United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1976
Prohibits the Secretary of Defense from assigning, consolidating, or abolishing functions, power, or duties vested in the Department of Defense except where such an action would improve the administration or operation of the Department or with regard to the development and operational use of new weapons or weapons systems.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1976
Title I: Retirement Financing - Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for certain Employees to define terms for purposes of this Act. States that any statute which authorizes liberalized benefits payable from the fund created pursuant to such Act extension of coverage of such Act or increases in salaries, is deemed to authorize appropriations to fund the unfunded liability created by that Act. Authorizes appropriations for purposes of such Act. Title II: Retirement Act Amendments - Makes children for whom a petition for adoption was filed by a participant in such retirement program and who was later adopted by the surviving spouse after the participant's death eligible to receive benefits under such program. Makes the surviving spouse of participants who were married after retirement eligible for survivor's benefits under such Act. Requires a participant who at the time of retirement desires not to have his or her surviving spouse receive an annuity to so state in writing to the Director. States that a surviving spouse acquired after retirement is entitled to a survivor annuity only by electing such annuity instead of any other survivor benefit to which he or she may be entitled to under this or any other retirement system for Government employees. Allows participants in such system who retire unmarried and later marry to elect to receive a reduced annuity under such Act. Sets forth the minimum monthly rate of annuity for a surviving spouse or child. States that retirement for disability or incapacity may only be approved if the application for such retirement is submitted before the applicant is separated from the Agency or within one year thereafter. Extends the period in which a recovered disability annuitant may continue to receive such annuity. Stipulates that if a recovered annuitant has, before reaching age 62, again become totally disabled due to a recurrence of his or her original disability, the terminated disability annuity shall be reinstated. Grants a prior service credit to participants for time spent in service with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or the Public Health Service. Prohibits the recovery of payments made under this Act by the Government if the individual involved is without fault and recovery would be against equity. Authorizes the President, by executive order, to maintain the existing areas of conformity between the Civil Service and Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Systems. Increases the annuity payable from the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund to annuitants and surviving spouses of annuitants which is based on a separation occurring prior to October 20, 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1976
Consumer Communications Reform Act - States that Congress finds that the revenues from integrated interstate and foreign common carrier telecommunications services helped maintain a level of charges for telephone exchange service which is lower than otherwise would be required. Expresses the sense of Congress that the authorization of lines, facilities, or services of specialized carriers which duplicate the lines, facilities, or services of other telecommunications common carriers is contrary to the public interest. Reaffirms the intent of Congress that the complete authority to regulate terminal and station equipment used for telephone exchange service shall rest with the States even though such terminal and station equipment also may be used in connection with interstate services. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to provide that no compensatory charges for or in connection with such communication service may be found to be unjust or unreasonable on the ground that it is to low. Prohibits the Federal Communications Commission from holding the charge of a carrier up to a particular level to protect the traffic or revenues from a communication service offered or provided by another carrier if such charge proposed by the carrier is compensatory. Grants the Commission jurisdiction to approve the acquisition of control by a domestic common carrier of any other domestic common carrier or to approve the acquisition by a person which is not a common carrier of control of any domestic common carrier or the acquisition of the whole or any part of the property of a domestic common carrier after determining that the acquisition is in the public interest. Provides that the Commission shall not grant or authorize any construction permit, station license, or certificate, for the construction, acquisition, or operation of any communication or transmission line or facility, or extension thereof, or any modification or renewal thereof, unless the Commission shall find, after full opportunity for evidentiary hearing on the record, that such permit, license, or certificate will not result in increased charges or unnecessary duplication of communication lines.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1976
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to select an appropriate site for the erection of a statute of Bernardo de Galvez, a gift of the Government of Spain in recognition of the Bicentennial celebrations of the United States of America. Specifies that the statue shall be erected on grounds now owned by the United States of America in the District of Columbia. Requires approval of the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission for the site selection and design of the statue. Provides that the erection of the statue and proper landscape treatment shall be without expense to the United States of America, except for necessary maintenance after completion.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1975
Extends from February 1, 1976, to October 1, 1977, the period during which payment may be made for child day care services under titles IV (Aid to Dependent Children) and XX (Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act without regard to new staffing standards imposed by or under title XX.
