The world's political record
Person
![Official portrait of Rep. Ullman, Al [D-OR-2]](https://www.congress.gov/img/member/u000004_200.jpg)
United States · Official source
423 records where Rep. Ullman, Al [D-OR-2] is listed as a sponsor, author, or other actor. Search with topics and years
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Directs the payment of a death gratuity to the widow of a specified House employee.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1977
Validates all provisions of irrigation and drainage contracts executed pursuant to the Reclamation Act of 1902 and certain written representations relating to repayment of allocated costs.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to the State of Oregon in full settlement of such State's civil war claims against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1977
Prohibits Members of Congress from mailing or using congressional stationery for any purpose other than official congressional business.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1977
States that during the year following the enactment of this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall neither withhold water delivery from any beneficiary of a Federal reclamation project nor initiate any proceeding intended to require the sale of privately owned lands within any project, for purposes of achieving conformity with acreage limitations or residency requirements of reclamation law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 October 1977
Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior from increasing the grazing fee for the 1978 grazing year in order to allow Congress sufficient time to analyze the Secretaries' report and recommendations with respect to the value of grazing on public lands and the fee to be charged for domestic livestock grazing on such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1977
Relieves a certain individual of liability for payment of a certain sum to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1977
States that during the period following the enactment of this Act until December 31, 1978, neither the Secretary of the Interior nor the Attorney General shall withhold water delivery from any beneficiary of a Federal reclamation project for purposes of achieving conformity with acreage limitations or residency requirements of reclamation law.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1977
States that during the year following the enactment of this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall neither withhold water delivery from any beneficiary of a Federal reclamation project nor initiate any proceeding intended to require the sale of privately owned lands within any project, for purposes of achieving conformity with acreage limitations or residency requirements of reclamation law.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1977
Urges the International Whaling Commission to adopt a ten-year moratorium on the commercial killing of whales, and to undertake the management of unprotected, small cetacean. Encourages specified nations to comply voluntarily with a ten-year moratorium on such killing, as endorsed by the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977
Social Security Financing Amendments - Title I: Provisions to Improve the Financing of the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to increase the rate of tax on wages received by employees and paid by employers and on the earnings of the self employed for the purposes of Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance)and the hospital insurance program of Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Sets forth the steps in which such increases shall be made through the taxable years beginning after December 31, 1989. Increases to specified dollar amounts the level of wages and self-employment income to which such rate shall be applied in the years 1978 through 1981. Sets such limit at $27,900 in 1981. Increases, to specified levels, the allocations of revenues from wages and self-employment income from the Treasury to the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund in accordance with Title II of the Social Security Act. Establishes measures to maintain a minimum balance in the Federal Old-Age and Survivor Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund by loaning funds from the general fund of the Treasury when one of the Social Security funds is reduced to a specified level. Title II: Stabilization of Replacement Rates in the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program - Sets forth a new formula for the computation of the primary insurance amount of an individual who becomes eligible for old age insurance benefits or disability insurance benefits under Title II after January, 1979. Bases such amount on the individual's average indexed monthly earnings. Promulgates a method for determining such average indexed monthly earnings. Requires that, in determining the amount on which an individual's primary insurance amount will be based, a worker's wages and self employment income be indexed to reflect the changes between the year in which such individual became eligible for benefits and each year in which the worker had earnings. Sets forth a formula to be used in indexing an individual's earnings for a specified computation base year. Establishes a minimum monthly primary insurance amount. States that the amount of such minimum benefit shall be determined in accordance with existing provisions of the Social Security Act as revised from time to time. Provides for the recomputation of the benefit amounts of current beneficiaries to assure that no individual receives less under the current method of computing benefit amounts than the amount he would receive under this Act. Establishes new maximum limits on the amount of benefits which an individual may receive. Title III: Coverage Under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program - Amends Title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to include Federal, State, and local employees and employers of tax-exempt organizations within the coverage of the Social Security system. Excludes from coverage the distributive share of any item of income or loss of a limited partner to the extent that such share represents remuneration for services rendered to the partnership. Directs employers who pay wages at a rate lower than the Federal minimum wage because their employees receive income from tips to base their payment of social security taxes on the amount of wages which would have been paid if the employer had paid the minimum wage. Title IV: Elimination of Gender-Based Distinctions Under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program - Amends Title II to eliminate gender-based distinctions in awarding benefits under such Title. Equalizes treatment of fathers, husbands, divorced husbands, surviving divorced husbands, and widowers with the treatment of their female counterparts under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program. Eliminates marriage or remarriage of a benefit recipient as a factor in terminating or reducing benefits. Reduces from 20 to five the number of years a divorced spouse must have been married to claim benefits under the former spouse. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct a study to develop proposals for the elimination of dependency as a factor in awarding benefits under Title II. Title V: Changes in Earnings Test under the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Program - Amends Title II to establish a minimum amount which an individual may earn per month before suffering a loss or reduction of benefits under that Title. Establishes the exempt amount at $375 for each month of any taxable year ending after 1977 and before 1979 ($4,500 per year), and $500 for each month of any taxable year ending after 1978 and before 1980 ($6,000 per year). Requires the determination and publication of new exempt amounts in calendar years after 1978. Eliminates the prohibition against charging excess earnings to a month in which an individual was unemployed in determining eligibility for benefits. Title VI: Combined Social Security and Income Tax Annual Reporting - Sets forth procedures, under Title II, for the crediting of an individual's income to calendar years instead of to specific calendar quarters as is now required. Establishes, for calendar year 1978, the sum of $250 as the amount of income which will be counted as a calendar quarter in the determination of eligibility for benefits. Allows a credit for four such quarters per year. Sets forth a procedure for indexing such amount in succeeding years based on total wages paid in such years. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that an employer may deduct social security taxes from the remuneration paid an employee rendering services not in the course of employer's trade or business even though the total remuneration paid the employee in the year by the employer is less than $100. Makes additional amendments to the Code to conform to the changes made by this Act to the Social Security Act. Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to conform the provisions of such Act to the changes made by this Act to the Social Security Act. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends Title II to prohibit the retroactive payment of monthly cash benefits, with stated exceptions, for any month before the month in which the application was filed when such payment would permanently reduce an individual's benefits. Requires the payment of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income checks on the day preceding a Saturday, Sunday, or legal public holiday when the regular date of delivery is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal public holiday.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977
Declares that the President should establish a Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition which should: (1) collect and generate information and resources on food, hunger, malnutrition and related concerns; (2) assess current programs affecting domestic and international hunger and malnutrition; (3) analyze and report its findings and recommendations to the President, the Congress, and the public; and (4) assist the President and the Congress in implementing its recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1977
Increases the temporary public debt limit until September 30, 1978, by $373,000,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1977
Postpones, until July 1, 1978, the effective date of the Internal Revenue Service's Revenue Ruling 76-453 which holds that (1) transportation expenses between an individual's residence and temporary place of work are not deductible and (2) reimbursement for such expenses by employers is includible in gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977
Authorizes the enrollment of qualified Klamath Indians in Bureau of Indian Affairs residential schools or institutes of higher education, and establishes their eligibility for scholarship aid while enrolled at institutions of higher education not operated by the Bureau.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977
Exempts disaster payments made in connection with the 1977 crops of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice from the payment limitations contained in the Agricultural Act of 1970 and the Agricultural Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977
Amends the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975 to extend through 1980 assistance: (1) to refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos; (2) to State and local public agencies providing assistance for such aliens; (3) for transportation to, and resettlement in, other areas of the United States; and (4) for employment assistance rendered to such aliens. Directs that funds appropriated under this Act be made available to State or local public agencies to reimburse them for the non-Federal share of costs under Titles IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child Welfare Services) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Limits the amount of assistance to be provided to a State or local public agency in fiscal years 1979 and 1980 for providing cash or medical assistance to aliens who entered the United States prior to August 11, 1977. Requires the President to submit a report to specified committees of Congress on the status of such refugees at regular intervals until December 31, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow Tax Court judges to revoke elections to receive retirement pay.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1977
Amends the Second Liberty Bond Act to increase the temporary public debt limit until September 30, 1978, by $375,000,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1977
