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United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Establishes a schedule of increases for each annuity payable from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (other than the annuity of a surviving child) having a commencing date prior to October 20, 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Revises the definition of "dependent" with respect to a member or former member of a uniformed service by removing the present requirement that the husband or unremarried widower be dependent on the member or former member for over one-half of his support. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1072(2)(c,d)) (Repeals 10 U.S.C. 101(36)) (Amends 37 U.S.C. 401) Provides that a member of a uniformed service may not be paid an increased allowance on account of a dependent for any period (1) during which that dependent is entitled to basic pay or (2) the spouse of such member is being paid an increased allowance on account of that dependent. (Amends 37 U.S.C. 420)
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Excludes from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code any payments made under the retired serviceman's family protection plan by an individual who has waived his military retirement pay in order to receive a civil service retirement annuity. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 122)
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides a statutory presumption of service-connected death of any veteran who has been rated totally disabled by reason of service-connected disability for twenty or more years. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 410(a))
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Increases the contribution of the Federal Government to the costs of health benefits to Federal employees. Provides that the Civil Service Commission shall determine the average of the subscription charges in effect on the beginning date of each contract year with respect to self alone or self and family enrollment as applicable for the highest level of health benefits offered by the service benefit plan, the indemnity benefit plan, the two employee organization plans with the largest number of enrollments and the two comprehensive medical plans with the largest number of enrollments. Provides that, except as otherwise stated in this Act, the biweekly government contribution for health benefits for an employee enrolled in a health plan under this chapter shall be adjusted to an amount equal to the following percentage of the average subscription charge: 55 percent during 1972; 60 percent during 1973; 65 percent during 1974; 70 percent during 1975; and 75 percent during 1976, and each year thereafter. Permits an annuitant who is participating or who is eligible to participate in the health benefit program offered under the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefit Act to elect coverage under the Government Employees Health Insurance Program established by the United States Civil Service Commission. Defines "member of family" to mean the spouse of an employee or annuitant and an unmarried child under 22 years of age including an adopted child and a stepchild, foster child or recognized natural child who lives with the employee or annuitant or such an unmarried child regardless of age who is a student pursuing a full-time course of study or is incapable of self-support because of mental or physical disability.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to make retroactive payments to members of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard (or their survivors) who were held captive by Japan during World War II. Provides that such payments shall be in an amount equal to the difference between what an individual actually received while in prisoner of war status, and what he would have been entitled to if a promotion after repatriation had been in effect on the date of his captivity.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Excludes the first $5,000 of an individual's civil service retirement annuity, or other Federal retirement annuity or pension, from income tax under the Internal Revenue Code. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 124)
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides for reductions in the retired or retirement pay of retired officers of regular components of the uniformed services who are employed in civilian offices or positions in the Government of the United States. (Repeals 5 U.S.C. 5532)
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that, for purposes of computing the retired pay of enlisted members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, the years of service are computed by adding the years of active service in a medical unit or in medical work, and the years of service credited for special duty in specified assignments. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 3925(a), 6330, 8925(a))
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for individuals who retired from the Armed Forces prior to June 1, 1958, to correct losses of retired pay sustained by such individuals. Limits the amount of the credit for any taxable year to the lowest of the following: (1) an amount equal to one-sixth of the lost retired or retainer pay; (2) the amount of the tax imposed for such taxable year, reduced by the sum of the credits allowable under the Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax withheld at source on tax-free covenant bonds, relating to foreign tax credit, relating to partially tax exempt interest, relating to retirement income, and relating to investment in certain depreciable property; (3) an amount equal to the excess of the lost retired or retainer pay over the sum of the credits allowable for prior taxable years.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Permits service-connected disabled veterans, whose disability is rated thirty percent or more in degree disabling, and who are retired members of the uniformed services to receive disability compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 3104(a))
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Authorizes the President to proclaim the week including the Fourth of July as "God Bless America Week," and calls upon the people of the United States to observe such week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
