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United States · United States Congress · 21 October 1975
Condemns the resolution adopted by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly which equates Zionism with racism.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the right of students to attend the public school nearest their place of residency shall not be denied or abridged for reasons of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1975
Revises the formula for determination of the amount of tax to be imposed on charitable foundations upon their failure to distribute income by changing the method of calculation of the minimum investment return for any private foundation for any taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1975
Includes, under the National Security Act, the Attorney General as a member of the National Security Council.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should, upon his visit to the People's Republic of China, request that the Chinese officials use their offices to obtain an accounting of members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action and confined as prisoners of war in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1975
Changes the excise tax imposed on the investment income of private foundations under the Internal Revenue Code from four percent to two percent.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1975
Provides staffing standards for day care centers receiving assistance under title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act by requiring specified adult-child ratios for the various age groups of children attending such centers.
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 1975
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Extension Act - Provides for the extension of the Emergency Allocation Act from August 31, 1975, to December 31, 1980.
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
States that whenever any officer in the executive branch of the Federal Government proposes to prescribe any rule or regulation, or change any existing rule or regulation, such rule or regulation must be submitted to each House of Congress together with a report containing a full explantion thereof. Provides that no such rule shall become effective if the Congress disapproves it within a sixty-day period. Specifies that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to regulations dealing with national security, foreign affairs, agency management, or personnel matters.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Establishes a timetable for Senate consideration of and action on legislative proposals relating to continuing congressional oversight of Government intelligence and other surveillance activities.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Extends the authorizations for appropriations under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 an additional three years until September, 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Revises the Standing Rules of the Senate to require that at least twenty-five Senators be present on the floor of the Senate during proceedings of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Revises the Clean Air Act by extending through 1981 the interim standards applicable to emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen from light vehicles manufactured during 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1975
Highway Safety Act - Revises the Highway Safety Act to provide for the reduction of funds apportioned to a State for highway safety programs when such State does not have or is not implementing such programs. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1977 through 1980 for the purposes of making incentive grants to States which have showed the greatest progress in reducing traffic fatalities. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out highway safety and highway safety research and development programs under the Highway Safety Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1975
Authorizes supplemental expenditures through February 1976 by the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Agencies for an inquiry and investigation relating to the intelligence activities carried out by or on behalf of the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture to submit, to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate, a plan for the eradication of the animal disease brucellosis over a five-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Expresses the disapproval of the United States Senate of attempts to expel Israel for the United Nations. States that if Israel is expelled the Senate will review United States commitments to the Third World nations involved in the expulsion and will consider the implication of continued membership in the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Federal-Aid Highway Act - Expresses the Federal interest in completing and maintaining an effective national interstate highway system. Provides funding authorizations for the highway program, consistent with other transportation and national priorities. Revises the apportionment formula and operating procedures to place highest priority on expediting the completion of interstate routes of national significance. Places lower priority on completion of routes primarily serving local needs. Increases State and local flexibility in using Federal transportation assistance. Consolidates approximately thirty highway categorical grant programs into four broad programs: interstate system, urban and suburban transportation assistance program (areas over 50,000 population), rural transportation assistance program (any area not covered under the urban program), and the highway safety improvement program. Makes available urban, rural, and safety funds for use on highways not on the Federal-aid system and for projects to improve public transportation. Eliminates the Highway Trust Fund's October 1, 1977, termination date. Extends the Trust Fund indefinitely. Provides that the Trust Fund shall be maintained exclusively for the construction and improvement of the interstate system. Reduces revenues from the