United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to determine for each fiscal year the amount of taxes attributable to each State which are paid into the Highway Trust Fund during such fiscal year and to make such adjustments in the apportionments authorized as may be necessary to insure that no State shall be apportioned an aggregate amount for any fiscal year which is less than 80 percent of the amount of taxes attributable to such State and paid into the Highway Trust Fund during the preceding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 15 October 1973
Fire Safety and Education Act - States the findings of the Congress that there is a need for professional training and education primarily oriented toward improving the effectiveness of fire departments, developing leadership for fire prevention, and reducing firefighter injuries. States the finding of the Congress that there is a need for a national fire data collection, analysis, and dissemination system to establish priorities for research and action. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to undertake the following functions: (1) to develop and carry out a comprehensive national fire research and development program designed to determine the causes and nature of fires, their frequency of occurrence, and other pertinent factors, and develop more effective measures of protection against the hazards of death, injury, and damage to property resulting from fire; (2) to develop and carry out educational and training programs in fire safety, including public awareness efforts; and (3) to develop and carry out a comprehensive fire data and information program. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a program of basic and applied fire research for the purpose of arriving at an understanding of the fundamental processes underlying all aspects of fire. Authorizes the Secretary to operate a fire data program based on the collection, analysis, publication, and dissemination of fire information related to the prevention, occurrence, control, and results of fires of all types. Provides that the program shall be designed to provide an accurate national picture of the fire problem, identify major problem areas and assist in setting priorities, determine possible solutions to problems, and monitor progress of programs to reduce fire losses. Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify competing, overlapping, duplicative, or inefficient programs, and make recommendations to appropriate agency officials and to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget concerning the scope and funding of fire programs; (2) encourage Federal interagency transfer of fire technology; and (3) encourage existing and future fire development programs in the State and local government and in the academic and private industry sectors. Authorizes the Secretary, directly or by contract in cooperation and coordination with interested government agencies, fire services and industries, and appropriate fire service organizations to carry out a program to educate the public as to fire safety. Directs the Secretary to establish a Fire Safety Advisory Council which he may consult before taking any action under this Act. Provides that the Council shall be appointed by the Secretary and shall be composed of fifteen members. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1973
States that regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency under section 206 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, be set aside in order to provide equitable funding for all publicly owned sewage treatment works constructed during the period from June 30, 1966, through July 1, 1972, regardless of whether such works received any Federal assistance at the time of construction, were eligible for Federal incentive grants, or were supported in whole or in part by a State matching grant or loan program.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1973
Technology Resources Survey and Application Act - Declares the findings of Congress. Establishes, under the National Aeronautics and Space Act, the National Technology Resources Council in the Executive Office of the President. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Makes it the function of the Council to prepare a technology resources survey and to advise and assist the President with respect to other technology resource matters. Directs the Council to prepare and transmit to the President and Congress a technology resources survey identifying the existing scientific, engineering and technological activities, capabilities, which each might be used to practical advantage in the resolution of the nation's critical domestic problems. Enumerates the items to be included in such survey. Authorizes the Council to exercise specified administrative powers. Directs the Administrator, through the Office of Technology Application to: (1) upon request, furnish technical assistance to the Council; (2) upon direction of the Council, accept responsibility for specific domestic problems and (3) utilize aerospace firm and other scientific organizations in private sector to assist in developing scientific strategies for the resolution of critical domestic problems. Authorizes to be appropriated to the National Technology Resources Council $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and fiscal year 1975. Authorizes to be appropriate to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Pollution Control Facility Loan Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make loans to finance projects within eligible areas for acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, alteration, expansion, or improvement of a certified pollution control facility. States that such loans shall not exceed 65 percent of the aggregate cost to the applicant of the project. Establishes a revolving fund in the Treasury for making such loans. Authorizes an appropriation of $750,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1973
