United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Assistance Rate Adjustments - Increases the base figures for vocational rehabilitation and Educational assistance by eight per cent. Adjusts three-quarter and half-time rates to provide the same proportion as the amount of training taken. Provides increases for trainees pursuing farm-cooperative apprentice programs or other on the job training. Provides that veterans of the Vietnam era rated 10 percent disabled or greater shall automatically be entitled to vocational rehabilitation benefits. Title II: Educational Assistance Program Adjustments - Extends the current 8-year delimiting date for veterans to complete their programs of education until educational assistance afforded to eligible veterans shall be used. Excludes in computing the delimiting date for those veterans and civilians held as prisoners of war in the Vietnam theater of operations, the period of time which they were detained plus any period of time which they were hospitalized immediately subsequent to their release. Provides those recently discharged from military service up to 6 months of educational assistance to pursue refresher training to update knowledge, skills, and technological advances occurring in their fields of employment during their period of active military service. Provides cost-of-living increases for veterans or eligible persons enrolled in apprenticeship or other on-the-job training. Title III: Veterans' Education Loan Programs - Establishes a veterans' education loan program. Prescribes the eligibility requirements, the amount and conditions, and interest rate of such loans. Requires that a fee shall be collected from each veteran obtaining a loan for the purpose of insuring against defaults on such loans. Title IV: Veterans, Wives, and Widows Employment Assistance and Preference and Veterans' Reemployment Rights - Extends job counseling, training, and placement services for veterans to include among those eligible to receive services, widows of veterans who have died of service-connected causes and wives of totally disabled veterans. Directs the Administrator of Veterans in consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Civil Service Commission to establish an affirmative action plan for every Federal department and agency for the preferential employment of disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era. Extends reemployment rights to those who were employed by State or local governments prior to entering the service. Title V: Effective Dates - Specifies the effective dates of the various titles of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Makes it the sense of the House that, during the period pending consideration and action by the Senate upon the bill H.R. 10710, as introduced in the first session of the Congress, cited as the "Trade Reform Act of 1973" and as amended and passed by the House, no loan, guarantee, insurance, or credit shall be extended by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to any nonmarket economy country (other than any such country whose products are eligible for column 1 tariff treatment on the date of the enactment of this resolution), and no such country shall participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1974
Emergency Export Control Act - Creates a four-member Emergency Export Control Commission to review all exports from the United States with respect to domestic shortages of any exported goods. Authorizes the Commission to impose import controls to any extent necessary on any goods it determines to be in short supply.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1974
Directs the President to prohibit the exportation of grain from the United States until such time as the Secretary of Agriculture determines that the supply of grain in the United States is sufficient to meet domestic needs. States that thereafter the President shall only permit grain to be exported from the United States which is in excess of domestic needs as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Penalizes any person who exports grain in violation of this Act by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1974
Creates a five-member investigative committee comprised of three members of the majority and two members of the minority appointed by the Speaker to investigate and determine the amount of proven and potential petroleum resources and supplies of the United States. Grants the committee full subpoena power to require of any corporation or individual any records, documents, papers, and books necessary to carry out this investigation. Directs the committee to make an initial report to the Congress on the progress of the investigation within sixty days of enactment of this resolution and a final report as soon as practicable.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Provides, under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, that no air carrier shall discontinue service, in whole or in part, unless such discontinuance is found to be in the public interest by the Civil Aeronautics Board after public hearings.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1973
Emergency Mortgage Act - Title I: Deposit Insurance - Increases the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporations (FDIC) and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporations (FSLIC) insurance limits on individual accounts from the current $20,000 to $50,000. Title II: Lending and Investment Powers, Federal Savings and Loan Associations - Increases the present $45,000 limitation on the amount of the loan which a Federal institution may make on a single family residence to $55,000. Permits a Federal Savings and Loan Association to make loans respecting real property or interest therein used primarily for residential purposes without regard to the limitations and restrictions otherwise contained in Home Owners Loan Act in an amount not in excess of 10 percent of its assets. Title III: Mortgage Corporations - Allows, under the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act, the purchase of a conventional mortgage with the outstanding balance exceeding 80 percent of value when the excess over 80 percent is insured by a qualified private insurer. Provides that national banks, state-chartered banks which are members of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Home Loan Banks, Federal Saving and Loan Associations, and Federal credit unions have statutory power to purchase mortgages, obligations or other securitites which are sold or ever have been sold by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation without regard to limitations which might be otherwise applicable to purchase of such mortgages, obligations or other securities. Increases, under the National Housing Act, the maximum mortgage purchase limit for the Government National Mortgage Association from $22,000 to $33,000. Prohibits officers or directors of a financial institution or other mortgage lender engaged in the organization of mortgage loans, from owning an interest in a private mortgage insurance company. Title IV: Downpayment Requirements and Maximum Mortgage Amounts Under Federal Housing Administration Programs - Increases the downpayment requirements for Federal Housing Administration mortgages on one to four family homes. Increases the maximum mortgage amounts of the FHA's one to four family mortgage insurance programs and multi-family mortgage insurance programs. Title V: National Banks - Authorizes, under the Federal Reserve Act, additional lending and investment powers for national banks relative to real estate, including making loans against unimproved real estate up to 66 2/3 percent of the appraised value and, if improved with off-site improvements, up to 75 percent of the appraised value. Title VI: Authorizations for Community Development and Housing Programs - Provides that it is the intent of Congress that the authorizations and program extensions set out in this Title for the various community development and housing programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development are being provided in order to permit continued activities under these necessary programs until new or revised programs are enacted into law and operational with adequate funding. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) urban renewal; (2) model cities; (3) rehabilitation loans; (4) basic water and sewer facilities grants and neighborhood facilities grants; (5) comprehensive planning; (6) homeownership assistance; (7) rental housing assistance; (8) rent supplements; and (9) public housing.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1973
Declares it to be the sense of the House that the President, acting in accordance with the announced policy of the United States Government to maintain Israel's deterrent strength, and under existing authority, should continue to transfer to Israel the Phantom aircraft and other equipment in the quantities needed by Israel to repel the attack and to offset the military equipment and supplies furnished to the Arab States by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1973
Domestic Oil Protection Act - Directs the President to take action to assure that essential petroleum resources of the United States are retained in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1973
States that the Special Prosecutor appointed by the Acting Attorney General as successor to the Prosecutor shall be and hereby is made subject to removal only by the Attorney General for gross impropriety, gross miscondut, gross dereliction of duty, or for physical inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office, but for no other cause. Provides that the Attorney General shall give 30 days notice in writing to the Congress of his intention to remove the Special Prosecutor, setting forth in detail the reasons for such removal. Provides that the Special Prosecutor shall be, and hereby is, charged with the duty and clothed with the full and complete authority to investigate, to prepare, to conduct, and to prosecute any criminal offense arising out of or connected with the unauthorized entry into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate in 1972, arising out of or connected with the Presidential election of 1972, allegations of offenses involving the President, members of the White House staff, or Presidential appointees, except allegations of offenses the Special Prosecutor waives to the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice by letter to the Attorney General setting forth his reasons for such waiver, any and all other matters heretofore referred-pursuant to regulations of the Attorney General-to the former Special Prosecutor, and such new matters which the Special Prosecutor consents to have assigned to him by the Attorney General. Requires that all materials, tapes, documents, files, work in process, information, and all other property of whatever kind and description relevant to his duties and possessed by the former Special Prosecutor or his Staff shall be delivered into the possession of the new Special Prosecutor. States that the Special Prosecutor shall have full authority to undertake any action he deems necessary and proper for the performance of his duties under this Act. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1973
Authorizes additional educational payments to eligible veterans in an amount representing the cost of tuition which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year. States that in no case shall such payment exceed $600.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Domestic Oil Protection Act - Prohibits exports of crude oil and oil products from the United States, except where necessary for refinement into oil products and reshipment back to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Terminates all foreign aid to those Middle East nations that reduced the export of oil and oil products to the United States as a punitive reaction to United States support of Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1973
Public Safety Officers Benefits Act - Provides that in any case in which the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration determines that an eligible public safety officer has died as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury sustained in the performance of duty, leaving a spouse or one or more eligible dependents, the Administration shall pay a gratuity of $50,000. States the order of precedence for the payment of the gratuity to dependents. Excludes the payment of benefits if death was caused intentionally or by intentional misconduct or by an individual who would otherwise be entitled to the death benefits. Authorizes the appropriation in each fiscal year of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1973
Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to provide for the demonstration within a three-year period of the practical use of solar heating technology. Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate, support and carry out basic and applied research and development in solar heating and cooling technologies. Provides for the installation of solar heating systems in residential dwellings under the monitoring of the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Bureau of Standards and in consultation with the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Defense. Provides that such residential dwellings shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas (not less than three) in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of solar heating and cooling systems involved. Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to initiate, support and fund basic and applied research activities related to solar energy in support of the objectives of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $50,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 October 1973
Provides that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that United States troops not be introduced, committed, or involved, in any way or manner, directly or indirectly, in the present armed conflict in the Middle East without prior congressional authorization.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1973
