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United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Establishes a target of $297,000,000,000 for outlays under the budget of the United States Government for fiscal year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Prohibits the Federal Energy Administration from imposing any tax, fee, or charge on gasoline, unless approved by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1974
Authorizes the President to reduce Federal expenditures for fiscal year 1975 to $295,000,000,000. Provides that in making reductions in amounts appropriated in order to reduce budget outlays to such amount, the President shall not reduce the amount of an item of appropriation: (1) if that appropriation does not exceed an amount equal to 95 percent of the sum requested in the budget for that fiscal year, unless (A) the President transmits a special message to Congress stating that he proposes to reduce the amount appropriated for such item and the sum by which that appropriation is to be reduced, and (B) neither House of Congress passes a resolution, during thirty calendar days of continuous session occurring immediately after transmittal of the message, stating in substance that it disapproves the reduction; and (2) in the case of any other item of appropriation, by more than 15 percent of the amount appropriated.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
Controlled Substances Trafficking Act - Title I: Increased Penalties - Increases various criminal penalties under provisions of the comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. Title II: Conditions of Release - Directs the judicial officer, in setting conditions of release for any person charged with an offense with respect to a controlled substance, to consider whether the person poses a danger to the safety of any other person, himself, or of the community, or to the property of others. States that where a person is charged with a violation with respect to a controlled substance, a special hearing shall be held by a judicial officer at the time of arraignment to determine whether the person may be released prior to trial. Sets forth criteria upon which the judicial officer shall deny release in the absence of compelling circumstances to justify the conclusion that the defendant, if released, will not become a fugitive or pose a danger to the safety of any other person or to the community. Permits the United States to appeal from orders granting pretrial release. Provides that a person denied release in connection with charges which subsequently result in a conviction for a violation with respect to a controlled substance shall not be released while awaiting sentence or after having filed a writ of certiorari in the absence of compelling circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Limits the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the district courts with respect to any case arising from a State law relating to assigning public school students to a particular school because of race, creed, color, or sex.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1974
Provides that specified sections of the Par Value Modification Act relating to dealing in gold shall take effect immediately upon passage of this Act (formerly to take effect when the President finds and reports to Congress that international monetary reform has proceeded to the point where elimination of regulations on private ownership of gold will not adversely affect the United States international monetary position).
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Requires reports accompanying each bill or joint resolution in the House of Representatives of a public character (except revenue measures) reported by a committee to contain estimates of the costs, to both public and nonpublic sectors, of carrying out the measure reported.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Allows a deduction from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code for social agency, legal, and related expenses incurred in connection with the adoption of a child by a taxpayer. Defines, for purposes of this Act, the term "adoption expense". (Adds 26 U.S.C. 219)
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Directs the President to submit to Congress, within thirty days, a report which sets forth, for each calendar year during the period of 1965 through 1973: (1) the volume and value of all exports of critical resources to all countries from each foreign country which at any time during such period exported to the United States any critical minerals; (2) the volume and value of each critical mineral exported to the United States from each such foreign country; (3) the volume and value of each critical mineral exported in world trade from any foreign country which was subject, at any time during such period, to economic sanctions applied by the United States pursuant to the United Nations Participation Act of 1945; and (4) the exports by value and volume for each commodity by country of destination.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Provides that whoever, for the purpose of obtaining any official document or paper of the United States, involving an element of identification, knowlingly uses or supplies false information, documentation, or any document or paper evidencing the birth or identity or entry into the United States of any individual other than the individual officially intended to be documented thereby, shall be fined or imprisoned or both. Provides that whoever, for the purpose of obtaining any official document or paper of any State, involving an element of identification, knowingly utilizes any facility in interstate or foreign commerce, including the mail, to move in interstate or foreign commerce any false information, false or falsified documentation, or any document or paper evidencing the birth or identity or entry into the United States of any individual other than the individual officially intended to be documented thereby, shall be fined or imprisoned or both. Imposes criminal penalties on any individual who, for a monetary or other consideration: (1) falsely makes or alters, or makes improper use of, any official document or paper of the United States, involving an element of identification; (2) falsely makes, or alters, or makes improper use of, any official document or paper of any State involving an element of identification, knowing that such document is being used for obtaining any official document or paper of the United States, involving an element of identification; or (3) sells, transfers, or otherwise delivers any such document or paper of the United States or of any State knowing such document or paper to have been so made, forged, counterfeited, or altered or so used or intended to be used improperly or without authorization. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1028, 1029)
