Bill· HRH.R. 15844 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1976
Adoption Opportunities Act - Title I: National Registry of Adoptable Children - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish and maintain a National Registry of Adoptable Children. Requires that the Registry contain statistics on the numbers of adoptable children in the United States. Directs the Secretary to conduct a continuing national survey to develop and keep current such statistics, and to publish the Registry or make it as widely available as possible. Title II: National Data Bank of Adoption Information and Resources - Provides that the Secretary shall establish and maintain a National Data Bank of Adoption Information and Resources to assist individuals desiring to adopt children. States that the Bank will provide prospective parents with current information on pre-adoption, adoption, and post-adoption costs, and with information on adoption agencies and their services. Requires the Secretary to conduct a continuing national survey to keep the Bank's information current. Title III: Requirements Applicable to Certain Child Related Programs - Subjects specified Social Security programs or projects to whatever requirements the State, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, establishes for the purpose of: (1) insuring that adoption agencies which indirectly or directly federally funded are associated with an adoption service, are conducting an annual review of the status of each child under its care, and are having their expenditures periodically evaluated; (2) licensing all foster care homes in which agencies place children; and (3) promoting and administering State and local programs designed to make children under agency care legally free for adoption by qualified parents. Directs the Secretary to provide for periodic evaluation of State and local programs to insure compliance with this Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1587 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1976
Disapproves, pursuant to the authority of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the proposed amendments to the family contribution schedule and regulations submitted to the House on August 11, 1976, by the Commissioner of Education.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1574 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1976
Amends Rule XI of the House of Representatives to stipulate which committees and subcommittees may not meet on the second Tuesday or fourth Thursday of the month, and which committees and subcommittees may not meet on the second Thursday or fourth Tuesday of each month.
Bill· HRH.R. 15625 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to implement a five-year demonstration program to increase the average annual diversion of water from Lake Michigan.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 729 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 1 September 1976
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Georgi Vins should be released from imprisonment and that the Government of the Soviet Union should allow him and all other religious believers within its borders to worship God freely, as the Soviet Union is committed to do by the provisions of its constitution and by the provisions of the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Bill· HRH.R. 15344 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 August 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to implement a five-year demonstration program to increase the average annual diversion of water from Lake Michigan.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 1072 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning October 3, 1976, and ending October 9, 1976, as "National Volunteer Firemen Week."
Law· HRH.R. 15246 (94th)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1976
Amends the Service Contract Act of 1965 to redefine "service employees" for purposes of Federal service contract labor standards.
Bill· HRH.R. 14818 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1976
Public Safety Officers Memorial Scholarship Act - Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to award scholarships for undergraduate study at eligible institutions to dependents of public safety officers killed while engaging in the performance of their official duties. Sets the maximum amount of such a scholarship at $3,500 or the actual cost of attending such an institution, whichever is less. Authorizes appropriations of $1,750,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $3,500,000 for each of the succeeding fiscal years ending prior to October 1, 1982 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Sets forth the number of scholarships which may be awarded under this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 14766 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1976
Establishes in the Congress a Select Joint Committee on the Olympics. Directs the committee to (1) examine the role of the United States in the Olympics and recommend methods by which changes in the format of the Olympic games can be promoted to reduce the nationalistic rivalry and violence which has marred recent games, and (2) recommend methods by which the Olympics can once more become an arena for individual competition and achievement. Requires the Committee to submit a final report to the President and Congress containing its findings and recommendations within two years.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 1021 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1976
Directs the President to proclaim that Valentyn Moroz shall be an honorary citizen of the United States. Urges cooperation in observance of the principles of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet Union as one of the signators to the Final Act should provide Valentyn Moroz with the opportunity to accept the invitation of Harvard University for the 1976-77 academic year.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 657 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1976
