United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Establishes a contiguous fishery zone (197 mile limit) beyond the territorial sea of the United States. States that the United States shall exercise the same exclusive rights in respect to fisheries in the zone as it has in its territorial sea, subject to the continuation of traditional fishing by foreign states within this zone as may be recognized by the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Interior, and in consultation with the affected foreign countries, to determine the extent to which foreign fisheries may be permitted to operate within the zone, including manner, species, and allowable annual catch.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Makes it a Federal crime to kill or assault a fireman or law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties when the offender travels in interstate commerce or uses any facility of interstate commerce for such purpose. Provides for imposition of a sentence for a term of years up to life or upon the recommendation of the jury, death for the killing of such persons. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1116)
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Provides that whoever uses or carries a firearm to commit any felony (other than manslaughter) for which he may be prosecuted in a United States court, shall, in addition to the punishment provided, be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than twenty nor more than forty years. States that if the commission of a felony results in death to any person the person convicted of such felony shall be sentenced to death. States that the court shall not suspend such additional sentence, impose a probationary sentence, or allow the concurrent running of such sentence with any term of imprisonment imposed for the commission of such felony. Redefines what shall constitute "armed" for purposes of added punishment for committing a crime when armed. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 924(c))
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Makes it a Federal crime to kill or assault a fireman or law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of his duties when the offender travels in interstate commerce or uses any facility of interstate commerce for such purpose. Provides for imposition of a sentence for a term of years up to life or upon the recommendation of the jury, death for the killing of such persons. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1116)
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Act for Freedom of Emigration in East-West Trade - States that after October 15, 1972, products from any nonmarket economy country shall not be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment, such country shall not participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly, and the President of the United States shall not conclude any commercial agreement with any such country during the period beginning with the date on which the President determines that such country: (1) denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate; (2) imposes more than a nominal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents required for emigration, for any purpose or cause whatsoever; or (3) imposes more than a nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice. Provides that, before any of the aforementioned commercial agreements are entered into with any foreign country, the President shall submit to the Congress a report indicating that such country is not in violation of any of the requirements of the preceding paragraph.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over said Canal Zone and Panama Canal and that the United States Government should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property to any other sovereign nation or to any international organization which sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, and other property are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere, including the Canal and Panama.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1973
Forestry Incentives Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to develop and carry out a forestry incentives program to encourage the protection, development and management of small nonindustrial private lands and non-Federal public forest lands. Provides that the Secretary shall share up to 50 percent of the cost of forest practices on non-Federal public lands and small nonindustrial private lands. Provides that no private forest landowner shall receive cost sharing under this Act in excess of $2,500 in any one fiscal year. Requires the Secretary to cooperate with local associations or groups of nonindustrial forest owners, and to pay up to 50 percent of the cost of manpower, equipment, planting stock and other materials required to carry out essential forest management practices. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize the services of State and local committees established under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. Sets forth factors to consider prior to the distribution of funds under this Act. Provides that Federal funds may be allocated for cost sharing on a bid basis with priority accorded landowners contracting to carry out approved forestry practices for the smallest Federal cost share. States that the Secretary shall consult with the State forester or other appropriate official of each State in the conduct of the forestry incentives program provided for in this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall coordinate the administration of this Act with other related programs. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $25,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1973
Provides that, in determining the annual income of any individual for veterans' pension and compensation purposes, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall disregard any increase in benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) brought about by Public Law 92-336 to which a veteran might be entitled, or any subsequent cost-of-living increase in such benefits occurring pursuant to the Social Security Act. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 415(g)(4), 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Provides that the fiscal year of the United States shall coincide with the calendar year, and makes provisions for the orderly transition by all Federal Government and District of Columbia agencies to the use of the new fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Requires the Supreme Court to report the reversal of State criminal convictions in written decisions beginning with the October, 1973, term. (Amends 28 U.S.C. 1257)
