United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1973
Drug Abuse Education Extention Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to , or contract with, institutions of higher education, other public or private agencies, institutions, and organizations to support research, demonstration, and pilot projects designed to educate the public on problems related to drug abuse. Sets forth the activities for which funds may be made available. Provides that the Secretary may utilize up to 5 percent of the funds appropriated to carry out the act to pay reasonable and necessary expenses of State educational agencies for planning, development, and implementation of drug abuse education programs. Authorizes appropriations of $14 million for fiscal year 1974. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants or contracts with public or private nonprofit agencies, organizations, and institutions for community-oriented education projects on drug abuse and drug dependency. Authorizes appropriations of $14 million for fiscal year 1974. Provides that the Secretary and the Attorney General shall, when requested, render technical assistance to local educational agencies, public and private non-profit organizations, and institutions of higher education in the development and implementation of drug abuse education programs. Requires the Secretary to provide for thorough and independent evaluation, at least annually, of all drug abuse education projects and all community education projects funded under this Act. Requires the Secretary to make a comprehensive annual report to Congress on the immediate and long range merit of programs funded under the Act as well as recommendations for any legislative or programmatic changes necessary to make drug abuse education more effective. States that ten percent of the funds appropriated under this Act are reserved for evaluation.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1973
American Folklife Preservation Act - Creates an American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Provides that the Center shall be subject to the supervision and direction of a Board of Trustees. Provides that such Board shall be composed of four members appointed by the President eight members appointed by the Librarian of Congress the Librarian of Congress ex officio and the Director of the Center ex officio. Authorizes the Center to establish and implement a program of contracts, grants, revitalize and scholarships to preserve, protect, revitalize and disseminate American folklife traditions and arts. Provides that no payment shall be made pursuant to this Act to carry out any research or training over a period in excess of two years. States that such research or training may be extended to a period not to exceed five years with the concurrance of at least two-thirds of the members of the Board. Provides that no former employee of the Federal Govermnent shall be eligible to receive any grant or other assistance under this Act in the two year period following the termination of such employment. Requires the Center to submit to the Library of Congress, for inclusion in its annual report to the Congress, an annual report of its operations under this Act. Authorizes such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1973
Expands the term "major disaster" as used in the Disaster Relief Act to include acts or accidents caused by man which results in substantial economic injury to an area. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 4402 (1))
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1973
Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to adopt a moratorium on railroad abandonments until such time as the Commission determines that petroleum fuel supplies are adequate to assure availability of alternative modes of transportation to serve agricultural areas.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Transfers the authority for the administration of the Federal Reports Act from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the General Accounting Office under the Comptroller General. Establishes within the General Accounting Office a unit to review tax forms and other public use documents prepared by the Internal Revenue Service and to make recommendations for their simplification, frequency with which such forms should be completed and the scope of such forms. Sets forth a procedure by which the Comptroller General may order the simplification, combining or completion use frequently of any such tax form.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Declares that on Memorial Day, May 28, 1973, special remembrance be given by a grateful people to the 1,288 members of the Armed Forces of the United States currently listed as missing in action in Indochina. Declares that all American motorists are encouraged to turn on their automobile lights throughout Memorial Day, May 28, 1973, as a symbol of this remembrance. Provides that every effort be made to secure the cooperation of all parties in the Indochina conflict to insure the fullest and most expeditious resolution of the status of members of the U.S. Armed Forces missing in Indochina.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1973
