United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the Antidumping Act, 1921, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to determine whether there is reason to believe that imported goods are being sold in the United States or elsewhere at less than its fair market value within six months of the initiation of an investigation by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary to withhold appraisement of imported goods when the Secretary determines to initiate such an investigation. Deletes the provision of Federal law which permits an extension of time to make such a determination. Requires the Secretary to make a final determination within two months regarding the sale of imported goods at less than fair value. Directs the Secretary to inform the International Trade Commission if the Secretary determines that the purchase price of imported goods is less, or likely to be less, than the foreign market value. Requires the Commission to investigate whether U.S. industry is being injured or less likely to be established due to such imported goods and to notify the Secretary of its determination within three months of the Secretary's determination. Stipulates that any special dumping duty on imported goods should be assessed within one year after the Secretary has made a finding that the purchase price of such goods is less than fair value.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the Clean Air Act to postpone for one year the application of certain restrictions to areas which have failed to attain national ambient air quality standards and to delay for one year the date required for adoption and submission of State implementation plans applicable to these areas.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Removes the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Federal district courts over any case arising out of any State statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, which relates to voluntary prayers in public schools and public buildings.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Prohibits the Secretary of the Treasury from implementing a proposed revenue procedure entitled, "Proposed Revenue Procedure on Private Tax-Exempt Schools," or any other guidelines for determining whether private schools have forfeited their tax-exempt status through the adoption of racially discriminatory policies.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Gasohol Motor Fuel Act of 1979 - Requires the Secretary of Energy to establish a program to promote the development and use of alcohol-blended fuels in the United States. Directs the Secretary to study the most suitable raw materials for the production of alcohol-blended fuels. Requires that such study emphasize alternative fuel sources to petroleum and natural gas, and evaluate the efficiency of various production and distribution systems. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress within six months after the enactment of this Act concerning the results of such study. Directs the Secretary to set production goals for alcohol-blended fuel development within six months after the completion of the study. Directs the Secretary to require that motor fuel sold in 1981 be one percent alcohol-blended. Sets increasing percentage requirements for succeeding years ending in 1990 where motor fuel shall be ten percent alcohol-blended. Empowers the Secretary to enforce the provisions of this Act and enumerates the enforcement procedures and penalties. Requires that all facilities constructed to distill alcohol for motor fuel use shall use fuel sources which are renewable. Directs the Secretary to establish, within six months after the enactment of this Act, procedures for the certification of alcohol distilling facilities. Requires the Secretary to give first priority for fuel sources to operate such distillation facilities to renewable energy resources. Grants last priority for fuel sources to petroleum, petroleum derivatives and natural gas. Empowers the Secretary to waive the preference for renewable resources upon a finding that they are economically or technically infeasible for use as fuel sources to power distillation facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the tax exemption of certain charitable organizations and the allowance of an income tax deduction for contributions to such organizations shall not be construed as the provision of Federal assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Directs Congress to assure that the total outlays of the Government during any fiscal year (except for repayment of debt) do not exceed 33 1/3 percent of the average national income for the three prior calendar years. Authorizes the suspension of such measure in the case of national emergency or war.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends rule X of the Rules the House of Representatives to establish a standing Committee on Internal Security to investigate and report on Communist and other subversive activities affecting the internal security of the United States, including activities intended to overthrow or alter the form of government in the United States by unlawful means or which incite or employ violence or any unlawful means to obstruct the lawful authority of the government.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the new Department of Labor health and safety training regulations for miners places an undue burden on small store, sand, and gravel surface mining operations and should not apply to operations with 35 or fewer employees.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt taxpayers from the payment of interest or a penalty on tax deficiencies attributable to erroneous advice obtained in writing from an Internal Revenue Service Officer or employee acting in an official capacity.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Methanol Fuel Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals to elect an income tax deduction with respect to the amortization of any qualified methanol producing facility based on a period of 60 months. Defines the term "qualified methanol producing facility" to mean any tangible property: (1) which is used in producing methanol from coal, wood, waste, or natural gas; and (2) which is of a character subject to the allowance for depreciation. Specifies the amount of such deduction. Provides that such deduction shall be in lieu of a depreciation deduction. Exempts gasoline and special fuels containing at least ten percent methanol from excise taxes otherwise imposed on gasoline and special fuels.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Metric Conversion Repeal Act of 1979 - Repeals the Metric Conversion Act of 1975, which established the United States Metric Board in order to facilitate voluntary conversion to the use of the metric system of measurement.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to exempt from its inspection requirements the custom slaughtering of livestock by any person not engaged in buying or selling meat or meat products when: (1) such livestock is delivered by the owner thereof; (2) there is no change of ownership in such livestock; (3) the meat and meat food products are to be used exclusively by the owner; and (4) the premises and slaughtering meet the sanitation requirements of the State.