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, in carrying out the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, to make payments or grants of other aid to agricultural producers, including tenants and sharecroppers, in an aggregate amount not less than the sums appropriated therefor during the year with respect to which such payments or grants are made and measured by: (1) their treatment or use of their land, or part thereof, for soil restoration, soil conservation, or the prevention of erosion; (2) changes in the use of their land; (3) their equitable share, as determined by the Secretary, of the normal national production of any commodity or commodities required for domestic consumption; (4) their equitable share, as determined by the Secretary, of the national production of any commodity or commodities required for domestic consumption and exports adjusted to reflect the extent to which their utilization of cropland on the farm conforms to farming practices which the Secretary determines will best effectuate the purposes of the Act; or (5) any combination of the above. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 590h(b))
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Fair Labor Standards Amendments - Title I: Increases in Minimum Wage Rates - Increases the minimum wage for nonagricultural workers to $1.80 per hour during the first year from the effective date of this Act, $2.00 per hour during the second year, and $2.10 per hour thereafter. Increases the minimum wage for agricultural workers to $1.50 per hour during the first year from the effective date of this Act, $1.70 an hour during the second year, and $1.80 an hour thereafter. Raises the minimum wage rate for employees in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Excludes employees in the Canal Zone from the increases in the minimum wage. Title II: Revision of Exemptions - Provides that the maximum hours restriction imposed on employers shall not apply with respect to the employment of any employee in a retail or service establishment if: (1) such employee is employed in a bona fide sales capacity in, or as manager of, such establishment; (2) such employee's regular rate of pay is not less than twice the wage rate in effect for nonagricultural employees; and (3) for employment in such establishment in excess of forty-eight hours in any workweek during such period or periods, such employee receives compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed in such establishment. Excludes from the minimum wage established by this Act any employee who is employed with his spouse by a nonprofit educational institution to serve as the parents of children who are orphans or one of whose natural parents is deceased, and who are enrolled in such institution and reside in residential facilities of the institution, while such children are in residence at such institution, if such employee and his spouse reside in such facilities, receive, without cost, board and lodging from such institution, and are together compensated, on a cash basis, at an annual rate of not less than $10,000. Title III: Expanding Employment Opportunities for Youths - Provides a special minimum wage for persons under the age of eighteen and fulltime students. Title IV: Conforming Amendments; Effective Date; and Regulations - Sets forth technical and conforming amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act. Declares the effective date of this Act to be the first day of the second full month which begins after the date of its enactment. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to prescribe necessary rules, regulations, and orders with regard to the amendments made by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Voluntary Military Special Pay Act - Sets forth special pay rates of officers of the Army or Navy in the Medical or Dental Corps, officers of the Air Force designated as medical officers or dental officers, and medical and dental officers of the Public Health Service. Authorizes a member of a uniformed service who has completed at least 21 months of active duty, who has a critical military skill, and who reenlists in the service to be paid an incentive amount, not to exceed six months of the basic pay to which he was entitled at the time of his discharge or release, multiplied by the number of years of additional obligated service, not to exceed 6 years, or $15,000, whichever is the lesser amount. Provides that a person who enlists in an armed force for a period of at least 3 years, or who extends his initial period of active duty in that armed force to a total of at least 3 years, may be paid an incentive amount of up to $3,000. Grants special incentive pay, not to exceed $12,000 annually, for officers of the uniformed services in critical health professions, who execute written agreements to remain on continuous active duty for a specified number of years. Requires an annual report on this special pay program to the House and Senate Committees on Armed Services. Authorizes special incentive pay, not to exceed $4,000 annually, for officers of armed forces who agree to serve on continuous active duty in a critical shortage specialty for a period of between one to six years. Provides for special incentive pay at specified rates for specified periods for participants in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of an armed force. Sets forth conditions participants must meet for eligibility. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 302, 308, 308a, 311, 313, 314)
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Comprehensive Older Americans Services Amendments - Title I: Declaration of Objectives - States that the general purpose of this Act is to make available comprehensive health, education, and social service programs to our older citizens. Title II: Administration on Aging - Declares that the Commissioner on Aging shall be the principal officer of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare for carrying out this Act. Establishes within the Administration on Aging a National Information and Resource Center for the Aging to collect, review, organize, publish, and disseminate information and data related to the particular problems caused by aging, including information describing measures which are or may be employed for meeting such problems. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the Aging designated to advise and assist the President as he may direct on matters relating to the special needs of Older Americans; to assist the Commissioner on Aging in carrying out his functions under this Act; to review and evaluate programs of the Federal Government with emphasis on identifying unsolved problems of older Americans; and to make recommendations to the President, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Commissioner, and Congress for the establishment of new programs for the aged. Provides that not later than one hundred and twenty days after the close of each fiscal year, the Secretary shall prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a complete report on the activities carried out under this Act. Title III: Grants for State and Area Programs - Prescribes standards and procedures for the establishment by the several States of State and area social service programs in order to develop a greater capacity and foster development of comprehensive systems to serve older persons. Provides that the Commissioner shall not finally disapprove any State plan, or any modification thereof, without first affording the State reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Authorizes appropriations of $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $15,000,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for grants to States for paying such percentage as each State agency determines, but not more than 75 percent of the cost of administering the State plan. Title IV: Training and Research - Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State agencies and educational institutions for the purpose of: (1) publicizing available opportunities for careers in the field of aging; (2) encouraging qualified persons to enter or re-enter the field of aging; (3) encouraging persons from other professions to undertake assignments on a parttime basis in the field of aging; and (4) assisting in covering the cost of courses of training or study. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants for the purpose of establishing multidisciplinary centers of gerontology to recruit and train personnel; conduct basic research on the problem of the aged; provide consultation to public and voluntary organizations; and create opportunities for research projects with respect to aging. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the purposes of attracting personnel to and training personnel in the field of aging. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 for the fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for establishing multidisciplinary centers or gerontology. Title V: Multipurpose Senior Centers - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to units of general purpose local government or other public or nonprofit private agencies to pay not to exceed 75 percent of the cost of leasing, altering, or renovating existing facilities to serve as multipurpose senior centers. Establishes standards to be followed by the Commissioner in making such grants and authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973-1975 to carry out the provisions of this section. Creates a Multipurpose Senior Center Insurance Fund to be adminstered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to insure mortgages on multipurpose senior centers. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making grants to meet the costs of compensation of professional and technical personnel for the initial operation of multipurpose senior centers. Title VI: National Older Americans Volunteer Program - Provides that no compensation paid to individual volunteers under the Retired Senior Volunteer Program under the Older Americans Act shall be considered income for any purposes. Provides continuing appropriations for such program in the amount of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for the continuation of the Foster Grandparent Program under the Older Americans Act. Title VII: Nutrition Programs - Provides under the Older Americans Act of 1965 that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation may donate specified products acquired by them to a recipient of a grant or contract for providing nutritional services for the elderly. Title VIII: Special Impact Programs - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to public or nonprofit private agencies for payment of part of the cost of any program designed to: (1) assist in meeting in special housing needs of older persons; (2) improve the transportation services available to older persons; (3) meet the needs of unemployed low-income older persons; (4) provide continuing education to older persons; and (5) provide retirement education and information to persons planning retirement. Authorizes appropriations of $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, $75,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, for providing assistance under this title. Title IX: Amendments to other Acts - Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to States which have submitted a long-range program and an annual program for library services for older persons. Specifies that the Commissioner is authorized to make grants to institutions of higher education to assist such institutions in planning, developing, and carrying out programs specifically designed to apply the resources of higher education to the problems of the elderly. Directs the Commissioner to make grants to State and local educational agencies or other public or private nonprofit agencies for educational programs for elderly persons whose ability to speak and read the English language is limited and who live in an area with a culture different from their own. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 3001,3011(b); 42 U.S.C. 3012(3), (4); 42 U.S.C. 3044; 42 U.S.C. 3044a, 3044b; Amends 20 U.S.C. 354, 355, 355nts; 20 U.S.C. 1504(a) (2); 20 U.S.C. 1505(a); 20 U.S.C. 1078; 20 U.S.C. 1209, 1210, 1211; 20 U.S.C. 954)
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Authorizes the refund of tax under the Internal Revenue Code on distilled spirits, wines, rectified products, and beer lost or rendered unmarketable due to fire, flood casualty, or other disaster, or breakage, destruction, or other damage (including theft) resulting from vandalism or malicious mischief while held for sale. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 5065)
