United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1974
Authorizes the President to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit the importation into the United States of products from foreign countries conducting fishing operations which adversely affect international fishery conservation programs, or to state his reasons for not doing so to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1974
Coal Research Laboratory and Energy Research Fellowship Act - Title I: University Coal Research Laboratories - Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation, after consultation with the National Academy of Engineering, to designate five institutions of higher education at which university coal research laboratories will be established and operated. States that, in making designations under this Act, the Director shall consider the following criteria: (1) the institution of higher education shall be located in a State with abundant coal reserves; (2) the institution of higher education shall have experience in coal research, expertise in several areas of coal research, and currently active, outstanding programs in coal research; and (3) the institution of higher education has the capacity to establish and operate the coal laboratories to be assisted under this title. Provides that not more than one coal laboratory established pursuant to this title shall be located in a single State. Specifies information to be included in applications by institutions of higher education desiring to be designated under this title. Authorizes the Director to make grants to any designated institution of higher education to pay the Federal share of the cost of establishing and maintaining a coal laboratory. States that no institution of higher education may receive more than $4,000,000 for the construction of its coal research laboratory, including initially installed fixed equipment, nor may it receive more than $1,500,000 for initially installed movable equipment, nor may it receive more than $500,000 for new program startup expenses. Provides that no institution of higher education may receive more than $1,500,000 per year from the Federal Government for operating expenses. Establishes an Advisory Council on Coal Research. Stipulates that the Advisory Council shall advise the Director with respect to the general administration of this title, and furnish such additional advice as he may request. Authorizes appropriations of not to exceed $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 (including the cost of construction, equipment, and startup expenses) and $7,500,000 beginning with the fiscal year 1976 and for each fiscal year thereafter through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1980, to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Energy Resource Graduate Fellowships - Authorizes the Director to award under the provisions of this title not to exceed one thousand five hundred fellowships for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and each of the five succeeding fiscal years. States that fellowships shall be awarded under the provisions of this title for graduate study and research in those areas of applied science and engineering that are related to the production, conservation, and utilization of fuels and energy. Provides that fellowships shall be awarded to students in programs leading to master's degrees. States that such fellowships may be awarded for graduate study and research at any institution of higher education, library, archive, or any other research center approved by the Director after consultation with the Commissoner of Education. Provides that recipients of fellowships under this title shall be: (1) persons who have been accepted by an institution of higher education for graduate study leading to an advanced degree or for a professional degree; and (2) persons who plan a career in the field of energy resources, production, or utilization. States that each person awarded a fellowship under this title shall receive a stipend of $4,000 for each academic year of study, and an additional amount of $500 for each such calendar year of study shall be paid to such person on account of each of his dependents. Authorizes appropriations of $11,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Directs the Council on Environmental Quality to provide for a study of the alternatives to the Tocks Island Dam and Reservoir project affecting the Delaware River and surrounding areas.
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 · 14 May 1974
Applies Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to regulated investment companies to small business investment companies regulated by the Small Business Investment Act and which have made or are making a public offering of their securities. Prescribes conditions under which such companies may choose to meet differing standards defining regulated investment companies, including the requirement that at the close of each quarter at lest 50 percent of the value of such companies' assets be represented by cash and cash items, Government securities and securities of other regulated investment companies.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1974
Authorizes the President to call and conduct a White House Conference on Energy. Authorizes the President to appoint a National Conference Committee consisting of not more than twenty-five members to provide overall guidance and planning for the Conference, provide such assistance as it deems desirable in the organization of local and State conference activities preceding the Conference, and to be responsible for rendering a final report (and such interim reports as may be desirable) of the results, findings, and recommendations of the Conference to the President and to the Congress not later than December 1, 1974. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 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 · 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
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 · 30 April 1974
Oil and Gas Energy Tax Act - Title I: Tax Treatment of Domestic Oil and Gas Production - Imposes, under the Internal Revenue Code, an excise tax on the windfall profits from domestic crude oil removed from the premises. Prescribes the procedure for calculating the amount of such tax, allowing a plowback credit against such tax. Defines the terms used, including "windfall profit," and sets forth special rules governing this Act. Provides an exemption from the tax where a tax-exempt organization is prohibited from plowing back. Requires: (1) each person liable for the tax, (2) each partnership, trust, or estate producing domestic crude oil, (3) each purchaser of domestic crude oil, and (4) each operator of a well producing domestic crude oil; to keep records and returns with respect to such oil. Prescribes the time for filing a return of the windfall profits tax. Requires the purchaser of domestic crude oil to furnish, to the person liable for the tax, a monthly statement of specified costs, amounts, and prices. Imposes criminal penalties on persons willfully failing to furnish information required under this Act. Requires that specified information be furnished to partners and beneficiaries of estates and trusts. Provides for a phase-out of the percentage depletion for domestic oil and gas production. Permits a taxpayer to elect (1) the 3,000 barrel-a-day exemption; (2) the stripper well exemption; or (3) the Arctic Circle exemption. Provides an exemption for regulated natural gas and natural gas sold under fixed contract. Prescribes special rules governing geothermal energy. Provides that, in the case of oil and gas wells, the tax treatment which applies to the taxpayer's intangible drilling