United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Provides, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, that the Secretary of Labor may visit the workplace of any small employer which has twenty-five or fewer employees for the purpose of affording consultation and advice for such employer on matters, specified in a request by the employer, affecting conditions, structures, machines, apparatus, devices, equipment, or materials in the workplace. Authorizes to be appropriated the sum of $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $1,500,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $1,500,000 for 1975, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 636)
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen every fourth year. Prohibits a Member of the House of Representatives from being a candidate for election as a Senator for a six-year term which is to begin before the expiration of the term of the office held by him unless, at least ninety days prior to such election, the Member shall have submitted a resignation from such office which shall become effective no later than the beginning of such term.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Provides, under the Freedom of Information Act, that each agency, upon a request under the Act that records be made available to the public, shall: (1) determine within ten days after the receipt of any such request whether to comply with such request and immediately notify the person making such request of such determination and the reasons therefor; (2) in the case of a determination not to comply with any such request, immediately notify the person making such request that such person has a period of twenty days within which to appeal such determination to such agency; and (3) make a determination with respect to such appeal within twenty days after the receipt of such appeal. Permits the district court, to examine the contents of agency records in camera to determine if such records shall be exempted from disclosure. Provides that in the case of an action in the United States district court to enjoin an agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld, the United States or an officer or agency thereof shall serve an answer to any complaint made in such action within twenty days after the service upon the United States Attorney of the pleading in which such complaint is made. Provides that the court may assess against the United States reasonable attorney fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred in such action in which the United States or an officer or agency thereof has not prevailed. Provides that such disclosures under the Act may be obtained in the case of investigatory records for law enforcement purposes to the extent that such records are scientific tests, reports, or data, inspection reports of any agency which relates to health or safety, or records which serve as a basis for any public policy statement made by any agency or officer or employee of the United States or which serves as a basis for rulemaking by any agency. Provides that each Agency shall submit an annual report to the Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate which include statistics on the request and appeal procedures of the Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 552)
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the U.S. Constitution shall bar any State or territory or the District of Columbia, with regard to any area over which it has jurisdiction, from allowing, regulating, or prohibiting the practice of abortion.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
National Diabetes Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to expand the authority of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases in order to advance the national attack on diabetes. Authorizes the Director to the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, with the advice of the National Advisory Council of the Institute, to develop a plan for a national diabetes program. Sets forth general guidelines for such program and provides that the program shall be coordinated with the other programs conducted or administered by the research institutes of the National Institure of Health. Provides that the plan required to be developed by this Act shall be developed within two hundred seventy days after the effective date of this Act. Requires the Director of the Institute at the end of each calender year, to prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a report on the activities, progress and accomplishments under the progrom during the preceding year and a plan for the program for the succeding five-year period. to establish programs as necessary in cooperation with other Federal health agencies, state, local and regional public health agencies, and nonprofit private health agencies, in the prevention, control diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, appropriately emphasizing the prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment of such diseases in children. Authorizes to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, $35,000,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $45,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, for the purpose of establishing such programs. States that the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases may provide for the development of not less that fifteen centers for basic and clinical research into, training in, and demonstration of advanced diagnostic, prevention and treatment methods for diabetes prevention. States that support of such a center may be for a period of not to exceed five years and may be extended by the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases for additional periods of not more than five years each, after review of the operations of the centers by a scientific review group established by the Director. Establishes an Interagency Technical Committee on Diabetes which shall be responsible for coordinating those aspects of all Federal Health Programs and activities relating to diabetes.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1973
Small Business Pollution Abatement Loan Assistance and Worker's Readjustment Assistance Act - Title I: Assistance to Small Business - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make: (1) planning grants of up to $100,000 or 100 percent of the cost of meeting pollution requirements, whichever is less, to small business firms; and (2) loans of up to $500,000 or 100 percent of the costs for meeting the costs of compliance with State or Federal laws, rules or regulations relating to pollution abatement, whichever is less. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans to small businesses for purposes of tying into municipal waste treatment facilities. Provides that no such loan shall exceed $500,000 in amount. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $4,000,000,000 to carry out this title. Title II: Assistance to Workers - Authorizes the Secretary to pay a readjustment allowance to adversely affected workers meeting the qualifying requirements set out in this title who have been totally or partially separated from their jobs after the date or enactment of this Act on account of the enforcement of State or Federal pollution abatement measures. Provides that the readjustment allowance authorized under this title for a week of unemployment may be an amount equal to his average weekly wage over the last 6 months of his employment. Provides for reductions in such allowance based upon the amount of unemployment insurance the worker is receiving. Sets forth time limitations on such allowance payments. Provides for training of workers covered by this Act in accordance with such workers capabilities and prospective employment opportunities. Provides for relocation allowances for such workers. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the functions authorized in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Extends the Education of the Handicapped Act for three years through fiscal year 1976. Authorizes appropriations for specified programs under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Establishes the Select Committee on the Cost and Availability of Food, to be composed of twelve Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker, to conduct a full and complete investigation of all matters affecting, influencing, and pertaining to the cost and availability of food to the American consumer. Requires the committee to report to the House as soon as practicable during the present Congress the results of its investigation and study, together with such findings, conclusions, and recommendations as it deems advisable. Grants the committee various powers to carry out the objectives of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Authorizes the President, through the temporary Vietnam Children's Care Agency, to enter into arrangements with the Government of South Vietnam to provide assistance in improving the welfare of children in South Vietnam and to facilitate the adoption of orphaned or abandoned Vietnamese children, particularly children of United States fathers. Authorizes necessary funds to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes additional funds that may be necessary to assist the United Nations or any other multi-lateral or non-profit organization to perform functions which would otherwise be performed by the Agency under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Community Service Fellowship Act - States it to be the purpose of this Act to establish a community service fellowship program to: (1) encourage the development of meaningful learning experiences through full-time work in community service jobs throughout the country; (2) help break the academic lockstep by providing legitimate options to the immediate continuation of formal education courses; and (3) help provide creative and energetic manpower for presently undone but needed community tasks. Directs the Director of ACTION to develop and carry out a community service fellowship program, and national board to assist him in carrying out this Act. Provides that it shall be the duty of the national board to advise the Director, particularly with respect to: (1) criteria for the selection of community services projects to participate in the program; (2) approval of applications for community service projects; (3) names of persons it deems suitable for appointment to regional boards; (4) evaluation of community service programs being carried out under this Act; and (5) recommendations for the improvement of programs carried out under this Act. Directs the Director to establish not to exceed ten regional boards for regions which he shall establish. Provides that it shall be the duty of each regional board: (1) to propose for approval community service projects which meet criteria established by the Director with the advice of the national board; (2) to keep itself continually informed with respect to the conduct of community service projects in its region; (3) to recommend persons for designation as community service fellowship holders; (4) to encourage the utilization of fellows by local community service organizations; and (5) to perform such other duties as the national board may assign. Provides that the Director may not approve an application unless: (1) it provides for the employment of fellows in activities which contribute to the social well-being of the community; (2) it will result in the creation of new positions; and (3) it provides for certain planned activities which will help fellows understand the broad context and role of community services within the area represented by the applicant. Provides that each fellow participating in a community service project shall accumulate entitlement to educational benefits, so that for each month during which he is a fellow he shall be entitled to receive $150 for use by him for his educational expenses when he resumes his education.