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United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1975
Disapproves the deferral of specified authority relating to rural water and waste disposal grants as proposed by the President on October 3, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1975
Disapproves the deferral of budget authority relating to rural housing for domestic farm labor grants as proposed by the President on October 3, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1975
States that the Senate disapproves the deferral of budget authority relating to mutual and self-help housing grants as proposed by the President on October 3, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1975
Removes the requirement for Congressional approval of all single Farmers Home Administration Loans in excess of $250,000 made under the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act for resource conservation and development projects conducted with the assistance of the Soil Conservation Service.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1975
Removes the $5,000,000 limitation on any single loan or advancement for watershed projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1975
Authorizes K. Kirke Kickingbird, General Counsel of the American Indian Policy Review Commission, to appear and testify in the case of the National Tribal Chairmen's Association, et. al. v. James G. Abourezk, et. al.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1975
Provides for annual payments to be made to State or local governments by the Secretary of the Interior in the amount of 75 cents per acre for public lands within the boundaries of such State or locality.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1975
Provides that the inpatient hospital deductible under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act shall be increased from $40 to $92 in the case of any spell of illness beginning before 1977. Sets forth a formula for adjusting the impatient deductible for subsequent years, equal to $92 multiplied by the ratio of the current average per diem rate for inpatient hospital services for the preceding year to the current average per diem rate for such services for 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1975
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a program for purposes of preventing and controlling Dutch elm disease in forest, urban, and other areas. States that such program shall include: (1) the conducting of surveys; (2) the providing of assistance in cooperation with State or local agencies; and (3) the acceleration of research. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the activities performed under (1) and (2), $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1977; $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1978; and such sums as may be necessary for the succeeding fiscal years. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the research conducted under (3), $400,000 for each of the five fiscal years beginning with fiscal year 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1975
Urges the Secretary of Agriculture to increase involvement of farmers in the policy and decision-making operations of the Department of Agriculture through the elected community committeeman system.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that every person has a right to an adequate diet. Provides that recognition of this right should guide United States policy. Seeks to have all who are in need receive help through food assistance programs. Calls for this country to increase its assistance for self-help development among the world's poorest nations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1975
Increases the amount of the estate tax exemption under the Internal Revenue Code from $60,000 to $150,000. Provides that farmland included in the gross estate be valued according to its use as farmland.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1975
Petroleum Industry Competition Act - Declares the finding of the Congress that existing antitrust laws have been inadequate to maintain and restore effective competition in the petroleum industry. Declares the policy of Congress to facilitate the creation of competition in the petroleum industry through the separation and divestment of assets and interests by vertically integrated major petroleum companies. Defines the terms used in this Act. Makes it unlawful, three years after enactment of this Act: (1) for any major petroleum producer to own, or control any interest (direct, indirect, or through an affiliate) in any refinery, transportation, or marketing assets; (2) for any petroleum transporter to own or control any interest (direct, indirect, or through an affiliate) in any production, refinery, or marketing asset; (3) for any major refiner or major marketer to own or control any interest (direct, indirect, or through an affiliate) in any production or transportation asset; and (4) for any major refiner to own or control any interest (direct, indirect, or through an affiliate) in any marketing asset. Stipulates that, three years after enactment of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person who owns any interest affecting commerce in any refining or production or marketing asset to transport any crude oil or refined product in which he has an interest by means of any transportation asset in which he has any interest. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to require each person covered under the provisions of this Act to submit within one year of enactment of this Act a plan for divestment of the prohibited assets. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to institute suits in the district courts of the United States requesting the issuance of such relief as is appropriate to assure compliance with this Act. Stipulates that any person who knowingly or willfully violates this Act shall be punished, in the case of an individual, by a fine not to exceed $500,000 or by imprisonment for a period not to exceed 10 years, or both, or in the case of a corporation, by a fine not to exceed $5,000,000 or by suspension of the right to do business in interstate commerce for a period not to exceed 10 years, or both. Provides that a violation by a corporation shall be deemed to be also a violation by the individual directors, officers, receivers, trustees, or agents of such corporation who shall have authorized, ordered, or done any of the acts constituting the violation in whole or in part, or who shall have omitted to authorize, order, or do any acts which would terminate, prevent, or correct conduct violative of this Act. Provides that any person who violates a lawful order of the Federal Trade Commission issued pursuant to this Act shall forfeit and pay to the United States for each violation a civil penalty of not more than $100,000 which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil action brought by the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Revises the National Security Act to include the Secretary of the Treasury as a member of the National Security Council.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Exempts specified business transactions carried out within the exterior boundaries of Indian reservations from State transaction taxes, State use taxes, State transfer taxes, State sales taxes, and State licence fees, under conditions set forth in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Equity in Health Insurance Act - Prohibits any person who uses the mails or any means of interstate transportation or communication to contract or to advertise services in contracting to provide health insurance from denying or limiting the insurance normally written solely because of the insured's sex or marital status. Requires any such insurance agent to include in any health insurance policy: (1) optional maternity benefits for dependents of the insured; (2) a provision for notice to dependents when they are no longer covered by such policy; and (3) provision of such insurance to part-time employees when made available on a group basis.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Declares it to be the finding of Congress that the Government of Canada has announced that it intends to reduce crude oil exports to the United States and to elimnate such exports by 1983. States that areas of this country which are heavily dependent on such crude oil will experience severe economic and supply disruptions as a result of the cutoff. Authorizes the President to issue regulations providing for the mandatory allocation of crude oil imported from Canada to United States refineries on the basis of need.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Life Support Centers Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to State health agencies for originating, continuing, extending, or improving programs involved in the provision of: (1) necessary health care to prospective adolescent mothers; (2) necessary health care to infants of adolescent mothers during their preschool years; (3) family planning services; (4) a coordinated program of social services including educational, vocational, legal, social, counseling, and referral services designed for adolescent mothers; and (5) funds to purchase adoption services for adolescent mothers participating in a program established under this Act who are considering the placement of their children in adoptive homes. Limits the Federal share of assistance to such programs to 75 percent of the cost. Sets forth conditions governing approval of grants. Authorizes appropriations of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next two suceeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Disapproves the deferral of specified budget authority relating to rural water and waste disposal grants as proposed by the President to the Congress on July 26, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should make public immediately all agreements and understandings entered into and all commitments made by the United States with respect to Israel and Egypt.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Disapproves the deferral of specified budget authority relating to rural housing for domestic farm labor grants as proposed by the President on July 26, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Disapproves the deferral of specified budget authority relating to mutual and self-help housing grants as proposed by the President on July 26, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1975
Fairness in Franchising Act - Directs the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a continuing review and study of the substantive and procedural law applicable to franchises and franchising. Provides that no franchisor who is doing business in or affecting interstate commerce shall cancel, fail to renew, or otherwise terminate a franchise unless he furnishes prior notice of at least 90 days to each franchise affected thereby. States that a franchisor who is doing business in or affecting interstate commerce shall not cancel or terminate a franchise unless: (1) such franchisor has good cause for such cancellation or termination or (2) such franchisor is effecting a marketing area withdrawal. States that a franchisor who is doing business in or affecting interstate commerce shall not terminate a franchise by failure to renew unless: (1) such franchisor has good cause for such failure to renew; (2) such franchisor has a legitimate business reason for such failure to renew if the term of the agreement which is not being renewed was five years or more; or (3) such franchisor is effecting a marketing area withdrawal upon the expiration of the terms of the franchises outstanding in the area involved. Provides that a franchisor who fails to renew for a legitimate business reason shall pay to the franchise involved a reasonable compensation for the value to the latter's business, including, but not limited to, goodwill. Authorizes franchisees to maintain civil actions against franchisors for conduct prohibited under this Act. Authorizes Federal district courts to grant such equitable relief as is necessary to remedy the effects of conduct which it finds to exist and which is prohibited under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1975
Provides assistance in the amount of $50,000 to each State under the Rehabilitation Act to establish or continue a Governor's Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped in such State. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,550,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1975
