United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1978
Indian Financing Act Amendments - Amends the Indian Financing Act of 1974 to include any individual Indians among those for whom the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to guarantee economic development loans. Permits the guarantee under such Act of certain loans made by credit unions without capital stock which are organized and operated for mutual purposes and without profit. Includes under such Act credit unions among those financial institutions which may make loans without regard to the limitations and restrictions of Federal statutes. Pledges the full faith and credit of the United States to the fulfillment of loans made under the Indian Loan Guaranty and Insurance Fund and authorized for deposit in the fund such sums as may be necessary for losses incurred in guaranteeing such loans. Authorizes the Secretary to contract to pay and to pay debt service subsidies on loans which are guaranteed or insured under the Indian Financing Act of 1974 and limits the aggregate of such subsidies in any one fiscal year to $10,000,000. Authorizes appropriations not to exceed $10,000,000 per annum in fiscal year 1980 and each fiscal year thereafter for payment of interest and debt service subsidies. Removes funds previously obligated for interest subsidy payments under the Indian Financing Act of 1974 and restores such funds to the unobligated balance of the Indian Loan Guaranty and Insurance Fund. Extends the authorization of appropriations under such Act through fiscal year 1981. Requires that the annual report to Congress pertaining to the irrigation of Indian lands show all adjustments or eliminations of charges and debts during the preceding fiscal year, and confirms the effectiveness of such adjustments and eliminations made during fiscal year 1977 and earlier years which were duly reported to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1978
Prohibits the President from taking any action that would affect the validity of any post-World War II security and mutual defense treaties without the advice and consent of the Senate, or the approval of both Houses of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1978
Unauthorized Use and Endorsement Act - Establishes criminal penalties for any person who: (1) uses, in any printed material or any electronic communication, the name, official title, photograph, or other oral or written communication of any other person, without the person's prior written consent and knowledge; for (A) promoting or advertising the sale of products or services; or (B) soliciting patronage or contributions; or (2) directly or indirectly represents, orally, in writing , or by other means, that his products or services have been endorsed, used, or found satisfactory by another person, without that person's prior written consent and knowledge. Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to bring actions for injunctive relief and for a civil penalty up to $10,000 in an appropriate United States district court. Allows a person who is the subject of an unauthorized representation, and any person who relies to their detriment on such representation, to bring a civil action in an appropriate United States district court, without regard to the amount in controversy, within two years from the date on which the action arises.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1978
States that the assignment of a part interest in a patent is voidable if that assignment does not contain a written provision which allows each joint owner of such patent to make, use, or sell the patented invention without the consent of the other owners.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1978
Authorizes the issuance of visas to three individuals and their admission for permanent residence in the United States, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 August 1978
Inflation Reduction and Jobs Protection Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to postpone: (1) the minimum wage of $2.90; and (2) modification of the formula for determining the amount of wages which an employer is deemed to have paid to a tipped employee from the year beginning January 1, 1979, to the year beginning January 1, 1980. Postpones a subsequent increase in the minimum wage and further modification of such formula by one year.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Congressional Award Program Act - Establishes the Congressional Award Program in the United States and its territories to recognize and promote youth leadership and excellence in the areas of expedition fitness, personal creative development, and public service. Creates a Congressional Award Board with a Director to supervise such program. Authorizes the appointment of State award directors under this Act. Creates three Congressional Award Medals to be awarded under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1978
Enhanced Crude Oil Recovery Incentives Act - Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to exempt the first sale price of enhanced recovery crude oil from price controls. Requires that eligible enhanced recovery projects be certified by the appropriate State authority.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Expresses the support of the Senate for the nomination of the Public Groups to Promote Observance of the Helsinki Agreement in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Expresses the sense of the Congress that (1) the trials of Antoly Shcharansky, Viktoras Petkus, and Aleksandr Ilyich Ginzburg are matters of deep concern to the American people that adversely affect Soviet-American relations; and (2) the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet should seek a humanitarian resolution to these cases and work toward improving such relations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1978
Requires the award of reasonable attorney's fees and reasonable litigation costs to the prevailing party (except the United States) in any civil action brought by or against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1978
Disapproves the suspension of the quota on imported meat and the President's announced intention of permitting the import this year of 200,000,000 pounds of meat in excess of the established limit before imposing new quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1978
States that the President should, pending removal of Cuban military forces from Africa, (1) recall the United States Interests Section from Cuba and expel the Cuban Interests Section from the United States, (2) deny any license for commercial trade with or export to Cuba under the Export Administration Act of 1969, (3) reverse any other action toward the normalization of relations with Cuba, and (4) defer any further official actions toward normalization of United States relations with Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978
Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Act - Amends the Small Business Act to revise procedures of the Small Business Administration (SBA) governing financial aid for projects providing technical or management assistance to small business concerns. Expands firms eligible for such assistance to include those under the SBA Federal procurement c contracting program. Establishes an advisory committee to facilitate the achievement of the SBA's programs: (1) to encourage placement of subcontracts by private business with small business concerns located in areas of high concentration of unemployed or low-income individuals, with small businesses owned by low-income individuals, and small businesses eligible to receive Federal procurement contracts; and (2) to provide incentives to such businesses to aid in the training of potential subcontractors. Requires the General Accounting Office (GAO) to evaluate SBA activities in such areas. Requires that GAO (previously SBA) evaluate the managerial assistance and other minority business development programs provided by SBA. Establishes within the SBA a Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program to provide assistance exclusively to small businesses eligible to receive contracts under the Federal procurement contracting program. Details the nature of the development program, including provision of assistance in financial counseling, accounting, performance monitoring, and procuring of surety bonds. Prohibits small business concerns from receiving procurement contracts unless the program is able to provide such management, technical and financial services as necessary to promote the competitive viability of the concern within a reasonable period of time.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that neither the exchange of the Panama Canal Treaty instruments of ratification nor the incurring of any international obligation to exchange such documents should take place earlier than March 31, 1979, unless implementing legislation has been enacted prior to such date.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore part of the pre-1969 tax treatment of capital gains by repealing the capital gains item of tax preference for the minimum tax; lowering the corporate alternative tax to 25 percent of net capital gain; and lowering the alternative individual tax to 25 percent of net capital gain.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to state that, regardless of the form of business or method of accounting, no person shall be required to maintain inventories of growing plants in the course of the trade or business of operating a nursery.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Declares that certain proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury regarding centralized firearms sales recordkeeping and other firearms control measures exceed the Department's authority, and directs that the regulations be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Beef Import Act - Subjects specified kinds of preserved beef and veal products to the policy of Congress related to the restriction of beef imports. Revises the formula for the determination of beef and veal import quotas. Directs the President to limit beef imports at any one port of entry in order to insure the geographical distribution of such imports. Revises the criteria under which the President may suspend a proclamation limiting beef and veal imports to permit such suspension only during a national emergency or when the supply of such products are inadequate to meet domestic supply at reasonable prices.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a charitable deduction for contributions to any organization which, on or before May 26, 1969, and continuously thereafter to the close of the taxable year, operated and maintained as its principal functional purpose facilities for the long-term care, comfort, maintenance, or education of permanently and totally disabled persons; elderly persons; needy widows; or children.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1978
Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to raise, for employee benefits plans covering less than 100 participants, the maximum percentage of plan assets which may be placed in single investment. Exempts from mandatory plan termination insurance through the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation plans covered entirely through fully funded insurance policies. Exempts from funding requirements certain plans funded exclusively by the purchase of group deferred annuity contracts. Modifies, with respect to vesting standards, the requirement that a benefit or employee ownership plan not discriminate in favor of employees who are officers, shareholders, or highly compensated in order to qualify for certain favorable tax treatment. Exempts plans with fewer than 100 participants from notification requirements relative to advance determination of compliance of a plan with Internal Revenue Code guidelines. Allows for separate treatment of a plan of a corporation which is a member of a group of controlled corporation if the plan is separately and independently maintained. Restricts the liability of an employer who is making contributions under a multiemployer plan for funding violations if the employer itself has complied with pertinent law and the breach arose out of a transaction beyond the employer's control. Stipulates that investment of plan funds in a pooled separate account under a group annuity contract issued by a regulated insurance company shall not result in the company being deemed a plan fiduciary or in any company assets being deemed plan assets.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1978
Expresses disapproval of the standards promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for determining whether the refusal of a recipient of aid under Title IV, part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of the Social Security Act to cooperate with a State agency in obtaining child support payments has been made in good faith.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Establishes a ceiling on payments to physicians under the Civilian Health and Medical Plan of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) based on the customary charges made for similar services in the same locality.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Emergency Agricultural Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, with respect to 1978 crops only, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make payments to cotton, feed grains, soybean, and wheat producers for setting aside acreage to approved conservation uses in addition to required set-asides. Requires a minimum acreage set-aside, under this program, of: (1) 15 million acres for wheat; (2) 10 million acres for feed grains; and (3) 3 million acres each for cotton and soybeans. Authorizes additional payments for set-aside acreage opened to the general public for hunting, trapping, fishing, and hiking. Requires the Secretary to make up to 50 percent of any such payment immediately, in advance of determination of performance. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase the Corporation's borrowing authority from $14,500,000,000 to $25,000,000,000. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make private domestic corporations and partnerships controlled by farmers and ranchers, and engaged primarily in farming or ranching, eligible for real estate and operating loans. Increases the maximum allowable total principal indebtedness for real estate loans which may be outstanding by any one borrower to $200,000, or $300,000 in the case of a guaranteed loan. Increases the amount of indebtedness which may be outstanding for operating loans for an individual from $50,000 to $100,000, or in the case of a guaranteed loan, $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1978
