United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1975
Provides, under title XVIII (Medicare) and title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that qualified drugs requiring a physicians prescription or certification shall be included among the items and services covered under the hospital insurance program for the aged. States that the reasonable allowance for eligible drugs furnished an individual pursuant to any one prescription and purchased by such individual at any one time shall be reduced by an amount equal to the applicable prescription copayment obligator which shall be $1. Establishes, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a Formulary Committee to compile and publish a Formulary listing the drugs deemed qualified for benefits under this Act, together with maximum allowable costs and additional information concerning such drugs. Makes provisions for selecting drugs for the Formulary.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1975
State Lottery Exemption Act - Exempts State-conducted lotteries, sweepstakes, and wagering pools, as well as vending machines maintained by State agencies for such purposes, from the wagering tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
National Venereal Disease Prevention and Control Amendments - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish, under the National Venereal Disease Prevention and Control Act, a national program for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States for projects for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States to establish and maintain adequate public health programs for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States for venereal disease surveillance activities and casefinding and case followup activities respecting venereal disease.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Allows under the Internal Revenue Code an income tax credit equal to one-half of all contributions to official bicentennial celebration organizations. Limits such credit to a maximum of $25 for a joint tax return, or $12.50 for an individual return.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States delegation to the European Security Conference should not agree to the recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and it should remain the policy of the United States not to recognize in any way the annexation of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Economic Impact Statement Act - Provides, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, that the requirement that the Director of the Congressional Budget Office include a cost estimate for each reported public bill and resolution be modified to require that such estimate of costs be those which would be incurred by the Federal government, by State and local governments and by nongovernmental entities.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Calls upon the President to direct the United States ambassador to the United Nations to insist that the United Nations take all necessary actions to obtain a full and accurate accounting for members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action in Southeast Asia. Directs that if such action is not taken the United States contribution to the United Nations shall be cut from 25 to 10 percent.
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 · 26 March 1975
Health Manpower and Shortage Area Assistance Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Title II: Assistance for construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1977 for such purposes. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools. Prescribes new procedures for the establishment of the National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements by the Secretary of the Congess in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps. Establish the National Advisory Council in the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975-1977. Revises the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligibility requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth new computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorizations of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances from each types of school, including assurances as to the enrollment of each school, are met. Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1977. Title V: Assistance for Specialized Training - Authorizes appropriations for three fiscal years for grants for: (1) training, traineeships, and fellowships in family medicine; (2) community-based health manpower education program; (3) clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy; and (4) bilingual health training clinical centers. Title VI: Allied Health Personnel - Revises the training programs for allied health personnel and allied health personnel, extending appropriations through fiscal year 1977. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Prohibits discrimination under this Act on the basis of moral beliefs or religious convictions. Authorizes appropriations for ten Lister Hill scholarship grants to individuals practicing family medicine in areas where there is a shortage of such doctors.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Modifies the definition of the terms "rural" and "rural area" under the Consolidated farm and Rural Development Act for purposes of loans and grants to community medical facilities under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Excludes from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code any amount of a student loan indebtedness which has been discharged, if such discharge was pursuant to a provision permitting such discharge, if such individual worked in specified professions or specified geographical regions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Emergency Special Public Service Employment and Railroad Improvement Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to provide, under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, transitional job opportunities and related training for unemployed and underemployed persons and to stimulate and expedite repair and rehabilitation of the Nation's rail transportation network. Authorizes appropriations of $300,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into arrangements with eligible applicants in order to make financial assistance available for the purpose of providing employment for unemployed and underemployed persons in transitional jobs for improvement of railway lines and facilities, and training and manpower services related to such employment. Requires that preference be given to unemployed persons who are either ineligible for or have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits. Sets forth provisions governing approval of applications for assistance under the provisions of this Act. Limits the average Federal financial assistance for each public service job to $10,000 per year. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds on an equitable basis, taking into account the severity of unemployment in particular areas and the recommendations of the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to certify to the Secretary particular railroad lines and facilities which are in special need of maintenance, upgrading, or improvement and which can be substantially completed within twelve months after financial assistance is made available. Limits the Federal share of programs funded under this Act to 70 percent. Requires any State or local or regional transportation authority receiving financial assistance under this Act to contribute at least 30 percent of the cost of the program for which Federal assistance is provided. Directs the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to execute an agreement with the eligible applicant which will describe the work to be done, the timetable, and which will provide a mechanism for insuring that the National Railroad Passenger Corporation will receive a reasonable portion of the benefit of the value added to the rail lines or facilities involved.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on Women in 1976. States that the purpose of the Conference shall be the recognition of the contributions of women to the development of our country and to set goals and recommendations for the improvement of the status of women. Directs that the Conference shall be planned and conducted under the direction of the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to appoint six additional members to the Council. Directs the Council to cooperate with Federal departments and agencies in providing technical and financial assistance to the States to enable them to organize and conduct local and State conferences. Calls upon the Council to prepare and make available background materials for the use of delegates to the Conference, insure each State is adequately represented and establish a travel budget for those unable to pay their own expenses. Authorizes the Council to accept in the name of the United States grants, gifts and bequest of money for the furtherance of the Conference. Authorizes, without fiscal year limitations, the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 as may be necessary to carry out this joint resolution.
