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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
Provides that disaster loans under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act shall be made without regard to whether the required financial assistance is otherwise available from private, cooperative, or other responsible sources.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1975
Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to revise the framework of collective bargaining in the construction industry. Creates, in the Department of Labor, the Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Committee comprised of ten management representatives, ten labor representatives, and up to three neutral members, appointed by the President. Provides that one of the neutral members shall be appointed Chairman. Requires that the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Secretary of Labor shall be ex officio members. Provides that the management, labor, and neutral members shall be appointed after consultation with the national organizations. Requires local labor organizations affiliated with the standard labor organizations in the industry to give 60 days notice to their national unions before the expiration or reopening of agreements, and contractors or associations engaged in collective bargaining with them are similarly required to notify either the national organizations with which they are affiliated, or the Committee directly if there is no national affiliation. Directs standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations engaged in collective bargaining to forward such notices to the Committee. Authorizes the Committee to take jurisdiction of the matter, in which case any strike or lockout is deferred for up to 30 days past the expiration or reopening date. Allows the Committee to decide to refer a matter to a national craft board or to the national machinery established by a branch of the industry, on which national unions and national contractor associations are represented, in an effort to assist the parties to reach agreement. Authorizes the Committee to elect to meet with the parties itself. Provides that the Committee may request the standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations whose members are directly involved to participate in the negotiations. Directs that in that event, any new or revised collective bargaining agreement shall be approved by the standard national construction labor organization with which the local labor organization, or other subordinate body, is affiliated in order for the agreement to be of any force or effect. Prescribes that in the event the standard national labor organization or national contractor association participates in such negotiation, it shall not suffer any criminal or civil liability arising out of such participation; nor shall the standard national labor organization be subject to any civil or criminal liability arising out of its approval, or failure to approve, a collective bargaining agreement. Specifies the standards which the Committee shall take into account in taking jurisdiction of a matter and requesting the participation of the standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations. Authorizes the Committee to make studies of collective bargaining in the industry and to make general recommendations with regard to negotiating structures, improvement of productivity, stability of employment, differentials among branches of the industry, dispute settlement procedures, and other related matters. Provides that this Act shall run for a term of five years. Directs the Committee to submit annual reports to the Congress and, six months in advance of the five-year limit, the Committee shall make recommendations with regard to the extension of the legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating Sunday, September 14, 1975, as "National Saint Elizabeth Seton Day."
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate September 20, 1975, as "German-American Day" to be observed with appropriate ceremonies.
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
Establishes a Commission on United States Participation in the United Nations with 15 members, to be appointed as specified in this Act. Directs the Commission to conduct a full study of the United Nations and the United States participation therein. Specifies those powers given to the Commission to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Requires that the support price of milk be adjusted by the Secretary of Agriculture at the beginning of each quarter to reflect estimated changes during the immediately preceding quarter in the index of prices paid by farmers for production items, interest, taxes and wage rates.
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
Broadcast License Renewal Act - Permits the Federal Communications Commission to extend three-year broadcast licenses for an additional two years upon a finding of public interest. Requires in making such determination, considerations of whether diffferent term lengths for radio and television stations and for different categories of licensees are in the public interest. Limits other class licenses to a five-year maximum, prescribing the renewal procedures for such licenses and the criteria to be considered in renewal, including responsiveness and lack of serious deficiencies. Sets guidelines for expenditious action on applications for renewal of broadcasting station licenses by limiting material required to be filed. Requires the Commission to examine the renewal process and report within six months on methods of reducing and consolidating filings and supporting documents.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the period from September 2, 1975, through September 8, 1975, as "National Schoolbus Safety Week." Calls upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate activities.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Federal Communications Commission render a decision on the request of The Washington Star for a waiver of the multiple ownership rules as expeditiously as possible.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should not seek a normalization of relations with the Government of Cuba until the following issues are resolved: (1) acceptance of fundamental human rights; (2) acceptance of the standard of international law; (3) acknowledgement of claims for compensation for confiscated American property; (4) cessation of terrorist activities in Puerto Rico; and (5) acceptance of principles set down in the charter of the Organization of American States.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Directs that in computing the total number of civilian personnel authorized in any fiscal year for the Department of Defense or any military department thereof, there shall be excluded from such computation civilian personnel engaged in industrially funded activities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Imposes a duty, under the Tariff Schedules of the United States, on the importation into the United States of footwear the sole and heel of which are over 50 percent by weight of such footwear with at least 10 percent by weight of such sole and heel being rubber.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to expand the boundaries of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park to include specified lands within the areas from North Branch to Cumberland, Maryland. Directs the Secretary to establish a visitors' center for the Park. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out the provisions of 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 · 21 July 1975
Indochina Refugee Children Assistance Act - Defines terms used in this Act. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State and territorial educational agencies for the public education of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee children. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grants. States that no such grants may be made unless the State submits an application to the Commissioner containing specified information and assurances that such payments will be distributed among local educational agencies within that State in direct proportion to the number of Indochinese refugee children served by each such local educational agency. Authorizes supplementary assistance grants of $300 per child to any State educational agency which provides for the unique educational needs of Indochinese refugee children who are aged five to seventeen, inclusive. Authorizes appropriations for basic entitlement grants of $57,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $14,500,000 for the period beginning January 1, 1976 and ending September 30, 1976, and $29,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes specified appropriations for supplementary assistance grants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Authorizes the President to proclaim April 14 of each year as "John Hanson Day".