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides that no license granted for the operation of a broadcasting station under the Communications Act of 1934 shall be for a longer term than five years. Provides for renewal of such license where the Federal Communications Commission finds that the public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served. Provides that an applicant for renewal who is legally, financially and technically qualified shall be awarded the license if such applicant shows that its broadcast service during the preceding license period has reflected a good-faith effort to serve the needs and interests of its area as represented in its immediately preceding and pending license renewal application and if it has not demonstrated a callous disregard for law or the Commission's regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law or any other regulation, no State shall receive a lesser allocation of water pollution control funds in fiscal year 1973 or fiscal year 1974 than it received in fiscal year 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Requires the party bringing an action against any law enforcement officer in any court of the United States to file with the court a surety bond conditioned on the payment to defendants of reasonable costs of investigation and legal fees for defending such action should the defendants prevail in the action. Includes within the meaning of law enforcement officers for purposes of this Act attorneys general, prosecuting attorneys, chiefs of police, sheriffs, constables, and their subordinates.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Exempts clubs organized for pleasure, recreation and other nonprofitable purposes, substantially all of the activities of which are for such purposes and no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder, from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. States that for the purpose of determining the unrelated business income of such an organization deductions allowed corporations on certain dividends shall be treated as not directly connected with the production of gross income. Provides that such deductions allowed shall not be allowed to any organization which takes a deduction attributable to furnishing services, insurance, goods, or other items of value to members.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that when any country, person or business shall pay any bounty or grant upon the manufacture, production or export of any article produced in such country, then upon the importation of the article into the United States, there shall be levied, in addition to all other duties, a duty equal to the net amount of the bounty or grant. Provides that whenever the Secretary of the Treasury determines that a bounty or grant is being paid on any article or merchandise which is free of duty, he shall so advise the United States Tariff Commission and the Commission shall determine within 3 months whether or not an industry in the United States is being or is likely to be injured by reason of the importation of the article into the United States. Provides that the Secretary shall require the suspension of liquidation as to such article. Directs that if the Tariff Commission determines that a U.S. industry is being injured by imports, then the Secretary shall order the assessment and collection of duties in the amount of the bounty or grant that is from time to time ascertained and determined by him. Provides that this assessment shall apply 30 days after publication in the Federal Register of the Secretary's determination that a bounty or grant is being paid. Provides that no duty shall be imposed on any article which is subject to a quantitative limitation imposed on any article which is subject to a quantitative limitation imposed by the United States on its importation or subject to a limitation imposed under an agreement to which the United States is a party. (Amends 19 USC 1303)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Defines a "unitary school system", for purposes of the equal protection guarantee of the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as one within which no person is to be effectively excluded from any school because of race, color, or national origin, and this shall be so, whether or not such school system was in the past segregated de jure or de facto. Declares it to be the policy of the United States to encourage school systems to adopt programs permitting any student who attends a school in which persons of his race, color, or national origin constitute a majority of the students to transfer, if he desires to do so, to the nearest appropriate school in which persons of his race, color, or national origin constitute a minority of the students.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Removes the time limit for appropriations for the Highway Trust Fund (previously October 1, 1977). Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to consult with the Secretary of Transportation on adjustments of Trust Fund apportionments, and annually before reporting to the Congress on the financial condition and the results of the operations of the Highway Trust Fund (previously the Secretary consulted with the Secretary of Commerce). Permits the use of expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund for the administrative expenses of the Federal Highway Administration (previously of the Bureau of Public Roads). (Amends 23 U.S.C. 120 nt.)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Includes as a tax exempt organization, for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code, any foundation, trust, fund, or organization, all of the assets and income of which are irrevocably dedicated to the upkeep, care, and maintenance of cemetery lots and premises. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 501(c)(4))
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Romania Trade Act - States that the purposes of this Act are to promote international trade, to provide a framework helpful to private United States firms conducting business relations with Romania, and to promote the expansion of United States exports. Provides that the President may, enter into a commercial agreement with Romania under this Act, with provision concerning: (1) arrangements for the promotion of trade between the United States and Romania; (2) the extension of most-favored-nation treatment with respect to duties or other country; (3) arrangements for the protection of industrial rights and processes; (4) arrangements for the settlement of commercial difference and disputes; (5) arrangements for establishment or expansion of trade and tourist promotion offices, for facilitation of activities of governmental commercial officers, participation in trade fairs and exhibits and the sending of trade missions, and for facilitation of entry and travel of entry and travel of commercial representatives; and (6) such other arrangements of a commercial nature as will promote the purposes of this Act. Requires the President to report to the Congress on any commercial agreement or amendment thereto entered into under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Permits high traffic sections of highways on the Federal-aid primary system which connect to the Interstate system to be selected by each State highway department for priority of improvement as supplementary routes to extend and supplement the service provided by the Interstate system by furnishing needed adequate traffic collector and distributor facilities as well as extensions. Provides that such priority primary routes selected shall be improved to geometric and construction standards for the Interstate system, or to such other standards as may be developed cooperatively by the Secretary of Transportation and the State highway departments in the same manner as are standard developed for the Interstate system. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund of $300,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1974 - 1975 to carry out the purposes of this Act. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 146)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
