United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Safe Schools Act - Authorizes appropriations for local educational agencies throughout the nation for providing security for children, employees, and facilities. Provides that not in excess of 3 percent of such funds be set aside for schools in Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and to the Secretary of the Interior for shcools operated for Indian children. Provides that the remainder of such appropriations be allotted to other local educational agencies. Provides that any local educational agency may apply for such grant under this Act with the consent of the appropriate State educational agency. Provides that such grant shall be employed toward the provision of professional or other staff members; the provision of services to meet the special needs of students and employees; community activities; provision of information to parents and other members of the general public; planning and evaluation activities; acquisition, installation, modernization, or replacement of appropriate equipment and supplies; and minor alterations of school plants and facilities. Provides that no funds authorized under this Act shall be used to support the introduction, presence, or use of firearms, other weapons, or chemical agents in any school.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Voluntary Military Special Pay Act - Sets forth special pay rates of officers of the Army or Navy in the Medical or Dental Corps, officers of the Air Force designated as medical officers or dental officers, and medical and dental officers of the Public Health Service. Authorizes a member of a uniformed service who has completed at least 21 months of active duty, who has a critical military skill, and who reenlists in the service to be paid an incentive amount, not to exceed six months of the basic pay to which he was entitled at the time of his discharge or release, multiplied by the number of years of additional obligated service, not to exceed 6 years, or $15,000, whichever is the lesser amount. Provides that a person who enlists in an armed force for a period of at least 3 years, or who extends his initial period of active duty in that armed force to a total of at least 3 years, may be paid an incentive amount of up to $3,000. Grants special incentive pay, not to exceed $12,000 annually, for officers of the uniformed services in critical health professions, who execute written agreements to remain on continuous active duty for a specified number of years. Requires an annual report on this special pay program to the House and Senate Committees on Armed Services. Authorizes special incentive pay, not to exceed $4,000 annually, for officers of armed forces who agree to serve on continuous active duty in a critical shortage specialty for a period of between one to six years. Provides for special incentive pay at specified rates for specified periods for participants in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of an armed force. Sets forth conditions participants must meet for eligibility. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 302, 308, 308a, 311, 313, 314)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Authorizes additional training or education for veterans who are no longer eligible for training, in order to restore employability lost due to technological changes. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1503(c))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides that Vietnam era verterans shall have the same basic entitlement to vocational rehabilitation as that available to veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1502(a))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Makes the children of veterans having a service-connected disability rated at not less than 50 percent eligible for benefits under the war orphans' educational assistance program. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1701(a)(1),1742; Add 380 U.S.C. 1732(d))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides that eligibility requirements for Vietnam era veterans in need of vocational rehabilitation on account of a service-connected disability shall conform with those afforded World War II and Korean conflict veterans. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1502 (a))
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
National Transportation Act - Declares the Congressional finding that the development and implementation of a balanced national transportation system embracing all modes of transportation which will contribute to the provision of rapid, safe, efficient, and convenient movement of persons and goods is essential to the general welfare, the economic growth, and the stability and security of the Nation. Title I: National_Transportation - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to develop a comprehensive plan for the effective implementation of national transportation policies. Provides that such plan shall include recommendations as to: the most effective utilization of money; the reorganization of governmental functions relating to transportation; and proposed legislation. Directs the Secretary to consult with regional, state, and local transportation agencies in developing the comprehensive plan. Provides that until Congress approves the utilization provisions for the Transportation Fund, transitional authority is granted to make allocations for the Trust Fund to highways, aviation and urban mass transportation programs. Title II: Transportation Trust Fund Revenue Act - Creates a Transportation Trust Fund which will be available for expenditures in accordance with the comprehensive national transportation plan to be approved by the Congress. Authorizes the sale and manner of sale of obligations which the Trust Fund may acquire and requires the interest earned by the Trust Fund to be added to form a part of such Fund. Authorizes the Treasury to make advances to the Trust Fund to be repaid when receipts catch up with expenditures. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the Trust Fund, and (after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation) to report to the Congress not later than the first day of March of each year on the financial conditions and the results of the operations of the Trust Fund during the current and next ensuing fiscal year, up to and including the fiscal year l982. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the Trust Fund to the Treasury amounts equivalent to credits allowed under the Internal Revenue Code relating to gasoline and lubricating oil and to the land and water conservation fund amounts equivalent to taxes received on or after January 1, 1965 with respect to special motor fuels and gasoline used in motorboats.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Removes the percentage limitations on the amount of urban mass transportation grant assistance which may be available in any one State under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. (Repeals 49 U.S.C. 1611)