Removes the requirement that 15 percent of the funds authorized to be appropriated for emergency drought relief measures be used for the construction of emergency physical facilities. States that such funds shall be available for expenditure for emergency drought programs conducted by State water resource agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1977
Revises the boundaries of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in the State of Oregon.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977
Amends the National Trails System Act to include historic trails, in addition to recreation and scenic trails, within the National Trails System. Defines historic trails as those trails which follow as closely as possible and practicable the original trails or routes of travel of national historical significance. Designates the Oregon National Historic Trail and Travelway in the States of Oregon and Washington, as a unit of the National Trails System. Sets forth the criteria for the qualification of a trail as a National Historic Trail.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to permit general recreational access and geothermal explorations for six months within the Special Management Area of the Bull Run Reserve, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the time period for payments of certain expenses to related taxpayers which qualify for deductions. Provides that the adjusted basis of property distributed by a corporation shall include all recognized gains of the distributor. Extends the time periods for making Subchapter S elections and for exchanging property in corporate liquidations with nonrecognized gains and losses in the case of involuntary conversions. Provides that the filing deadline for income tax returns by certain tax exempt organizations shall be the fifteenth of the 5th month after the taxable year. Expands the class of taxpayers qualifying as farmers or fishermen with respect to declarations of estimated tax. Shortens the period of limitations for carrybacks of the investment credit while applying the same period of limitations to carrybacks of the work incentive program and new employee credits.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977
Farm Production Protection Act - Repeals the Federal Crop Insurance Act. Establishes, within the Department of Agriculture, the Farm Production Corporation, with a capital stock of $300,000,000 subscribed by the United States of America. Empowers such Corporation to protect producers of agricultural products against loss of production cost due to unavoidable natural causes.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1977
Establishes the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit within the Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, to be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture. Directs the Secretary to develop, maintain, and revise land management plans of such unit.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1977
Federal Aid Highway Act Amendments - Amends the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1976 to increase and extend the appropriations authorized under such Act for the Federal Aid primary system to $3,350,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1978 through 1990. Increases the Federal Share for projects financed with primary funds on the Federal aid primary system from 70 percent of its cost to 80 percent, or to 95 percent under specified circumstances. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 109, 120)
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1977
Technical Correction Act - Makes technical amendments to income tax and administrative provisions in the Internal Revenue Code pertaining to: (1) retirement income credit; (2) the minimum tax; (3) sick pay; (4) net operating losses; (5) construction period interest and taxes; (6) the preservation of historic structures; (7) foreign conventions; (8) corporate liquidations; (9) investment company transactions; (10) risk provisions; (11) foreign personal holding companies; (12) condominium management associations; (13) gains on property transferred to trust at less than fair market value; (14) foreign tax credit for accumulation distributions; (15) partnership losses; (16) real estate investment trusts; (17) foreign income; (18) sales of depreciable property between related persons; (19) depreciation on player contracts; (20)pensions and annuities; (21) subchapter corporations; (22) individual retirement accounts; (23) taxpayer information and returns; and (24) income tax return preparers. Amends estate and gift tax provisions pertaining to: (1) section 306 stock; (2) coordination of deduction for estate taxes attributable to income in respect of a decedent with the capital gain deductions and (3) real property valuation; (4) payment provisions for closely held businesses; (5) annual exclusions and transfers within three years of death; (6) estate tax marital deduction; (7) estate tax treatment of certain gifts by married persons; (8) stock transferred with retained voting rights; (9) individual retirement accounts and bonds; (10) joint interests; (11) the orphans' exclusion; (12) surviving spouse disclaimers; (13) generation-skipping transfers tax; and (14) adjustments in income tax for estate and generation- skipping transfer taxes. Corrects punctuation, spelling, cross references and other errors in the Tax Reform Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1977
Allows larger acreages of specified land to be retained by the owner of such land and still remain qualified for irrigation water under the Federal reclamation laws. Redefines the term "irrigable acres" for purposes of eligibility for such irrigation water.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1977