and development costs shall also apply to his domestic geological and geophysical costs. Outlines the rules governing the treatment, for purposes of the investment credit, of specified property used in international or territorial waters. Title II: Tax Treatment of Foreign Oil and Gas Production - Repeals the percentage depletion for foreign oil and gas wells. Sets limits on the foreign taxes attributable to foreign oil and gas extraction income. Provides for the separate computation of foreign tax credit for oil and gas related income. Provides for the denial of Domestic International Services Corporation benefits with respect to energy resources. Sets forth the rules governing the imposition of quantitative limitations, duties, taxes, or fees on the importation of petroleum and its products. Sets forth the effective dates of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Provides, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, that under specified circumstances exclusive territorial arrangements relating to the manufacture, distribution, or sale of food and beverage products shall be deemed lawful provided that substantial and effective competition between products and between vendors of those products is maintained, and the licensor retains control over the nature and quality of such product pursuant to the Trademark Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to special rules governing employees, for a refund of Social Security taxes to members of specified religious faiths. Sets forth the rules governing the application for and manner of such refund. Provides for an exemption for employers engaged in farming, and their employees, where both are members of religious faiths opposed to participation in such tax program. Makes conforming amendments to the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to enter into agreements with the State of Maryland, the State of Virginia, and the Commissioner of the District of Columbia, at the request for any such agreement from the proper official, which shall provide that in the case of any Member of Congress or any congressional employee who is subject to Virginia, Maryland, or the District of Columbia income tax and who voluntarily agrees to the withholding from his pay with respect to such tax, the appropriate disbursing officer shall comply with the State or District of Columbia withholding statute.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
States that the House of Representatives salutes Henry Aaron as an "All-American Good Guy" and extends to him the congratulations, esteem, and affection of the House.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1974
Adoption Opportunity Act - Allows a deduction from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code for social agency, legal, and related expenses incurred in connection with the adoption of a child by a taxpayer. Defines, for purposes of this Act, the term "adoption expense". States that the allowable deduction amount shall not exceed $1,250 for any one child. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 218)
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Foreign Investment Study Act - Requires the President to conduct a study of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States and to: (1) compare foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment activities in the United States with investment activities of American investors abroad, and compare the impact of such foreign activities in the United States with the impact of investment activities of Americans abroad; (2) determine the impact of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States on United States national security, energy resources, balance of payments and trade, agriculture (and other real estate), and international economic position; (3) determine the effect of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States on levels of employment and personnel practices in the United States; and (4) evaluate the costs and benefits and determine the various international implications of alternate policy choices available to the United States regarding foreign investment in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the heads of other departments affected by this Act, to issue and revise regulations from time to time, relating to the trapping and capturing of animals and birds. Imposes a fine of $500 and/or imprisonment of up to one year for violations of this Act. Establishes an advisory commission of 7 members to consult with the Secretary and make recommendations with respect to regulations concerning trapping and capturing of animals and birds. Imposes a fine of $5,000 and/or imprisonment or of one year, for the sale, shipment, or transport, of any unapproved trap or any animal skin or hide or bird feathers taken in violation of this Act. Outlines those trapping regulations specifically applicable to Federal lands. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with any affected State pursuant to which the Secretary shall assist such State to enable it to comply with the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Medicare Long-Term Care Act - Establishes, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare), a voluntary program to provide long-term care benefits for aged and disabled individuals who elect to enroll under such program, financed from premium payments by enrollees together with contributions from funds appropriated by the Federal Government and contributions by the States. Lists criteria for eligibility for long-term care service benefits. Provides that the benefits provided to an individual by this Act shall consist of (1) home health services, (2) homemaker services, (3) nutrition services, (4) long-term institutional care services, (5) day care and foster home services, and (6) community mental health center outpatient services. Enumerates the requirements for a State long-term care agency. Provides for the payment of premiums for benefits received under this Act. Establishes on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund. Creates a body to be known as the Board of Trustees, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, all ex officio. States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees and that the Commissioner of Social Security shall serve as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Provides that the Board of Trustees shall meet not less frequently than once each calendar year. Enumerates the duties of the Board of Trustees. Declares that a community long-term care center shall: (1) provide the items and services listed in this Act to each individual (i) who is eligible for benefits under this part, (ii) who resides in the area served by such center and (iii) who is certified as requiring such services; (2) evaluate and certify the long-term care needs of an individual for whom such care may be required in order to maintain such individual in an independent living arrangement which is reasonable given such individual's state of health and other circumstances (but not including such individual's economic circumstances); (3) maintain a continuous relationship with (and periodically evaluate not less than annually) each individual who is receiving any of the items and services listed in this Act; (4) provide full opportunity for such individual and his family to participate in the determinations and functions under this Act; (5) provide an organized system for making its existence and location known to all individuals in its service area who are eligible for benefits under this part, and for making known to such individuals the method or methods by which they may most efficiently obtain and use the services which it makes available; and (6) performs such other functions as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may by regulation prescribe in order to have such center most effectively carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides a formula for payments to States for the reimbursement of community long-term care centers. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with organizations representing the chief executives of the various States, and other interested parties, to develop and make available to community long-term care centers one or more methods of obtaining payment for the benefits covered under this Act on a prospective basis. States that once a community long-term care center elects a particular prospective method, it may not alter its election without the prior approval of the Secretary. Provides that whenever the Secretary finds that the number of community long-term care centers electing a particular prospective payment method promulgated in accordance with this Act is not sufficient to provide an adequate basis for either the operation or evaluation of that method, the Secretary shall withdraw that method and allow the community long-term care centers which have elected such method to select another method withn 30 days of notice of such withdrawal. Permits a Governor of a State to certify to the Secretary a method of prospective payment other than those promulgated under this Act. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this Act shall be made by the Secretary in accordance with regulations prescribed by him. Provides for increases in supplemental security income benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Makes permanent the provision in the Social Security Act for providing assistance for United States citizens returned from foreign countries. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 1313(d))
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Extends for an additional three years the period for administrative review of customs protests regarding the imposition of supplemental duties on imports pursuant to the tariff schedules of the United States. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1515(a))
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Provides that, during the second session of the 93d Congress, the expenses of the investigations and studies to be conducted by the Committee on Ways and Means, acting as a whole or by subcommittee, not to exceed $395,000, including expenditures for the employment of investigators, attorneys, individual consultants or organizations thereof, and clerical, stenographic, and other assistants, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on vouchers authorized by such committee, signed by the chairman of such committee, and approved by the Committee on House Administration. States that not to exceed $50,000 of the amount provided by this resolution may be used to procure the temporary or intermittent services of individual consultants or organizations thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 27 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 · 25 February 1974
Increases the period during which benefits may be paid under title XVI (Grants to States for Aid to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act on the basis of presumptive disability to individuals who received aid, on the basis of disability, for December 1973, under a State plan approved under title XIV or XVI of that Act.
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 · 19 February 1974
Provides for pension reform under the Internal Revenue Code. Subtitle A: Participation, Vesting, Funding, Administration - Sets forth minimum participation standards for pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans under the Internal Revenue Code. Prohibits such plans from setting age and service requirements in excess of the later of age 25 or one year of service. Authorizes pension plans to exclude employees hired later than five years before retirement age. States that all qualified pension plans under this Act must provide that an employee's rights in his accrued benefits derived from his own contributions are nonforfeitable. Provides that after 10 years of service an employee must have a nonforfeitable right to 100 percent of his accrued benefits derived from employer contributions. Establishes methods for calculating accrued benefits and accumulated contributions for plans set up under the provisions of this Act. Provides that all government plans (including Federal Civil Service) are exempt from the participation and coverage standards established under this Act. Requires every employer, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, to maintain records with respect to each of his employees sufficient to determine the benefits due or which may become due to such employees. Imposes a civil penalty for failure to maintain such records. States that a plan to which this Act applies shall have satisfied the minimum funding standard for such plan for a plan year at the end of which the plan does not have an accumulated funding deficiency. Requires each plan to which this Act applies to establish and maintain a funding standard account. Requires the Secretary of Labor to approve amendments to plans established under this Act if such amendment is adopted after the close of the plan year and reduces plan benefits. Authorizes the Secretary of Treasury to waive minimum funding standards under this Act in cases of substantial business hardship. Imposes special taxes on employers who fail to meet the minimum funding standards imposed under this Act. Makes special provisions with regard to plans which are established as a result of a collective-bargaining agreement between employee representatives and one or more employers. Establishes provisions for plans set up by self-employed individuals and owner-employees. Sets forth procedures for public inspection of specified information relating to pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans under this Act. Requires the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives to study retirement plans established and maintained or financed by the Government of the United States and by any State or political subdivision thereof. States that such study shall include an analysis of: (1) the adequacy of existing levels of participation, vesting, and financing arrangements to existing fiduciary standards; (2) the unique circumstances affecting mobility of government employees; and (3) the necessity for Federal legislation and standards with respect to such plans. States that not later than December 31, 1976, the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor shall each submit to the House of Representatives the results of the study. Directs the Secretary of Labor, during the 2-year period beginning with the date of enactment of this Act, to conduct a study of the steps necessary to insure that professional, scientific, and technical personnel and others working in associated occupations employed under Federal procurement, construction, or research contracts or grants will be protected against forfeitures of pension or retirement rights. Requires the Secretary of Labor to report the results of his study to the Congress within 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations to protect the pension and retirement rights of such personnel. States that either the House or the Senate may disapprove of such regulations. Requires the administrator of each plan established under this Act to file an annual registration statement with the Secretary of the Treasury. Specifies the information to be contained in such registration statements. Establishes civil penalties for a failure to file a registration statement. Authorizes the