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Emergency Crime Control Act - Title I: Planning and Law Enforcement Grants to High Crime Urban Areas - Provides that State plans for law enforcement assistance that qualify for grants under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act shall provide that each high crime urban area (of 250,000 population, or more) within such State shall constitute a separate regional planning unit which shall assist in the development of the comprehensive State plan, take receipts from the State planning agency of all Federal funds granted for use in such high crime urban area, and assist in coordinating all law enforcement efforts within such high crime urban area which are in whole or in part assisted by Federal funds under such Act. Prescribes a formula by which such State planning grants under such Act shall be allocated to such high crime urban areas. Provides, under the provision of such Act for disbursements by State planning agencies, that each State planning agency shall make a block grant in lieu of program and project grants to each high crime urban area within the State which notifies such agency that there has been organized within such area an Urban Law Enforcement Council and submits to such agency a plan for the use of such grant. Prescribes a formula by which such State planning agency shall measure such grants to such high crime urban area. Title II: Special Impact Grants to High Intensity Urban Area - Provides that the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall make a block grant, to each high crime urban area, measured by $5 multiplied by the population of such area, which notifies it that there has been organized within such area an Urban Law Enforcement Council, and submits to it a plan for the use of such grant. Provides that grants shall be made available under this section for fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of carrying out this section.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for tuition paid by a taxpayer during the taxable year to any private nonprofit elementary or secondary school for the education as a full-time student of any dependent with respect to whom the taxpayer is allowed an income tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code. Limits the tax credit to 50 percent of the tuition paid by the taxpayer or $200, whichever is less. Provides that any payment which is taken into account in determining the tax credit shall not be treated as an amount paid by the taxpayer for purposes of determining entitlement to a tax deduction. Allows any U.S. taxpayer to commence a proceeding in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, within the three month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, to determine whether the provisions of this Act are valid legislation under the U.S. Constitution. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 42)
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Rights of Conscience in Abortion Procedures Act - Requires Medical institutions to provide a certificate indicating respect for an individual employee's right not to participate in abortions contrary to that individual's conscience as a requirement for hospital eligibility for Federal financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Bill of Rights for the Mentally Retarded - States that the purpose of this Act is to establish standards which assure the humane care, treatment, habilitation, and protection of the mentally retarded in residential facilities, and to improve the system for the provision of services to the mentally retarded through the encouragement of and support for the planning and development of strategies to implement such standards, minimize inappropriate admissions to residential facilities and stimulate the development of regional and community programs integrating such residential facilities which conform to such standards. Provides for a new title to the Public Health Service Act: Title XI: Support of Residential Facilities for the Mentally Retarded - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to aid them with the cost of bringing existing residential facilities into compliance with the standards established under this Act, and to improve existing residential facilities for the mentally retarded. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 ($15,000,000 for each program) for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years, for such grants. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to make grants to States for the purpose of assisting States in meeting the expenses for bringing publicly operated facilities and publicly assisted facilities into conformity with the standards established by this Act. Stipulates that any State desiring to receive such a grant shall submit a plan to the Secretary setting forth a schedule for compliance with such standards. Provides that the total of the grants with respect to any such project bringing facilities into conformity with the standards imposed by this Act may not exceed 75 percent of the necessary cost thereof as determined by the Secretary. Requires, within five years after the date of enactment of this Act, that no residential facility for the mentally retarded shall be eligible to receive payments either directly or indirectly under any Federal law, unless such facility meets the standards promulgated under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any public or private non-profit agency, organization or institution to meet the costs of development, improvement, extension, or expansion of community resources and community living situations for the mentally retarded other than live-in-residential facilities for the mentally retarded. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Standards for Residential Facilities for the Mentally Retarded to: (1) advise the Secretary with respect to any regulations promulgated or proposed in the implementation of the standards established under this Act; (2) study and evaluate such standards authorized by this Act; and (3) recommend to the Secretary any changes, revisions, modifications, or improvements in the standards established under this Act. Provides that the ultimate aim of the residential facility shall be to foster those behaviors that maximize the human qualities of the resident, increase the complexity of his behavior, and enhance his ability to cope with his environment. Requires such facilities to be located within, and conveniently accessible to, the population served, so as to have access to necessary generic community services. Provides that the facility and the surrounding community should be encouraged to share their services and resources on a reciprocal basis. Provides that residents of the facility should be integrated to the greatest possible extent with the general population. Provides that the facility shall have a written outline of the philosophy, objectives, and goals it is striving to achieve. Requires such outline to be available for distribution to staff, consumer representatives, and the interested public. Provides that the governing body of the facility shall exercise general direction and shall establish policies concerning the operation of the individuals served. Provides that the administration of the facility shall provide for effective staff and resident participation and communication. Requires the facility to designate a percentage of its operating budget for self-renewal purposes. Provides that the facility shall have a description of services for residents that is available to the public. Provides that the facility shall provide for meaningful and extensive consumer-representative and public participation. Provides that a public education and information program should be established that utilizes all communication media, and all service, religious and civil groups, to develop attitudes of understanding and acceptance of mentally retarded persons in all aspects of community living. Provides that admission and release procedures shall: (1) encourage voluntary admission; (2) give equal priority to persons of comparable need; (3) facilitate emergency, partial, and short-term residential care; and (4) utilize the maximum feasible amount of voluntariness in each individual case. Authorizes the residential facility to admit only residents who have had a comprehensive evaluation. Provides that all admissions to the residential facility shall be considered temporary. Provides that there shall be a regular, at least annual, joint review of the status of each resident by all relevant personnel. Provides that at the time of permanent release or transfer there shall be recorded a summary of findings, progress, and plans for protective supervision and other followup services in the resident's new environment. Provides that the performance of each employee of the facility shall be evaluated at least annually. Provides that staffing shall be sufficient so that the facility is not dependent upon the use of residents or volunteers for productive services. Provides that food services shall recognize and provide for the physiological, emotional, and cultural needs of each resident, through provision of a planned, nutritionally adequate diet. Provides that each resident shall have an adequate allowance of neat, clean, fashionable, and seasonable clothing. Provides that residents shall be trained to exercise maximum independence in health, hygiene, and grooming practices. Provides that living unit components or groupings shall be small enough to insure the development of meaningful interpersonal relationships among residents and between residents and staff. Requires dental services to be provided all residents in order to maximize their general health by maintaining an optimal level of daily oral health, through preventive measures and correcting existing oral diseases. Provides that educational services, defined as deliberate attempts to facilitate the intellectual, sensorimotor, and affective development of the individual, shall be available to all residents, regardless of chronological age, degree of retardation, or accompanying disabilities or handicaps. Provides that food and nutrition services shall be provided in order to: (1) insure optimal nutritional status of each resident, thereby enhancing his physical, emotional, and social well-being; and (2) provide a nutritionally adequate diet, in a form consistent with developmental level, to meet the dietary needs of each resident. Makes library services, which include the location, acquisition, organization, utilization, retrieval, and delivery of materials in a variety of media, available to the facility, in order to support and strengthen its total habilitation program by providing complete and integrated multimedia information services to both staff and residents. Provides that medical services shall be provided in order to: (1) achieve and maintain an optimal level of general health for each resident; (2) maximize normal function and prevent disability; and (3) facilitate the optimal development of each resident. Provides that residents shall be provided with nursing services, in accordance with their needs, in order to: (1) develop and maintain