United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Requests the President to inform the appropriate foreign countries of the following declarations by Congress: (1) urges the embodiment of the principles of the Vladivostak Accord in a treaty; (2) calls for an agreement to end underground nuclear explosions; (3) urges a halt to the transfers of nuclear fuel, technology, and equipment to any country which has not accepted International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards; and (4) calls for an agreement that any plutonium processing be performed in heavily protected and guarded regional facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
International Development and Food Assistance Act - Authorizes assistance for disaster relief and rehabilitation. Provides for overseas distribution and production of agricultural commodities. Title I: International Disaster Assistance - Affirms the willingness of the United States to provide assistance for the relief and rehabilitation of people and countries affected by natural and manmade disasters. Authorizes the President to provide such relief to any foreign country or or international organization on conditions as he may determine. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976 and 1977 for such purposes. Requires the President to submit quarterly reports to the Congress on the obligation of funds under this title. Calls for maximum effectiveness and coordination in responses to foreign disasters. Provides for the appointment, by the President, of a Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance who shall be responsible for such coordination. Title II: Food Aid to Poor Countries - Establishes guidelines for the furnishing of food aid under this Act. Calls upon the President to maintain a significant United States contribution to the goal established by the World Food Conference for food assistance by donor countries. Encourages self help programs by donee nations in poor rural areas. Directs that not more than 30 percent of the food aid shall be given to countries other than those most seriously affected by the inability to secure sufficient food. Allows the President to exceed this maximum if he certifies to the Congress that such assistance is required for humanitarian food purposes. Gives Congress 30 days to disapprove such use. Specifies minimum quantities of agricultural commodities to be distributed under this title. Places limitations upon assistance provided under any agreement permitting generation of foreign currency proceeds. Encourages the President to seek international agreement for a system of national food reserves. Title III: Development Assistance - States that it is the purpose of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide more than financial resources to developing countries. Requires efforts to solve development problems of such countries. Favors those nations which make efforts to involve the poor in their development by expanding services and institutions at the local level. Provides for agricultural research which shall take account of the special needs of small farmers. Provides funds for low-cost, integrated delivery systems to provide health and family planning services especially in rural areas as well as nonformal education methods. Authorizes the President to provide programs for technical assistance in aiding developing countries to alleviate their energy problems, to rebuild after disasters and to establish programs of urban development. Revises the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to allow the President to waive the cost-sharing requirement in the case of a project in a country which meets the United Nation's criteria for least developed countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should increase the funds provided to multilateral lending institutions for use in making loans to foreign countries. Adds a new title to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Title XI - Famine Prevention and Freedom from Hunger. Calls for action to strengthen the capacities of the United States land grant universities to apply science to solving food and nutrition problems of developing countries. Sets forth a program and authorizes the appropriation of funds necessary to carry out this title.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Authorizes the President to furnish to Turkey defense articles and services for which contracts were signed on or before February 5, 1975, under the Foreign Military Sales Act, provided that such authorization be effective only while Turkey observes the cease fire and neither increase its forces on Cyprus nor transfer any United States supplied arms thereto. Requests the President to discuss with Greece that country's needs for economic and military assistance and to report findings to Congress. Limits the authority of the President to suspend the ban on military assistance to the suspension of the ban with respect to equipment determined to be necessary to enable Turkey to fulfill her responsibilities as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Directs the President to report to Congress on progress made toward achieving a negotiated solution of the Cyprus problem. Requires Congressional review of any proposed sale of any defense article or service for $25,000,000 or more before the issuance of any letter of offer to sell pursuant to the Foreign Military Sales Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Reduces the time delay (presently 120 days) and increases the dollar amount limitation (presently $25) relating to the disposal of lost, abandoned, or unclaimed personal property that comes into the custody or control of military departments to a waiting period of 45 days and a dollar amount ceiling of $50. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 2575(a))
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating Sunday, September 14, 1975, as "National Saint Elizabeth Seton Day" and calling upon the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1975
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 · 23 July 1975
Reaffirms Congressional approval of provisions of law which require agreements placing restrictions on the use of United States-furnished defense articles and restates such provisions, including: (1) defense articles and services shall be furnished solely for internal security; (2) such articles provided on a grant basis shall not be used without the consent of the President for any purpose other than for the purpose for which they were furnished; (3) no assistance shall be provided a nation preparing for agressive military efforts; and (4) all countries receiving defense articles or services must agree not to transfer such without the consent of the President.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1975
Authorizes the President to furnish to Turkey defense articles and services for which contracts were signed on or before February 5, 1975, under the Foreign Military Sales Act. Requests the President to discuss with Greece that country's needs for economic and military assistance and to report findings to Congress. Limits the authority of the President to suspend the ban on military assistance to the suspension of the ban with respect to equipment determined to be necessary to enable Turkey to fulfill her responsibilities as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Directs the President to report to Congress on progress made toward achieving a negotiated solution of the Cyprus problem.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Revises the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act with respect to regulations on the extension of credit and emergency and disaster relief of friendly nations by the Commodity Credit Corporation. Directs the President to publish, on an annual basis, a list of eligible countries which he determines are friendly to the United States and which lack the internal resources to purchase commodities on a normal commercial basis. Authorizes the making of loans to United States or developing country private business firms (including cooperatives) engaged in activities to improve the economic welfare of the developing country or to increase utilization of U.S. agricultural commodities, but only to the extent that such loans are not inconsistent with the economic objectives of the developing country concerned. Requires the President to designate an appropriate Federal agency to administer this provision and to make annual reports to the Congress. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, to designate, on the basis of established criteria, those countries eligible for an agricultural assistance program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1975
Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Arms Control and Disarmament Act - Authorizes the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to conduct the activities necessary to arms control and disarmament. Provides that the Director of such agency shall be an advisor to the National Security Council. Requires any Government agency to submit to the Director an impact statement in advance of any program of research and development with respect to armament for which the total cost of the program is estimated to exceed $250,000,000 or $50,000,000 annually. Permits the Director to waive security requirements for consultants who do not have access to classified information. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1976 and 1977 for carrying out the purposes of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act. Title II: Conforming Amendments to Other Acts - Makes conforming amendments to the Mutual Security Act of 1954, the Foreign Military Sales Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Provides, under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, that specific grants under such Act shall not be made to any State, unit of general local government, or public agency, unless there is in effect a law enforcement officer's bill of rights. States that such bill of rights must substantially provide as a minimum the rights enumerated in this Act, including: (1) the right of a law enforcement officer to engage in political activity during off-duty hours or to refrain from such activity; and (2) observance of specified standards with respect to the investigation of a law enforcement officer who is under investigation for alleged malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance of official duty, with a view to possible disciplinary action, demotion, dismissal, or criminal charges. States that such standards shall include: (1) informing the law enforcement officer of the nature of the investigation, the names of any complainants, and the identity and authority of the person conducting such investigation; (2) full recordation of the investigation; and (3) allowing the law enforcement officer to have his counsel present at any interrogation in connection with the investigation. Grants a law enforcement officer the right to recover pecuniary and other damages from persons violating any of the rights established under the bill of rights. Provides that no law enforcement officer shall be required to disclose, for the purposes of promotion or assignment, any item of his property, income, assets, debts, or expenditures. Establishes a Law Enforcement Officers' Grievance Commission composed of representatives of the general public, law enforcement agencies, and other public agencies. Gives the Commission the authority to receive, investigate, and determine grievances of any law enforcement officer, and to require testimony under oath and the production of documents. Defines terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Provides for the establishment of the Father Marquette National Memorial near Saint Ignace, Michigan, pursuant to agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of Michigan for the location, construction, design, and operation of such memorial. Authorizes to be appropriated up to $500,000 for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States delegation to the European Security Conference should not agree to the recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and it should remain the policy of the United States not to recognize in any way the annexation of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Health Security Act - Title I: Health Security Benefits - Provides that every resident of the U.S. (and every non-resident citizen when in the U.S.) will be eligible for covered services. Permits reciprocal and "buy-in" agreements for groups or non-resident aliens, and in some cases benefits to U.S. residents when visiting in other countries. Entitles every eligible person to have payments made by the Health Security Board for covered services provided within the United States by a participating provider. Provides that all necessary professional services of physicians, wherever furnished are covered, including preventive care, with two restrictions: (1) specialist services are covered only when performed by a qualified specialist except in emergency situations, and generally only on referral from a primary physician; and (2) psychiatric services to an ambulatory patient are covered only for active preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic or rehabilitative service with respect to mental illness. Provides that comprehensive dental services (exclusive of most orthodontic services) are covered for children under age 15, with the covered age group increasing by two years each year until all those under age 25 are covered. Provides that: (1) inpatient and outpatient hospital services and services of a home health agency are covered without arbitrary limitation; and (2) pathology and radiology services are specifically included as parts of institutional services. Limits payment for skilled nursing home care to 120 days per spell of illness, except that this limit may be increased when the nursing home is owned or managed by a hospital and payment for care is made through the hospital budget. Limits the psychiatric hospital benefit to 45 consecutive days of active treatment during a spell of illness. Provides coverage for two categories of drug use: prescribed medicines administered to inpatients or outpatients within participating hospitals; or to enrollees of comprehensive health service organizations, and drugs necessary for the treatment of specified chronic illnesses or conditions requiring long or expensive therapy. Requires the Board and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish two lists of approved drugs, taking into account the safety, efficacy and cost of each drug. Provides a broad list of approved medicines available for use in institutions and by comprehensive health service organizations and a more restricted list which is available for use outside such organized settings. Provides that the appliances benefit is similar in concept and operation to the drug benefit, subject to a limitation on aggregate cost. Asserts that the professional services of optometrists and podiatrists are covered, subject to regulations, as are diagnostic or therapeutic services furnished by independent pathology laboratories and radiology services. States that health services furnished or paid for under a workmen's compensation law are not covered. Provides that the services of a professional practitioner are not covered if they are furnished in a hospital which is not a participating provider. Requires that participating providers meet standards established in this title or by the Board. Requires that such providers must agree to provide services without discrimination, to make no unauthorized charge to the patient for any covered service, and to furnish data necessary for utilization review by professional peers, statistical studies by the Board, and verification of information for payments. Makes professional practitioners licensed when the program begins eligible to practice in the State where they are licensed and requires that all newly licensed applicants for participation meet national standards established by the Board in addition to those required by his State. Establishes conditions of participation for general hospitals similar to those required by Medicare. States that the two requirements not found in the Medicare program are: (1) that the hospital must not discriminate in granting staff privileges on any grounds unrelated to professional qualifications, and (2) that it establish a pharmacy and drug therapeutics committee for supervision of hospital drug therapy. Provides that psychiatric hospitals will be eligible to participate