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Requires that the Congressional Record for the Senate shall contain a verbatim account of remarks delivered on the floor of the Senate. Allows supporting data to be included. Provides that revisions of remarks in the Record shall be limited to the correction of grammatical and typographical errors. Allows, by unanimous consent, the inclusion in the Congressional Record of remarks not actually delivered on the floor. Directs that such insertions shall be printed in a typeface distinctively different from that used for verbatim remarks.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Authorizes the construction and maintenance of the General Draza Mihailovich Monument in Washington, District of Columbia, in recognition of the role he played in saving the lives of approximately five hundred United States airmen in Yugoslavia during World War II.
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 · 11 July 1975
Extends an invitation to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn to address a joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Prohibits the utilization of funds appropriated for the use of the Department of Defense for purposes of conducting any research, testing, or evaluation in which dogs are used if such research, testing, or evaluation is conducted for the purpose of developing or improving any radioactive, chemical, or biological warfare agent. Restricts Department of Defense appropriated funds use in the area of dog procurement. Directs the Department of Defense to develop new research methods for its research projects, where feasible, to complement or eliminate current methods involving the direct or indirect use of animals.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1975
Treats employer contributions to pension plans and employee benefit funds as wages for purposes of establishing priority under the Bankruptcy Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1975
Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act Amendments - Requires, under the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, that States establish statewide utility coordinating councils to promote damage prevention programs with respect to natural gas pipeline safety. Requires, under such Act, that natural gas pipeline owners and operators file with the Secretary of Transportation or appropriate State agency a plan to deal with natural gas leaks and to maintain a log showing the receipt and response to each leak and emergency report. Directs the Secretary to conduct research and development programs for the detection and prevention of natural gas leaks. Authorizes specified appropriations for programs under such Act through fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1975
Authorizes the President to issue annually a proclamation designating that week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day as "National Family Week".
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 · 12 June 1975
Authorizes the appropriation of $211,000,000 to be used as a direct Federal payment to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to continue the construction of the Washington Metrorail System in fiscal year 1976.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide employment for unemployed rural residents through rural conservation employment projects within rural areas of substantial unemployment. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to employ rural residents over eighteen who have been unemployed for at least thirty consecutive days to carry out rural conservation projects within the National Forest System and other lands under the Secretary's jurisdiction, and in conjunction with cooperative projects on non-Federal lands. Directs the Secretary to determine rates of pay, hours, and other conditions of employment. Places a maximum wage limitation of $10,000 per year. Authorizes specified appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Defines the term "navigable waters", for purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as it applies to Corps of Engineers authority and responsibility to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Requires, under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, comprehensive State plans to include provisions for the prevention of crimes against the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Vocational Education Act - Title I: General Provisions - States that it is the purpose of this Act to provide financial assistance to States and other public and private agencies and institutions to assist them in operating, developing, and improving programs of vocational education. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1976, and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years, $523,006,000 to carry out the various purposes specified in this Act. Requires any State desiring to participate in the programs authorized by this Act to designate or establish a State board or agency which will be the sole State agency responsible for the administration of such programs. States that the responsibility of each State board shall include development of policy with respect to such programs, development and submission to the Commissioner of Education of the annual and long-range plans required by title II, and consultation with the State Advisory Council for Vocational Education and other appropriate State planning agencies. Sets forth procedures for alloting funds appropriated under this Act among the States. Provides that the National Advisory Council for Vocational Education established by the Vocational Educational Education Act of 1963 shall contine to exist during the period for which appropriations are authorized under this Act. Requires any State which desires to receive a grant under this Act to establish an independent State advisory council for vocational education. Sets forth the membership requirements for such councils. States that the functions of the State council shall include: (1) advising the State board in the development of the annual and forward State plans for vocational education; (2) advising the State board on policy matters relating to vocational education; and (3) evaluating vocational educational programs, services, and activities assisted under this Act. Authorizes the Commissioner to pay to each State council an amount equal to the reasonable amounts expended by it in carrying out its functions under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $4,316,000 out of the total appropriations authorized by this Act for fiscal year 1976 and each of the four succeeding fiscal years for such payments to State councils. Makes technical amendments to existing vocational education legislation. Title II: Program Planning - Directs the Commissioner to annually conduct an assessment of the status of vocational educational in the Nation in order to ascertain the critical national needs and