Emergency Fuels and Energy Allocation Act - Authorizes the President of the United States to allocate energy and fuels when he determines and declares that extraordinary shortages or dislocations in the distribution of energy and fuels exist or are imminent and that the public health, safety, or welfare is thereby jeopardized. Provides that such authority shall terminate on September 1, 1974. Provides for the delegation of such authority to the Secretary of the Interior or to the head of any other Federal agency. Authorizes the President to allocate or distribute fuels or any form of energy in short supply nationally or in a given region. Directs the Attorney General to investigate the marketing practices of oil companies which have annual gross revenues of more than $1,000,000,000 and to take such steps as may be necessary under any antitrust Acts to insure that the marketing practices of such oil companies are not detrimental to the maintenance of a viable competitive domestic petroleum industry, do not result in a foreclosure to independent marketers of supplies from such oil companies, and do not jeopardize the ability of State and local governments and other public agencies and authorities to obtain necessary supplies of gasoline and other petroleum products. Requires the President to report to the Congress under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1973
Directs the Committee on the Judiciary, acting through a select subcommittee of nine members appointed by the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, to conduct a full and complete investigation of charges of impeachable offenses alleged to have been committed by Spiro T. Agnew. Directs the Committee on the Judiciary to report to the House the results of the investigation required to be conducted under this resolution, together with any recommendation, no later than three months after the date of the adoption of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1973
Clean Elections Act - Title I: Federal Elections Commission - Creates a six-member independent Federal Elections Commission: 2 members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2 members appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate, and 2 members appointed by the President. Specifies that the Commission shall have full legal powers. Authorizes the Commission to use the personnel and facilities of the General Accounting Office. Requires the Commission to submit its budget directly to Congress along with any recommendations it may have for legislation. Transfers specified functions of the Secretary of the Senate, the GAO and the Clerk of the House to the Commission. Requires each candidate for Federal office to have a central campaign committee through which all reports must pass. Requires the central committee to file its report with the Commission. Specifies that reports contain all contributions in excess of $100 and that cash contributions of $2,500 or more be reported within 24 hours. Requires a financial report to be filed 10 days before an election. Title II: Federal Matching Payment Entitlement Fund - Establishes on the books of the Treasury of the United States the Federal Matching Payment Entitlement Fund to remain available for expenditure without fiscal year limitation. Entitles candidates for Federal office or an official national party committee or an official congressional campaign committee to payments from the fund, during any calendar year, in an amount equal to the cmount of each contribution received by such candidate or committee not in excess of $50. Requires that the candidate or committee submit matching payment entitlement vouchers including the full name of the contributor together with the date, the exact amount of the contribution, and the complete address of the contributor. States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall make a payment from the fund to the candidate or the treasurer of the committee in the amount certified by the Commission. Sets forth the limitations on certification by the Commission. Title III: Limitations on Political Contributions - Declares a limitation on contributions, made by an individual and expenditures of not more than $2,500 in the case of a candidacy for President or Vice President or not more than $1,000 in a congressional campaign. Title IV: Tax Incentives for Contributions to Candidates for Public Office - Allows a maximum credit for a taxable year for contributions to candidates for public office of $50 ($100 for a joint return). Title V: Voter's Time - Provides for a schedule of televised political broadcasts by candidates for Federal office. Requires the television networks to make prime time available to the candidates at roles not exceeding the prevailing unit charge of the station for the same amount of program time in the same time period. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay fully all certified bills for Voter's Time not more than 10 days following receipt from the Registry of Election Finance.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973
Increases to 466 acres (previously 281) the land to be procured for the Morristown National Historical Park in New Jersey. Authorizes appropriations of necessary sums to acquire such land. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 409g)
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1973
Makes it a Federal offense and prescribes penalties for the murder, manslaughter, or attempted murder or manslaughter of Federal law enforcement officers, members of federally assisted law enforcement agencies, Federal employees, and persons engaged in interstate and foreign commerce. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1118)
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1973
Veterans Housing Act - Authorizes increases in the amount limitations of veterans home loan programs. Eliminates specific provisions pertaining to dormant farm and business loans.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1973
Authorizes each Member of the House of Representatives and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the Delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands to hire for two weeks, during the period May 1 to May 31, inclusive, each year, two additional employees to be known as "senior citizen interns" who will serve as such within the District of Columbia. Provides that no person shall be paid compensation as a senior citizen intern who does not have on file with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, at all times during the period of employment, a certificate that such intern is sixty-five years of age or older and a resident of the district which the employing Member or Commissioner or Delegate represents.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Prescribes penalties for the murder, manslaughter, or attempted murder or manslaughter of Federal law enforcement officers, members of federally assisted law enforcement agencies, and Federal employees.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Extends Federal injury and death benefits to all eligible public safety officers and their survivors. Defines eligible officer for the purposes of this Act as a person who is determined by the Secretary of Labor to have fireman by a State or a political subdivision of a State; (2) an officially recognized or designated member of a legally organized volunteer fire department; (3) serving without compensation as an officially recognized or designated member of a legally organized law enforcement agency of a State or political subdivision of a State; and (4) injured in the performance of such duties. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8191)
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1973
