United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Bilingual Vocational Training Act - Authorizes appropriations for bilingual vocational training programs under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 for fiscal years 1976 through 1980. Authorizes the making of grants to the States and the making of contracts with public and private organizations to assist (1) the conduct of training for instructors of bilingual vocational educational and training programs; and (2) the development of instructional materials, methods, or techniques for bilingual vocational tranining, including research, pilot, and other demonstration and dissemination projects aimed at such development.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Requires, under the Rules of the House of Representatives, that no bill or report of a committee or conference be considered unless copies of such are available to Members at least four hours before consideration. Directs that it shall not be in order for the Speaker to entertain a request for the suspension of the provisions of this clause.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1975
National Resource Lands Organic Act - Defines the term "national resource lands" to mean all lands and interests in lands now or hereafter administered by the Secretary through the Bureau of Land Management, except the Outer Continental Shelf. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to manage the national resource lands under principles of multiple use and sustained yield, in accordance with specified considerations. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to Congress on his activities under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act. Title I: General Management Authority - Directs the Secretary to prepare and maintain on a continuing basis an inventory of all national resources lands, and their resource and other values, giving priority to areas of critical environmental concern. Directs the Secretary to, with public participation, develop land use plans for the national resource lands consistent with the terms and conditions of this Act and coordinated so far as he finds feasible and proper, or as may be required by law. Title II: Conveyance and Acquisition Authorities - Authorizes the Secretary to sell national resource lands, if he determines that the sale of such tract will not cause needless degradation of the environment. Provides that sales of land under this Act shall be conducted under competitive bidding procedures to be established by the Secretary. Provides that all conveyance of title issued by the Secretary under this Act shall reserve to the United States all minerals in the lands, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the minerals under applicable law and such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, except in prescribed circumstances. Provides that the Secretary shall insert in any patent or other documents of conveyance he issues under this Act such terms, covenants, and conditions as he deems necessary to insure proper land use and protection of the public interest. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire by purchase, exchange, donation, or otherwise lands or interests therein needed for the management of the national resource lands including, but not limited to, lands needed to provide access by the general public to national resource lands. Title III: Management Implementing Authority - Authorizes the Secretary to conduct investigations, studies, and experiments involving the management, protection, development, acquisition, and conveying of the national resource lands. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts or cooperative agreements involving the management, protection, development, acquisition, and conveying of the national resource lands. Establishes a working capital fund for the mangement of national resource lands. Authorizes up to $3,000,000 to be appropriated to the fund as initial capital. Authorizes the imposition of civil and criminal penalties against those violating management regulations issued by the Secretary pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary to prepare and implement a comprehensive long-range plan for the management, use, and protection of the national resource lands within the California desert conservation area in accordance with principles of multiple use and maintenance of environmental quality. Provides that such plan shall be completed and implementation thereof initiated on or before June 30, 1979. Directs the Secretary, within 60 days of enactment of this Act, to establish a California Desert Conservation Area Advisory Commission making the function of the Commission to advise the Secretary with respect to the preparation of the long-range program and plan for the management, use, and protection of the California desert. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal years 1976 through 1980 not to exceed $40,000,000 for such purposes. Title IV: Authority to Grant Rights-of-Way - Authorizes the Secretary to grant, issue, or renew rights-of-way over, upon, or through the national resource lands for specified facilities. Specifies the terms and conditions of such rights- of-ways. Title V: Construction of Law, Preservation of Valid Existing Rights, and Repeal of Laws - Provides that all actions by the Secretary under this Act shall be subject to valid existing rights. Repeals specified laws relating to the disposal of national resource lands, the administration of national resource lands, and to rights-of-way.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1975
Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act - States that the current depressed condition of the national economy has had an especially heavy impact upon local governments, making it no longer possible for them to finance needed public facilities, thereby threatening the health, safety, and general welfare of their citizens. Declares it to be needless and unwise public policy for a vast pool of idle manpower to coexist with a backlog of needed and long overdue local public facilities work. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce acting through the Economic Development Administration to make grants to any State or local government for local public works projects, including but not limited to: (1) those public works projects of State and local governments for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act; and (2) the architectural design, engineering, and related planning of local public works projects. Provides that the Federal share of any project for which a grant is made under this Act shall be 100 percent of the cost of such project. Directs the Secretary to prescribe those rules, regulations, and procedures necessary to carry out this Act. States factors that the Secretary shall consider in accordance with the relative needs of the various sections of the country. Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant for the purpose of increasing to 100 percent the Federal contribution to a public works project for which Federal financial assistance is authorized under provisions of law other than this Act. States that not more than 10 percent of all amounts authorized to carry out this Act shall be granted for local public works projects within any one State. Provides that all laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors on projects assisted by this Act shall be paid wages a rate not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act. Authorizes to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act - Removes the size limitation (40 acres or multiples thereof) on tracts of land which may be leased by the Secretary of the Interior for the mining of coal. Prohibits the lease of Federal lands for coal production where the prospective lessee has not produced coal for 10 or more years from other lands held under such a lease. Provides that lands containing coal deposits may only be offered for lease after inclusion in a comprehensive land use plan. Provides that each coal lease shall contain provisions requiring compliance with the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1975, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and the Clean Air Act. Requires that an exploration license be acquired from the Secretary prior to the conduct of coal exploration for commercial purposes oil lands subject to the Mineral Lands Leasing Act. Provides that coal leases shall be for 20 years and for so long thereafter as coal is produced annually in commercial quantities from that lease, except that any lease not producing coal in commercial quantities at the end of 10 years shall be terminated. Provides that each lease shall be subject to the conditions of diligent development and continued operation of the mine or mines. Authorizes and directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive exploratory program for developing the known recoverable coal resources within the coal lands subject to the Mineral Lands Leasing Act. Requires such program to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Authorizes and directs the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to analyze for Congress mining activities, present and potential value of coal leases, receipts of the Federal Government from such leases, and recommendations as to the feasibility of use of deep mining technology in a leased area. Provides that no person or legal entity may acquire more than 100,000 acres of land in the United States subject to coal leases under the Mineral Lands Leasing Act after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that lands set apart for military or naval purposes with mineral deposits may be leased under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Food Research and Development Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to fund new research for the purpose of assisting the development and utilization, in the United States and other countries, of (1) new low-cost foods of high nutritional value, and (2) improved, low-cost methods of food and animal feed production, fertilizer production, and irrigation which make maximum efficient use of energy, land, water, and protein resources and promote the preservation of environmental quality. Establishes a Food Research Advisory Committee within the Department of Agriculture. Sets forth the membership of the Committee. Directs the Committee, in accordance with this Act, to (1) determine specialized research areas; (2) accept evaluations for research grants from review boards appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (3) make recommendations to the Secretary. Establishes within the Committee a review board for each specialized research area with regard to which the Committee makes recommendations for the purpose of awarding grants under this Act. Requires each review board to recommend to the Committee applications on the basis of the scientific merit, feasibility, and significance of the research project proposed in the application and on the basis of the competency and facilities of the applicant to perform the project. Provides that grants shall be made to approved applicants for the purpose of financing research projects which are designed to develop new, low-cost foods of high nutritional value and to improve methods of food and fertilizer production through making maximum efficient use of energy, land, water, and protein resources while promoting environmental quality. Stipulates that not less than 10 percent of the sums available for grants shall be served for applicants from agriculturally underdeveloped nations. Establishes a Special Food Research and Development Fund, to make research grants under this Act. Authorizes appropriations of $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the purposes of this Act, and such sums as may be necessary thereafter. Specifies that at least 85 percent of such appropriations must be appropriated to the Special Food Research and Development Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. States that each Senator or Representative so elected shall be an inhabitant of the District and shall possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Provides that service as a member of the Women's Air Forces Service Pilots shall be considered active duty for the purposes of all laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 106)
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1975
Provides under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) that an individual may qualify for disability insurance benefits and the disability freeze, if he has enough quarters of coverage to be fully insured for old-age benefit purposes, regardless of when such quarters were earned.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1975
Provides for assistance to refugees from South Vietnam or Cambodia under the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962, provided that due consultation is made with the appropriate State and local agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1975