Federal gasoline tax going into the Highway Trust Fund from four cents to one cent. Provides that the Trust Fund would continue to receive revenues from other user taxes (tires, auto and truck parts, etc.) and the diesel fuel tax. Directs that all non-interstate Federal highway programs-including rural, urban, and safety improvement-be financed out of the general fund. Requires that two of the three cents no longer going into the Highway Trust fund be returned to the general Fund of the U.S. Treasury. Provides that the remaining one cent of the three cents be repealed in any State which correspondingly raises its State gasoline tax by at least one cent after September 30, 1976. Directs that if a State determines not to increase its own gasoline tax, the excess Federal revenues would go into the general fund. Provides that it would not be mandatory that States use this one cent from the Federal gasoline tax for transportation purposes. Classifies the routes on the interstate system into two categories. Provides that the first category consists of routes of national significance which are required for the development of a connected limited access intercity highway network. Provides access to and routes through or around major population centers. States that the second category consists of all other interstate routes. Provides commuter service in major urbanized areas where the integrity of a connected interstate system would be provided by other routes. Gives greater weight in the statutory apportionment formula to the cost of completing those routes of national significance. Apportions 50 percent of the annual authorization, based upon the cost of completing only those routes of national significance and 50 percent based upon the cost of completing all routes on the system. Provides that States with few routes of national importance would receive comparatively less funding, while States with critical gaps in the system would generally receive increased funding. Requires that any funds apportioned based upon the cost of completing routes of national significance could only be used on those routes. Directs that remaining funds could be used on any routes. Makes lapsed interstate funds available only at the discretion of the Secretary of Transportation and only for use on routes of national significance.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Authorizes, under the International Travel Act of 1961, additional appropriations for transition periods in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979, to carry out specified programs funded under such Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Interior for fiscal years 1976-1978 to promote, through the National Park Service, travel within the United States. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote and develop travel within the United States through activities which are in the public interest and which do not complete with activities of any State, city, or private agency.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Authorizes the restoration of survivor compensation under Federal retirement benefits to any widow or widower who has remarried if such remarriage is later dissolved by death, annulment, or divorce.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Requires the continued application of the minimum nursing salary cost differential of 8 1/2 percent which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient nursing care for purposes of reimbursement to providers under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the month of September of each year as "National Gospel Music Month".
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Provides for the relief of Doctor Lawrence Chin Bong Chan.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Authorizes appropriations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to carry out its functions during fiscal year 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
States that the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards shall review safety studies, facility license applications, and site permit applications, and shall advise the Atomic Energy Commission with regard to the hazards of proposed or existing reactor facilities and the adequacy of proposed reactor safety standards. Authorizes the Atomic Energy Commission to cooperate with persons proposing to construct and/or operate atomic power plants in advance planning for the selection of power production sites. Directs the Commission to require approval of the preliminary or final design of a production or utilization facility for industrial or commercial purposes. Provides that the terms and conditions of all licenses and site permits shall be subject to amendment, revision, or modification to conform with rules and regulations issued under this Act. Authorizes the Atomic Energy Commission to take specified measures to expedite the conduct of administrative proceedings under this Act and the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, including coordination with State agencies in the overall regulatory decision process.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
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. Specifies the composition of the board, including: four members appointed by the President, and seven members appointed by the Librarian of Congress. Directs the Librarian to appoint a Director of the Center. Authorizes the Center to establish and implement a program of contracts, grants, loans and scholarships to promote and support 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, with specified exceptions. Provides that no former employee of the Federal government 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 Librarian of Congress, for inclusion in his annual report to the Congress, an annual report of its operations under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Center to carry out the provisions of this Act $167,750 for fiscal year 1976, $710,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $1,716,000 for fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the seven calendar days commencing on April 30 of each year as "National Beta Sigma Phi Week".
