United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Food Supplement Amendment - Defines the term "food supplement" for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to mean food for special dietary uses, and defines the meaning of "special dietary uses" as particular uses of food for man which meets specified requirements. Provides that in administering such Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: (1) shall not limit the potency, number, combination, amount, or variety of any synthetic or natural vitamin, mineral, substance, or ingredient of any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage; and (2) shall not require a warning label on any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides that tax-exempt organizations which engage in activities (presently substantial activities) of carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, shall lose their exemption from tax. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3))
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that the payment of benefits to a married couple shall be made on the basis of their combined earnings record where that method of computation produces a higher combined benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides additional educational assistance for a period of up to 18 months for graduate or professional study to eligible veterans who: (1) have received educational assistance (under chapter 34 of title 38, U.S. Code) for 36 months, or (under section 1791 of title 38) for 48 months; and (2) have completed at least 1 year of graduate or professional study. (Amend 38 U.S.C. 1661, 1662, 1791)
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides for the observance of Memorial Day on May 30 and for the observance of Veterans' Day on November 11 of each year and makes such days legal holidays. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 6103(a))
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Forbids the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to: (1) withhold, or threaten to withhold, Federal financial assistance from any public school operating under a freedom of choice plan on account of the racial composition of its student body; (2) withhold, or threaten to withhold, Federal financial assistance from any public school to coerce or induce the school board operating the public school to transport students from such public school for the purpose of altering in any way the racial composition of the student body at such public school or any other public school; (3) withhold or threaten to withhold, Federal financial assistance from any school board operating any public schools to coerce or induce the school board to close any public school and transfer the students from such public school to any other public school or schools for the purpose of altering the racial composition of the student body at any public school; and (4) withold, or threaten to withhold, Federal financial assistance from any school board operating any public school to coerce or induce the school board to transfer any member of any faculty from the public school in which the member of the faculty contracts to serve to some other public school for the purpose of altering the racial composition of the faculty at any public school. Empowers any school board or any parent of any student affected or to be affected by any violation or threatened violation of any of the provisions of this Act to sue the United States, in the District Court of the United States, and obtain such relief as may be necessary to redress the violation or prevent the threatened violation. Removes from the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts the power to make decisions, which would: (1) change the racial composition of the student body at any public school; (2) require "busing" to change such racial composition; or (3) close any school to alter such racial composition.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides, under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, for the suspension in whole or in part, of economic and military assistance and specific sales to any country which fails to take appropriate steps to prevent narcotic drugs produced or processed, in whole or in part, in such country from entering the United States unlawfully. Requires the President to keep the Congress fully and currently informed with respect to any action taken by him under this Act, and prohibits his waiver of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Provides that in the determination of the annual income of recipients of vetetans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall not reduce the amount of such pension or compensation because of increases in monthly social security benefits under Public law 92-336. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4) 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Exempts any nonmanufacturing business, or any business having twenty-five or less employees, in States having laws regulating safety in such businesses, from the Federal standards created under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, notwithstanding the provisions of the first article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, or any other provision of the Constitution, Congress shall have the power to establish, by law, conditions of employment in any facility which Congress determines is essential to the national security, including, but not limited to, the condition that no person shall be employed in such a facility who becomes or remains a member of any organization which advocates, advises, or teaches that the Government of the United States or of any State, district, territory, or possession thereof should be overthrown or destroyed by force or violence.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - States that Congress shall make no law restricting freedom of choice in any area of human discretion wherein a person has a lawful right to choose between two legal alternatives. Provides that all persons shall have freedom of choice in selecting schools, domicle, marital status, employment, and the ownership, use, and disposal of property.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the President shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Representatives, to make treaties. Requires for approval that for each treaty two-thirds of the Senate and the House of Representatives must concur.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that appointments of judges to the Supreme Court and judges to all other Federal courts, as established under section 1 of article III, be reconfirmed every six years by the Senate. Requires fives years' prior judicial experience as a qualification for appointment to said offices.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no treaty with respect to which the advice and consent of the Senate is required by section 2 of article II of the U.S. Constitution may be made without the advice and consent of the House of Representatives, two-thirds of the Representatives present concurring.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that, under any circumstances which may arise in the future pertaining to situations in which the United States is not already involved, the commitment of the Armed Forces of the United States to hostilities on foreign territory for any purpose, other than to repel an attack on the United States or to protect United States citizens or property, properly will result from a decision made in accordance with constitutional processes, which in addition to appropriate executive action, requires affirmative action by Congress specially intended to give rise to such commitment.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Holy Crown of Saint Stephen should remain in the safekeeping of the United States Government until Hungary once again functions as a constitutional government established by the Hungarian people through free choice.