Amends the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975 to extend through 1980 assistance: (1) to refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos; (2) to State and local public agencies providing assistance for such aliens; (3) for transportation to, and resettlement in, other areas of the United States; and (4) for employment assistance rendered to such aliens. Directs that funds appropriated under this Act be made available to State or local public agencies to reimburse them for the non-Federal share of costs under Titles IV (Grants to States for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children and for Child Welfare Services) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Limits the amount of assistance to be provided for a State or local public agency in fiscal years 1979, and 1980 for providing cash or medical assistance to aliens from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. Requires the President to submit a report to specified Committees of Congress on the states of such refugees at regular intervals until December 31, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into contracts for the sale of certain free-roaming wild horses and burros on public lands. Stipulates that such contracts shall contain covenants requiring such animals to receive humane care and treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Establishes the Oregon Trail National Historic Site in Vale, Oregon.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1977
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the several States, and the District of Columbia, shall elect the President and Vice President. Requires each voter to cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. Requires the voters for President and Vice President in each State to have the qualifications requisite for voters for the most numerous branch of the State legislature, except that for voters for President and Vice President, the legislature of any State may prescribe less restrictive residence qualifications and for voters for President and Vice President the Congress may establish uniform residence qualifications. Provides that the pair of persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, if such number be at least 40 percent of the whole number of votes cast for such offices. Provides that if the choice of President and Vice President shall be made from the two pairs of persons who received the highest numbers of votes. Requires the days for such elections to be determined by Congress and to be uniform throughout the United States. Requires Congress to prescribe by law the time, place, and manner in which the results of such elections shall be ascertained and declared. Allows Congress to provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice President-elect.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Amends the Watershed Protection and Flood Protection Act to increase from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 the maximum allowable amount for single loans or advancements for watershed improvement projects.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Prohibits appropriations for any resource conservation and development loan in excess of $500,000 (presently $250,000) under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, without prior approval of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives. Extends the loan-making power of the Secretary of Agriculture to include loans for the conservation, development, and utilization of water for aquaculture purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1977
Directs the Secretary of Transportation of convey a reversionary interest in specified patent lands to Redmond, Oregon.
United States · United States Congress · 31 March 1977
Establishes within the Department of Agriculture an Advisory Committee on Timber Sales Procedures to study the methods by which the Forest Service sells timber and to provide independent recommendation with respect to establishing procedures by which the Service will be able to sell timber in a manner which will, over the long term, provide for community stability and which will provide the most stable return to the Federal Government while maintaining diversity in terms of sizes, types and locations of operations and facilities which process timber. Terminates such Advisory Committee upon its submission of its findings and recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the appropriate committees of Congress. Directs that oral auction be used for the competitive sale of national forest timber to the maximum extent consistent with historic patterns of bidding. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to monitor and review all sales from individual national forests and to report to the Justice Department all patterns of bidding which may be collusive.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1977
Authorizes the President of the United States to proclaim the second week in April of each year as "National Medical Laboratory Week."
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1977
Wheat and Wheat Foods Research and Nutrition Education Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to authorize and enable the creation of an orderly procedure, adequately financed through an assessment and voluntary contributions, for the development and initiation of an effective and continuous coordinated program of research and nutrition education designed to improve and enhance the quality and make the most efficient use of American wheat, processed wheat, and wheat end products to insure an adequate diet for all Americans. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue orders to effectuate the declared purpose of this Act. States that such orders shall include provisions: (1) for establishing projects for research and nutrition education for wheat and wheat products; (2) for establishing and carrying on research or studies with respect to the sale, distribution, marketing, and utilization of wheat and wheat products and the creation of new products; and (3) requiring that processors, distributors of processed wheat, and end product manufacturers maintain and make available for inspection such books and records as may be required by an order issued pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary to issue orders providing for the establishment of a Wheat Industry Council to: (1) administer and make rules and regulations to effectuate orders issued pursuant to this Act; (2) receive, investigate and report to the Secretary complaints of violations of such orders; and (3) recommend to the Secretary amendments to such orders. States that membership of such Council shall represent wheat producers, processors, end product manufacturers and consumers on an equal basis. Requires each end product manufacturer to pay to such Council an assessment, not to exceed five cents per hundredweight, based on the total number of hundredweights of processed wheat purchased by or transferred to such manufacturer, to be uses for expenditures and expensed incurred by the Council or Secretary under this Act. Exempts from this Act any end product manufacturer