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United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Requires the administration of an oath to each Member of the House prior to the consideration of any resolution of impeachment.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Increases the rates of disability compensation for disabled veterans. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to adjust administratively, consistent with the increases authorized by this Act, the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for their suvivors.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Authorizes disability payments to specified veteran amputees whose loss of a second limb may not have been service-connected. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 360 (4))
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Home Health Services Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for the establishment and initial operation of public and nonprofit private agencies which will provide home health services in areas in which such services are not otherwise available. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants: (1) to meet the initial and expanding costs of such agencies; and (2) for programs for the training of professional and paraprofessional personnel to provide home health services. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Authorizes additional educational assistance allowance payments to eligible veterans to partially defray the cost of tuition in an amount representing such cost which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year, but not exceeding $600. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682)
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Soviet Energy Investment Prohibition Act - Provides that no department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government may directly or indirectly provide assistance to finance or otherwise promote the export of any commodity, product, or service from the United States if the intended use of such commodity, product, or service involves energy research and development or energy exploration in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Foreign Dairy Quality Act - Provides that no dairy product shall be imported into the United States unless it has been inspected and found to be wholesome and unless the foreign farms and plants in which such products were produced, manufactured, or processed comply with all the inspection, grading, and other standards prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Requires that such foreign standards shall be comparable to those standards prescribed by the Secretary for the same kind of dairy products in the United States. States that the labeling of imported dairy products shall comply with the requirements of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act and shall be otherwise marked as the Secretary may require. Directs the Secretary to cause to be inspected all dairy products imported into the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act, and rules and regulations for the destruction of dairy products refused admission into the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the administration and supervision of the provisions of this Act. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Energy Relief and Reorganization Act - Title I: Urban Mass Transportation Act and Internal Revenue Code Amendments - Provides, under the Urban Mass Transportation Act, that the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to make grants in the amount of the fuel price increase adjustment to assist States and local public bodies and agencies in the payment of operating expenses incurred in connection with the provision of urban mass transportation bus service in urban areas in fuel price increase years. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for such purposes. Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that in the case of any taxpayer who operates an urban mass transportation bus service during a calendar year beginning after December 31, 1972, and ending with or within his taxable year, there shall be allowed as a credit an amount equal to the fuel price increase adjustment for such calendar year which is attributable to such services. Title II: Ban on Ornamental Gas Lighting and Pilot Lights - Provides, under the National Gas Act, that natural gas companies and distribution companies shall be prohibited from selling natural gas to any person whom such company knows will use such gas for exterior lighting purposes on or about a residence. Title III: Establishing a Standing House Committee on Energy - Provides for the creation of a standing Committee on Energy in the House of Representatives to conduct studies of the development, application, use, and control of all forms of energy and power in order to establish a coordinated program for the development, application, use, and control, for and in the United States, of all forms of energy and power. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Rules of the House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Medicare Long-Term Care Act - Establishes, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare), a voluntary program to provide long-term care benefits for aged and disabled individuals who elect to enroll under such program, financed from premium payments by enrollees together with contributions from funds appropriated by the Federal Government and contributions by the States. Lists criteria for eligibility for long-term care service benefits. Provides that the benefits provided to an individual by this Act shall consist of (1) home health services, (2) homemaker services, (3) nutrition services, (4) long-term institutional care services, (5) day care and foster home services, and (6) community mental health center outpatient services. Enumerates the requirements for a State long-term care agency. Provides for the payment of premiums for benefits received under this Act. Establishes on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund. Creates a body to be known as the Board of Trustees, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, all