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State education agencies to enable them to develop and carry out program to provide, through the use of students to institutions of higher education, tutoring and instructional assistance, under the supervision of a qualified teacher, for homebound handicapped children who, though able to benefit from preschool, elementary, or secondary education, are prevented by their handicaps from attending school. Requires local educational institutions that apply for funds under this program to give special consideration to veterans qualified for vocational financial need. Requires that the compensation for participating college students shall be between the Federal minimum wage set by the Commissioner and the maximum wage set by the Commissioner. Requires that the aim of such program shall be to integrate the handicapped into society, and to avoid the development of a segregated, permanent system of educcation for the handicapped. Provides that the Commissioner shall make grants under this Act to State educational agencies on the merits of their proporsal to him which shall be submitted on such application forms and under such guidelines as he shall prescribe. Authorizes $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and necessary funds for fiscal years 1975 and 1976, to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires the Commissioner to allocate the first 25 percent of such funds to each State in proporation to the ratio that the number of children aged three to twenty-one in the State bears to the number of such children in all the States. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State education agencies to enable them to develop and carry out programs to provide, through the use of students in institutions of higher education, tutoring and instructional assistance, under the supervision of a qualified teacher, for homebound handicapped children who, though able to benefit from preschool, elementary, or secondary education, are prevented by their handicaps from attending school. Requires local educational institutions that apply for funds under this program to give special consideration to veterans qualified for vocational rehabilitation, and to students with greater financial need. Requires that the compensation for participating college students shall be between the Federal minimum wage set by the Commissioner and the maximum wage set by the Commissioner. Requires that the aim of such program shall be to integrate the handicapped into society, and to avoid the development of a segregated, permanent system of education for the handicapped. Provides that the Commissioner shall make grants under this Act to State educational agencies on the merits of their proposals to him which shall be submitted on such application forms and under such guidelines as he shall prescribe. Authorizes $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and necessary funds for fiscal years 1975, and 1976, to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires the Commissioner to allocate the first 25 percent of such funds to each State in proportion to the ratio that the number of children aged three to twenty-one in the State bears to the number of such children in all the States.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1973
Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to provide for participation by the Federal Government with State and local governments, private individuals, and other interested persons in a comprehensive program to prevent further damage to the lands, waters, and natural resources of the Nation from unregulated or inadequately regulated surface and underground coal mining operations, to stabilize lands damaged by surface coal mining, to promote an effective continuing conservation land-use and management program for the coal mining industry, and to assist any worker adversely affected by this Act. Provides that this Act shall be administered by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Provides that each coal mining operation, the products of which enter interstate commerce, or the operations or products of which indirectly or directly affect interstate commerce, and each operator of such mining operation, shall be subject to this Act. Title I: Environmental Protection Coal Mining Limitation - Provides that no surface coal mining shall hereafter be conducted in any area of the national wildlife refuge system, the national park system, or the national forest system. States that no underground coal mining shall be permitted in any designated wilderness area or in any area under study as a wilderness area. Provides that no operator shall begin or renew any surface coal mining operation in any State on or after the effective date of this Act. States that no operator shall conduct contour surface coal mining operations in any State on and after the effective date of this Act. Provides that any operator who, on the effective date of this Act, is actively carrying out surface coal mining operations, other than contour surface coal mining, may continue to do so as provided in this Act if such operator obtains a permit under this title within six months after such date, and if the Administrator determines that such mining is not in violation of, or will not result in any violation of, any provision of the Clean Air Act, and does not cause, or will not result in, irrevocable or lasting injury to the public health or welfare, or damaging, flooding, or destruction of agricultural land, or dislocation or disturbance of surface or subsurface streams, or destruction of, or damange to, historic values, or destruction or damage to valuable recreational or wildlife areas, or destruction or damage of contiguous areas. States that, within two months after the effective date of this Act, no operator shall engage in surface or underground coal mining operations if he has not applied for a permit under the provisions of this Act. Sets forth the requirements for obtaining such permits. Provides that no permit application shall be approved unless the Administrator finds that the applicable requirements of this title and the rules and regulations adopted thereunder will be observed, and that, in the case of a surface coal mining application, there is probable cause to believe that the stabilization of the area of affected land can be achieved. Provides that a stabilization plan shall accompany every application for a permit for surface coal mining and be made available to the public and be approved in the same manner as a permit. Provides that after a permit application has been approved for surface coal mining but before such a permit is issued, the applicant shall file with the Administrator a bond for performance payable to the United States and conditioned on the operator faithfully performing all the requirements of this Act. Creates in the Department of the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Coal Mine Lands Stabilization Fund. Authorizes to be appropriated to the fund initially the sum of $100,000,000, and such other sums as may thereafter be appropriated by the Congress. Provides that moneys in the fund may be expended by the Chief of the Corps of Engineers to acquire by purchase, donation, exchange, or otherwise land which has been affected by surface coal mining operations, has not been fully stabilized prior to the effective date of this Act, and has been abandoned or is declared inactive as determined by him. Authorizes the Chief of the Corps of Engineers to stabilize directly or by contract the lands so acquired. Provides for renewal of licenses issued under this Act. Requires every surface coal mining operator to stabilize the land affected by his mining. Sets forth the required standards for such stabilization. Restricts dumping and the use of explosives on operations authorized under this Act. Requires each mining operator to report to the Administrator on the amount of coal produced, the number of employees, the days worked, the number and location of acres of land mined, number and location of acres of the land stabilized, and a description of the progress made toward the completion of the reclamation plan. Sets forth conditions for the release of