for the allocation of the grants provided for in this Act among the States and stipulates the percentages of funds which may be allocated to specified categories of prison improvements. Increases the appropriations for correctional institutions facilities under the Omnibus Crime Control Act from $1,750,000,000 to $2,750,000,000 for fiscal year 1973. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 3768)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants to any local public body or agency to assist in financing specific projects to provide lighting facilities for streets, alleys, parks, or other public areas. States that the amount of any such grant shall not exceed 66-2/3 percent of the cost of carrying out the project for which the grant is made or 75 percent of such cost in the case of a project located in an area which at the time the grant is made is designated a redevelopment area under the Area Redevelopment Act or the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. Authorizes $5,000,000 to be appropriated for grants under this Act. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 3105)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Wholesome Fish and Fishery Products Act - Sets forth definitions of the various terms used in this Act. Prohibits actions which would be in violation of regulations established pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Includes prohibitions against acts relating to the use of official marks, official certificates and official devices. Provides that official marks would be authorized by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to be used on any container or wrapper by a person holding a valid certificate for his establishment or vessel. States that certificates shall be granted to establishments and vessels after the Secretary has determined that they are in compliance with good processing practice regulations. Prohibits the use of any official device, mark, or certificate without authorization from the Secretary. Provides that false statements in shippers or other certificates are prohibited as is the false or misleading representation that any fish or fishery products have been exempted from inspection or passed inspection. Declares as adulterated those fish or fishery products processed in violation of this Act or regulations issued pursuant to this Act. States that shellfish and their products would also be adulterated if they were harvested in a State or foreign country that did not have in effect a plan for classifying and controlling shellfish growing areas and for regulating and controlling shellfish harvesting practices which has been approved by the Secretary. Provides that foreign shellfish control programs must be at least equal to standards promulgated by the Secretary regulating domestic shellfish control programs. Directs the Secretary to survey a number of establishments and vessels to gain information to develop adequate standards of good processing practice, including sanitation and quality control or other standards necessary to assure wholesome fish and fishery products. Provides that the initial regulations under this Act would be issued within one year after funds are first appropriated and would be effective one year following their issuance. States that the effective date of such regulations could be extended for an additional year upon a finding by the Secretary that more time is needed to place all or part of the regulations into effect. Requires certification of all establishments and vessels within sixty days of the effective date of such regulations that the vessels and establishments are in conformance with such regulations. Provides that denial of a certificate would be subject to the opportunity for a hearing and judicial review. Provides that the application for a certificate shall be accompanied by such assurance as may be required by regulations that the establishment or vessel will be maintained in compliance with applicable standards. States that no such certificate shall shall be issued for any establishment unless the Secretary, on the basis of such application and of an intensive inspection made after the issuance of regulations, determines that there is satisfactory assurance that the establishment is adequately equipped, staffed, and managed to conform to the standards issued and that fish and fishery products processed by it, including the labeling and packaging thereof, will in all respects comply with the requirements of this Act. States that the certificate of any establishment or vessel could be suspended by the Secretary, after an opportunity for hearings, for failing to comply with any of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to summarily suspend a certificate: (1) for failure to permit access for inspection; or (2) where an inspection or investigation discloses the violation of any provisions of Chapter IV of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act which the Secretary determines would involve an undue risk of imminent harm to consumers. Provides that for the purpose of preventing the introduction or use in interstate commerce of fish or fishery products which are adulterated or misbranded, the Secretary shall, in accordance with the most modern public health and food protection practice, establish and maintain continuous and effective surveillance of all segments of the industries involved. States that the Secretary shall, through inspectors, cause to be made such inspections, including continuous inspection whenever deemed necessary by him, of establishments and vessels as in his judgment will reasonably assure continuing compliance with, and will most effectively achieve, the purposes of this subpart and of this Act. Provides that in determining from time to time the appropriate degree (including continuity or frequency) of such inspections to be applied in any establishment or vessel, the Secretary shall, among other relevant factors, consider the results of the intensive inspection required for certification and any other releveant experience or information (whether obtained through inspection or otherwise) relating to such establishment