only if the Board finds that the hospital (or a distinct part of the hospital) is engaged in furnishing active diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services to mentally ill patients. Establishes conditions of participation for skilled nursing homes similar to those established for extended care facilities under Medicare. Makes provisions for the participation of home health service agencies. Describes as eligible a health maintenance organization which undertakes to provide an enrolled population either with complete health care or, at least, with complete health security services (other than institutional services, mental health or dental services) for the maintenance of health and the care of ambulatory patients. Permits a foundation sponsored by a county or other local medical society to participate as a provider of services. Permits the participation of community health centers or the like which, though furnishing services as comprehensive as are required by this Act, do not serve an enrolled or otherwise predetermined population and may not meet other requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Board to deal separately with the primary care portion of a system of comprehensive health care where it is necessary to rely on arrangements with other providers. Permits the Board to contract directly with public or other nonprofit mental health centers and mental health day care services. Specifies the conditions under which independent pathology laboratories, independent radiological services, and providers of drugs, devices, appliances, equipment, or ambulance services may qualify as providers under Health Security. Requires that a participating skilled nursing home have in effect an agreement with at least one participating hospital for the transfer of patients and medical and other information as medically appropriate. Prohibits in malpractice judgments any damages to be awarded to the injured party for the cost of remedial services which he is entitled to receive under this Act. Excludes the institutions of the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, and institutions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare serving merchant seamen or Indians or Alaskan natives, from serving as participating providers, as well as any employee of these institutions when he is acting as an employee. Provides reimbursement for any services furnished by these institutions or agencies to eligible persons who are not a part of their normal clientele. Permits a physician, dentist, optometrist, or podiatrist, licensed in one State and meeting the national standards, to furnish Health Security benefits in any other State, the scope of his permissible practice being governed by the law of the State in which he is practicing. Grants a similar authority to other health professional and nonprofessional personnel. Establishes the Health Security Trust Fund, to receive the net assets of existing (Medicare) funds taken over by the Health Security program, the yield of the Health Security taxes, and the Government's contribution from general revenues amounting to 100 percent of the yield from these taxes. Provides that three separate accounts shall be established in the Health Security Trust Fund: a Health Service Account, a Health Resources Development Account, and an Administration Account. Provides that in each of the first two years of program operation, 2 percent of the Trust Fund shall be set aside for the Health Resources Development Fund; and the allocation shall increase by 1 percent at two-year intervals to 5 percent within the next 6 years. Provides for allocation of the Health Services account among the regions of the country. Provides that the allocation to each region shall be based on the aggregate sum expended during the most recent 12-month period for covered services (with appropriate modification for estimated changes in the consumer price index, the expected number of eligible beneficiaries, and estimated changes in the number of participating providers). Provides that the Board shall divide the allocation to each region into funds available to pay: institutional services; physician services; dental services; furnishing of drugs; furnishing of devices, appliances, equipment; and miscellaneous services. Provides that payments for covered services provided to eligible persons by participating providers will be made from the Health Service Account in the Trust Fund. Describes the method to be used in applying, as between practitioners electing the various methods of payment (fee-for-service and capitation), the monies available in each health service area for payment to each category of professional providers. Authorizes the Board to experiment with other methods of reimbursement so long as the experimental method does not increase the cost of service or lead to overutilization or underutilization of services. Provides that skilled nursing homes and home health agencies will be paid in the same manner as a general hospital (on an approved annual budget basis). Provides that a health organization will be paid for covered services, on the basis of a fixed capitation rate multiplied by the number of eligible enrollees. Contains a series of provisions for developing a continuous process of health service planning and for assisting in the recruitment, education, and training of health personnel. Authorizes special improvement grants: (1) to any public or other nonprofit health agency or institution to establish improved coordination and linkages with other providers of services, and (2) to organizations providing comprehensive ambulatory care, to improve their utilization review, budget, statistical, or records and information retrieval systems, to acquire equipment needed for those purposes, or to acquire equipment useful for mass screening or for other diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Sets forth the responsibilities and duties of the Secretary of HEW and the Board with regard to this title. Creates an administrative structure within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare with exclusive responsibility for the administration of the Health Security program. Establishes a five-member, full-time Health Security Board serving under the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that the members shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, for five-year overlapping terms. Creates the position of an Executive Director, appointed by the Board with the approval of the Secretary. Provides that the Executive Director will serve as secretary to the Board and shall perform such duties in the administration of the program as the Board may assign. Provides that the program will be administered through the regional offices of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires the establishment of sub-regional (service area) offices. Establishes a National Health Security Advisory Council, with the Chairman of the Board serving as the Council's Chairman and 20 additional members not in the employ of the Federal Government. Authorizes the Advisory Council to appoint professional or technical committees to assist in its functions. Provides that the Advisory Council will advise the Board on matters of general policy in the administration of the program, the formulation of regulations and the allocation of funds for services. Charges the Board with responsibility for informing the public and providers about the administration and operation of the Health Security program. Requires the Board to make a continuing study and evaluation of the program, including adequacy, quality and costs of services. Authorizes the Board directly or by contract to make detailed statistical and other studies on a national, regional, or local basis of any aspect of the title; to develop and test incentive systems for improving quality of care, methods of peer review of drug utilization and of other service performances; to develop and test systems of information retrieval, budget programs, instrumentation for multiphasic screening or patient services, and reimbursement systems for drugs; and to make such other other studies which it considers would improve the quality of services of the administration of the program. Grants authority to the Board, in accordance with regulations, to make determinations