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Bill· HRH.R. 6398 (94th)referred

A bill to preserve and protect the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to refrain from such activities.

United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1975

Provides that the right of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities, may not be restricted by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment (such restriction being presently authorized under the National Labor Relations Act under specified conditions).

Bill· HRH.R. 5524 (94th)referred

Concentrated Industries Anti-Inflation Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975

Concentrated Industries Anti-Inflation Act - Establishes a Price Restraint Board to be composed of five members who shall issue standards and guidelines for noninflationary price adjustments. States that the basic guideline for price adjustments shall be the maintenance of the dollars and cents profit margin per unit of output of any firm for any product or product category which prevailed for such firm during such fiscal years as the Board may designate. Provides that subsidiary standards and guidelines for price adjustments shall provide for modifying the basic guideline, as the Board may find necessary, to avoid undue hardship, inequity, or impedance of economic growth. Provides for the classification of business firms into three categories based on amount of sales controlled by such firm. States that the Board shall publish monthly a weighted index of the prices of products of concentrated industries. Provides that, when necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Board shall issue orders and regulations in accordance with its standards and guidelines to require prenotification of price increases, to delay proposed price increases in whole or in part, to disapprove proposed price increases in whole or in part, and to rollback prices with respect to products of firms in concentrated industries. States that such regulations and orders shall not apply to firms controlling less than $250,000,000 worth of sales. Enumerates the duties of business firms with respect to notification of the Board of intent to adjust prices after the effective date of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 5293 (94th)referred

Fiscal Integrity Act

United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975

Fiscal Integrity Act - Revises the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act to define the term "Federal revenue and budget outlay limit" to be the amount derived through a specified series of mathematical formulas. Prohibits the concurrent resolution on the budget from including any provision which exceeds the Federal revenue and budget outlay limit. Requires that each House include in its report to its House a comparison of estimated budget authority as set forth by the President and by the concurrent resolution. Prohibits amendment of the concurrent resolution during consideration by the Senate or the House of Representatives which exceeds the Federal revenue and budget outlay limit. Requires that the impact of new budget authority and budget outlays, and a projection for the next five fiscal years of the impact of new tax expenditures on the Federal revenue and outlay limit be included in a statement accompanying a bill or resolution reported by a committee of either House. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to include in his five-year projection report, the concomitant predicted Federal revenue and budget outlay limits for each fiscal year. Prohibits a concurrent resolution from being reported at any time which increases total revenues or the budget outlay limit unless such limit has been suspended pursuant to this Act. Prohibits Congress from making any appropriation for any fiscal year in excess of the Federal revenue and budget outlay limit. Provides for the reduction of the public debt by any revenue which exceeds such limit during any fiscal year. Permits the suspension of the revenue and budget outlay limit by the declaration of a fiscal emergency through the passage of a concurrent resolution approved by two-thirds of the members present in each House. Requires that all bills of a public or private character introduced in either House of Congress have printed at the bottom of the first page a fiscal note which States the amounts likely to be the costs and savings achieved in the implementation of a bill.

Law· HRH.R. 4269 (94th)open

A bill to amend the Organic Act of Guam and the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands.

United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975

Provides, under the Organic Act of Guam and the Revised Organic Act of Vigin Islands, that the clerk hire allowance and the transportation expenses reimbursed under Federal law of the Delegates from such Territorries to the House of Representatives shall be the same as that allowed for Members of the House.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 202 (94th)referred

Resolution in support of continued undiluted U.S. sovereignty and jurisdiction over the U.S.-owned Canal Zone on the Isthmus of Panama.

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975

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.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 58 (94th)referred

Concurrent resolution to express the sense of the Congress that the President should not impose any tariff or other import restriction on petroleum or petroleum products before April 1, 1975.

United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1975

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should not impose any tariff or other import restriction on petroleum or petroleum products before April 1, 1975, so as to give the Congress a reasonable period of time in which to act legislatively on such matter if it determines such action is necessary.

Bill· HRH.R. 1450 (94th)referred

A bill to amend the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to provide for the retirement of the public debt by setting aside the first 5 percent of the budget receipts of the United States for each fiscal year for the sole purpose of retirement of obligations counted as part of the public debt.