or vessel or to fish or fishery products processed by it. Provides that the Secretary would be required to provide continuous inspection of all establishments processing fish for interstate commerce and to make adequate inspections of vessels. Authorizes the Secretary to inspect any fish or fishery products at dockside to prevent adulterated fish or products from reaching interstate commerce. States that the inspectors would have access to any establishment or vessel at reasonable times and could sample, detain, and reinspect establishments or vessels. Provides that any fish or fishery product found adulterated would be segregated and condemned within ten days if objection is not made, and if objection were made the inspector's determination would be subject to the opportunity for a hearing and judicial review. Provides that all fish and fishery products imported into the United States would have to comply with the inspection and good processing practices and other provisions of this Act and any regulations issued thereunder. States that foreign nations exporting fish to this country would have to establish a system of fish inspection that would be at least equal to the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to accept certificates of compliance from foreign nations that such requirements have been met. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress concerning his administration and enforcement of the import program. Requires persons engaged in the business of processing fish and fishery products or holding such products after transportation in interstate commerce to maintain accurate records showing the extent that they are concerned with the receipt, delivery, sale, movement, or disposition of fish and fishery products and matters reasonably bearing upon sanitation, quality control and labeling of fish and fishery products. Provides that the Secretary shall have access at reasonable times to such records and to copy them. Authorizes representatives of the Secretary to detain fish or fishery products for seven days if reason to believe that any fish or fishery product is adulterated or misbranded or otherwise in violation of this Act or any other Federal or State law. Provides that the above provisions shall not apply to processing by any person of fish of his own raising or harvesting or the preparation and transportation in commerce of the fish or fishery products to be used by members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees, provided the person does not engage in the buying or selling of any fish or fishery product suitable for use as human food. Authorizes the Secretary to exempt retail dealers and transportation equipment from specific provisions of this Act if they sell fish or fishery products directly to consumers and the only processing operations are performed on the premises where the sales to consumers are made. Provides that the storage and handling regulations established under this Act would not apply to retail stores or establishments in the business of buying, selling, freezing, storing, transporting, or importing fish or fishery products if that establishment or store is subject to the Act only because of purchases in interstate commerce, or if such storing and handling is regulated adequately under State law. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with the appropriate State agencies in developing and administering State fish and fishery products programs. Provides that the Secretary's cooperation would be limited to those States which have enacted a fish or fishery products surveillance law that imposes mandatory requirements which are at least equal to the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to cooperate with the appropriate State agencies in developing a program for classifying and controlling shellfish growing areas and for the regulation and control of shellfish introduced into interstate commerce. Provides that grants may be made to any State by the Secretary which in any fiscal year could not exceed fifty percent of the cost of the cooperative program in any such State. States that if, within two years after the effective date of regulations promulgated concerning good processing practices, a State has failed to develop or is not enforcing requirements at least equal to those proposed, the Secretary would be required to notify the Governor of the State of that fact. Provides that after consulting with the Governor, if that State has still not developed and activated those requirements, the Secretary would be required to designate that State as one in which the provisions of this Act would apply to operations and transactions fully within the State. Authorizes the Secretary to delay the designation of that State for an additional year if he determined that the State would activate such requirements within that period. Provides that the Secretary would be required to review the requirements of the State agencies at least annually for compliance with the requirements of this Act. Preempts the States from imposing requirements within the scope of this Act which are different from requirements established pursuant to this Act with respect to any interstate plant, except that recordkeeping and other requirements which might be required by other State laws could be imposed on any such establishment by the States. Authorizes States to exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the Secretary over fish and fishery products to prevent distribution of adulterated or misbranded fish or fishery products if those efforts did not conflict or unnecessarily duplicate the activities of the Secretary. Provides that there shall be consultation between the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of Commerce and any other interested agencies, prior to the issuance of standards under this Act applicable to fish or fishery products. Provides that there shall also be consultation between the Secretary of HEW and the advisory committee provided for under this Act, prior to the issuance of such standards, to avoid inconsistency between Federal and State standards. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct research directly or through grants or contracts to improve sanitation practices and to develop improved techniques to conduct surveillance activities under this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall appoint a national advisory committee of not more than 21 members to advise him concerning Federal and State programs of fish and fishery product inspection. States that the Chairman (who shall be designated by the Secretary) and a majority of the members shall have no economic interest in the commercial fisheries industry, shall be drawn from the public, from the fields or environmental and other related sciences, and from persons especially conversant with State fishery and fishery products surveillance programs. States that the Secretary shall initiate and carry out an intensive screening system for the detection of dangerous materials in food. Provides that not more than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall propose regulations specifying all dangerous materials and the intensive screening procedures that he will follow in carrying out this provision. Provides that "dangerous material" is defined to mean any material which there is reason to believe might reach toxic levels in significant quantities of food so as to threaten human health. Provides that the Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of State, shall establish regulations for the inspection of foreign establishments which process and prepare fish, shellfish, or products thereof for importation into the United States. Raises the authorization for initial capital in the fisheries loan fund from $20,000,000 to $35,000,000 and broadens the eligibility of persons for such loans to include persons owning establishments as well as vessels and gear. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the amendments made by this Act to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act not to exceed $2,526,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1972, not to exceed $12,947,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973, not to exceed $26,884,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1974, and for succeeding fiscal years only such sums as the Congress may specifically authorize by law.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
National Public Employee Relations Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to encourage collective bargaining. Provides that "employer" includes State and local subdivisions as well as public and quasi-public corporations, housing authorities and other authorities and public agencies. Provides that "employee" includes any employee of an employer and excludes only "officials appointed or elected pursuant to a statute to a policy-making position." Provides that "exclusive representative" includes only those unions which are recognized prior to the enactment of the Act or which later become certified by the National Public Employee Relations Commission. Provides that "supervisor" includes only those individuals who can make or effectively recommend personnel changes or who may responsibly direct other employees. Authorizes employees to form, join or assist a labor organization and to bargain collectively, free from interference by the employer. Authorizes employees to refrain from all union activities except to the extent that a collective bargaining agreement contains a union security provision. Requires an employer to deduct from an employees pay, dues to any organization designated by written authorization by such employee. Provides that where there is an exclusive representative, dues must be checked off to that organization only. Provides that the authorization may be revoked annually. Bars interference with employee rights, prohibits employer assistance to a union, and requires an employer to bargain collectively with an exclusive representative. Asserts that any violation of the Act is an unfair labor practice. Prohibits unions from coercing employees to join the union and requires such unions to bargain collectively if it is the exclusive representative. Requires the parties to bargain on all matters affecting terms and conditions of employment, including those which are covered by regulations or other laws, and to submit to the appropriate legislative body any agreement reached on these matters. Provides that a union petititon for an election must be supported by 30 percent of the employees. Permits other unions to participate in an election only if they can show authorization from 10 percent of the employees in the bargaining unit. Authorizes the Commission to determine the unit in which the election and collective bargaining will take place. Provides that supervisors must be placed in separate units. Requires that only one election may be conducted in a 12 month period. Provides that any individual, employer, or union may file a complaint and is then entitled to a hearing. Permits the General Counsel of the Commission to also file a complaint and/or participate in the hearing on the complaint filed by an individual. Provides that a decision by an examiner or the regional director of the Commission is final, unless the Commission determines there are sufficient reasons to review the case. Provides that if no appeal from a Commission decision is filed within 60 days, that decision is final. Asserts that the Commission's decision in representation cases are not subject to review by a court. Authorizes the parties to make an agreement providing for arbitration of disputes over the meaning of the agreement, and to enforce the agreement in Federal District Court. Establishes a commission of five members appointed by the President, to be known as the National Public Employee Relations Commission. Provides for a General Counsel of the Commission to investigate alleged violations of this Act. Provides that the party desiring to modify or change the agreement must notify the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service within 60 days prior to the end of the agreement. Requires the Service to assign a mediator upon the request of either party and on its own motion. Provides that 30 days following