Declares it the sense of Congress that the March 3, 1978, agreement for the transition to majority rule in Rhodesia merits the endorsement of the United States. Urges the President to instruct the Ambassador to the United Nations to gain international support for the agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Alternatives to Abortion Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act: (1) to exclude abortion from the alternatives which family planning projects assisted by grants under the Act may offer method of family planning; and (2) to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants and contracts for alternatives to abortion projects. Requires the Secretary in making grants and contracts for family planning programs: (1) to give priority to alternatives to abortion projects; and (2) not to approve an application for funds which promotes or provides abortion services unless required to prevent the death of the mother. Requires State agencies, to be eligible for funds for family planning programs, to provide alternatives to abortion services. Requires any program receiving family planning program funds and any program which provides contraceptives to an unmarried minor to notify the parents of such minor that contraceptives are being provided. Requires that not less than 40 percent of the amounts appropriated for family planning programs be spent on alternatives to abortion programs. Requires any program receiving family planning program funds under this Act or the Social Security Act to inform each woman orally and in writing of the medical risks inherent for herself and for future pregnancies as a result of an abortion.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President invoke the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, commonly known as the Taft-Hartley Act, and seek an injunction to order the coal miners back to work for an 80-day cooling off period.
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the rules for qualification for the income tax exemption for income earned abroad to provide that resident aliens shall qualify and to base the amount of the exemption upon the cost of living in the country where the income is earned. Requires the inclusion in gross income overseas cost of living reimbursements made by an employer to an employee for which deductions are allowed under this Act. Allows the deduction by employees of a limited portion of cost of living reimbursements for housing, schooling of dependents and home leave travel. Broadens the definition of what meals and lodging provided by the employer are excludible from the gross income of overseas employees.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Flexible Parity Act - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for the 1978 crop of wheat a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from $3.00 per bushel for a 20 percent set-aside up to $5.04 per bushel for a 50 percent set-aside. Title II: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for the 1978 crop of feed grains a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from $2.10 for a ten percent set-aside up to $3.45 for a 50 percent set-aside. Title III: Upland Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for the 1978 crop of upland cotton a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from 54 cents per pound for a 20 percent set-aside up to 84 cents per point for a 50 percent set-aside. Title IV: Grain Release Prices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949: (1) to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from providing for the redemption of stored wheat and feed grains loans unless the market price for such commodities is not less than parity; (2) to prohibit the Secretary from calling such loans until the market price for wheat and feed grains is at least 105 percent of parity; and (3) to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling its stocks of wheat and feed grains for less than the parity price of such commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Beef Import Act - Title I: Import Quotas - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Title II: Customs Duties - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the customs duties on beef whenever domestic production is too low to trigger the imposition of import quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee, amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for educational assistance to the employee. Limits to 25 percent the amount of payments which may be made by such programs to shareholders or owners (or their spouses or dependents), each of whom owns more than five percent of the stock or of the capital or profits interest in the employer.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1977
Authorizes and requests the President to annually designate the Sunday following Fire Service Recognition Day as "Memorial Sunday" for firefighters disabled or killed in the line of duty during the preceeding year.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen Protection Act - Requires that the Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen and other relics of Hungarian royality be kept in the United States, unless Congress specifically provides otherwise.
United States · United States Congress · 31 October 1977
Makes continuing appropriations for the salaries and benefits of employees of the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, and related agencies through fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1977
States that during the year following the enactment of this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall neither withhold water delivery from any beneficiary of a Federal reclamation project nor initiate any proceeding intended to require the sale of privately owned bonds within any project, for purposes of achieving conformity with acreage limitations or residency requirements of reclamation law. Prohibits the Secretary from approving the sale of excess lands during the year following the enactment of this Act unless final excess land regulation become effective.
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