Veterans Health Care Expansion Act - Title I: Hospital, Domiciliary, and Medical Care Benefits - Extends the definition of "private facilities" for which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs contract in order to provide hospital care to include facilities for the wife or child of a veteran who has a total disability, pemanent in nature, resulting from a service connected disability, and the widow or child of a veteran who died from such a disability. Includes in the term "hospital care" mental health services, consultation, professional counseling, and training of a veteran or dependent, or survivor if the veteran has no dependents, as may be necessary or appropriate to the effective treatment and rehabilitation of such individual. Adds home health services which the Administrator deems appropriate for the effective and economical treatment of a disability of a veteran, or dependent, or survivor, to the definition of the term "medical services." Extends to all veterans hospital or nursing home care if such veteran is unable to defray the expenses of the necessary care. Allows the Administrator to furnish hospital or nursing home care to the wife or child of a veteran who has a total disability, permanent in nature from a service connected disability, and the widow or child of a veteran who died from such a disability. Permits the Administrator to furnish medical services for any disability on an outpatient or ambulatory basis for persons already described in this Act and to any veteran who has a service-connected disability rated at eighty percent or more. Provides that any veteran entitled to a prosthetic appliance shall be furnished such fitting and training in its use as necessary. Authorizes the Administrator, under such regulations as he might prescribe, to reimburse veterans entitled to hospital care or medical services for the reasonable value of such care or services for which such veterans have made payment from sources other than the Veterans' Administration. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 628) Authorizes the President to assist the Republic of the Philippines in providing medical care and treatment for Commonwealth Army veterans and new Philippine Scouts under certain conditions. (Amend 38 U.S.C. 631) Provides that the President may authorize the Administrator to enter into a contract with the Veterans Memorial Hospital, with the approval of the appropriate department of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines under which the United States: (1) will pay for hospital care in the Republic of the Philippines, or for medical services which shall be provided either in Veterans' Administration facilities, or by contract, or otherwise, by the Administrator in accordance with the conditions and limitations applicable generally to beneficiaries under this title for commwealth Army veterans determined by the Administrator in accordance with the conditions and limitations applicable generally to beneficiaries under this title, for service-connected disabilities; (2) will pay for hospital care at the Veterans Memorial Hospital for Commonwealth Army veterans determined by the Administrator to need such care for non-service-connected disabilities if they are unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital care; and (3) may provide for payments for nursing home care for any Commonwealth Army veteran or new Philippine Scout and for payments for hospital care and for medical services consisting of medical supplies and equipment. Provides that the total of the payments authorized under this section for Philippine veterans shall not exceed $2,000,000 for any one fiscal year ending before 1978. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year ending with 1978, $100,000 to be used for the education and training of health service personnel at the hospital, and for the upgrading of equipment and in rehabilitating the physical plant and facilities of the Veterans Memorial Hospital. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 632) Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a comprehensive program providing sickle cell anemia screening, counseling, and treatment and to carry out research and research training in the diagnosis, treatment, and control of sickle cell anemia based upon such screening examinations and treatment. Requires the Administrator to include such information in his annual report to Congress. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 651-654) Title II: Amendments to Chapter 73 of Title 38, United States Code Relating to the Department of Medicine and Surgery - Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a major program of recruitment, training, and employment of veterans with various medical military occupation specialties in order to provide a complete medical and hospital service for the medical care and treatment of veterans and to assist in providing an adequate supply of health manpower to the nation. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4101(b)) Establishes pay schedules for Assistant Chief Medical Directors, physicians and dentists, and nurses. Provides criteria on which nurses are to receive additional compensation for holiday and overtime work. Enumerates restrictions on physicians, dentists, and nurses, including requirements that no such person may: (1) assume responsibility for the medical care of any patient other than a patient admitted for treatment at a Veterans' Administration facility, except in those cases where the individual, upon request and with the approval of the Chief Medical Director, assumes such responsibilities to assist communities or medical practice groups to meet medical needs which would not otherwise be available for a period not to exceed one hundred and eighty calendar days, which may be extended by the Chief Medical Director for additional periods not to exceed one hundred and eighty calendar days each; (2) teach or provide consultative services at any affiliated institution for the benefit of such institution, or for his personal benefit, or both. Provides that temporary full-time appointments of personnel, other than physicians, dentists, and nurses, shall not exceed one year. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4114(a)(3)(A)) Provides that the Administrator may contract with one or more hospitals, medical schools, or medical installations having hospital facilities and participating with the Veterans' Administration in the training of interns or residents to provide for the central administration of stipend payments, provision of fringe benefits, and maintenance of records for such interns and residents by the designation of one such institution to serve as a central administrative agency for this purpose. Permits the Administrator to pay to such designated agency, without regard to any other law or regulation governing the expenditure of Government moneys either in advance or in arrears, all amounts to cover the costs for the period such intern or resident serves in a Veterans' Administration hospital. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 4114(b) (2)) Title III: Amendments to Chapter 81 of Title 38, United States Code, Acquisition and Operation of Hospital and Domicilliary Facilities; Procurement and Supply - Requires the Administrator to provide for sufficient operating beds in Veterans' Administration Hospitals to accomodate eligible applying veterans and to report annually to the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and operate not less than eight thousand beds for the furnishing of nursing home care to eligible veterans over which the Administrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 5001(a)) Requires the Administrator to appoint an Advisory Committee on Structural Safety of Veterans' Administration Facilities to advise him on all matters of structural safety in the construction and remodeling of Veterans' Administration facilities. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 5001(b)) Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments to Title 38 United States Code - Specifies certain miscellaneous amendments to title 38 of the United States Code. Title V: Effective Dates - Specifies the dates on which the provisions of this Act shall become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1973