United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975

Provides for the retirement of the public debt by setting aside the first 5 percent of the budget receipts of the United States for each fiscal year, except in times of war, for the sole purpose of retirement of obligations counted as part of the public debt.

Bill· HRH.R. 1168 (94th)referred

A bill to authorize recomputation at age 60 of the retired pay of members and former members of the uniformed services whose retired pay is computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.

Bill· HRH.R. 394 (94th)referred

A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the administrative and judicial review of claims (involving the amount of benefits payable ) which arise under the supplementary medical insurance program.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Provides for the administrative and judicial review of claims (involving the amount of benefits payable) which arise under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare).

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 5 (94th)referred

Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency, and to provide for the systematic paying back of the national debt.

United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975

Constitutional Amendment - Stipulates that appropriations made by the United States shall not exceed its revenues, except in time of war or national emergency. Provides for the systematic paying back of the national debt over the one-hundred year period beginning with the ratification of this amendment.

Bill· HRH.R. 16800 (93rd)referred

Public Land Policy and Management Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1974

Public Land Policy and Management Act - Title I: Short Title, Declaration of Policy and Definitions - Declares the public policies of the United States, including that the public lands be retained in Federal ownership unless disposal of a particular parcel will best serve the national interest. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Planning Future Public Land Use - Directs the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture to: (1) prepare inventories of all public lands and resources; (2) develop and revise land use plans; and (3) manage public lands under principles of multiple use and sustained yield, with specified exceptions. Prescribes the criteria governing the issuance of permits, licenses, and leases. Specifies the conditions under which a tract of the public lands may be sold and the procedures for competitive bidding. States that all withdrawals of public lands shall be reviewed at the end of the withdrawal period and enumerates additional rules with regard to such withdrawals. Details the conditions governing; (1) the acquisition of land; (2) exchanges; (3) the recordation of mining claims and abandonment; (4) recordable disclaimers of interest in land; and (5) the conveyance of reserved mineral interests. Provides that with regard to specified lands along the lower Colorado River the United States shall be subject to all legal and equitable defenses in any case where the United States seeks to establish title or obtain relief dependent on ownership of such lands. Sets forth the procedures for computation of grazing fees and the duration of grazing leases. Title III: Bureau of Land Management - Establishes within the Department of Interior a Bureau of Land Management, granting such Bureau specified enforcement authorities. Provides for cooperation between the Bureau and State and local law enforcement agencies. Creates a working capital fund for the management of the public lands administered by the Bureau. Authorizes to be appropriated $3,000,000 as initial capital for the fund. Provides for contracts for surveys and resource protection to be made by the Secretary of the Interior. Authorizes the establishment of local advisory councils by the Secretary, outlining the rules governing such councils. Requires the Secretary to file an annual report to review roadless areas of 5,000 contiguous acres and report on the suitability of such areas for preservation as wilderness. Title IV: Desert Lands - Expresses the findings of Congress with respect to deserts. Directs the Secretary to implement a plan for the management, use, development, and protection of the public lands within the California desert area and to create a California Desert Conservation Area Advisory Committee, enumerating the duties of such committee. Provides, under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1926, for specified criteria to be met prior to the conveyance of land for recreation purposes. Requires the Secretary to conduct a desert areas study, authorizing $1,500,000 for such purposes. Title V: Rights-of-Way - Authorizes the Secretaries to grant rights-of-way through public lands for canals, tunnels, pipelines, roads, airways, and other specified systems. Enumerates the procedures, terms, and conditions for such right-of-way granting. Title VI: Effect on Existing Rights; Repeal of Prior Laws; Appropriation Authorization, and Effective Date - Repeals specified laws relating to: (1) homesteading, desert entry, and small tracts; (2) disposal laws; (3) administration of public lands; and (4) rights-of-way. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 16690 (93rd)referred

A bill making a supplemental appropriation for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the fiscal year ending June 30, l975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1974

Makes a supplemental appropriation of $187,500 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for fiscal year 1975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.

