United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Youth Camp Safety Act - Makes it the purpose of this Act to protect and safeguard the health and well-being of youth attending day camps, resident camps, and travel camps by providing for the establishment of Federal standards for the safe operation of youth camps. Confers upon the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare the primary responsibility for the promulgation and enforcement of Federal and State youth camp safety regulations. Requires any State which desires to assume responsibility for the development and modification of youth camp safety standards to submit a State plan to the Secretary for his approval. Allows a State whose plan has been rejected to obtain review of the decision in the United States Court of Appeals. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States which have in effect approved State plans, such grants not to exceed fifty percent of the cost of carrying out the State plan. Authorizes to be appropriated $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and for each succeeding fiscal years. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Advisory Council on Youth Camp Safety and to submit to Congress at least once a year a comprehensive and detailed report on his administration under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Creates a Department of Youth Affairs. Provides that there shall be at the head of the Department a Secretary of Youth Affairs who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides for an Under Secretary of the Youth Affairs and such Assistant Secretaries as shall be determined by the President to be necessary. Transfers to the Secretary of Youth Affairs the functions, personnel, property and records of: (1) the Secretary of State under the Peace Corps Act; (2) the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity under title VIII of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; and (3) the Commissioner of Education under subpart 1 of part B of Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Provides that all delegations of authority, orders, regulations, directives and other official actions of: (1) the Secretary of State under the Peace Corps Act; (2) the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity under Title VIII of the Economic Opportunity Act; and (3) the Commissioner of Education under subpart 1 of part B of Title V of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which are in force on the date of the enactment of this Act shall continue in full force and effect until modified, superseded, or revoked by the Secretary. Establishes in the Department a United States Office of Youth Participation. Provides that there shall be a Director of the Office who shall be appointed by the Secretary; provides also for a Deputy Director of the Office. Asserts that such Office shall establish and administer a program of grants-in-aid to public agencies and nonprofit private organizations which shall be made available for similar programs on youth participation at the State level, which programs are designed to recruit, train and employ youths in social and economic programs; for the development of plans to insure the meaningful participation by youth in policymaking bodies of governmental and private organizations and for the establishment of programs aimed at reducing poverty, ending racial discrimination, and improving health, education and welfare. Sets forth various directives for volunteer programs fostered under this Act. Directs the Secretary of Youth Affairs to appoint an Advisory Commission on Youth Participation which shall be composed of nine members, at least five of whom shall be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four at the time of their appointments. Provides that the Secretary shall cause a seal of the office to be made for the Department of such design as the President shall approve, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide information, utilizing computers and modern data processing methods, through a national adoption information exchange system, to assist in the placement of children, awaiting adoption and in the location of children, including cooperative efforts with any similar programs operated by or within foreign countries, and such other related activities as would further or facilitate adoptions. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and such sums as may be necessary for succeeding fiscal years, to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Department of Education Act - Cites the importance of education to the interests of the Nation; and states that the United States is the only major Nation which does not have a Cabinet level department of education. Establishes a Department of Education. Creates the office of Secretary, Under Secretary, six Assistant Secretaries, and a General Counsel. States that the function of the Department is to promote the cause and advancement of education throughout the United States, to advise the President respecting the programs of education, to develop policies and programs to foster the orderly growth and development of educational resources and facilities, to coordinate Federal activities affecting education, to conduct surveys, collect and analyze data, and disseminate information, to provide information and assistance to aid in the maintenance of school, college, and university systems, to encourage long-range planning by State and local government, and to facilitate the continuing renewal of the American educational system. Transfers to the Department of Education all the officers, employees, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, and records of the following agencies and organizations: the Office of Education, the Office of Child Development, the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Education, and any advisory committees in HEW concerning education. Transfers the following functions to the Department: those of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare respecting educational television broadcasting facilities and of the Manpower Development and Training Act of 1962 relating to institutional manpower training. Transfers the following programs and activities to the Department: Head Start; Follow Through; Job Corps; Department of Defense dependents' school; schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs; the Graduate School operated by the Department of Agriculture; and the National School Lunch Act. Transfers to the Department the provisions, under the Housing Act of 1950, for college housing; and transfers the functions of the Secretary of Labor under Title III of the Manpower Development and Training Act which relate to institutional manpower training and the functions of the National Science Foundation relating to curriculum development, computer innovations in education, and teacher retraining. Redesignates the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare. Establishes a National Institute of Education within the Department of Education headed by a Director and Deputy Director. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Development. Authorizes the Institute to seek to improve education by conducting research and related activities to identify and resolve problems in education and to achieve the objectives of education, to advance the practice of education, to strengthen the scientific and technological foundations of education, and to build an effective research and development system. Directs the Institute to collect and disseminate findings, train researchers, grant and contract for research, promote the coordination of research, and provide for facilities and equipment. Requires the Advisory Council to advise the Secretary and the Director on the policies, priorities and management of the Institute and the status of educational research in the United States, and to present an annual report to the President on these matters. Authorizes $400,000,000 in the aggregate through the period ending June 30, 1975, to carry out the functions of the Institute. Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Education to study and make recommendations to assure effective coordination of Federal education programs. Appoints the Secretary chairman and provides for appropriate representatives from the Departments of State, Defense, Agriculture, Labor, and Health and Welfare, and the National Science Foundation, Atomic Energy Commission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities. Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Education to: review the operation of Federal education programs, advise the Secretary on educational needs, goals, and renewal, conduct objective evaluations of education programs and projects, make recommendations for the improvement of Federal programs, consult with Federal, State and local agencies respecting the improvement of the quality of education, and conduct conferences on the assessment, improvement, and renewal of education. Authorizes the Commission to assist the Secretary in establishing a rational and well-integrated advisory structure for the Department. Defines powers and duties of the Secretary. Requires an annual report containing objective data on education including the results and outcomes of education, five-year budget projections, progress toward the renewal of education in the Nation, a report on the advisory structure of the Department, and a complete analysis of major educational policy issues. Makes provisions for all transferred personnel insuring no loss of rank, grade, seniority, or rate of compensation because of transfer. Revises the Communications Act of 1934 by making the Secretary of Education an ex officio member of the Board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Requires the Secretary to submit within two years of enactment a proposed codification of all laws which contain functions transferred to the Secretary by this Act. Prohibits Federal control of education with respect to any State or local educational agency. Defines education to include not only concern for preschool, elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education but also concern for the educational functions of other agencies and institutions such as the home and family, the military, industry, and the mass media. Establishes the effective date of the Act as 90 days after enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Children With Specific Learning Disabilities Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to and contracts with educational institutions, governmental educational agencies and other educational research organizations to carry out a program of: (1) research relating to the education of children with specific learning disabilities; (2) training of personnel to teach such children; and (3) establishing model centers for the improvement of education of these children, these centers to provide testing and evaluation to identify these children, develop programs to meet their special needs, and assist other organizations in making such programs available to other children. Directs the Commissioner to give special consideration to grant applications proposing innovated means of educating these children. Requires the Commissioner in making grants and contracts to: (1) seek an equitable geographic distribution of these programs around the nation; (2) make provisions for handicapped children enrolled in non-profit private schools, and (3) insure that Federal grants are not commingled with State and local funds. Authorizes appropriations of $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $18,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Defines "children with specific learning disabilities" to mean children who have a disorder in one or more of the basic physchological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member of the Armed Forces who was on active duty or in an active status on or before May 31, 1958, shall be computed at current active duty pay rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Allows, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, a credit against the individual income tax for expenses paid by the taxpayer for the higher education of any individual, including the taxpayer. Excludes scholarships and fellowship grants, and educational assistance benefits paid by the Veterans' Administration, from such expenses paid for education purposes under this Act. Limits the eligibility for the tax credit. Provides that the credit allowed to the taxpayer during the taxable year shall not exceed an amount equal to the sum of: (1) 100 percent of so much of the education expenses as does not exceed $200; (2) 25 percent of so much of such expenses as exceeds $200 but does not exceed $500; and (3) 5 percent of so much of such expenses as exceeds $500 but does not exceed $1,500. Reduces the credit allowable under this Act by an amount equal to 1 percent of the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income under the code exceeds $18,000.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of the Army to terminate licenses and permits relating to the disposition of waste materials in the waters of the New York Bight or in any other waters within a 25 mile radius of the Ambrose Lighthouse. Provides for an investigation of the methods and costs of restoring such waters to their condition prior to the discharges terminated under this Act. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 4341-4347)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Omnibus Correctional Reform Act - Finds that the correctional system of the United States is underfinanced and overtaxed and that the goal of improving the nation's correctional system can best be achieved by the creation of State and local small, community-based correctional facilities. Title I: Provides that no State plan under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 shall be approved unless within two years of the passage of the Act it provides that 40 percent of the Federal assistance granted to the State planning agency shall be allocated to the improvement of correctional programs by providing a satisfactory twenty year program for phasing out large prisons and replacing them with small correctional facilities located in the communities from which the majority of offenders come. Title II: Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out the purposes of the title $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Apportions the sums among the States and territories. Sets forth criteria for the State plans required by the Act and policies and procedures for evaluating these plans. Title III: Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State and local governments and educational agencies and institutions of higher learning for research or demonstration projects relating to the academic and vocational education of antisocial or delinquent persons. Authorizes the Commissioner to appoint special or technical advisory committees. Title IV: Authorizes the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to make grants to States having approved plans for probation supervision programs for youthful offenders. Outlines policies and procedures for making such grants. Title V: Establishes a Federal Corrections Institute to act as 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 judges and judicial personnel. Outlines the duties and responsibilities of the Director of the Institute and the Institute itself. Establishes an Advisory Commission consisting of the Director of the Institute, the Attorney General, the Director of the United States Judicial Center, the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and fourteen persons appointed by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that no State or political subdivision thereof shall have the power to impose an income tax on the income or to establish the rate of taxation on the income of any individual: (1) who is a nonresident of the State which exceeds 50 percent of the tax which would be collected by such State with respect to the income of an individual who is a resident; or (2) who is a resident of the State except to the extent such tax exceeds any tax paid on such income to the State in which the income was earned or derived.