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 · 20 March 1975
Small Business Emergency Relief Act - Authorizes the head of any executive agency to terminate for the convenience of the Government any fixed-price contract between that agency and a small business concern encountering significant and unavoidable difficulties during performance because of the energy crisis or rapid and unexpected escalations of contract costs. Specifies the documentation and certification required of a small business concern to support such a request for relief. Gives to the term "small business concern" the same meaning for the purpose of this Act as such term has for purposes of the Small Business Act. States that the authority conferred by this Act shall terminate December 31, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Extends through fiscal year 1976 the program of financial assistance to States, under the Education of the Handicapped Act, for initiating, expanding, and improving programs and projects for the education of handicapped children at preschool, elementary, and secondary school levels.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Student Loan Amendments - Provides for the elimination of the defense of infancy with respect to non-payment of federally insured student loans made pursuant to the Higher Education Act of 1965. Authorizes students who have elected to repay student loans in less than 5 years to, at any time prior to completion of repayment, extend the repayment period to 5 years. Provides for a minimum annual payment of $360 for married couples both of whom have loans outstanding. Provides that lenders may be paid interest on the aggregate amount of multiple disbursements to a student from the time the first disbursement is made for the particular period of enrollment. Mandates the availability to eligible educational institutions of the latest known address of the student borrower. Provides that defaulting students shall be ineligible for future student assistance. Eliminates proprietary institutions as eligible lenders under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Provides that educational loans be dischargeable in bankruptcy.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that the retired or retainer pay of a member of the Armed Forces which is reduced to provide an annuity for the spouse of the member shall, for each full month during which such person is not married, be recomputed and paid as if the the retired or retainer pay of the member had not been so reduced. States that upon remarriage of the member, the retired or retainer pay shall be reduced by the appropriate percentage reduction. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1452 (g))
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Entitles to insured status under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance), those individuals whose disability is attributable directly or indirectly to meningioma or other brain tumor.
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 · 13 March 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President submit to the Congress a plan for: (1) maintaining close watch over investigations of nursing home abuses; (2) reporting to local, State and Federal law enforcement and health care officials on possible linkages between scandals or problems in or among the States or localities; and (3) developing better care and cost controls. Establishes a mulitagency task force to implement the plan and to report regularly to the Congress upon its progress.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Increases from $20,000 to $35,000, under the Internal Revenue Code, the exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of a residence by an individual who is 65 years of age or older.