bonds filed under this Act. Provides for the periodic inspection of operations authorized under this Act. Allows any person to commence a civil action on his own behalf: (1) against any person, including the United States, and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, who is alleged to be in violation of this title; or (2) against the Administrator and the Chief of the Corps of Engineers where there is alleged a failure of the Administrator or the Chief to perform any act or duty under this title which is not discretionary with the Administrator or the Chief. Provides that no Federal agency may enter into any contract for the procurement of goods, materials, and services with any operator who is convicted of any offense under this title to perform such contract at any coal mining operation at which the violation which gave rise to such conviction occurred. States that no person shall discharge or in any other way discriminate against or cause to be discharged or discriminated against any employee of a surface mine or any authorized representative thereof by reason of the fact that such employee or representative has: (1) notified the Administrator or his authorized representative of any alleged violation or danger, (2) has filed instituted, or caused to be filed, or (2) instituted, any proceeding under this Act, or (3) testified or is about to testify in any proceeding resulting from the administration or enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to apply to the appropriate United States district court for injunctions restraining or enforcing compliance with the provisions of this title. Authorizes actions for damages (including attorney fees) by persons injured by violations of this title. Provides for a civil penalty of not to exceed $10,000 for each violation of this title. Prohibits States from enacting mining standards that are less stringent than those established by this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out this title. Title II: Assistance to Workers - Provides that payment of a readjustment allowance shall be made to a worker adversely affected by this Act who applies for such allowance for any week of unemployment which begins after the thirtieth day after the date of the enactment of this Act. Provides that such allowance shall be an amount equal to 90 percent of his average weekly wage or to 90 percent of the average weekly manufacturing wage, whichever is greater. Provides for a diminishing of such allowance to the extent that it is supplied through other provisions of law. States that adversely affected workers shall be afforded, where appropriate, the testing, counseling, training, and placement services provided for under any Federal law. Provides for a relocation allowance for any adversely affected worker who is the head of a family and who has been totally separated. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this title.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that no person shall manufacture for sale, sell, offer for sale, or introduce or deliver for introduction in interstate commerce any nonreturnable container of glass, plastic, or metal or any combination thereof, with respect to which no reasonable refundable money deposit is required from the consumer for use in packaging or marketing any beverage for human consumption. Provides that whoever violates this Act shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Consumer Protection Agency Act - Title I: Office of Consumer Affairs - Creates an Office of Consumer Affairs within the Executive Office of the President. Provides that the office shall be headed by a Director and a Deputy Director, both of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Gives the Director powers to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Director to transmit to Congress and the President in January of each year a report of the activities of the Office during the preceding year including a summary of consumer complaints and recommendations for additional legislation deemed necessary to protect the interests of U.S. consumers. Provides that it shall be the function of the Office to: (1) coordinate the programs and activities of all Federal agencies relating to the interests of consumers in order to achieve effectiveness, avoid duplications and inconsistencies, and to promote the purposes of this title; (2) encourage and assist in the development and implementation of consumer programs and activities in the Federal Government; (3) assure that the interests of consumers are taken into consideration by appropriate Federal agencies both in the formulation of policies with respect to consumers and in the operation of programs that may affect consumer interests; (4) cooperate with and, when requested, provide assistance to the Administrator of the Consumer Protection Agency in carrying out its functions under title II of this Act; (5) advise and make recommendations to all Federal agencies with respect to general policy matters concerning the effectiveness of programs and activities relating to the interests of consumers; (6) submit recommendations to the Congress and the President on the means by which programs and activities relating to the interests of consumers can be improved; (7) conduct conferences and surveys concerning the needs, interests, and problems of consumers which are not duplicative in significant degree to similar activities conducted by other Federal agencies; (8) encourage, initiate, coordinate, and participate in consumer education and counseling programs (including credit counseling); (9) cooperate with and give technical assistance to State and local governments in the promotion and protection of consumer interests; (10) cooperate with and assist private enterprise in the promotion and protection of consumer interests; (11) publish and distribute in a Consumer Register material which will include notice of Federal hearings, proposed and final rules and orders, and other useful information, translated from its technical form into language which is understandable by the public; and (12) keep the appropriate committees of the Congress fully and currently informed of all its activities. Title II: Consumer Protection Agency - Establishes as an independent agency within the executive branch of the Government the Consumer Protection Agency, headed by an Administrator and a Deputy Administrator, both of whom shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Gives the Agency powers to carry out the objective of this Act. States that the functions of the Agency shall be to: (1) represent the interests of consumers before Federal agencies and courts to the extent authorized by this title; (2) encourage and support research, studies, and testing leading to a better understanding of consumer products and improved products, services, and consumer information; (3) submit recommendations annually to the Congress and the President on measures to improve the operation of the Federal Government in the protection and promotion of the consumer interest; (4) publish and distribute material developed pursuant to carrying out its responsibilities under this Act which will inform consumers of matters of interest to them; (5) conduct conferences, surveys, and investigations, including economic surveys, concerning the needs, interests, and problems of consumers which are not duplicative in significant degree to similar activities conducted by other Federal agencies; (6) keep the appropriate committees of Congress fully and currently informed of all its activities; and (7) cooperate with and, when requested, provide assistance to the Director of the Office in the carrying out of his functions.