of who are participating providers of services, determinations of eligibility, of whether services are covered, and the amount to be paid to providers. Allows a provider of services who is dissatisfied with a final Board determination to obtain a hearing before a Board panel, and judicial review of a final decision. Authorizes the Board, with the advice and assistance of the Commission on the Quality of Health Care, to issue and review regulations assuring the quality of care furnished under this Act. Requires continuing professional education by physicians, dentists, optometrists, and podiatrists. Provides for the appointment of a Deputy Secretary of HEW and an Under Secretary for Health and Science. States that no provision of this Act shall alter any contractual obligation of an employer to provide health services to his employees and their dependents. Title II: Health Security Taxes - Converts the existing Medicare hospital insurance payroll taxes into Health Security taxes, and raises the rates to 1 percent on employees and 3.5 percent on employers. Raises the wage base for the employee tax from the present $7,800 to $15,000; or, if higher, 125 percent of the contribution and benefit base. Broadens the definitions of covered employment to include foreign agricultural workers, employees of the U.S. and its instrumentalities (other than members of the armed forces and the President, Vice-President, and Members of Congress), employees of charitable and similar organizations, railroad employees, and (for the employee tax only) employees of States and their political subdivisions and instrumentalities. Excludes from the gross income of employees, for income tax purposes, payment by their employers of part or all of the Health Security taxes on the employees. Spells out the precise effective dates of the new payroll tax provisions. Converts the existing Medicare self-employment tax into a Health Security self-employment tax, raising the rate to 2.5 percent, and raises the maximum taxable self-employment income from $7,800 to $15,000. Adds a new 1 percent Health Security tax on unearned income (unless such income is less than $400 a year), subject to the same maximum on taxable income as is applicable to the employee and self-employment taxes. Title III: Commission on the Quality of Health Care - Establishes in the Department of HEW a Commission on the Quality of Health Care, with the primary responsibility of: (1) initiating and continuing development of methods of assessing the quality of health care furnished under the Health Security Act, and (2) submitting to the Secretary and the Health Security Board its findings and recommendations. Stipulates that in carrying out its duties the Commissioner shall emphasize, and give first consideration to, care furnished for those illnesses and conditions which have relatively high incidence in the population and which are relatively amenable to medical or other care. Title IV: Repeal or Amendment of Other Acts - Requires that after the effective date of benefits, no State shall be required to furnish any service covered under Health Security as a part of its State plan for participation under Medicaid. Title V: Studies Related to Health Security - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Treasury to study the coverage of health services for U.S. residents in other countries. Directs the Secretary of HEW to study the feasibility and desirability of coordinating the Federal health benefit programs for merchant seamen and Indians and Alaskan natives and also veterans and members of the Armed Forces, with the Health Security Benefit Program.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1975
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust Funds, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Departments of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapters and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each trust fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administrating titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Provides that average monthly wage, quarters of coverage, and coverage credits derived from self- employment income for taxable years beginning before 1974 are to be determined on a basis of income credited to calendar quarters. Limits quarters coverage to quarters occuring before 1974 and makes additional modification to taxation of self-employed persons. Allocates, under the Social Security Act, coverage credits for earnings before 1974 based on quarters of coverage and after 1973 on the basis of earnings during the calendar year. Provides that a person will satisfy the requirements prerequisite to a determination of disability if he has 20 or more coverage credits which were credited to the period ending on the day the disability arose and consisting of that part of the current calendar year up until the day the disability began and the nine prior calendar years. Redefines a "fully insured individual" in terms of coverage credits rather than quarters of coverage. States that any person upon attaining the age of 62 with the proper number of coverage credits is fully insured. Provides that specified benefits be paid to individuals not citizens of the United States who amassed sufficient coverage credits. Title II: Amendments Preserving Relationship Between Railroad Retirement and Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, that in the calucalation of an employee's "average monthly remumeration" after calendar year 1974 an individual employee shall obtain the benefit of full allowable coverage credits, irrespective of whether particular quarters of coverage were otherwise available for calculation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that with respect to the right to life, the word 'person' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective dependency including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not prohibit a law permitting only those medical procedures required to prevent the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975
Creates a select committee in the House of Representatives with authority to conduct a full and complete investigation of the problem of United States servicemen missing in action or known to be dead whose bodies have not been recovered, as a result of military operations in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Provides that such investigation shall include an examination of the need for additional international inspection teams to determine whether there are servicemen still held as prisoner of war. Authorizes the Committee to hold hearings, issue subpenas, and maintain a staff as necessary to carry out its responsibilities under this resolution. Directs the committee to report to the House the results of its investigation no later than one year after adoption of this resolution. Provides that the committee's authority shall expire 30 days after the filing of such report. Directs that the expenses of the select committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives upon vouchers signed by the Chairman.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Executive Agreements Review Act - Provides that each executive agreement entered into after the date of enactment of this Act concerning the establishment, renewal, continuance, or revision of a national commitment shall be transmitted by the President to the Congress, or, in cases requiring non-disclosure for the immediate time, to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs under an appropriate written injunction of secrecy. Provides that both Houses of Congress must agree to a concurrent resolution of disapproval of such agreement within 60 calendar days of continuous session (10 days in situations certified to be emergencies by the President) to negate the agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Directs the Comptroller General to audit annually the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Advisory Council, the Federal Open Market Committee, and all Federal Reserve banks and branches. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress within six months after the end of each fiscal year on the results of the audit. States that such report shall specifically indicate any program, financial transaction, or undertaking observed in the course of the audit which in the opinion of the Comptroller General has been carried out without legal authority.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Authorizes the Director of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to grant access to classified information to contractors or subcontractors on the basis of a security clearance granted by the Department of Defense, or any agency thereof, to the individual concerned. Extends the authorization for appropriations under the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, as amended, for fiscal years 1976 and 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
