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United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1974
Removes the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Establishes the National Commission on the Prevention of Raw Material Shortages within the legislative branch of Government. States that the duties of the Commission shall be to investigate and report to the Congress on the raw materials which the United States presently imports at the rate of 10 percent or more of annual consumption, those raw materials which are likely to be imported at such rate by 1985, and any other raw materials which in the judgment of the Commission may become in short supply sufficiently by 1985 to seriously affect realization of national economic goals of the United States. Requires such report to include an analysis of: (1) the possiblity of the supply of such raw materials being disrupted by shortage in supply or the actions of countries or companies engaged in the production or transportation of such raw materials; (2) the probable economic impact of shortages in such raw materials; (3) the availability of substitute materials for such raw materials, the economic impact of such substitution, and the research in progress which could result in the increased availability of substitute materials; (4) actions and policies of companies involved in the supply and distribution of such raw materials to determine if these actions and policies will increase the available supply of such raw materials; and (5) the policies, laws, and actions of the United States Government to determine whether they are consitent with the national policy of anticipating and avoiding shortages in such raw materials. States that such report shall make recommendations for changes in laws which affect scientific research, foreign trade, taxation, raw material exploration, government procurement, national economic policy, national environmental policy, and any other domestic or foreign policy of the United States Government affecting supply of such raw materials. Requires such report to be made to the Congress of the United States within two years of the establishment of the Commission. Specifies the composition of the Commission and the powers of its members and agents. Gives the Commission the power to hold hearings and to issue subpoenas compelling the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of any evidence that relates to any matter under investigation by the Commission. Allows the Commission to obtain official data from any department or agency of the United States to carry out the provisions and purposes of this Act, to accept gifts, and to use the mails in the same manner and upon the same conditions as other Federal agencies. Authorizes to be appropriated the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Cost-of-living Adjustment Act- Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for automatic cost-of-living adjustments, based on the Consumer Price Index, in: (1) the income tax rates; (2) the amount of standard deductions; (3) the amount of personal exemptions; (4) the amount of depreciation deductions; and (5) the adjusted basis for property. Makes cost-of- living adjustments in specified United States savings bonds and certificates and on other obligations of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should (1) immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production; and (2) if such negotiations prove unfruitful, exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act, to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust Funds, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Departments of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapters and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each trust fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administrating titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Provides that average monthly wage, quarters of coverage, and coverage credits derived from self-employment income for taxable years beginning before 1974 are to be determined on a basis of income credited to calendar quarters. Limits quarters coverage to quarters occuring before 1974 and makes additional modification to taxation of self-employed persons. Allocates, under the Social Security Act, coverage credits for earnings before 1974 based on quarters of coverage and after 1973 on the basis of earnings during the calendar year. Provides that a person will satisfy the requirements prerequisite to a determination of disability if he has 20 or more coverage credits which were credited to the period ending on the day the disability arose and consisting of that part of the current calendar year up until the day the disability began and the nine prior calendar years. Redefines a "fully insured individual" in terms of coverage credits rather than quarters of coverage. States that any person upon attaining the age of 62 with the proper number of coverage credits is fully insured. Provides that specified benefits be paid to individuals not citizens of the United States who amassed sufficient coverage credits. Title II: Amendments Preserving Relationship Between Railroad Retirement and Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, that in the calucalation of an employee's "average monthly remumeration" after calendar year 1974 an individual employee shall obtain the benefit of full allowable coverage credits, irrespective of whether particular quarters of coverage were otherwise available for calculation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Requires, under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, that the President of the United States allocate plastic feedstocks produced from petrochemical feedstocks. Requires the President to report to the Congress on a monthly basis changes made under this Act. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnishing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism in the Middle East; (2) the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to (a) call upon all governments to condemn this inhuman act of violence against innocent victims; and (b) strongly urge the governments who harbor these groups and individuals to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terrorism and senseless violence; and (3) the President should request the American Ambassador to the United Nations to take appropriate action before that body in order to have introduced a Security Council resolution condemning this brutal act of violence.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the conferees now reviewing the Congressional Budget Act expedite reporting out a strong bill which will mandate an overall spending limit as well as provide the necessary committee structure, staff, and resources by which Congress may review and control expenditures and thereby control inflation.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1974
Provides that specified sections of the Par Value Modification Act relating to dealing in gold shall take effect immediately upon passage of this Act (formerly to take effect when the President finds and reports to Congress that international monetary reform has proceeded to the point where elimination of regulations on private ownership of gold will not adversely affect the United States international monetary position).