United States Tax Court to make declaratory judgments with regard to the initial or continuing qualification of a plan established under this Act. Establishes, within the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations which shall be responsible for carrying out the functions and duties of the Secretary of the Treasury under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Department of the Treasury for the purposes of carrying out all functions of the Office of Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 1974, and $70,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter. Subtitle B: Other Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code Relating to Retirement Plans - Increases the maximum amount deductible under the Internal Revenue Code for pension contributions by self-employed individuals and shareholder employees from $2,500 to $7,500. Imposes a 6 percent tax on excess contributions made to pension plans by self-employed individuals. Authorizes a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for retirement savings. Limits the amount of such deduction to 20 percent of the compensation includible in the taxpayer's gross income for such taxable year, or $1,500, whichever is less. States that the amendments made by subtitle A shall take effect on the 90th day after the date of enactment of this Act and the amendments made by subtitle B shall apply to taxable years ending on or after June 30, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Comprehensive Health Insurance Act - Title I: National Health Care Benefits Program. States that the purpose of this title is to provide adequate protection against costs by requiring all employers to offer health care plans to their employees; and to assist the States in making similar plans available to individuals in need of such protection. Requires, under the Social Security Act, that every employer provide to each of his employees under the age of 65 a reasonable opportunity, as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to obtain coverage for himself and the members of his family under the age 65 at the option of the employee: (1) an employee health care insurance plan approved under this title or an assisted health care insurance plan obtained by the employer, (2) a group practice prepaid health care plan approved under this title, or (3) an individual practice prepaid health care plan approved under this title. States that the employer shall provide an amount equal to at least 75 percent of the cost of that coverage. Prohibits discrimination against an indiviudal with respect to the opportunity for employment, or the compensation, terms, condition, or privileges of employment, because of the individual's health status or the health status of his dependents, except when directly related to the capacity of the individual to perform his duties as an employee. Directs the Secretary to make grants for health care programs to States which have submitted approved plans for the provision of health care benefits to individuals under the age of 65 who are otherwise unable to obtain such benefits. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year of sums necessary to carry out this purpose. Directs the Secretary to establish a Federal health care benefits program under which an individual who has attained the age of 65 and is entitled to monthly insurance benefits under Title II of this Act (Old-Age, Survivor's, and Disability Insurance Benefits) shall be entitled to Federal health care benefits under Title XVIII (Medicare). States that the benefits provided under the program shall be at the option of the individual: (1) to obtain coverage under the Federal health care insurance plan, or (2) to have the Secretary pay to any prepaid health care plan approved under this title under which the individual has obtained coverage at a rate which the Secretary determines is reasonable, on behalf of the individual, an amount equal to the cost to the Government of providing coverage under a Federal health care insurance plan, as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary. Provides that the Federal health care insurance plan shall impose, with respect to all items and services other than outpatient drugs and biologicals, and other blood and blood product, a per individual deductible equal to a specified percentage of the income base. States that the Federal health care insurance plan shall provide: (1) that an account will be established against which a covered individual may charge the cost of obtaining items and services covered under the plan, without regard to the deductible and coinsurance requirements applicable under the plan; (2) that payment for items and services covered under the plan, other than emergency services, will be made only on the basis of charges against that account; and (3) that payment will be made on the basis of charges against the account for items and services covered under the plan at the applicable reimbursement rates. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with carriers for the administration of benefits under the Federal health care insurance program. Establishes a Federal Helath Care Benefits Trust Fund. States that the Trust Fund shall consist of such gifts and bequests as may be made together with such amounts as may be deposited in, or appropriated to, such Fund under the provisions of this Act. Sets forth criteria for determining the amount to be aporopriated to the Trust Fund for each fiscal year. Establishes a Board of Trustees to be composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. States that the duties of the Board of Trustees shall be to: (1) hold the Trust Fund; (2) report to the Congress not later than the first day of April of each year on the operation and status of the Trust Fund during the preceding fiscal year and on its expected operation and status during the current fiscal year and the next two fiscal years; (3) report immediately to the Congress whenever the Board is of the opinion that the amount of the Trust Fund is unduly small; and (4) review the general policies followed in managing the Trust Fund, and recommend changes in such policies, including necessary changes in the provisions of law which govern the way in which the Trust Fund is to be managed. Requires that employee health care insurance plans provide for the following services for each covered individual: (1) inpatient hospital services; (2) physicians' services; (3) medical and other health services; (4) home health services; (5) post-hospital extended care services; (6) outpatient drugs and biologicals; (7) routine dental services for individuals under the age of 13; (8) developmental vision care services, as defined in regulations prescribed by the Secretary routine eye and vision examinations, and eyeglasses, for individuals under the age of 13; and (9) hearing aids and examinations therefor, for individuals under the age of 13. Sets forth limits for employee health care insurance plans, including the following: (1) post-hospital extended care services shall be limited to 100 days per calendar year; (2) home health services must be limited to 100 visits per calendar year; and (3) inpatient hospital services for the treatment of mental illness shall be limited to 30 days per calendar year, with each day of partial hospitalization, as defined in regulations prescribed by the Secretary, counting as one-half day of inpatient services. Enumerates the requirements for meeting the provisions of this Act. States that a group practice pre-paid health care plan must: (1) provide physicians' services (other than infrequently used services, as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary) through physicians who are employees or partners of the