Makes it a Federal crime to carry out any research activity on a human fetus or to intentionally take any action to kill or hasten the death of a human fetus in any Federally supported facility or activity. Provides criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 246)
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Prohibits travel at Government expense outside the United States by any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of Congress who after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress are not candidates for reelection in the next Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973
Federal Employee Labor Management Act - Title I: Declaration of Policy - Declares it to be the policy of this Act that employees of the Federal Government shall have, and shall be protected in the exercise of, the right, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal, to form, join, and assist any labor organization, including the right to participate in the management of any such organization and act for the organization in the capacity of an organization representative, including presentation of its views to officials of the executive branch of the Government, the Congress, or other appropriate authority. Requires that the head of each Government department, agency, activity, organization, or function shall take such action as may be required to carry out the purpose of this Act and assure that no improper interference, restraint, coercion, or discrimination is practiced to discourage membership in any labor organization. Title II: Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act. Title III: Federal Labor Relations Authority - Creates the Federal Labor Relations Authority composed of a Chairman and two additional members to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires such Authority to make a report to Congress and to the President at the close of each fiscal year stating the cases it has heard, the decisions it has rendered, and an account of all moneys it has disbursed. Title IV: Powers and Duties of the Authority - Provides that the Authority shall resolve and determine any dispute concerning a unit appropriate for purposes of recognition and collective bargaining, conduct elections for exclusive recognition, resolve and determine any complaints of unfair labor practices, and investigate and resolve any negotiation impasse. Authorizes the Authority to delegate to its regional directors its powers to recognize labor organizations which request recognition in conformity with this Act, to determine the unit appropriate for the purpose of collective bargaining, to investigate and provide for hearings, to determine whether a question of representation exists, and to direct an election, conduct a secret ballot election, and certify the results thereof. Provides that upon the filing of a request therefor with the Authority by any interested person, the Authority may review any action of a regional director, delegated to him under this title, but such a review shall not, unless specifically ordered by the Authority, operate as a stay of any action taken by the regional director. Authorizes the Authority to delegate to a trial examiner its powers to determine whether any person has engaged in an unfair labor practice under this Act. Title V: Recognition of Labor Organizations - Provides for the Authority to grant recognition to labor organizations upon application according to procedures set forth in this title. Provides that, upon such recognition as the exclusive representative of employees in an appropriate unit, the labor organization shall be entitled to represent and bargain collectively for all employees in the unit and shall be responsible for representing the interests of all such employees. Title VI: Allotments to Representatives - Provides for the allotment to labor organizations of deductions from employee wages for initiation fees and membership dues in such organizations, upon written assignment authorizing such allotment by the employee. Provides that such assignment shall be honored at no cost to the labor organization. Provides that an assignment under the provisions of this title shall be irrevocable for a period of not more than one year or until the expiration date of the applicable collective agreement, whichever occurs later. Title VII: Unfair Labor Practices - Provides that it shall be an unfair labor practice for an agency covered by this Act: (1) to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights assured by this Act; (2) to discourage membership in any labor organization by discrimination in regard to hiring, tenure, promotion, or other conditions of employment; (3) to sponsor, control, or otherwise assist any labor organization, except that the agency may furnish customary and routine services and facilities; (4) to discipline or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he has filed a complaint, affidavit, petition, or given any information or testimony under this Act; (5) to refuse to consult, confer, or negotiate in good faith with a labor organization as required by this Act; (6) to fail or refuse to cooperate in impasse procedures and impasse decisions as required by this Act; or (7) to fail or refuse to comply with any provision of this Act. Provides that it shall be an unfair labor practice for a labor organization: (1) to interfere with, restrain, or coerce any employee in the exercise of the rights assured by this Act: provided that this shall not impair the right of a labor organization to prescribe and enforce its rules with respect to the acquisition or retention of membership; (2) to cause or attempt to cause an agency to discriminate against an employee in the exercise of his rights under this Act; (3) to coerce or discipline any member of the labor organization as punishment or reprisal for his discharge of his duties owed as an officer or employee of an agency covered by this Act; (4) to discriminate against any employee with regard to the terms or conditions of membership because of race, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin; and (5) to refuse to cooperate in impasse procedures and impasse decisions as required by this Act. Title VIII: Prevention of Unfair Labor Practices - Empowers the Authority to prevent any person from engaging in any unfair labor practice covered by this Act. Provides that the Authority, upon its determination that there has been an arbitrary, capricious, or otherwise knowing violation of this Act, by any supervisor or official of an agency covered by this Act, may order the agency to discipline the supervisor or official by demotion, suspension, or removal. Title IX: Negotiation Disputes and Impasses - Directs the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to provide services and assistance to those agencies and labor organizations