Metric Conversion Act - Declares that the policy of the United States shall be: (1) to facilitate and encourage the substitution of metric measurement units for customary measurement units; (2) to facilitate and encourage the development as rapidly as practicable of new or revised engineering standards based on metric measurement units in those specific fields or areas in the United States where such standards will result in rationalization or simplification of relationships, improvements of design, or increases in economy; (3) to facilitate and encourage the retention in new metric language standards of those United States engineering designs, practices, and conventions that are internationally accepted or embody superior technology; (4) to cooperate with foreign governments and public and private international organizations which are or become concerned with the encouragement and coordination of increased use of metric measurement units or engineering standards based on such units; and (5) to assist the public through specified information and educational programs to become familiar with the meaning and applicability of metric terms and measures in daily life. Establishes a National Metric Conversion Board, consisting of 25 members not more 21 of whom shall be appointed by the President because they are broadly representative of American society. Provides that 2 members of the Board shall be Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker, and 2 members shall be Members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate. Requires the Board, within 12 months after funding, to submit to the President and the Congress a comprehensive plan to accomplish a changeover to the metric system of measurement in the United States, together with legislative recommendations. Authorizes the Board in carrying out its duties to enter into contracts for research, hold hearings, and establish advisory committees. Provides the the Board shall cease to exist no later than ten years after submission of its comprehensive plan. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Energy Reorganization Act - Establishes a Department of Energy, to be headed by a Secretary appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senator, Provides that within the Department there shall be an Office for Research and Development; an Office of Fuels; an Office of Energy Conservation, Environmental Protection, and Health and Safety; an Office of National Energy Planning and Development; and an Office of Energy Distribution Systems. Provides that each Office so established shall be headed by an Assistant Secretary who shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Transfers to the Department of Energy appropriate responsibilities from other Federal departments and agencies. Requires the Secretary to undertake a study to identity and describe the national energy system to determine at what key points in the system statistical and other information should be routinely collected. Renames the Atomic Energy Commission as the Nuclear Energy Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1973
Veterans Housing Act - Authorizes increases in the amount limitations of veterans home loan programs. Eliminates specific provisions pertaining to dormant farm and business loans.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1973
Amateur Athletic Act - Provides for the creation of a 5-member United States Amateur Association Board. Specifies that the Board shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Empowers the Board to establish rules and regulations under which a corporation may receive a charter as a United States Sports Association. Provides that such Association shall be the sole sanctioning authority for amateur athletic competition in the United States. Requires that in order to receive a charter an association would be required to meet the regulations and procedures established by the Board and receive recognition by the International Sports Organization governing the sport. Establishes a 9-member National Commission on the Olympic Games appointed by the President. Directs the Commission to review the participation of the United States in the Olympic games and to make recommendations as to whether or not such participation should continue. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1973
Requires executive agencies to report to each person who is elected to the House of Representatives on the scope and nature of their activities within such Representative's district during the previous Congress. Provides for the content of such report. Requires that such report be submitted within sixty days of the election of such person to the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1973
Provides that whoever being the Attorney General of the United States, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, or the Commissioner of Internal Revenue participates in partisan politics shall be fined $10,000 and imprisoned 10 years. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 614)
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1973
Veterans Health Care Expansion Act - Title I: Hospital, Domiciliary, and Medical Care Benefits - Extends the definition of "private facilities" for which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs contract in order to provide hospital care to include facilities for the wife or child of a veteran who has a total disability, pemanent in nature, resulting from a service connected disability, and the widow or child of a veteran who died from such a disability. Includes in the term "hospital care" mental health services, consultation, professional counseling, and training of a veteran or dependent, or survivor if the veteran has no dependents, as may be necessary or appropriate to the effective treatment and rehabilitation of such individual. Adds home health services which the Administrator deems appropriate for the effective and economical treatment of a disability of a veteran, or dependent, or survivor, to the definition of the term "medical services." Extends to all veterans hospital or nursing home care if such veteran is unable to defray the expenses of the necessary care. Allows the Administrator to furnish hospital or nursing home care to the wife or child of a veteran who has a total disability, permanent in nature from a service connected disability, and the widow or child of a veteran who died from such a disability. Permits the Administrator to furnish medical services for any disability on an outpatient or ambulatory basis for persons already described in this Act and to any veteran who has a service-connected disability rated at eighty percent or more. Provides that any veteran entitled to a prosthetic appliance shall be furnished such fitting and training in its use as necessary. Authorizes the Administrator, under such regulations as he might prescribe, to reimburse veterans entitled to hospital care or medical services for the reasonable value of such care or services for which such veterans have made payment from sources other than the Veterans' Administration. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 628) Authorizes the President to assist the Republic of the Philippines in providing medical care and treatment for Commonwealth Army veterans and new Philippine Scouts under certain conditions. (Amend 38 U.S.C. 631) Provides that the President may authorize the Administrator to enter into a contract with the Veterans Memorial Hospital, with the approval of the appropriate department of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines under which the United States: (1) will pay for hospital care in the Republic of the Philippines, or for medical services which shall be provided either in Veterans' Administration facilities, or by contract, or otherwise, by the Administrator in accordance with the conditions and limitations applicable generally to beneficiaries under this title for commwealth Army veterans determined by the Administrator in accordance with the conditions and limitations applicable generally to beneficiaries under this title, for service-connected disabilities; (2) will pay for hospital care at the Veterans Memorial Hospital for Commonwealth Army veterans determined by the Administrator to need such care for non-service-connected disabilities if they are unable to defray the expenses of necessary hospital care; and (3) may provide for payments for nursing home care for any Commonwealth Army veteran or new Philippine Scout and for payments for hospital care and for medical services consisting of medical supplies and equipment. Provides that the total of the payments authorized under this section for Philippine veterans shall not exceed $2,000,000 for any one fiscal year ending before 1978. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year ending with 1978, $100,000 to be used for the education and training of health service personnel at the hospital, and for the upgrading of equipment and in rehabilitating the physical plant and facilities of the Veterans Memorial Hospital. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 632) Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a comprehensive program providing sickle cell anemia screening, counseling, and treatment and to carry out research and research training in the diagnosis, treatment, and control of sickle cell anemia based upon such screening examinations and treatment. Requires the Administrator to include such information in his annual report to Congress. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 651-654) Title II: Amendments to Chapter 73 of Title 38, United States Code Relating to the Department of Medicine and Surgery - Authorizes the Administrator to carry out a major program of recruitment, training, and employment of veterans with various medical military occupation specialties in order to provide a complete medical and hospital service for the medical care and treatment of veterans and to assist in providing an adequate supply of health manpower to the nation. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4101(b)) Establishes pay schedules for Assistant Chief Medical Directors, physicians and dentists, and nurses. Provides criteria on which nurses are to receive additional compensation for holiday and overtime work. Enumerates restrictions on physicians, dentists, and nurses, including requirements that no such person may: (1) assume responsibility for the medical care of any patient other than a patient admitted for treatment at a Veterans' Administration facility, except in those cases where the individual, upon request and with the approval of the Chief Medical Director, assumes such responsibilities to assist communities or medical practice groups to meet medical needs which would not otherwise be available for a period not to exceed one hundred and eighty calendar days, which may be extended by the Chief Medical Director for additional periods not to exceed one hundred and eighty calendar days each; (2) teach or provide consultative services at any affiliated institution for the benefit of such institution, or for his personal benefit, or both. Provides that temporary full-time appointments of personnel, other than physicians, dentists, and nurses, shall not exceed one year. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 4114(a)(3)(A)) Provides that the Administrator may contract with one or more hospitals, medical schools, or medical installations having hospital facilities and participating with the Veterans' Administration in the training of interns or residents to provide for the central administration of stipend payments, provision of fringe benefits, and maintenance of records for such interns and residents by the designation of one such institution to serve as a central administrative agency for this purpose. Permits the Administrator to pay to such designated agency, without regard to any other law or regulation governing the expenditure of Government moneys either in advance or in arrears, all amounts to cover the costs for the period such intern or resident serves in a Veterans' Administration hospital. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 4114(b) (2)) Title III: Amendments to Chapter 81 of Title 38, United States Code, Acquisition and Operation of Hospital and Domicilliary Facilities; Procurement and Supply - Requires the Administrator to provide for sufficient operating beds in Veterans' Administration Hospitals to accomodate eligible applying veterans and to report annually to the House and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and operate not less than eight thousand beds for the furnishing of nursing home care to eligible veterans over which the Administrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 5001(a)) Requires the Administrator to appoint an Advisory Committee on Structural Safety of Veterans' Administration Facilities to advise him on all matters of structural safety in the construction and remodeling of Veterans' Administration facilities. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 5001(b)) Title IV: Miscellaneous Amendments to Title 38 United States Code - Specifies certain miscellaneous amendments to title 38 of the United States Code. Title V: Effective Dates - Specifies the dates on which the provisions of this Act shall become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1973