States that the purpose of this Act is to aid and stabilize the gold mining industry of the United States by increasing the rate of gold production from currently operating mines, stimulating gold production through the reopening of mines, and encouraging exploration for new gold ore reserves in the United States, with the objective of establishing a strategic stockpile of gold to meet space and defense requirements. Authorizes the Office of Emergency Preparedness for a period of two years to acquire, set aside, and establish in specified quantities a strategic stockpile of newly mined domestic gold produced within the United States to provide for space and defense needs of the Nation and in the interest of national security.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Health Care Insurance Act - Provides, under the Social Security Act, for medical, dental, and hospital care through a system of voluntary health insurance financed in whole for low-income groups through issuance of certificates, and in part for all other persons through allowance of tax credits. Adds to the Social Security Act a new title entitled Federal Financing of Voluntary Health Insurance. Provides that, for the purpose of providing assistance on behalf of the individuals and their dependents whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the costs of necessary medical, dental, and hospital services, there is established a program of hospital, dental, and medical benefits for any eligible beneficiary and his dependents through the issuance of health insurance certificates, in full payment of allowable premium on a qualified health care insurance policy of his choice. Asserts that health insurance certificiates of entitlement will be redeemable by the carrier by payment from the Federal Health Insurance Redemption Fund. Includes as eligible beneficiaries under this title any husband and wife both under age 65 and living together and any unmarried person under age 65 who is not a dependent beneficiary. Defines a dependent beneficiary as any child of an eligible beneficiary receiving more than 50 percent of his support from the eligible beneficiary, which child is under 21, or if a student, under age 23. Provides that every individual who is an eligible beneficiary whose income results in no individual income tax liability during his base year, whose dependent beneficiaries have no such liability for their taxable years which end during his base year, and who is not eligible to receive military medical care, shall be eligible to receive a health insurance certificate of entitlement. Asserts that such certificates shall be applicable in full payment of allowable premiums for a qualified health care insurance policy or plan. Requires that such policy or plan shall provide protection for the eligible beneficiary and his dependent beneficiaries for a 12-month period beginning during his benefit year against the expenses of health care, including catastrophic expenses of illness. Allows tax credits for health care insurance. Asserts that every individual who is an eligible beneficiary who has not elected, where eligible, to receive benefits under the provisions for fully-paid health care insurance for the low-income group and who is not eligible to receive military medical care, shall be allowed at his election a credit against his income tax liability for his taxable year which ends during his base year; or a health insurance certificate of entitlement acceptable by a qualified carrier in payment toward a premium, under a qualified health care insurance policy. Specifies the amount of the tax credit or the value to be assigned to the health insurance certificate on the basis of allowable premiums. Provides that a health insurance certificate of entitlement means a certificate issued by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare upon application to him by an eligible beneficiary to apply toward payment of premium on a qualified health care insurance policy or plan. Specifies that a qualified health care insurance policy or plan shall be a contractual agreement specifying benefits under a program offered by a qualified carrier which has been registered by a State Agency and which provides basic institutional and medical coverage and catastrophic expense coverage. Declares that each such qualified health care insurance policy or plan shall be noncancellable and guaranteed renewable so long as the carrier continues to offer to the public one or more qualified health care insurance policies or plans, shall provide protection against the expense of health care without regard to any pre-existing conditions, and shall provide for payment under this title of usual and customary charges for services covered under the policy or plan. Stipulates what costs shall be included under basic coverage and under catastrophic expense coverage. Establishes deductibles for each of the two types of coverage. Creates a Health Insurance Advisory Board which shall consist of eleven persons including the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Directs that the remaining members, not otherwise in the employ of the Government, shall be appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointment in the competitive service. Asserts that the Secretary of HEW shall serve as Chairman. Provides that the members shall be selected from persons who are specifically qualified to serve on such Board by virtue of their education, training, or experience. Provides that the Health Insurance Advisory Board shall perform such functions as: (1) prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act; (2) establish minimum Federal standards for the use of State insurance departments in determining whether an insurance company and plan are qualified under this Act; (3) in consultation with carriers, providers of services, and consumers, plan and develop programs whose purposes are to provide for maintaining the quality of medical care; and (4) review the effectiveness of the tax credit program and file an annual report. Grants the States the power to decide which carriers are qualified. Forbids any Federal officer or employee to exercise any supervision or control over the practice of medicine or dentistry or the manner in which medical or dental services are provided, or over the selection, tenure, or compensation of any officer or employee or any institution, agency, or person providing health services; or to exercise any supervision or control over the administration or operation of any such institution, agency, or person. Creates in the Treasury a trust fund to be known as the Federal Health Insurance Redemption Fund to consist in part of an amount equal to the aggregate amount of premiums paid under this title through the redemption of health insurance certificates.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Designates February of each year as "American History Month".
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Authorizes the President to designate the second Sunday in June of each year as "National Pet Memorial Day".