Authorizes the Joint Committee on Printing to provide for the printing of a daily publication entitled Today in Congress. Provides that no more than 10,000 copies shall be printed in daily form. States that the publication shall provide a summary of the planned daily activities of the Senate and House of Representatives to present a brief description of the manner in which the Congress conducts it activities.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 984 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1976
Emergency Technical Provisions Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 by extending until September 30, 1976 (presently ends June 30, 1975), programs of low-interest insured loans to students in institutions of higher education. Extends appropriations for the Emergency Insured Student Loan Act of 1969 until October 1, 1976 (presently ends June 30, 1975). Provides that any institution of higher education which distributes funds pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall not be deemed a contractor.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1275 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1976
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government and people of the United States welcome a new President by the Assembly of Lebonan. Welcomes the President's request for funds to assist in the relief of victims of the armed strife in the nation. Urges the President to declare the willingness of the United States to participate in multilateral assistance programs to help in the reconstruction of Lebanon. Encourages a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Bill· HRH.R. 14250 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1976
Estate and Gift Tax Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a single unified rate schedule for estate and gift taxes. Establishes progressive rates based on cumulative lifetime transfers and transfers at death. Determines the amount of estate tax by applying the unified rates to such cumulative transfers and then subtracting the taxes payable on lifetime transfers. Provides that for purposes of determining the amount of the gross estate, the amount of gift tax paid with respect to transfers made within three years of death shall be included in the decedent's gross estate. Provides, as a transitional rule, that the lifetime transfers taken into account in determining cumulative transfers at death, for purposes of imposing the estate tax under the unified schedule, shall only include taxable gifts made after December 31, 1976. Repeals the estate and gift tax exemptions. Substitutes for such exemptions a credit against estate and gift taxes in the amount of $29,800. Provides for an additional credit against the estate tax for specified farms and closely held businesses passing to a qualified heir. Defines "qualified heir" as a member of the decedent's family, including his spouse, lineal decendents, parents, and aunts and uncles of the decedent and their decendants. Makes such credit available where the value of a farm or closely held business included in a decedent's gross estate equals or exceeds 65 percent of the value of the gross estate. Stipulates that such credit shall be available only if the farm or closely held business has been owned by the decedent or his family for at least five out of the preceding eight years. Provides that the amount of such credit shall be $25,000 multiplied by a percentage representing the portion of the decedent's estate consisting of the farm or other closely held business. Phases out such credit after the value of the gross estate exceeds $1,000,000. Provides for the recapture of the estate tax benefit of such credit where there is a disposition of the business by the qualified heir to nonfamily members prior to the qualified heir's death or within 25 years of the death of the decedent. Provides for a lien on the qualified interest in a farm or closely held business with respect to which an election of such credit has been made. Increases the estate tax marital deduction to $250,000 or one-half of the decedent's gross estate, whichever is greater. Increases the gift tax marital deduction in the case of lifetime gifts to a spouse. Allows an unlimited marital deduction for the first $100,000 of lifetime gifts made to a spouse and, thereafter, a deduction for one-half of the aggregate lifetime gifts made to a spouse in excess of $200,000. Imposes a tax on the unrealized appreciation of property transferred by a decedent. Provides that the basis of such property shall be its fair market value on December 31, 1976. Allows an election to carry over the decedent's basis in any property instead of having the appreciation taxed. Exempts the first $50,000 of appreciation from taxation. Excludes the appreciation of assets valued at less than $10,000 and which are not held for use in a trade or business or for the production of income from such tax. Allows the deduction of the appreciation tax in computing the value of the taxable estate for estate tax purposes. Exempts from the appreciation tax any property transferred from the decedent if the income tax carries over to the recipient (income in respect of a decedent and survivor annuities). Provides that if an election to carry over the decedent's basis in lieu of paying the appreciation tax is made, the basis of the property is to be increased by the Federal and State estate taxes attributable to the net appreciation in value for the property. Allows the executor of an estate which includes real farm property to value the property as a farm, rather than its fair market value determined on the basis of its highest and best use. Imposes special qualifying conditions for such valuation, including: (1) the farm assets in the decedent's estate including both farm real property and personal property must be at least 50 percent of the decedent's gross estate (reduced by debts and expenses); (2) at least 25 percent of the adjusted value of the gross estate must be qualified farm real property; (3) the real property must pass to a qualified heir; (4) the real property must have been used or held for use as a farm for five of the last eight