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service at any time during World War I and who is not eligible for other pension benefits. Defines World War I as meaning the period beginning on April 5, 1917, and ending on July 2, 1921. Provides for a schedule of pension payments under this Act. Provides that if the veteran is married and living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse, or has a child or children, the monthly rate of pension under this Act shall be $150. Provides that if the veteran is unmarried (or married but not living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse) and has no child, the monthly rate of pension shall be $135. Provides that if the veteran has a disability by reason of which he is permanently housebound, the monthly rate hereunder shall be increased by $50. Provides that veterans in need of regular aid and attendance shall have their monthly rates increased by $125. Directs the Administrator to pay to widows of veterans, receiving benefits under this Act at time of death, pension benefits at a schedule provided in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Requires reports accompanying each bill or joint resolution in the House of Representatives of a public character (except revenue measures) reported by a committee to contain estimates of the costs, to both public and nonpublic sectors, of carrying out the measure reported.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Hobbs Act Amendment - Provides that anyone who interferes with commerce by damaging to the extent of $2,000 or more any property of a person where business is conducted or property is maintained shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty years or both. Defines the term "extortion" to mean the obtaining of property from another, with his consent, induced by use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right notwithstanding that the same acts or conduct may also be a violation of State or local law and notwithstanding that the actual or threatened force, violence, or fear was used in the course of a legitimate labor dispute or in the pursuit of legitimate union or labor ends or objectives. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 1951)
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Revises the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 by increasing the period of time during which interested members of the public may comment on proposed preliminary railway system plans. Increases the time limit within which the United States Railway Association shall submit a final railway system plan under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Congressional Advisory Legislative Line - Establishes an office within the Congress with a toll-free telephone number, to be known as the Congressional Advisory Legislative Line (CALL), to provide the American people with free and open access to information, on an immediate basis, relating to the status of legislative proposals pending before the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Authorizes the additional appropriation of $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for research on the cause and treatment of diabetes under the Public Health Service Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Equal Credit Opportunity Act - Provides that a creditor may not discriminate against any person on the basis of sex or marital status in connection with the approval or denial of any extension of credit. States that a creditor which discriminates on the basis of sex or marital status shall be liable to that person in an amount equal to the sum of: (1) the principal amount of credit extended or applied for, whichever is larger, except that the liability shall be not less than $100 nor greater than $1,000 in an individual action, or in the case of a class action, not more than the greater of $50,000 or 2 percent of the net worth of the creditor as of the end of the creditor's fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the discrimination occurred; and (2) in the case of any successful action to enforce the foregoing liability, the costs of the action together with a reasonable attorney's fee as determined by the court. Provides that any action under this Act may be brought in any United States district court, or in any court of competent jurisdiction, within one year from the date of occurence of the violation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Soviet Energy Investment Prohibition Act - Provides that no department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government may directly or indirectly provide assistance to finance or otherwise promote the export of any commodity, product, or service from the United States if the intended use of such commodity, product, or service involves energy research and development or energy exploration in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1974
Provides that any company doing business in the United States selling products derived from crude oil, or exploring for or pumping crude oil, shall be subject to the following: (1) no company whose primary purpose is the recovering from the earth any petroleum product or the selling of any petroleum product or any product derived from petroleum shall own or control any fissionable material deposits or deposits of any fossil fuel not in liquid or gaseous form; (2) within ninety days after the date of the enactment of this Act, any compnay whose primary purpose is recovering or selling (wholesale or retail) any product derived from crude oil or petroleum shall divest itself of same by sale, trade, or barter and, aftersuch divestiture, refrain from any attempt to acquire, own, or control any fissionable material deposits or deposits of any fossil fuel not in liquid or gaseous form; (3) no person or group of persons shall simultaneously serve on the board of directors or receive a salary, stipend, or money from stocks from more than one oil company; and (4) no company which pumps or refines crude oil shall engage in retail sales of any product refined from or made from crude petroleum or natural gas.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Authorizes an income tax deduction for adoption fees in the same manner as medical expenses for income tax purposes, beginning with taxable years after December 31, 1971.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
National Summer Youth Sports Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to make grants or enter into contracts for the conduct of an annual National Summer Youth Sports Program concentrated in the summer months, with opportunity for continued activities throughout the year, designed to offer disadvantaged youth living in areas of concentrated poverty an opportunity to receive educational instruction, sports instruction, and health and nutritional services, and to participate in educational programs and sports competitions. Provides that programs under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary, through grants or contracts with the National Collegiate Athletic Association or any other qualified national organization of colleges and universities. Provides that each such grant or contract shall contain provisions to assure that the program to be assisted will: (1) expand educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths, designed to provide an opportunity to engage in competitive sports and benefit from sports skills instruction; (2) help young people learn good health practices and become better citizens by utilizing the personnel and facilities of higher education; (3) enable the contractor and institutions of higher education located conveniently to areas of concentrated poverty and their personnel to participate more fully in community