who does not purchase more than 2,000 hundredweight of processed wheat per year for use in manufacture. Requires the Secretary to conduct a referendum among end product manufacturers to determine whether the issuance of an order under this Act is favored by such manufacturers. States that no such order shall become effective unless: (1) votes were cast by more than 50 percent of the registered end product manufacturers; and (2) not less than two-thirds of such voting manufacturers approve of such order or by a majority of such manufacturers if such majority manufactured not less than two-thirds of the total processed wheat contained in all end products manufactured by those voting in referendum. Allows end product manufacturers who have reserved the right to seek refunds and who disfavor the programs under this Act to receive from the Council the assessment paid to such Council. Sets forth the procedures for the administrative and judicial review of orders or obligations imposed under this Act. States that any person who willfully violates any order issued under this Act or who fails to remit any required assessment or fee shall be liable to a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 per violation. Requires the Secretary to conduct a referendum on request by ten percent or more of the end product manufactures to determine whether such manufacturers favor the suspension or termination of any order. States that such order shall be suspended or terminated if more than 50 percent of the voting manufacturers or manufacturers who produce end products containing more than 50 percent of the total processed wheat contained in all end products manufactured by those voting approve of such action. Authorizes the Secretary to make investigations for the effective carrying out of his or her responsibilities under this Act or to determine whether any person has or is about to violate any of the provisions of this Act. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for any organization wishing to: (1) participate in the nominating of Council members; (2) represent wheat producers, processors, end product manufacturers or consumers; and (3) request the issuance of an order under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1977
Removes from the definition of "Veterans' Administration facility" private facilities contracted for when Government facilities are not capable of furnishing economical care because of geographic inaccessibility. Repeals the requirement that medical services be furnished only within the limits of Veterans' Administration facilities to: (1) any eligible veteran on an outpatient or ambulatory basis; or (2) any veteran on pension receiving a care and attendance allowance or who is permanently housebound.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1977
Directs the President to appoint a specified number of additional judges to designated United States district courts and courts of appeals. Authorizes the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to place an additional eight positions in grades 16, 17, and 18 of the General Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1977
Indian Tribal Governmental Tax Status Act - Provides that recognized Indian tribes shall be treated as State governments in determining the tax treatment of: (1) charitable donations to the tribes; (2) excise tax liability on special fuels, manufacturing, communications and highway motor vehicles use; (3) tribal colleges fellowships, scholarships, and universities; (4) tribal taxes; (5) tribal retirement systems and donations to employee systems; (6) contributions to candidates for tribal offices; and (7) interest on tribal bonds and other obligations. Defines "recognized Indian tribes" to include all tribes, bands, communities, villages, and groups of Indians and Alaska Natives which are designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, as performing substantial governmental functions.
United States · United States Congress · 16 February 1977
Tax Reduction and Simplification Act - Title I: Refund of 1976 Individual Income Taxes; Payments to Recipients of Certain Benefits - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a refund from 1976 income taxes equal to $50 multiplied by the taxpayer's number of personal exemptions. Limits this refund to the taxpayer's 1976 tax liability except where he (1) is entitled to the credit for earned income, or (2) has earned income while living with a dependent child and who, if married, filed a joint return. Prohibits such refunds from being made to any estate, trust or nonresident alien. Reimburses the Governments of American Samoa, Guam, and the Virgin Islands for the revenues lost through these refunds and specified provisions of Title II. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make a $50 payment to each individual paid benefits for March, 1977 under the Railroad Retirement Act, the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program of the Social Security Act, or the Supplemental Security Income program of the Social Security Act. Prohibits the refunds or $50 payments made under this title from being regarded as income for purposes of any Federal, State or local program where income is a criterion of eligibility, or from being considered income for Federal income tax purposes. Prohibits the refunds from being considered a reduction in Federal income tax for purposes of any State tax law. Title II: Reduction and Simplification of Individual Income Taxes - Lowers the income tax rates for individuals by raising the threshold for each tax bracket. Allows taking the $35 general tax credit for each exemption for old-age and blindness as well as each of the other personal exemptions. Provides that the tax tables shall reflect the changes in the tax rates and in each of the allowable general tax credits. Revises the determination of individual income taxes by eliminating the standard deduction and adding a comparable amount into the threshold for each tax bracket. Redefines taxable income as adjusted gross income minus the sum of the individual's personal exemption deductions and the excess of all other deductions over the lowest threshold amount of taxable income in the individual's category. Includes additional amounts in the taxable income of certain children, married individuals, and nonresident aliens to the extent that they do not qualify for a standard deduction under the present law. Extends the general tax credit to