years prior to the decedent's death; and (5) there must have been material participation in the operation of the farm by the decedent or a member of his family in five years out of the eight years immediately preceding the decedent's death. Provides for recapture of any tax benefits obtained by use of the reduced valuation if, prior to the death of the qualified heir or within 25 years of the death of the decedent, the property is disposed of to nonfamily members or ceases to be used for farming purposes. Provides for a lien on all such real property with respect to which the farm valuation is elected. Provides for a 15-year period for the payment of the estate tax attributable to the decedent's interest in a farm or closely held business, with a deferral of the tax for five years and installment payments over the next ten years. Requires, as a qualification for such deferral and installment treatment, the value of the closely held business or farm in the decedent's estate to be at least 65 percent of the gross estate. Allows discretionary extensions of up to ten years to pay the estate tax for reasonable cause (rather than for "undue hardship" as under present law). Provides for a lien for payment of the deferred taxes attributable to a closely held business or farm. Imposes a tax, in the case of generation skipping transfers under a trust, upon a distribution of the trust assets to a generation skipping heir, or upon the termination of an intervening interest in the trust. Determines the tax by adding the value of the distributed property, or terminated interest, to the heir's taxable transfers and applying the heir's marginal transfer tax rate to the value of such interest. Extends from nine months to 12 months the period after the decedent's death in which an estate tax return must be filed. Requires gift tax returns to be filed for any quarter only when the total cumulative gifts made during the taxable year exceed $25,000, or during the last quarter if the total does not reach $25,000. Provides that if the Internal Revenue Service proposes a deficiency in the estate tax because of a higher valuation of the assets included in the decedent's gross estate, it must disclose to the executor during the settlement process the basis on which the higher valuation was determined.
Bill· HRH.R. 14204 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1976
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt until January 1, 1977, specified sales, exchanges, or other dispositions of property by a private foundation to a disqualified person from the five percent tax on all self-dealing.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1257 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1976
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States Postal Service shall not close or suspend the operation of any post offices, unless there is a clear and compelling need to do so. Encourages the service to continue cost-cutting programs which do not affect levels of service.
Bill· HRH.R. 14070 (94th)passed
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1976
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize a loan level of $2,000,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1976 to 1980 for the Federal loan insurance program. Extends the Federal interest subsidy program created under such Act until September 30, 1984.
Bill· HRH.R. 14036 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1976
Equal Opportunity and Full Employment Act - Directs the President, with the assistance of the Council of Economic Advisers, to transmit annually a full employment and production program to the Congress. Sets forth a summary of the content to be contained in such annual report. Provides for annual Labor Reports of the President. Requires the Labor Reports to provide detailed attention on a continuing and progressively analytical basis to the changing volume and composition of the American labor supply. Renames the United States Employment Service as the United States Full Employment Service. Creates a Job Guarantee Office in the United States Full Employment Office headed by a Job Guarantee Officer whose responsibility is to provide useful and rewarding employment for any American, able and willing to work but not yet working, unable otherwise to obtain work, and applying to such office for assistance. Directs the Job Guarantee Office to carry out responsibilities under this Act upon the recommendation and approval of the local planning councils. Requires that each Job Guarantee Office in carrying out its responsibilities shall insure that among projects planned that adequate consideration be given to such individuals and groups as may face special obstacles in finding and holding useful and rewarding employment and shall provide or have provided through the coordination of existing programs special assistance including but not limited to counseling, training, and, where necessary, transportation and migration assistance. Provides that such individuals and groups shall include (1) those suffering from past or present discrimination or bias on the basis of sex, age, race, color, religion, or national origin; (2) older workers and retirees; (3) the physically or mentally handicapped; (4) youths to age 21; (5) potentially employable recipients of public assistance; (6) the inhabitants of depressed areas, urban and rural; (7) veterans of the Armed Forces; (8) people unemployed because of the relocation, closing, or reduced operations in industrial or military facilities; and (9) such other groups as the President or the Congress may designate from time to time. Directs that each Job Guarantee Office may, subject to the limitations specified in this Act, enter into agreements with public agencies and private organizations operating on a profit, nonprofit, or limited-profit basis. Requires such agreements to contain assurances that the agency or organization will: (1) provide an annual independent audit to the Job Guarantee Office; and (2) not discriminate on the grounds of sex, age, race, color, religion, or national origin in the administration of any program encompassed