National Indian Goals and Progress Act - States that all authority for appropriations for programs for the benefit of American Indian people administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the Department of the Interior and by the Indian Health Service of the Public Health Service in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall be granted on an annual basis pursuant to a single annual authorization Act. Directs the Secretaries of the Department of the Interior and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to prepare and submit to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Senate, by February 1 of each year, an annual appropriation authorization bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1 which shall include specified provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that we endorse the Symposium to be held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in October and November of 1973 under the sponsorship of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the American Geological Institute as an extremely useful and highly productive endeavor which deserves and can expect full participation of each interested governmental agency.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1973
Title I: Ombinus Disclosure Requires members of all three branches of government to file a financial disclosure report with the Comptroller General on or before May 1 of each year. States that this disclosure requirement applies to all Federal judges and justices, the President and Vice President and all Members of Congress, and to Federal officials and to those employees of Members of Congress, Congress itself, the judiciary, and the executive branch who receive more than $18,000 a year and have served for more than 30 days. Provides that candidates for Congress, the presidency and vice-presidency are also required to file disclosure reports within 30 days of becoming a candidate. Requires such disclosure reports to contain the following information: (1) the identity and value of interests in real or personal property worth more than $500, (2) creditors to whom more than $1,000 is owed and the amount of each such debt, (3) sources and amount of income greater than $100, (4) dealings in securities or commodities, (5) transctions in real property, (6) nature, source and value of each non-family gift of more than $100, (7) the amount and source of each contribution to defray campaign or office expenses, and (8) except in the case on nonincumbent candidates, the identity of each client who pays more than $1,000 to a law firm which which an individual obligated under the act is associated. Attributes to any individual required to file under this Act the assets, liabilities, recipients, transction and gifts of (1) any person acting on the individual's behalf, (2) his immediate family, (3) any corporation of which he owns more than one half of the stock, (4) a proportional share of any partnership of which he is a partner, and (5) certain trusts and estates depending on his knowledge and interest. Provides that the Comptroller General shall supply forms for reports required under the act and shall prescribe regulations governing the preparation of such reports. Requires the General Accounting Office to keep a file of financial disclosure reports, open to public inspection for a period of five years after each individual leaves government service. Provides that any individual who fails to file within the time period, files false or misleading information or omits information is subject to a $20,000,fine, or 5 years imprisonment or both. Title II: Criminal Penalities for Unfair Compaign Practices Specifies penalties for the following criminal offenses: (1) misrepresentation of a candidate or political party; (2) breaking and entering; (3) criminal trustpass; and (4) extortion. Title III: Strengthening Presidential Campaign Financing Laws Increases the amount of his taxes that an individual can designate for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund from $1 to $2 ($2 to $4 for a joint return). Provides that the first page of the individual income tax forms shall contain "in a prominent place" the form needed to make a designation of funds for the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, together with the following statement in bold type: "Designating that $2 (or $4 for a husband and wife filing jointly) shall be paid over to the Presidential Election Campaign FUnd will not increase your tax liability." Provides that the amount that any legally qualified candidate for President may spend in the election campaign (not including primary campaigns) is limited to an amount equal to the greatest amount to which any candidate is eligible from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, regardless of whether the candidate gets his money from the Fund or from private sources. States that expenditures made by an agent of a candidate, or a political committee of the candidate, or made on bahalf of the candidate with his knowledge will be considered expenditures of the candidate. Provides a criminal penalty of up to five years and $50,000 for willful violation of this limitation. Eliminates the requirement that funds be appropriated to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund before they are expended. Title IV: To Amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 Increases the criminal penalties for violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 when the amount of such violations in any twelve month period totals more than $5,000, from one year and $1,000 to five years and $50,000. Provides for civil penalties for violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 of up to three times the total amount of such violation. Requires that the officer who collects reports under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and who refers a violation under that Act to a law enforcement authority, to transmit a copy of such referral to the Comptroller General within 24 hours. Authorizes the Comptroller General, when he determines that a violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 which he has referred to law enforcement authorities is not being promptly and properly investigated and prosecuted to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the violations and present them to an appropriate federal grand jury or federal court for consideration.