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Establishes the Tule Elk National Wildlife Refuge in Inyo County, California. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to purchase lands authorized to be acquired by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Labor, under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, to recognize the difference in hazards to employees between the heavy construction industry and the light residential construction industry in promulgating health and safety standards. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 655)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Uniformed Services Special Pay Act - Provides that an officer of the Army or Navy in the Medical or Dental Corps, an officer of the Air Force who is designated as a medical or dental officer, or a medical or dental officer of the Public Health Service, who is on active duty for a period of more than thirty days is entitled, in addition to any other pay or allowances, to special pay at the following rates: (1) $100 a month for each month of active duty if he has not completed two years of active duty in a category named above; or (2) $350 a month for each month of active duty if he has completed two years of active duty. Provides that a member of a uniformed service who: (1) has completed at least twenty-one months of active duty (other than for training); (2) is designated as having a critical military skill; and (3) reenlists or voluntarily extends his enlistment in a regular component of the service concerned for a period of at least three years; may be paid a sum of money, 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 or the monthly fractions thereof, of additional obligated service, not to exceed six years, or $15,000, whichever is the lesser amount. States that a person who enlists in an armed force for a period of at least three years or who extends his initial period of active duty in that armed force to a total of at least three years, may under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, be paid an amount prescribed by the Secretary concerned but not more than $3,000. Provides for special pay for officers of the armed forces in health professions who execute active duty agreements. States that upon acceptance of such agreement by the Secretary concerned such officer is entitled to an amount not to exceed $12,000 for each year of the active duty agreement. Provides that such officer must be qualified in a critical health profession and qualified, as determined by a board composed of officers in his profession, to enter into such an agreement. Requires the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit a written report each year to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives regarding the operation of this program. Provides that an officer of an armed force who is designated by the Secretary concerned as an officer possessing skills in a critical shortage specialty and whose retention on, or voluntary recall to, active duty would be of benefit to the United States, and who executes an agreement to serve on continuous active duty in that specialty for a period of not less than one year, but not more than six years, in addition to any other period of active duty for which he is obligated, may be paid, in addition to all other compensation, a sum of money not to exceed $4,000 for each year of such agreement. Provides special pay for participation in the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of an armed force. States that the amount of special pay for those persons possessing critical military skills as determined by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard shall be: (1) up to $2,200 for a six-year enlistment, reenlistment or extension of the enlistment period; or (2) for a lesser enlistment, reenlistment or extension of enlistment period, ten percent of the total for one year, twenty-two percent of the total for two years, thirty-seven percent of the total for three years, fifty-four percent of the total for four years, or seventy-five percent of the total for five years. States that the amount of such pay for persons not possessing such critical skills shall be: (1) up to $1,100 for a six-year enlistment, reenlistment or extension of enlistment period; or (2) an amount as determined by the above formula for a lesser enlistment, reenlistment or extension of enlistment period.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that a member of the armed force may be separated under other than honorable conditions as a result of any of the following: (1) absence without authority for one year; (2) adjudication as a juvenile offender or final conviction by a civilian court for an offense punishable by death or imprisonment for more than one year; (3) during a 3 year period, three convictions by separate courts-martial or civilian courts of offenses punishable by three months imprisonment; (4) an approved recommendation of a board of officers upon a finding of misconduct or moral or professional dereliction or that a member's retention would not be consistent with the interests of national security; (5) resignation or request for discharge in place of trial by court-martial; and (6) in time of war, by Presidential order. Grants th board of officers and the member equal opportunity to obtain witnesses and other evidence. Grants the board power to issue process to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production or evidence. Requires that a board of officers hold a hearing at which the member can appear and present evidence in his own behalf, be represented by qualified counsel; confront witnesses and examine evidence. Allows the member to appeal any adverse recommendations of a board of officers to a review board. Restricts the review board to the record of the proceedings of the board of officers and to written arguments of counsel. Permits a review board to recommend only a mitigation of a Board recommendation. Asserts that a member who has been retained as a result of the proceedings may not be required to appear before another board of officers for conduct, which was the subject of previous proceedings, except in the cases of fraud or collusion. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to at any time convene a board of officers to review the record of any commissioned or warrant officer of the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps to determine whether he shall be required, because his performance of duty has fallen below standards prescribed by the Secretary, to show cause for his retention on active duty; or to determine whether he should be removed from active duty because of misconduct, moral or professional dereliction, or because his retention is not clearly consistent with the interests of national security. Provides that Boards of Inquiry, each composed of three or more officers, shall be convened, at such places as the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe, to receive evidence and make findings and recommendations whether an officer who is required to show cause for retention due to substandard performance should be retained on active duty. Requires a fair and impartial hearing before a board of inquiry for such officers. Directs the board of inquiry upon determination that the officer has failed to establish that he should be retained, to send the record of its proceedings to a board of review. Provides that Boards of Review, each composed of three or more officers shall be convened by the Secretary of the military department concerned, at such times as he may prescribe, to review the records of cases of regular commissioned or warrant officers recommended for removal by a board of inquiry. Asserts that if after reviewing the record of the case, a board of review determines that the officer: (1) has failed to establish that he should be retained, it shall sent its recommendation to the Secretary for his action; or (2) has established that he should be retained on active duty, his case is closed, except that after one year from the date of that determination, he may be again required to show cause for retention. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to remove an officer from active duty in the regular component of armed force if his removal is recommended by a board of review under this chapter. Makes the Secretary's action in such a case final and conclusive. Sets forth the rights of officers in the proceedings outlined above, which rights include that of notice, representation by counsel, etc. Permits voluntary retirement or voluntary discharge where removal of an officer is sought. Sets forth criteria for eligibility of officers to serve on Boards.