National Energy and Conservation Corporation (AMPOWER) Act - Declares the finding of Congress that Government-sponsored exploration, development, investment in and production of petroleum reserves will increase petroleum production on public lands and tidelands. Establishes a National Energy and Conservation Corporation (AMPOWER) to achieve specified goals, including: (1) the exploration, development, and production of public lands and tideland oil, natural gas, oil shale, and coal either independently or in partnership with private industry; and (2) the acceleration of the creation and demonstration of specified technologies. Declares it to be the policy of Congress that costs of production of offshore oil and natural gas and the manufacture of liquid and gaseous fuels from oil shale and coal will be funded through appropriations should such costs exceed market prices. States that fuels produced by the Corporation shall be sold on the open market by competive bid, provided that 50 percent of the production shall be reserved for bids from publicly owned utilities and from State, county, municipal, and other government bodies. Provides a Board of Directors for the Corporation to consist of five members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets compensation for Board members and the procedure for removal. Authorizes the Board to appoint such personnel as are necessary for the transaction of the Corporation's business and to fix their compensation. Enumerates the Corporation's powers and duties, including: (1) the power to sue; (2) to make contracts to carry out its functions under this Act; and (3) holding power in the name of the United States to exercise the right of eminent domain. States that, in carrying out its duties under this Act, the Corporation may conduct research and development with a view toward improving the technology related to the use of oil shale, gasification of coal methods, geothermal steam, and solar energy as sources of energy for domestic and industrial used in the United States. Requires the Corporation at all times to maintain and complete accurate account books. States that all purchases and contracts for supplies or services, except for personal service, made by the Corporation, shall be made after advertising . Requires the Board to file with the President and the Congress, in December of each year, a financial statement and a complete report as to the business of the Corporation covering the preceding governmental fiscal year. Directs the Comptroller General to audit the transactions of the Corporation at such times as he shall determine, but not less often than once each governmental fiscal year. Authorizes the Corporation to issue bonds, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed $30,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time, which bonds may be sold by the Corporation to obtain funds to carry out the provisions of this Act. States that the payment of interest and principal on such bonds shall be guaranteed by the United States. Authorizes the Corporation to institute proceedings for the acquisition by condemnation of any lands, easements, or rights-of-way which, in the opinion of the Corporation, are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Provides that such actions shall be instituted in the U.S. district court for the district in which the land, easement, or right-of-way is located. Gives the Corporation access to the Patent Office for the purpose of studying, ascertaining, and copying all methods, formulas, and scientific information necessary to enable the Corporation to use and employ the most efficacious and economical process for the exploration and development of energy resources. States that all general penal statutes relating to the larceny, embezzlement, conversion, or to the improper handling, retention, use, or disposal of public money's or property of the United States, shall apply to the moneys and property of the Corporation. Provides that any person who, with intent to defraud the Corporation, or to deceive any director, officer, or employee of the Corporation or any officer or employee of the United States, shall be find not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, if he: (1) makes any false entry in any book or the Corporation; (2) makes any false report or statement for the Corporation. Provides a fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both, for any person who receives any compensation, rebate, or reward, or enters into any conspiracy, collusion, or agreement, express or implied, with intent to defraud the Corporation. States that the proceeds derived by the Board from the sale of energy minerals or any other products manufactured by the Corporation shall be paid into the U.S. Treasury, except such proceeds as are determined necessary for the operation of the Corporation's energy minerals resources exploration and development program. Exempts also a continuing fund of $2,000,000 to defray emergency expenses and to insure continuous operation. Provides that the Corporation shall give all possible weight to the protection of the environment in the siting and design of facilities constructed pursuant to this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. Allows the expenditure of such sums as needed without fiscal year limitation.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that the word "pension", as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring, at every stage of biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Exempts from the provisions of this article medical procedures required to save the life of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
States that the House of Representatives commends the agreement reached at Vladivostok on November 24, 1974. Provides that it is the advice of the House that the President should make every possible effort to complete the negotiations resulting from the Vladivostok agreement in principle and in addition to reach further agreements including, but not limited, to the following: (1) mutual restraints on the pace and character of development and deployments by the United States and the Soviet Union of strategic weapons systems within mutually agreed limitations of the Vladivostok agreement and of the final accords to be negotiated on the basis of the Vladivostok agreement; (2) a commitment to negotiate mutual reductions to lower levels than those contained in the Vladivostok agreement, both in the total numbers of strategic delivery vehicles and in the numbers of missiles capable of carrying multiple, independently targetable reenty vehicles; and (3) a mutual commitment to continue negotiations on a timely basis to achieve further mutual limitations with regard to military forces and armaments not presently limted as part of the 1972 United States-Soviet Union strategic arms control agreements and the Vladivostok agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1975
Provides that each Member of the House of Representatives, the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, and the Delegates from the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Virgin Islands may hire not more than two additional employees who shall be known as John W. McCormack Senior Interns in honor of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives. States that such interns may be hired for not more than two weeks during the period May 1 through May 31 of each year and shall serve within the District of Columbia. Stipulates that for this purpose each such Member, Resident Commissioner, or Delegate shall have available annually for payment of compensation to such interns a total allowance of $500, to be payable to such interns at a rate not to exceed $125 per week, out of the contingent fund of the House. Requires that no person shall be paid compensation as a John W. McCormack Senior Intern who does not have on file with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, at all times during the period of employment as such intern, an appropriate certificate that such intern is sixty years of age or older and a resident of the district which the employing Member, Commissioner, or Delegate represents.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1975