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Air Passenger Safety and Convenience Act - Increases from 50 to 75 percent the United States share of allowable project costs payable under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970. Prohibits State taxation of the carriage of persons in air transportation under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Increases the number of depository libraries which Senators, Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, the Commissioner of the District of Columbia, and the Governors of Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands, may designate to receive Government publications from two within such area to three within each area. (Amends 44 U.S.C. 1905)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides, under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, for the suspension in whole or in part, of economic and military assistance and specific sales to any country which fails to take appropriate steps to prevent narcotic drugs produced or processed, in whole or in part, in such country from entering the United States unlawfully. Requires the President to keep the Congress fully and currently informed with respect to any action taken by him under this Act, and prohibits his waiver of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Gifted and Talented Children's Educational Assistance Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to assist State and local educational agencies to develop special educational programs for gifted and talented children and youth. Provides that the Commissioner of Education shall designate an administrative unit within the Office of Education to administer the programs and projects authorized by this Act and to coordinate all Federal programs for gifted and talented children and youth. Authorizes the Commissioner to establish independently or locate in an existing clearinghouse the National Clearinghouse on Gifted and Talented Children and Youth. States that the clearinghouse shall obtain and disseminate to the public information pertaining to the education of such youth. Authorizes to be appropriated for the establishment and operation of the clearinghouse $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to assist the States in the initiation, expansion, and improvement of programs and projects for the education of such youth at the preschool, elementary and secondary school levels. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purpose of making such grants $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Provides that three percent of the amounts appropriated for such grants shall be allotted among Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific according to their respective needs. States that eighty-two percent of the amounts appropriated shall be allotted to the States according to a formula set forth in this Act, except that no State shall be allotted less than $50,000. Provides that fifteen percent of such funds shall be used for special project grants. Provides that any State which desires to receive such grants shall submit a State plan through its State educational agency to the Commissioner. Sets forth requirements that each such plan shall contain. Provides for judicial review of the Commissioner's final action with respect to the approval of State plans under this Act. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to State educational agencies to assist them in establishing or maintaining a program for training personnel engaged in or preparing to engage in educating gifted and talented children and youth. Authorizes to be appropriated $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Provides that at least fifty percent of such funds but not more than seventy-five percent shall be expended for the training of such personnel. Authorizes the Commissioner to conduct or make grants to or enter into contracts with States or other organizations set forth in this Act for research and related purposes, relating to the education of gifted and talented youth. Authorizes to be appropriated $14,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Establishes the Office of Defense Review which shall be independent of the executive department of the Government and under the control and direction of the Director of Defense Review. Creates the positions of Director and Assistant Director of Defense Review, each of whom shall be nominated by the President from a slate of candidates submitted by the Joint Board of Defense Review with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the Office to provide reports giving independent evaluations of defense and national security matters and to prepare for the Congress a defense budget for each fiscal year which shall be independent of that prepared by the executive branch. Establishes a Joint Board of Defense Review to be composed of three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives; and provides that members of the Board shall serve for terms of no longer than a total of five sessions of Congress. Provides that it shall be the function of the Board to aid the Director in the performance of his duties and in the event of a vacancy in the office of the Director or Assistance Director to submit to the President the names of five individuals who, in the judgment of the Board, are qualified to hold such office.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Requires the President to notify within ten days each House of the Congress by special message of every instance in which he impounds funds or authorizes such impoundment by any officer of the United States. States that such message must specify the amount of impounded funds, the specific programs affected, and the reasons for the impoundment of funds. Provides that the President shall cease the impounding of funds set forth in each special message within sixty days of continuous session after the message is received by the Congress unless the specific impoundment shall have been ratified by the Congress by the passage of a resolution in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Establishes a "Joint Committee on Peace" to be composed of five members of the Senate to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and five members of the House to be appointed by the Speaker. Requires that in each instance not more than three members shall be of the same political party. Directs the joint committee to make studies of ways to attain world peace. Requires Federal departments and agencies concerned with keeping and maintaining peace to keep the joint committee fully and currently informed, and to furnish any information with respect to the activities or responsibilities of that agency in the field of peace. Requires the members of the committee who are Members of Congress to report to their respective bodies at least once a year. Authorizes the joint committee to hold hearings or investigations, to require the attendance of witnesses and/or the production of documents at such hearings, and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable. Allows only those measures and recommendations receiving the assent of the majority of the members of the committee to be reported from the committee. Provides for the expenses of the joint committee to be paid equally from the contingent funds of the House and the Senate. Authorizes such funds to be appropriated as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Gives the joint committee power to classify information originating within the committee in accordance with standards generally used by the executive branch for classifying restricted or defense data. Requires the committee to keep a record of all committee actions including a record of the vote on any question on which a record vote is demanded.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no person who shall have reached the age of twenty-two years shall be disqualified to be a Representative on account of age. Provides no person who shall have reached the age of twenty-seven years shall be disqualified to be a Senator on account of age.