certification of a new union either party may request fact-finding, and the Service is authorized to initiate fact-finding on its own. Asserts that with respect to expiring agreements, either party may request fact-finding, or the Service may initiate fact-finding. Provides that the fact-finder's report must include recommendations for resolution of the dispute. Asserts that the report must be kept confidential for five days, but may be made public by the fact-finder after that and must be made public 15 days after the report is made. Allows a 60 day period following the expiration of the agreement for the entire fact-finding process (three days for the Mediation Service to submit the list of fact-finders; five days for the parties to strike names; 20 days for the fact-finder to make his report; 15 days for the report to be made public; and the remaining days to continue to resolve the dispute). Provides for the maintenance of a status quo for this 60 day period, employers may not change conditions of employment and employees may not strike. Permits only the employer and the exclusive representative to participate in the fact-finding proceedings. Provides that the fact-finder is not barred from mediating or resolving the dispute. Allows the parties to agree to use the procedures of some other governmental or other agency. Provides that if both parties agree to submit disputed issues to final and binding arbitration, the arbitration shall supersede all of the fact-finding procedures. Provides that if a State or local law is substantially equivalent to this Act, the Commission may delegate its responsibility to the State or local agency.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Commuter Emergency Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to States and local public bodies and agencies to assist in paying the yearly interest on, and discharging annual obligations on, instruments of indebtedness which have been incurred in the construction, operation, and maintenance of urban mass transportation. Provides that grants may be made when the Secretary determines that it is essential to keep a significant part of a community's transportation service running or that many low-income people would be adversely affected by a breakdown in public transportation. Limits grants to amounts no more than twice the amount provided by the applicant. Authorizes $75,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1972-1976. Allows the Secretary to make interim grants to States and local agencies to defray operating deficits of mass transit systems. Requires for approval that the Secretary determine that the transit system involved is necessary to carry out a development program in mass transit and that the applicant has submitted a plan for improving the area's mass transit system. Requires each applicant to provide funds equal to half the Federal contributions. Authorizes $75,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1972-1976 for this aid. Requires the Secretary to submit an interim report on the efficacy of this program by June 30, 1972. Requires an annual report of such findings and recommendations not later than June 30, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide each taxpayer with an analysis of the proportionate dollar amounts of his tax payment which were spent by the Federal Government, during the latest fiscal year for which data is available, for items, enumerated in this Act. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 7517)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay from the general fund of the Treasury to the account of a State in the Unemployment Trust Fund such amount as the Secretary of Labor certifies has been paid by such State to individuals as unemployment compensation for weeks in which such individuals would have been entitled, but for the payments under the State unemployment compensation law, to disaster unemployment assistance under the Disaster Relief Act of 1970 as a result of hurricane and tropical storm Agnes.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Includes joint hospital laundry ventures among the cooperative hospital service organizations entitled to a tax exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 501(e)(1)(A))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the President to establish, in the executive branch of the Government of the United States, a National Crime Statistics Center. Provides that the Center shall be headed by a Director appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the President to assign the statistical responsibilities of the Attorney General under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to the Center. Prescribes additional duties for the Center including to: (1) collect statistics from Federal, State, and local agencies in the criminal justice system; (2) work for improvement in the accuracy, completeness, and usefulness of these agency statistics by improving the existing series and commencing new series; (3) promote and assist in the development of adequate statistical systems at the State and local levels; (4) develop procedures and forms to be used in collecting data on a nationwide basis; (5) conduct surveys, censuses, and special studies in areas not covered by agency statistics and make an independent check of agency statistics where desirable; (6) investigate the need for various kinds of crime statistics; (7) supply any data collected, upon request, to Federal, State, and local agencies engaged in the criminal justice system; and (8) publish an annual report which presents and evaluates the statistics which have been collected. Authorizes the President to provide for the appointment of a National Crime Statistics Council to aid in developing plans and programs for the Center and to review the activities of the Center. Directs the Attorney General to appoint a Crime Statistics Conference of the United States to advise the Center on State and local aspects of the programs and policies of the Center. Authorizes the Director of the Center to make grants to States for the establishment of State criminal justice statistics centers and the development of coordinated criminal justice statistics. Requires the President or his authorized representative to report to Congress on the business of the Center at the beginning of each regular session of Congress. Authorizes such appropriations as Congress may authorize for the purpose of carrying out the functions provided for in this chapter.