United States · United States Congress · 6 January 1973
United Nations Revocation Act - Repeals the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 authorizing United States membership in the United Nations, and prohibits the Congress from appropriating funds for any organization, specialized agency, commission, or other body of the United Nations after the date of enactment of this Act. States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect in any way the repayment of money to the United States under any loan agreement made with the United Nations by the President. (Repeals 22 U.S.C. 287- 287e, 287m-287F)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, that where violations are corrected within the prescribed abatement period no penalty shall be assessed. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 659, 660, 666)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Labor, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, to recognize the difference in hazards to employees between the heavy construction industry and the light residential construction industry in promulgating health and safety standards. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 655)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, tax-exempt organizations which voluntarily engage in litigation for the benefit of third parties, or commit other prohibited acts, shall lose their exemption from tax.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for an increase, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, from $600 to $1,200 in the personal income tax exemption of a taxpayer (including the exemption for a spouse, the exemptions for a dependent, and the additional exemptions for old age and blindness).
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Panama Canal Modernization Act - Directs the Governor of the Canal Zone under the supervision of the Secretary of the Army to prosecute the work necessary to increase the capacity and improve the operations of the Panama Canal through the adaptation of the Third Locks project (H. Doc. 210, 76th Congress) at a total cost not to exceed $850,000,000. Establishes the Panama Canal Advisory and Inspection Board composed of 5 members appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to study and review plans and designs for the Third Locks project. Gives the Board powers to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Board to submit an annual report to the President and Congress on the progress of its work.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires each judge of the United States courts to file a confidential financial statement with the Comptroller General by May 15 of each year. Provides that such report shall contain the following information: all documents filed for income tax purposes; name and instrument of ownership of any business in which the ownership value exceeded $5,000 or from which income was derived, the value of ownership and amount of income, the name and address of all organizations in which the judge or his spouse was an officer, director, partner, employee or adviser, from which income was derived and the amount of income (includes other income for services rendered and not otherwise reported); capital from a single source other than the sale of a residence; the identity of each interest in real or personal property owned which had a fair market value of $10,000 or more and the amount of each such interest; the identity of liabilities of $5,000 or more owed by the judge or spouse; and the identity, source, and value of all gifts in the aggregate amount or value of $50 or more from any single source. Directs judges with no interests covered in this act to file a report so stating. Provides for removal from office for willful failure or refusal to file a report. Directs the Comptroller General to keep the sealed reports for seven years. Requires that the report be sent to either House of Congress after adoption of a resolution. Provides that the committee designated in the resolution shall examine the report in executive session unless further consideration is warranted in which case the report may be available to any committee member or staff member for any use required for the discharge of his official duties. Provides that reports shall be returned to the judges after seven years or to their legal representatives. Directs the Comptroller General to report annually to Congress the names of judges who have submitted reports.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Allows an individual a tax credit, under the Internal Revenue Code, for an amount equal to 50 percent of any amounts paid by him during the taxable year as tuition for the elementary or secondary education of any dependent with respect to whom he is entitled to a personal exemption. States that such credit shall not exceed $500 in any taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Retrocedes and relinquishes a specified portion of the District of Columbia to the State of Maryland. Entitles the State of Maryland to one additional prepresentative for this area until the next apportionment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Directs the Postmaster General to issue a special postage stamp in honor of the brave men who served on the United States ship Liberty and the United States ship Pueblo in commemoration of their courage and fortitude.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
States that the Supreme Court shall not have appellate jurisdiction to: (1) decide that any provision of a statute of the United States, a State statute, or a State constitution is invalid because it is in violation of any provision of the Constitution of the United States; or (2) reverse, alter, or modify any decision or rule of law made by the Court except upon the concurrence of the full membership of the Court. (Adds 28 U.S.C. 1259)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Directs the Commissioner of Education to suspend assistance to colleges and universities failing to take appropriate corrective measures forthwith when experiencing campus disorders. Requires the suspension of Federal financial assistance to teachers participating in such disorders.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that tax-exempt organizations which engage in activities (presently substantial activities) of carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, shall lose their exemption from tax. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(3))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay to each veteran of World War I who meets service requirements a specified pension. Provides for pension payments to the widow, or to the children of World War I veterans if there is no widow. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 512, 536, 537)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Prohibits the use of the mails to sell or distribute to a minor: (1) any picture of a person or portion of the human body which depicts nudity, sexual conduct, or sado-masochistic abuse, in a viewer's prurient interests; or (2) any book or sound recording which depicts nudity, sexual conduct, or sado-masochistic abuse or which contains explicit and detailed verbal descriptions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, or sado-masochistic abuse, and which is designed to primarily appeal to the listener's or reader's prurient interests. Prescribes a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, for the first such offense, and a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment of not more than 10 years, or both, for each such offense thereafter. Defines the terms used in this Act. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1466)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Prohibits the redemption in gold of any obligations of the United States for, and the sale of any gold of the United States to, any nation which is indebted to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, that each tax-exempt organization to file an annual information return showing each source (including governmental sources) of its income and other receipts. Provides for a loss of tax exemption in the case of willful failure to file, or fraudulent statements made in connection with, such return.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, or duly authorized subcommittees thereof, to meet jointly at the beginning of each regular session of Congress and after study and consultation, giving due consideration to the budget recommendations of the President, report to their respective Houses a legislative budget for the ensuing fiscal year, including the estimated overall Federal receipts and expenditures for such year. Requires such report to contain a recommendation for the maximum amount to be appropriated for expenditure in such year which shall include: (1) at least 10 percent of the estimated overall Federal receipts for the reduction of the public debt, and (2) such an amount to be reserved for deficiencies as may be deemed necessary by such committees. Provides that the maximum amount recommended to be appropriated for expenditure in such year shall not exceed the estimated overall Federal receipts for such year. States that the report shall be accompanied by a concurrent resolution adopting such budget, and, in accordance with the recommendations contained in such report, fixing the maximum amount to be appropriated for expenditure in such year. Makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury during such year to reduce the public debt by at least 10 percent of the estimated overall Federal receipts.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that whoever, under color of law, statute, treaty, ordinance, regulation, or custom (including any order, rule, or regulation issued by the President to apply measures which the Security Council or General Assembly has decided, or may decide, pursuant to Charter of the United Nations, are to be employed to give effect to its decisions or resolutions under such charter, or otherwise), willfully subjects any inhabitant of any State, district, Commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 242)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that no part of any funds appropriated for research, or otherwise available, for expenditure by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall be expended to promote, subsidize, or propagandize for fluoridation of public water supplies, nor shall any such funds be expended to ridicule, dissuade, or disparage opposition to fluoridation of public water supplies.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Vests in the Government of the United States the full, absolute, complete, and unconditional ownership of the twelve Federal Reserve banks. Requires all member banks of the Federal Reserve System to deliver to the Treasurer of the United States all the stock of said Federal Reserve banks owned or controlled by them, together with all claims to the capital assets of the Federal Reserve banks. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Government of the United States shall not engage in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution. States that the constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of the United States, shall not be subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment. Requires the activities of the United States Government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected sold. Provides that three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of the United States shall stand repealed and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and/or gifts.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint a special committee of twelve Members to investigate all crimes against humanity perpetrated under Communist direction. Requires such special committee to report to the House the results of its investigation, together with its recommendations, not later than one year following appointment of the committee's full membership. Grants powers to the special committee to carry out this resolution. Makes it the sense of the Congress that a monument be erected in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as a memorial to all victims of international communist crimes against humanity.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Expresses the sense of Congress that no action should be taken on the part of the Federal Government, any State or political subdivision thereof that would remove the song "Dixie" from its proper place in the history of the United States and that region of the United States known as the South, or prohibit the song from being played as a part of any public function or gathering.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that officers and employees of the Federal Government residing and/or working in the District of Columbia should voluntarily send their children qualified to attend elementary or secondary school to the public schools of the District of Columbia.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Declares that the Congress condemns the treatment of American prisoners of war by the Government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam. Urges the President to initiate through diplomatic, military, and any other available channels, such action as may be necessary to insure that the tenets of fair and humane treatment, as expressed in the Geneva Convention of 1949, are accorded to American servicemen held as prisoners of war in North and South Vietnam and especially to urge the Government of North Vietnam and its allies to: (1) identify prisoners whom they hold; (2) release seriously sick or injured prisoners; (3) permit impartial inspections of all prisoner-of-war facilities; and (4) permit the free exchange of mail between families and prisoners.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and all other concerned departments or agencies of the United States Government, the United Nations and the peoples of the world should appeal to North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam to comply with the requirements of the Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war and to take such steps as may be appropriate to obtain the humane treatment and prompt release of all members of the Armed Forces of the United States held as prisoners of war.
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