United States · United States Congress · 23 October 1975
Condemns the resolution adopted by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly which equates Zionism with racism, and urges the U.N. General Assembly to disapprove such resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day in each year as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Government while engaged in a lessening of tensions with the People's Republic of China, do nothing to compromise continued close relations with the Republic of China.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1975
Removes the numerical limitation on Allen J. Ellender Fellowships to disadvantaged secondary school students. Authorizes $750,000 each for fiscal years 1977 and 1978 and $1,000,000 each for fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Authorizes per diem and travel or transportation expenses for members of the Boards of Visitors to the Service Academies. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 4355(h), and 9355(h))
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to explore, develop, operate, and produce petroleum from Naval Petroleum Reserves numbered 1, 2, and 3, up to a specified amount. Establishes a naval petroleum and oil shale reserves special fund. Provides that amounts from the fund shall be available for the exploration, development, operation and production of naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. Directs the Secretary to establish a study group to investigate the feasibility of creating a national strategic petroleum reserve for military purposes. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 7420)
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Exempts the first sale of the share of a State or local government or a subdivision thereof in crude oil produced in the United States from the mineral or leasehold estate of any State or local government or subdivision-owned lands for purposes of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Provides an individual tax credit if up to $200 under the Internal Revenue Code for disaster preparation expenses. Defines the term"disaster preparation expenses" as those expenses necessary to prepare the taxpayer's personal residence for an imminent natural disaster.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Provides an individual tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for disaster evacuation expenses required by a natural disaster or threat of natural disaster. Limits such credit to $200 to each such disaster requiring evacuation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1974
Authorizes the Secretaries of the military departments to reimburse nonappropriated fund instrumentalities located in the Ryukyu Islands and Daito Islands, Japan, for increased costs in severance pay entitlements of their Japanese employees incurred as a result of the reversion of those islands to Japan.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Provides, under the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1965, that when there is a major economic dislocation in a major segment of the commercial fisheries industry, the Secretary of Commerce shall, upon request, prepare and submit to Congress a report on the dislocation stating, among other specified items, his determination regarding the need for working capital and mortgage refinancing loans. Enumerates the circumstances under which such loans shall be made and their conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to borrow, interest free, from the Secretary of the Treasury up to $100,000,000 for payment to the fisheries loan fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as necessary to carry out specified provisions of this Act. (Adds 16 U.S.C. 742 (c)(f) (1)).
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1974
Exempts, in recognition of the direct benefits to the United States from the construction of the Toledo Bend Dam and Reservoir project, the Sabine River Authority, State of Louisiana, and the Sabine River Authority of Texas, from further charges for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of specified lands of the United States within the Sabine National Forest, Texas.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Authorizes appropriations during the fiscal year 1975 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces. Prescribes the authorized personnel strength for each active duty component and of the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the Armed Forces and of civilian personnel of the Department of Defense. Prescribes military training student loads. States it to be the policy of the United States to modernize the strike forces of the United States Navy by the construction of nuclear powered major combatant vessels. Calls for an adequate industrial base for the research, development, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of such vessels. Requires that new construction major combatant vessels for the strike forces of the United States Navy authorized subsequent to the date this Act becomes law shall be nuclear powered, except as the Congress shall hereafter provide. Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit to Congress each calendar year a written report regarding the application of nuclear propulsion to major combatant vehicles for such strike forces.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Authorizes the United States Army Band, United States Navy Band, United States Air Force Band, and United States Marine Band to participate in the production of a collection of recordings for commercial sale, in conjunction with the American Revolution Bicentennial. Allows the Secretary of Defense or his designee to enter into such contract or contracts, under such terms as the Secretary or his designee may determine to be in the best interest of the Government, for the production and sale of the album authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer Camp Villere, Louisiana, to the State of Louisiana, for the primary use of the Lousiana National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Military Construction Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Defense to establish or develop military installations and facilities by acquiring, constructing, converting, rehabilitating or installing permanent or temporary public works, appurtenances, utilities, and equipment at designated projects to the extent of the dollar amounts designated by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to construct family housing units and mobile home facilities, after consultation with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the locations designated by this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of funds needed to carry out the provisions of this Act. Reserve Forces Facilities Authorization Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish or develop additional facilities for the Reserve Forces of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air National Guard, the Air Force Reserve, and the Army National Guard.