Authorizes the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct research and development programs to increase knowledge of tornadoes, hurricanes, large thunderstorms, and other short-term weather phenomena, and to develop methods for predicting, detecting, and monitoring such atmospheric behavior. A bill to authorize the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct research and development programs to increase knowledge of tornadoes, hurricanes, large thunderstorms, and other types of short-term weather phenomena, and to develop methods for predicting, detecting, and monitoring such atmospheric behavior.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
National Science Foundation Act - Authorizes appropriations for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 1974, and specifies allotments for various programs. Prohibits any program from exceeding by more than 15 percentage points its percentage of the total funds appropriated under this Act. Prescribes regulations for calculations of sums and percentages under this Act. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to notify each House of Congress by special message of every instance in which he selectively withholds or transfers funds appropriated under this Act. States that such message must specify the amount of selectively withheld funds, the specific programs affected, the reasons for the selective withholding of funds, and the estimated economic effect of the selective withholding or transfer. Provides that the Director of the National Science Foundation shall continue the selective withholding of funds set forth in the special message if within sixty days of continuous session after the message is received the selective withholding shall have been approved by the Congress by the passage of a resolution in accordance with the provision of this Act. Provides that if any person is determined by an institution of higher education to have been convicted of a crime after enactment of this Act which involved the use of force, disruption or seizure of university property, and which was of a serious nature and contributed to the substantial disruption of the administration of the institution he shall be denied for a period of two years further payment or direct benefit from funds authorized to be appropriated by the Act. Requires other institutions to deny payment or direct benefit to such person for the two year period. Provides for a similar denial of payment or benefit when a person is found to have willfully refused to obey a lawful regulation or order of an institution which resulted in substantial disruption. Requires notice and an opportunity for hearing before denial of payment or direct benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1973
National Science Foundation Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriation for the National Science Foundation for fiscal year 1974, and specifies allotments for various programs. Prohibits any program from exceeding by more than 10 percentage points its percentage of the total funds appropriated under this Act. Prescribes regulation for calculations of sums and precentages under this Act. Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation to notify each House of Congress by special message of every instance in which he selectively withholds or transfers funds appropriated under this Act. States that such message must specify the amount of selectively withheld funds, the specific programs affected, the reasons for the selective withholding of funds, and the estimated economic effect of the selective withholding or transfer. Provides that the Director of the National Science Foundation shall continue the selective withholding of funds set forth in the special message if within sixty days of continuous session after the message is received the selective withholding shall have been approved by the Congress by the passage of a resolution in accordance with the provision of this Act. Provides that if any person is determined by an institution of higher education to have been convicted of a crime after enactment of this Act which involved the use of force, disruption or seizure of university property, and which was of a serious nature and contributed to the substantial disruption of the administration of the institution shall be denied for a period of two years further payment or direct benefit from funds authorized to be appropriated by the Act. Requires other insitutions to deny payment or direct benefit to such person for the two year period. Provides for a similar denial of payment or benefit when a person is found to have willfully refused to obey a lawful regulation or order of an institution which resulted in substantial disruption. Requires notice and an opportunity for hearing before denial of payment or direct benefit.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and development, construction of facilities, and research program management.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Food Supplement Amendment - Defines the term "food supplement" for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to mean food for special dietary uses, and defines the meaning of "special dietary uses" as particular uses of food for man which meets specified requirements. Provides that in administering such Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare: (1) shall not limit the potency, number, combination, amount, or variety of any synthetic or natural vitamin, mineral, substance, or ingredient of any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage; and (2) shall not require a warning label on any food supplement unless such article is intrinsically injurious to health in the recommended dosage.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