Energy Materials Conservation Education Act - Establishes within the Office of Education the Council on the Conservation and Nonuse of Energy-Materials, the members of which shall broadly represent the public and private sectors. Directs the Council to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on programs established under this Act. States that funds appropriated for grants and contracts under this Act shall be available for (but not limited to) such activities as: (1) community education programs concerning the conservation and nonuse of energy and materials, including special programs for adults; (2) dissemination of information to public and private nonprofit preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, adult, and community education programs; (3) research, development, and dissemination of curriculums, texts and materials, tests, and programs for adequate vocational and technical education and career counseling for persons in the field of energy-materials conservation and nonuse; and (4) programs and projects to recruit, train, organize, and employ professional and other persons, and to organize and participate in energy-materials conservation and nonuse educational programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and other institutions for planning and carrying out community-oriented education programs or projects on the conservation and nonuse of energy materials in American society for the benefit of interested and concerned adults, young persons, ethnic and cultural groups, community, labor and business leaders, and other individuals and groups within a community. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1975
Allows blind persons to receive disability insurance benefits under the Federal Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program of the Social Security Act regardless of whether or not such person has reached age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1975
Makes the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands eligible, under the Commercial Fisheries Research and Development Act, to participate in Federal programs designed for research and development of the Commercial fisheries resources of the United States. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 779)
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1975
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to provide financial assistance for the establishment of a National Center for Asian Studies within any nonprofit institution or organization. Stipulates that the National Center shall be a national research and resource center for academic education in Asian history, language, and culture and for development of programs in Asian studies in elementary and secondary education, in order to bring such studies on a par with studies of Western civilization. Requires the Secretary to appoint a panel of scholars, students, and members of the public to advise him on the Center. Authorizes to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $20,000,000 for fiscal 1978, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act for each succeding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1975
Prohibits the enforcement of the contractual indebtedness of small business firms in default on such indebtedness to the United States for a period of three years upon a showing that their inability to pay is due to economic factors outside of their control.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1975
Includes as creditable service for civil service retirement purposes, service as an enrollee of the Civilian Conservation Corps. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 8332(b))
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
Provides that time spent by American civilians in enemy prisoner-of-war camps and similar places on or after December 7, 1941, shall be creditable (as though it were military service) toward pensions, annuities, or similar benefits under the Social Security Act, the Railroad Act and other specified Federal retirement programs.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
Provides that any individual age 55 or over shall be considered disabled for purposes of entitlement to disability insurance benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the disability freeze if he meets the definition of "disability" presently applicable only to blind individuals at that age.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Energy Materials Conservation Education Act - Establishes within the Office of Education the Council on the Conservation and Nonuse of Energy-Materials, the members of which shall broadly represent the public and private sectors. Directs the Council to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on programs established under this Act. States that funds appropriated for grants and contracts under this Act shall be available for (but not limited to) such activities as: (1) community education programs concerning the conservation and nonuse of energy and materials, including special programs for adults; (2) dissemination of information to public and private nonprofit preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, adult, and community education programs; (3) research, development, and dissemination of curriculums, texts and materials, tests, and programs for adequate vocational and technical education and career counseling for persons in the field of energy-materials conservation and nonuse; and (4) programs and projects to recruit, train, organize, and employ professional and other persons, and to organize and participate in energy-materials conservation and nonuse educational programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and other institutions for planning and carrying out community-oriented education programs or projects on the conservation and nonuse of energy materials in American society for the benefit of interested and concerned adults, young persons, ethnic and cultural groups, community, labor and business leaders, and other individuals and groups within a community. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Grants a child adopted by a single United States citizen the same immigrant status as a child adopted by a United States citizen and his spouse. (Amends U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)(f))
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a delegation of eight members of the House to attend the International Womens' Year Conference in Mexico City, June 19,1975, to July 2, 1975. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as may be necessary to meet the expenses of such delegation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1975
Permits citizens of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to collect survivor benefits under Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1975
Provides that the special food service program for children under the National School Lunch Act shall be continued through the summer until September 30, 1975. Specifies that reimbursement rates for meals served from May through September, 1975, in service institutions operating such summer food service programs shall be adjusted to reflect changes in the cost of operating such programs as indicated by the Consumer Price Index.