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that no United States person or corporation having a major investment in an enterprise in the Republic of South Africa, or affiliated with an entity doing business in South Africa, shall be eligible to enter into any contract with any agency of the United States Government unless such person or corporation is doing business in South Africa in accordance with fair employment practices. Provides that the President shall delegate his enforcement authority to the head of the Government agency that administers contracts pursuant to Presidential Order 11246, relating to nondiscrimination in employment by Government contracts. Provides that the President shall appoint an Advisory Board for the purpose of recommending policy to such Administrator for the purpose of exercising his authority under this joint resolution. Requires the Administrator, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, to review the employment practices of United States persons and corporations in South Africa with major investments in enterprises, and to establish a roster of persons and corporations doing business in accordance with fair employment practices. Provides for judicial review by a person or corporation aggrieved by an order of the Administrator. Defines the terms "major investment," "fair employment practices," and "person" for purposes of this joint resolution. Allows the President to exempt any person or corporation, for reasons of national security or national defense, from the provisions of this joint resolution for a period not exceeding ninety days. Provides that the Administrator shall investigate charges of violations of these provisions, and issue such additional rules and regulations as necessary to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution, including the cancellation of contracts with contractors in violation. Requires an annual report by the Administrator to the President and the Congress on the Advisory Board and the activities under this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Abolishes the Committee on Internal Security of the House of Representatives. Enlarges the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives to include those activities involving sabotage and other overt acts affecting internal security.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Government should seek the agreement of other governments to a proposed treaty prohibiting the use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war, or the carrying out of any research or experimentation with respect thereto. Sets forth the articles and terms of a proposed Treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that: (1) the producers and distributors of motion pictures and television and radio programs should cease the production and distribution of those films and programs which defame, sterotype, ridicule, demean, or degrade ethnic, racial, or religious groups; (2) those responsible persons in the motion picture and broadcasting industries who are desirous of contributing to the vitality of democratic institutions by promoting ethnic, racial, and religious harmony should establish adequate standards for the production of films and broadcasts which portray ethnic, racial, or religious groups and that such standards should be rigorously enforced by the motion picture and broadcasting industries; and (3) if within one year after the enactment of this resolution the motion picture and broadcasting industries have failed to establish and enforce adequate standards for the production of films and broadcasts which portray ethnic, racial, or religious groups, appropriate committees of the House and Senate shall formulate and propose such measures as are necessary to establish and implement such standards.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Holy Crown of Saint Stephen should remain in the safekeeping of the United States Government until Hungary once again functions as a constitutional government established by the Hungarian people through free choice.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of the longstanding debts which are delinquent in nature. Makes it the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury submit to the Congress within ninety days of passage of this resolution a list and report on the extent of such indebtedness on the part of foreign nations. Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury, through the appropriate departments and agencies, should, immediately after the filing of this report, begin consultations with foreign governments involved for the purpose of making arrangements for the prompt repayment of those longstanding debts which are delinquent.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that gross income does not include any amount received as a pension, annuity, or similar benefit to the extent that such pension, annuity, or benefit is based on service which was performed as a full-time policeman or other law enforcement officer, or as a full-time fireman, in the employ of a Federal, State or local government or governmental entity. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 123)
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for all medical expenses (including medicine and drugs) paid during the taxable year, and not compenstated for by insurance or otherwise, for the care of any dependent who is the mother or father of the taxpayer or of his spouse, and has attained the age of 65 before the close of the taxable year. Allows a tax deduction for all medical expenses (including medicine and drugs) of the taxpayer and his spouse, if either has attained the age of 65 before the close of the taxable year. States that the amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to taxable years ending after the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides under title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act for an exchange of credits between the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance system and the civil service retirement system so as to enable, in various cases, individuals who have some coverage under both systems to obtain maximum benefits based on their combined service. (Adds 42 U.S.C. 430)
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
World War I Pension Act - Provides that every person who served in the active military or naval service of the United States during World War I and whose name is carried on the rolls of the Veterans' Administration as a veteran of World War I shall be entitled to receive from the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs a pension at the rate of not less than $100 a month. Requires any amount of pension payable under this Act, upon the death of the veteran, to be paid to his or her spouse (unless such spouse is also receiving an award under this Act), any other income notwithstanding. States that any World War I veteran shall be eligible to receive free hospitalization and domiciliary care with inpatient or outpatient services at any Veterans' Administration facility or medical services from a local medical doctor if the veteran is handicapped by either disability or lack of funds for traveling expenses, due to distance from a Veterans' Administration facility.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides, under the Servicemen's Group Life Insurance Plan, that benefits shall accrue on account of death resulting from an active duty occurrence when death occurs within one hundred and twenty days of such active duty occurrence. Provides for the convertability of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to Veterans' Group Life Insurance upon expiration of the former. Provides for the automatic insuring under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance of any former member of the Armed Services otherwise eligible therefor who becomes eligible for such coverage and declines such coverage solely for the purpose of maintaining his Veterans' Group Life Insurance in effect upon the termination of the Veterans' Group Life Insurance coverage. Provides that Veterans' Group Life Insurance shall be issued in the amounts of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000. Provides for reconvertibility of Veterans' Insurance to Servicemen's Insurance when any person shall again become eligible for the latter. Provides that any person may be eligible for only one insurance plan at any given time. Provides that Veterans' Group Life Insurance shall: (1) provide protection against death; (2) be issued on a non-renewable five year term basis; (3) have no cash loan, paid up, or extended values; and (4) except as otherwise provided, lapse for nonpayment or premiums. Provides that in any case in which a member or former member who was mentally incompetent on the date he first became insured under Veterans' Insurance dies within one year of such date, such insurance shall be deemed not to have lapsed for nonpayment of premiums and to have been in force on the date of death. Provides that an insured under Veterans' Group Life Insurance shall have the right to convert such insurance to an individual policy of life insurance upon written application for conversion made to the participating company he selectes and payment of the required premiums.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Requires pay differentials (additional pay exceeding the hourly rate of pay of an employee) of 15 percent of the employee's hourly rate on weekdays, 20 percent on Saturdays, 30 percent on Sundays, 100 to 200 percent on legal public holidays, and 150-200 percent for overtime for nurses in Veterans' Administration hospitals who perform evening, night, weekend, holiday, or overtime duty. Authorizes payment for standby or on-call time to such employees. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4107)