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to make annual grants, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, to each school of medicine or osteopathy which has entered into an agreement under this Act for the improvement of the educational program of such school. Sets forth the formula for computing the amount of such grant and the contents of the above mentioned agreement. States that the Secretary shall pay to each individual who is a participant: (1) the full regular tuition and fees imposed by the school; and (2) an annual stipend of $5,000. States that no individual shall be a participant under this Act until and unless he has entered into an agreement with the Secretary. Provides that any such agreement with any individual shall provide that such individual will, upon completion of his professional training, serve, as an employee of the Federal Government, for a period of threee years in any physician-shortage area to which he is assigned by the Secretary. Provides that an individual who fails to commence within a reasonable time to serve his three years will be obligated to pay $60,000 to the United States. States that the Secretary shall, to the extent that they are available, assign at least two physician-participants to each physician-shrotage area, or a physician and a registered nurse to each such area. Provides that the Secretary shall provide for physician-participants assigned to any area such office space, equipment, and supplies as may be necessary to enable them to practice their profession in meeting the needs for primary care of the resident in such area. States that fees collected by any physician-participant shall be deposited in the Treasury. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1973
Declares that the Attorney General-Designate should vest the special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate case with all necessary attributes of independence, including but not limited to the following: (1) final authority over questions of convening and conducting proceedings before grand juries, subpoenaing witnesses, initiating prosecutions, framing indictments and seeking in court grants of immunity from prosecution for witnesses; (2) final authority over the selection of an adequate staff of attorneys, investigators and other personnel answerable only to himself; (3) assurance that the investigatory and other resources of the Department of Justice and funds to defray all expenses incurred in connection with the activities of the special prosecutor will remain available for the time necessary to complete the investigation and prosecute any offenders; (4) assurance that he will not be subject to removal from his position except for malfeasance in office; (5) assurance that he will enjoy full access to the relevant documents and personnel of the Department of Justice and all other officials and agencies of the Executive Branch; and (6) assurance that the special prosecutor can freely, and upon their request, appear before, consult with and cooperate in other respects with all Congressional committees having jurisdiction over any aspect of the special prosecutor's activities.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Permits eligible veterans pursuing full-time programs of education to receive increased monthly educational assistance allowances and have their period of entitlement reduced proportionally. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682(d))
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Establishes a Veterans' Administration Task Force to advise and assist in, and to coordinate all programs pertaining to veterans of the Vietnam era. Provides that such Task Force shall: (1) promote efforts to publicize the skills of veteran and help them obtain employment; (2) encourage government departments in corporating relevant military experience into apprenticeship programs; (3) help augment military training withcivilian job training (4) develop programs in business to use the skills of veterans; (5) develop educational programs for veterans; (6) assist in the revision of the "Guide to the Education of Education Experience in the Armed Forces"; (7) encourage employer-employee programs which give recognition to the experience of military training; (8) promote medical training for veterans; (9) give assistance to programs for the disabled veteran; (10) disseminate information on programs to all Vietnam era veterans; and (11) perform such other duties as the Administrator of Veterans Affairs may assign to the Task Force that are consistent with this Act. Establishes an Advisory Committee appointed by the Administrator who shall consult with the Task Force concerning its functions under this Act. Authorizes for each fiscal year a sum not to exceed $3,000,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Provides that the Administrator of Veterans Affairs' shall reimburse any eligible veteran enrolled in a full time or part-time course of education or training under this Act for costs incurred by such veteran for tutition, for laboratory, library, health, infirmary and other similar fees and for expenses incurred for books, supplies, equipment, and other necessary expenses, exclusive of board, lodging, other living expenses and travel, as are generally required for the successful pursuit and completion of the course of education or training in which such veteran is enrolled. Limits such payments to $l,000 for an ordinary school year. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 1682 A).