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for a mid-decade census of population, unemployment, and housing in the year 1975 and every ten years thereafter. Establishes April 1 as the census date. (Adds 13 U.S.C. 141(c))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that in any case in which the final hearing under the Immigration and Nationality Act on a petition for naturalization is scheduled to be held within thirty days preceding the holding of a general election within the territorial jurisdiction of the naturalization court, such final hearing may be held, but the petitioner shall not be permitted to take the oath required by such Act prior to the tenth day next following such general election. (Amends 8 U.S.C. 1447(c))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make grants for the prevention of crime, including improved lighting of high crime areas and development of laws and building design techniques to lower crime opportunities. Provides that the Federal share of law enforcement grants to the States under the Omnibus Safe Streets Act of 1968 shall not be greater than 90 percent of the cost of the project. Increases the Federal share of law enforcement grants to local governmental units to 90 percent of the cost of the project or program (now 60 percent). Provides that 50 percent of the funds appropriated for law enforcement grants shall be allocated by the Administration among the States according to their respective population. Provides that the remaining 50 percent of such funds shall, in the discretion of the Administration, be allocated among the States for grants to State planning agencies or used by the Administration for grants for law enforcement assistance to State agencies, units of general local government, public agencies, or combinations of the foregoing, according to the criteria and on such terms and conditions as the Administration shall determine consistent with this title. Provides that a State's allocation shall be increased by 20 percent from funds allocated at the discretion of the Administration where the Administration finds that a comprehensive State plan adequately deals with the special problems and particular needs of the major urban areas of the State and other areas of high crime incidence within the State; and an additional 20 percent where the State contributes at least 50 percent of the non-Federal share of costs for programs of units of general local government funded in accordance with the comprehensive State plan required by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,000,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972; and $1,200,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973 for law enforcement assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for the addition of specified property in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Independence National Historical Park. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 407m)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Hypodermic Needle and Syringe Control Act - Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person, other than a registered manufacturer, registered importer, registered wholesaler, registered dealer, licensed pharmacist, or licensed medical practitioner: (1) to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing, dispensing, selling, purchasing, or dealing in hypodermic needles or syringes if in the course of such business he ships, transports, or receives any hypodermic needle or syringe in interstate or foreign commerce; (2) to transport or cause to be transported any hypodermic needle or syringe in interstate or foreign commerce unless such person holds a lawfully issued prescription or medical certificate for such hypodermic needle or syringe or is otherwise authorized to possess it; or (3) to transfer, sell, trade, give, distribute, transport, or deliver any hypodermic needle or syringe to any person, other than a registered manufacturer, registered importer, registered wholesaler, registered dealer, licensed pharmacist, or licensed medical practitioner or any person who holds a lawfully issued prescription or medical certificate for such hypodermic needle or syringe or is otherwise authorized to possess it, whom the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe resides in any other State other than that in which the transferor resides (or other than that in which its place of business is located if the transferor is a corporation or other business entity). Makes it unlawful: (1) for any person in connection with the acquisition or attempted acquisition of any hypodermic needle or syringe from a registered manufacturer, registered importer, registered wholesaler, registered dealer, licensed pharmacist, or licensed medical practitioner knowingly to make any false or fictitious oral or written statement or to furnish or exhibit any false, fictitious, or misrepresented identification, intended to deceive such transferor with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale or other disposition of such hypodermic needle or syringe; (2) for any registered manufacturer, registered importer, registered wholesaler, registered dealer or licensed pharmacist to sell, deliver, or distribute a hypodermic needle or syringe in any State where the purchase or possession by such transferee would be in violation of any State law or any local ordinance applicable at the place of sale, delivery, or other disposition, unless the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the purchase or possession would not be in violation of such State law or local ordinance; (3) for any person to transport or ship in interstate or foreign commerce any stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained hypodermic needle or syringe, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such