an environment that will meet their total health needs; (2) foster optimal health; (3) encourage maximum self-care and independence; and (4) provide skilled nursing care. Provides that, where appropriate to the facility, there shall be a pharmacy and therapeutics committee, that includes one or more pharmacists, to develop policy on drug usage in the facility, and to develop and maintain a current formulary. Provides that physical and occupational therapy services shall be provided in order to: (1) prevent abnormal development and further disability; (2) facilitate the optimal development of each resident; and (3) enable the resident to be a contributing and participating member of the community in which he resides. Requires psychological services be provided in order to facilitate, through the application of psychological principles, techniques, and skills, the optimal development of each resident. Provides that recreation services should provide each resident with a program of activities that: (1) promotes physical and mental health; (2) promotes optimal sensorimotor, cognitive, affective, and social development; (3) encourages movement from dependent to independent and interdependent functioning; and (4) provides for the enjoyable use of leisure time. Make religious services available to residents, in accorance with their basic right to freedom of religion. Provides that all social services shall be available to all residents and their families in order to foster and facilitate: (1) maximum personal and social development of the resident; (2) positive family functioning; and (3) effective and satisfying social and community relationships. Provides that speech pathology and audiology services shall be available, in order to: (1) maximize the communications skills of all residents; and (2) provide for the evaluation, counseling, treatment, and rehabilitation of those residents with speech, hearing and/or language handicaps. Requires each facility to provide all its residents with rehabilitation services, which include the establishment, maintenance, and implementation of those programs that will ensure the optimal development or restoration of each resident physically, psychologically, socially and vocationally. Provides that volunteer services shall be provided in order to enhance opportunities for the fullest realization of the potential of each resident by: (1) increasing the amount, and improving the quality, of services and programs; and (2) facilitating positive relationships between the facility and the community which it serves. Provides that a record shall be maintained for each resident that is adequate for: (1) planning and continuous evaluating of the resident's habitation program; (2) providing a means of communication among all persons contributing to the resident's habilitation program; (3) furnishing documentary evidence of the resident's progress and of his response to his habilitation program; (4) serving as a basis for review, study, and evaluation of the overall programs provided by the facility for its residents; (5) protecting the legal rights of the residents, facility, and staff; and (6) providing data for use in research and education. Provides that the administration of the facility shall make provision for the design and conduct, or the supervision, of research that will objectively evaluate the effectiveness of program components and contribute to informed decisionmaking in the facility. Provides that the requirements of the Secretary shall be met, with specific reference to the following: (1) provision of adequate and alternate exits and doors; (2) provision of exit ramps, with nonskid surface and slope not exceeding one foot in twelve; and (3) provision for handrails on stairways. Provides that there shall be records that document strict compliance with the sanitation, health, and environmental safety codes of the State or local authorities having primary jurisdiction over the facility. Provides that adequate, modern administrative support shall be provided to efficiently meet the needs of, and contribute to, program services for residents, and to facilitate attainment of the goals and objectives of the facility. Provides that funds shall be budgeted and spent in accordance with the principles and procedures of program budgeting. Provides that there shall be written purchasing policies regarding authority and approvals for supplies, services, and equipment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Wilderness Study Act - Provides for a study of various lands enumerated in this Act to determine their suitability for designation as wilderness in accordance with the Wilderness Act of 1964. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report the findings of such study to the President within five years after the date of the enactment of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Designates lands in the Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee, as the North Cohutta Wilderness Preserve.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provision of such Act presently limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total grants for social services paid to a State which may be paid with respect to individuals not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance. Specifies, in the public assistance provisions of such Act, the minimum periods within which an individual (not receiving aid or assistance) must have been or be likely to become an applicant for expenditures for services provided to him to qualify for Federal matching grants to a State.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Designates specified lands in the following national forests for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System including: (1) Bankhead National Forest, Alabama; (2) Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas; (3) Ozark National Forest, Arkansas; (4) Appalachicola National Forest, Florida; (5) Chattahooche and Cherokee National Forests, Georgia and Tennessee; (6) White Mountain National Forest, Maine; (7) Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri; (8) White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire; (9) Natahala and Cherokee National Forests, North Carolina and Tennessee; (10) Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia; (11) George Washington National Forest, Virginia and West Virginia; (12) Jefferson National Forest, Virginia; (13) Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky; (14) Sumter National Forest, South Carolina, (15) Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont; (16) Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin; (17) Clark National Forest, Missouri, Hiawatha National Forest, Michigan; and (18) Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Sets forth restrictions on the procurement or instigation of an investigative consumer report. States that a person may not procure or cause to be prepared a consumer report on any consumer unless it is clearly and accurately disclosed to the consumer that such a report may be made. Entitles the consumer to a copy of such report. Provides that any consumer reporting agency which negligently or maliciously publishes any untrue statement or representation with respect to a consumer shall be liable to such consumer for: (1) actual damages, but not less than liquidated damages of $1,000; (2) punitive damages; and (3) a reasonable attorney's fee and other litigation costs reasonably incurred. Directs the President to establish a Board of Consumer Investigation Examiners. Provides that the Board shall promulgate such rules and procedures, as it deems necessary or appropriate in order to regulate the examining, licensing, and practices of individuals who investigate consumers for the purpose of preparing or aiding in the preparation of investigative consumer reports. Establishes procedures and guidelines for granting or revoking licenses granted individuals to prepare or aid in the preparation of investigative consumer reports. Provides for judicial review in an appropriate United States district court for any individual aggrieved by any final decision of the Board denying, revoking, or suspending a license. Makes it unlawful for any individual: (1) to investigate any consumer for the purpose of preparing or aiding in the preparation of any investigative consumer report without a license issued to such individual by the Board; or (2) to violate the terms of any license issued to him by the Board. Provides that any individual who violates the above paragraph shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Citizens' Suggestion Award Act - Establishes a 5-member Commission on Citizens' Suggestions, inventions, and proposals which contribute to the efficiency, economy and other improvement of Government Operations. Provides that such suggestions are to be kept confidential and if they are deemed to be meritorious a cash award shall be paid to the citizen or group, who submitted such suggestion. Directs the commission to: (1) publicize the provisions of this Act as widely as possible and undertake such programs and activities as it deems appropriate to encourage public participation in the citizen suggestion program; (2) provide for the dissemination of information to all appropriate Federal departments and agencies with respect to any suggestion, invention, or proposal for which an award is made under this Act; and (3) encourage and aid State and local governments to establish suggestion programs in order to promote further efficiency and economies in the operation of such governments.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that Guam shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of the delegation of Guam to the Congress, but in no event more than the least populous State. Provides that the Virgin Islands shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct a number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of the delegation of the Virgin Islands to the Congress, but in no event more than the least populous State. Requires the electors appointed by Guam and the Virgin Islands under the provisions of this amendment to be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State, and they shall meet in such places in Guam and the Virgin Islands, respectively, as the Congress shall designate and perform their duties under the twelfth article of amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that: (1) the President vigorously press our NATO allies to assume a greater proportion of the cost of their own defense; and (2) the President, as Commander in Chief, take whatever steps he deems necessary to implement this burden-sharing concept. Declares that no action taken pursuant to this resolution should weaken either our resolve or our ability to fulfill our commitments under the North Atlantic Treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Prisoner Rights Act - Prohibits the inhumane treatment of any person held under authority of any enactment of Congress. Requires the immediate discharge of any officer or employee of the United States who knowingly and willfully engages in such treatment. Defines the term "inhumane treatment" as meaning: (1) striking, whipping, or otherwise imposing physical pain upon a prisoner as a measure of punishment; (2) any use of physical force by an employee except that which may be necessary for self-defense, to prevent or stop assault by one prisoner upon another person, and for prevention of riot or escape; (3) sexual or other assaults; (4) any punitive or restrictive measure taken in retaliation for the assertion of rights; (5) any measure intended to degrade such person, including insults and verbal abuse; and (6) any invidiously discriminatory treatment based upon race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs. Sets forth restrictions upon the use of solitary confinement in facilities covered by this Act. Directs the Attorney General to establish a grievance procedure to which all persons covered by this Act shall have access. Directs the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to establish rules permitting attorneys of record, relatives, and friends to visit and talk in private with any person covered by this Act. Authorizes civil actions against the authorities of any penal institution or facility who prevent visits permitted under this Act. Provides that any penal institution or facility may be visited at any time by any Member of Congress or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 4012, 4013)