life and in the solution of community problems; (4) provide a combination of employment and on-the-job training in sports instruction and administration; and (5) serve major metropolitan centers of the United States as well as other areas, within the limits of program resources. Requires local projects under any such program to be conducted under approved contracts between the principal contractor or grantee and selected institutions of higher education qualified to carry out a program under this Act. Provides that, except where the Secretary determines that unusual circumstances make a larger percentage necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, a contract under this Act with respect to any program may not provide for payment of more than 80 percent of the direct costs incurred in carrying out the total program. Provides that the non-Federal share may be cash or in-kind contributions. Permits such payments to be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $7,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter prior to July 1, 1979, to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Expresses the sense of the House that the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 should not be extended beyond the present expiration date of April 30, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1974
Authorizes appropriations totaling $525,000,000 for an additional three years (through June 30, 1977) to carry out the provisions of title VII of the Older Americans Act relating to the nutrition program for the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance), that a beneficiary who dies shall (if he is otherwise qualified and it would not reduce total family benefits) be entitled to a prorated benefit for the month of his death.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Provides for the expansion of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Increases the membership of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Advisory Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Government, while engaged in a lessening of tensions with the People's Republic of China, do nothing to compromise continued close relations with the Republic of China.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1974
States that the House of Representatives disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to the rates of pay of Federal officials transmitted to the Congress in the budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Provides that any water treatment project in which construction was initiated after July 1, 1972, and which did not receive Federal grant support shall be eligible for future reimbursement to the same extent that a grant support could have been provided if all funds authorized under the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 had been appropriated and alloted to the States in accordance with that Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Removes the time limitation within which programs of education for veterans must be completed under veterans' educational benefits. Restores on behalf of qualified veterans those educational assistance benefits which had previously terminated.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Allows a tax credit against Federal income taxes or a payment from the United States Treasury for State and local real property taxes or an equivalent portion of rent paid on their residences by individuals who have attained age 65. States that the total tax credit and payment from the Treasury under this Act for any taxable year shall not exceed $300 ($150 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return). Provides that the credit otherwise allowable under this Act shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount by which the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for the taxable year exceeds $6,500 ($3,250 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return). States that in the case of a husband and wife who file a single return jointly under this Act, the age requirement contained herein shall be treated as satisfied if either spouse has attained the age of 65 before the close of the taxable year. Provides that for the purposes of this Act a tenant-stockholder in a cooperative housing corporation shall be deemed to own his dwelling unit. States that the term "rent constituting property taxes" means an amount equal to 25 percent of the rent paid during a taxable year by a taxpayer for the right to occupy his dwelling during that year, excluding any charges for utilities, services, furnishings, or appliances furnished by the landlord as a part of the rental agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Provides that, following adoption of this Act, Veterans Day shall be observed on the 11th of November of each year, and makes such day a legal public holiday.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Extends to forty-five months (presently thirty-six) the maximum number of school months covered by veterans educational benefits for eligible veterans. Increases the rates of monthly assistance payable to such veterans. Extends to ten years (presently eight years) the period in which veterans must initiate their training to be assisted by veterans' benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Makes it an unlawful employment practice to discriminate against individuals who are physically handicapped because of such handicap. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2)
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Research on Aging Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish in the Public Health Service, the National Institute on Aging for the conduct and support of biomedical, social, and behavorial research and training relating to the aging process and the diseases and other special problems of the aged. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Advisory Council on Aging to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to him on programs relating to the aged which are administered by him and on those matters which relate to the Institute. Provides that the Secretary shall, through the Institute, carry out the purposes of this Act with respect to research investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies related to the aging process and the diseases and other special problems and needs of the aged. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Institute and such other appropriate advisory bodies as he may establish, to within one year after the effective date of this Act develop a plan for an aging research program designed to coordinate and promote research into the biological, medical, psychological, social, educational, and economic aspects of aging. States that such plan shall be transmitted to the Congress and the President and shall set forth the staffing and funding requirements to carry out the program contained therein.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Provides that Vietnam era veterans shall have the same basic entitlement to vocational rehabilitation as that available to veterans of World War II and the Korean conflict. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1502)