ex officio. States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees and that the Commissioner of Social Security shall serve as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Provides that the Board of Trustees shall meet not less frequently than once each calendar year. Enumerates the duties of the Board of Trustees. Declares that a community long-term care center shall: (1) provide the items and services listed in this Act to each individual (i) who is eligible for benefits under this part, (ii) who resides in the area served by such center and (iii) who is certified as requiring such services; (2) evaluate and certify the long-term care needs of an individual for whom such care may be required in order to maintain such individual in an independent living arrangement which is reasonable given such individual's state of health and other circumstances (but not including such individual's economic circumstances); (3) maintain a continuous relationship with (and periodically evaluate not less than annually) each individual who is receiving any of the items and services listed in this Act; (4) provide full opportunity for such individual and his family to participate in the determinations and functions under this Act; (5) provide an organized system for making its existence and location known to all individuals in its service area who are eligible for benefits under this part, and for making known to such individuals the method or methods by which they may most efficiently obtain and use the services which it makes available; and (6) performs such other functions as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may by regulation prescribe in order to have such center most effectively carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides a formula for payments to States for the reimbursement of community long-term care centers. Directs the Secretary, after consultation with organizations representing the chief executives of the various States, and other interested parties, to develop and make available to community long-term care centers one or more methods of obtaining payment for the benefits covered under this Act on a prospective basis. States that once a community long-term care center elects a particular prospective method, it may not alter its election without the prior approval of the Secretary. Provides that whenever the Secretary finds that the number of community long-term care centers electing a particular prospective payment method promulgated in accordance with this Act is not sufficient to provide an adequate basis for either the operation or evaluation of that method, the Secretary shall withdraw that method and allow the community long-term care centers which have elected such method to select another method withn 30 days of notice of such withdrawal. Permits a Governor of a State to certify to the Secretary a method of prospective payment other than those promulgated under this Act. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this Act shall be made by the Secretary in accordance with regulations prescribed by him. Provides for increases in supplemental security income benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1974
Federal Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Act - Title I: General Provisions - States that it is the purpose of the Act to establish an independent agency to receive, hold, and disburse moneys contributed to candidates for Federal elective office. Title II: Creation and Organization - Establishes as an agency of the United States an Office of Federal Campaign Contributions and Expenditures. States that the Office shall be under the control of the Federal Elections Commission. Defines the composition of the Federal Elections Commission. States how each member shall be chosen. Title III: Powers and Responsibilities - Sets forth the powers and responsibilities of the Office with regard to campaign funds. Title IV: Prohibitions and Penalties - Requires written authorization from the Office of Federal Campaign Contributions before a candidate may make any expenditure. Title V: Miscellaneous - Defines the duties, powers, and functions of the Comptroller General with regard to Federal elections.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Petroleum Product Price Regulation Act - Establishes an independent regulatory commission to be known as the Federal Petroleum Commission, consisting of 3 Commissioners appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one of whom shall be designated by the President as Chairman. Provides that the Chairman, subject to the approval of the Commission, shall appoint an Executive Director and a General Counsel and may employ such other officers and employees as are necessary in the execution of the Commission's functions. Declares that the Commission shall establish maximum prices for each sale in the United States of a refined petroleum product by a major oil company. States that prices for sales of refined petroleum products by a major oil company shall be established by the Commission so that the aggregate revenues from such sales in each accounting period shall be equal to the sum of allowable operating costs for such period and a fair return on investment in domestic refining and distribution assets of such company during such period. Directs that domestic refining and distribution assets of a major oil company shall be determined by the Commission and shall be based on the value of assets of the company in the United States to the extent such assets are used or usable for purposes of refining, distributing, or selling refined petroleum products which are sold in the United States. Declares that no major oil company may sell any refined petroleum product at a price which exceeds the maximum price for such product established under this Act. Provides a civil penalty of not more than $20,000 and criminal penalties of not more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not more than 1 year or both, for each violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Designates a Federal office building to be located in Carbondale, Illinois, the "Kenneth Gray Federal Building".