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a program of research into the substantial losses of animals sustained through specified diseases and injuries while such animals are being transported to market, purposes. Requires the Secretary to submit a report on the results of such research program not later than 4 years after the enactment of this act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1973
Establishes a number of discharge review boards to be known as Vietnam Era Discharge Review Boards which shall review the discharges and dismissed of Vietnam Era Serviceman. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish the number of such boards, and to determine their location and when they shall convene. Outlines the membership and responsibilities of such boards in regard to less than honorable discharges of servicemen.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Provides that no action may be taken by the Department of Defense which: (1) results in the permanent reduction in the number of direct hire civilians of the United States employed at any military installation in the United States unless, prior to the date on which such termination is to become effective, there is a comparable reduction in force of foreign nationals employed by the United States at military installations overseas; or (2) results in the closing of any military installation in the United States, while there exists an equivalent United States overseas which performs a like function and that function can be performed at either the domestic or foreign installation. States that the prohibitions contained in this Act shall not apply in any case in which the Secretary of Defense makes a finding that a reduction in the civilian personnel overseas or the transfer of an activity from an overseas installation would seriously and adversely affect the defense posture or the economy of the United States and promptly reports such finding(s) in writing to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Makes it unlawful for any Executive Branch officer or any person acting under such officer's authority to require any of the following from any United States Government employee or any applicant for employment in the Executive Branch of the Government: (1) disclose their race, religion, or national origin; (2) attend Government-sponsored meetings and lectures or participate in outside activities unrelated to their employment; (3) report on their outside activites or undertakings unrelated to their work; (4) submit to questioning about their religion, personal relationships or sexual attitudes through interviews, psychological tests, or polygraphs; and (5) support political candidates or attend political meetings. Permits inquiries into national origin when necessary for the national interest or overseas work. Allows agency officers to advise employees of charges of sexual misconduct as long as the employee has an opportunity to refute the charge. Makes it illegal to coerce an employee to buy bonds or make charitable contributions; or to require him to disclose his own personal assets, liabilities, or expenditures, or those of any member of his family unless they would show a conflict of interest. Provides a right to have a counsel or other person present, if the employee wishes, at an interview which may lead to disciplinary proceedings. Makes it unlawful for any Civil Service Commission officer to require any executive department or agency to do any prohibited act; or to require a person seeking to establish Civil Service status or employment in the executive branch to submit to interrogation, polygraph testing, or psychological testing designed to elicit views regarding religion, personal relationships, or sexual attitude. Accords the right to a civil action in a Federal court for violation or threatened violation of this Act. Directs the Attorney General to defend all persons sued who acted pursuant to an order or who, in his opinion, did not willfully violate this Act. Establishes a three-member Board on Employees' Rights with members appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Grants the Board the authority and duty to receive and investigate written complaints from any person claiming to be aggrieved by any violation or threatened violation of this Act and to conduct a hearing on each such complaint. Grants the Board powers which will eliminate violation of this Act. Directs the Board to make an annual report of its activities to Congress. Excludes the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency from the provisions of this Act. Permits the establishment of agency grievance procedures to enforce this Act, but the existence of such procedures shall not preclude the use of other remedies.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Menominee Restoration Act - Provides for the repeal of the Act of June 17, 1954 which terminated Federal supervision of the Menominee Tribe. Provides that within fifteen days after the date of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall announce the date of a general council meeting of the tribe to elect the Menominee Restoration Committee. States that the Menominee Restoration Committee shall represent the Menominee people in the implementation of this Act and shall have no powers other than those given to it in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the Menominee Restoration Committee, under contract with the Secretary, to proceed to make current the membership role of the Menominee Tribe in accordance with the terms of this Act. Requires the Menominee Restoration Committee to conduct elections by secret ballot for the purposes of determining the tribe's constitution and bylaws and the individuals who shall serve as members of the tribe's governing body. States that subject to the approval of the shareholders as required by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, the board of Directors of Menominee Enterprises Incorporated shall transfer to the Secretary all assets held by such corporation. Provides that such assets shall be held in trust by the Secretary, on behalf of the United States for the tribe. Authorizes the Secretary to make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Makes it the sense of the Senate that: (1) the President immediately designate an individual of the highest character and integrity from outside the Executive Branch to serve as special prosecutor