National Resources Conservation Act - Stipulates that the laws of the several States providing for the conservation of natural resources and all valid regulations issued pursuant to such laws shall apply, without discrimination, to all lands of the United States situated within the boundaries of each State, as well as the subsoil and seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf contiguous to the boundaries of each State. Authorizes the United States district courts to have original jurisdiction of cases and controversies arising out of or in connection with any operations conducted on the Outer Continental Shelf. States that, with respect to the enforcement of applicable State laws relating to conservation of natural resources, the State courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the United States district courts. Provides for a distribution of the rentals and royalties paid to the Secretary of the Navy under any lease on the Outer Continental Shelf. States that 37 1/2 percent of such sums shall be paid to the State adjacent to the Outer Continental Shelf lands on account of which said moneys were received and that the remaining 62 1/2 percent shall be distributed to the fifty States in the proportion that the population of each State bears to the aggregrate population of all the States. Provides, under the Mineral Leasing Act, that 60 percent of all money received from sales, bonuses, royalties, and rentals of public lands under the provisions of the Act shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State or territory within the boundaries of which the leased lands or deposits were located.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Permits, under the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972, the voluntary disclosure of patient records to employers, if the patient and the person responsible for the disclosure of the record jointly determine that the disclosure will assist in the patient's rehabilitation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides for a distribution deduction under the Internal Revenue Code, in the case of specified cemetary perpetual care fund trusts. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 642(i)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Removes the limitation upon the amount of outside income which an individual may earn while receiving benefits under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance).
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that, whenever a State has received its final apportionment of sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditure on the Interstate System, the Secretary of Transportation may permit reimbursement of the Federal share of the actual cost of construction of toll highways except for the toll collection and service facilities, on the same basis and in the same manner as in the construction of free highways. Authorizes the Secretary to permit reimbursement of the Federal share of the costs of construction as applicable to a project on the Federal-aid primary system, the Federal-aid secondary systems, and the Federal-aid urban system whenever the State enters into an agreement with the Secretary whereby it undertakes performance of the following obligations: (1) to construct such highway in accordance with standards approved by the Secretary; (2) all tolls received from the operation of such highway, less the actual cost of such operation and maintenance, shall be applied by the State to the repayment of the actual costs of construction, except for an amount equal to the Federal share payable of such actual costs of a project; and (3) no tolls shall be charged for the use of such highway after the Federal share has been paid and the highway shall be maintained and operated as a free highway. Authorizes to be appropriated out of Highway Trust Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, that exclusive territorial arrangements in any trademark licensing contract or agreement for the manufacture, distribution and sale of a trademarked food product shall not be deemed unlawful, provided: (1) that such product is in free and open competition with products of the same general class manufactured, distributed, and sold by others; (2) the licensee is in free and open competition with vendors of other products of the same general class; and (3) the licensor retains control over the nature and quality of such product in accordance with the provisions of the Trademark Act. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 41)
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that no tax shall be imposed on the use of any aircraft by a person who holds a certificate as an agricultural aircraft operator if such aircraft is equipped for agricultural operation and if such person uses it primarily for such agricultural operation. Provides that, for purposes of the refund of the tax on gasoline used for farming purposes and the refund of tax on fuels not used for a taxable purpose, if the use of any liquid as a fuel on a farm for farming purposes is in an aircraft and by an aerial applicator who was the actual ultimate purchaser thereof, and the owner, tenant, or operator of the farm has waived in writing his right to any payment, credit, or refund with respect to such liquid, then such aerial applicator shall be treated as the operator of the farm with respect to such liquid.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the U.S. Constitution shall abridge the right of persons, lawfully assembled in any public building which is supported in whole or in part through the expenditure of public funds, to participate in voluntary prayer.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing in the Constitution of the United States shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order requiring or encouraging, or directing or permitting any funds to be used or withheld to require or encourage the transportation or busing of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another or to force any student or students attending any elementary or secondary school in their own neighborhood, where such school is not established purposely to perpetuate segregation, to attend any other school against his or her choice, the choice of his or her parents, parent or guardian, in order to accomplish any objective or purpose, express or implied, under the Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that no public school student shall, because of his race, creed, or color, be assigned to or required to attend a particular school.