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Requires the execution of an oath or affirmation or declaration of allegiance before a passport is granted or issued. (Amends 22 U.S.C. 212, 213)
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Directs the Secretary of State to keep the appropriate committees of Congress fully and currently imformed of the ongoing status of any negotiations with any foreign government, regarding the cancellation, renegotiation, rescheduling, or settlement of any debt owed to the United States Government by such foreign governments under any program.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides that, immediately upon the adoption of this resolution, the resolution (H. Res. 807) to disapprove the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, hereby is taken from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, and the same is hereby agreed to.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1974
Repeals the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1974
Provides that all assistance provided under the Foreign Assistance Act is terminated on the date this concurrent resolution is agreed to, except for assistance for the following: (1) population planning; (2) international organizations and programs; (3) contingencies payable out of the contingency fund; (4) international narcotics control; (5) famine and disaster relief to the African Sahel; and (6) administrative expenses related to matters referred to in clauses (1)-(5) of this concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Suspends emissions controls on motor vehicles and engines in the continental United States except vehicles registered to residents of designated air quality regions until June 30, 1977, or sixty days after the President determines there is no significant shortage of petroleum fuels, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate, subject to the limitations of the Act, geographic areas of the United States in which there is significant auto emissions related air pollution. Provides that each State shall, not later than sixty days following enactment of this Act, submit to the Administrator a plan for implementing the Act. Provides that if a State fails to submit a plan under the Act or if the Administrator determines (after notice and opportunity for hearing) that such State is not adequately enforcing such a plan, then such State shall lose its entitlement to, and may not thereafter receive, any Federal grant or loan assistance under this Act or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Declares that willful and deliberate violation of any provision of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal and zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) that there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States sovereign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible, except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the House that, during the period pending consideration and action by the Senate upon the bill H.R. 10710, as introduced in the first session of the Congress, cited as the "Trade Reform Act of 1973" and as amended and passed by the House, no loan, guarantee, insurance, or credit shall be extended by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to any nonmarket economy country (other than any such country whose products are eligible for column 1 tariff treatment on the date of the enactment of this resolution), and no such country shall participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
States that the House of Representatives disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1973
Repeals the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1973
Provides that paper money of the United States shall carry a designation in braille indicating the denomination after January 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1973
Basic Commodities and Energy Resources Mass Transportation Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to provide mass transportation assistance essential for the movement of basic commodities and energy resources to and from production areas and major distribution and processing centers. Defines the terms used in this Act. Authorizes appropriations totalling $350,000,000 to carry out the assistance provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee loans made to railroads under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe regulations within sixty days of the date of enactment of this Act prohibiting any motor vehicle from being equipped with any starter interlock system associated with seatbelts or upper torso restraints.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1973
Provides that the two Houses of Congress shall adjourn on Thursday, November 1, 1973, and when they adjourn on that day, they stand adjourned sine die.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1973
Expresses the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States that the Government of the United States shall cease forthwith all consideration of aid, trade, diplomatic recognition, or any other form of communication, travel, or accomodation with the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam or the Viet Cong until such time as agreements relating to facilitating the location and care of graves of the dead, exhumation, and repatriation of the remains have been complied with to the fullest extent.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States Government, while engaged in a lessening of tensions with the People's Republic of China, do nothing to compromise the freedom of our friend and ally, the Republic of China and its people.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Prohibits travel at Government expense outside the United States by any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of Congress who after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress are not candidates for reelection in the next Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973
Provides that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
States that a household shall not participate in the food stamp program while any of its members is on strike. Provides that such ineligibility shall not apply to any household that was eligible for and participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, dispute, or other similar action in which any member of such household engages. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 2014, 2012)