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Establishes, under the Secretary of Commerce, the United States Metric Conversion Coordinating Commission consisting of nine members representing business, labor, education, science, and technology. Authorizes members of the Commission to be compensated at the rate of $100 a day. Charges the Commission with the responsibility of implementing with the voluntary participation of every interested sector in the United States the recommendations issued by the United States metric study including: (1) that the United States change to the metric system; (2) that such change be done through a coordinated program; (3) that there be established detailed plans and time tables be worked out; (4) that priority be given to educational programs in elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher learning designed to enable Americans to think in metric terms; (5) that appropriate representatives of American enterprise participate in international standards; (6) that changeover costs shall lie where they fall; and (7) that the target date for full conversion shall be January 1, 1984. Directs each agency of the Federal Government to convert to the international metric system and provides that such system shall be the sole and official system of weights in the United States by January 1, 1984. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Establishes, under the Secretary of Commerce, the United States Metric Conversion Coordinating Commission consisting of nine members representing business, labor, education, science, and technology. Authorizes members of the Commission to be compensated at the rate of $100 a day. Charges the Commission with the responsibility of implementing with the voluntary participation of every interested sector in the United States the recommendations issued by the United States metric study including: (1) that the United States change to the metric system; (2) that such change be done through a coordinated program; (3) that there be established detailed plans and time tables be worked out; (4) that priority be given to educational programs in elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher learning designed to enable Americans to think in metric terms; (5) that appropriate representatives of American enterprise participate in international standards; (6) that changeover costs shall lie where they fall; and (7) that the target date for full conversion shall be January 1, 1984. Directs each agency of the Federal Government to convert to the international metric system and provides that such system shall be the sole and official system of weights in the United States by January 1, 1984. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that nothing in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 shall be construed to prevent any State from regulating concurrently with the Atomic Energy Commission the discharge or disposal of radioactive effluents from the site of a utilization or production facility in such State if: (1) the requirements or standards imposed by such State are for the protection of the public health and safety; and (2) action permitted or tolerated by such State with respect to the discharge or disposal of such effluents is not specifically prohibited by the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Creates an Atlantic Union delegation, composed of 18 eminent citizens, which is authorized to organize and participate in a convention made up of similar delegations from such North Atlantic Treaty parliamentary democracies as desire to join in the enterprise, and other parliamentary democracies the convention may invite, to explore the possibility of agreement on: (1) a declaration that the goal of their peoples is to transform their present relationship into a more effective unity based on Federal principles; (2) a timetable for the transition by stages to this goal; and (3) a commission to facilitate advancement toward such stages. Requires the convention's recommendations to be submitted to the Congress. Provides that not more than half of the delegation's members shall be from one political party, and that 6 of the delegates shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, after consultation with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 6 by the President of the Senate, after consultation with the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and 6 by the President of the United States. Allows all members of the delegation to speak and vote individually in the convention. Authorizes the delegation in carrying out the purposes of this Act: (1) to seek to arrange an international convention and such other meetings and conferences as it may deem necessary; (2) to employ and fix the compensation within prescribed limits of such temporary professional and clerical staff as it deems necessary; and (3) to pay not in excess of $100,000 toward such expenses as may be involved as a consequence of holding any meetings or conferences authorized by this joint resolution. Authorizes not to exceed $200,000 to be appropriated to the Department of State to carry out the purposes of this resolution, payments to be made upon vouchers approved by the Chairman of the delegation subject to the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the obligation and expenditure of appropriated funds. Requires the delegation to make semiannual reports to Congress accounting for all expenditures and such other information as it deems appropriate. Provides that the delegation shall cease to exist at the expiration of the three-year period beginning on the date of the approval of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides for the establishment of a Special Cost-of-Living Pay Schedule by the Civil Service Commission containing increased pay rates for Federal employees in heavily populated cities and metropolitan areas having a population of 500,000 or more to offset the increased cost of living. (Adds 5 U.S.C. 5332a)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Allows a tax deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, for expenses incurred by a taxpayer in making repairs and improvements to his residence. Limits such tax deduction to $1,000. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 218)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
National Urban Bond Act - Creates a body corporate known as the National Urban Corporation which shall be in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Directs the Corporation to issue and sell to the public on the open market, obligations to be known as national urban bonds in order to obtain funds to carry out the purposes of this Act. Makes it the function of the Corporation to undertake and carry out, by providing assistance by means of loans, the construction or rehabilitation without delay of the housing and related facilities needed to accommodate low- and moderate-income individuals and families in ares of need of the United States. Authorizes the Corporation to impose upon any organization receiving such assistance a special charge in an amount not exceeding one-half of 1 percent per annum on the amount of the principal obligation of the loan or other assistance outstanding and repayable at any time, without taking into account deliquent payments or prepayments. Establishes a revolving Urban Bond Fund which shall be available: (1) for making loans and providing other assistance under such programs; and (2) for the payment of principal and interest on outstanding national urban bonds. Sets forth the general powers