covered by this Act in the resolution of negotiation disputes. Provides that where voluntary arrangements, including the services of the Service under this title, fail to resolve a negotiation impasse, either party may request the Federal Labor Relations Authority to consider the matter. Provides that if the parties do not arrive at a settlement through means assisted by the Authority, the Authority shall render its decision in writing on the matters in dispute. Provides that such decision by the Authority shall be final and binding upon all parties during the term of the arrangement. Title X: Investigatory Powers - Grants investigatory powers to the Authority for the purpose of all hearings and investigations which the Authority may deem necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers vested in it by this Act. Title XI: Settlement of Grievances - Provides that a labor organization having exclusive recognition shall have the right in its own behalf or on behalf of any employee in the unit to present and process grievances and to submit to arbitration unresolved grievances. Provides for the establishment of grievance procedures available to bargaining unit employees for the settlement of grievances under this Act. Provides that such procedures shall include fixed and reasonable time limits for a decision at each grievance step. Title XII: Official Time - Provides that employees participating in any phase of proceedings under this Act shall be free to do so without suffering any loss of pay or benefits and shall be free from restraint or interference as a consequence of such participation. Title XIII: Compilation and Publication of Data - Requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to maintain a file of copies of all available collective-bargaining agreements applicable to employees of any agency covered by this Act. Requires the Bureau to publish the full texts of all arbitration decisions settling or adjusting disputes involving such employees. Authorizes the Bureau to compile and publish all available data and factual information relating to labor-management relations in the Federal service. Title XIV: Standards of Conduct for Labor Organizations - Requires labor organizations representing or seeking to represent employees pursuant to this Act to adopt governing requirements containing explicit and detailed provisions to which it subscribes, including those providing for the maintenance of democratic procedures and practices, conduct of officers and agents, and the maintenance of fiscal integrity. Title XV: Violations, Enforcement, and Suits - Provides that any person willfully resisting or preventing any member of the Authority or an arbitrator from carrying out his duties pursuant to this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Title XVI: Funding - Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to carry out the functions and purposes of this Act. Title XVII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides that the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act shall be applicable to the issuance, amendment, or recision of any rules or regulations authorized or required to carry out the provisions of this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 5314)
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973
Title I: Antihijacking Act - Antihijacking Act - Expands the definition of the term "special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States" when used in the Federal Aviation Act to include the following aircraft while in flight: (1) any aircraft outside the United States that has "an offense", as defined in the convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, committed aboard, if the aircraft lands in the United States with the alleged offender still aboard; and (2) other aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business in the United States, or his permanent residence in the United States. Provides that whoever aboard an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States commits "an offense", as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, and is afterward found in the United States shall be punished by death if convicted or by imprisonment for not less than 20 years if the accused surrendered himself to the captain of the aircraft. 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, or is used as a base of operations for terrorist groups, he may, without notice or hearing and for as long as he determines necessary to assure the security of aircraft against unlawful seizure, suspend the right of any air transportation and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce to and from that foreign nation and the right of any foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any foreign person to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to suspend the operating authority of foreign air carriers when he finds that a foreign nation does not effectively maintain and administer security measures relating to transportation of persons or property or mail in foreign air transportation that are equal to or above the minimum standards which are established pursuant to the Convention on Internationl Civil Aviation or, prior to a date when such standards are adopted and enter into force pursuant to such convention, the specifications and practices set out in appendix A to Resolution A 17-10 of the Seventeenth Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe reasonable regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purposes of this Act. Requires the Administrator to submit semiannual reports to Congress on the effectiveness of the screening program. Requires the Administrator to provide regulations for the establishment and maintenance of air transportation security forces to insure safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Establishes powers and responsibilities of such security forces. Authorizes the Administrator to require air carriers to refuse transportation to persons or property where there is refusal to consent to search. Set forth criminal penalties for the carrying aboard an aircraft of weapons. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973 and each succeeding fiscal year to maintain the air transportation security force provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973