Bill· HRH.R. 16676 (93rd)referred

Public Land Policy and Management Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1974

Public Land Policy and Management Act - Title I: Short Title, Declaration of Policy and Definitions - Declares the public policies of the United States, including that the public lands be retained in Federal ownership unless disposal of a particular parcel will best serve the national interest. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Planning Future Public Land Use - Directs the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture to: (1) prepare inventories of all public lands and resources; (2) develop and revise land use plans; and (3) manage public lands under principles of multiple use and sustained yield, with specified exceptions. Prescribes the criteria governing the issuance of permits, licenses, and leases. Specifies the conditions under which a tract of the public lands may be sold and the procedures for the competitive bidding. States that all withdrawals of public lands shall be reviewed at the end of the withdrawal period and enumerates additional rules with regard to such withdrawals. Details the conditions governing; (1) the acquisition of land; (2) exchanges; (3) the recordation of mining claims and abandonment; (4) recordable disclaimers of interest in land; and (5) the conveyance of reserved mineral interests. Provides that with regard to specified lands along the lower Colorado River the United States shall be subject to all legal and equitable defenses in any case where the United States seeks to establish title or obtain relief dependent on ownership of such lands. Sets forth the procedures for computation of grazing fees and the duration of grazing leases. Title III: Bureau of Land Management - Establishes within the Department of Interior a Bureau of Land Management, granting such Bureau specified enforcement authorities. Provides for cooperation between the Bureau and State and local law enforcement agencies. Creates a working capital fund for the management of the public lands administered by the Bureau. Authorizes to be appropriated $3,000,000 as initial capital for the fund. Provides for contracts for surveys and resource protection to be made by the Secretary of the Interior. Authorizes the establishment of local advisory councils by the Secretary, outlining the rules governing such councils. Requires the Secretary to file an annual report to review roadless areas of 5,000 contiguous acres and report on the suitability of such areas for preservation as wilderness. Title IV: Desert Lands - Expresses the findings of Congress with respect to deserts. Directs the Secretary to implement a plan for the management, use, development, and protection of the public lands within the California desert area and to create a California Desert Conservation Area Advisory Committee, enumerating the duties of such committee. Provides, under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1926, for specified criteria to be met prior to the conveyance of land for recreation purposes. Requires the Secretary to conduct a desert areas study, authorizing $1,500,000 for such purposes. Title V: Rights-of-Way - Authorizes the Secretaries to grant rights-of-way through public lands for canals, tunnels, pipelines, roads, airways, and other specified systems. Enumerates the procedures, terms, and conditions for such right-of-way granting. Title VI: Effect on Existing Rights; Repeal of Prior Laws; Appropriation Authorization, and Effective Date - Repeals specified laws relating to: (1) homesteading, desert entry, and small tracts; (2) disposal laws; (3) administration of public lands; and (4) rights-of-way. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 16556 (93rd)referred

Fiscal Integrity Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974

Fiscal Integrity Act - Expresses the findings of Congress, including that allowing the continuation of policies which lessen the fiscal integrity of the Government is detrimental to the general welfare of the people and ought, therefore, to be ended. Title I: Revenue and Budget Outlays Control - Establishes for each fiscal year a revenue and budget outlays limit for the Government. States that no appropriation shall be made for any fiscal year by the Congress in excess of the revenue and budget outlays limit for such fiscal year. Provides that if the revenue of the Government exceeds the limit established, the excess shall be used for the payment of the public debt of the Government. States that the revenue and budget outlays limit shall be derived by multiplying the estimated aggregate national income for such fiscal year by the Federal revenue factor. Defines "Federal revenue factor". Title II: Monetary Supply Control - Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to insure that any rate of increase in the amount of currency in circulation and demand deposits is not greater than 1 1/4 percent per quarter fiscal year. Title III: Fiscal Disclosure - States that a bill or joint resolution introduced in either House of Congress or received by it from the other House shall be printed only when there appears at the bottom of the first page a fiscal note. Requires such fiscal note to state the amounts estimated to be the direct and indirect costs likely to be incurred or the direct and indirect savings likely to be achieved in carrying out the provisions of such bill or joint resolution in the fiscal year in which it is introduced or received and in each of the five fiscal years following such fiscal year, or for the authorized duration of any program authorized by such bill or joint resolution if less than five years, except that in the case of measures affecting revenue, the fiscal note shall state only the estimate of change in revenues for a one-year period. States that a copy of each such bill or joint resolution shall be transmitted immediately to the instrumentality of Government which will carry out its provisions.