organization, or through arrangements with one or more groups of physicians engaged in the coordinated practice of their profession for the organization; and (2) meet such requirements concerning its organizational structure and financial arrangements as the Secretary may, by regulation, prescribe. Provides that the Secretary may, by regulation, make such modifications in the requirements imposed by this section as he determines are appropriate with respect to group practice prepaid health care plans offered to employees whose place of employment is outside the United States. Sets forth requirements for approval of individual practice prepaid health care plans, approval of special employee health care programs, and requirements for certification of providers. States that any State dissatisfied with a determination of the Secretary with respect to whether the State is meeting the provisions of this Act may file a petition for review of such determination with the United States court of appeals to the circuit in which such state is located. Stipulates that the court shall have jurisdiction to affirm the action of the Secretary, or to set it aside, in whole or in part. Sets forth judicial remedies and criminal sanctions for noncompliance. Title II: Reduction in Services Provided Under Medical Assistance Programs - Sets forth technical and conforming amendments to the Medical Program. Title III: Sets forth technical and conforming amendments to the Professional Standards Review Program, and the Capital Expenditures Review Program. Title IV - General Provisions: States that if a provision of this Act is held invalid, all other provisions so enacted shall remain in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Provides for pension reform under the Internal Revenue Code. Subtitle A: Participation, Vesting, Funding, Administration - Sets forth minimum participation standards for pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans under the Internal Revenue Code. Prohibits such plans from setting age and service requirements in excess of the later of age 25 or one year of service. Authorizes pension plans to exclude employees hired later than five years before retirement age. States that all qualified pension plans under this Act must provide that an employee's rights in his accrued benefits derived from his own contributions are nonforfeitable. Provides that after 10 years of service an employee must have a nonforfeitable right to 100 percent of his accrued benefits derived from employer contributions. Establishes methods for calculating accrued benefits and accumulated contributions for plans set up under the provisions of this Act. Provides that all government plans (including Federal Civil Service) are exempt from the participation and coverage standards established under this Act. Requires every employer, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, to maintain records with respect to each of his employees sufficient to determine the benefits due or which may become due to such employees. Imposes a civil penalty for failure to maintain such records. States that a plan to which this Act applies shall have satisfied the minimum funding standard for such plan for a plan year at the end of which the plan does not have an accumulated funding deficiency. Requires each plan to which this Act applies to establish and maintain a funding standard account. Requires the Secretary of Labor to approve amendments to plans established under this Act if such amendment is adopted after the close of the plan year and reduces plan benefits. Authorizes the Secretary of Treasury to waive minimum funding standards under this Act in cases of substantial business hardship. Imposes special taxes on employers who fail to meet the minimum funding standards imposed under this Act. Makes special provisions with regard to plans which are established as a result of a collective-bargaining agreement between employee representatives and one or more employers. Establishes provisions for plans set up by self-employed individuals and owner-employees. Sets forth procedures for public inspection of specified information relating to pension, profit-sharing, and stock bonus plans under this Act. Requires the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives to study retirement plans established and maintained or financed by the Government of the United States and by any State or political subdivision thereof. States that such study shall include an analysis of: (1) the adequacy of existing levels of participation, vesting, and financing arrangements to existing fiduciary standards; (2) the unique circumstances affecting mobility of government employees; and (3) the necessity for Federal legislation and standards with respect to such plans. States that not later than December 31, 1976, the Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on Education and Labor shall each submit to the House of Representatives the results of the study. Directs the Secretary of Labor, during the 2-year period beginning with the date of enactment of this Act, to conduct a study of the steps necessary to insure that professional, scientific, and technical personnel and others working in associated occupations employed under Federal procurement, construction, or research contracts or grants will be protected against forfeitures of pension or retirement rights. Requires the Secretary of Labor to report the results of his study to the Congress within 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations to protect the pension and retirement rights of such personnel. States that either the House or the Senate may disapprove of such regulations. Requires the administrator of each plan established under this Act to file an annual registration statement with the Secretary of the Treasury. Specifies the information to be contained in such registration statements. Establishes civil penalties for a failure to file a registration statement. Authorizes the United States Tax Court to make declaratory judgments with regard to the initial or continuing qualification of a plan established under this Act. Establishes, within the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations which shall be responsible for carrying out the functions and duties of the Secretary of the Treasury under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Department of the Treasury for the purposes of carrying out all functions of the Office of Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 1974, and $70,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter. Subtitle B: Other Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code Relating to Retirement Plans - Increases the maximum amount deductible under the Internal Revenue Code for pension contributions by self-employed individuals and shareholder employees from $2,500 to $7,500. Imposes a 6 percent tax on excess contributions made to pension plans by self-employed individuals. Authorizes a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code for retirement savings. Limits the amount of such deduction to 20 percent of the compensation includible in the taxpayer's gross income for such taxable year, or $1,500, whichever is less. States that the amendments made by subtitle A shall take effect on the 90th day after the date of enactment of this Act and the amendments made by subtitle B shall apply to taxable years ending on or after June 30, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1974