States that in order to assist in providing for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information concerning the activities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and to permit the construction, maintenance, and operation of facilities and equipment for visitor information purposes, in whole or in part, through revenues generated by installations of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the Administration is authorized to provide by concession for the construction, maintenance, and operation of visitor facilities and to provide information dissemination services to such visitors without charge. Provides that the concessioner shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to make a profit commensurate with the capital invested and obligations assumed and the consideration paid by him for the concession shall be based on the probable value of such opportunity and not on maximizing revenue to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Extends eligibility for coverage under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to: (1) a person who volunteers for assignment to the Ready Reserve of a uniformed service and is assigned to a unit or position in which he may be required to perform active duty; (2) a person assigned to the Retired Reserve of a uniformed service who has not received the first increment of retirement annuities or has not yet reached 61 years of age and has completed at least 20 years of satisfactory service creditable for retirement purposes; and (3) a member, cadet, or midshipman of the Reserve Officers Training Corps while attending field training or practice cruises. Provides that an insurance policy for a member of the Ready Reserve shall cease 120 days after separation or release from such assignment unless on the date of separation the member is totally disabled, or has completed 20 years of service creditable for retirement purposes. Continues the insurance policy of a member of the Retired Reserve until such time as the member receives the first increment of retirement annuity, or the member's sixty-first birthday, whichever occurs earlier. Makes provisions for the conversion of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance following termination to a policy with a participating life insurance company. Provides for the payment of premiums by a deduction from the pay of a member of the Reserve or Ready Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, to allow a member of the National Guard who is not on active duty to make allotments from his pay for the payment of premiums under a group life insurance program sponsored by the military department of the State in which such member holds his National Guard membership or by the National Guard Association of such State. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 765-771; Adds 37 U.S.C. 707)
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Lobbying Information Act - Requires the registration of those persons employed or retained specifically for the purpose of making covered communications to lobby and who receive income from any other person. Prescribes for information to be included in such registration. Defines the terms used in this Act. Provides that any matter which expressly solicits persons to lobby by direct communication and: (1) appears in any magazine or newspaper or is broadcast by any radio or television station; and (2) for which any consideration is paid or promised to be paid by any person to such magazine or newspaper in which it appears or to such station by which it is broadcast; shall clearly disclose either on its face or by appropriate identification at the time of such broadcast the person who has paid for or promised to pay for the appearance or broadcast of such matter. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act. Provides for criminal penalties of up to $5,000 in fines or imprisonment for up to two years, or both, for willful violations of the provisions of this Act. Requires various reports to be filed by lobbyists under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1973
Provides that proceeds of any policy of United States Government Life Insurance, National Service Life Insurance, or Servicemen's Group Life Insurance shall not be included in the computation of the gross value of the insured's estate for Federal estate tax or State inheritance tax purposes. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 3101(d))
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to construct and provide shoreside facilities for the education and convenience of visitors to the United States Ship Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, and to transfer responsibility for their operation and maintenance to the National Park Service. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,500,000 for the planning, construction, equipping, and furnishing of such facilities, such sum to be in addition to the regular budgetary appropriations for the Department of the Navy.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Metric Conversion Act - Declares that the policy of the United States shall be: (1) to facilitate and encourage the substitution of metric measurement units for customary measurement units; (2) to facilitate and encourage the development as rapidly as practicable of new or revised engineering standards based on metric measurement units in those specific fields or areas in the United States where such standards will result in rationalization or simplification of relationships, improvements of design, or increases in economy; (3) to facilitate and encourage the retention in new metric language standards of those United States engineering designs, practices, and conventions that are internationally accepted or embody superior technology; (4) to cooperate with foreign governments and public and private international organizations which are or become concerned with the encouragement and coordination of increased use of metric measurement units or engineering standards based on such units; and (5) to assist the public through specified information and educational programs to become familiar with the meaning and applicability of metric terms and measures in daily life. Establishes a National Metric Conversion Board, consisting of 25 members not more 21 of whom shall be appointed by the President because they are broadly representative of American society. Provides that 2 members of the Board shall be Members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker, and 2 members shall be Members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate. Requires the Board, within 12 months after funding, to submit to the President and the Congress a comprehensive plan to accomplish a changeover to the metric system of measurement in the United States, together with legislative recommendations. Authorizes the Board in carrying out its duties to enter into contracts for research, hold hearings, and establish advisory committees. Provides the the Board shall cease to exist no later than ten years after submission of its comprehensive plan. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Veterans' Administration Accountability Act - Modifies those powers exercised by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs with respect to readjustment of the schedule of ratings for the disabilities of veterans. Requires that notice of closing must be given to Congress in writing before the closing of a hospital or domiciliary facility over which the Administrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction. Prohibits the sale or transfer of Government property under the jurisdiction of the Veterans' Administration unless notice of such transfer or sale is first given to congress.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Provides that the appropriations in the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1973, which is not used to pay the salary of the Clerk and of the Assistant Clerk of the House Democratic Steering Committee, or the salary of the Executive Director and of the Research Director of the House Republican Conference, as the case may be, may be used, without limitation, by the House Democratic Steering Committee, or by the House Republican Conference, as applicable, for the payment of all its necessary expenses in such fiscal year. Provides that, until otherwise provided by law, that part of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for the House Democratic Steering Committee and of the amount for the House Republican Conference for such fiscal year, which is not used to pay the salaries of its employees referred to above, as applicable, may be used by the organization concerned, without limitation, for the payment of all its necessary expenses in such fiscal year. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the payment of all necessary expenses of the House Democratic Steering Committee and of the House Republican Conference, until otherwise provided by law, effective with respect to each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1973
Authorizes funds not to exceed $380,000 for the expenses of the investigations and studies authorized by H. Res. 253, 93rd Congress for the House Committee on Science and Astronautics.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Provides that no changes or readjustments in the schedule for rating disabilities made by the Administrator of Veteans' Affairs shall be effective unless: (1) such proposed damage or readjustment is first submitted to Congress, and (2) neither House of Congress, prior to the expiration of ninety calendar days of continuous session of Congress following the date of submission of the proposed change or readjustment, has adopted a resolution stating in substance that that House does not favor the proposed change or readjustment. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 355)
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1973
Authorizes the House Committee on Science and Astronautics to conduct studies and investigations and to make inquiries with respect to aeronautical and other scientific research and development and outer space. Requires the committee to submit to the House, not later than January 2, 1975, a report on the activities of that committee during the Congress ending at noon on January 3, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1973
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act - Authorizes appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research and Development, construction of facilities, and research and program management.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
To amend title 38, United States Code, to stabilize and "freeze" as of January 1, 1973, the Veterans' Administration Schedule for Rating Disabilities, 1945 edition, and the extension thereto.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Authorizes the American Battle Monuments Commission to assume control of overseas war memorials erected by private persons, States, private associations, and non-Federal agencies. Authorizes the demolition of such war memorials in specified instances.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Establishes the Department of Veterans' Affairs which shall be headed by a Secretary of Veterans' Affairs. Transfers to and vests in the Secretary all of the functions, duties, and powers vested by any statute, provision of law, reorganization plan, or Executive order in the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Transfers to the Secretary all personnel, property, records, assets, contracts, obligations, and commitments of the Veterans' Administration and all unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, or other funds held, used, arising from, or available to, the Veterans' Administration. States that the Act shall take effect when specified by Executive order of the President, but not later than six months after the date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Prescribes a penalty of a $15,000 fine and/or imprisonment for up to 25 years for assaulting a member of the National Guard while he is engaged in carrying out official duties.