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1974
Missing Persons and Runaway Youth Act - Declares the finding of the Congress that conventional law enforcement agencies are totally unable to cope with the problem of the increased number of persons who leave their homes. Title I: Establishes in the Office of the Attorney General a Bureau of Missing Persons. Requires such Bureau to locate all such missing persons reported to it and to return such persons to the law enforcement agency from which the initial report was received. Title II: Requires that the Director of the Bureau be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Provides for the personnel and administration of the Bureau. Title III: Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to gather information, develop a comprehensive program, and report to Congress no later than December 31, 1974, on the problems and needs of transient youth in the United States and on the causes of and possible methods of dealing with the runaway youth phenomenon. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than December 31, 1974, on the desirability of current procedures and of new programs to deal with the problems and needs of transient youth in the United States. Authorizes such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Authorizes additional educational assistance allowance payments to eligible veterans to partially defray the cost of tuition in an amount representing such cost which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year, but not exceeding $600. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682)
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States invites the International Olympic Committee to select Lake Placid, New York, as the site of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1974
Prohibits the exportation of fertilizer from the United States until the Secretary of Agriculture determines that an adequate domestic supply of fertilizer exists.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1974
Establishes the National Institute of Aging in the Public Health Service to conduct and support research on the aging process, on preventive measures with respect to health problems of the aged, and on treatment and cures for such problems. Establishes the Natonal Advisory Council on Aging to advise on programs relating to the aged and monitor the Institute. Provides traineeships and fellowships for the study of health problems of the aged.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Authorizes the diversion and withdrawal of additional water from Lake Michigan into the Illinois Waterway. Requires the Chief of Enginers, Department of the Army, to at all times have direct control and supervision of the amounts of water directly diverted from Lake Michigan under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Increases, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance), the amount of outside earnings which (subject to further increases under the automatic adjustment provisions) is permitted each year without any deductions from benefits. Revises the method for determining such amount.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Authorizes additional educational assistance allowance payments to eligible veterans to partially defray the cost of tuition in an amount representing such cost which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year, but not exceeding $600. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682)
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Authorizes additional educational assistance allowance payments to eligible veterans to partially defray the cost of tuition in an amount representing such cost which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year, but not exceeding $600. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682)
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Authorizes additional educational assistance allowance payments to eligible veterans to partially defray the cost of tuition in an amount representing such cost which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year, but not exceeding $600. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682)
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Missing Persons and Runaway Youth Act - Declares the finding of the Congress that conventional law enforcement agencies are totally unable to cope with the problem of the increased number of persons who leave their homes. Title I: Establishes in the Office of the Attorney General a Bureau of Missing Persons. Requires such Bureau to locate all such missing persons reported to it and to return such persons to the law enforcement agency from which the initial report was received. Title II: Requires that the Director of the Bureau be appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Provides for the personnel and administration of the Bureau. Title III: Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to gather information, develop a comprehensive program, and report to Congress no later than December 31, 1974, on the problems and needs of transient youth in the United States and on the causes of and possible methods of dealing with the runaway youth phenomenon. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress not later than December 31, 1974, on the desirability of current procedures and of new programs to deal with the problems and needs of transient youth in the United States. Authorizes such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Rape Prevention and Control Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, within the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center for the Control and Prevention of Rape. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to conduct a continuing study and investigation of specified areas, including: (1) the effectiveness of existing Federal, State and local laws dealing with rape; (2) the relationship, if any, between traditional legal and social attitutdes toward sexual roles, the act of rape, and the formulation of laws dealing with rape; (3) the treatment of the victims of rape by law enforcement agencies, hospitals, or other medical institutions, prosecutors, and the courts; (4) the causes of rape; and (5) sexual assaults in correctional institutions. Provides that the Center shall compile and publish annually a summary of its findings. Directs the Center to develop an information clearinghouse with regard to enumerated materials regarding rape and rehabilitation of offenders. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the Secretary, through the National Center for the Control and Prevention of Rape, shall make grants to community mental health centers, nonprofit private organizations, and public agencies for the purpose of conducting research and demonstration projects concerning the control and prevention of rape. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to him on matters relating to rape prevention and control.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Provides, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance), that increases in monthly insurance benefits (whether occurring by reason of increases in the cost of living or enacted by law) shall not be considered as annual income for purposes of the following benefit programs: dependency and indemnity compensation to parents of a deceased veteran, pension for non-service-connected disability or death or for service, and the Veterans' Pension Act of 1959.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that accurate and complete data on imports of oil and oil products into the United States, oil and oil products inventories in the United States or under the control of companies owned by United States citizens, and distribution of oil and oil products within and from out of the United States are essential to the national security of the United States, the safety of its citizens, and the proper conduct of its domestic and international commerce. Authorizes the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to conduct a full and complete investigation and study of the importing, inventorying, and disposition of crude oil, residual fuel oil, and refined petroleum products.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President of the United States direct the Secretary of the State to bring to the immediate attention of the Soviet Government the concern of U.S. citizens over the imprisonment of a Lithuanian seaman who unsuccessfully sought asylum aboard a United States Coast Guard ship and to urge his release from prison and return to his family.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Authorizes the President of the United States to declare the fourth Saturday of each September "National Hunting and Fishing Day".