States that the House of Representatives commends the agreement reached at Vladivostok on November 24, 1974. Provides that it is the advice of the House that the President should make every possible effort to complete the negotiations resulting from the Vladivostok agreement in principle and in addition to reach further agreements including, but not limited, to the following: (1) mutual restraints on the pace and character of development and deployments by the United States and the Soviet Union of strategic weapons systems within mutually agreed limitations of the Vladivostok agreement and of the final accords to be negotiated on the basis of the Vladivostok agreement; (2) a commitment to negotiate mutual reductions to lower levels than those contained in the Vladivostok agreement, both in the total numbers of strategic delivery vehicles and in the numbers of missiles capable of carrying multiple, independently targetable reenty vehicles; and (3) a mutual commitment to continue negotiations on a timely basis to achieve further mutual limitations with regard to military forces and armaments not presently limted as part of the 1972 United States-Soviet Union strategic arms control agreements and the Vladivostok agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of the State should take the necessary steps, including the renewal of negotiations between the parties, signatory to the Paris agreement and the agreement with the Lao Patriotic Front, to finally determine the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President who is requested to report to the House in 90 days on steps taken to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
International Disaster, Food, and Development Assistance Act - Title I: Policy - States the declaration of Congress that the freedom, security, and prosperity of the people of the United States are best sustained by international peace and well-being. Declares that such goals cannot be achieved in the midst of the human suffering, deprivation, and despair that now afflict much of mankind. Title II: International Famine and Disaster Relief - Authorizes the President to provide famine or other disaster relief assistance to any foreign country on such terms and conditions as he may determine. Authorizes to be appropriated for such purpose $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1976 and 1977. Requires the President to submit quarterly reports to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives on the programming and obligation of funds under this Act. States that assistance under this Act shall be provided to the maximum extent practicable as part of international assistance efforts coordinated and carried out by the United Nations and other agencies, countries, and private organizations. Title III: Agricultural Commodity Distribution Abroad - Directs the President, in furnishing agricultural commodity assistance abroad, to give priority consideration to those countries most seriously affected by food shortages and unable to meet immediate food requirements. Authorizes the President to seek international agreement for a system of national food reserves to meet food shortage emergencies and to provide insurance against unexpected short falls in food production. Provides that the President shall determine what part of the exportable supply of U.S, agricultural commodities may be used for distribution abroad on other than commercial terms. Requires the President to report to Congress at the time of his budget submission for each fiscal year on a global assessment of food needs for that fiscal year. States that, in negotiating agricultural commodity agreements with recipient countries, the United States shall emphasize the use of sales proceeds returned to such countries for purposes which directly improve the lives of the poorest of their people and their capacity to take part in the development of their countries. Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture, in exercising his authority to barter or exchange agricultural commodities under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, shall coordinate his activities with any barters or exchanges for such materials undertaken pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Title IV: Development Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for specified programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for fiscal years 1976 and 1977, including food and nutrition, population planning and health, education and human resources development, and guarantees for housing in foreign countries.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Allows a refundable tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code against the individual income tax for tuition paid for the elementary or secondary education of dependents at a private, nonprofit school. States that such tax credit shall be limited to 50 percent of tuition paid of $400, whichever is less.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Authorizes the President to provide financial assistance to land- grant-type universities to enable such universities to assist and cooperate in developing and improving land-grant-type universitites in agriculturally developing nations. Lists programs designed to effectuate this assistance including: (1) cooperation in developing capacity in the university in the cooperating nation for classroom teaching, and (2) cooperation in agricultural research to promote efficiency in the production of food. Establishes an International Land-Grant University Advisory Board to assist in the administration of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that such sums shall not exceed $150,000,000 in a fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that nothing contained in the Constitution shall abridge 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 · 27 January 1975
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for reductions in Social Security taxes relating to the rate of tax on self-employment income for purposes of old-age, survivors, and disability insurance. States that such reductions shall apply in the case of taxes imposed with respect to self-employment income for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1975, and with respect to wages paid or received during calendar years after 1975. Provides for Federal participation in the costs of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II of the Social Security Act. Increases the earnings counted for benefit and tax purposes under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Arms Control and Disarmament Act - Authorizes the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency to conduct the activities necessary to arms control and disarmament. Provides that the Director of such Agency shall be a member of the National Security Council. Directs the President to appoint a General Advisory Committee to consist of fifteen members to advise the President, the Secretary of State, appropriate committees of the Congress, and the Disarmament Director with respect to arms control, disarmament, and world peace. Requires an impact statement in advance of any program of research and development with respect to armament for which the total cost of the program is estimated to exceed $250,000,000 or $50,000,000 annually. Title II: Conforming Amendments To Other Acts - Makes conforming amendments to the Mutual Security Act of 1954, the Foreign Military Sales Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who have been citizens of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Establishes a Joint Committee on National Security in the Congress. States that the purpose of this Act is to enable the Congress to more effectively carry out its constitutional responsibility in the formulation of foreign, domestic, and military policies of the United States and to provide the Congress with an improved means for formulating legislation. Sets forth the membership composition of such Committee and states its functions, including: (1) to make a study of the foreign, domestic, and military policies of the United States to determine whether such policies are being appropriately integrated in furtherance of the national security; (2) to make a study of the recommendations and activities of the National Security Council relating to such policies; and (3) to make a study of Government practices and recommendations with respect to the classification and declassification of documents. Authorizes the Committee to make expenditures, employ personnel, hold hearings, and subpena witnesses and documents.