Bill· HRH.R. 17306 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that residential credit is or is likely to become prohibitively expensive or unavailable, and that this situation causes hardship for those wishing to purchase or sell housing and delays the achievement of the national goal of a decent home for every family. Revises the National Housing Act by granting the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development the authority to direct the Federal National Mortgage Association to purchase specified types of mortgages. Directs the Secretary to exercise such authority when he finds that inflationary conditions and related governmental actions are having a severely disproportionate effect on the housing industry and threaten to seriously affect the economy and delay the achievement of national housing goals. Authorizes the Secretary to make purchases and commitments pursuant to this Act not to exceed $10,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time. Provides that the authority conferred shall become effective on the date of enactment and shall remain in effect for one year. Authorizes financing for the preservation of historic structures under the National Housing Act. Increases the maximum amount for which a Federal Home Loan Bank may accept a mortgage as security for an advance from $40,000 to $55,000. Requires the Council on Wage and Price Stability to report to the President on a quarterly basis with respect to the containment of inflation.
Bill· HRH.R. 16735 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Cost-of-living Adjustment Act- Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for automatic cost-of-living adjustments, based on the Consumer Price Index, in: (1) the income tax rates; (2) the amount of standard deductions; (3) the amount of personal exemptions; (4) the amount of depreciation deductions; and (5) the adjusted basis for property. Makes cost-of- living adjustments in specified United States savings bonds and certificates and on other obligations of the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 16571 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Provides for the transfer of up to $2,000,000 to the State of Montana for the purpose of acquiring wildlife mitigation lands.
Bill· HRH.R. 16366 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1974
Provides for the relief of M. Sgt. Gary O. Ostlund, U.S. Army.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1278 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1974
Establishes a Select Committee on Aging in the House of Representatives. Authorizes the committee to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of any and all matters pertaining to problems of older people, including, but not limited to, problems of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding retirement activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary, of assuring adequate care or assistance. Directs the Committee to report to the House from time to time the results of its investigation and study, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable.
Bill· HRH.R. 16116 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Extension Act - Extends the mandatory allocation provisions of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 until December 31, 1975 (presently such provisions expire on February 28, 1975).
Bill· HRH.R. 16115 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 16069 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be labeled "imported" at each stage of distribution until delivery to the ultimate consumer.
Bill· HRH.R. 16072 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Requires the President to make the provision of assistance to foreign countries contingent, to the maximum extent practicable, on reception of strategic or critical raw materials in return.
Bill· HRH.R. 16064 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Comprehensive Right to Privacy Act - Requires that any organization of Federal, State, or local government maintaining an information system that includes personal information shall: (1) collect, maintain, use, and disseminate only personal information necessary to accomplish a proper purpose of the organization; (2) collect information to the greatest extent possible from the data subject directly; (3) maintain information in the system with accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and pertinence as necessary to assure fairness in determinations relating to a data subject; (4) make no dissemination to another system or any individual other than the data subject without specifying requirements for security and the use of information exclusively for the purpose set forth in the notice required under this Act; (5) maintain a complete and accurate record, including identity purpose, and date, of every access to any personal information in a system by persons or organizations not having regular access authority; and (6) collect no personal information concerning the political or religious beliefs, affiliations, and activities of data subjects maintained by any government agency unless expressly authorized by statute. Prohibits any Federal agency from requiring individuals to disclose for statistical purposes any personal information unless such disclosure is required by a constitutional provision or Act of Congress, and the individual is so informed. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to: (1) give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board; (2) give public notice of the existence and character of each existing system each year; and (3) assure that such public notice specifies the categories of data maintained, and the categories of all information sources, a description of types of use made of information, and the procedures whereby an individual can gain access to such information and contest its accuracy and the necessity for its retention. Requires any organization maintaining personal information to inform an individual asked to supply personal information whether he is legally required, or may refuse, to supply the information requested, and also of any specific consequences, which are known to the organization, of providing or not providing such information. Permits data subjects who dispute information about themselves to have such disputed information noted as being disputed when such information about him is disseminated. Requires, upon request, corrections in information to be sent to past recipients of information. Directs organizations maintaining information to inform, within two years and each year thereafter, individuals on whom data is stored of its content and where a copy of such data may be obtained. Allows the head of a Federal agency maintaining such information to exempt his agency from requirements of this Act in the interest of national defense. Makes it unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number, for any purpose in connection with any business transaction unless the disclosure or furnishing of such number is specifically required by Federal law. Establishes the Federal Privacy Board whose five members shall be appointed by the President. Directs the Board to: (1) publish an annual Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system covered by this Act; (2) make rules to assure compliance with this Act; (3) upon the determination of a violation of a provision of this Act or regulation promulgated under the Act, and after opportunity for a hearing, order the organization violating such provision to cease and desist such violation; and (4) conduct open, public hearings on all petitions for exceptions or exemptions from provisions, application, or jurisdiction of this Act. States that any individual or organization or responsible officer of an organization who willfully: (1) keeps an information system without having notified the Federal Privacy Board; or (2) issues personal information in violation of this Act; or (3) solicits, uses, or otherwise acquires information in violation of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 in each instance or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Provides that any person, system, or agency which violates the provisions of the Act, or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, shall be liable to any person aggrieved thereby.