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States Government, while engaged in a lessening of tensions with the People's Republic of China, do nothing to compromise continued close relations with the Republic of China.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Designates specified lands in Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Carolina within the National Wildlife Refuge System as wilderness areas. Designates specified lands in California and Montana within the National Forest System as wilderness areas. Provides that all primitive area classifications of areas herein designated as wilderness are abolished. Provides that the wilderness areas designated by this Act shall be goverened by the appropriate provisions of the Wilderness Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the House that, during the period pending consideration and action by the Senate upon the bill H.R. 10710, as introduced in the first session of the Congress, cited as the "Trade Reform Act of 1973" and as amended and passed by the House, no loan, guarantee, insurance, or credit shall be extended by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to any nonmarket economy country (other than any such country whose products are eligible for column 1 tariff treatment on the date of the enactment of this resolution), and no such country shall participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Federal Paperwork Burden Relief Act - Directs the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the reporting requirements of Federal regulatory programs to determine the extent to which these requirements may be revised to lessen the burden upon small and independent business establishments. Requires the Comptroller General to report the results of such study to the Congress one year from the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the House that, during the period pending consideration and action by the Senate upon the bill H.R. 10710, as introduced in the first session of the Congress, cited as the "Trade Reform Act of 1973" and as amended and passed by the House, no loan, guarantee, insurance, or credit shall be extended by the Export-Import Bank of the United States to any nonmarket economy country (other than any such country whose products are eligible for column 1 tariff treatment on the date of the enactment of this resolution), and no such country shall participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Veterans' Education and Rehabilitation Amendments Act - Increases the rates of educational assistance payable to veterans. Establishes the Vietnam Era Veterans Communication Center within the Veterans' Administration for the purpose of improving the effectiveness of Veterans' Administration programs for making veterans aware of benefits and services available to them under the veterans laws.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Increases the rates of veterans educational assistance allowances. States that in the event that the period of entitlement under this Act of an eligible veteran who is enrolled in a program of education ends prior to such veteran's attainment or a predetermined and identified educational, professional, or vocational objective, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may extend such veteran's period of eligibility to the completion of such program of education or for nine months, whichever is the lesser period. Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to reimburse any eligible veteran enrolled in a fulltime or part-time program of education for costs above $400 incurred by such veteran for tuition, exclusive expenses incurred for fees, books, supplies, or other expenses. Limits such payments to $600 for an ordinary school year. Establishes a Vietnam Era Veterans Communication Center. States that it shall be the duty of the Communications Center to make an initial and periodic evaluation of the effectiveness of the veterans outreach services program. Requires the results of such evaluations to be reported to the President and to the Congress. Directs the Communications Center to advise and assist in connection with all Federal programs pertaining to veterans of the Vietnam era. Establishes the Vietnam Era Veterans Advisory Committee to advise and consult with the Communication Center regarding any and all matters pertaining to the duties and responsibilities of the Communications Center under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Designates November 11 of each year as Veterans Day and makes such a day a legal public holiday.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Requires producers of petroleum, natural gas, and refined petroleum products to provide to the Federal Energy Administration all information requested regarding the location and volume of crude oil and natural gas reserves, the location and volume of refined petroleum products, and the existing and potential rates of production of refineries and oil and gas wells. Authorizes the Comptroller General to audit and verify the accuracy of all such information. Provides a fine of not less than $2500 and not more than $5000 for each violation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act - States that, within two years after the date of enactment of this Act, each county shall elect whether it wishes to proceed under the terms of this Act to receive payments from the Federal Government equal to the real property taxes otherwise due from public lands within such county, or to continue to receive whatever payments such county is entitled to receive under any existing applicable Federal law providing for Federal payments for such county similar to those available under this Act or for payment to such county of part of the revenue derived from such public land. Establishes procedures for the appraisal of public lands. Provides that when any county within a State has elected to proceed under the terms of this Act, there shall be established for that State a State board of appraisal appeal. Provides that each board shall consider and decide any appeal from a county within the State relating to the appraisal of public land within such county. States that decisions of the board shall not be subject to judicial review unless arbitrary or capricious. States that, begining in the first complete fiscal year after the acceptance of such appraisal by both the county involved and the Administrator, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay annually to the State in which such county is located an amount equivalent to the State, county, and local real property taxes on public lands within such county, based on the tax rate applicable to similar private lands at the value arrived at under the appraisal conducted under this Act. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall interfere with the right of State or local governments to levy possessory interests taxes on private owners of improvements made by private users on public lands. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to administer this Act and to make the payments authorized by it.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1973