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
National Crime Victims Compensation Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to commit the United States to meet its moral obligation to assist the innocent victims of violent crime, their families and dependents in financial need, by direct aid to those within the area primarily of Federal responsibility, and by assistance to the States to aid those within the area of primarily State responsibility, by the establishment of insurance and benefit programs for public safety officers and their families and dependents, and by the strengthening of the civil remedies available to victims of racketeering activity. Title I: Compensation For Victims of Violent Crime - Sets forth definitions of terms used in this title. Establishes the Violent Crimes Compensation Board with in the Department of Justice which shall consist of three members to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets forth the terms of office of the members of the Board. States that in order to carry out the purposes of this title the Board shall: (1) receive and process applications under the provisions of this title for compensation for personal injury or death resulting from criminal acts enumerated in this title; (2) hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, and take such testimony as the Board or any member thereof may deem advisable; (3) order the payment of compensation to victims and other beneficiaries in accordance with the provisions of this title; and (4) take such other action as it deems necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions of this title. Provides that the Board may order the payment of compensation: (1) to or on behalf of the victim; (2) in the case of the personal injury of the victim where the compensation is for pecuniary loss suffered as a result of the personal injury by any person, to that person; or (3) in the case of the death of the victim, to or for the benefit of the dependent of the deceased victim, or to any one or more dependents, or to any person who has suffered pecuniary loss as a result of that death. Requires that no order may be made under this title unless the Board finds that a criminal act or omission did occur and the injury or death was approximately caused by such act or omission. Sets forth the crimes to which this title applies. Makes provisions for attorney's fees for services rendered in proceedings under this title. Provides penalties for any attorney who charges or collects fees in excess of those allowed under this title. Provides that the orders and decisions of the Board shall be reviewable in the appropriate court of appeals except that no trial de novo of the facts determined by the Board shall be allowed. States that no order for the payment of compensation shall be made unless: (1) the applicaton has been made within one year after the date of the personal injury or death, or within such further extension of time as the Board, for good cause shown, allows; (2) the applicant has incurred a minimum pecuniary loss of $50 or has lost two continuous weeks' earnings or support; and (3) the act resulting in personal injury or death for which the compensation is to be paid was reported to the law enforcement officials within seventy-two hours after its occurrence. Provides that the aggregate of orders for payment of compensation under this title as the result of any one criminal act, omission, or occurrence shall not be in excess of $50,000. Authorizes th Board to make emergency payments to an applicant pending a final decision on the application if: (1) such application is one with respect to which an order of payment will probably be made,; and (2) undue hardship may result to the applicant if immediate payment is not made. States that whenever any person is convicted of a crime and an order for the payment of compensation is made under this title for a personal injury or death resulting from such crime, the Attorney General may within one year from the date on which the judgement of conviction became final, institute an action against such person for the recovery of all or a specified part of such compensation. Provides that any amounts recovered shall be deposited in the Criminal Victim Indemnity Fund established under this title. Provides that an order for payment of compensation shall not affect the right of any person to recover damages from any other person by a civil action for the injury or death. Requires the Federal law enforcement agency investifating a crime to inform the victims of their eligibility to make an application for compensation. States that such agency shall supply forms to each person who is eligible to file such a claim. Provides that the Board shall be informed of the failure of the victim to cooperate in the identification, apprehension and conviction of the perpetrator of the crime. Provides that the Board shall transmit to the Congress an annual report of its activities under this title, including the name of each applicant, a brief description of the facts in each case, and the amount of compensation awarded. Provides that the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall make grants to a State applying for the Federal share of costs of State programs to compensate victims of violent crime only if, after consultation with the Board, it determines that such State has enacted legislation which: (1) establishes a State agency having the capacity to hear or determine applications; (2) provides for the payment of compensation for pecuniary loss actually and necessarily incurred for personal injuries or death resulting from crimes listed under this title; and (3) contains adequate provisons for the recovery of compensation from the perpetrator of the crime. Declares that any State desiring to receive a grant under the Onmibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 shall submit a State plan to the Administration. Sets forth provisons that such a plan shall contain. Provides that the Federal share of such programs shall be 75 percent for any fiscal year. Title II: Group Insurance For Public Safety Officers - Authorizes the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to purchase from life insurance companies a policy or policies of group life insurance companies a policy or policies of group life insurance to provide the benefits provided under this Act. Provides that each such life insurance company must: (1) be licensed to issue life insurance in each of the fifty States of the United States and in the District of Columbia; and (2) as of the most recent December 31 for which informaiton is available to the Administration have in effect at least 1 percent of the total amount of group life insurance which all life insurance companies have in effect at least 1 percent of the total amount of group life insurance which all life insurance companies have in effect in the United States. Provides that any purchased policy will automatically insure any public safety officer employed on a full time basis by a State or local government which has applied to participate in the insurance program and agrees to deduct from such officer's pay the amount of the premium, to be forwarded to the proper federal agency. Specifies the amount of life insurance an officer may receive on the basis of their pay rate. Provides that each policy purchased by the Administration under this Act shall contain a provision, in terms approved by the Administration, to the effect that any insurance thereunder on any public safety officer shall cease thirty-one days after: (1) his separation or release from full-time duty as such an officer; or (2) discontinuance of his