of the Corporation. Specifies that appropriations shall be authorized to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Corporation to report on its activities to the President and Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Newsmen's Privilege Act - Provides that no person shall be required by any court, grand jury, agency, department or commission of the United States or by either House of or any committee of Congress to disclose any confidential information or the source thereof which is received or obtained by him in his capacity as a newsman. Makes exceptions to this privilege for any information which has at any time been published, broadcast, or otherwise made public by the person claiming the privilege. Makes further exceptions: (1) for the source of any allegedly defamatory information in any case where the defendant, in a civil action for defamation, asserts a defense based on the source of such information; and (2) for the source of any information concerning the details of any grand jury or other proceeding which was required to be secret under the laws of the United States. Makes provisions for applications in district courts for orders divesting this non-disclosure privilege by persons seeking the information. Provides that the order shall be granted if the court, after hearing the parties, determines there is substantial evidence that disclosure of the information is required to prevent a threat to human life, or espionage, or of foreign aggression.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Correctional Services Improvement Act - Title I: Correctional Centers and Services - Authorizes the Attorney General to construct and operate correctional centers for specified criminal offenders, providing such services and correctional programs as educational, vocational, and recreational programs, medical, psychiatric, and dental care, and counseling. Authorizes the Attorney General to contract with State and local authorities of the region in which a center is constructed for the use of the center's facilities, and to transfer title of such center to a State, without payment to the United States, after construction of the center and a determination that the center is operating efficiently and that the facilities will be available on a contractual basis for Federal offenders or other transferring States. Requires the center to be operated as such for at least twenty years after the transfer, and gives the United States the right of reverter in the event of breach of conditions of transfer. Creates a Federal Prison Review Board to: (1) prescribe minimum standards concerning the construction, operation, personnel tranining, and programs of jails and of correctional services owned or operated by a State or political subdivision in which persons accused or convicted under laws of the United States are confined or treated; (2) conduct subsequent periodic public hearings to review the extent of compliance with existing standards and the need for new standards; and (3) periodically inspect correctional facilities for the purpose of determining compliance with existing standards and the need for new standards. Authorizes the Attorney General to contract with appropriate State or local officials to pay the annual costs of implementing the prescribed standards, including capital expenditures for improvements and innovations in facilities. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the construction and improvement of centers as prescribed by this title. Title II: Coordination of Federal Correctional Activities - Creates a Federal Corrections Coordinating Council, to: (1) issue guidelines for the operation of the Bureau of Prisons, the Board of parole, the Youth Division of the Board of parole, and the Division of Probation of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to improve the administration of criminal justice and assure coordination of policies respecting the disposition, treatment, and correction of all persons convicted of crime; (2) consider measures and suggest studies to promote the prevention of crime, delinquency and criminal recidivism; and (3) establish a program of continuous research and experimentation to develop more effective methods for the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders. Provides that a court may require a person as conditions of probation, and that the Board of Parole may require a parolee, to reside in and participate in the program of a residential community treatment center, and to pay such costs incident to residence as deemed appropriate. Title III: Federal Corrections Institute - Establishes a Federal Corrections Institute to provide a coordinating center for the collection and dissemination of useful data regarding the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders and to provide training for representatives of Federal, State, and local law enforcement officers, judges and judicial personnel, probation and parole personnel, correctional personnel, welfare workers, and other persons, including lay personnel, connected with the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders. Authorizes the Institute: (a) to serve as an information bank by collecting systemically the data obtained from studies and research by public and private agencies on criminal behavior and recidivism, including, but not limited to, programs for prevention of crime and recidivism, training of corrections personnel, and rehabilitation and treatment of criminal offenders; (b) to publish data in forms useful to individuals, agencies, and organizations concerned with the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders; (c) to disseminate pertinent data and studies to individuals, agencies, and organizations concerned with prisoners, parolees, probationers, and other criminal offenders; (d) to devise and conduct in various geographical locations, seminars and workshops providing continuing studies for persons engaged in working directly with prisoners, parolees, probationers, and other criminal offenders; (e) to devise and conduct a training program of short-term instruction in the latest methods of treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders and prevention of recidivism for law enforcement officers, judges and judicial personnel, probation and parole personnel, correctional personnel, welfare workers, and other persons, including lay personnel, connected with the treatment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders; and (f) to develop technical training teams to aid in the development of training programs within the several States and with the State and local agencies which work directly with prisoners, parolees, probationers, and other offenders. Places the overall supervision with regard to the policy and operations of the Institute in an Advisory Commission. Title IV: Eligibility for Parole; Youth Corrections Act Amendments - Provides that a Federal prisoner, other than a juvenile delinquent or a commited youth offender, wherever confined and serving a definite term or terms of over one hundred and eighty days, whose record shows that he has observed the rules of the institution in which he is confined, may be released on parole at such time as the Board of Parole may determine, except as provided in section 4208 of title 18, United States Code. Provides that a youth offender shall be conditionally released under supervision on or before the expiration of two-thirds of the maximum term authorized by law for the offense or offenses of which he stands convicted and shall be unconditionally discharged on or before the expiration of that maximum term, but