Bill· HRH.R. 16525 (93rd)referred

A bill to provide for protection of franchised dealers in petroleum products.

United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1974

Prohibits a petroleum refiner or distributor from cancelling, failing to renew, or otherwise terminating a franchise unless he furnishes notification in writing to each affected distributor or retailer by certified mail not less than ninety days prior to the date on which such franchise will be canceled, together with a statement of the reasons of such cancellation and of the remedies available. Provides that a petroleum refiner or distributor shall not cancel, fail to renew, or otherwise terminate a franchise unless the retailer or distributor whose franchise is terminated failed to comply substantially with any essential and reasonable requirement of such franchise or failed to act in good faith in carrying out the terms of such franchise. States that if a refiner or distributor engages in conduct prohibited under this Act, a retailer or distributor may maintain a suit against such refiner or distributor.

Bill· HRH.R. 16507 (93rd)referred

Eastern Wilderness Areas Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1974

Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in eighteen states and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 16440 (93rd)referred

A bill making a supplemental appropriation for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.

United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974

Makes a supplemental appropriation of $187,500 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for fiscal year 1975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.

Bill· HRH.R. 16331 (93rd)referred

A bill making a supplemental appropriation for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.

United States · United States Congress · 8 August 1974

Makes a supplemental appropriation of $187,500 for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for fiscal year 1975, to provide funds to conduct a study of the effects of the red tide on human health.

Bill· HRH.R. 16320 (93rd)referred

Solar Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1974

Solar Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is the policy of the United States to pursue a vigorous and adequately funded program with the objective of utilizing solar energy as a major source for our national energy needs. Defines the terms used in this Act. Establishes the Solar Energy Coordination and Management Project to have responsibility for management and coordination of a national solar energy research, development and demonstration program. Directs the Project to carry out its duties in cooperation with specified Federal agencies, including the Atomic Energy Commission and the Federal Power Commission. Makes conforming amendments to the National Science Foundation Act and the National Aeronautics and Space Act. Instructs the Project to initiate a solar energy resource determination and assessment program, emphasizing identification of promising areas for commercial exploitation and development. Enumerates the specific goals of the determination and assessment program. Directs the Project: (1) to initiate a research and development program for resolving the major technical problems inhibiting commercial utilization of solar energy in the United States; (2) to implement a research and development program to demonstrate the technical means for securing and utilizing the resource base; and (3) to initiate a program to design and construct facilities to demonstrate the feasibility of utilizing the various forms of solar energy. Details the goals of each such program. Authorizes the National Science Foundation to support, coordinate, and encourage the development of policies set forth in this Act. Establishes a Solar Energy Research Institute to perform research functions in connection with the Project's activities under this Act. Calls for the creation of a Solar Energy Information Data Bank, specifying the content of data to be collected and compiled. Transfers specified functions, documents, and personnel to the Energy Research and Development Administration. Authorizes to be appropriated to the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 1975, $2,000,000 for use in the preparation of the comprehensive program. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out this Act, for fiscal years beginning after 1975, such sums as the Congress may hereafter authorize.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 584 (93rd)referred

Concurrent resolution calling for a domestic summit to develop a unified plan of action to restore stability and prosperity to the American economy.

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1974

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the leadership of the Nation responsible for our economic well-being meet together immediately in a spirit of unity to design a set of policy actions to achieve the common goal of restoring stability and growth to the American economy and confidence and prosperity to the American people. States that it is in imperative as in previous moments of great national need that the two political parties, the Congress and the President, labor and management, put aside their domestic and political differences and work together in a spirit of discipline, compromise, and sacrifice for the common good. Expresses the sense of the Congress that this domestic summit be convened forthwith comprised of the President, the majority and minority leadership of both Houses of the Congress, the chairman and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committee of both Houses, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, together with leaders of labor and business, and such other participants as they may agree upon. Stipulates that they shall meet and devote such time as necessary until a plan of action is decided upon which, by its demonstration of renewed unity, direction, and purpose, will gain the public support and confidence necessary to be effective in overcoming these difficulties. States that the Congress stands ready to cooperate fully in the spirit of commitment and unity which the solution of this truly national problem will require of all elements of American society.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1277 (93rd)referred

Resolution calling for a domestic summit to develop a unified plan of action to restore stability and prosperity to the American economy.