pay as such an officer, whichever is earlier. Provides that each policy purchased by the Administration under this Act shall contain a provision for the conversion of such insurance effective the day following the date such insurance would cease. Specifies that during the period such insurance is in force the insured, upon request to the office, shall be furnished a list of life insurance companies participating in the program established under this Act and upon written application (within such period) to the participating company selected by the insured and payment of the required premiums be granted insurance without a medical examination on a permanent plan then currently written by such company which does not provide for the payment of any sum less than the face value therefor the payment of an additional amount of premiums if or for the insured engages in public safety activities. Requires that during any period in which a public safety officer is insured under a policy of insurance purchased by the Administration under this Act, his employer shall withhold each month from his basic or other pay until separation or release from full-time duty as a public safety officer an amount determined by the Administration to be such officer's share of the cost of his group life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance. Sets forth the order of precedence in which the survivors of the officers will be awarded insurance benefits. States that such policy issued under this title shall include a schedule of basic premium rates and provide for the readjustment of rates. Establishes an Advisory Council on Public Safety Officers Group Life Insurance consisting of the Attorney General as Chairman, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Provides that the Council shall meet once a year, or more often at the call of the Attorney General, and shall review the administration of this Act and advise the Attorney General on matters of policy relating to activites therunder. Title III: Death and Disability Benefits For Public Safety Officers - Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act. Sets forth the order of precedence for the payment of benefits. Provides that upon certification by the Governor of any State that a public safety officer has been killed or disabled as a result of a criminal act in the line of duty the Administration shall make an award of $50,000 in the case of death or the loss of two members or loss of sight in both eyes, and $25,000 in the case of the loss of one hand or of one foot or the loss of sight of one eye. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisons - Authorizes to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974: (1) $10,000,000 for the purpose of Part F (Federal Compensation For Victims of Violent Crime) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968; and (2) $20,000,00 for the purposes of paragraph (10 of subsection (b) of section 301 of Part C (Grants for Law Enforcement Purposes) of such Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for the purposes of Part G of such Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973 and $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for the purposes of Part H of such Act. Sets forth the effective date for the titles of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Prohibits the sale or importation of eyeglass frames or sunglasses made of cellulose nitrate or other flammable materials. Allows a 30 day grace period for imports, and a 6 month period for disposal of existing shelf or display stocks. Prescribes a $1,000 fine for each eyeglass or sunglass frame imported or sold in violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Authorizes compensation for a fireman injured or killed while performing his regular duties in an area designated by the Governor of the State to be in a State of civil disorder. Provides, upon a showing by the local fire department, that the Attorney General shall pay the disabled fireman or his survivors a monthly benefit in the amount of $250 per month for a period of ninety-nine months after death or disability, or until there is no eligible survivor. Grants the Attorney General power to administer this Act and authorizes such appropriations are as necessary to carry out its purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that gross income does not include any amounts received by an individual in the taxable year as a pension, annuity, or other benefit under a public retirement system, or any amounts received by an individual who is age 65 or over as a pension, annuity, or other retirement benefit under any other retirement plan, program, or system, to the extent that the aggregate of such amounts does not exceed $5,000.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Public Safety and Criminal Justice and Correctional Personnel Benefits Act - Provides death benefits to survivors of public safety and law enforcement personnel, and public officials concerned with the administration of criminal justice and corrections, under the Omnibut Crime Control Safe Streets Act of 1968. Provides for a government gratuity of $50,000 to be paid to such survivors. Sets forth an order of precedence for such payment.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Increases under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance Benefits of the Social Security Act to $3,000 the annual amount individuals are permitted to earn without suffering deductions from the insurance benefits payable to them under such title.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
X-Ray Systems Radiation Control Act - Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall prescribe performance standards promulgated to control the emission of electronic product radiation which shall be applicable to all X-ray systems manufactured before and after such regulations take effect. Provides that commencing not more than six months after the date of enactment of the Act, the Secretary shall carry out a program of inspection of all X-ray systems in use in the United States for the purpose of determining whether such systems comply with the standards prescribed by the Act. Requires that each X-ray system be inspected not less than once every twelve months. Forbids any person to operate any X-ray system if the person who controls such system has been notified that such system does not comply with the standards prescribed by the Act. Forbids any person, other than a manufacturer, to sell or otherwise transfer any X-ray system unless prior to such sale or transfer he notifies the Secretary and receives the Secretary's authorization to sell or transfer such system. Forbids the Secretary to authorize the sale or transfer unless he is satisfied that such system complies with the standards prescribed by the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Health Security Act - Title I: Health Security Benefits - Provides that every resident of the U.S. (and every non-resident citizen when in the U.S.) will be eligible for covered services. Permits reciprocal and "buy-in" agreements for groups or non-resident aliens, and in some cases benefits to U.S. residents when visiting in other countries. Entitles every eligible person to have payments made by the Board for covered services provided within the United States by a participating provider. Provides that all necessary professional services of physicians, whenever furnished are covered, including preventive care, with two important restrictions: (1) specialist services are covered only when performed by a qualified specialist - except in emergency situations - and generally only on referral from a primary physician and (2) psychiatric services to an ambulatory patient are covered only for active preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic or rehabilitative service with respect to mental illness. Provides that comprehensive dental services (exclusive of most orthodontia) are covered for children under age 15, with the covered age group increasing by two years each year until all those under age 25 are covered. Provides that: (1) inpatient and outpatient hospital services, and services of a home health agency are covered without arbitrary limitation; (2) pathology and radiology services are specifically included as parts of institutional services, thus reversing the practice of Medicare; and (3) custodial