Provides that, during the second session of the Ninety-third Congress, the expenses of the investigations and studies to be conducted by the Committee on Ways and Means, acting as a whole or by subcommittee, not to exceed $450,000, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on vouchers authorized by such committee, signed by the chairman of such committee, and approved by the Committee on House Administration. States that, not to exceed $50,000 of such amount may be used to procure the temporary or intermittent services of individual consultants or organizations thereof pursuant to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. Provides that no part of the funds authorized by this resolution shall be available for expenditure in connection with the study or investigation of any subject which is being investigated for the same purpose by any other committee of the House.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Emergency Coal Administration Act - Establishes within the Federal Energy Office of the President an Emergency Coal Administration, to be administered by the Administrator of the Federal Energy Office. Authorizes the Administrator to take such action as may be necessary to insure the maximum increase in the production, transportation, and conversion of coal so long as the present energy crisis exists. Sets forth the powers and authority of the Administrator under the provisions of this Act, including the following: (1) to set goals for the production and conversion of coal into energy; (2) to encourage, assist, and take such steps as shall provide for increased production, transportation, and conversion of coal into energy; (3) to issue orders which shall constitute a prior claim upon producers of materials and supplies essential to the increased production, transportation, and conversion of coal into energy; and (4) to afford necessary, reasonable, and proper financial assistance to persons, firms, or corporations converting to the use of coal as a source of energy. Authorizes the Administrator to enter into contracts directly or for the account of any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the production, transportation, and conversion of coal upon terms he deems fair and reasonable for any equipment or parts or other essential articles necessary to increase the production, transportation, and conversion of coal. States that the Administrator may engage in such research and development as he deems necessary, including, but not limited to, the construction and operation of pilot plants and projects relating to the production, transportation, and conversion of coal. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1973
Expresses the sense of the Congress that individuals and industries holding patents which, if utilized, could result in energy savings, should forward copies of such patents to the House Interior Committee for study and evaluation, and that once the evaluation is completed, if the patent is put into use, the holder of that patent should be reimbursed for it in full.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that if Cooperative Service Organizations of Operating Educational Organizations are organized and operated solely to hold, comingle, mingle, and collectively invest and reinvest in stocks and securities the moneys contributed by each of the members of such organization, and to collect income therefrom and turn over the entire amount, less expense, to such members; and are organized and controlled by one or more such members, then such organizations shall be treated as an organization organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 3 December 1973
Provides for the implementation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Provides that whenever the President determines that (1) the cultural patrimony of a State Party to the Convention is in jeopardy from pillage of archeological or ethnological materials; (2) the State Party has taken measures for the protection of its cultural patrimony; and (3) import controls by the United States would help deter such pillage, the President may enter into an agreement with the State Party, and with other governments as appropriate, to restrict the importation of protected objects of archeological or ethnological interest. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State, to promulgate, and when appropriate shall revise, a list of protected objects of archeological or ethnological interests within the meaning. Requires the consignees of any protected object of archeological or ethnological interest to present appropriate certificates and evidence to customs officers at the time of making entry of such object. Provides that any protected object of archeological or ethnological interest imported into the United States in violation of this Act shall be seized and subject to forfeiture. Prescribes the procedures to be followed whenever any person is interested in any article seized, including filing with the Secretary of the Treasury a petition for the remission of such forfeiture.
United States · United States Congress · 13 November 1973
Geothermal Energy Research, Development, and Commercial Demonstration Act - Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to initiate and support basic and applied research relating to geothermal energy development. Requires the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to initiate and carry out commercial demonstrations, research, and development in geothermal energy technology. Provides that the Administration shall dispose of, by sublease or otherwise, all projects undertaken under this Act. Directs the Administration to assure the protection of the environment, persons, and property in projects undertaken pursuant to this Act. Requires the Administration to report to the Congress and the President every six months on the progress made under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for six fiscal years of $80,000,000 to carry out programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1973
Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on the Handicapped within two years of enactment in order to develop recommendations for further research and action in the field of the handicapped, and to further the policies set forth in this joint resolution. Provides that such conference shall be planned and conducted under the direction of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with the cooperation and assistance of such other Federal departments and agencies, including the assignment of personnel, as may be appropriate. Require a final report of the White House Conference on the Handicapped to be submitted to the President not later than 120 days following the date on which the conference is called, and the findings and recommendations included therein to be made available immediately to the public. Requires the Secretary, within 90 days after the submission of such report, to transmit to the President and the Congress his recommendations for the administrative action and legislation necessary to implement the recommendations contained in such report. Gives the Secretary administrative powers to carry out this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on the White House Conference on the Handicapped composed of 28 members, of whom not less than 15 shall be handicapped or parents of handicapped persons. Provides that such Advisory Committee shall cease to exist 90 days after the submission of the final report required by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,000,000 to carry out this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 November 1973
States Lottery Exemption Act - Exempts from the wagering tax, under the Internal Revenue Code, any wager placed in a sweepstakes, wagering pool, or lottery which is conducted by an agency of a State acting under authority of State law, but only if such wager is placed with the State agency conducting such sweepstakes, wagering pool, or lottery, or with its authorized employees or agents.