in any event the conditional release shall occur within four years from the date of his conviction and the unconditional discharge within six years from the date of his conviction. Title V: Commitment of Dangerous Persons Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity - Provides that, whenever any person is found not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the commission of the offense, the United States attorney, if he has reasonable cause to believe that such person if released unconditionally would constitute a danger to himself or others because of his mental condition, shall move for a judicial determination of the dangerousness of such person in the court in which the criminal proceedings were conducted. Makes provisions for this judicial determination, and for the commitment or release under custody of the Surgeon General of such person. (Adds U.S.C. 4021-4025; 5041-5048; 4249; Amends 18 U.S.C. 5002, 3651, 202-4203, 4208, 5034)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, a full annuity for any individual (without regard to his age) who has completed thirty years of railroad service. (Amends 45 U.S.C. 228a)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Antihijacking Act - Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, he may suspend the right of any air carrier and foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce, to and from that foreign nation as well as between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Provides that after June 30, 1973, no air carrier or foreign air carrier shall operate an aircraft in air transportation unless all passengers boarding that aircraft in the United States, and all baggage carried aboard the aircraft, shall have been inspected by means of a metal detection device or by an X-ray device immediately prior to boarding and have not been found to carry or contain an unauthorized device or weapon of any kind. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1514, 1421)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 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 January 1973
Provides that individuals be apprised of records concerning them which are maintained by Government agencies. Requires each agency to notify such individuals by mail of such records, maintain an accurate record of the names of all persons inspecting such records, refrain from disclosing the record without permission, permit any individual to inspect his record and permit the individual to supplement the information which he deems pertinent to his record. (Adds 5 U.S.C. 552a) Excludes from the provisions of this Act those records required by executive order to be kept secret, investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes, and agency memorandums not available to a party in litigation with an agency.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code, to tenants of houses or apartments for their proportionate share of the taxes and interest paid by their landlord. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 218)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, that blood donations shall be considered as charitable contributions deductible from gross income in an amount equal to $25 for each pint donated. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 170(i))
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Public and Private Education Assistance Act - Title I: Payments to States for Public Elementary and Secondary Education - Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to make available to the States funds from the Public Education Trust Fund established by this Act for the use by the States for expenditures to equalize public education within each State. Designates the Secretary as the trustee of the Public Education Trust Fund. Authorizes appropriations for deposit in the Fund of $2,250,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973, and $2,250,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress annually on the operation and status of the Fund during the preceding fiscal year. Provides for standards which the States must establish in order to qualify for payments under this title. Provides that no person in the United States shall on the ground of race, color, national origin, or sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity funded in whole or in part with funds made available under this title. Title II: Credit Against the Individual Income Tax for Tuition Paid for the Elementary or Secondary Education of Dependents - Allows as a credit under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 the amount paid by an individual to any private non-profit elementary or secondary school during the taxable year for a dependent's education according to the following limitations: (1) 100 percent of such tuition, or (2) $200, whichever is the lesser. Defines the terms used in this title. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Department of Science and Technology Act - Establishes a Department of Science and Technology which consolidates under civilian authority all existing resources of the Federal Government devoted to science and technology. Transfers functions from the National Science Foundation, Atomic Energy Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Bureau of Standards, Department of Defense, the Smithsonian Institution, and Department of State to the new Department. Provides for the development of a national science plan to coordinate government acitivities in this area. Calls for continuing studies to determine other programs to be added to the department. Directs the Secretary to establish a Congressional liaison office and any advisory committees he may deem necessary in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 101)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that the Secretary of the Interior acting through the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, shall establish as marine sanctuaries those portions of the navigable waters above the Outer Continental Shelf as defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, and those portions of the submerged lands beneath the navigable waters and beneath the waters above the Outer Continental Shelf which he determines should be preserved and protected as necessary to a balanced marine ecology and in particular those waters and submerged lands areas necessary in connection with the mating or spawning of species of fish, shellfish, and marine animal and plant life. Prescribes a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each offense for discharging any sewage or other waste into any of the waters or submerged lands designated as a marine sanctuary under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Community Preschool Opportunity Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants of up to 90 percent of the costs of approved programs for early education of children between the ages of three and five. Requires States desiring to participate in this grant program to establish community preschool districts and to establish a program which meets the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $2,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $3,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $4,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $7,000,000,000 for each subsequent fiscal year to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Excludes from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code, the first $750 of interest received on deposits in thrift institutions. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 123)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Treasury to provide for the striking of medals in commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik) in recognition of his great contribution to astronomy and the advancement of science.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Creates a Federal Prison Review Board under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to consist of five members to be appointed by the President. Provides that the Board shall have a Director to be appointed by the Board. Gives the Board the duty of periodically revising minimum standards relating to: (A) the construction, operation, and administration of correctional institutions and facilities, and (B) the training of personnel and the implementation of probation, parole, counseling, medical, psychiatic, vocational, and other rehabiliative programs with respect to correctional programs and practices. Directs the Board to act in consultation with the Attorney General. Directs the Board to conduct such studies and investigations, consult with such Federal, State, and local personnel, and hold such hearings at such times and places as it deems desirable for the purpose of establishing and periodically reviewing such minimum standards and for the purposes of determining the extent to which such standards are being implemented. Provides that the Administration shall not make any grant to any State planning agency, unit of general local government or combination of such units, unless the applicant: (1) provides satisfactory assurances that such grant will be employed to implement the minimum standards and (2) demonstrates that it has undertaken to implement such standards to the satisfaction of the Board. Provides that no person held under the authority of any Act of Congress shall be imprisoned in any State institution under this Act unless the Federal Prison Review Board certifies that such institution is satisfactorily undertaking to implement the minimum standards established by the Board.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Directs the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp during the calendar year 1973 in commemoration of the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik), the founder of modern astronomy. States that such stamp shall be of denomination and of such design as the Postmaster shall determine.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Commission on Penal Reform Act - Establishes a Commission on Penal Reform to make a comprehensive investigation of existing Federal and State prison facilities and to make recommendations for improving correctional facilities. Authorizes seven members to be appointed by the President, four Members of the Senate to be appointed by the President pro tempore, and four Members of the House to be appointed by the Speaker. Requires that not more than two Members of the Senate be of the same political party. Authorizes the Commission to appoint a director, and such other personnel as it deems desirable. Authorizes the head of any Federal agency, upon request, to detail personnel to the Commission. Allows the Commission to hold hearings, take testimony, receive evidence, and administer oaths and affirmations. Requires the head of any department or agency of the United States to submit, upon request of the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Commission, such information as may be necessary for the Commission to carry out the Act. Empowers the Commission to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses. Provides that no person shall be excused from attending or testifying or from producing evidence on the ground that the evidence or testimony may tend to incriminate him but that no person shall be prosecuted or subject to penalty or forfeiture on account of any testimony which he is compelled, after claiming his privilege, to give or produce. Requires the Commission to submit to the President and to each House of Congress an interim report not later than six months after the enactment of the Act and to submit a final report not later than twelve months after the enactment of the Act. Terminates the Commission thirty days after its submission of the final report.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Requires the Federal Communications Commission to prescribe regulations: (1) establishing the telephone number 911 as the number for emergency telephone calls made anywhere in the United States, (2) requiring every telephone company to establish a system for connecting any emergency telephone call made using such number to an appropriate agency, and (3) defining the term 'emergency telephone call'. Makes it unlawful for any person to willfully make any telephone call using the number 911 if he knows that such telephone call is not an emergency telephone call.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Emergency Crime Control Act - Title I: Planning and Law Enforcement Grants to High Crime Urban Areas - Provides that State plans for law enforcement assistance that qualify for grants under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act shall provide that each high crime urban area (of 250,000 population, or more) within such State shall constitute a separate regional planning unit which shall assist in the development of the comprehensive State plan, take receipts from the State planning agency of all Federal funds granted for use in such high crime urban area, and assist in coordinating all law enforcement efforts within such high crime urban area which are in whole or in part assisted by Federal funds under such Act. Prescribes a formula by which such State planning grants under such Act shall be allocated to such high crime urban areas. Provides, under the provisions of such Act for disbursements by State planning agencies, that each State planning agency shall make a block grant in lieu of program and project grants to each high crime urban area within the State which notifies such agency that there has been organized within such area an Urban Law Enforcement Council and submits to such agency a plan for the use of such grant. Prescribes a formula by which such State planning agency shall measure such grants to such high crime urban area. Title II: Special Impact Grants to High Intensity Urban Areas - Provides that the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall make a block grant, to each high crime urban area, measured by $5 multiplied by the population of such area, which notifies it that there has been organized within such area an Urban Law Enforcement Council, and submits to it a plan for the use of such grant. Provides that grants shall be made available under this section for fiscal years 1974, 1975 and 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of carrying out this section.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Prohibits any Government agency from distributing or selling to any person any list of names and addresses of: (1) employees or former employees; (2) persons licensed by or required to file information with the agency; or (3) members or former members of the Armed Forces. Permits an agency to make available such list if the person seeking the list certifies that it will not be used for commercial, solicitation, or unlawful purposes, or if the list is made available as a necessary part of the agency's statutory functions. Prescribes a penalty of imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of $10,000, or both, for violations of the provisions of this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C.552(c))