United States · United States Congress · 28 April 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, because of natural disaster to a farm or portion thereof, to transfer land allocated to peanut acreage to another farm in the county when each crop cannot be timely planted or replanted in such year.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1975
Authorizes to be appropriated to the President for fiscal year 1975, to remain available until expended, $50,000,000 for the purpose of providing humanitarian assistance to refugees and other needy people who are victims of the conflict in Cambodia. Requires the President to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report describing fully and completely: (1) the amount of each type of economic assistance provided under this Act; (2) the expected recipients of such assistance; (3) the names of all organizations and agencies involved in the distribution of such assistance; and (4) the means with which such distribution is carried out.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Offender Employment and Training Act - Title I: Federal Penal or Correctional Institutions - Authorizes the National Institute of Corrections from a fund to be established called the Federal Employment and Training Fund, to make grants and loans to, or contract with qualified applicants, establish within or without any Federal penal or correctional institution projects for the purpose of training or employing offenders. Stipulates that no loan or grant shall be made unless the National Institute of Corrections first determines that: (1) offenders shall receive wages at a rate not less than similar workers in the locality; (2) any products or services may be sold just as if non-offenders provided them; (3) the offenders are likely by reason of their involvement in such projects to find employment following their release; (4) benefits, such as unemployment compensation, are available to offenders and non-offenders alike; and (5) deductions from gross wages shall not exceed 80 percent of gross wages. Authorizes annual appropriations to the fund to make its income not less than $10,000,000 in any fiscal year. Provides for the monitoring and evaluation of any project entered into pursuant to this Act by the Comptroller General of the National Institute of Corrections.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments - Authorizes to be appropriated to the Appalachian Regional Commission such sums as may be necessary for its administrative expenses. Authorizes the use of Federal highway construction funds for the Appalachian development highway system. Allows the Commission to make grants to public bodies and nonprofit entities for planning, engineering, and reasonable site acquisition or development costs. Provides that the Federal share shall not exceed 80 percent of such costs. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants and loans to Appalachian States to assist nonprofit timber development organizations and programs organized and operated for specific forestry purposes. Expands the authority of: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to rehabilitate areas damaged by deleterious mining practices; (2) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to provide financial assistance for housing construction or rehabilitation projects for low - and moderate - income families and individuals; and (3) the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide assistance for vocational education facilities and projects demonstrating areawide education planning, services, and programs. States that no assistance shall be provided under the Appalachian Regional Development Act to assist establishments in relocating or to enable plant subcontractors to undertake work previously performed in another area by other subcontractors or contractors. Provides that funds provided under such Act shall not be substituted for, but shall be in addition to, State funds provided for similar purposes. Provides that to further the Appalachian State Development Planning Process, each State member shall: (1) submit a development plan with specified aspects for the area of the State within the region; and (2) cooperate with local development districts certified by the State, including preparation and execution of areawide action programs. Increases the Federal share of and purposes for which grants may be made by the President to the Commission for administrative and management expenses incurred in carrying out the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, as amended by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Authorizes payment for nonregular service in the Armed Forces or retired pay actuarially computed to persons, otherwise eligible, at age fifty. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1331 (a))
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1975
National Health Care Act - Title I: Findings and Declaration of Purpose - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to improve the organization, delivery, and financing of health care for all Americans by increasing health personnel, promoting ambulatory care, strengthening health planning, establishing national standards of health care benefits, including coverage for medical catastrophes, encouraging provisions of such benefits through comprehensive health care insurance, and by assisting persons of low income or in poor health to secure that insurance. Title II: Provisions to Increase the Supply and Improve the Distribution of Health Care Personnel - Allows a medical student to borrow the lesser of the sum of the full cost of tuition, fees, and reasonable amounts for room, board, books, supplies, and other related costs, or $5,000. Authorizes to be appropriated for the operation of a student loan fund $62,500,000 for the fiscal year 1976, and $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1978 and each of the two succeeding fiscal years such sums as may be necessary to enable students who have received a loan prior to October 1, 1977, to continue their education. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for Federal capital contributions to student loan funds, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and such sums for fiscal year 1978 and the two following fiscal years to enable students receiving loans prior to October 1, 1977, to complete their education. Authorizes to be appropriated as grants to public or nonprofit private institutions, that train personnel in the allied health professions $12,500,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Allows up to 50 percent of a loan for a student in the allied health professions to be cancelled at the rate of 20 percent a year for service in a public or nonprofit institution or agency, and at a rate of 33 1/3 percent a year for appropriate service in an area designated as having a shortage of allied health professionals. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary for student loans $18,750,000 for fiscal year 1976, $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and such sums for fiscal year 1978, and each of the next 2 succeeding fiscal years as is necessary to enable students who have received loans prior to October 1, 1977, to complete their education. Includes in the term "training center for allied health professions" junior colleges, colleges, and universities which offer training in health care center administration or the effective operation of comprehensive ambulatory health care centers or who are affiliated with such a hospital or a comprehensive ambulatory health care center. Establishes a program of special project grants to help educational institutions meet the cost of developing curriculums and training programs to develop the skills needed to administer and staff comprehensive ambulatory health care centers. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants $12,500,000 for 1976, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Establishes a program of Federal grants to medical personnel in return for service in urban and rural areas of critical need to alleviate the distribution of health care personnel. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to contract with individual health professionals, nurses, or allied health professionals who agree to provide health care services for a period of at least two years in an area designated by the Secretary as having a critical need for those services. Provides that the amount of the grant is that amount which, when added to the recipient's income from providing health care services for each contract year, provides a total income equal to 110 percent of the national annual median income for persons of comparable education and training, or 110 percent of his earnings from providing health care services in the previous year, whichever is greater. Provides that in determining the precise amount of the grant the Secretary may consider such factors as he deems relevant, including: (1) the national median annual income for the applicant's profession; (2) the cost of living in the area of need; (3) the background, training, and education of the applicant; (4) the amount of income the applicant can reasonably expect to receive from service in the area; (5) the number of persons of applicant's profession needed in the area; and (6) where appropriate, cost of equipment, supplies, and facilities. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants $37,500,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Title III: Provisions to Encourage Comprehensive Ambulatory Health Care Centers - Provides grants to comprehensive ambulatory health care centers. Sets up a special category of grants to comprehensive ambulatory health care centers. Revises the declaration of purpose of title VI of the Public Health Service Act to recognize specifically the concept of a comprehensive ambulatory health care center. Provides that for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next succeeding four fiscal years $200,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated for construction and modernization grants. Revises the method of computing the allotment for each State for carrying out construction and modernization under this Act. Requires the Surgeon General to determine the priority of projects by regulation for the construction of comprehensive ambulatory health care centers. Adds the requirement that any State desiring to participate must submit a plan setting forth the comprehensive ambulatory health care centers needed to provide adequate amublatory health care services for patients residing in the State. Permits the United States to recover a specified portion of the funds with respect to which funds have been paid for the construction of a comprehensive amublatory health care center and which has ceased to serve that function. Defines comprehensive ambulatory health care centers to encompass only facilities which provide a wide range of preventive, diagnostic and treatment services for ambulatory patients. Title IV: Provisions to Strengthen Health Care Planning - Directs the President to transmit to Congress on July 1st of each year a health report setting forth: (1) the status of the health care system; (2) current trends in the health care needs of the nation; (3) the adequacy of available manpower and physical resources; (4) a review of the health programs of the Federal, State and local governments, and nongovernmental entities; and (5) a program for carrying out the policy of this Act. Creates in the Executive Office of the President a three member Health Policy Board, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the Board to (1) assist the President in preparation of the health report; (2) to review Federal Government health programs; (3) to develop procedures for interagency coordination of Federal health programs; and (4) to develop measures to assure adequate manpower, services, and facilities for the Nation's health care. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 in any fiscal year as may be necessary to enable the Board to carry out its functions under this Act. Directs that all agencies of the Federal Government shall include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation the positive and negative impact of the proposals on human health and the Nation's health care system. Title V: Provisions to Make Comprehensive Health Care Insurance Available to All - Establishes under the Internal Revenue Code the minimum standard health care benefits for a covered individual. Creates two categories of health expenses. Sets the minimum standard benefits at 80 percent of category I expenses over the deductible and 100 percent of the category II expenses incurred by the individual in that year. Provides for a deductible of $100 prior to January 1, 1978, and $100 times the ratio of the Consumer Price Index for each year commencing after January 1, 1978. Enumerates exemptions for specified injuries and treatments. Prohibits under the Internal Revenue Code any deduction equal to the disallowed percentage for any amount paid or incurred by the taxpayer for medical care of any employee of the taxpayer, employee's spouse, or any dependent of the employee. Exempts amounts paid or incurred by the taxpayer pursuant to a qualified employee health care plan, as a tax imposed by the United States, and as medical care provided directly by the employer. Permits under the Internal Revenue Code an unlimited deduction for the medical insurance expenses of an individual covered by a qualified health care plan. Permits the Secretary of the Treasury to accept the determination of the State insurance regulatory authority that a plan of health care benefits filed with such authority is a plan which qualifies as a qualified employee health care plan. Adds a new title XX to the Social Security Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year a sum sufficient to provide comprehensive health care insurance to needy individuals and families. Defines a qualified State health care plan to be a contract between a State and an administering carrier which provides for payment to physicians and medical institutions the minimum health care benefits. Permits an individual or family to opt for coverage under a plan between a carrier and an approved health maintenance organization. Provides for a variable deductible under the qualified State health care plan. Specifies the requirements for eligibility to enroll in a State health care plan. Delcares that the premium rate to be charged under a qualified State health care plan for each policy year shall be actuarially established in each State for a (1) single individual, (2) family of two, and (3) family of three or more. Sets forth the factors which shall be used to determine the premium rate for a given risk category to be charged for the initial policy year and for each subsequent policy year. Requires the State to file the premium rates for each policy year with the chief actuary for the Social Security Administration. Directs the chief actuary to recommend to the Secretary a commensurate reduction in the Federal health care percentage if he determines that the rates are unjustifiably high for such State. Requires the appropriate State agency to enroll each Federal cash recipient required under this Act to be made eligible, and to file his application with the administering carrier. Permits all other individuals who provide the family's chief support to enroll in a qualified State health care plan. Requires individuals and families enrolled in such plan to contribute toward the cost of the plan by paying a specified amount determined on the individual's adjusted gross income. Requires the State to pay any contribution for that month of any policy year that an individual establishes that he is a Federal cash recipient. Requires each State which has a qualified State health care plan to make available and pay premiums for Medicare benefits under the Social Security Act to any individual who qualifies. Stipulates a qualified State health care plan shall immediately extend to any child, born to or adopted by, an eligible family member subsequent to the day the application for enrollment was made. Terminates coverage under such plan as of the first day of any calendar month if any contribution due with respect to that month has not been paid by the applicable due date. Declares that there shall be a State health care institutions cost commission designated as a State agency by the Governor of such State. Provides that the commission shall operate with the advice of a council appointed by the Governor. Prohibits reimbursing charges for services rendered or supplies furnished by medical facilities in excess of the rates approved by such commission. Requires the commission to review budgets and charges for the health care institutions in the State to establish prospectively approved charges which shall be applicalbe to all purchasers of services and supplies from health care institutions. Directs the Secretary to pay to any State which has a qualified State health care plan 75 percent of the reasonable amounts expended by the State each quarter for the administration of the State's health care institutions cost commission and its advisory council. Requires each State commission to file with the Secretary a report of the level of rates charged within such State. Stipulates that if the Secretary determines that the level of rates approved for a given category of health care is unjustifiably high, he shall order a reduction for that State in the Federal medical assistance percentage and a reduction in the Federal health care percentage. Declares that the qualified State health care benefits pool shall be administered by the administering carrier. Deposits into the pool the premiums collected pursuant to this Act, specified service charges, and the reimbursements for pool losses. Makes available pool funds to: (1) pay health care plan benefit claims; (2) to repay to pool reinsurers their losses, if any; and (3) to pay other charges for which the pool has liability. Requires