United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1974

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the leadership of the Nation responsible for our economic well-being meet together immediately in a spirit of unity to design a set of policy actions to achieve the common goal of restoring stability and growth to the American economy and confidence and prosperity to the American people. States that it is imperative as in previous moments of great national need that the two political parties, the Congress and the President, labor and management, put aside their domestic and political differences and work together in a spirit of discipline, compromise, and sacrifice for the common good. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that this domestic summit be convened forthwith comprised of the President, the majority and minority leadership of both Houses of the Congress, the chairman and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committee of both Houses, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, together with leaders of labor and business, and such other participants as they may agree upon. Stipulates that they shall meet and devote such time as necessary until a plan of action is decided upon which, by its demonstration of renewed unity, direction, and purpose, will gain the public support and confidence necessary to be effective in overcoming these difficulties. States that the House of Representatives stands ready to cooperate fully in the spirit of commitment and unity which the solution of this truly national problem will require of all elements of American society.

Law· HRH.R. 15912 (93rd)open

Veterans Housing Act of 1974

United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1974

Veterans' Housing Act - Authorizes increases in the amount limitations of the veterans home loan programs, and eliminates those provisions automatically guaranteeing dormant farm and business loans. Repeals the restriction on the guaranteeing or making of loans by the Administrator of Veterans Affairs for the purchasing of mobile homes or mobile home lots after July 1, 1975. Authorizes the Administrator to make expenditures to correct or compensate for structural defects in mortgaged homes with respect to any property improved by a one-to-four family existing dwelling as to which the Veterans' Administration issued a certificate of reasonable value.

Bill· HRH.R. 15880 (93rd)referred

Eastern Wilderness Areas Act

United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974

Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in eighteen states and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 15625 (93rd)referred

A bill to prevent the estate tax law from operating to encourage or to require the destruction of open lands and historic places, by amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that real property which is farmland, woodland, or open land and forms part of an estate may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value as farmland, woodland, or open land (rather than at its fair market value), and to provide that real property which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its existing use, and to provide for the revocation of such lower evaluation and recapture of unpaid taxes with interest in appropriate circumstances.

United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1974

Provides that, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, real property which is farmland, woodland, or open land and forms part of an estate may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value as farmland, woodland, or open land (rather than at its fair market value). Provides that real property which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value for its existing use. Provides for the revocation of such lower valuation and recapture of unpaid tax with interest under specified circumstances.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 523 (93rd)referred

A concurrent resolution for negotiations on the Turkish opium ban.

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.

Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 508 (93rd)referred

Concurrent resolution for negotiations on the Turkish opium ban.

United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.

Bill· HRH.R. 14980 (93rd)referred

A bill to authorize recomputation at age 60 of the retired pay of members and former members of the uniformed services whose retired pay is computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974

Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1122 (93rd)referred

Resolution to condemn terrorist killings of schoolchildren in Israel.

United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism in the Middle East; (2) the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to (a) call upon all governments to condemn this inhuman act of violence against innocent victims; and (b) strongly urge the governments who harbor these groups and individuals to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terrorism and senseless violence; and (3) the President should request the American Ambassador to the United Nations to take appropriate action before that body in order to have introduced a Security Council resolution condemning this brutal act of violence.

Bill· HRH.R. 14791 (93rd)passed

A bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (82 Stat. 906).

United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974

Designates for study specified rivers in California, Michigan, Alabama, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Wisconsin as potential additions to the national wild and scenic rivers system.

Bill· HRH.R. 14792 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (82 Stat. 906).

United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974

Designates for study specified rivers in California, Michigan, Alabama, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Wisconsin as potential additions to the national wild and scenic rivers system.