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Food Supplement Amendment - Defines the term "food supplement" for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to mean food for special dietary uses, and defines the meaning of "special dietary uses" as particular uses of food for man which meets specified requirements. Provides that in administering such Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: (1) shall not limit the potency, number, combination, amount, or variety of any synthetic or natural vitamin, mineral, substance, or ingredient of any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage; and (2) shall not require a warning label on any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Provides that if the total budget receipts for any fiscal year do not equal or exceed total outlays, no allocation or payment shall be made under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 to any State or unit of local government for any entitlement which begins in that fiscal year. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer to the general fund of the Treasury all amounts which are not paid out of such entitlement period by reason of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of the longstanding debts which are delinquent in nature. Makes it the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury submit to the Congress within ninety days of passage of this resolution a list and report on the extent of such indebtedness on the part of foreign nations. Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury, through the appropriate departments and agencies, should, immediately after the filing of this report, begin consultations with foreign governments involved for the purpose of making arrangements for the prompt repayment of those longstanding debts which are delinquent.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to allow participants in the plan B feed grain set-aside program to transfer into the plan A set-aside program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Prohibits former Members of Congress from using seals, flags, license tags, or other insignia or devices which imply they are currently Members of Congress. Imposes a five dollar fine for each offense. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 918)
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1973
Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that should United States gold be offered for public sale, the sale of such gold must be restricted to the domestic market and American citizens for a period of 30 days before being offered on the world market.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1973
Authorizes funds not to exceed $638,000 for the expenses of the investigation and study for the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service authorized by H. Res. 180, 93rd Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1973
Provides for the observance of Memorial Day on May 30 and for the observance of Veterans' Day on November 11 of each year and makes such days legal holidays. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over said Canal Zone and Panama Canal and that the United States Government should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property to any other sovereign nation or to any international organization which sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, and other property are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere, including the Canal and Panama.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in the case of any crime involving the deliberate and willful taking of human life.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides for the annual authorization of appropriations to the United States Postal Service. Requires such Service to keep the Senate and House Committees on Post Office and Civil Service fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and responsibilities within the jurisdiction of such committees.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Health Care Insurance Act - Provides, under the Social Security Act, for medical, dental, and hospital care through a system of voluntary health insurance financed in whole for low-income groups through issuance of certificates, and in part for all other persons through allowance of tax credits. Adds to the Social Security Act a new title entitled Federal Financing of Voluntary Health Insurance. Provides that, for the purpose of providing assistance on behalf of the individuals and their dependents whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the costs of necessary medical, dental, and hospital services, there is established a program of hospital, dental, and medical benefits for any eligible beneficiary and his dependents through the issuance of health insurance certificates, in full payment of allowable premium on a qualified health care insurance policy of his choice. Asserts that health insurance certificiates of entitlement will be redeemable by the carrier by payment from the Federal Health Insurance Redemption Fund. Includes as eligible beneficiaries under this title any husband and wife both under age 65 and living together and any unmarried person under age 65 who is not a dependent beneficiary. Defines a dependent beneficiary as any child of an eligible beneficiary receiving more than 50 percent of his support from the eligible beneficiary, which child is under 21, or if a student, under age 23. Provides that every individual who is an eligible beneficiary whose income results in no individual income tax liability during his base year, whose dependent beneficiaries have no such liability for their taxable years which end during his base year, and who is not eligible to receive military medical care, shall be eligible to receive a health insurance certificate of entitlement. Asserts that such certificates shall be applicable in full payment of allowable premiums for a qualified health care insurance policy or plan. Requires that such policy or plan shall provide protection for the eligible beneficiary and his dependent beneficiaries for a 12-month period beginning during his benefit year against the expenses of health care, including catastrophic expenses of illness. Allows tax credits for health care insurance. Asserts that every individual who is an eligible beneficiary who has not elected, where eligible, to receive benefits under the provisions for fully-paid health care insurance for the low-income group and who is not eligible to receive military medical care, shall be allowed at his election a credit against his income tax liability for his taxable year which ends during his base year; or a health insurance certificate of entitlement acceptable by a qualified carrier in payment toward a premium, under a qualified health care insurance policy. Specifies the amount of the tax credit or the value to be assigned to the health insurance certificate on the basis of allowable premiums. Provides that a health insurance certificate of entitlement means a certificate issued by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare upon application to him by an eligible beneficiary to apply toward payment of premium on a qualified health care insurance policy or plan. Specifies that a qualified health care insurance policy or plan shall be a contractual agreement specifying benefits under a program offered by a qualified carrier