United States · United States Congress · 25 January 1979
Prohibits the use of any funds of the United States to implement the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 unless expressly authorized by Congress. Prohibits the transfer to Panama of any real property interest of the United States in the Canal Zone unless expressly authorized by Congress. Requires an Act of Congress before the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government shall cease to exist.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe rules and regulations requiring air carriers, railroads, and motor carriers carrying passengers for hire in interstate commerce to set aside areas for the exclusive use of nonsmokers.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Hobbs Act Amendment of 1979 - Establishes maximum criminal penalties of 25 years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine for anyone who obstructs, affects, or interferes with commerce by willfully injuring, damaging, burning, or destroying to the value of $2,000 or more any real or personal property of any person at or near any place where work or business of an employer or owner is carried on, or where such employer or owner transports, stores, or maintains property for business or other purposes. Stipulates that such violation, as well as the offense of interfering with commerce by extortion, may be committed in the course of a legitimate labor dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Requires recipients of grants made for other than the personal use of such recipient to make available for public inspection any records such recipient is required to keep as a condition of receiving such grant. Exempts from the provisions of this Act specified information, including classified information, trade secrets, and personnel and medical files.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to authorize payment for specified services performed by chiropractors, including x-rays and for physical examinations, and for related routine laboratory tests.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Prohibits rules promulgated by any Federal agency (except an emergency rule which must become immediately effective to prevent serious injury or the substantial frustration of legislative policies or intent) from becoming effective until such proposed rules have been submitted to Congress and a 60-day period has lapsed thereafter. Prevents such rules from becoming effective if disapproved by either House of Congress within such 60-day period. Permits disapproval of emergency rules. Prohibits the submission to Congress of any rule identical to one which has been disapproved unless submitted pursuant to new legislative authority which has been enacted affecting the agency's powers with respect to the subject matter of such rule. Renders agency rules dealing with emergency or routine matters or which will have an insignificant impact effective without publication of advance notice of proposed rulemaking proceedings in the Federal Register as is currently required. Renders any rule granting an exemption to another rule or which is exempt from public notice and comment requirements effective immediately.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, to provide that eligible drugs, requiring a physician's prescription or certification, shall be included among the items and services covered under the hospital insurance program for the aged at a specified amount of payment. States that the reasonable allowance for eligible drugs furnished an individual pursuant to any one prescription and purchased by such individual at any one time shall be reduced by an amount equal to the applicable prescription copayment obligation which shall be $1. Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a Medicare Formulary Committee to compile and publish a Formulary listing the drugs deemed qualified for benefits under this Act, together with maximum allowable costs and additional information concerning such drugs. Makes provision for selecting drugs for the Formulary.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Increases from 30 to 60 days the time period between the publication of a Federal rule and the effective date of such rule. Increases from 15 to 30 days the time period between the publication of a notice of a hearing and the beginning of such hearing.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Truth in Government Accounting Act of 1979 - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare and make public annual consolidated financial statements for all expenditures of the United States utilizing the accrual method of accounting.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse State and local law enforcement agencies for any verified expenditures made at the request of the United States Secret Service for the protection of any person whom the Secret Service is authorized to protect.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Requires any candidate for a Federal elective office to resign any elective public office (Federal or State) held, the term of which ends after the beginning of the term of the Federal office which such candidate seeks. Declares such resignation to be (1) effective as of the beginning of the term of office which the candidate seeks and (2) irrevocable.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide payment for enterostomal therapy services under the supplementary medical insurance program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Stipulates that no veteran shall be denied medical care under CHAMPUS (Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services) for any service-connected disability solely because care for such disability is available at Veterans' Administration medical facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to entitle individuals who retired on disability before October 1, 1976, to the exclusion from gross income for amounts received under accident and health plans without regard to the applicable income restrictions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior from issuing general permits which authorize the taking of marine mammals in connection with commercial fishing operations. Redefines the term "Secretary" under such Act to mean the Secretary of the Interior (presently such term includes the Secretary of the department in which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is operating with respect to responsibility regarding the Cetacea order and the Pinnipedia order (other than walruses)).