care is specifically excluded in any institution, thus necessitating the two important restrictions on payments for institutional care. Limits payment for skilled nursing home care to 120 days per spell of illness, except that this limit may be increases when the nursing home is owned or managed by a hospital and payment forr care is made through the hospital benefit to 45 consecutive days of active treatment during a spell of illness. Provides coverage for two categories of drug use: prescribed medicines administered to inpatients or outpatients within participating hospitals; or to enrollees of comprehensive health service organizations, and drugs necessary for the treatment of specified chronic illnesses or conditions requiring long or expensive therapy. Requires the Board and the Secretary of HEW to establish two lists of approved drugs, taking into account the safety, efficacy and cost of each drug. Provides a broad list of approved medicines available for use in institutions and by comprehensive health service organizations and a more restricted list which is available for use outside such organized settings. Provides the appliances benefit is similar in concept and operation to the drug benefit, subject to a limitation on aggregate cost. Asserts that the professional services of optometrists and podiatrists are covered, subject to regulations, as are diagnostic or therapeutic services furnished by independent pathology laboratories and radiology services. States that health services furnished or paid for under a workmen's compensation law are not covered. Provides that the services of a professional practitioner are not covered if they are not covered if they are furnished in a hospital which is not a participating provider. Requires that participating providers meet standards established in this title or by the Board. Requires, also, that they must agree to provide services without discrimination, to make no charge to the patient for any covered services, and to furnish data necessary for utilization review by professional peers, statistical studies by the Board, and verification of information for payments. Makes professional practitioners licensed when the program begins, are eligible to practice in the State where they are licensed and requires that all newly, licensed applicants for participation meet national standards established by the Board in addition to those required by his state. Requires that participating professional providers meet continuing education requirements established by the Board (in consultation with appropriate professional organizations). Provides that major surgery and certain other specialty services shall be covered only when provided by a board certified or board eligible physician (except in emergency circumstances). Establishes conditions of participation for general hospitals similar to those required by Medicare. States that the two requirements not found in the Medicare program are: (1) that the hospital must not discriminate in granting staff privileges on any grounds unrelated to professional qualifications and (2) that it establish a pharmacy and drug therapeutics committee for supervision of hospital drug therapy. Provides that psychiatric hospitals will be eligible to participate only if the Board finds that the hospital (or a distinct part of the hospital) is engaged in furnishing active diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services to mentally ill patients. Establishes conditions of participation for skilled nursing homes similar to those established for extended care facilities under Medicare. Describes a comprehensive health service organization which undertakes to provide an enrolled population either with complete health Security services (other than institutional services, mental health or dental services) for the maintenance of health and the care of ambulatory patients. Provides that the organization, or professionals furnishing services may also serve non-enrollees, with payment to be made to the organization, or, at its request, to such professionals. Permits a foundation sponsored by a city, county, or State medical or dental society, by agreement with the Board, to participate as a provider of services. Permits the participation or community health centers or the like which, through furnishing services as comprehensive as are required by this predetermined population and may not meet some other requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Board to deal separately with the primary care portion of a system of comprehensive care where it is necessary to rely on arrangements with other providers, rather than on a unified structure, to round out the other elements of the system. Permits the Board to contract directly with public or other nonprofit mental health centers and mental health day care services. Permits the Board to contract with nonprofit health prepayment or insurance organizations which provide substantially comprehensive services to ambulatory patients, on terms similar to those specified for professional foundations. Specifies the broad and general conditions under which independent pathology laboratories, independent radiological services, providers of drugs, devices, appliances, equipment, or ambulance services may qualify as providers under Health Security. Requires that a participating skilled nursing home to have in effect an agreement with at least one participating hospital for the transfer of patients and medical and other information as medically appropriate. Requires the Board in fixing, for institutional and other providers, standards beyond those specified in the statute, to take into consideration criteria established or recommended by appropriate professional organizations. Excludes the institutions of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, and institutions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare serving merchant seamen or Indians or Alaskan natives, from serving as participating providers, as is also any employee of these institutions when he is acting as an employee. Provides reimbursement for any services furnished (in emergencies, for example) by these institutions or agencies to eligible persons who are not a part of their normal clientele. Overrides, for purposes of the Health Security program, State laws of several kinds which inhibit the utilization or the mobility of health personnel, cloud the legality of so-called "corporate practice" of health professions, or restrict the creation of group practice organizations. Permits a physician, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist, licensed in one State and meeting the national standards, to furnish Health Security benefits in any other state, the scope of his permissible practice being goverened by the law of the State in which he is practicing. Grants a similar authority to other health professional and nonprofessional personnel. Establishes the Health Security Trust Fund, to receive the net assets of existing (Medicare) funds taken over by the Health Security program, the yield of the Health Security taxes, and the Government's contribution from general revenues amounting to 100 percent of the yield form these taxes. Provides that three separate accounts shall be established in the Health Security Trust Fund: a Health Service Account, a Health Resources Development Account, and an Administration Account. Provides that in each of the first two years of program operation, 2 percent of the Trust Fund shall be set aside for the Health Resources Development Fund; and the allocation shall increase by 1 percent at two-year intervals to 5 percent within the next 6 years. Provides for allocation of the Health Services account among the regions of the country. Provides that the allocation to each region shall be based on the aggregate sum expended during the most recent 12-month period for covered services (with appropriate modification for estimated changes in the consumer price index, the expected number of eligible beneficiaries, estimated change in the number of participating providers). Provides that the Board will divide the allocation to each region into funds available to pay; institutional services; physician services; dental services; furnishing of drugs; furnishing of devices, appliances, equipment; and miscellaneous services. Provides that payments for covered services provided to eligible persons by