for the government of the United States in any and all criminal investigations, indictments, and actions arising from any illegal activity by any persons, acting individually or in combination with others, in the Presidential election of 1972, or any campaing, canvass, or other activity related to it; (2) the President should grant such special prosceutor all authority necessary and proper to the effective performance of his duties; and (3) the President should submit the name of such designee to the Senate, requesting a resolution of approval thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Provides that the Postal Service shall establish and assure, to all postal patrons, service standards which include but are not limited to: (1) next-day delivery of mail deposited for delivery within a five-hundred-mile radius; (2) delivery within not more than three consecutive days of mail deposited for delivery within the United States outside a five-hundred-mile radius; (3) carrier services, including parcel post delivery, on a six-day-a-week basis; (4) post office window service on a six-day-a-week basis; and (5) second attempt delivery of parcel post. States that any administrative or managerial official of the Postal Service who knowingly and willfully engages in specific actions to violate any of these service standards, or to prevent or impede the efficient and effective application of and adherence to such standards, shall be discharged from the Postal Service. Provides that public service costs, as determined by postal service, for providing a maximum degree of effective and regular postal service nationwide, in communities where postal office may not be deemed self-sustaining, as elsewhere, and in complying with this Act at reasonable and equitable rates and fees shall be paid out of the general fund of the Treasury and shall not constitute direct charges in the form of rates and fees upon any user or class of users of such public services, or of the mails generally.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Family Nutrition Act - Extends eligibility, under the Food Stamp Act, to specified households whether or not they occupy an entire dwelling unit. Establishes uniform national standards of eligibility for participation by households in the food stamp program and the program of distribution of federally donated foods, including: (1) the income eligibility criteria shall not be less than the equivalent of the product of the face value of the coupon allotment issued to a household; (2) the resource eligibility criteria, for liquid and nonliquid assets, shall not be less than $3,000 for each individual sixty years of age or over; and (3) households in which members are included in a federally aided public assistance program under the Social Security Act shall be eligible to participate in the food stamp program if they satisfy the eligibility criteria. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish standards of eligibility for (1) households that are victims of a natural disaster, and (2) for Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands, to reflect the cost of obtaining a nutritionally adequate diet in those areas. Grants the Secretary the power to investigate complaints made by participating households into the pricing policies of retail food stores. Provides that the face value of the coupon allotment be updated twice a year and incorporate the rise in the cost of food through March 31st of this year. Provides an extra allotment for a pregnant woman, a $12 bonus per month for each child under one year of age, and an allotment bonus to persons medically certified as requiring a special diet of such an amount as the Secretary determines is necessary to provide that person with a nutritionally adequate diet. Reduces from 30 percent to 25 percent of the household's income the maximum charge that can be made for coupon allotment. Requires households desiring to participate in the food stamp program to be certified for eligibility or denied within fifteen days. States that when certification or denial is not made within fifteen days temporary certification of eligibility shall be provided to such household until a final decision on the merits can be made. Provides that State agencies desiring to participate in the food stamp program shall submit a plan including provisions on: (1) the use of the eligibility standards and certification procedures; (2) safeguards restricting the use or disclosure of information obtained from applicant households; (3) granting a fair hearing, and prompt determination thereafter, to any household aggrieved by any action of a State agency under any provision of its plan; (4) issuance of coupon allotments no less often than two times per month; (5) the institution of procedures by which any household may elect to have the charges for its coupon allotment deducted from any grant under the Social Security Act. Provides that failure of a State agency to comply with this Act allows the Secretary to pursue one or more of the following sanctions: (1) request the Attorney General to petition a district court to enjoin such State to comply with this Act; (2) disallow administrative funds expended by the State agency not in compliance with this Act; (3) require the State agency to reimburse any households affected by the agency's failure to comply with this Act; or (4) directly administer such program as the Secretary deems appropriate. Provides that members of an eligible household who are sixty or over are allowed to use food stamps to purchase meals prepared especially for elderly persons. Raises to 80 percent the amount the Secretary is authorized to pay State agencies for the cost of administering the Food Stamp Act. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974, 1975 and 1976 as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Prohibits any material to be enclosed with any social security check which contains the name, signature, or title of any Federal officer other than the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. (Adds 42 U.S.C. 405(n))