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Makes it the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the Canal Zone and Panama Canal and that the United States Government should in no way forfeit, cede, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, jurisdiction, territory, or property to any other sovereign nation or to any international organization, which rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the entire Western Hemisphere including the Canal and Panama.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Defense Facilities and Industrial Security Act - Authorizes the Federal Government to institute measures for the protection of defense production and of classified information released to industry against acts of subversion. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to designate the following facilities as defense facilities: (1) facilities engaged in important classified military projects; (2) facilities producing important weapons, or defense systems, their subassemblies and components; (3) facilities producing basic material and raw material which are essential to the support of military production or mobilization programs and in limited supply; or (4) important utility and service facilities whose disruption or damage would seriously delay essential services in times of emergency or substantially affect the national defense capability. Provides that with respect to any educational institution only that part which is engaged in a classified military project shall be designated as a defense facility. Authorizes the President to issue such regulations and to prescribe such procedures as may be necessary for determining eligibility and authorization for access of individuals and for controlling such access to positions, places, or areas of employment in defense facilities which the Secretary of Defense determines to be sensitive. Prescribes specific standards and procedures for designation, by the Secretary of Defense under Presidential regulations, of selected facilities as "defense facilities." Requires the Secretary to give an opportunity both to management and labor to be heard with respect to the designation of any such facility. Requires the Secretary of Defense to designate the positions, places, and areas of employment in any defense facility which he determines to be sensitive. Establishes explicit hearing procedures for determining eligibility for access to, or control of, sensitive positions and classified information. Authorizes the President to suspend or revoke access to a sensitive position or to classified information prior to hearing, provided that the applicant is given prompt notice of the reasons for the action taken against him and thereafter, on request, a hearing is held in accordance with the applicable procedures. Requires a separation of the investigative or prosecution function from the decision function. Authorizes exclusion of the general public from the whole or any part of proceedings and hearings conducted under provisions of the bill, except that the hearings shall be public if the person requesting a hearing so demands. Requires the President to establish programs for the special training of personnel assigned or authorized for the execution of their duties under the title. Directs the President, in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to provide for the reimbursement of all or any part of an applicant's net loss of earnings resulting directly from the suspension, denial, or revocation of access clearance pursuant to the provisions of this title. Authorizes the issuance of compulsory process for the attendance of witnesses and production of papers at any stage of any inquiry, investigation, or proceeding. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to establish area restrictions and prohibitions limiting access to defense facilities, and facilities to which classified information is released, against intrusion by unauthorized persons. Provides that with respect to educational institutions, such area restrictions and prohibitions shall be limited to those areas directly involved in classified military projects. Authorizes the President to develop a voluntary program, in cooperation with business, labor, and other interested persons, to protect facilities of importance to defense mobilization against sabotage, espionage, acts of subversion, and other destructive acts and omissions. Denies jurisdiction to courts at any time to issue any injunction that would have the effect of granting or continuing access to sensitive positions in defense facilities or to classified information in cases where such access has been denied, suspended, or revoked pursuant to this Act. Provides that no court shall have jurisdiction of any other action or proceeding on the complaint of any person adversely affected except after prior exhaustion of the administrative remedies authorized by the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Exempts any nonmanufacturing business, or any business having twenty-five or less employees, in States having laws regulating safety in such businesses, from the Federal standards created under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Title I: Airline Passenger Right to Travel Act - Provides for the implementation of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes the President to suspend air service to any foreign nation which he determines is encouraging aircraft hijacking by acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, or which he determines is used as a base of operations or training or as a sanctuary for terrorist organizations using the illegal seizure of aircraft as an instrument of policy. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to revoke, with the approval of the Secretary of State, the operating authority of foreign air carriers who fail to meet the minimum standards set by the Convention to effectively maintain the security measures relating to the transportation of persons in foreign air transportation covered by the Convention. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purpose of this Act. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air transportation security force of sufficient size to provide a law enforcement presence and capability at airports in the United States adequate to insure safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for carrying a weapon aboard an aircraft. Sets forth penalties for the willful and malicious imparting or conveying of false information concerning an attempt to carry out any prohibited act contained in the provisions of this Act.
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