high priorities in the field of vocational education. Requires each State desiring to participate in programs authorized under this Act for any fiscal year, other than fiscal year 1976, to prepare, through its State board, a five-year forward plan for vocational education in the State. Requires each State desiring to participate in programs authorized by this Act to submit to the Commissioner at such time and in such detail as he deems necessary an annual program plan for vocational education. Sets forth requirements for such program plans. Sets forth procedures for the approval or disapproval of such plans by the Commissioner. Provides for judicial review of decisions. Title III: Vocational Education Programs and Services - Authorizes the Commissioner, from the sums allotted to each State pursuant to Title I of this Act, to make grants to States to assist them in establishing and carrying out vocational education programs and services. Specifies the types of programs that the grants may be used to provide, including: (1) vocational-technical programs of instruction; (2) work experience programs; and (3) vocational education personnel development and training. Specifies the types of services that the grants may be used to provide, including: (1) vocational guidance and counseling; (2) equipping and operating vocational-technical schools; and (3) work study programs. Title IV: Grants for Research, Innovation, and Demonstration - Authhorizes the Commissioner, from sums allotted to each State pursuant to Title I of this Act, to make grants to each State to pay all or part of the cost of carrying out innovative projects and activities which meet stipulated requirements. States that such innovative projects and activities include: (1) research in vocational education; (2) experiments designed to test the effectiveness of such research findings; and (3) development of new vocational education curriculums. Stipulates that in order to insure that funds provided under this title are used only to support innovative projects and activities, such projects and activities may be funded for only three years under this title.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1975
Restricts the authority of the Army Corps of Engineers to supervise waterways activities to navigable waters which are presently used, or are susceptible to use in their natural condition or by reasonable improvement, as a means to transport interstate or foreign commerce. Abolishes Corps authority over the discharge of fill material into such waterways. Permits the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers to waive jointly any requirements they may have for review and approval of any activities on waters of the United States if the Chief of Engineers determines that such activities will not have a substantial adverse impact on the affected waters for their use to transport interstate or foreign commerce and can be effectively regulated by the State concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Provides for the relief of Kam Lin Cheung.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1975
Foreign Assistance to Cyprus Act - Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for humanitarian assistance to the people of Cyprus. Directs the President to make maximum use of international and voluntary relief organizations as channels for such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating September 14, 1975, as "National Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Day."
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act - Requires the licensing of all clinical laboratories, as defined by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue such licenses. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate licensing authority to the States, providing the Secretary determines that State standards meet or exceed Federal standards. Sets forth the standards that must be met by clinical laboratories in order to receive and maintain the license required by this Act. Provides that such standards shall be designed to assure consistently accurate laboratory procedures and service. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Clinical Laboratories. Declares that the purpose of such Office shall be to centralize the laboratory regulatory functions authorized by this Act and to assume responsibility for the laboratory component of other health programs administered and enforced by the Secretary. Creates an advisory council to advise the Office with respect to guidelines for laboratory licensing, personnel, and performance standards. Provides that no grant or reimbursement which the Secretary is authorized to make, or contract which he is authorized to award, whether to or for any health care facility, including but not limited to health maintenance organizations, hospitals, skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities, or in connection with the procurement and reimbursement for clinical laboratory services shall be entered into unless the laboratory meets the standards established by the Secretary. Provides for grants and technical assistance to those States which desire to establish State licensing procedures and regulations for development, administration, and enforcement purposes. Provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Emergency Rail Transportation Improvement and Employment Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to authorize the Secretary of Transportation in consultation with the Secretary of Labor to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants, for programs aimed at reducing unemployment and at repairing, rehabilitating, or improving essential railroad roadbeds and facilities. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance in the form of grants to eligible applicants for projects that involve the repair, rehabilitation or improvement of railroad roadbeds and facilities that best fulfill specified objectives. Provides that such grants shall be expended for the payment of wages. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants for materials and equipment assistance, upon assurances that other financing is not available. Sets forth guidelines and procedures for grant and other financial assistance applications. Sets forth employment priorities applicable to projects financed under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $600,000,000 for the payment of wages, $100,000,000 for materials and equipment assistance, and $7,000,000 for administrative expenses, to remain available for obligation until December 31, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
Eliminates the requirement of apportionment among the States of appointments in the Federal civil service in the District of Columbia. (Repeals 5 U.S.C. 3306)
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1975