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to provide for the demonstration within a three-year period of the practical use of solar heating technology. Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate, support and carry out basic and applied research and development in solar heating and cooling technologies. Provides for the installation of solar heating systems in residential dwellings under the monitoring of the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the National Bureau of Standards and in consultation with the Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Defense. Provides that such residential dwellings shall be located in a sufficient number of different geographic areas (not less than three) in the United States to assure a realistic and effective demonstration of solar heating and cooling systems involved. Directs the Director of the National Science Foundation to initiate, support and fund basic and applied research activities related to solar energy in support of the objectives of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $50,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Revises the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by eliminating the requirement that in prescribing a definition and standard of identity for any food or class of food in which optional ingredients are permitted, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall designate the optional ingredients which shall be named on the label. Revises the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by providing that food shall not be deemed to be mislabeled if the label does not list the common names of optional ingredients.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Makes available to the veterans of the Vietnam War all benefits available to World War II and Korean conflict veterans. Entitles veterans of the Vietnam era to veterans' home, farm, and business loan benefits, except that such entitlement may not be in addition to benefits derived by the Vietnam veteran because of World War II or Korean conflict service. Provides that entitlement to benefits will expire as follows: (1) 10 years from the date of discharge or release from the last period of active duty of the veteran after August 5, 1964, except that 1 additional year will be granted for duty; and (2) 20 years from the date of release for service-connected disability from active duty occurring after August 5, 1964. Specifies that direct loans shall not be made after January 31, 1980. Provides for the payment of a fee by each veteran obtaining a guaranteed loan. Permits qualified Vietnam veterans to obtain life insurance from the United States without meeting any requirement of good health, so long as application for such insurance is made within the specified time. Prescribes the plans on which the insurance may be issued and allows the conversion or exchange of an insurance policy for any other type insurance issued under these provisions. Sets forth the terms and conditions under which the insurance will be issued. Permits any person in the active military, naval, or air service to surrender his insurance contract for its cash value. Creates in the Treasury a permanent trust fund known as the Vietnam Era Veterans' Life Insurance Fund, wherein all premiums paid for Vietnam veterans' insurance will be deposited.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Veterans Housing Act - Authorizes increases in the amount limitations of the veterans home loan programs. Eliminates specific provisions pertaining to the dormant farm and business loans.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
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 of 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 Institute 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 program during the preceding year and a plan for the program for the succeeding five-year period to establish programs as necessary in cooperation with other Federal 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 Istitute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases may provide for the development of not less than 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 · 6 February 1974
Authorizes the President to proclaim the week of May 13, 1974, as Bilingual Education Week.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Suspends emissions controls on motor vehicles and engines in the continental United States except vehicles registered to residents of designated air quality regions until June 30, 1977, or sixty days after the President determines there is no significant shortage of petroleum fuels, whichever is later. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate, subject to the limitations of the Act, geographic areas of the United States in which there is significant auto emissions related air pollution. Provides that each State shall, not later than sixty days following enactment of this Act, submit to the Administrator a plan for implementing the Act. Provides that if a State fails to submit a plan under the Act or if the Administrator determines (after notice and opportunity for hearing) that such State is not adequately enforcing such a plan, then such State shall lose its entitlement to, and may not thereafter receive, any Federal grant or loan assistance under this Act or under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Declares that willful and deliberate violation of any provision of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, or imprisonment for up to one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President of the United States direct the Secretary of the State to bring to the immediate attention of the Soviet Government the concern of U.S. citizens over the imprisonment of a Lithuanian seaman who unsuccessfully sought asylum aboard a United States Coast Guard ship and to urge his release from prison and return to his family.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1974
Establishes a formula for income averaging under the Internal Revenue Code in the event of a downward fluctuation in income. Provides that if an eligible individual has reduced income for the computation year and the amount of such income exceeds $3,000, then the tax imposed under the Internal Revenue Code for the computation year shall be the tax which would be imposed on 80 percent of the average base period income, minus five times the decrease in such tax which would result from subtracting 20 percent of reduced income from 80 percent of average base period income.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Requires producers of petroleum, natural gas, and refined petroleum products to provide to the Federal Energy Administration all information requested regarding the location and volume of crude oil and natural gas reserves, the location and volume of refined petroleum products, and the existing and potential rates of production of refineries and oil and gas wells. Authorizes the Comptroller General to audit and verify the accuracy of all such information. Provides a fine of not less than $2500 and not more than $5000 for each violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Makes it the sense of the House that, during the period pending consideration and action by the Senate upon the bill H.R. 10710, as introduced in the first session of the Congress, cited as the "Trade Reform Act of 1973" and as amended and passed by the House, no loan, guarantee, insurance, or credit shall be extended by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to any nonmarket economy country (other than any such country whose products are eligible for column 1 tariff treatment on the date of the enactment of this resolution), and no such country shall participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Provides for an increase in the contribution limitation for self-employed individuals to qualified retirement plans under the Internal Revenue Code. Limits the tax deduction for such contributions during any taxable year to $7,500 or 15 percent of the earned income of such self-employed individual.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Provides for allocations of general revenue sharing funds to special purpose units of local government under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.