Bill· HRH.R. 14598 (93rd)referred

Arthritis Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974

Arthritis Prevention Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act - Makes it the purpose of this Act to establish: (1) a long-range plan to expand and coordinate the national research, treatment, and control effort against arthritis and related musculoskeletal diseases; (2) centers for arthritis prevention, research, screening, early detection, training, treatment, and rehabilitation programs; and (3) programs to develop new and improved methods of arthritis screening and early detection and to establish a central arthritis screening and early detection data bank. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish a National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases. Specifies the composition, duties, and powers of the Commission. States that the Commission shall formulate a long-range plan to combat arthritis and related musculoskeletal diseases with specific recommendations for the utilization and organization of national resources for that purpose. States that the plan shall include a plan for a coordinated research program encompassing existing and proposed Federal, non-Federal and local programs. Enumerates investigations, studies, and programs to be carried out under such plan. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 to carry out the above purposes. Establishes within the National Institute on Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases the position of Associate Director for Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases. States that the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall establish an Inter-Institute Arthritis and Related Diseases Coordinating Committee to better coordinate research activities relating to arthritis and related musculoskeletal diseases. Provides for the development, establishment, construction, and operation of arthritis research and training centers. Specifies the purposes to be achieved by such research and training programs. Provides for the geographical distribution, operational support, and evaluation of such research and training centers. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 for the establishment of such centers. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish and support arthritis screening, early detection, prevention, and control demonstration programs. Specifies the purpose of such programs. Authorizes specified appropriations for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 for the establishment and support of such programs. Requires the Secretary to establish the Arthritis Screening and Detection Data Bank as soon as practicable after the enactment of this Act. Provides that not less than $500,000 of the sums appropriated to the National Institutes of Health to carry out the purposes of this Act shall be obligated for basic and clinical orthopedic research conducted or supported by the National Institute on Arthritis, Rheumatism, and Metabolic Diseases.

Law· HRH.R. 14217 (93rd)open

An Act to provide for increases in appropriation ceilings and boundary changes in certain units of the National Park System, to authorize appropriations for additional costs of land acquisition for the National Park System, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974

Title I: Acquisition Ceiling Increases - Provides for increases in appropriation ceilings for the acquisition of specified units of the National Park System. Title II: Development Ceiling Increases - Increases the limitations on appropriations for development of specified units of the National Park System. Title III: Boundary Changes - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise the boundaries of specified units of the National Park System. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire by donation, purchase, or exchange and to develop specified National Park lands. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary up to $100,000 to conduct studies to determine the cause and extent of the damage to the foundation of the historic structures of the San Juan National Historic Site. Authorizes to be appropriated up to $8,400,000 in addition to available funds, for moving costs, relocation benefits, and other expenses incurred pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Provides that whenever an owner of property, to be acquisitioned to the National Park System, elects to retain a right of use and occupancy, such owner shall be deemed to have waived the relocation benefits and displaced person status accorded by the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970.

Bill· HRH.R. 14218 (93rd)referred

A bill to provide for increases in appropriation ceilings and boundary changes in certain units of the National Park System, to authorize appropriations for additional costs of land acquisition for the National Park System.

United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974

Title I: Acquisition Ceiling Increases - Provides for increases in appropriation ceilings for the acquisition of specified units of the National Park System. Title II: Development Ceiling Increases - Increases the limitations on appropriations for development of specified units of the National Park System. Title III: Boundary Changes - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to revise the boundaries of specified units of the National Park System. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire by donation, purchase, or exchange and to develop specified National Park lands. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary up to $100,000 to conduct studies to determine the cause and extent of the damage to the foundation of the historic structures of the San Juan National Historic Site. Authorizes to be appropriated up to $8,400,000 in addition to available funds, for moving costs, relocation benefits, and other expenses incurred pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970. Provides that whenever an owner of property, to be acquisitioned to the National Park System, elects to retain a right of use and occupancy, such owner shall be deemed to have waived the relocation benefits and displaced person status accorded by the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970.

Bill· HRH.R. 14117 (93rd)passed

A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to increase the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans, and the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for their survivors.

United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974

Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for their suvivors.