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
Truth in Spending Act - Requires that any bill or resolution of a public character introduced in the House of Representatives or the Senate, and the report on any such bill or resolution reported by any committee of either House, shall contain an estimate of the average cost for each taxpaying family, if such bill were enacted into law. Provides that no bill or resolution shall be considered until such determination is made. Calls upon the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to print statistics of the average cost for each taxpaying family of bills and resolutions for the week and for the year in the Congressional Record.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, during intervals between decennial censuses of population, to produce and publish for each State, county, and local unit of government with a population of 50,000 or more current data on total population. Authorizes the Secretary to make surveys on subjects (other than population) covered by the censuses provided for in this title. Requires that data most recently produced and published shall be used in the administration of any law of the United States in which population is used to determine the amount of benefit received by State and local units of general purpose government. Directs the Secretary and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to jointly initiate the development of uniform methods and procedures in producing statistical information used in effecting the delivery of Federal benefits to State and local governments and report progress toward the development of such procedures not later than one year after enactment of this Act. Specifies that this Act does not limit the present authority of the Office of Management and Budget to develop statistical standards. (Amends 13 U.S.C. 181; Adds 13 U.S.C. 182, 183, 184)
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
National Biomedical Heart, Lung, Blood, Blood Vessel, and Research Training Act - Title I: National Heart and Lung Institute - Directs the Director of the Institute to prepare in consultation with the National Heart and Lung Advisory Council and submit to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for transmittal to the President and the Congress simultaneously an annual report on the activities, progress, and accomplishments under the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung and Blood Disease program during the preceding year and a plan for the next five years, including projections of the staff required and recommendations for appropriations. Redesignates the Assistant Director for Health Information Programs as the Assistant Director for Prevention and Education. Authorizes $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs. Authorizes cardiovascular, lung, and blood disease prevention programs to be carried out in chronic lung disease research and demonstration centers. Limits payments under the Act to heart, blood vessel, lung and blood disease centers to $5,000,000 for any year. Authorizes the Advisory Council to approve areas or research in heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases to be supported by the awarding of contracts and approve the percentage of the budget of the Institute which may be expended for such contracts. Excludes indirect costs in determining the maximum amount of research and training grant authorized by the National Heart and Lung Act. Authorizes $475,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 for carrying out the programs of such Act. Title II: National Research Service Awards - Authorizes the awarding of National Research Awards for biomedical and behavioral research at Federal institutions. Authorizes $207,947,000 for the National Research Service Awards program for fiscal years 1975 and 1976.
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 President to annually issue a proclamation designating the second week of April of each year as "National Medical Laboratory Week". Urges the President, Governors and mayors to take further action during that week to impress upon the american people the importance of laboratory services.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that discrimination in international commerce against individuals or institutions on religious, racial or ethnic grounds should not be tolerated. Urges action to be taken to end such discrimination.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Emergency Marine Fisheries Protection Act - Declares the policy of this Act. Establishes, for the duration of this Act, a fishery zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States. Requires that the United States excercise exclusive fishery management responsibility and authority within this contiguous fishery zone. States that the contigous fishery zone has as its inner boundary the outer limits of the territorial sea, and as its seaward boundary a line drawn so that each point on the line is 197 nautical miles from the inner boundary. Provides that the fishery management responsibility and authority of the United States within the contiguous fishery zone of the United Stated shall not include or be construed to extend to highly migratory species, except to the extent such species are not managed pursuant to bilateral or multilateral international fishery agreements. Provides that the fishery management responsibility and authority of the United States with respect to anadromous species, for the duration of this Act, extends to such species wherever found throughout the migratory range of such species. Requires that the United States manage and conserve, and have preferential rights to, fish within the contiguous fishery zone. Provides that the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, may authorize fishing within the contiguous fishery zone of the United States, or for anadromous species or both, by citizens of any foreign nation, in accordance with this Act, only if such nation has traditionally engaged in such fishing prior to the date of enactment of this Act. Requires that the allowable level of traditional foreign fishing shall be set upon the basis of the portion of any stock which cannot be harvested by citizens of the United States. Provides that traditional foreign fishing rights shall not be recognized unless any foreign nation claiming such rights demonstrates that it grants similar traditional fishing rights to citizens of the United States within the contiguous fishery zone of such nation. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish reasonable fees to be paid by the citizens of foreign nation engaged in exercising recognized foreign fishing rights. Provides that such fees shall be set in an shall be set in an amount sufficient to reimburse amount sufficient to reimburse the United States for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to this Act, and for an equitable share of the management and conservation expenses incurred by the United States in accordance with this Act, including the cost of regulation and enforcement. Establishes a Fisheries Management Council. Empowers such Council to: (1) provide information and expert assistance to States and local or regional fisheries authorities in marine fisheries management and conservation; (2) consult on an ongoing basis (A) with other Federal agencies and departments; (B) with officials of coastal States who are concerned with maring fisheries management and conservation planning; (C) with appropriate officials of other nations which are exercising traditional foreign fishing rights, through the offices of the Secretary of State; and (D) with owners and operators of fishing vessels; (3) to prepare a survey of fisheries subject to the emergency conservation and management authority granted to the United States by this Act, including, but not limited to, depleted stocks and stocks threatened with depletion; and (4) survey, study, and prepare a marine fisheries management plan setting forth the elements of a national management system to conserve and protect fish. Requires the Council submit the marine fisheries management plan adopted by the Council to the Senate Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of State, upon the request of and in cooperation with the Secretary, to initiate and conduct negotiations with any foreign nation which is engaged in , or whose citizens are engaged in, fishing in the contiguous fishery zone of the United States or for anadromous species. Provides that the Secretary of State, upon the request of and in cooperative with the Secretary, shall, in addition, initiate and conduct negotiations with any foreign nation in whose contiguous fishery zone or equivalent economic zone citizens of the United States are engaged in fishing or with respect to anadromous species as to which such nation asserts management responsibility and authority and for which citizens of the United States fish. Provides that the purpose of such negotiations shall be enter into international fishery agreements on a bilateral or multilateral basis to effectuate the purposes, policy, and provisions of this Act. Sets forth prohibitions and penalties under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Emergency Health Insurance Extension Act - Stipulates, under the Public Health Service Act, that every individual who is receiving benefits under any Federal or State unemployment compensation law and who, at the time of termination of his employment, was covered under an employer health insurance plan for employees, and the members of his family if included in such coverage, shall be entitled to a continuation of such insurance. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to pay the premiums for such insurance, under specified terms and conditions, until June 30, 1976. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in collaboration with the Secretary of State, to report to the Congress on action which can be taken to promote international compliance with conservation measures established by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. Specifies that such consideration should include a determination of whether the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 should be invoked. Provides for an examination of United States trade agreements with Ecuador in view of that nation's claim in the high seas not recognized by the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Vocational Education Amendments - Declares the purposes of this Act in revising the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Provides that any State desiring to participate in the program authorized by this Act shall fulfill specified administrative requirements, including designating a State board as the sole agency for administration of a State plan for vocational education. Directs the Commissioner of Education to assure that adequate staffing is available to the Bureau of Occupational and Adult Education to make certain that the Bureau's responsibilities are accomplished. Enumerates such responsibilities, including to provide leadership to assist State vocational education agencies to expand and improve their programs. Requires that the President appoint, during 1978, a Panel of Consultants on Vocational Education to review the administration of vocational education programs. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Vocational Education to perform specified functions, including to advise the President, Congress, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Commissioner concerning vocational education programs supported under this Act and the Higher Education Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $500,000 for each fiscal year. Requires any State which desires to receive a grant under this Act to establish an independent State advisory council. Specifies the membership composition of such council. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these purposes $4,315,844 for each fiscal year. Provides that a State board shall have the primary responsibility for preparing statewide plans for vocational education, and shall designate a planning group to prepare such plans. Authorizes to be appropriated $20,000,000 for each fiscal year, from which the Commissioner shall make a grant to each participating State for purposes of preparing statewide plans. Defines the terms used in this Act. Declares that it is the purpose of this part of this Act to implement that portion to the career education concept in which vocational education plays an important role. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1980 for carrying out such purpose and directs the Secretary to make grants to each State which has approved administrative arrangements for prevocational education programs. Enumerates the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes appropriations for vocational education program support, providing for the allotment of such funds among the States. Authorizes appropriations for vocational education program services and empowers the Secretary to make grants to each State from such funds for programs of: (1) teacher education; (2) placement and followup services; and (3) student support. Directs the Commissioner to make available three-year leadership development grants to specified persons in order meet the need in all the States for qualified vocational education personnel with high potential to advance to policymaking and leadership positions. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Provides for grants for applied research, curriculum development, demonstration programs and leadership development. Authorizes appropriations for such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Postsecondary Vocational Education Act - Redefines the term "vocational education" for purposes of the Vocational Education Act of 1963 by stipulating that such term does not include training, retraining, guidance, counseling, instruction, and education of individuals who are sixteen years of age or older and who have graduated from or have left elementary or secondary school. Defines the terms "postsecondary occupational education" and "postsecondary occupational education institution" for purposes of such Act. Requires States to establish separate allotments for vocational education and for postsecondary occupational education in order to be eligible for grants under the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Sets forth the information required on applications by States for funds under such Act. Authorizes States to appeal denials of such applications in accordance with specified procedures. Prohibits States from using such grants to provide vocational education programs for those that have left or completed high school, or for persons who have already entered the labor market. Stipulates that a State may use its postsecondary occupational educational allotment only for postsecondary occupational education programs. Stipulates that 10 percent of such allotment may be used only for programs to benefit handicapped