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
National Science Policy and Priorities Act - Title I: Science Policy and Priorities for Civilian Research and Engineering - Science Policy Act - Directs the National Science Foundation to: (1) analyze information regarding Federal expenditures for research and engineering activities in order to focus these activities on meeting the needs of the Nation in such areas as health care, poverty, public safety, sanitation and utilities, pollution, unemployment, housing, education, transportation, nutrition, communications, and energy resources; (2) develop and recommend to the President and the Congress programs and activities which will contribute to carrying out such policies; and (3) submit to the President for the transmittal to the Congress not later than January 31 of each calendar year a report of its activities under this Act. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975; and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Design and Demonstration of Civil Science Systems - Civil Science Systems Act - Establishes, within the National Science Foundation, the Civil Science Systems Administration and the Science Research and Education Administration. Prohibits the transfer of funds between these two Administrations. Establishes a Civil Science Systems Advisory Council to advise the Director of the Civil Science Systems Administration with respect to the discharge of his responsibilities under this Act. Authorizes the Director to conduct planning studies, to transfer funds to other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, and to make grants to, or to enter into contracts with, academic institutions, nonprofit institutes and organizations, State, regional, and local governmental agencies, and private business firms, for the conduct of the following programs: (1) planning studies for the design and demonstration of civil science systems capable of providing improved civil services; (2) applied social research into the economic, sociological, political, legal, administrative, and psychological aspects of civil science systems capable of providing improved public services; (3) research with respect to civil science systems capable of providing improved public services in areas such as health care, public safety, sanitation and utilities, pollution control, productivity, unemployment, education, housing, transportation, nutrition, communications, and energy resources; (4) testing and evaluating civil science systems which make use of advanced science and technology; (5) establishment of a computerized Civil Science System Information Service to collect and integrate the scientific, technical, and social information pertaining to civil science systems resulting from programs under this title, and to provide such information to interested organizations in Federal, State, and local government, industry, academic institutions, and the nonprofit sector, upon request from such organizations, in accordance with such administrative procedures as are established by the Director; and (6) construction and public exhibition of civil science systems demonstration projects, which illustrate the functioning and associated benefits of alternative, effective civil science systems resulting from research and design activities conducted or assisted under this title. Authorizes appropriations for the various programs established under this title of $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $315,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $435,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Title III: Transition of Technical manpower to Civilian Programs - Technical Manpower Transition Act - Authorizes the Foundation to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, academic institutions, nonprofit institutes and organizations, public agencies, and private business firms, for the purpose of: (1) researching the social, economic research and engineering activities to civilian-oriented research and engineering activities; (2) conducting programs at the State, local, or regional level, which are designed to facilitate the transition of scientific and technical activities to civilian programs within the particular State, local, or geographic area; (3) planning or operating training programs for officers and employees of Federal, State, and local government who will be responsible for, or participate in, determining or administering government assisted or conducted programs for civilian, socially oriented research and engineering activities; (4) paying the travel and subsistence expenses of government employees incurred in connection with their participation in training programs carried out under the previous programs; (5) establishing community conversion corporations; (6) enabling private corporations to hire scientists, engineers, and technicians for work on projects for which they are not yet fully qualified; (7) awarding career transition fellowships and awards to technicians to enable them to pursue a course of study through which they can acquire specialized technical knowledge and skills in fields other than the ones in which they are already proficient; (8) entering into contracts with scientific, professional, technical, and business associations and labor unions in order to establish and operate placement programs for unemployed or underemployed scientists, engineers, and technicians; and (9) planning, developing, strengthening, or carrying out education programs which design courses and curriculums intended to prepare students for careers in civilian, socially oriented research and engineering activities. Authorizes appropriations for the various provisions of this title of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Title IV: General Provision - Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act and specifies certain administrative provisions. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 1862, 1863; 42 U.S.C. 1864(e),(a); 42 U.S.C. 1873; Amends 5 U.S.C. 5314, 5315; 5 U.S.C. 5316)
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Requires that Federal officials comply with any State or local statute or ordinance providing for the withholding of an income tax from the pay of employees subject to such tax (presently limited to State taxes only). (Amends 5 U.S.C. 5517)
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Rehabilitation Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide a statutory basis for the Rehabilitation Service Administration and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, Welfare, an Office for the Handicapped, and to authorize specified programs. Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Rehabilitation Services Administration which shall be administered by a Commissioner. Provides that the Commissioner shall carry out and administer all programs and direct the performance of all services for which authority is provided to the Secretary of H.E.W. under titles I through IV of this Act. Creates within such Administration a Division of Research, Training and Evaluation which shall be responsible for carrying out programs and projects under title IV of this Act. Authorizes the inclusion of appropriations under this Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which they are available for obligation. Provides that where funds are provided for a single project by more than one Federal agency to an agency or organization assisted under this Act, the Federal agency principally involved may be designated to act for all in administering such funds, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the President. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act. Title I: Vocational Rehabilitation Services - States it to be the purpose of this title to authorize grants to assist States to meet the current and future needs of handicapped individuals, so that such individuals may prepare for and engage in gainful employment to the extent of their capabilities. Authorizes to be appropriated $700,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $800,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 for the purpose of making grants to States to assist them in meeting the cost of vocational rehabilitation services. Authorizes to be appropriated $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the purpose of making grants to States and public and nonprofit agencies to assist them in meeting the costs of projects to initiate or expand services to handicapped individuals. Sets forth the requirements of State plans to be submitted and approved for participation in programs under this title and approved for participation in programs under this title and under title II of this Act. Authorizes judicial review in Unites States district courts of decisions by the Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration affecting State plans. Provides that the Commissioner shall insure that the individualized written rehabilitation program required in a State plan in the case of each handicapped individual shall be developed jointly by the vocational rehabilitational counselor or coordinator and the handicapped individual. Defines vocational rehabilitation services provided under this Act as any goods or services necessary to render a handicapped individuals employable, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) evaluation of rehabilitation potential; (2) counseling, guidance, referral, and placement services for handicapped individuals; (3) vocational and other training services for handicapped individuals; (4) physical and mental restoration services; (5) maintenance, not exceeding the estimated cost of subsistence, during rehabilitation; (6) interpreter services for the deaf, and reader services for the blind; (7) recruitment and training services for handicapped individuals; (8) rehabilitation teaching services and orientation and mobility services for the blind; (9) occupational licenses, tools, equipment, and initial stocks and supplies; (10) transportation in connection with the rendering of any vocational rehabilitation services; and (11) telecommunications, sensory, and other technological aids and devices. Provides a formula for the allotment and payment of funds to States for providing rehabilitation services under this title. Directs the Commissioner to establish offices in ten to twenty geographically dispersed regions for client assistance pilot projects to provide counselors to inform and advise all clients and client applicants in the project area of all available benefits under this Act and to assist them in their relationships with projects, programs, and facilities providing services to them under this Act. Directs the Commissioner to pay to a State or, at the option of the State, to a public or nonprofit organization or agency a portion of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating special programs under the State plan to expand vocational rehabilitation services. Title II: Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services - States it to be the purpose of this title to authorize grants to assist the several States in developing and implementing continuing plans for meeting the current and future needs of handicapped individuals for whom a vocational goal is not possible or feasible. Authorizes to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for grants to carry out the purposes of this title. Specifies the formula to be utilized in alloting such funds to the States. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States and public and nonprofit agencies or organizations to pay part of the cost of projects for research and demonstration and training which hold promise of making a substantial contribution to the solution of problems related to the rehabilitation of individuals under this title. Title III: Special Federal Responsibilities - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants and contracts to assist in meeting the cost of construction of public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities, initial staffing, and planning assistance. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or nonprofit organizations and agencies to pay up to 90 percent of the cost of projects for providing vocational training services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps, in public or nonprofit rehabilitation facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants and contracts $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the Commissioner to insure up to 100 percent of any mortgage for the construction of facilities for programs for handicapped individuals. Creates a Rehabilitation Facilities Insurance Fund to be used by the Commissioner as a revolving fund for carrying out the insurance provisions of this part. Provides that the total amount of outstanding mortgages shall not exceed $250,000,000. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for initial capital for such Fund. Authorizes the Commissioner to make annual interest grants to assist States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations to reduce the cost of borrowing from other sources for the construction of rehabilitation facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the payment of annual interest grants in accordance with this part. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations for paying part of the cost of special projects and demonstrations: (1) for establishing facilities and providing services which hold promise of expanding or otherwise improving rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps; and (2) for applying new types or patterns of service or devices. Allows the Commissioner to make grants to pay up to 90 percent of the cost of projects or demonstrations for the provision of of vocational or comprehensive rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals who are migratory agricultural workers or seasonal farmworkers and to members of their families who are with them. Provides that the Commissioner may make contracts or jointly finance cooperative arrangements with employers and organizations for the establishment of projects designed to prepare handicapped individuals for gainful and suitable employment in the competitive labor market under which such handicapped individuals are provided training and employment in a realistic work setting and such other services as may be necessary for such individuals to continue to engage in such employment. Authorizes the Commissioner to provide technical assistance to rehabilitation facilities, and for the purpose of removal of architectural and transportation barriers, to any public or nonprofit agency, institution, organization or facility. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the purpose of making grants under this part, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated for construction $600,000 for fiscal year 1973, $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $1,500,000 for fiscal year 1975, for establishing and operating a National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as Congress deems necessary for fiscal year 1973 and for the next two succeding fiscal years for making grants and contracts for the expansion and improvement of vocational or comprehensive rehabilitation services for deaf and blind individuals. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the purpose of establishing and operating National Centers for Spinal Cord Injuries, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated, for providing services for the treatment of individuals suffering from end-stage renal disease, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Rehabilitation of Handicapped Individuals in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to: (1) provide policy advice and consultation to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Commissioner; (2) review the administration and operation of vocational rehabilitation programs under this Act; and (3) advise the Secretary and the Commissioner with respect to conduct of independent evaluations of programs carried out under this Act. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as Congress deems necessary for fiscal year 1973 and for each of fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the functions of the Council. Title IV: Research and Training - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to and contracts with States and public or nonprofit agencies and organizations to pay part of the cost of projects for the purpose of planning and conducting research, demonstrations, and related activities, which bear directly on the development of methods, procedures, and devices to assist in the provision of vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals, especially those with the most severe handicaps. Authorizes to be appropriated for such research activities $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to and contract with States and public and nonprofit agencies and organizations to pay part of the cost of projects for training, traineeships, and related activities designed to assist in increasing the numbers of personnel trained in providing vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals and in performing other functions necessary to the development of such services. Authorizes to be appropriated for such training grants $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Title V: Administration and Program and Project Evaluation - Provides that, in carrying out his duties under this Act, the Commissioner shall: (1) cooperate with, and render technical assistance to, States in matters relating to the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals; (2) provide short-term training and instruction in technical matters relating to vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services; and (3) disseminate information relating to vocational and comprehensive rehabilitation services, and otherwise promote the cause of the rehabilitation of handicapped individuals and their greater utilization in gainful and suitable employment. Directs the Secretary to measure and evaluate the impact of all programs authorized by this Act. Title VI: Office for the Handicapped - Establishes an Office for the Handicapped in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to: (1) prepare a long-range projection for the provisions of comprehensive services to handicapped individuals; (2) analyze program operations; (3) encourage coordinated and cooperative planning; (4) provide assistance to other committees advising the Secretary; (5) develop means of promoting scientific research to bring about the full integration of handicapped individuals into all aspects of society; and (6) provide a central clearinghouse for information and resource availability for handicapped individuals. Authorizes to be appropriated for purposes of this title such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal year 1973 and for the next two fiscal years. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Provides that the Vocational Rehabilitation Act is repealed ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act. Establishes an Interagency Committee on Handicapped Employees to insure the adequacy of hiring, placement, and advancement practices with respect to handicapped individuals by each department, agency, and instrucmentality of the executive branch of the Government. Establishes a National Commission on Transportation and Housing for Handicapped Individuals to identify and eliminate transportation barriers that impede the mobility of handicapped individuals and aged handicapped individuals, and to prepare plans and proposals for such further action as may be necessary to the goals for adequate transportation and housing for handicapped individuals. Establishes an Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board to investigate and examine alternative approaches to the architectural, transportation, and attitudinal barriers confronting handicapped individuals. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal 1973 and for the next two fiscal years to carry out the duties and functions of the Board.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Comprehensive Older Americans Services Amendments - Title I: Declaration of Objectives - States that the general purpose of this Act is to make available comprehensive health, education, and social service programs to our older citizens. Title II: Administration on Aging - Establishes an Administration on Aging, headed by the Commissioner of Aging, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Establishes within the Administration on Aging a National Information and Resource Clearing House for the Aging to collect, review, organize, publish, and disseminate information and data related to the particular problems caused by aging, including information describing measures which are or may be employed for meeting such problems. Authorizes appropriations of $750,000 for fiscal year 1973; $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; and $1,250,000 for fiscal year 1975 to carry out the purposes of the Center. Establishes the Federal Council on the Aging, designated to advise and assist the President as he may direct on matters relating to the special needs of older Americans; to assist the Commissioner on Aging in carrying out his functions under this Act; and to review and evaluate programs of the Federal Government with emphasis on identifying unsolved problems of older Americans. Provides that not later than one hundred and twenty days after the close of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a complete report on the activities carried out under this Act. Repeals Title VIII of the Older Americans Act. Title III: Grants for State and Area Programs - Prescribes standards and procedures for the establishment by the several States of State and area social service programs to concentrate resources in order to develop a greater capacity and foster development of comprehensive systems to serve older persons. Authorizes $85,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for State grants to social services programs. Provides that the Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any State plan, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $20,000,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for grants to States for paying such percentage as each State agency determines, but not more than 75 percent of the cost of administering the State plan. Authorizes appropriations totaling $215,000,000 for fiscal years 1973-1975 for grants for model projects designed to promote the well-being of older persons. Title IV: Training and Research - Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State agencies and educational institutions for the purpose of: (1) publicizing available opportunities for careers in the field of aging; (2) encouraging qualified persons to enter or re-enter the field of aging; (3) encouraging persons from other professions to undertake assignments on a parttime basis in the field of aging; and (4) assisting in covering the cost of courses of training or study. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants for the purpose of establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology to recruit and train personnel; conduct basic research on the problem of the aged; provide consultation to public and voluntary organizations; and create opportunities for research projects with respect to aging. Authorizes appropriations of $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the purposes of attracting personnel to and training personnel in the field of aging. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000 for the fiscal year 1973, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology. Title V: Multipurpose Senior Centers - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to units of general purpose local government or other public or nonprofit private agencies to pay not to exceed 75 percent of the cost of leasing, altering, or renovating existing facilities to serve as multipurpose senior centers. Establishes standards to be followed by the Commissioner in making such grants and authorizes appropriations totaling $45,000,000 for fiscal years 1973-1975 to carry out the provisions of this section. Creates a multipurpose Senior Center Insurance Fund to be administered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to insure mortgages on multipurpose senior centers. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making grants to meet the costs of compensation of professional and technical personnel for the initial operation of multipurpose senior centers. Title VI: National Older Americans Volunteer Program - Provides that no compensation paid to individual volunteers under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program under the Older Americans Act shall be considered income for any purposes. Provides continuing appropriations for such program in the amount of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the continuation of the Foster Grandparent Program under the Older Americans Act. Title VII: Nutrition Programs - Provides under the Older Americans Act of 1965 that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation may donate specified products acquired by them to a recipient of a grant or contract for providing nutritional services for the elderly. Title VIII: Amendments to Other Acts - Directs the Commissioner to make grants to States to carry out public library service programs to older persons. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts through fiscal year 1976. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to institutions of higher education to assist them in programs designed to apply the resources of higher education to the problems of the elderly. Title IX: Community Service Employment for Older Americans - Older American Community Service Employment Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish an employment program for older Americans to promote useful part-time work for unemployed, low-income persons who are 55 years old or older and who have poor employment prospects. Sets forth the requirements which a project must meet prior to receiving payments from the Secretary. Requires that the amounts appropriated under this title be apportioned equitably within each State, taking into consideration the proportion which eligible persons in each area bears to the total number of persons in the State. Authorizes appropriations of $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 to carry out the provisions of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to utilize Department of Defense resources for the purpose of providing medical emergency transportation services to civilians.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union should be condemned for its policy of demanding a ransom from educated Jews who want to emigrate to Israel.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Includes land located in any State or foreign country within the definition of subdivision for the purposes of the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act and defines the term interstate advertising for the purposes of the Act. Provides that a purchaser of a subdivision lot may revoke the contract for such purchase within 72 hours (formerly 48 hours) excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, where he received a property report less than 48 hours before he signed the contract. States that it shall be unlawful for any developer or agent to engage in interstate advertising. Provides that nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit any communication, not otherwise illegal, between a developer or agent and any person who has initiated negotiations regarding the purchase of a lot or any lots in a subdivision. States that it shall be unlawful to sell or lease any lot in any subdivision unless the developer or agent gives bond to assure the completion (in substantial conformity with the estimated schedule) of the improvements to be installed by the developer as required. Provides that the expenses of every investigation of the affairs of any developer, broker, agent, or other person or organization, including any appraisal of its real property or of any real property on which it holds a mortgage, made pursuant to the authority conferred by any provision of the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act, shall be borne and paid by the developer or other person or organization so investigated.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Speedy Trial Act - Title I: Speedy Trial in United States Courts - Provides that the trial of a defendant charged with an offense against the United States shall be commenced within sixty days from the date the defendant is arrested or a summons is issued. Provides that certain necessary delays shall be excluded from the above provision, including periods resulting from defendants absence, the need for a competency hearing, the necessity for proper hearing and disposition of pretrial motions, and a continuance granted at the request of the defendant or the United States attorney upon a showing of good cause. Provides that if a defendant, through no fault of his own or his counsel, is not brought to trial as required by this Act, the information or indictment shall be dismissed on motion of the defendant or on the court's own motion. Provides for a delay of six months in the effective date of this Act for courts with extreme backlogs. Provides that the Supreme Court of the United States and the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules shall review the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the United States Code, where relevant, and report to the Congress by December 30, 1973, on changes in the Federal Rules and the Code which will speed the time from arrest or charge to trial and retain the substantive protections guaranteed to individual defendants by the Constitution. Title II: Speedy Trial in State Courts - Provides that no State shall receive any funds under this title if the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration finds that such State has not adopted a rule of law that any trial arising out of any arrests, indictments, or informations shall be commenced within sixty days of the defendant's arrest or summons, or charge by indictment or information, whichever is earlier, and that, if such trial is not so commenced, the charges against the defendant arising out of such arrest, indictment, or information shall be dismissed with prejudice. Provides that, in the case of a State's inability to meet such requirements, the Administrator may grant an extension of the applicable date of the eligibility requirement, not to exceed a total of two additional years, if he finds that the State or locality has been making a good faith effort to comply with such requirements. Provides that the Administrator is authorized to establish model timetables, provide technical assistance, disseminate information, and generally aid States in planning to comply with the eligibility requirements of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $10,000,000 annually for such purpose. Title III: Pretrial Services Officers - Provides that any court having original jurisdiction to try offenses against the United States may appoint one or more suitable persons to serve as pretrial services officers who shall also serve as probation officers and shall have the full range of duties of probation officers. Provides that the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall have general supervisory powers over such pretrial services officers, including the duty to annually report on their effectiveness and to recommend necessary modification of the program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Directs the President to establish a Rent Control Board which shall control the level of rents in the United States through the establishment of a cost justification formula for landlords. Provides that whenever the Board determined, through the application of such formula to a landlord, that any rent increase after January 11, 1973, results in his having an unreasonably high rate of return on his capital, the Board shall order such landlord to reduce his rents to an appropriate level. Empowers the Board to promulgate such regulations as it considers necessary or appropriate to effectuate the provisions of this Act, including regulations to prohibit retaliatory action by any landlord against any tenant.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Extends the authorizations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965: (1) grants for public works and development facilities; (2) public works and development facility loans; (3) technical assistance, research and information related to public works and development facilities; (4) financial assistance for projects in economic development districts; and (5) supplemental funds for Federal grants-in-aid programs for economic development regions. Provides that no area designated as a redevelopment area for purposes of the Act shall have such designation terminated or modified before June 1, 1974, unless the qualified local governing body of the county specifically requests the such action.