United States · United States Congress · 25 March 1975
Hawaii and United States Pacific Islands Surface Commerce Act - Provides that no strike or lockout in the longshore or maritime industries on the west coast of the United States which imperils the health or well being of the people in any United States Pacific island shall be permitted to interupt normal shipping from any port on the west coast to any United States Pacific island, or from any such island to the west coast for a period of 120 days. Authorizes the Governor of Hawaii, Guam, or American Samoa, or the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to petition any United States district court having jurisdiction of the parties to any such disruption to enjoin that part of any strike or lockout which disrupts normal shipping between the west coast and any United States Pacific island and threatens the health or well being of such islands. Provides that employees who perform services during the term of the injunction shall perform such work pursuant to terms of employment of the agreement between employer and employers. Directs that such employees shall later be fully compensated for the difference between the hourly wage he was paid and the wage he would have been paid under the agreement which resolves the labor dispute. Sets forth definitions to be used in this Act. Provides that this Act shall take effect on the date of its enactment unless a strike or lockout in the longshore or maritime industry on the west coast is occurring on the date of enactment, in which case such provision shall take effect on the fifth day after the date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to declare that the determination of whether any disability pension payment to an individual is excludable from gross income under a wage continuation plan shall be made without regard to whether or not such individual has reached retirement age.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Sets forth procedures providing for an election for the office of President and the office of Vice President in the case of a vacancy in both the office of President and the office of Vice President. Provides that in case of removal, death, resignation, or inability of both of the President and Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives or, in the case of a vacancy in the office of speaker, such other officer as the Congress may declare, shall act as President until the disability be removed, or a President shall be elected. Provides that in cases where there are two years or more remaining in the then current Presidential term, each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors for President and vice President equal to the number of Senators and Representatives to which the State is entitled in the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Requires the Secretary of Defense to take such action as is necessary to insure that any member of the Armed Forces who is discharged shall receive a discharge certificate which shall indicate that such member was so discharged and which shall not bear any indication of the conditions under which such separation occured. States that the reason why such member was so separated (other than by reason of discharged dismissal pursuant to a sentence of a general or special court-martial) and all other records or documents pertaining to such reason or reasons shall be treated as confidential and shall not be made known to or otherwise released to any private person or any public agency (whether Federal, State, or local) without the prior written consent of the member concerned. Sets forth the conditions under which an enlisted member of the Armed Forces may be discharged under other than honorable conditions. Establishes procedures for military review panels in considering the dishonorable discharge of enlisted personnel. Requires military review panels to conduct hearings which afford the enlisted member concerned an opportunity to: (1) appear before the panel and present evidence in his own behalf; (2) be represented by counsel; (3) confront the witnesses against him; and (4) examine documentary and real evidence against him. States that the recommendation of a review panel appointed under the provisions of this Act for separation under other than honorable conditions may be appealed to an appeal board established by the Judge Advocate General concerned, or the General Counsel of the Department of Transportation, as appropriate. Authorizes the Secretaries concerned to prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Secretaries concerned, after consultation with the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, to establish a number (but not less than ten) of regional boards of review throughout the United States. States that the function of the regional boards shall be to review the discharge or dismissal (other than a discharge or dismissal by a general or special court-martial) of any former member of an Armed Forces under the jurisdiction of the military department concerned. Provides that if a request for the review of a discharge or dismissal of any person who was discharged or dismissed from the Armed Forces within the fifteen-year period immediately preceding the effective date of this Act was filed before such effective date and such review resulted in no change to the discharge or dismissal, or no new discharge was issued, another request for review of that discharge or dismissal pursuant to this Act may be filed and such review shall be acted upon without prejudice, if such request for review is filed with the appropriate regional board of review within the one-year period immediately following such effective date.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Energy Industry Deconcentration Act - Prohibits any corporation or association from: (1) controlling deposits of more than one type of energy-producing mineral, after December 31, 1979 and (2) engaging engaging in more than one aspect of the petroleum and natural gas industry after December 31, 1979. Requires corporations or associations which would be in violation of this Act except for the effective date to submit plans for compliance to the Federal Trade Commission before January 1, 1978. Prohibits any individual from serving as a director of more than one company engaged in every resource production, refining, transportation, or marketing.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Expands the size of Redwood National Park in the State of California. Requires management of the Park to emphasize protection of the resources downstream from the watershed.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish national petroleum reserves on any reserved or unreserved public lands of the United States except lands in the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the Wild and Scenic Rivers System, the National Wilderness Preservation System, areas now under review for inclusion in the Wilderness System in accordance with provisions of the Wilderness Act of 1964, and lands in Alaska other than those in Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4. States that no national petroleum reserve that includes all or part of an existing naval petroleum reserve shall be established without prior consultation with the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the development of the oil and gas in the national petroleum reserves in the contiguous 48 States established pursuant to this Act. Requires competitive bidding procedures with prior public notice for any contract, lease, or operating agreement for development and production of oil and gas from a national petroleum reserve. States that the terms and conditions for such development, which shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be subject to disapproval by Congress. Provides that any oil or gas produced from such petroleum reserves shall, with exceptions, be subject to all the limitations and licensing requirements of the Export Administration Act. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to explore for oil and gas on Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4 and to report annually to Congress on his plan for exploration of such reserve.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1975