United States · United States Congress · 29 October 1973
Declares that the House has heard with profound sorrow of the death of the Honorable John P. Saylor, a Representative from the State of Pennsylvania. Directs a committee be appointed consisting of forty-four Members of the House, with such Members of the Senate as may be joined. Directs the Sergeant at Arms of the House to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of these resolutions and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of the contingent fund of the House. Directs the Clerk to communicate these resolutions to the Senate and to transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Declares that as a further mark of respect the House do now adjourn.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1973
Provides for a temporary increase of $78,000,000,000 in the public debt limit and extends the period to which this temporary limit applies to June 30, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1973
States Lottery Exemption Act - Exempts from the wagering tax, under the Internal Revenue Code, any wager placed in a sweepstakes, wagering pool, or lottery which is conducted by an agency of a State acting under authority of State law, but only if such wager is placed with the State agency conducting such sweepstakes, wagering pool, or lottery, or with its authorized employees or agents.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1973
Trade Reform Act - States that the purposes of this Act are to: (1) stimulate economic growth of the United States and to maintain and enlarge foreign markets for United States products; and (2) strengthen economic relations with foreign countries through fair market opportunities and open trade. Title I: Negotiating And Other Authority - Grants to the President authority to enter into trade agreements with foreign countries, and unlimited authority to modify, continue, or eliminate duties on imports pursuant to such agreements. Gives the President authority for five years to make trade agreements for the reduction or elimination of trade barriers. Requires the President to consult with the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee before making such agreements. Provides that such agreements shall take effect only if the President notifies the Congress 90 days in advance and thereafter explains such agreement to the Congress. Allows the Congress to disapprove such agreement. States that the reduction in duty rate on any article which is in effect on any day pursuant to a trade agreement shall not exceed the reduction which would have been in effect on such day if a reduction of 3 percent advalorem had taken effect on the date of Presidential proclamation, and the remainder of such total reduction had taken effect at one-year intervals. Requires the President to bring trade agreements into conformity with principles promoting an open world economic system, including revision of decision making machinery in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and revision of other GATT provisions. Authorizes appropriation annually of necessary sums for the United States' share of the expenses of the contracting parties to GATT. Authorizes the President in international payments problems to proclaim a temporary reduction of 5 percent advalorem in duty rate on any article. Allows the President during a period of rapid price increases, upon determination that supplies of articles subject to duties are in short supply, to temporarily reduce or suspend such duties or increase quantities of imported articles. Allows the President, upon determination that duties or other restrictions of a foreign country or the United States are unduly restricting, to modify such duties or restrictions within limits. Provides for a 3 year termination date for all agreements entered into under this Act, unless terminated, as provided, before 3 years. Requires that import duties and restrictions be nondiscriminatory. Grants the President authority to not allow reduction of import restrictions if he determins that such action would threaten national security. Requires the Tariff Commission to advise the President on the effects of actions proposed under this Act. Requires public hearings on actions taken by the President under this Act. Establishes an Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations from which the President may seek the advice of the private sector. Establishes the Office of the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. States that the Special Representative shall be the Chief United States representative for trade negotiations, shall administer trade agreements and advise the President and Congress on trade matters. Establishes procedures by which the Congress may consider and pass resolutions disapproving trade agreements negotiated by the President, including discharge and debate procedures. Provides for selection of members of the House Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee as official advisers to the United States delegation to trade negotiations. Requires the President to report annually to Congress on trade agreements, their effect, relief from effects, and new negotiations. Title II: Relief From Injury Caused By Import Competition - Provides that the Tariff Commission, upon request by an entity for import relief, may investigate the effect of import restrictions upon domestic industry and shall report such effect to the President, who shall expedite adjustment assistance and may provide import relief for such industry, after taking specified factors into consideration. Specifies preferred forms of import relief, including, increases in, or impositions of duties as the form most preferred. Provides that such an increase shall not exceed 50 percent advalorem. Provides that import relief shall not last longer than five years and that the President may terminate it as he deems necessary. Provides that either House of the Congress may, within 90 days of receipt of an orderly marketing agreement or quantitative restrictions entered into by the President, adopt a resolution of disapproval that shall make such actions of no effect. Establishes procedures and qualifications by which workers may petition for adjustment assistance from the Secretary of Labor. Establishes qualifications for and amounts of trade readjustment allowances. Limits such allowances in general to 52 weeks. Provides for retraining, job search, and relocation allowances for workers adversely affected by trade agreements. Establishes procedures by which the States may cooperate in dispersal of such assistance and allowances. Creates the Adjustment Assistance Trust Fund on the Treasury books for adjustment assistance funds, which shall be appropriated from customs duties not otherwise appropriated for each fiscal year. Creates the Adjustment Assistance Coordinating Committee to coordinate adjustment assistance policies of various agencies. Sets forth procedures by which firms may apply for adjustment assistance from the Secretary of Commerce. Provides that such assistance may be technical or financial and shall be available only if the firm has no reasonable access to private financing. Prescribes limitations on the purposes and uses of such assistance. Authorizes appropriation of necessary sums from time to time for such assistance to firms. Requires such firms to keep records of such assistance that shall be available for audit. Requires the Tariff Commission and the Secretary of Commerce to coordinate their efforts to provide warning to firms of tariff agreement effects and knowledge of possible relief. Title III: Relief From Unfair Trade Practices - States that when the President determines that a foreign country maintains an unjustifiable import restriction which discriminates against United States Commerce or provides subsidies on its exports to the United States which reduces sales of United States products