National Energy Emergency, Policy, and Conservation Act - Title I: Statement of Findings and Purposes - Sets forth the determination of Congress and the purposes of the Act. Title II: Emergency Fuel Shortage Contingency Programs - Authorizes the President to enter into agreements with foreign States and others, these agreements to be operative unless disapproved by the Senate within fifteen days. Declares that, within fifteen days after enactment of the Act, the President shall promulgate and submit to Congress for approval a plan for a nationwide emergency energy rationing and conservation program. Includes the measures to be used in the rationing and conservation program. Provides that, within two weeks of the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall promulgate requirements for emergency energy conservation and contingency programs to be developed by each State and major metropolitan government to implement the Federal program, these programs to be developed within eight weeks of enactment and submitted for approval to the President. Directs the President to strive to insure that all regions and all States of the Nation share available fuels in an equitable manner. Provides that the President shall require that any major fossil fuel burning installations, which now burn petroleum or natural gas and which have the capability to burn coal or other fuels, convert to burning coal or other fuels; and that fossil fuel fired electrical powerplants now in the planning process be designed and constructed so as to have the capability of rapid conversion to burn coal. Requires the President to develop and implement federally sponsored incentives for the use of public transportation. Describes requirements for environmental impact statements. Authorizes the President to initiate measures to supplement domestic energy supplies for the duration of the emergency. Directs the President to take into consideration and to minimize any adverse impact on employment. Requires the President, within ninety days of enactment, to promulgate a plan for the development of the hydroelectric power resources of the Nation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce to prepare a review of export policies for petroleum and other energy sources. Title III: Congressional Approval and Authorization - Provides that, within two weeks after enactment of this Act, the President shall submit for approval to Congress within fifteen legislative days his proposals for the emergency contingency programs. Title IV: Clean Air Act Amendments - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily suspend any emission limitation related to control of pollutants unless the Administrator determines that this suspension will present an imminent and substantial endangerment to the health of persons. Requires the Administrator to review each State's applicable implementation plan and no later than May 1, 1974, determine for each State whether its plan must be revised in order to achieve the national primary or secondary standard within the deadlines established in the Clean Air Act. Requires the Administrator to report to Congress by May 1, 1974, on the extent to which any applicable State or local air pollution requirement or deadline may adversely affect the implementation of the National Energy Emergency, Policy, and Conservation Act or of the Clean Air Act. Title V: Assistance to Persons Adversely Affected by this Act - Authorizes the President to give assistance to persons unemployed as a result of this Act through grants to States, food stamps, and loans through the Small Business Administration. Directs the Secretary of Labor to provide unemployment assistance services. Title VI: Excess Profits Tax - Imposes, for each taxable year ending or beginning during the energy emergency period, a tax on the income of every corporation producing or distributing energy resources, equal to 37 percent of the excess energy profits taxable income of such corporation for the taxable year. Provides for adjustments to the taxable income of a corporation attributable to producing or distributing energy resources in an energy emergency period, an excess energy profits deduction, the determination of invested energy capital, and adjustments to income for years in the base period. Title VII: Urban Mass Transportation Act and Internal Revenue Code Amendments - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants in the amount of the fuel price increase adjustment to assist States and other agencies in the payment of operating expenses incurred in connection with the provision of urban mass transportation bus service in urban areas in fuel price increase years. Allows as a tax credit an amount equal to the fuel price increase adjustment in the case of any taxpayer operating an urban mass transportation bus service. Title VIII: Ban on Ornamental Gas Lighting and Pilot Lights - States that the Federal Power Commission shall prescribe regulations prohibiting any natural gas company or distributing company from selling natural gas to any person who will use this gas for exterior lighting purposes. Prohibits, after ninety days from the enactment of this Act, the manufacture for sale in interstate commerce of pilot lights. Title IX: Establishing a Standing House Committee on Energy - Establishes in the House of Representatives a Committee on Energy, consisting of twenty-five Members. Title X: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the President to consult with Canada concerning trade in natural gas, petroleum, and petroleum products between Canada and the United States. Directs the President to report to Congress on the progress of these consultations. Allows the President to designate disaster areas for national energy emergencies under the Disaster Relief Act of 1970. Directs the President to require that the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration promulgate a nationwide contingency plan for insuring the availability of Federal disaster assistance. Prohibits the use of funds for purchase, hire, or operation and maintenance of passenger motor vehicles with exceptions including those for use by the President, the Chief Justice, Cabinet members, and elected leaders of the Congress. Directs the President to report to Congress every sixty days on the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1973
Provides for the designation of February 20 of each year as "Postal Employees Day".