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Lobbying Information Act - Requires the registration of those persons employed or retained specifically for the purpose of making covered communications to lobby and who receive income from any other person. Prescribes for information to be included in such registration. Defines the terms used in this Act. Provides that any matter which expressly solicits persons to lobby by direct communication and: (1) appears in any magazine or newspaper or is broadcast by any radio or television station; and (2) for which any consideration is paid or promised to be paid by any person to such magazine or newspaper in which it appears or to such station by which it is broadcast; shall clearly disclose either on its face or by appropriate identification at the time of such broadcast the person who has paid for or promised to pay for the appearance or broadcast of such matter. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act. Provides for criminal penalties of up to $5,000 in fines or imprisonment for up to two years, or both, for willful violations of the provisions of this Act. Requires various reports to be filed by lobbyists under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Provides for the coinage of 50-cent pieces to commemorate the life of the Honorable Sam Rayburn, with the proceeds to assist in the support of the Sam Rayburn Library.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Student Transportation Moratorium Act - Provides that the implementation of any order of a court of the United States entered during the period beginning with the day after the date of enactment of this Act and ending with July 1, 1973, shall be stayed to the extent it requires, directly or indirectly, a local educational agency: (1) to transport a student who was not being transported by such local educational agency immediately prior to the entry of such order; or (2) to transport a student to or from a school to which or from which such student was not being transported by such local educational agency immediately prior to the entry of such order. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Asserts that a member of the Armed Forces who is charged with unlawful battery, maiming, mutilation, torture, or killing of any noncombatant civilian or member of an opposing military force while engaged in combat shall be provided with a civilian counsel of his own choice at the expense of the United States, including investigative, expert and other services necessary for an adequate defense of the offense charged. Provides that any civilian attorney so selected shall be compensated at a rate approved by the court concerned. States that such attorney shall be reimbursed for all reasonable expenses. Provides that all fees and expenses authorized by this Act shall be paid from the appropriation made for active duty pay of the armed force in which the accused member was serving at the time of the offense.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Provides that in any case in which a veteran, having neither wife nor child, is being furnished hospital treatment, or institutional or domiciliary care without charge or otherwise by the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, and is rated by the Veteran's Administration in accordance with regulations as being imcompetent by reason of mental illness, and his estate from any source equals or exceeds $1,500, further payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' retirement pay shall not be made until the estate is reduced to $500. Stipulates that the amount which would be payable but for this provision shall be paid to the veteran in a lump sum, except that no payment of a lump sum shall be made to a veteran until after the expiration of six months following a finding of competency and that in the event of the veteran's death before payment of a lump sum, no part thereof shall be payable.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Provides that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, under the National Aeronautics and Space Act, may not report to a disposal agency as excess to the needs of the Administration land having an estimated value in excess of $50,000 which is owned by the United States and under the jurisdiction and control of the Administration, unless a period of thirty days has passed after the receipt by the Speaker and the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and the President and the Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences of the Senate of a report by the Administrator or his designee containing a full and complete statement of the action proposed to be taken and the facts and circumstances relied upon in support of such action, or each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Administrator written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the proposed action.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint as many as 50 million 50-cent pieces bearing the inscription "WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND" on the reverse side, and an official Apollo 11 emblem on the face of the coin. Provides that each coin minted shall contain a fractional content of an appropriate metal derived from the Apollo 11 spacecraft. Establishes an "Apollo Lunar Landing Commemorative Trust Fund." Authorize an appropriations to the trust fund of such amounts as may accrue from the sale of the coins minted pursuant to this Act. Provides that the trust fund shall be available for making expenditures to meet those obligations of the United States hereafter incurred which are attributable to the continued development, construction, maintenance, and operation of the space information and education center at the John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and other space information and education purposes. Establishes an Apollo Lunar Landing Commemorative Commission which shall consist of the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration who shall chair the Commission, the Director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, and 3 presidentially appointed members. Provides for the rates of compensation, tenure, powers and duties of the Commission members. Includes among its duties (1) the design of the Apollo 11 emblem; (2) the power to authorize issuance of the commemorative coin; (3) selection of those governmental or commercial bodies which shall dispose of the coins; (4) fixing the dates and numbers of coins to be issued; and (5) determining appropriate uses of the amounts of such funds as may accrue to the trust fund.
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