participating providers will be made from the Health Service Account in the Trust Fund. Describes the method to be used in applying, as between practitioners electing the various methods of payment, the monies available in each health service area for payment to each category or professional providers. Authorizes the Board to experiment with other methods of reimbursement so long as the experimental method does not increase the cost of service or lead to overutilization or underutilization of services. Provides that skilled nursing homes and home health agencies will be paid in the same manner as a general hospital (on an approved annual budget basis). Provides that a comprehensive health service organization will be paid for other than hospital or skilled nursing home services, on the basis of a fixed capitation rate multiplied by the number of eligible enrollees. Contains a series of provisions to assist in the recruitment, education, and training of health personnel. Authorizes special improvement grants: (1) to any public or other nonprofit health agency or institution to establish improved coordination and linkages with other providers of services and (2) to organizations providing comprehensive ambulatory care, ot improve their utilization review, budget, statistical, or records and information retrieval systems, to acquire equipment needed for those purposes, or to acquire equipment useful for mass screening or for other diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Sets forth the responsibilities and duties of the Secretary of HEW and the Board with regard to this title. Creates an administrative structure within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with exclusive responsibility for administration of the Health Security program. Establishes a five-member full-time Health Security Board serving under the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that the members shall be appointed by the President with advice and consent of the Senate, for five-year overlapping terms. Creates the position of an Executive Director, appointed by the Board with the approval of the Secretary. Provides that the Executive Director will serve as secretary to the Board and shall perform such duties in administration of the program as the Board assigns to him. Provides that the program will be administered through the regional offices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires the establishment of sub-regional (service area) offices. Establishes a National Health Security Advisory Council, with the Chairman of the Board serving as the Council's Chairman and 20 additional members not in the employ of the Federal Government. Authorizes the Advisory Council to appoint professional or technical committees to assist in the Board on matters of general policy in the administration of the program, the formulation of regulations and the allocation of funds for services. Charges the Board with responsibility for informing the public and providers about the administration and operation of the Health Security program. Requires the Board to make a continuing study and evaluation of the program, including adequacy, quality and costs of services. Authorizes the Board directly or by contract to make detailed statistical and other studies on a national, regional, or local basis of any aspect of the title, to develop and test incentive systems for improving quality of care, methods of peer review of drug utilization and of other service performances, systems of information retrieval, budget programs, instrumentation for multiphasic screening or patient services, reimbursement systems for drugs, and other studies which it considers would improve the quality of services of administration of the program. Grants authority ot the Board, in accordance with regulations, to make determinations of who are participating providers of service, determinations of eligibility, of whether services are covered, and the amount to be paid to providers. Title II: Health Security Taxes - Converts the existing Medicare hospital insurance payroll taxes into Health Security taxes, and raises the rates to 1 percent on employees and 3.5 percent on employers. Raises the wage base for the employee tax from the present $7,800 to $15,000 with subsequent further increase if wage levels rise. Eliminates the wage ceiling from the employer tax, and broadens the definitions of covered employment to include foreign agricultural workers, employees of the U.S. and its instrumentalities (other than members of the armed forces and the President, Vice-President, and Members of Congress), employees of charitable ans similar organizations, railroad employees, and (for the employee tax only) employees of States and their political subdivisions and instrumentalities. Provides the mechanism for increasing the wage base, by $600 intervals, in proportion to future increases in average wage levels. Excludes from the gross income of employees, for income tax purposes, payment by their employers of part or all of the Health Security taxes on the employees. Spells out the precise effective dates of the new payroll tax provisions. Converts the existing Medicare self-employment tax, and raises the rate to 2.5 percent, and raises the maximum taxable self-employment income from $7,800 to $15,000 (with the same upward adjustment as in the employee tax for subsequent rises in average wage levels). Adds a new 1 percent Health Security tax on unearned income (unless such income is less than $400 a year), subject to the same maximum on taxable income as is applicable to the employee and self-employment taxes. Requires that after the effective date of benefits, no State shall be required to furnish any service covered under Health Security as a part of its State plan for participation under Medicaid, and that the Federal government will have no responsibility to reimburse any State for the cost of providing a service which is covered under Health Security. Provides that funds available under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act or the Maternal and Child Health title of the Social Security Act shall not be used to pay for personal health services after the effective date of benefits, except (to the extent prescribed in regulations by the Secretary of HEW) to pay for service which are more extensive than those covered under Health Security. Title III: Repeal or Amendments of Other Act - Makes various conforming amendments to the medicare, medicaid, vocational rehabilitation, and Federal employees health benefits statutes to bring it into conformity with this Act. Title IV: Studies Related to Health Security - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in consultation with the Secretary of the State and the Secretary of the Treasury ot study the coverage of health services for U.S. residents in other countries. Sets forth Congressional findings concerning the shortage of appropriate services and facilities for the long-term care of the aged or chronically sick. Directs the Secretary to make a comprehensive study of the need for additional social, homemaker and other services for the most equitable and appropriate means of financing such services. Directs the Secretary of HEW to study the feasibility and desirability of coordinating the federal health benefit programs for merchant seamen, and Indians and Alaskan natives with the health security benefit program. Requires the Secretary and Administrator to consult with representatives of the affected beneficiary groups and include a summary of their views in the reports to Congress. Sets forth Congressional findings concerning medical malpractice, and the methods of determining liability and assessing damages, are unsatisfactory. Directs the Secretary to make a comprehensive study of the problem, including the most appropriate criterion of compensable injury, means of adjudication, and means of financing the payment of compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that gross income does not include amounts received as compensation for service as a full-time law enforcement officer in the employ of the United States, the District of Columbia, a State or political subdivision thereof, to the extent that the aggregate of such amounts does not exceed $5,000 in the taxable year. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 124)
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