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnishing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to budget and provide for the authorization of appropriations, and the use of those appropriated funds by the Secretary of the Air Force to assist the Civil Air Patrol in providing services in connection with the noncombatant mission of the Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Makes retroactive to February 28, 1961, the Federal Law authorizing, at Government expense, the transportation of housetrailers or mobile dwellings, in place of household and personal effects, of members of the armed forces in a missing status, and the additional movements of dependents and effects, or trailers, of those members in such a status for more than one year.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Repeals provisions of Federal law governing the Armed Forces which provide that: (1) no enlisted member on active duty may engage in a civilian pursuit or business; (2) no Army band or member may be paid for a performance outside the Army post in competition with local civilian musicians: (3) competition by the Navy band with civilian musicians is prohibited; and (4) no Air Force band or member may be paid for a performance outside an air base in competition with local civilian musicians. (Repeals 10 U.S.C. 974, 3634, 6223, and 8634)
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1974
Extends the provisions of Federal law relating to the functions of Federal departments and agencies during a civil defense emergency pursuant to the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to June 30, 1978 (now June 30, 1974).
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Regulates disposal of lost, abandoned, or unclaimed personal property that comes into the custody or control of United States military departments. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 2575(a))
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Department of Defense Supplemental Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations during the fiscal year 1974 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, and other weapons and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces, and authorizes construction at the installations designated in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations during fiscal year 1975 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, and research, development, test and evaluation for the Armed Forces. Prescribes the authorized personnel strength for each active duty component and of the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the Armed Forces and of civilian personnel of the Department of Defense. Authorizes the average military training student loads for each component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Uniformed Services Retirement Modernization Act - States that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of an Armed Force who is discharged or released from active duty and who has completed at least 5 but less than 20 years of service immediately before that discharge or release is entitled to a readjustment payment if: (1) his discharge or release from active duty is involuntary; (2) he was not accepted for an additional enlistment for which he volunteered; or (3) he was not accepted for an additional tour of active duty for which he volunteered. States that such a member is entitled to a readjustment payment equal to 5 percent of the product of twelve times the monthly basic pay to which he was entitled at the time of his discharge or release from active duty multiplied by his years of service. Provides that such provisions do not apply to a member who: (1) is discharged or released from active duty at his request; (2) is released from active duty for training; (3) upon discharge or release from active duty, is immediately eligible for retired or retainer pay based entirely on his military service; or (4) is discharged or released from active duty under conditions which the Secretary concerned determines do not warrant payment of readjustment pay. States that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of an Armed Force who is discharged or released from active duty, and who has completed at least 5, but less than 20, years of service immediately before such discharge or release, is entitled to deferred retired pay at age 60 or a lump-sum payment in lieu. Allows a member to defer an election instead of making it at time of release or discharge, and to elect at any time before age 60. States that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of an Armed Force who is voluntarily discharged or released from active duty, and who has completed immediately before that discharge or release at least 10, but less than 20, years of service is entitled to deferred retired pay computed when he becomes 60 years of age. Sets forth a computation formula for retired pay with physical disability and retired or retainer pay other than with physical disability. Allows a person who is qualified for retirement under more than one provision of law to be entitled to retired pay under the provision that is most favorable to him. Permits a member of an Armed Force who is advanced to a higher grade on the retired list to recompute his monthly retired pay. Entitles a member of an Armed Force who has been retired other than for physical disability, and who while on active duty incurs a physical disability of at least 30 percent for which he would otherwise be eligible for retired pay, upon his release from active duty, to retired pay. Entitles a member