within the agreement. Directs the Job Guarantee Office to: (1) refer jobseekers to the private sector and general public sector employment placement facilities of the Full Employment Service (other than as supplemented by this Act); and (2) directly refer jobseekers for placement in positions on projects drawn from the reservoir of public service and private employment projects. Provides that anyone who presents himself or herself in person at the Full Employment Office shall be considered prima facie "willing and able" to work. Provides that this stipulation specifically shall include persons with impairments of sight, hearing, movement, coordination, mental retardation, or other handicaps. Directs that this stipulation be implemented by the Job Guarantee Officer, pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary. Establishes a Standby Job Corps which shall consist of jobseekers registered pursuant to this Act. Provides that such Corps shall be available for public service work upon projects and activities that are approved as a part of community public service work reservoirs established by community boards pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary, by regulation, to provide for: (1) a requirement that jobseekers registered in the Standby Job Corps maintain a status of good standing, which status shall include attendance and performance standards; and (2) a system of compensation for Corps members. Provides that no Standby Job Corps members shall be paid less than the minimum wage in effect in the area. Directs the Joint Economic Committee to: (1) annually review the activities of the executive branch under all sections of this Act; (2) regularly conduct on its own behalf, or in cooperation with or through the facilities of the appropriate legislative committees or subcommittees of the Senate and the House, public hearings in as many labor market areas as feasible; and (3) annually report upon, with its own conclusions and recommendations, the development and administration of the policies and programs mandated by this Act. Establishes a National Institute for Full Employment, within the Department of Labor, under a Director to be appointed by the Secretary of Labor, and to operate in continuing consultation with a National Commission for Full Employment Policy Studies. Authorizes and directs the Institute to make, or have made through grants to or contracts with individual researchers and private or public research organizations, universities, and other Government agencies, studies that shall include, but need not be limited to, such subjects as: (1) the policies and programs needed to reduce whatever inflationary pressures may result from full employment to manage any such inflationary pressures through appropriate fiscal policies and indirect and direct controls, and to protect the weaker groups in society from whatever inflationary trends cannot be avoided or controlled; (2) the identification of human potentialities that are hidden, undeveloped, or underdeveloped because of the lack of suitable job opportunities, encouragement, education, or training and of various ways of releasing such potentialities; (3) the forms of education and training needed to help provide people with the skills, knowledge, and values required by existing employment opportunities and technologies and needed to assist in developing such new types of goods, services, technologies, and employment opportunities as may better meet human needs; and (4) the policies and programs needed to substantially eliminate substandard employment, wages, and working conditions and the techniques for establishing standards for employment, wages, and working conditions in accordance with changing levels of national output and resources, and regional variations in output. Authorizes the appropriation for fiscal year 1976, and for each succeeding fiscal year, of such sums as may be needed to carry out this Act.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 626 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1976
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Soviet Union should release Georgi Vins from imprisonment and allow freedom of religion in that nation.
Bill· HRH.R. 13488 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1976
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to permanently allow the importation free of customs duty of horses other than for immediate slaughter. Terminates the special tariff classification of race horses which are exported and returned to the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 13344 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1976
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to appoint to the Federal service specified State, territory, and local meat and poultry inspection personnel to enforce and perform Federal inspection requirements with respect to slaughterhouses and processing establishments whose products are distributed solely intrastate where such regulation is required because the State or territory in which such slaughterhouses or processing establishments are located has failed to develop or enforce sufficient inspection standards. Details provisons relating to: (1) compensation of; (2) credit for prior State, territory, or local service by; (3) retention of accumulated leave by; and (4) eligibility for civil service retirement annuities of such personnel.
Bill· HRH.R. 13262 (94th)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1976
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt farmers or farm operators from the highway use tax on heavy trucks if the farmer: (1) uses such vehicle primarily for farming purposes, and (2) is not a corporation with gross receipts in excess of $950,000 or with gross receipts more than 50 percent of which are from activities other than farming.
Bill· HRH.R. 13247 (94th)reported
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1976
Designates the Federal building located at 110 Michigan Avenue, Northwest, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the "Arthur H. Vandenberg Building".
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