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Government Economy and Spending Reform Act of 1979 - Title I: Authorizations of New Budget Authority - Terminates on specified dates budget authority for all Government programs except health care services, general retirement, and disability insurance, and Federal employee retirement and disability programs which are funded by trust funds. Declares out of order in either the Senate or the House of Representatives any legislation which authorizes new budget authority not in compliance with this Act. Requires the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on the Budget of both Houses of Congress to identify each program's functional and subfunctional category, the committees having legislative jurisdiction over such program, and whether such program operates under permanent authorizations and budget authority. Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress by April 1, 1977, on specified programs with respect to the laws under which such program is carried on, and the amount of new budget authority received by such program during the four fiscal years ending before April 1, 1977. Makes the budget termination provisions of this Act effective on the first day of the Ninety-fifth Congress. Title II: Early Elimination of Inactive and Duplicate Programs - Requires the Comptroller General to study all Government programs and report to Congress any programs which have duplicate objectives or for which no outlays have been made for the last two fiscal years. Directs the standing Committees of both Houses to consider such reports and act to eliminate inactive or duplicative programs by March 15, 1978. Title III: Quadrennial Program Review and Evaluation - Sets forth a timetable for Congressional zero-base review of new budget authority. Requires review by standing committees of the Congress every four years of each program's cost, effectiveness, and the extent to which such program duplicates or is similar to any other program. States that such review shall include a comprehensive evaluation of the merits of such program to determine if it warrants continuation. Requires justification of any recommendation to fund any program which has objectives similar to or the same as another program's objectives. Directs the Comptroller General and the Congressional Budget Office to provide Congress with information and analysis of programs being reviewed under this Act. Requires the President to similarly review the merits of continuing programs contained in the annual Budget and to include a report on such review with the Budget transmitted to Congress. Title IV: Continuing Review and Evaluation - Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress the result of any audit which shows a substantial deficiency in achievement of the objectives of any Government program. Requires subsequent audits, a report of which must be submitted to Congress, until such deficiency has been eliminated. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, to require the inclusion in the Budget of a statement of the specific objectives of each Government program, and a comparison, in each subsequent Budget, of the achievement of such objectives for the last completed fiscal year with the planned objectives of such year. Title V: Miscellaneous - States that those provisions of this Act which direct the operation of either House are enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of such House and recognizes the right of either House to change such rules.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt taxpayers from the payment of interest or a penalty on tax deficiencies attributable to erroneous advice obtained in writing from an Internal Revenue Service Officer or employee acting in an official capacity.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Health Care Expenditures Regulation Review Act - Requires any officer or agency in the executive branch of the Federal Government to submit all proposed health care regulations to each House of Congress. Sets forth the procedure by which a proposed health care regulation shall become effective. Directs the head of any Federal department or agency to give 60 days notice to the relevant committees of the House of Representatives and Senate, prior to initial publication of any regulation which relates to: (1) costs or expenditures of, or reimbursements to, individuals or providers of health care; or (2) the fixing of any rate or charge.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Tax Reduction and Federal Spending Discipline Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce individual and estate and trust income tax rates for calendar years 1980 and 1981 and to make a permanent reduction in such rates for taxable years ending after December 31, 1981. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act to limit fiscal year 1980 budget outlays to those of fiscal year 1979. Prohibits budget outlays in fiscal years 1981, 1982, and 1983 from exceeding outlays in any preceding year by five percent. Authorizes the President to reduce budget outlays in fiscal years 1980, 1981, 1982 and 1983 by a maximum of ten percent.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require annual cost-of-living adjustments, based on the Consumer Price Index, to: (1) individual income tax brackets; (2) the corporate surtax exemption; (3) the $1,000 personal exemption; (4) depreciation deductions; and (5) the adjusted basis of property for purposes of determining capital gains. Amends the Second Liberty Bond Act to require cost-of-living adjustments to interest rates on savings bonds and certificates issued pursuant to such Act and on certain other obligations of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits collective bargaining agreements between the United States Postal Service and labor organizations recognized as exclusive bargaining representatives for their respective postal employee units from containing procedures which would preclude employees from being represented in grievance and adverse actions arising under such agreements by representatives of their own choosing.