Requires that States having voluntary agreements for coverage of State and local employees entered into under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act shall make social security payments and reports on a calendar-quarter basis.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
National Capital Transportation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to pay for a portion of the Federal share of the cost of the Adopted Regional System out of funds originally authorized to be appropriated by the National Capital Transportation Act of 1965, up to $,147,044,000. Specifies limitations on loan guarantees and minimum matching funds to be contributed by participating local governments udner such Act. Provides for the issuance of Federal share bonds (up to an aggregate principal amount contributed $1,257,000,000) by the Transit Authority to finance the cost of the Adopted Regional System. Requires the Transit Authority to annually report the the President and to the Congress the status of its financing under this Act and all other provisions of Federal legislation dealing with the construction of the Adopted Regional System.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Provides under the Internal Revenue Code that no interest is payable on income tax deficiencies in the case of returns prepared by the Internal Revenue Service until the expiration of thirty days after notice to the taxpayer of such deficiency.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act to withhold a percentage of the total entitlement payment for any period to insure sufficient funds for final allocation of funds among the State and local units of government. Appropriates to the State and Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund: (1) $1,625,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; (2) $6,687,500,000 for fiscal year 1977; (3) $6,837,500,000 for fiscal year 1978; (4) $6,987,500,000 for fiscal year 1979; (5) $7,137,500,000 for fiscal year 1980; and (6) $7,287,500,000 for fiscal year 1981. Appropriates to the Fund as noncontiguous States adjustment: (1) $1,195,000 for fiscal year 1976; and (2) $4,780,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976 through 1981. Exempts amounts appropriated to the Fund from the provisions of the Congressional Budget Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a report with appropriate recommendations to the Congress no later than September 30, 1980, concerning the extension of such Act. Declares that if the entitlement of any Indian tribe or Alaskan native village is waived for any entitlement period, then the amount of such entitlement shall become part of the entitlement of the county government of the county in which such unit is located. Directs each State and local unit of government which receives funds under such Act to submit a report to the Secretary after the close of each entitlement period on the use of the funds received. Directs each unit of local government which expects to receive funds to submit a report to the Secretary on how it plans to use the funds it expects to receive. Empowers the Secretary whenever he determines that a unit of government has failed to comply with an applicable regulation to withhold all or a portion of the entitlement funds due such unit of government, to terminate the eligibility of such unit of government, and to require repayment of the entitlement funds expended. Requires units of government to provide an opportunity for citizens to give recommendations and views on the proposed expenditures of all funds distributed under such Act within such unit.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Home Purchase Tax Rebate Amendments - Provides that the lowest offering price requirement for eligibility by the purchaser for the 5 percent (up to $2,000) tax rebate for purchase of a new principal residence under the Internal Revenue Code be limited to offers after December 31, 1974. Sets time limits during which regulations for such eligibility must be propounded.
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 · 24 April 1975
Supplemental Security Income Amendments - Provides that: (1) charges by residential institutions in excess of those charges applicable to an individual under the supplemental security income provisions of the Social Security Act; and (2) assistance based on need provided by a tax-exempt organization shall not be counted as unearned income for the purposes of such Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish criteria for the determination of presumptive disability under the supplemental security income program. Provides that the assistance afforded under such program shall be coordinated with that of other assistance programs on both the Federal and State levels. Provides that the eligibility of households containing a recipient of supplemental security income benefits shall be determined on the basis of the uniform national eligibility standards for non-public assistance households. Repeals the requirement that such benefits be paid to a third party payee upon the certification of the chief medical officer at the facility where the recipient is undergoing treatment that payment directly to the recipient would be of significant therapeutic value and that there is substantial reason for believing that the funds would not be improperly used. Requires expedited action on applications for benefits and determinations regarding disability. Excludes from income, those education expenses paid for by grant, fellowship, or scholarship for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits. Revises the eligibility standards for residents of a principally residential facility not used as a health care facility, correctional institution, or school or training facility.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1975
Revises the General Education Provisions Act to extend the authorization of appropriations for the National Institute of Education and to establish priorities on which the resources of the Institute will be concentrated. Identifies priority research and development areas for the Institute. States that such areas shall include: (1) improvement in student achievement in basic educational skills; (2) overcoming problems related to the financing, productivity, and management of educational institutions; (3) improving the ability of schools to provide equal educational opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds and women; (4) preparation for persons to enter and progress in careers; and (5) improved dissemination and application of the results of educational research and development. Revises the provisions of such Act relating to the number of members of the National Council on Educational Research required for a quorum, the expiration date for the term of the members; and continuation of service of a member until his or her successor has been appointed and confirmed. Authorizes the establishment of fellowships at the Institute. Authorizes the appropriation of $80,000,000 annually over a three-year period to carry out the objectives of this Act.