he shall take all appropriate steps to obtain elimination of such restrictions or subsidies, including prevention of benefits of trade agreements with such country and imposition of duties or other import restrictions on products of such country. Allows for Congress to disapprove such Presidential actions. Requires that after the question of dumping has been raised a determination shall be made if it has in fact occurred and, if so, appraisement of such merchandise shall be withheld and notice given in the Federal Register. Defines purchase price and exporter's sales price of imported merchandise for purposes of this section. Defines exporter's sales price for state-controlled economies. Provides for the application of countervailing duties on imports, equal to the net amount bestowed on such goods by a bounty or grant by any country. Requires a determination of material injury by the Tariff Commission for the application of countervailing duties to duty-free imports, for so long as such a determination is required by international obligations. Requires the Secretary upon written request by an American manufacturer, producer, or wholesaler to furnish the classification, duty rate, and countervaling duties imposed upon imported merchandise of a kind manufactured, produced or sold by him; and allows him to petition for changes in such duties and other items, upon which the Secretary shall make a determination, and which may be contested. Provides that when the Tariff Commission believes that importation of an article would substantially harm a patentee, the Secretary of the Treasury shall exclude such article, pending investigation by the commission, after which it may be refused entry. Title IV: Trade Relations with Countries not Enjoying Nondiscriminatory Treatment - Provides that products from any nonmarket economy shall not be eligible to receive nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment), such country shall not participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly, and the President shall not conclude commercial agreements with any such country during the period that the country denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate, or imposes more than a nominal tax on immigration. Allows the President to suspend or withdraw nondiscriminatory treatment to any country, and to authorize bilateral agreements providing nondiscriminatory treatment to products of countries previously denied such treatment. Sets forth requirements for such bilateral agreements, including a 3-year duration, renewable for three years, and nondisruption of domestic markets. Provides for a Tariff Commission Investigation of possible market disruption from products receiving nondiscriminatory treatment. Provides for a 90-day period in which Congress may disapprove of a continuance or extension of nondiscriminatory treatment. Title V: Generalized System of Preferences - Allows the President to provide duty-free treatment for any eligible article from any beneficiary developing country. Designates certain countries which shall not be classified as beneficiary developing countries. Allows the President to withdraw, suspend or limit the application of such duty-free treatment, and shall withdraw or suspend the beneficiary developing country designation upon certain conditions. Provides for termination of such designation after 10 years. Title VI: General Provisions - States that it is the sense of the Congress that effective international cooperation is necessary to put an end to the illicit production, smuggling, trafficking in, and abuse of dangerous drugs, and that in order to promote such cooperation, the President shall embargo trade and investment, public and private, with any nation when the President determines that the government of such country has failed to take adequate steps to prevent narcotic drugs and other controlled substances produced or processed, in whole or in part, in such country, or transported through such country, from entering the United States unlawfully.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to compile and keep current on not less than an annual basis mineral fuel reserves inventory. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons lawfully assembled, in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1973
Empowers an officer of the United States Customs Service to: (1) carry firearms, execute and serve search warrants, and serve subpenas and summonses; and (2) make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in his presence or for any felony where reasonable grounds exist.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1973
Provides that the recommendations of the President transmitted to the Congress under the Federal Salary Act of 1967 (relating to salaries of members of Congress and certain members of the executive and judicial branches of the Federal government) shall become effective at the beginning of the first pay period which begins after the first period of thirty calendar days of continuous session following the transmittal of such recommendations, unless there has been enacted into law a statute which establishes rates of pay other than those proposed by all or part of such recommendations, or unless between the date of transmittal and the end of the thirty day period either House adopts a resolution disapproving all or part of such recommendations. Provides that if the Committee, to which a resolution has been referred disapproving the recommendations of the President. Provides that the House has not reported the resolution after ten calendar days, it is in order to discharge the committee from further consideration of the resolution. Directs that such motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring the resolution and debate thereon is limited to not more than one hour divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. Directs that the motion to discharge may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the committee be made with respect to any other resolution concerning the same recommendations. Specifies that when the committee has reported, or has been discharged from the further consideration of such resolution, it is in order to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. Stipulates that such motion is not debatable and may not be amended. Limits debate on the resolution to not more than two hours to be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the resolution. Provides that motions to postpone, motions to proceed to the consideration of other business and appeals from the decisions of the chair shall be decided without debate. Authorizes any part of the recommendations of the President, in accordance with express provisions of such recommendations, to be made operative on a date later than a date on which such recommendations otherwise are to take effect. (Amends 2 U.S.C. 359)
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to accept specified applications for the registration of DDT as a pesticide to be used to eliminate the gypsy moth from forest lands.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Provides that taxes under the Internal Revenue Code on self-dealing between a disqualified person and a private foundation shall not apply to the sale, exchange, or other disposition (other than by lease) of property which is owned by a private foundation to a disqualified person if: (1) such foundation is leasing substantially all of such property; (2) the disposition to such disqualified person occurs before January 1, 1975; and (3) such foundation receives in return for the disposition to such disqualified person an amount which equals or exceeds the fair market value of such property at the time of the disposition or at the time a contract for the disposition was previously executed in a transaction which would not constitute a prohibited transaction.
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