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Foreign Assistance Act - Title I: Middle East Peace - States that the Congress recognizes that a peaceful settlement in the Middle East is essential to the security of the United States and world peace and that assistance programs in the Middle East can contribute to such a peaceful settlement. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, and to furnish credits and guarantees under the Foreign Military Sales Act. Sets forth the levels of military assistance and security supporting assistance appropriations intended for Middle East programs. Authorizes the appropriation to the President of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 to meet special requirements arising from time to time in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Repeals the prohibition of assistance to the United Arab Republic absent findings by the President that such assistance is in the national interest. Provides for funds to settle the deficit of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees upon a determination that a reasonable number of other nations will contribute their fair share to such fund. Provides that the funds authorized by this Act may not be used to finance the construction, operation, and maintenance of nuclear powerplants. Title II: Indochina Aid - Authorizes appropriations for relief and reconstruction of South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Authorizes assistance to Vietnamese orphans for fiscal year 1975. Provides that not more than $85,000,000 may be made available for the procurement of agricultural fertilizers for South Vietnam. Title III: Other Foreign Assistance Act Amendments - Increases the authorization of appropriations for the alleviation of starvation, hunger, and malnutrition. Authorizes $165,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for population planning and health services. Extends the termination date of the housing guaranty authority from June 30, 1975 to June 30, 1976. Increases the appropriations authorized for International Organizations and Programs by $4,400,000 for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the appropriation of $745,000,000 for military assistance for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes funds to enable Latin American countries to carry out agricultural credit and self-help community development projects for which such countries are unable to obtain loans on reasonable terms. Provides that, except in extraordinary circumstances, the President shall substantially reduce or terminate security assistance to any government which consistently engages in gross violations of internationally recognized human rights. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1975 for security supporting assistance of $585,000,000. Suspends military assistance to Turkey until that country makes a good faith attempt to negotiate a settlement with respect to Cyprus. Suspends military assistance to Chile for fiscal year 1975. Authorizes the President to provide famine or disaster relief assistance to any foreign country on such terms and conditions as he may determine up to an aggregate limit of $15,000,000. Authorizes to be appropriated to the President up to $5,000,000 to provide emergency assistance authorized by this Act. States that no funds appropriated under this Act shall be used by the Central Intelligence Agency for other than necessary operations in foreign countries. Provides limitations on assistance to India and Korea for fiscal year 1975. Title IV: Foreign Military Sales Act Amendments - Revises the provisions of the Foreign Military Sales Act which relate to the ineligibility for further sales, credits, and guaranties of countries that violate foreign military sales agreements by specifying the conditions under which such countries may again receive assistance under the Act. Authorizes foreign military sales guarantees to be issued to the Federal Financing Bank. Authorizes the appropriation of $405,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 to carry out the purposes of the Foreign Military Sales Act and establishes a ceiling of $772,500,000 for fiscal year 1975 on the aggregate of credits and the principal amount of loans guaranteed, of which not less than $200,000,000 shall be made available for Israel. Repeals, under the Foreign Act, the ceiling in military assistance, foreign military sales credits and guarantees and vessel transfers to Latin America. Authorizes the President to waive the ceiling on assistance and sales to African countries. Title V: Amendments To Other Laws and Miscellaneous - Directs the President to study the feasibility of raising foreign assistance, foreign credits, or investment guarantees to develop open access for all nations to necessary or strategic raw materials throughout the world at a reasonable cost. Authorizes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conclude an agreement of accession with the Caribbean Development Bank and to assume rights and obligations pursuant to each agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Expresses the intent of the House of Representatives to join with the President in making known to foreign governments the continuity of United States foreign policy under President Ford.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1974
Declares that all foreign troops currently involved in Cyprus be withdrawn immediately so that the United Nations may be permitted to restore peace to the island and the Cypriot people guaranteed the right to determine their own destiny.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that: (1) the Geneva Protocol of 1925, banning the first use of gas and bacteriological warfare, should be ratified; (2) both the President and the Congress should resolve the position of the United States on the future status of herbicides and tear gas so that the Senate may move forward toward ratification of the Geneva Protocol of 1925; and (3) reconsideration of the protocol would provide an opportunity for a comprehensive review of United States policies in the field of chemical warfare.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the House that: (1) the contribution by the United States to the growing economic and human crisis in the developing world should be primarily in the form of food and the means and technology to produce it; (2) the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture and their advisors should give the highest priority to the immediate expansion of American food assistance and (b) take such additional steps as might be necessary to expedite the transfer of American food commodities on concessional and donation terms to those nations most severely affected; (3) the United States should increase its matching pledge to the World Food Program for 1975-1976 and encourage other nations to do so; (4) the President and the Secretary of State should (a) negotiate with other major food exporting nations to seek to obtain their participation in this emergency effort proportionate to their share of world food exports and, (b) strongly encourage oil exporting nations to contribute a fair share to these efforts to assist the most severely affected nations; (5) the United States should announce its desire to work with the oil exporting and other nations in a major effort to increase world fertilizer production with the possibility of including the offer of American technology and capital; and (6) the President should encouarge the American people to reduce the non-critical, non-food-producing uses of fertilizer which now total nearly three million tons of nutrient a year, to make available increased fertilizer supplies for raising food production at home and in the developing world. Declares the sense of the House that the President of the United States and the Secretaries of State and Agriculture should, and are hereby urged and requested to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress; and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward formulating an American response in a cooperative framework to the world food crisis and the needs of the most severly affected developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1974