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Commission on the Capability of the National Guard to Control Civil Distrubances: (1) to establish minimum training, doctrine, and equipment standards for the National Guard with respect to its use in civil disturbances; (2) to perform annual inspection of all National Guard units to determine whether or not such standards are being implemented and adhered to at the unit level and on a statewide basis; (3) to take such action as is authorized under this Act in order to insure that such standards are met; (4) to perform comprehensive reviews and critiques of the operations of any National Guard unit when used in civil disturbance control duty; (5) to contract for studies and for research and development for the purpose of devising effective nonlethal weapons and devices suitable for civil disturbance control use; (6) to act as principal coordinator between State National Guards and State and local law enforcement agencies with respect to the formulation of contingency plans and preparations for the control of civil disturbances and the exchange of relevant information and technology; and (7) to report at least annually to Congress with respect to the administration of this Act and the readiness and capability (including the availability and sufficiency of recommended protective clothing and devices, communications equipment, and nonlethal weapons) of the National Guard of each State to perform civil disturbance functions in accordance with the prescribed standards. Provides that, if the Commission finds that any unit of a State National Guard has refused to implement any of the standards prescribed by the Commission under this Act does not routinely meet or enforce any such standards, or, when deployed in civil disturbance, violates any such standards, the Commission shall bar the National Guard unit concerned from receiving money or any other aid, benefit, or privilege authorized by law until such time as the Commission determines that the unit has taken such actions as the Commission deems appropriate and necessary to insure that such unit will thereafter comply with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Appellate Review Reform Act - Title I: Appeal From Sentence In United States Courts - Allows a defendant to file an application with the clerk of the district court for leave to appeal from the district court to the court of appeals the sentence of imprisonment of one year or more or death in specified instances. States that in reviewing such application the court of appeals shall consider whether there is prima facie indication that the sentence imposed on the defendant is excessive, although within lawful limits. Provides that if the application for leave to appeal is denied by the court of appeals, the decision is final and not subject to further judicial review. Provides, that upon consideration of the appeal, the court of appeals may dismiss the appeal, affirm, reduce, modify, vacate, or set aside the sentence imposed, remand the cause and direct the entry of an appropriate sentence or direct such further proceedings to be had as may be required under the circumstances. States the defendant's sentence shall not be increased as a result of an appeal under this Act. Authorizes the Administration Office of the United States Courts, in exceptional cases, to make emergency payments to those circuits which require immediate funds to implement the provisions of this title without reducing the quality of justice in the circuit. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this title not to exceed $1,000,000 for each fiscal year. Title II: Appeal From Sentence in State Courts - Declares that no State shall receive any funds under title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 if the Administrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration finds that such State has not adopted a rule of law that takes effect no later than one year from the date of the enactment of this title and provides that any convicted person may appeal any sentence of imprisonment of one year or more or death in substantially the same manner and on substantially the same grounds as provided in title I of this Act with respect to appeals from Federal sentences. Provides that any State which claims an inability to meet this eligibility requirement may specify in writing to the Administrator the reasons for such inability and the appropriations, authorizations, and administrative changes necessary to meet such requirement. Authorizes the Administrator to grant an extension of the applicable date of the eligiblity requirement, not to exceed a total of one additional year, if he finds that the State or locality has been making a good faith effort to comply with such requirement. Provides that the Administrator may establish model timetables, provide technical assistance, disseminate information, and generally aid States in planning to comply with the eligibility requirement of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the agencies represented on the advisory committee established under this joint resolution, to conduct a comprehensive study and investigation of the relationship of motor vehicle size to the public interest. Provides that such study and investigation shall include consideration of: (1) the relationship between motor vehicle size and (A) pollution of the air and other components of the environment; (B) consumption of the Nation's supply of petroleum, metals, and other renewable resources; (C) the rate and frequency of motor vehicle accidents and the costs, injuries, and fatalities attendant thereto; (D) the shortage of motor vehicle parking spaces in urban and metropolitan areas; (E) the need for additional highway construction; (F) the congestion of urban roadways; (G) the needs of motor vehicle users; (H) the automobile manufacturing industry, motor vehicle insurance costs, and the various industries and businesses which supply services and goods required for the maintenance, operation, and manufacture of motor vehicles; and (I) the feasibility of motor vehicle power-plants other than internal combustion engines; (2) whether a reduction of motor vehicle size would be in the public interest; and (3) the possible means of reducing the size of motor vehicles, such as through the power of Congress to tax or to regulate interstate and foreign commerce or in any other way, and the relative costs and benefits of each such means, monetary or otherwise. Requires the Secretary to submit interim reports from time to time to the Congress and to the President and a final report, not later than twelve months after the date of approval of this joint resolution, containing a detailed statement of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Secretary, and to propose such legislation or other action as the Secretary considers necessary to carry out his recommendations. Requires the President to appoint a Governmental Advisory Committee on the Impact of Motor Vehicle Size consisting of the Secretary who shall be Chairman and one representative each from the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Health, Education, and Welfare, the Federal Trade Commission, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and such other Federal agencies as are designated by the President. Provides that such Advisory Committee shall advise the Secretary on the preparation for and the conduct of the study authorized by this joint resolution. Provides that the authority of the Secretary under this joint resolution shall terminate ninety days after the submission of his final report. Authorizes to be appropriated, without fiscal year limitation, such sums, not to exceed $2,000,000, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Title I: Fund for Endangered Wildlife - Creates in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the Fund for Endangered Wildlife, to be administered by the Department of the Interior. Provides that moneys for this fund shall be obtained through the issuance of a stamp by the United States Postal Service, to be purchased at a cost of $3.50 annually which stamp shall permit persons to hunt, fish, and trap in areas under the jurisdiction of any Federal agency. Provides that two-thirds of the funds collected in each fiscal year less printing costs shall be used to carry out research and investigations with respect to threatened species of fish and wildlife. Provides that the remaining funds shall be apportioned among the States in the same ratio as the total land under Federal jurisdiction within each State open to hunting, or to carry out protection programs for endangered and threatened species of fish and wildlife. Establishes a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, for violation of any provision of this Act. Title II: Protection of Hawks, Owls, and Other Haptors - Adds "raptors" as birds to be specially protected within the United States. Prescribes a fine and/or imprisonment for violations of this provision. Allows the possession or transportation of any protected raptor lawfully taken before the effective date of this Act. Permits the capture of bald and golden eagles and protected raptors for scientific propagation, exhibition, religious, and wildlife-protection purposes, whenever the Secretary of the Interior determines that it is compatible with their preservation and the Secretary has prescribed regulation for this purpose. Title III: Endangered Species Act Amendment - Provides a punishment for importing into the United States any threatened species of fish or wildlife, for slaughtering or capturing such animals through inhumane methods, and for using such animals to stock public or private game preserves for other than determined conservation purposes. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 668)
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Creates the National Zoological and Aquarium Corporation. Provides that the management of such corporation shall be vested in a Board of Directors to be composed of sixteen members. Provides that it shall be the duty of the Corporation to establish and from time to time revise standards for the voluntary national accreditation of zoos and aquariums. Authorizes the Corporation to provide technical assistance in the form of the services of Federal officers or employees to assist any zoo or aquarium in complying with the accreditation standards established under this Act. Authorizes the Corporation to make grants to nonprofit organizations to provide for the training of and research by the professional staff of such zoo or aquarium which meets the accreditation standards under this Act. Provides that no grants for the above purpose shall exceed 75 percent of the aggregate cost of such training or research. Authorizes the Corporation to make grants for the establishment of a pilot project for a model zoo and/or aquarium. Provides that no grant for the above project shall exceed 50 percent of the aggregate cost. Authorizes the Corporation to insure mortgages upon such terms and conditions as it may prescribe in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Corporation to guarantee loans made to zoos and aquariums for the construction or modernization of their facilities. Establishes a revolving fund in the Treasury of the United States which shall be available to the Corporation without fiscal year limitation and as provided by appropriation Acts, to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the revolving fund for the fiscal year 1972 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Corporation to borrow money and to issue and sell obligations as it determines necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the aggregate amount of such obligations outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $10,000,000. Provides that the Corporation may require the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase obligations of the Corporation in such amounts as will not cause the holding by the Secretary to exceed $2,000,000. Provides for an audit of the transactions of the Corporation by the Comptroller General of the United States at least once each fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Provides, under the Horse Protection Act, that any person who forcibly assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, or interferes with any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under such Act shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. Provides that whoever, in the commission of such acts, uses a deadly or dangerous weapon shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. States that whoever kills any person while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties under the Act shall be punishable in accordance with the penalties imposed for the killing of officers of the United States. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1825) Removes the citing of $100,000 on the annual authorized appropriations under the Horse Protection Act. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 1831)