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Regulatory Agency Abolition Act - Abolishes specified Federal regulatory agencies three years after enactment of this Act unless prior to such date the President and Congress study the effectiveness of such agencies and Congress thereafter adopts a resolution disapproving such abolition. Provides that each regulatory agency established after the date of enactment of this Act shall be abolished three years from the date on which it was first empowered unless the President and Congress take the steps outlined above. Directs the President to submit to Congress a plan for the orderly transfer of duties essential to the public health, safety, or welfare from an abolished agency to the President or to a successor agency. Provides that all orders, rules, certificates, judicial proceedings and licenses made effective by agencies abolished by this Act shall continue in effect until repealed or superceded by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Alcohol Fuel Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer to elect an income tax deduction with respect to the amortization, based on a 60 month period, of any qualified facility producing alcohol from coal, wood, waste, or agricultural products for primary use as a motor fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to exclude aliens affiliated with terrorist organizations from: (1) visa eligibility and admission into the United States; (2) temporary parole admission; and (3) transit through the United States as foreign officials. Authorizes the Attorney General to deport such aliens, and prohibits the Attorney General from allowing such aliens to voluntarily depart rather than being deported. Removes specified diplomatic and semidiplomatic immunities from such aliens. Makes it a felony under such Act to knowingly aid such an alien to enter the United States. Defines terrorist organization for purposes of such Act. Amends the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 to: (1) define terrorist organization for purposes of such Act: (2) direct the Attorney General to investigate the activities of any person registered under such Act as an agent of a terrorist organization; and (3) make such an agent who knowingly receives funds from such an organization criminally liable.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to exempt interstate trunk lines owned by a telephone company serving subscribers in a single State from the requirement that no carrier in communication shall undertake the construction of a new line or of an extension of any line unless there shall first have been obtained from the Federal Communications Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require such construction.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit married individuals filing separate income tax returns to use the tax tables applicable to unmarried individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Extends to contracts for the lease of real property the relief provided under the Small Business Emergency Relief Act to small business concerns which have fixed-price Government contracts where such concerns have suffered or can be expected to suffer serious financial loss because of the energy crisis or rapid and unforeseen escalations of contract costs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Student Freedom of Choice Act of 1979 - Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to provide that no employer shall justify discrimination against any employee for nonmembership in or failure to support a labor organization if the employee is a student enrolled in a full-time program of secondary, vocational, or higher education.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit an income tax deduction for agency fees, court costs, attorneys' fees, and other necessary expenses incurred in the adoption of a child. Limits such deduction to $1,250 for the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
United States Court of Labor-Management Relations - Establishes a United States Court of Labor-Management Relations to have jurisdiction over labor disputes in industries substantially affecting interstate commerce that have resulted, or threaten to result, in a concerted work stoppage which adversely affects or potentially adversely affects the general welfare, health, or safety of the Nation. Permits the jurisdiction of the court to be invoked either: (1) upon application of the Attorney General after all procedures for enjoining work stoppages under the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 and the Railway Labor Act have been exhausted; or (2) upon application of any party to the labor dispute regardless of the availability of alternate procedures. Empowers the Court, upon the invocation of its jurisdiction, to enjoin the work stoppage, and to make necessary or appropriate orders, including orders affecting rates of pay and working conditions. Requires the parties to the dispute, upon the issuance of such order, to make every effort, under the continuing direction of the Court, to settle their differences. Authorizes the Court, within 80 days of such order, to require the parties to attend hearings and testify with respect to their dispute. Directs the Court to set a matter down for immediate hearing and final judicial determination if the parties fail to settle their differences within 80 days of the issuance of the injunction or if the parties agreed to continue to attempt beyond such 80 days period to voluntarily settle their differences and thereafter advise the Court that a negotiated settlement is impossible. Sets forth procedures for such hearings. Limits the power of the Court, in making a final determination of any case with respect to which there is in effect a valid collective bargaining agreement or other similar contract, to applying or interpreting such agreement. Specifies guidelines to be followed by the Court in fixing rates of pay or other conditions of employment. States that the decisions of the Court shall be final unless they are arbitrary and capricious or are violations of a constitutional right, in which case the Supreme Court shall have exclusive appellate jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to deny eligibility for food stamps to any household including a person participating in a strike or labor dispute which the President determines is causing or substantially contributing to: (1) a critical shortage of any essential energy resource or strategic material; or (2) unemployment in an industry not directly involved in such strike or labor dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Federal Salary Act of 1967 to postpone the effective date of pay adjustments recommended by the President for legislative, judicial, and executive branch personnel until the first pay period after the first period of 30 calendar days of continuous congressional session. Provides rules for considering legislation to disapprove such salary adjustments within such 30-day period including procedures to limit debate on such measures and to force such a measure out of committee ten days after its introduction.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Directs the United States to pay reasonable litigation costs, including attorney fees, to prevailing defendants in civil actions in which the United States is a plaintiff.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits the use or supply of false documentation, false information, or birth or immigration documents of another, for purposes of obtaining a Federal document containing an element of identification. Forbids commerce in such information, documentation, or official documents for purposes of securing a State or local government document containing an element of identification. Proscribes specified acts relative to: (1) forgery, counterfeiting, or alteration of Federal, State, or local government document containing an element of identification; (2) interstate or foreign commerce in any such counterfeited, forged, or altered document; and (3) receipt, possession, use, or furnishing of any such document with intent to secure false official identification.