Bill· HRH.R. 15911 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1974
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to develop a system for the payment, on a staggered or cyclical basis during each month, of old-age, survivors and disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income benefits under the Social Security Act. Requires that such system shall take effect not later than July 1, 1975.
Bill· HRH.R. 15874 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974
Repeals the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973.
Bill· HRH.R. 15657 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1974
National Protection Act - States that it is the policy of the United States to encourage trade with all market economies and friendly nations (except nonmarket countries). Provides that the encouragement of exports is a secondary consideration and that the primary concerns of the United States are national security and possible harm to the American economy from unfair competition arising out of United States exports used in combination with slave and semislave labor within nonmarket economy countries. States that it is the policy of the United States to deal with world shortages of particular commodities, whenever feasible, through international cooperation with the major suppliers and consumers of such commodities, rather than by taking unilateral action. Provides for bipartisan consultation of specified congressional committees for determination of items the exportation of which is to be controlled, and the extent of such control.
Bill· HRH.R. 15556 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1974
Provides that the 1974 increases in social security benefits shall be disregarded in determining an individual's eligibility for supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act. Provides that support and maintenance furnished a mentally retarded individual living in another person's household shall not constitute income to him for supplemental security income benefit purposes.
Bill· HRH.R. 15557 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1974
Increases under title II of the Social Security Act to $4,800 the amount of outside earnings which (subject to further increases under the automatic adjustment provisions) is permitted each year without any deductions from benefits thereunder. Repeals section 202 of Public Law 93-66, regarding months to which excess earnings are charged and reports of such earnings.
Bill· HRH.R. 15537 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Prohibits all foreign assistance to India until India becomes a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1179 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Executive order lifting restrictions on beef imports be rescinded and that the United States should return to the import quotas as set up in the 1964 Beef Import Act.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1178 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that for a period of two years following the passage of this resolution there be a moratorium on deelectrification of railroads and that the departments and agencies of the Federal Government make funds available for studies of the energy efficiency and environmental implications of deelectrification and electrification of railroads.
Bill· HRH.R. 15318 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 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.
Bill· HRH.R. 15289 (93rd)referred
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.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1165 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1974
Requires reports accompanying each bill or joint resolution in the House of Representatives of a public character (except revenue measures) reported by a committee to contain estimates of the costs, to both public and nonpublic sectors, of carrying out the measure reported.
Bill· HRH.R. 14980 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1144 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Provides that immediately upon the adoption of this resolution the House shall resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 988), a resolution to reform the structure, jurisdiction, and procedures of the committees of the House of Representatives by amending rules X and XI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. Stipulates that after general debate, which shall be confined to the resolution and shall continue not to exceed three hours, to be equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Select Committee on Committees, the resolution shall be read for amendment under the five-minute rule. States that, at the conclusion of the consideration of the resolution for amendment, the Committee shall rise and report the resolution to the House with such amendments as may have been adopted, and the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the resolution and amendments thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one motion to recommit.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 1137 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the House that full consideration be given to the possible use of solar energy in construction of Federal buildings.
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