an accounting to be made of pool funds and submitted to the Secretary, the State, and to all reinsurers. Directs the Secretary to pay to each State which has a qualified State health care plan an amount equal to the product obtained by multiplying the total premiums for the qualified State health care plan paid by a State to the administering carrier by the Federal health care percentage. Sets such percentage at 100 percent less the State percentage, which shall not be more than 30 percent. Requires an NHI underwriter, in order to protect against insolvency, to have a combined capital and surplus of not less than the greater of: (1) $1,500,000, or (2) 2 percent of the gross premium income of the underwriter for its immediately preceding fiscal year of operation. Permits the underwriter to obtain a performance bond as an alternative. Defines NHI to mean pertaining to one or more qualified health care plans. Specifies the reserve requirements that each NHI underwriter shall maintain. Places responsibility on the State insurance commissioner for assuring the establishment of a facility to underwrite or reinsure minimum standard health care benefits for individuals, families, and groups of employees to whom such benefits would not otherwise be available. Directs such facility to design one form of qualified individual health care plan and one form of qualified employee health care plan.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Endorses the continued presence of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East. Urges the extension of the United Nations Emergency Force on the Israeli-Egyptian border and the United Nations Disengagement Forces on the Israeli-Syrian Borders.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration to make assistance payments under the Atomic Energy Community Act to Anderson and Roane Counties, Tennessee. Requires that any recommendations as to the need for any further assistance payments be made by the Administrator to the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy not less than six months prior to June 30, 1986. Allows the Administrator to enter into a contract for a term not to extend beyond June 30, 1986, providing for assistance payments to such counties.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1975
Increases to $5,100 the annual amount which individuals may earn without suffering deductions from benefits on account of excess earnings under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Increases the value of exemptions for taxable estates under the Internal Revenue Code from $60,000 to $200,000 of the value of the gross estate. Increases the limitation on the aggregate marital deduction to 50 percent of the adjusted gross value of the estate, plus $100,000. Allows an executor to value farmland, woodland, and scenic open land at its current use value rather than at its fair market value.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Provides under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that persons who are blind and have at least six quarters of coverage shall be eligible for disability insurance benefits. Outlines those regulations which apply to the amount of benefits to be received. Defines blindness as used in this Act. Continues payment of such benefits as long as the blindness lasts, notwithstanding the amount of the individual's earnings.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Establishes a temporary select committee of the Senate comprised of 12 members to conduct a thorough study of the Senate committee system. Provides the committee with the powers necessary to carry out the study. Authorizes the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $900,000. Requests the select committee to submit interim reports and a final report with recommendations by February 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Transfers legislative authority for the Small Business Administration to the Senate Select Committee on Small Business.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Provides, under the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act, for the establishment within the Energy Research and Development Administration of a Division of Ground Propulsion Systems. Authorizes research, development, and demonstration of ground propulsion systems and states that such activities shall be conducted so as to contribute to specified goals, including the improvement of and verifying of ground propulsion systems with emphasis on efficiency, performance, and usefulness. Defines "ground propulsion system" as the engine, transmission, or drive, and associated controls, necessary to power automobiles, trucks, trains, buses, and selected light marine vehicles. Authorizes to be appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Act, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977; and $100,000,000 for fiscal years 1978-80.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Performance Rights Amendment - Provides under the Copyright Act, for the establishment of a performance royalty. Gives exclusive rights to a copyright holder to perform publicly for profit and to reproduce and distribute to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending, any reproduction of a copyrighted work which is a sound recording. Limits the exclusive rights of the owner of a copyright to duplicate the sound recording in a tangible form that recaptures the actual sounds fixed in the recording, and to perform those actual sounds. Provides that these rights do not extend to the making or duplication of another sound recording that is an independent fixation of other sounds, or to the performance of other sounds, even though such sounds imitate or simulate those in the copyrighted sound recording; or to reproductions made by broadcasting organizations exclusively for their own use. Provides that where the copyrighted sound recording has been distributed to the public under the authority of the copyright owner, the public performance of the sound recording shall be subject to compulsory licensing. Establishes a compulsory licensing system whereby those who use sound recordings for profit would be required to pay a fee (performance royalty) to the copyright owner. Provides that such fees shall be placed in a fund out of which copyright owners are compensated. Specifies that the annual royalty fees, at the user's option, may be computed on either a blanket or a prorated basis. Allows the substitution of a negotiated license for the compulsory license at a rate not less than specified in this Act. Sets forth detailed payment requirements for royalties under the compulsory licensing provisions of this amendment. (Amends 17 U.S.C. 1; Adds 17 U.S.C. 33)