Foreign Investment Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a comprehensive, overall study of foreign direct and portfolio investments in the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to carry out that part of the study relating to foreign direct investment, and to specifically: (1) investigate and review the nature, scope, magnitude, and rate of foreign direct investment activities in the United States; (2) survey the reasons foreign firms are undertaking direct investment in the United States; and (3) identify the processes and mechanisms through which foreign direct investment flows into the United States, the financing methods used by foreign direct investors, and the effects of such financing on American financial markets. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out that part of the study relating to foreign portfolio investment, and to specifically: (1) investigate and review the nature, scope, and magnitude of foreign portfolio investment activities in the United States; (2) survey the reasons for foreign portfolio investment in the United States; and (3) identify the processes and mechanisms through which foreign portfolio investment is made in the United States, the financing methods used, and the effects of foreign portfolio investment on American financial markets. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the Treasury to use the available services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of any agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government in conjunction with the study authorized in this Act. Authorizes appropriations of up to $3,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the House that: (1) the contribution by the United States to the growing economic and human crisis in the developing world should be primarily in the form of food and the means and technology to produce it; (2) the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture and their advisors should give the highest priority to the immediate expansion of American food assistance and (b) take such additional steps as might be necessary to expedite the transfer of American food commodities on concessional and donation terms to those nations most severely affected; (3) the United States should increase its matching pledge to the World Food Program for 1975-1976 and encourage other nations to do so; (4) the President and the Secretary of State should (a) negotiate with other major food exporting nations to seek to obtain their participation in this emergency effort proportionate to their share of world food exports and, (b) strongly encourage oil exporting nations to contribute a fair share to these efforts to assist the most severely affected nations; (5) the United States should announce its desire to work with the oil exporting and other nations in a major effort to increase world fertilizer production with the possibility of including the offer of American technology and capital; and (6) the President should encouarge the American people to reduce the non-critical, non-food-producing uses of fertilizer which now total nearly three million tons of nutrient a year, to make available increased fertilizer supplies for raising food production at home and in the developing world. Declares the sense of the House that the President of the United States and the Secretaries of State and Agriculture should, and are hereby urged and requested to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress; and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward formulating an American response in a cooperative framework to the world food crisis and the needs of the most severly affected developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1974
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust Funds, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Departments of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapters and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each trust fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administrating titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Provides that average monthly wage, quarters of coverage, and coverage credits derived from self-employment income for taxable years beginning before 1974 are to be determined on a basis of income credited to calendar quarters. Limits quarters coverage to quarters occuring before 1974 and makes additional modification to taxation of self-employed persons. Allocates, under the Social Security Act, coverage credits for earnings before 1974 based on quarters of coverage and after 1973 on the basis of earnings during the calendar year. Provides that a person will satisfy the requirements prerequisite to a determination of disability if he has 20 or more coverage credits which were credited to the period ending on the day the disability arose and consisting of that part of the current calendar year up until the day the disability began and the nine prior calendar years. Redefines a "fully insured individual" in terms of coverage credits rather than quarters of coverage. States that any person upon attaining the age of 62 with the proper number of coverage credits is fully insured. Provides that specified benefits be paid to individuals not citizens of the United States who amassed sufficient coverage credits. Title II: Amendments Preserving Relationship Between Railroad Retirement and Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, that in the calucalation of an employee's "average monthly remumeration" after calendar year 1974 an individual employee shall obtain the benefit of full allowable coverage credits, irrespective of whether particular quarters of coverage were otherwise available for calculation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1974
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that (1) it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism in the Middle East; (2) the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to (a) call upon all governments to condemn this inhuman act of violence against innocent victims; and (b) strongly urge the governments who harbor these groups and individuals to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terrorism and senseless violence; and (3) the President should request the American Ambassador to the United Nations to take appropriate action before that body in order to have introduced a Security Council resolution condemning this brutal act of violence.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnishing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Foreign Investment Study Act - Requires the President to conduct a study of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States and to: (1) compare foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment activities in the United States with investment activities of American investors abroad, and compare the impact of such foreign activities in the United States with the impact of investment activities of Americans abroad; (2) determine the impact of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States on United States national security, energy resources, balance of payments and trade, agriculture (and other real estate), and international economic position; (3) determine the effect of foreign direct and foreign portfolio investment in the United States on levels of employment and personnel practices in the United States; and (4) evaluate the costs and benefits and determine the various international implications of alternate policy choices available to the United States regarding foreign investment in the United States.
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