States the declaration of the Congress that thousands of children were fathered in Vietnam by United States citizens during the course of the Vietnam conflict. States that the United States has a special responsibility to assist in facilitating the care and adoption of those children in South Vietnam whose parent is a United States citizen no longer providing parental care to the child. Provides that children qualifying under this Act shall be citizens of the United States. Requires the Department of State to make arrangements necessary to inform properly accredited adoption agencies in the United States of children potentially eligible for the benefits of this Act. Provides for placing such children with suitable parents in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Cost Justification and Price Control Act - Requires that whenever a Federal regulatory requirement is applicable to any class of major corporations, and the Federal Trade Commission determines that such requirement may have a significant effect on the cost of production or of providing any goods or services provided by such class of major corporations, the Commission shall prescribe a rule (1) identifying such requirement, such class of corporations, and the goods and services the cost of which may be affected by such requirement, and (2) requiring such corporations to file specified reports. Requires that if a corporation is a member of class of corporations identified in such a rule and such corporation increases the price of any goods or services identified in such a rule, then before such price increase takes effect, such corporation shall file with the Commission a report specifying any change in unit costs, resulting from such Federal regulatory requirement, of the goods or services the price of which was increased. Provides that such report shall also contain an explanation of the reasons for the price increase. Provides that such report shall be available to the public and published in the Federal Register. Provides that any cost obligation incurred as a result of compliance with any Federal regulatory requirement may only be passed through by such corporation, or by any subsequent purchaser to any utlimate purchaser of such goods or services on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Provides that if a major corporation violates this Act (1) such corporation shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000,000 and (2) the Commission may commence an action in a district court of the United States to obtain a mandatory injunction requiring compliance by such corporation with the reporting requirements of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Directs the officers of the House of Representatives to conduct seminars for freshmen Members of Congress. Provides for the curriculum and expense reimbursement for such seminars. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes each freshman member to employ an interim staff between election and the next regular session of Congress. Authorizes expenditures for stationary during such period. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Requires contractors, and their subcontractors, of departments and agencies of the United States engaged in the production of motion picture films to pay prevailing wages to employees specified under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Provides, under the National Labor Relations Act, that the provisions of such Act making it an unfair labor practice for a labor organization to force or require, by striking, specified employers to recognize a non-certified labor organization, shall not be construed to forbid any strike at a construction site which is directed at any of several employers who are in the construction industry and are jointly engaged as joint venturers or in the relationship of contractors and subcontractors, provided there is a lawful labor dispute and the issues in such dispute do not involve a labor organization which is representing the employees of an employer at the site who is not engaged primarily in the construction industry. Requires prior written notice of intent to strike or refusal to perform services in the case of any military site if a major purpose of such facility is, or will be, the development, production, and testing of various weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Provides that time spent by American civilians in enemy prisoner-of-war camps and similar places on or after December 7, 1941, shall be creditable (as though it were military service) toward pensions, annuities, or similar benefits under the Social Security Act, the Railroad Act and other specified Federal retirement programs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Low-Cost Air Transportation Act - Declares the sense of Congress, including that: (1) scheduled air carrier services are becoming increasingly costly and financially prohibitive for millions of Americans who want to travel by air; (2) the promotion, development, and removal of impediments to charter or nonscheduled air carrier services is in the public interest; (3) the Civil Aeronautics Board has failed consistently to provide for responsible regulation of such services consistent with the need to encourage and develop such services; and (4) senior citizens who have retired, young people who have not yet entered the job market, and the handicapped should not be denied access to air transportation, but such a denial occurs unless a reduction in fare is authorized for such persons consistent with their lower-than-average income. Requires the Civil Aeronautics Board to issue regulations, defining the full scope of the activities in air commerce which are permitted to be engaged in by persons who have not been authorized to engage in air transportation within the meaning of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 but who are: (1) air travel clubs which operate aircraft and which are engaged in the carriage of persons who pay an assessment, dues, membership fees, or any similar type of remittance; or (2) commercial operators of aircraft who are engaged in the carriage of persons or property for compensation or hire. Stipulates that any air carrier or foreign air carrier, under such terms and conditions as the Board may prescribe, may grant reduced rate transportation to families and to handicapped persons and many grant reduced rate transportation on a space-available basis to religious ministers and to persons who are sixty-five years of age or older or twenty-one years of age or younger. Defines "inclusion tour charter trip" and "advance-booking charter trip."