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Alcohol Fuel Encouragement Act of 1979 - Requires gasoline stations, within three years of the passage of this Act, to sell a mixture of gasoline and alcohol in the same manner as they sell gasoline. Imposes a civil penalty for violations of such requirement. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow rapid amortization of facilities producing alcohol for use as a fuel in motor vehicles. Amends the Clean Air Act with respect to the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the use of alcohol as a fuel additive.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 to remove the existing 70-year upper age limit to which the prohibitions of such Act apply, thereby extending the protection of such Act to all individuals who are at least 40 years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Creates a select committee to conduct a study of records, memorandums, papers, documents, books, and other information of any standing or select committee or officer of the House of Representatives respecting expenses incurred by such committee. Directs the select committee to conduct a study and audit of allowances and expenses made available to Members of the House.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish a standing Committee on Internal Security to investigate and report on Communist and other subversive activities affecting the internal security of the United States, including activities intended to overthrow or alter the form of government in the United States by unlawful means or which incite or employ violence or any unlawful means to obstruct the lawful authority of the government.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
Declares the sense of the Congress that the President and the Secretary of State should take all necessary steps to bring the Baltic States question before the United Nations and to urge the United Nations to request the Soviet Union to withdraw all non-native troops, agents, colonists, and controls from the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and to return all Baltic exiles from Siberia and from prisons and labor camps in the Soviet Union. Requires the Secretary of State to do his utmost to bring the matter of the Baltic States to the attention of all nations by means of special radio programs and publications. Declares that the United States should not agree to the recognition of the Soviet Union's annexation of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Directs the President to take steps to provide that all maps of Europe show the Republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia as independent states. Calls for a return of self-determination to the peoples of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia through free elections conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1979
States that each Federal agency should periodically review and revise all its lists of persons to whom printed materials are mailed by such agency in order to insure that such lists contain only the names of persons who are still interested in receiving such materials.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Authorizes the recomputation at age 60 of the retired or retainer pay for members or former members of the uniformed services whose retired or retainer pay was computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972, in order to reflect any retired or retainer pay increases for other members which was based on changes in the Consumer Price Index since that date.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Requires that whoever uses or carries a firearm during the commission of a felony over which a Federal court has original and exclusive jurisdiction, or whoever uses or carries a firearm transported in, or affecting, interstate or foreign commerce during the commission of any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term over one year and is convicted of such crime in a State court, shall in addition to the punishment provided for the commission of such crime, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than five nor more than ten years. Requires in the case of a second or subsequent conviction the imposition of a term of imprisonment of not less than ten years, or to life imprisonment. Stipulates that the execution or imposition of any term of imprisonment under this Act: (1) may not be suspended; (2) may not run concurrently; and (3) may not include probation.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends the National Labor Relations Act and the Railway Labor Act to eliminate all provisions authorizing union security agreements (requiring union membership as a condition of employment).