which has been registered by a State Agency and which provides basic institutional and medical coverage and catastrophic expense coverage. Declares that each such qualified health care insurance policy or plan shall be noncancellable and guaranteed renewable so long as the carrier continues to offer to the public one or more qualified health care insurance policies or plans, shall provide protection against the expense of health care without regard to any pre-existing conditions, and shall provide for payment under this title of usual and customary charges for services covered under the policy or plan. Stipulates what costs shall be included under basic coverage and under catastrophic expense coverage. Establishes deductibles for each of the two types of coverage. Creates a Health Insurance Advisory Board which shall consist of eleven persons including the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Directs that the remaining members, not otherwise in the employ of the Government, shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointment in the competitive service. Asserts that the Secretary of HEW shall serve as Chairman. Provides that the members shall be selected from persons who are specifically qualified to serve on such Board by virtue of their education, training, or experience. Provides that the Health Insurance Advisory Board shall perform such functions as: (1) prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act; (2) establish minimum Federal standards for the use of State insurance departments in determining whether an insurance company and plan are qualified under this Act; (3) in consultation with carriers, providers of services, and consumers, plan and develop programs whose purposes are to provide for maintaining the quality of medical care; and (4) review the effectiveness of the tax credit program and file an annual report. Grants the States the power to decide which carriers are qualified. Forbids any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or dentistry or the manner in which medical or dental services are provided, or over the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee or any institution, agency, or person providing health services; or to exercise any supervision or control over the administration or operation of any such institution, agency, or person. Creates in the Treasury a trust fund to be known as the Federal Health Insurance Redemption Fund to consist in part of an amount equal to the aggregate amount of premiums paid under this title through the redemption of health insurance certificates.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school. Grants Congress the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Permits the President to restrict travel by citizens and nationals of the United States to, in, or through any country or area whose military forces are engaged in armed conflict with the military forces of the United States. Provides that travel to such restricted country or area by any person may be authorized by the President when he deems such travel to be in the national interest. Makes it unlawful for any citizen or national of the United States to willfully and without authorization to travel to such restricted country or area.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires each judge of the United States courts to file a confidential financial statement with the Comptroller General by May 15 of each year. Provides that such report shall contain the following information: all documents filed for income tax purposes; name and instrument of ownership of any business in which the ownership value exceeded $5,000 or from which income was derived, the value of ownership and amount of income, the name and address of all organizations in which the judge or his spouse was an officer, director, partner, employee or adviser, from which income was derived and the amount of income (includes other income for services rendered and not otherwise reported); capital gains from a single source other than the sale of a residence; the identity of each interest in real or personal property owned which had a fair market value of $10,000 or more and the amount of each such interest; the identity of liabilities of $5,000 or more owed by the judge or spouse; and the identity, source, and value of all gifts in the aggregate amount or value of $50 or more from any single source. Directs judges with no interests covered in this act to file a report so stating. Provides for removal from office for willful failure or refusal to file a report. Directs the Comptroller General to keep the sealed reports for seven years. Requires that the report be sent to either House of Congress after adoption of a resolution. Provides that the committee designated in the resolution shall examine the report in executive session unless further consideration is warranted, in which case the report may be made available to any committee member or staff member, for any use required for the discharge of his official duties. Provides that reports shall be returned to the judges after seven years or to their legal representatives. Directs the Comptroller General to report annually to congress the names of judges who have submitted reports.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires a mandatory yea and nay vote on recommendations of the President fixing executive, legislative, and judicial pay transmitted to the Congress in the budget, under the Federal Salary Act of 1967.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses in connection with travel outside the fifty States of the United States of: (1) any Member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination for election to a seat in the House of Representatives or the Senate of the United States in any primary, special, or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress; (2) any Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection to the next Congress. Requires specific accounting, under the Mutual Security Act, of expenditures by Members of Congress on trips to foreign countries.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires that, before import quotas on meats may be suspended or increased, the Secretary of Agriculture must estimate that the average price expected to be received by producers for beef cattle will equal or exceed parity during the period of the suspension or increased quotas. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1202 nt.)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides under the Uniform Time Act of 1966 that daylight saving time shall be observed in the United States from the first Sunday following Memorial Day to the first Sunday following Labor Day. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 260a)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Abolishes the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries established by the Federal Salary Act of 1967. (Repeals 2 U.S.C. 351)