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Provides that where a person in good faith went through a marriage ceremony with an insured individual, but such marriage was in fact invalid, such person (if living with such individual at the time of his death or application for benefits) shall be considered the wife, husband, widow, or widower of such insured individual for benefits purposes under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, not withstanding the existence of another person who is the legal wife, husband, widow, or widower of such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Energy Materials Conservation Education Act - Establishes within the Office of Education the Council on the Conservation and Nonuse of Energy-Materials, the members of which shall broadly represent the public and private sectors. Directs the Council to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare on programs established under this Act. States that funds appropriated for grants and contracts under this Act shall be available for (but not limited to) such activities as: (1) community education programs concerning the conservation and nonuse of energy and materials, including special programs for adults; (2) dissemination of information to public and private nonprofit preschool, elementary, secondary, higher, adult, and community education programs; (3) research, development, and dissemination of curriculums, texts and materials, tests, and programs for adequate vocational and technical education and career counseling for persons in the field of energy-materials conservation and nonuse; and (4) programs and projects to recruit, train, organize, and employ professional and other persons, and to organize and participate in energy-materials conservation and nonuse educational programs. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, or enter into contracts with, public or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and other institutions for planning and carrying out community-oriented education programs or projects on the conservation and nonuse of energy materials in American society for the benefit of interested and concerned adults, young persons, ethnic and cultural groups, community, labor and business leaders, and other individuals and groups within a community. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Provides that no institution of higher education which is in serious financial distress and applies to the Commissioner of Education shall be required to make payments of accrued interest and principal on educational facilities loans during such period of financial distress.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments - Requires VISTA Volunteers to be enrolled for two-years periods of service. Requires the establishment of volunteer councils in each State to present volunteer views concerning their terms and conditions of service to an ACTION agency representative. Increases stipends for volunteers. Authorizes the Director to advance all or a portion of a volunteer's accured stipend in extraordinary circumstances. Revises the membership of the National Voluntary Service Advisory Council to include beneficiaries of antipoverty programs and present and former volunteers.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Provides, under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, that no rescission of budget authority proposed by the President shall take effect unless and until the Congress has passed a bill incorporating such rescission.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Employee Claims Act - Permits officers and employees of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to receive compensation for damage to, or loss of, personal property incident to the service of such officer or employee in the Government of such Trust Territory.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Hawaii and United States Pacific Islands Surface Commerce Act - Provides that no strike or lockout in the longshore or maritime industries on the west coast of the United States which imperils the health or well being of the people in any United States Pacific island shall be permitted to interupt normal shipping from any port on the west coast to any United States Pacific island, or from any such island to the west coast for a period of 120 days. Authorizes the Governor of Hawaii, Guam, or American Samoa, or the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to petition any United States district court having jurisdiction of the parties to any such disruption to enjoin that part of any strike or lockout which disrupts normal shipping between the west coast and any United States Pacific island and threatens the health or well being of such islands. Provides that employees who perform services during the term of the injunction shall perform such work pursuant to terms of employment of the agreement between employer and employers. Directs that such employees shall later be fully compensated for the difference between the hourly wage he was paid and the wage he would have been paid under the agreement which resolves the labor dispute. Sets forth definitions to be used in this Act. Provides that this Act shall take effect on the date of its enactment unless a strike or lockout in the longshore or maritime industry on the west coast is occurring on the date of enactment, in which case such provision shall take effect on the fifth day after the date of enactment.
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