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1973
Provides, under the Federal Election Campaign Act, that amounts spent for the use of communications media in order to oppose any legally qualified candidate for Federal elective office (or for nomination to such office) shall be deemed to have been spent by the candidate who authorized the use.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Provides for the burial in the Memorial Amphitheater of the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, of the remains of an unknown American who lost his life while serving overseas in the Armed Forces of the United States during the Vietnam conflict.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Emergency Crime Control Act - Provides that State plans for law enforcement assistance that qualify for grants, under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, shall provide that each high crime urban area (of 100,000 population, or more) within such state shall constitute a separate regional planning unit which shall assist in the development of the comprehensive state plan, take receipt from the state planning agency of all Federal funds granted for use in such high crime urban area, and assist in coordinating all law enforcement efforts within such high crime urban area which are in whole or in part assisted by Federal funds under such act. Prescribes a formula by which state planning grants under such Act shall be allocated to such high crime urban areas. Provides, under the provision of such act, for disbursements by state planning agencies. States that each state planning agency shall make a block grant in lieu of program and project grants to each high crime urban area within the state which notifies such agency that there has been organized within such area an urban law enforcement council and submits to such agency a plan for the use of such grant. Prescribes a formula by which the state planning agency shall measure such grants to eligible high crime urban areas. Provides that the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration shall make a block grant, to each high crime urban area, measured by $5 multiplied by the population of such area, which notifies it that there has been organized within such area an Urban Law Enforcement Council, and submits to it a plan for the use of such grant. Provides that grants shall be made available under this section for fiscal years 1972, 1973, and 1974. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the purposes of carrying out this section.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Authorizes the Chairman of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities with the advice of the National Council to establish a program of contracts with, or grants in aid to, talented individuals or groups for the purpose of encouraging new project areas in the humanities. Establishes those standards, criteria, and procedures which a State must follow in order to receive assistance for such projects in any fiscal year. Prescribes the minimum amount which is to be allotted to any State agency and procedures for alloting funds for each fiscal year. Provides that assurances must be given to the Secretary of Labor that any State agency receiving funds shall pay all employees, involved in construction projects assisted by these funds, wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction projects in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor under the Davis- Bacon Act. Provides that the Council shall advise the Chairman with respect to policies, programs and procedures for carrying out his duties and responsibilities under the Act, and shall review applications or projects proposed for assistance. Prohibits the Chairman from approving or disapproving an application until a recommendation is received from the Council provided such recommendation is given within a reasonable time. Authorizes the Chairman, with the advice of the National Council on the Humanities, to develop and encourage scholarship and research programs. Provides that all loans made by the Endowment shall be made in accordance with terms approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. Names those persons who shall compose the Council and authorizes the President to designate the Chairman of the Council. Enumerates those conditions upon which the Chairman may receive a gift. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act for each year.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Amendments - Extends the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act through June 30, l976. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Authorizes and directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a statue of Christopher Columbus and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973
Requires the use of recycled paper in the printing of the Congressional Record. Requires a maximum of 50 percent non-recycled material to be used in such printing.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973
War Powers Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to fulfill the intent of the framers of the Constitution of the United States and insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of the Armed Forces of the United States in hostilities, or in situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clear from the circumstances, and to the continued use of such forces in hostilities. States that the Act is not intended to encroach upon the recognized powers of the President, as Commander in Chief, to conduct hostilities authorized by the Congress, to respond to attacks or the imminent threat of attacks upon the United States, including its territories and possessions, to respond to attacks or the imminent threat of attacks against the Armed Forces of the United States, and under proper circumstances, to rescue endangered citizens of the United States located in foreign countries. Provides that, in the absence of a declaration of war by the Congress, the Armed Forces of the United States may be introduced in hostilities, or in situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, only: (a) to repel an armed attack upon the United States, its territories and possessions; to take necessary and appropriate retaliatory actions in the event of such an attack; and to forestall the direct and imminent threat of such an attack; (b) to repel an armed attack against the Armed Forces of the United States located outside of the United States, its territories and possessions, and to forestall the direct and imminent threat of such an attack; (c) to protect while evacuating citizens of the United States, as rapidly as possible, from the high seas or any country in which such citizens are present with the express or tacit consent of the government of such country, and who are being subjected to a direct and imminent threat to their lives, either sponsored by such government or beyond the power of such government to control; or (d) pursuant to specific statutory authorization, but authority to introduce the Armed Forces of the United States into hostilities shall not be inferred from any treaty or from any provision of law, including any provision contained in any appropriation Act, unless such provisions specifically authorize the introduction of such Armed Forces in hostilities and exempts the introduction of such armed forces from compliance with the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that no treaty in force at the time of the enactment of this Act shall be construed as specific statutory authority for, or a specific exemption permitting, the introduction of the Armed Forces in any such situation. Provides that the use of the Armed Forces of the United States in hostilities pursuant to this Act shall be reported promptly in writing by the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate, together with a full account of the circumstances under which such hostilities were initiated, the estimated scope of such hostilities, and the consistency of such hostilities with the applicable provisions of this Act. States that hostilities commenced pursuant to this Act shall not be sustained beyond thirty days from the date of their initiation except as provided in specific legislation enacted for that purpose by the Congress. Provides that hostilities commenced pursuant to this Act may be terminated prior to the thirty day period by statute or joint resolution of Congress, except where the President certifies that continued use of the Armed Forces is necessary for the safety and prompt disengagement of United States forces. Directs that any bill or resolution, authorizing continuance or termination of military hostilities shall, if sponsored or co-sponsored by one third of the Members of the House of Congress in which it originates, be considered reported to the floor of such House no later than one day following its introduction, unless the Members otherwise determine by yeas and nays. States that any such bill or resolution referred to a committee after having passed one House of Congress shall be considered reported from such committee within one day after it is referred to such committee, unless the Members of the House referring it to committee shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays. Provides that any bill or resolution reported shall immediately become the pending business of the House to which it is reported, and shall be voted upon within three days after such report, unless such House shall otherwise determine by yeas and nays. Directs that this Act will not affect military hostilities already undertaken before enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1973
Consumer Food Grading Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, after consultation with representatives of consumers, producers, and processors, to develop and promulgate a system of retail qualify grade designations for consumer food products expressed in a uniform nomenclature. Authorizes the Secretary to determine the manner in which the system of consumer food grade designations shall be displayed and disseminated to the public. Provides that in developing and updating quality grade standards, consideration shall be given to the nutritional quality and wholesomeness of food products, as well as the acceptability of the products. Requires that any food products sold more than nine months after the promulgation of applicable quality standards in accordance with this Act shall either be conspicuously labeled in accordance with such standards or shall be conspicuously labeled "not quality graded by the United States Department of Agriculture".
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