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Provides for the establishment of a national cemetery near the Fort Randall Dam, South Dakota. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Directs the President, after public hearing, to provide for the establishment of priorities of use and for systematic allocation of supplies of petroleum products including crude oil in order to meet the essential needs of various sections of the Nation and to prevent anticompetitive effects resulting from shortages of such products. Creates in the Executive Office of the President an Emergency Fuels Allocation Board, composed of five members, to expedite the implementation of directives by the President, as authorized by this resolution. Grants the Board necessary powers to carry out the functions of this joint resolution. Requires the Board to implement specific programs to promote the expansion of domestic refinery capacity consistent with reasonable requirements of environmental protection, and public awareness of the dimensions of the fuel shortage crisis in the United States, and voluntary action to curtail nonessential use of private transportation and of living conveniences requiring electric power. Directs the Attorney General to take such steps as may be necessary to assure that during the existing fuel shortage emergency, marketing practices by major refiners and fuel allocation polices by the Government of the United States are not detrimental to the maintenance of a viable competitive domestic petroleum industry and do not result in a foreclosure to independent marketers of supplies from major oil companies. Provides that the authorities provided for in this resolution shall be effective through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1973
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State shall not renegotiate the present North Pacific Fur Seal Convention and that it should be allowed to expire in 1976. Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State should immediately notify the other parties to the convention that the United States does not intend to extend its life beyond 1976. Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State should immediately initiate negotiations with the parties to the convention and any other interested States for the purpose of obtaining an international agreement or ageements to ban all killing of North Pacific fur seals whether on the Pribilof Islands or on the high seas.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
States that notwithstanding any other provision of law, the payment rate for corn to producers participating in the 1973 feed grain program under the so-called option B part of the program under the Agricultural Act of 1970 (for partial compliance) shall be increased to such rate as, together with the national average market price received by farmers for corn during the first five months of the marketing year for the crop, the Secretary determines will be equal to: (A) $1.35 per bushel, or (B) 70 percent of the parity price of corn as of the beginning of the marketing year, whichever is the greater. Provides that the payment rates for grain sorghums and barley shall be such rates, respectively, as the Secretary determines fair and reasonable in relation to the rate at which payments are made available for corn. availabe for corn. Provides that such payments shall be made available on 50 percent of the feed grain base for the farm as provided in the Agricultural Act. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1441nt).
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Provides that no person engaged in commerce in the business of refining petroleum into gasoline and furnishing gasoline to retail distributors of gasoline for sale to the public shall fail to furnish gasoline to independent retail distributors of gasoline, whether or not franchised by such person, at wholesale prices in reasonable quantities as long as he continues to furnish gasoline to retail distributors of gasoline which are wholly owned by him or operated under a franchise granted by him.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Requires the payment of interest by the United States on overpayments of tax under the Internal Revenue Code without regard to date of refund. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 6611 (e))
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to allow participants in the plan B feed grain set-aside program to transfer into the plan A set aside program.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Pollock-Herreid unit, South Dakota pumping division, Missouri River Basin project, South Dakota. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
United States Pacific Islands Surface Commerce Act - Provides that no strike or lockout in the longshore or maritime industry in the States of Washington, Oregon, or California shall be permitted to interrupt normal shipping from any port on the west coast to Hawaii, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Guam, or American Samoa or from Hawaii or any United States Pacific island to any port on the west coast for a period of 160 days beginning on the first day of the strike or lockout. Authorizes an employer, labor organization, or executive official of Hawaii and such United States Pacific islands to petition any United States district court having jurisdiction to issue an injunction or temporary restraining order to enforce this provision. Provides that employees working during this 160 day period shall receive in addition to regular wages, if strike or lockout is resolved, wages at a rate equal to the difference between the wage provided under the agreement which resolves the dispute and the wage received prior to resolution of the dispute.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1973
Enables domestic growers or canners of seasonal fruits or vegetables or of fruit juices, fruit nectars, or fruit drinks prepared from such seasonal fruits, which were packed in hermetically sealed containers and sterilized by heat, to secure adjudication of claims for losses in the Court of Claims arising from the actions relating to cyclamic acid taken by the United States under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Creates the Military Installation closing Commission with members from specified Government agencies, the legislative branch, and the private sector. States that the Commission's duties shall be to review and evaluate any decision of the Department of Defense to close any military installation with a view toward determining whether the losing of such installation is in the best interests of national defense, the nation's economy, and military efficiency.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Prohibits the further expenditure of funds to finance the involvement of the Armed Forces of the United States in armed hostilities in Cambodia unless specifically authorized by legislation enacted after this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Provides that in any proceeding before the Tax Court for the redetermination of a deficiency, the prevailing party may be awarded a judgment of costs to the same extent as is provided for civil actions brought against the United States. States that a judgment of costs entered by the Tax Court shall be treated, for purposes of this Act in the same manner: (1) as an overpayment of tax, in the case of a judgment of costs in favor of the petitioner, and (2) as an underpayment of tax, in the case of a judgment of costs against the petitioner. Provides that interest or penalty shall be allowed or assessed with respect to any judgment of costs. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 7465)