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1973
Provides for the designation of the United States Courthouse and Federal Office Building at 110 Michigan Street, N.W., Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the "Gerald R. Ford Federal Office Building".
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1973
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Commerce to prohibit the exportation of petrochemicals from the United States until such time as all price controls imposed under the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 with respect to petrochemicals are removed.
United States · United States Congress · 30 November 1973
Emergency National Maximum Highway Speed Limit Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to refuse approval of Federal funding of specified projects in any State which has (1) a maximum speed limit on any public highway within its jurisdiction in excess of 55-miles-per-hour, and (2) a speed limit other than 55-miles-per-hour on any portion of any public highway within its jurisdiction which had a speed limit of 55 miles, or more, per hour on November 1, 1973, and (3) maximum speed limits which are not uniformly applicable to all types of motor vehicles using a highway, except that a different speed limit may be established for any vehicle operating under a special permit because of any weight or dimension of such vehicle, including any load thereon.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1973
Authorizes payment to each veteran of an additional educational assistance allowance in an amount representing the cost of his tuition which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year, but in no event shall such payment exceed $600 for an ordinary school year.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1973
Requires an investigation to be conducted by the Attorney General of any person designated as next in line to act as President in the case of a vacancy in both the office of President and Vice President, whenever such vacancy exists, to determine the fitness of such officer to act as President.
United States · United States Congress · 28 November 1973
Freedom of Access for the Elderly and Handicapped Act - Allows, under the Internal Revenue Code, a deduction for expenditures to remove architectural and transportation barriers to the handicapped and elderly. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 189)
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1973
Directs the Administrator of General Services to insure that design criteria for new Federally funded buildings provide for the best practicable use and conservation of energy. Provides that the Administrator shall consider: (1) features that make use of sunlight; (2) insulation and elimination of excessive fenestration; (3) energy expended in the manufacture and transportation of building materials; and (4) new techniques for energy supply, generation, and transmission. Provides that the Administrator of General Services shall examine existing buildings to determine what improvements can be made to insure the conservation of energy. Authorizes appropriations of $1,500,000 for carrying out the purpose of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1973
Authorizes additional educational payments to eligible veterans in an amount representing the cost of tuition which exceeds $419 for an ordinary school year. States that in no case shall such payment exceed $600.
United States · United States Congress · 15 November 1973
Commends the President of the United States for his actions in the Middle East, particularly his efforts through the United Nations to create the atmosphere in which the negotiations could take place and his dialogue with the Soviet Union in an effort to reduce tensions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 November 1973
Dietary Supplement Amendment - Defines, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the term dietary supplement, as used therein, as meaning any product in tablet, capsule, water, or any other similar uniform unit or in powder, granular, flake or liquid form which contains vitamins or minerals, or both, and which is intended for use by man to increase total dietary intake of such vitamins, minerals or other ingredients. Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may not prohibit the making of any truthful statement as to the Nutritional Value or dietary properties or accurate listing of any ingredient in any product. (Amends 21 U.S.C. 321 (g)(1))