Title I: Anti Hijacking Act - Expands the definition of the term "special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States" when used in the Federal Aviation Act to include the following aircraft while in flight: (1) any aircraft outside the United States that has "an offense", as defined in the convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, committed aboard, if the aircraft lands in the United States with the alleged offender still aboard; and (2) other aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business in the United States, or his permanent residence in the United States. Provides that whoever aboard an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States commits "an offense", as defined in the convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, and is afterward found in the United States shall be punished by death if convicted or by imprisonment for not less than 20 years if the accused surrendered himself to the captain of the aircraft. 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, or is used as a base of operations for terrorist groups, he may, without notice or hearing and for as long as he determines necessary to assure the security of aircraft against unlawful seizure, suspend the right of any air transportation and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce to and from that foreign nation and the right of any foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any foreign person to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to suspend the operating authority of foreign air carriers when he finds that a foreign nation does not effectively maintain and administer security measures relating to transportation of persons or property or mail in foreign air transportation that are equal to or above the minimum standards which are established pursuant to the Convention on International Civil Aviation or, prior to a date when such standards are adopted and enter into force pursuant to such convention, the specifications and practices set out in appendix A to Resolution A 17-10 of the Seventeenth Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe reasonable regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purposes of this Act. Requires the Administrator to submit semiannual reports to Congress on the effectiveness of the screening program. Requires the Administrator to provide regulations for the establishment and maintenance of air transportation security forces to insure safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Establishes powers and responsibilities for such security forces. Authorizes the Administrator to require air carriers to refuse transportation to persons or property where there is a refusal to consent to search. Set forth criminal penalties for the carrying aboard an aircraft of weapons. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973 and each succeeding fiscal year to maintain the air transportation security force provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Allows a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code to an individual for a taxable year in an amount equal to the expenses paid or accrued by the taxpayer during the taxable year for the education of the taxpayer and his dependents enrolled at an institution of higher or vocational education. Outlines the limitations and special rules for a reduction of the allowable deduction, for adjustments for scholarships, and for veterans' benefits. Sets forth those definitions applicable under the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Act for Freedom of Emigration in East-West Trade - States that after October 15, 1972, products from any nonmarket economy country shall not be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment, such country shall not participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly, and the President of the United States shall not conclude any commercial agreement with any such country during the period beginning with the date on which the President determines that such country: (1) denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate; (2) imposes more than a nominal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents required for emigration, for any purpose or cause whatsoever; or (3) imposes more than a nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice. Provides that, before any of the aforementioned commercial agreements are entered into with any foreign country, the President shall submit to the Congress a report indicating that such country is not in violation of any of the requirements of the preceding paragraph.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Removes the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Abestosis and Mesothelioma Benefits Act - Title I: General - Sets forth the findings of Congress and defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Claims for Benefits Filed on or Before December 31, 1974 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to, in accordance with the provisions of this Title, and the regulations promulgated by him under this title, make payments of benefits in respect of total disability of any asbestos worker due to asbestosis or mesothelioma, and in respect of the death of any asbestos worker whose death was due to asbestosis or mesothelioma. Establishes formulae for determining the payment of benefits. Provides that benefit payments under this Act to an asbestos worker or his widow, child, parent, brother, or sister, shall be reduced, on a monthly or other appropriate basis, by an amount equal to any payment received by such worker or his widow, child, parent, brother, or sister, under the workmen's compensation, unemployment compensation, or disability insurance laws of his State on account of the disability of such worker, and the amount by which such payment would be reduced on account of excess earnings of such worker under the Social Security Act if the amount paid were a benefit payable under such Act. States that benefits payable under this title shall be deemed not to be income for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code. Establishes procedures and requirements for the filing of claims under this title. Title III: Claims for Benefits After December 31, 1974 - Declares that on and after January 1, 1975, any claim for benefits for death or total disability due to asbetosis or mesothelioma shall be filed pursuant to the applicable State workmen's compensation law, except that during any period when asbestos workers or their surviving widows, children, parents, brothers, or sisters, as the case may be, are not covered by a State workmen's compensation law which provides adequate coverage for asbetosis and mesothelioma they shall be entitled to claim benefits under this title. Directs the Secretary of Labor to, no later than October 1, 1973, publish in the Federal Register a list of State workmen's compensation laws which provide adequate coverage for asbestosis and mesothelioma and to revise and republish in the Federal Register such list from time to time, as may be appropriate to reflect changes in such State laws due to legislation or judicial or administrative interpretation. States that the action of the Secretary in including or failing to include any State workmen's compensation law on such list shall be subject to judicial review exclusively in the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which the State is located or the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Requires that within one hundred and twenty days following the convening of each session of Congress the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall submit to the Congress an annual report upon the subject matter of title II of this Act, and, after January 1, 1975, the Secretary of Labor shall also submit such a report upon the subject matter of title III of this Act. Provides that nothing in this Act shall relieve any employer of the duty to comply with any State workmen's compensation law, except insofar as such State law is in conflict with the provisions of this Act and the Secretary by regulation, so prescribes. Provides that no employer shall discharge or in any other way discriminate against any asbestos worker employed by him by reason of the fact that such worker is suffering from asbestosis or mesothelioma.