States that approval of State highway safety programs by the Secretary of Transportation shall not be contingent upon any requirement that a State adopt a law or regulation requiring any motorcycle operator 18 years of age or older or passenger 18 years of age or older to wear a safety helmet when operating or riding a motorcycle. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 402)
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare should withdraw its proposed Consolidated Procedural Rules for Administration and Enforcement of the Department's statutory responsibilities. States that if additional positions are required for enforcement of Civil Rights laws such need should be brought to the attention of the Senate. Directs the Office of Civil Rights to continue to make efforts to detect systematic discrimination including those areas relating to discrimination based on sex and handicap.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Family Research Act - Authorizes a program of research to help better understand, identify and prevent pressures on families; to be carried out, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, through State agricultural experiment stations and land-grant colleges of the United States and by other qualified and nonprofit agencies and organizations. Sets up procedures to be followed in making initial research grants. Provides that each land grant college submitting a research project approved by the Secretary shall be entitled to an initial grant of $100,000. Authorizes the appropriation of $7,100,000 for fiscal year 1976 and the three succeeding fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make supplemental grants to land grant colleges after specified requirements are met. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 for 1976; $12,000,000 for 1977; $14,000,000 for 1978; and $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 for the purpose of making supplemental grants. Requires that in order to be eligible for such grants under this Act the institutions concerned must expend, on the same general type of research for which funds are made available, an amount at least equal to the amount of funds such institution averaged spending on such type of research in the three calendar years before this Act was enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Provides, under the Water Resources Development Act, that the Secretary of the Army shall not require as a condition precedent to the construction of bank stabilization works for the protection of the Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, South Dakota, that such Hospital agree to hold and save the United States free from damage due to such construction.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
States that approval of State highway safety programs by the Secretary of Transportation shall not be contingent upon any requirement that a State adopt a law or regulation requiring any motorcycle operator 18 years of age or older or passenger 18 years of age or older to wear a safety helmet when operating or riding a motorcycle. (Amends 23 U.S.C. 402)
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Rural Manpower Service Act - Provides for job development, training and placement service programs for eligible residents of each State with rural subdivisions of 10,000 population or less. Establishes within the Department of Labor a Rural Manpower Service to guarantee equitable manpower and employment services to rural people. Sets forth administrative controls to be adhered to by the Secretary of Labor. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress annually on the activities of the Department and its affiliated State employment service agencies in carrying out this Act. Directs the Secretary to estimate the funds necessary for the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1975
Revises the Housing and Community Development Act: (1) to provide that 70 percent of the amount appropriated for grants to help finance Community Development Programs be allocated to metropolitan areas; (2) to provide that 30 percent of the amount appropriated for such grants be allocated to units of local government and areas of States outside of metropolitan areas; (3) to set aside a portion of such grants for use by Indian tribes; and (4) to increase from $8,400,000,000 to $8,825,000,000 the amount of obligations which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is authorized to incur in the form of grant agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1975
Congressional Right to Information Act - Requires the head of every Federal agency: (1) to keep each committee and subcommittee of Congress fully informed with respect to all matters relating to the agency which are within the jurisdiction of the committee or subcommittee; and (2) to provide the Congress, its committees and subcommittees, with all information requested. Requires all officers or employees of the United States, when summoned to testify or to produce evidence before Congress or a committee or subcommittee thereof, to appear as requested, and to furnish all information required. Provides for the withholding of such information by instruction of the President. Provides for the subpena of an officer or employee of the United States or of information requested by Congress, when such officer fails to appear or such information is withheld. Provides for the bringing of a civil action to enforce such subpena. Sets forth rules for the treatment of any resolution introduced in Congress to enforce a subpena issued pursuant to this Act. Grants to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia the original jurisdiction over actions brought to enforce a subpena issued pursuant to this Act. Directs the Congress, and each committee and subcommittee thereof to take measures to insure the confidentiality of any information made available to it under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1975
Redefines, for purposes of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act and the Housing Act of 1949, the term "rural area" to permit towns of 30,000 or less inhabitants to be considered rural areas.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1975