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Title I: Replacement of Lost, Stolen, or Delayed Checks - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish procedures for expedited payment of monthly benefits. Requires the Secretary, within one day after the date an individual files for late payment of benefits, to cause such monthly insurance benefits to be paid. Title II: Expediting of Hearings and Determination - States that in administration of the programs established by titles II, (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) XVI, (Grants to States for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled), and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary shall establish procedures designed to assure that: (1) any duly requested hearing to which an individual is entitled will be held within a reasonable period of time after requested, if such hearing is requested with respect to a determination of entitlement to benefits; and (2) not later than ninety days after such a hearing is requested, the Secretary shall render a final determination on the issues, or if no final determination of the Secretary has been made at that time, the Secretary shall make payments of benefits to such individual in like manner as if a final determination has been made full in favor of such individual. Title III: Expedited Payment of Black Lung Benefits; and Expedited Hearings and Determinations Respecting Such Benefits - Provides for expedited payments of black lung benefits under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for expediting hearings and determinations on claims for such benefits. Title IV: Limitation of Benefit Reduction to Compensate for Benefit Overpayment - Limits to 25 percent the reduction that may be made in an individual's Social Security benefit check for any month because of any previous overpayment of monthly benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Authorizes the financing of parkways from the Highway Trust Fund. Provides that parkways funded under this Act shall be managed solely for scenic and recreational use and passenger car travel.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Revises the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize to be appropriated such additional sums to the Secretary of the Interior as may be necessary for the administrative services to the nonperforming arts functions of the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Designates the American marigold as the national floral emblem of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to (1) acquire and utilize space in suitable buildings of historic or architectural significance, (2) give preference to the purchase and use of space in other existing buildings, (3) encourage the location of commercial, cultural, educational, and recreational facilities and activities within or near public buildings, (4) provide facilities which encourage pedestrian traffic around, into, and through public buildings, and (5) encourage the public use of public buildings. Requires that whenever the Administrator undertakes a survey of the public buildings needs of the Federal Government within a geographical area, he shall contract with the Chairman of the National Trust for Historic Preservation to identify any existing buildings within such geographical areas which are of architectural or historical interest and which would be suitable, whether or not in need of repair, alteration, or addition, for acquisition or purchase to meet the public buildings needs of the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Exempts refiners whose total refining capacity on January 1, 1975, did not exceed one hundred thousand barrels per day from regulation promulgated under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act which would require the purchase of entitlement, or the payment of money through any other similar transfer arrangement aimed at equalizing the cost of crude oil domestic refiners during the existence of a two-tiered market for crude oil. Provides that this Act shall not restrict the rights of small refiners to receive such payments.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Ground Propulsion Systems Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Creates in the Energy Research and Development Administration a Division of Ground Propulsion Systems. Directs the Administration to carry out all the research, development, and demonstration activities regarding ground propulsion systems through such Division. Requires that such activities shall be conducted so as to contribute to specified objectives, including: (1) the improvement of and verifying of ground propulsion systems with emphasis on efficiency, performance, and usefulness; and (2) the development of energy conserving ground propulsion systems. Directs the Administrator, to report annually to the President and the Congress with respect to all actions taken under the provisions of this Act during the prior calendar year, and all action planned for the ensuing year. Directs the Administrator to establish an advisory board for the purpose of encouraging the private sector to participate in the research, development, and demonstration carried out pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums for the fiscal years 1976 through 1980 to carry out this Act.