hypodermic needle or syringe was stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained; (4) for any person to receive, conceal, store, barter, sell, or dispose of any hypodermic needle or syringe stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that such hypodermic needle or syringe was stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained; (5) for any person to bring into the United States or any possession thereof any hypodermic needle or syringe in violation of the provisions of this Act; or (6) for any registered manufacturer, registered importer, registered wholesaler, registered dealer, licensed pharmacist, or licensed medical practitioner knowingly to make any false entry in, to fail to make appropriate entry in, or to fail to properly maintain, any record which he is required to keep pursuant to this Act. Sets forth provisions for record-keeping and registration of hypodermic needles and syringes in keeping with the controls under this Act. Provides that registrations issued under this Act shall be kept posted and kept available for inspection on the premises covered by the registration. Provides that whoever violates any provision of this Act shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, and shall become eligible for parole as the Board of Parole shall determine. Provides that whoever, with intent to commit therewith an offense punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or with knowledge or reasonable cause to believe than an offense punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year is to be committed therewith, ships, transports, or receives a hypodermic needle or syringe in interstate or foreign commerce shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. Provides that any hypodermic needle or syringe used in violation of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Emergency Mass Transit Passenger Act - Provides for Federal assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 for urban mass transportation systems to continue to provide vitally needed transportation services by helping to defray the costs of such systems, and allocating funds for operating subsidies to each such system in proportion to the total number of passengers it carries. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to any State agency or local public body or agency thereof to help defray the operating costs of any urban mass transportation service in an urban area within its jurisdiction. Authorizes the appropriation of $400,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, and 1977 for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
National Voter Registration Act - Establishes, within the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, the National Voter Registration Administration. Directs the President to appoint, with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Administrator and two Associate Administrators for terms of four years each. Provides that the Administration shall establish and administer a national voter registration program for Federal elections; collect, analyze, and arrange for the publication and sale by the Government Printing Office of information concerning elections in the United States; provide assistance to State and local officials concerning the national voter registration program and election problems generally; 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; and take such other action as it deems necessary and proper to carry out its duties and powers under the Act. Provides that an individual who is a qualified elector under State law except as to duration of residency but who is a resident of a State on and after the thirtieth day before a Federal election shall be entitled to register and vote in a Federal election in that State. Authorizes the Administration, whenever a Federal election is held in any State, to furnish, upon the request of the State or any local entity, officers and employees and such other assistance as the Administration and the State or local official may agree upon to assist in the registration of individuals applying to register in that State under the provisions of the Act. Directs the Administration to prepare voter registration forms designed to provide a simple method of registering by mail to vote in Federal elections. Authorizes the Administration to enter into agreements with the Postal Service, with departments and agencies of the Federal Government, and with State and local officials for the distribution of registration forms. Directs the Postal Service to distribute the registration forms to postal addresses and Armed Forces installations not earlier than forty-five days nor later that thirty days prior to the close of registration for the next Federal election in each political jurisdiction of any State. Provides that whenever a State or local official has reason to believe that individuals who are not qualified electors are attempting to register to vote under the provisions of the Act, he may notify the Administration and request its assistance to prevent fraudulent registration. Provides that whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address, residence, age, or other information for purposes of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more that five years, or both. Provides that any person who deprives or attempts to deprive any other person of any right under the Act shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Directs the Administration to determine the fair and reasonable cost of processing registration forms prescribed by the Act, and to pay to each appropriate State an amount equal to such cost per card multiplied by the number of registration cards processed in that State. Authorizes the Administration to pay any State which adopts the registration form and system prescribed by the Act as a form and system of registration to be a qualified and registered elector for State and local elections in that State, without regard to whether the State changes its requirements for duration of residency to be a qualified elector. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act.