Solar Energy Equipment Loan Act - Establishes as an independent agency of the executive branch the Solar Energy Loan Administration to provide financing to homeowners for the purchase of solar-powered residential heating and cooling equipment. Authorizes the Administrator of the Solar Energy Loan Administration to make loans, repayable at 2 percent interest, for the purchase and installation of such equipment. Requires that equipment meet such minimum standards as are developed under the Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974. Authorizes up to $100,000,000 to be appropriated to provide an initial amount for the program under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Provides, under title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act, that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided thereunder to groups of low-income individuals aged sixty or older.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - 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 established pursuant to the Social Security Act, 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. Revises the formula by which the adjustment to the contribution and benefit base is to be computed following an increase in social security benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1975
Directs that during fiscal year 1976 not less than 70 percent of the value of government-to-government commodity grants and of funds expended under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 shall be allotted to countries designated by the United Nations as "Most Seriously Affected". Establishes priorities for such distribution. Establishes procedures whereby the President may, subject to congressional approval, provide commodity assistance in excess of the limitations specified in this resolution if such assistance is for humanitarian purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Disapproves the defferal of budget authority for the Youth Conservation Corps reported to Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States in his letter B-115398 of July 9, 1975, pursuant to section 1015(a) of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1975
Permits the American Indian Policy Review Commission to accept and use voluntary contributions of services, money, and property. Permits the mailing of the mail matter of the Commission under the congressional frank.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Reduces the rate of tax imposed under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 on the self-employed, employees, and employers for the payment of the cost of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance and the hospital insurance programs of the Social Security Act. Increases the Contribution and benefit base for tax determination purpose under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program. Increases by 50 percent the annual Federal contribution to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1975
States that it is the sense of the Senate that the United States Postal Service should not close third or fourth class post offices serving small communities on other than a case-by-case basis.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Judicial Salary Act - Removes the review of the rates of pay of Federal judges from the purview of the Commission on Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Salaries. Provides for automatic adjustments of the salaries of Federal judges commensurate with adjustments to the General Schedule of pay for Federal employees. Increases the salary of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to $74,500 annually; and the salaries of the associate justices to $72,000 annually. Increases the salaries of other Federal judges as set forth in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Establishes a Select Committee of the Senate on Federal Responsiveness and Accountability to study the problems of accountability and responsiveness at all levels of the Federal Government. Limits the expenses of the committee to an amount not to exceed $400,000 before February 29, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Urges the President to seek an immediate international suspension of the transfer to nonnuclear weapons countries of nuclear enrichment and reprocessing facilities and technology to permit time for the negotiation of additional safeguards to reduce the risk of diversion or theft of plutonium and other nuclear materials to military or other uses that would jeopardize world peace and security.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Provides that specified publications of institutions of higher education shall continue to qualify as second-class mail. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3626)
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is 60 years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of a permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949, and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Industrial Reorganization Act - Title I: Possession of Monopoly Power - Declares it to be unlawful for any corporation or two or more corporations, whether by agreement or not, to possess monopoly power in any line of commerce in any section of the country or with foreign nations. Sets forth the conditions under which there shall be a rebuttable presumption that monopoly power is possessed. Requires that in those instances not covered by the provisions of this Act, the burden to prove the the possession of a monopoly power shall lie on the Industrial Reorganization Commission established under this Act. Sets forth those conditions under which a corporation shall not be required to divest monopoly power. Title II: Industrial Reorganization Commission - Defines the terms used in this title. Establishes as an independent agency the Industrial Reorganization Commission. Provides for such Commission to be directed by a Commissioner appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Stipulates that the Office of Management and Budget shall not inspect, examine or audit the records or work of the Commission. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct such reviews and audits of the Commission as he deems necessary. Directs the Commission to study the structure, performance, and control of each of the following industries: (1) chemicals and drugs; (2) electrical machinery and equipment; (3) electronic computing and communication equipment; (4) energy; (5) iron and steel; (6) motor vehicles; and (7) nonferrous metals. Directs the Commission to report to the Congress not later than September 30 in each odd-numbered year with respect to the status of each study undertaken under this title, together with such recommendations, including recommendations for legislation, as it deems necessary. Provides that such legislative recommendations may include, but are not limited to, amendments to the antitrust laws, the Internal Revenue Code, the patent laws, and the National Labor Relations Act. Directs the Commission to prescribe violations of title I of this Act. Requires that the Commission shall terminate its operations 15 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and that the functions, jurisdiction, powers, and duties of the Commission shall be transferred to the Federal Trade Commission. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this title. Title III: Establishment of Industrial Reorganization Court - Provides that the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a chief judge and 14 associate judges who shall constitute a court of record known as the United States Industrial Reorganization Court. Declares that such court is established under article III of the Constitution of the United States. Makes provision for single-judge trials; except that three judges may be designated to hear and determine any civil action which the chief judge finds: (1) raises an issue of the constitutionality of an Act of Congress, a proclamation of the President, or an Executive order; or (2) has broad or significant implications in the administration or interpretation of this Act. Provides that the Court shall have original jurisdiction to hear and determine all complaints and proposed orders or reorganizations filed by the Commission under title I of this Act. Allows corporation or corporations to, within 60 days from the entry of judgment, file a reorganization. Provides that the Court shall conduct a proceeding to determine whether or not the proposed order or orders of reorganization would restore effective competition. States that the Court shall then enter an order of reorganization to effectuate the purposes of this Act. Provides that appeal from any final order of the Court will lie only to the Supreme Court. Limits the scope of review on appeal to: (1) whether or not the Court proceeded correctly under the provisions of this title; and (2) whether or not the findings of fact of the Court are supported by substantial evidence.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1975
National Nutrition Education Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to encourage the provision of nutrition education programs in the classrooms and lunchrooms of elementary and secondary schools by establishing a system of grants for teacher training, pilot and demonstration projects, and the development of comprehensive nutrition education programs. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State educational agencies and institutions of higher education for teacher training with respect to the provision of nutrition education programs in schools. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $12,500,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 to carry out the provision of grants. Provides that the Commissioner may make grants to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public or private nonprofit education or research agencies, institutions, or organizations to pay the cost of pilot demonstration projects in elementary and secondary schools with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. States that the Commissioner may make grants to State education agencies to pay the Federal share of the cost of developing and carrying out nutrition education programs in elementary and secondary schools within each State. Sets forth criteria to be followed in applying for grants under this Act. Directs the Commissioner to render technical assistance to local education agencies, through qualified staff members having expertise in nutrition, health education, school food services, home economics, dietetics, and physical education, to public and private nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of education programs with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. Stipulates that in order to be eligible for assistance under this Act a State shall appoint a State coordinator for nutrition education. Directs the State coordinator for each State to develop, prepare, and furnish to the Commissioner a comprehensive plan for nutrition education within that State. Establishes in the Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Nutrition Education Resources Center. Sets forth the functions of the Center, including the following: (1) to collect and create curriculum materials relevant to nutrition education, including, but not limited to, the integration of nutrition education materials into all subject matter at the elementary and secondary education levels; and (2) to collect information and materials relating to nutrition education and maintain such information and materials in a library for the use of State coordinators and other interested persons. Authorizes appropriations of up to $2,000,000 per fiscal year to establish and maintain the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Eliminates the requirement of apportionment of appointments in the departmental service in the District of Columbia.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Establishes within the Internal Revenue Service a Division for Taxpayer Assistance to investigate taxpayer complaints and criticisms. Requires the Internal Revenue Service to publish and distribute with every return form furnished to a taxpayer an outline of criteria used to select returns for audit and the procedures relevant to assessments and collections arising out of an audit for a taxpayer's return.