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1973
Establishes the National Commission on Executive Security to: (1) conduct a study of all laws, and of all rules, regulations, and orders, relating to the classification and protection of information, and the practices and procedures of Federal agencies with respect to such matters for the purpose of determining what reorganization, if any, of the executive branch needs to be made to insure full disclosure of information, consistent with the security of the United States; (2) determine which such laws, rules, regulations, orders, and procedures are necessary, appropriate, and consistent with the freedom of speech, press, and assembly guaranteed by the first amendment to the Constitution, the freedom of information, and the efficient and equitable operation of Government; (3) determine what, if any, modifications of existing laws, rules, regulations, orders, and procedures are required to insure a more efficient, equitable, and uniform system for maximum possible disclosure of information, consistent with the security of the United States; (4) make recommendations for legislation or other governmental action to preserve and protect the security of the United States in a manner consistent with the right of the people of the United States to full disclosure of information relating to their Government; and (5) determine whether an independent agency should be established to insure the maximum disclosure of information. Directs the Chairman of the Commission to hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, administer such oaths, and require by subpena or otherwise the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memorandums, papers, and documents as the Commission may deem advisable. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Provides that any executive agreement made on or after the date of enactment of this Act shall be transmitted to the Secretary of State who shall then transmit such agreement to the Congress. States that if, in the opinion of the President, the immediate disclosure of such an agreement would be prejudicial to the security of the United States the agreement shall be transmitted to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House under an appropriate written injuction of secrecy to be removed only upon due notice from the President. Provides that any such agreement shall come into force with respect to the United States at the end of the first period of 60 calendar days after the date on which the executive agreement is transmitted to the Congress or such committees, as the case may be unless, both Houses pass a concurrent resolution stating in substance that both Houses do not approve the executive agreement. Sets forth the procedure to be followed by the Congress in the case of concurrent resolutions described above.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Declares that specified federally owned lands are held by the United States in trust for the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in North and South Dakota.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Authorizes the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation to consolidate its landholdings in North Dakota and South Dakota. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take such action as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1973
Grants the Interstate Commerce Commission under the Interstate Commerce Act certain authority over railroad car service when an emergency is or may be imminent.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to transfer franchise fees received from certain concession operations at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, in the States of Arizona and Utah, to the Navajo Indian Tribe.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Congressional Free Speech Act - Provides that no court or grand jury shall inquire of a Member or an aide either directly or indirectly into the protected legislative activities of a Member in a criminal proceeding without the Member's consent. Requires the Attorney General of the United States to personally approve the issuance of any subpena to a Member who is at that time serving in Congress, and to notify in writing that Member, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in the case of a Representative, and the President pro tempore of the Senate, in the case of a Senator, not less than forty-eight hours in advance of the issuance of the subpena. Provides that when an aide is served with a subpena which he has reason to believe may require his testimony on the protected legislative activity of a Member, the aide shall immediately inform that Member. Permits any Member to move in United States district court to quash any subpena issued by a court or grand jury in a criminal proceeding requiring him or an aide to appear to give testimony where the Member believes that the subpena seeks testimony about protected legislative activity. Sets forth the procedure for such a motion.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to use the Rural Housing Insurance Fund for the purpose of making loans for housing and buildings on farms in the amounts specified in appropriation acts for such purpose. Provides that 60 percent of such funds shall be used to grant low interest rate loans to low and moderate income persons and families. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 1487(c))
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