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Act for Freedom of Emigration in East-West Trade - States that after October 15, 1972, products from any nonmarket economy country shall not be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment, such country shall not participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly, and the President of the United States shall not conclude any commercial agreement with any such country during the period beginning with the date on which the President determines that such country: (1) denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate; (2) imposes more than a nominal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents required for emigration, for any purpose or cause whatsoever; or (3) imposes more than a nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice. Provides that, before any of the aforementioned commercial agreements are entered into with any foreign country, the President shall submit to the Congress a report indicating that such country is not in violation of any of the requirements of the preceding paragraph.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Directs the Joint Study Committee on Budget Control to report to the Congress, by bill or resolution, no later than June 1, 1973, its final recommendations with respect to any matters covered under its jurisdiction. Provides that such report shall include, but shall not be limited to : (1) procedures for improving congressional control of budgetary outlay and receipt totals, including procedures for establishing and maintaining an overall view of each year's budgetary outlays which is fully coordinated with an overall view of the anticipated revenues for that year; (2) procedures for the operation of a limitation on expenditures and net lending commencing with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1973; and (3) procedures for limiting the authority of the President to impound or otherwise withhold funds authorized and appropriated by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Permits the transportation, mailing, and broadcasting of advertising, information and materials concerning lotteries authorized by law and conducted by a State or the District of Columbia. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1307; Amends 18 U.S.C. 1953, 39 U.S.C. 3005)
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments - Authorizes to be appropriated $697,482,000 for fiscal year 1973, $700,096,000 for fiscal year 1974, and such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1975, to carry out the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make grants: (1) to public or nonprofit private, agencies for paying part of the cost of planning, preparing, and initiating programs to provide vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with spinal cord injuries or to low-achieving deaf individuals; and (2) to any State agency designated pursuant to a plan approved under the Act, or to any local agency participating in the administration of such a plan, for paying part of the cost of pilot or demonstration projects for the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals who are migratory agricultural workers, and to members of their families. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 34) Provides that whenever the Secretary determines that any amount of an allotment to a State for any fiscal year will not be utilized by such State in carrying out vocational rehabilitation services the Secretary may allot to one or more other States to an amount the extent he determines such other State will be able to use such additional amount during such year for carrying out such purposes. Authorizes grants for such services to the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 32) Includes American Samoa, and the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands within the definition of "State" under the Act. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 41) Requires a State plan for vocational rehabilitation services to provide satisfactory assurance to the Secretary that the agencies administering such plan will take into account, in connection with matters of general policy arising in the administration of the plan, the views of individuals who are recipients of such services, the views of individuals who represent citizen groups, individuals who represent professional groups, and individuals who are providers of vocational rehabilitation services. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 35(a)) Increases to $30 the minimum training allowance to people participating in such service programs under the Act. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 41(b)) Increases to $3,000,000 the annual amount which may be expended for the evaluation of the vocational rehabilitation program under the Act. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 37(a)) Repeals the provision for grants for innovation of vocational rehabilitation program under the Act. Provides for advance funding of programs under the Act. Provides that an individual who, as a part of his rehabilitation under a State plan, participates in a program of work experience in a Federal agency, shall not be considered to be a Federal employee or to be subject to the provisions of law relating to Federal employment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Extends eligibility for coverage under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to: (1) a person who volunteers for assignment to the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service and is assigned to a unit or position in which he may be required to perform active duty; (2) a person assigned to the Retired Reserve of a uniformed service who has not received the first increment of retirement annuities or has not yet reached 61 years of age and has completed at least 20 years of satisfactory service creditable for retirement purposes; and (3) a member, cadet, or midshipman of the Reserve Officers Training Corps while attending field training or practice cruises. Provides that an insurance policy for a member of the Ready Reserve shall cease 120 days after separation or release from such assignment unless on the date of separation the member is totally disabled, or has completed 20 years of service creditable for retirement purposes. Continues the insurance policy of a member of the Retired Reserve until such time as the member receives the first increment of retirement annuity, or the member's sixty-first birthday, whichever occurs earlier. Makes provisions for the conversion of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance following termination to a policy with a participating life insurance company. Provides for the payment of premiums by a deduction from the pay of a member of the Reserve or Ready Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, to allow a member of the National Guard who is not on active duty to make allotments from his pay for the payment of premiums under a group life insurance program sponsored by the military department of the State in which such member holds his National Guard membership or by the National Guard Association of such State. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 765-771; Adds 37 U.S.C. 707)
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Foreign Service War Prisoners Retirement Benefits Act - Provides that employees of the Foreign Service who were prisoners of war or missing in action for any period during the Vietnam conflict may receive double credit for such period for retirement purposes.
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