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Motor Vehicle Mechanic Licensing Act - Requires each State to establish a motor vehicle licensing program which shall be approved by the Secretary of Labor. Establishes criteria for the training and examination of applicants seeking to obtain a motor vehicle mechanic's license. Authorizes the Secretary to pay not more than eighty percent of the cost of any State motor vehicle mechanic licensing program. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to coordinate his activities with the Secretary of Labor and with the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the development of State programs for apprenticeship and training.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Department of Peace Act - Title I: Department of Peace - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Peace to promote the cause of peace. Provides for the appointment by the President of the Secretary of Peace whose responsibilities will include advising the President on the progress of peace; recommending appropriate policies and programs designed to foster peace; and providing assistance as authorized by Congress to establish institutions which may further among the people an understanding of the true meaning of peace. Provides for the transfer to the Peace Department of all functions of certain agencies. Gives the Secretary powers to administer and carry out the provisions and objectives of this Act. Requires the Secretary to make an annual written report to the President for submission to the Congress on the activities of the Department for each year. Continues in effect all orders, determinations, rules, proceedings, regulations, permits, contracts, etc., which are in effect at the time of this Act and transferred to the Department of Peace from another agency. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress within two years of enactment of this Act a proposed codification of all laws which contain functions transferred to the Secretary. Title II: International Peace Institute - Establishes an "International Peace Institute" within the Department of Peace to furnish training and instruction to prepare U.S. citizens for service in positions in the field of promoting international understanding and peace. Empowers the Secretary to appoint officers, staff, and instructors as the Institute may require. Creates a Board of Trustees consisting of 12-members to administer the operation of the Institute in conjunction with the Secretary. Requires the Board to make an annual written report to the President of its actions and recommendations pertaining to the Institute within 60 days after its annual visit to the Institute. Grants admission to 150 students who are selected on the basis of merit and who have received a bachelor's degree from a college or university. Grants fellowships and travel and transportation allowances to students of the Institute. Requires each student selected for admission to sign an agreement to complete the course of instruction and to accept an appointment and service as an officer or employee of the United States or employment with an international organization or private agency engaged in promoting peace. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Gives the Institute power to acquire and hold real and personal property. Title III: Peace by Investment Corporation - Establishes a Peace by Investment Corporation to purchase the securities and obligations of, or make loans to: (1) any underdeveloped country; (2) any public agency or instrumentality of such country; or (3) any private or semiprivate firm, corporation, or association doing or intending to do business in any such country. Sets forth guidelines the Corporation shall follow in carrying out the investment program such as each investment must be in furtherance of an economically sound and profitable undertaking; investments must not be in competition with or duplicative of other private or public U.S. investments; and investment programs must be generally consistent with the U.S. policy. Authorizes the Corporation to issue 50 shares of class A stock (only stock with voting power), "Peace by investment debentures," class B stock, and notes and other obligations to finance the Investment program. Requires one-fifth of the debenture proceeds to be placed in a special fund for the retirement of class A stock and the other obligations. Places the initial management of the Corporation in the Department of Peace. Provides that when all the class stock has been retired within 6 years the Corporation shall be transferred to private ownership and management. Gives the Corporation powers to carry out its purposes under this title. Extends all general penal statutes relating to larceny, embezzlement or conversion of public moneys or property to moneys and property of the Corporation. Sets forth a penalty of a fine of $10,000 and/or 5 years imprisonment for any intentional false entry or report in the Corporation books and conspiring to defraud the Corporation. Requires the Corporation to make: (1) an annual report to the President for transmission to the Congress of its operations; and (2) within 3 years after its establishment prepare for transmission to Congress the initial results of its studies and its legislative recommendations with regard to the economic and financial policies of the United States. Title IV: Joint Committee on Peace - Establishes a Joint Committee on Peace composed of 14-members of Congress (7 from each House) to: (1) make a continuing study of matters relating to the Department of Peace; (2) study means of coordinating programs; and (3) file an annual report with Congress containing its findings and recommendations with respect to the Department of Peace. Gives the Joint Committee power to hold hearings. Authorizes an appropriation of $200,000 each fiscal year to carry out this title.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Establishes in the Executive Office of the President a Council on Energy Policy to be composed of three members appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that the Council shall: (1) serve as the principal advisor to the President; (2) review all legislative recommendations dealing with energy matters submitted to the Congress by Federal agencies; (3) make recommendations to the President and Congress for resolving conflicting policies of Federal agencies; (4) recommend policies to Federal and State agencies with respect to power emergencies; and (5) develop a long-range plan for energy utilization in the United States. Directs all Federal agencies to include in every proposal for legislation having a significant effect on energy availability or use a detailed statement on whether such proposal is consistent with the long-range plan formulated by the Council on Energy Policy. Provides that the President shall cause to be prepared and submitted to the Congress on or before July 1, 1973, and annually thereafter, by the Council on Energy Policy in cooperation with the Council on Environmental Quality, an Energy Report which shall include: (1) an estimate of the energy needs of the United States for the next ten years; (2) an estimate of domestic and foreign energy supplies of the United States; (3) current trends in the utilization of energy in the United States and the effects thereof; and (4) recommendations for the development and application of technologies and practices required to achieve the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations of $300,000 for fiscal year 1973, $750,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $1,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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