of an Armed Force who has become entitled to retired or retainer pay, and who thereafter serves on active duty (other than for training), to recompute his montly retired or retainer pay. Sets forth a method for computing years of service, monthly retired or retainer pay base other than with physical disability, and monthly retired pay base with physical disability. Allows each officer who voluntarily retires with 30 or 40 years of service to retire in the grade in which he was serving at the time of retirement, unless he is otherwise entitled to a higher retired grade. Allows each Regular Navy or Regular Marine Corps officer who retires the highest grade, permanent or temporary, held by him on active duty. Entitles regular female members, if eligible therefor, to readjustment pay and either deferred retired pay or a lump-sum payment. Sets forth retirement provisions for the Coast Guard, Coast and Geodetic Survey commissioned officers, and Public Health Service officers. Requires the monthly retired or retainer pay base of a member of a uniformed service who, within the 12-month period after the effective date of this Act, is retired, transferred to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, or retired and advanced to a higher grade on the retired list to be computed under this Act. States that a member or former member of the uniformed services who is retired under any provision of law, or transferred to the Fleet Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, on the effective date of this Act, shall have his monthly retired or retainer pay computed on the basis of the rates of basic pay in effect on the day before the effective date of this Act. Provides that enactment of this Act does not reduce or increase the monthly retired or retainer pay to which a member or former member of a uniformed service was entitled on the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Defense Officer Personnel Management Act - States that the total strength of an armed force (other than the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy) in members on active duty is as authorized annually by law. States that the Secretary of Defense may, for any armed force except the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, prescribe the total strength in officers on active duty; and that the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe the numbers of any other category of members of an armed force under his jurisdiction authorized to be on active duty. Sets forth the number of commissioned officers who may serve in each grade . Provides that in time of war, or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after December 19, 1950, the President may suspend the operation of such provisions related to officer strength. States that the Secretary of the military department concerned shall, whenever the needs of the service require, prescribe the number of commissioned officers, that shall be maintained in each of the grades of major through colonel or lieutenant commander through captain (Navy). Provides that original appointments in commissioned grades in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Establishes basic qualifications for commissioned officers. Prescribes procedures to determine service credit for officers. Requires that at least once a year and at such other times as the needs of the service require, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall convene selection boards to recommend for promotion to the next higher grade officers on the active-duty list in each grade from first lieutenant through lieutenant colonel in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, and from lieutenant (junior grade) through commander in the Navy. Sets forth the required composition and procedures of such boards. States that such a board may recommend as best qualified for promotion in each competitive category 15 percent of the total in each such category that the board is authorized to recommend for promotion to the grade concerned. Establishes time-in-rank requirements for promotion. Sets forth requirements and procedures for placing officers' names on the active-duty list in various competitive categories. Allows the President or the Senate to remove names from lists of selectees for promotion. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned, under regulations prescribed by him to discharge any regular officer on the active-duty list who has less than 5 years of active commissioned service; and requires him to discharge a regular officer serving on the active-duty list in the grade of second lieutenant or ensign who is found not qualified for promotion to the next higher grade. States that officers who have failed of selection for promotion to the next higher grade for the second time, and whose name is not on a recommended list for promotion shall be honorable discharged or retired. Provides that the Secretary of the military department concerned may defer retirement or separation if, because of unavoidable circumstances, evaluation of his physical condition and determination of his entitlement to retirement or separation for physical disability require hospitalization or medical observation that cannot be completed before the date he would otherwise be required to retire or be separated. States that the selection and promotion of medical and dental officers to grades below brigadier general or rear admiral shall be based on the needs of the service as determined by the Secretary of the military department concerned. Provides that in time of war, or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after December 19, 1950, the President may suspend such provisions relating to promotion, separation, and retirement. Entitles officers discharged under this Act to readjustment or retired pay. Requires boards of review, each composed of three or more officers, to be convened by the Secretary of the military department concerned, at such times as he may prescribe, to review the records of cases of regular commissioned officers recommended for removal from active duty by boards of inquiry. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to remove an officer of a regular component of an armed force from active duty if his removal is recommended by a board of review under this Act. Allows each officer under consideration for removal to be: (1) notified in writing of the reasons, at least 30 days before the hearing of the case by a board of inquiry; (2) allowed reasonable time, as determined by the board of inquiry, to prepare his defense; and (3) allowed to appear in person and be represented by counsel. Sets forth how rank shall be determined for commissioned officers. States that a regular commissioned officer is not eligible for voluntary retirement until he completes at least 6 months in the grade in which he is to be retired. Requires that each board convened to consider officers in the Navy Medical Corps, the Judge Advocate General's Corps, the Supply Corps, the Chaplain Corps, the Civil Engineer Corps, the Dental Corps, the Nurse Corps, or the Medical Service Corps shall consist of officers in the corps concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Provides that the sale of livestock sold as a result of flood shall be treated as an involuntary conversion eligible for replacement or nonrecognition of gain treatment under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
States that the further expenses of the investigations and studies to be conducted pursuant to H. Res. 185, 93rd Congress by the Committee on Armed Services, acting as a whole or by subcommittee, not to exceed $150,000, including expenditures: (1) for the employment of investigators, attorneys, and clerical, stenographic, and other assistants; (2) for the procurement of services of individual consultants or organizations thereof; and (3) for specialized training of committee staff personnel performing professional and nonclerical functions; shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House of Representatives. States that not to exceed $9,000 of the total amount provided by this resolution may be used to procure the temporary or intermittent services of individual consultants or organizations thereof, and not to exceed $2,000 of such amount may be used to provide for specialized training.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1973
Provides that under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army, whenever there is a reduction in the actual personnel strength of the Army, a commissioned officer in a regular grade below major may be discharged, without his consent, if that discharge accords with the recommendation of a board of officers appointed by an authority designated by the Secretary to determine the officers to be continued on active duty. Provides that a regular officer who is within two years of becoming eligible for retired pay may not be involuntarily discharged under this section before he becomes eligible for that pay, unless his discharge is approved by the Secretary. States that this Act expires two years after that date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1973
Expresses the policy of Congress that the fishing industry be afforded all support necessary to have it strengthened, and all steps be taken to provide adequate protection for the coastal fisheries against excessive foreign fishing.
United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1973
Authorizes increased production of petroleum from the Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve at a rate to help insure that the needs of national defense are met, but not to exceed the maximum efficient rate in accordance with sound engineering and economic principles. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of the production herein authorized by means of sales effected by competitive bid. Provides that full and equal opportunity for acquisition of the oil shall be accorded to all interested companies, including major and independent oil refineries alike. Establishes the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account. States that funds in the Account shall be available for the expenses of: (1) production, including preparation for production, as authorized by this resolution and as may hereafter be authorized; (2) all capital costs necessary for facilities both within and outside the reserve incident to production and delivery of crude petroleum; and (3) exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 5 November 1973
Authorizes the printing of the proceedings in the House Armed Service Committee unveiling the portrait of the late Honorable Philip J. Philbin. Provides that 1,000 copies in addition to the usual number be printed for the use of the committee.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1973
Authorizes the Clerk of the House of Representatives to make the following correction in the enrollment of the bill (H.R. 9286) to authorize appropriations during the fiscal year 1974 for the procurement of weapons and research for the Armed Forces, and to prescribe the authorized personnel strength for each active duty component and of the Selected Reserve of each reserve component of the Armed Forces, and the military training student loads by adding the following provision: Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon enactment of this Act, no funds heretofore or hereafter appropriated may be obligated or expended to finance the involvement of United States military forces in hostilities in or over or from off the shores of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia, unless specifically authorized hereafter by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1973
Provides that each regular officer on the active list of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Air Force serving under either a temporary or permanent appointment in the grade of: (1) lieutenant colonel or commander (Navy) who has failed of selection for temporary or permanent promotion to the grade of colonel or captain (Navy) two or more times and whose name is not on a promotion list; or (2) colonel or captain (Navy) who has served at least four years in grade and whose name is not on a promotion list; may be considered for continuation on the active list by selection boards. Directs the Secretary of the Military department concerned to: (1) whenever the needs of the service require, convene selection boards to recommend certain officers for continuation on the active list in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; and (2) prescribe regulations for the administration of this chapter.
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