taxable years beginning before 1978, and the earned income credit to taxable years beginning before 1979. Provides that the withholding tax requirements, and the requirements for filing returns shall reflect the changes made by this Act. Title III: Reduction in Business Taxes - Extends the temporary reduction in the normal tax rates for corporations and mutual insurance companies, the alternative tax rates for certain small companies, and the temporary increase in the surtax exemption, to taxable years ending before 1979. Allows a business to elect, within 90 days of the enactment of this Act and the filing date for the business's first taxable year ending after 1976, either an additional two percent investment tax credit for qualified investments and progress expenditure made before 1977 (under 1976 rates) or, an income tax credit for the sum of four percent of the business's excise taxes for employee Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits, two percent of its self-employment taxes, and two percent of its railroad retirement excise taxes paid before 1981. Prorates this credit among partners, shareholders of subchapter S corporations and the beneficiaries of estates and trusts according to their proportionate interests, with the election made by the business. Prohibits any governmental agency or subdivision or any tax-exempt organization from taking this credit, except in regard to the employment expenses of a tax-exempt organization's unrelated trade or business.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Authorizes the expenditure of funds up to $2,319,500 from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives for the expenses of investigations and studies by the House Committee on Ways and Means. States that the authorization granted by this resolution shall expire prior to noon on January 3, 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1977
Declares the support of the House of Representatives for the President's intentions (1) to proceed with a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty, (2) to seek ratification of the SALT II agreement, and (3) to seek an agreement with the Soviet Union for major reductions in atomic weapons.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Sets forth rules governing the interstate succession of all interests in trust or restricted land within the Umatilla Reservation in the State of Oregon. States that the interstate Indian's land shall descend in equal shares to his or her children and to the issue of any deceased child. Specifies that if no child of the decedent survives him, any interest shall descend to all other lineal descendants. States that the surviving spouse of an Indian leaving an interest in trust or restricted land is entitled to a life estate in one-half of such interest. Specifies that a surviving spouse of an Indian leaving a will must elect whether to take under the will or under this Act, unless the will evidences a clear intention that the spouse is to be entitled to both.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla, and individual Indians, through purchase or exchange. Permits the Secretary to sell or exchange tribal trust lands and to accept any transfer of title from the Tribes for lands within the boundaries of the reservation. Allows the Secretary to take title to such lands in trust for the Tribes. Provides that the interests acquired in such lands be nontaxable. Permits the Secretary to purchase lands with tribal funds even though the acquisition would exempt the land from local taxation. States that all land transactions for the Tribes must be upon request of its board of trustees. Requires that money received by the Tribes be used for the purchase of other lands, or for purposes consistent with the Secretary's land consolidation and development program. Authorizes the Secretary to sell or exchange Indian trust lands held in multiple ownership on the Umatilla Reservation to the Tribes, or to an enrolled member of the Tribes. Allows the Tribes, with the Secretary's approval, to execute a mortgage or deed of trust on lands purchased by the Tribes in order to secure the purchase price of the land. Specifies that the laws of Oregon will cover foreclosure and sale under the mortgage, but states that the United States is an indispensable party to any ensuing litigation. States that land acquired by the Tribes at a foreclosure or sale shall be taken in the name of the United States in trust for the Tribes.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1977
Federal Aid Highway Act Amendments - Amends the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1976 to increase and extend the appropriations authorized under such Act for the Federal Aid primary system to $3,350,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1978 through 1990. Increases the Federal Share for projects financed with primary funds on the Federal aid primary system from 70 percent of its cost to 80 percent, or to 95 percent under specified circumstances. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 109, 120)
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Civilian Conservation Corps Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Civilian Conservation Corps for the purpose of providing employment for unemployed persons through public projects in connection with the conservation, improvement and utilization of the natural resources of lands and waters under the ownership or control of the United States or its agencies. Permits the Corps to undertake certain cooperative projects on State, local governments, or private lands. Sets forth eligibility requirements to be met by persons employed under this Act as Corps members. Directs that preference for employment be given to persons residing in areas having an employment rate of 6.5 percent or greater for three consecutive months. Limits employment of Corps members under this Act to a period of 24 months total employment. Sets forth the duties of the Secretaries under this Act. Authorizes the Secretaries to make grants to the States to assist them in employing unemployed individuals to carry out on non-Federal lands projects similar to those performed by the Corps.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Amends the Colorado River Basin Project Act to extend for an additional ten years until September 30, 1988, the period during which the Secretary of the Interior shall not undertake studies of water importation plans for the basin.