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to grant eligibility to receive food stamps to individuals who participate in psychiatric residential treatment programs conducted by a private nonprofit organization or institution which is approved, licensed, or certified by the State for meals prepared and served under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to require that resident aliens reside continuously in the United States for five years to qualify for supplemental security income benefits. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent an immigrant from entering the United States unless a United States citizen (immigration sponsor) executes a document, signed in the presence of an immigration officer, agreeing to support the immigrant for five years from the date of admission at 125 percent of the current poverty level rates. Excuses the immigration sponsor from performance of the agreement if such sponsor dies or is adjudicated a bankrupt.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to direct the President to equalize the domestic ceiling price at which residual fuel oil is sold or exchanged by making available in all parts of the United States equal proportions of residual fuel oil refined from higher-priced and lower-priced crude oil.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 to exclude from eligibility for food stamps any household whose principal wage earner is on strike for the duration of such strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Permits the offering of prayers or Biblical scriptures, as long as participation is voluntary, in any governmental or public school, institution, or place. Permits references to God or a Supreme Being in public documents, proceedings, schools, or upon U.S. currency.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1979
Constitutional Amendment - Declares vacant the office of any Senator or Representative who fails to be recorded in person on 70 percent of the roll call votes taken during any regular session of Congress unless such roll call votes were missed due to hospitalization required by illness or accident.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Foreign Intelligence Information Protection Act of 1979 - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 by adding a new Title V: Protection of Foreign Intelligence Information. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence to designate information as sensitive intelligence information or to remove such designation. Establishes a maximum criminal penalty of life imprisonment and/or a $20,000 fine for the offense of espionage, defined as an unauthorized and knowing act to (1) communicate classified information to a foreign power, or (2) obtain and collect such information on behalf of a foreign power. Establishes a maximum criminal penalty of ten years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine for anyone who, having had lawful access to classified information, knowingly acts to disclose such information without authority. Establishes as a separate offense the knowing disclosure of sensitive intelligence information, with a penalty up to 20 years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine. Establishes a maximum criminal penalty of five years imprisonment and/or a $5,000 fine for anyone who without authority discloses information which identifies or could identify any individual or entity as being or having been associated with a United States agency engaged in foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities, where such disclosure could prejudice the physical safety of the individual or entity identified. Allows prosecution for the offenses of espionage or unauthorized disclosure of sensitive intelligence information only if the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence certify in writing that at the time of the commission of the offense the information allegedly disclosed was properly designated.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week beginning on the Sunday preceding the fourth Thursday in November of each year as "National Family Week."
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1979
Amends rule X of the Rules the House of Representatives to establish a standing Committee on Internal Security to investigate and report on Communist and other subversive activities affecting the internal security of the United States, including activities intended to overthrow or alter the form of government in the United States by unlawful means or which incite or employ violence or any unlawful means to obstruct the lawful authority of the government.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit taxpayers an election to treat expenditures for making buildings or public transportation vehicles accessible to the handicapped and elderly as current expenses and thus deductible from gross income in the current taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Establishes maximum criminal penalties of one year imprisonment and/or a $1,000 fine for anyone who knowingly: (1) attaches any United States flag to his body or clothing in a manner degrading to such flag as an emblem; (2) alters the shape, design, or traditional methods displaying such flag for personal, political, or monetary gain; or (3) casts contempt upon such flag by using it for the purpose of causing any individual to commit a Federal crime.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to add burial plots or crypts to the items excludable from an individual's resources in determining his or her eligibility for Supplemental Security Income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army to acquire the land for and establish one or more national cemeteries in the central west coast area of Florida.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act to provide that pay adjustments for Members of Congress may take effect no earlier than the beginning of the next Congress following the Congress in which they are approved.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Establishes maximum criminal penalties of ten years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine for anyone who willfully discloses information identifying or tending to identify a person as a present or former participant in United States foreign intelligence operations if: (1) the information has been designated by statute or Executive Order as requiring a specific degree of protection; or (2) the person disclosing the information knows or has reason to believe that such disclosure may prejudice the safety or well-being of the person identified.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Amends the Social Security Act to maintain the inpatient hospital deductible under the medicare program at the level which was applicable during calendar year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Establishes maximum criminal penalties of 20 years imprisonment and/or a $10,000 fine for anyone who forcibly assaults, strikes, wounds, discharges a firearm or explosive at, or offers violence to, any fireman or law enforcement officer on account of such individual's performance of an official duty. Increases such penalty to: (1) 20 years imprisonment and/or a $20,000 fine, if personal injury results; and (2) the death penalty, if death results, unless the jury or the court modifies such sentence. Applies such penalties to anyone who: (1) does any overt act to effect the object of a conspiracy to commit such offense; or (2) transports, receives, or aids in transporting or receiving in interstate commerce any dangerous weapon knowing or intending that it will be used to commit such offense.
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