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Limits the authorized area of Shenandoah National Park to the 194,000 acres to which fee simple title is vested in the United States as of the date of enactment of this Act. Prohibits any expansion of such park except by an Act of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits rules promulgated by any Federal agency (except an emergency rule which must become immediately effective to prevent serious injury or the substantial frustration of legislative policies or intent) from becoming effective until such proposed rules have been submitted to Congress and a 60-day period has lapsed thereafter. Prevents such rules from becoming effective if disapproved by either House of Congress within such 60-day period. Permits disapproval of emergency rules. Prohibits the submission to Congress of any rule identical to one which has been disapproved unless submitted pursuant to new legislative authority which has been enacted affecting the agency's powers with respect to the subject matter of such rule. Renders agency rules dealing with emergency or routine matters or which will have an insignificant impact effective without publication of advance notice of proposed rulemaking proceedings in the Federal Register as is currently required. Renders any rule granting an exemption to another rule or which is exempt from public notice and comment requirements effective immediately.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits any Federal employee or agency from inspecting medical or dental records of patients not receiving medical or dental assistance from the Federal Government. Specifies the way in which a patient may authorize disclosure of such information. Prescribes penalties and injunctive relief for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends title II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that attorneys' fees allowed in administrative or judicial proceedings under that title (or under title XVIII (Medicare) of such Act), in cases where the claimants are successful, shall be paid by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare rather than deducted from the amounts awarded claimants.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to provide that any employer who successfully contests a citation or penalty under such Act shall be awarded a reasonable attorney's fee and other reasonable litigation costs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt nonprofit volunteer firefighting or rescue organizations from the excise tax on sales of special fuels, automotive parts, petroleum products, and communication services.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income a corporate stock distribution to a stockholder based upon the reinvestment of stock dividends in the corporation by such stockholder pursuant to his election to participate in a qualified dividend reinvestment plan, as defined in this Act. Limits the amount of such exclusion to $1,500 per year. Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a distribution made by a corporation which purchases its common stock within one year of such distribution shall not be deemed a distribution pursuant to a qualified dividend reinvestment plan.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Good Samaritan Act - Declares: (1) that any physician, registered nurse, or aircraft employee who, in good faith and with a reasonable belief that immediate medical attention is necessary, renders emergency care to an injured or ill person aboard an aircraft within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States shall not be liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission by such individual in rendering such care, except for any act or omission amounting to gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct; and (2) that any such individual shall not be liable for any such act or omission in rendering continued emergency care to the injured or ill person during transportation from the aircraft to a medical facility for further treatment or care.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Hobbs Act Amendment of 1979 - Establishes maximum criminal penalties of 25 years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine for anyone who obstructs, affects, or interferes with commerce by willfully injuring, damaging, burning, or destroying to the value of $2,000 or more any real or personal property of any person at or near any place where work or business of an employer or owner is carried on, or where such employer or owner transports, stores, or maintains property for business or other purposes. Stipulates that such violation, as well as the offense of interfering with commerce by extortion, may be committed in the course of a legitimate labor dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Limits the total of the United States' contribution to the budget of the United Nations and affiliated agencies to the same ratio as the U.S. population is to the total population of United Nations' member nations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to eliminate all provisions authorizing union security agreements (requiring union membership as a condition of employment).
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Prohibits rules promulgated by any Federal agency (except an emergency rule which must become immediately effective to prevent serious injury or the substantial frustration of legislative policies or intent) from becoming effective until such proposed rules have been submitted to Congress and a 60-day period has lapsed thereafter. Prevents such rules from becoming effective if disapproved by either House of Congress within such 60-day period. Permits disapproval of emergency rules. Prohibits the submission to Congress of any rule identical to one which has been disapproved unless submitted pursuant to new legislative authority which has been enacted affecting agency's powers with respect to the subject matter of such rule. Renders agency rules dealing with emergency or routine matters or which will have an insignificant impact effective without publication of advance notice of proposed rulemaking proceedings in the Federal Register as is currently required. Renders any rule granting an exemption to another rule or which is exempt from public notice and comment requirements effective immediately.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Soft Drink Interbrand Competition Act - Declares that exclusive territorial arrangements made as a part of a licensing agreement for the manufacture, distribution, or sale of a trademarked soft drink product are lawful under the antitrust laws provided such product is in substantial and effective competition with other products of the same general class.
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