persons, and 15 percent for programs to benefit persons who have academic or socioeconomic handicaps. Requires the State commission which administers the distribution of such State's postsecondary education allotment to undertake a continuous program of statewide planning for postsecondary occupational education. Sets forth the factors required to be considered by such commissions with respect to such planning programs. Requires such commissions to prepare, with the advice of the State advisory council on vocational and occupational education, an annual State plan, which shall serve as the basis for disbursement of the State's allotment for that year by the State agency designated in accordance with this Act. Specifies the content required of such annual plans. Requires States to establish programs designed to promote access to postsecondary occupational education. Requires the Commissioner of Education to evaluate various means of promoting access to postsecondary occupational education programs to assist the Congress in its oversight responsibilities. Redesignates the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education as the National Advisory Council on Vocational and Postsecondary Occupational Education. Expands the duties of the Council to include advice, review, and evaluation with respect to postsecondary occupational education. Requires State advisory councils to include in their membership, representatives of postsecondary occupational education institutions. Authorizes to be appropriated for planning grants for programs under this Act such sums as may be necessary for the period beginning July 1, 1975 and ending September 30, 1976. Requires any State which desires to receive assistance after September 30, 1976 for any program authorized by the Higher Education Act of 1965 for purposes of postsecondary education to submit a plan containing specified information before August 1, 1976. Authorizes States to appeal denials of such assistance in accordance with specified procedures. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants to any State to improve the quality and to broaden the scope of comprehensive statewide planning for postsecondary education by such State in order to promote efficient and effective use of all the postsecondary education resources of the State. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Vocational Education Amendments - Authorizes appropriations, under the Vocational Education Act, of $60,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980 for vocational education programs for persons with academic, socioeconomic, or other handicaps which prevent them from succeeding in regular vocational education programs. Authorizes additional appropriations under such Act for specified programs, including (1) employment of technical assistance by the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, (2) grants for exemplary programs and projects, and (3) demonstration schools. Authorizes appropriations of $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980 for consumer and homemaking education programs. Authorizes additional appropriations for cooperative vocational education programs and work-study programs for vocational education students.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Postsecondary Vocational Education Act - Establishes a division of funds between vocational and postsecondary education in allotments to States under the Vocational Education Act of 1963. Provides that funds granted to States for occupational education may be used for: (1) strengthening State Advisory Councils on Vocational Education in order that they may effectively carry out the additional functions imposed by this Act; and (2) enabling the states to initiate and conduct a program of planning, including the development of a long range strategy for placing occupational education on an equal footing with traditional academic education. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to the States for specific projects relating to the design, establishment, and conduct of postsecondary occupational education programs. Directs any State desiring to receive the amount of its occupational education allotment for a fiscal year to submit a State plan for occupational education at such in such detail, and containing such information as the Commissioner of Education may prescribe. Sets forth criteria to be met for approval of State plans by the Commissioner. Provides that the Commission shall pay, from the State's occupational education allotment for a fiscal year, an amount equal to 50 percent of the total expenditures made in carrying out the State's approved plan. Directs each State to establish a local coordinating committee for each locality in the State. Provides that each local coordinating committee shall make a continuing study of the needs in its locality for vocational education, occupational education, and manpower training programs. States that on the basis of the information derived from such study, the local coordinating committee shall develop and propose a strategy which will present a coherent, integrated, and comprehensive set of vocational education, occupational education, and manpower training programs designed to meet such needs. Stipulates that aggregate expenditures for administration may not exceed 5 percent and guidance, counseling, and technical assistance may not exceed 15 percent of the State's vocational education allotment for that year. Provides for the consolidation, under the Vocational Education Act, of programs for research and training, exemplary programs, and project and curriculum development. Sets forth provisions governing how appropriated sums shall be divided by the Commissioner among specific projects. Authorizes appropriations of $135,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the improvement of vocational and occupational education programs pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Career Guidance and Counseling Act - Title I: General Provisions - States the findings of the Congress relating to the importance to the United States of career development of all individuals. States that all individuals are entitled to support and assistance in achieving self-fulfillment throughout their lives. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the fiscal years 1976 through 1978 to carry out provisions of this Act. Establishes in the United States Office of Education an Office of Career Guidance and Counseling, which shall be responsible for administering this Act. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Career Guidance and Counseling composed of fifteen members appointed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, for terms of not longer than three years. Directs such Council to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Commissioner of Education with respect to the administration of this Act, and to carry out such other advisory functions as the Council deems appropriate, including the suggestion of policies and strategies to implement the career guidance and counseling concepts embodied in this Act. Directs the Council to conduct a survey and assessment of the current status of school and nonschool career guidance programs, projects, and materials in the United States and report on such survey and assessment to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and to the Congress. Title II: Career Guidance and Counseling Programs - Requires the submission of specified State plans by those States desiring to receive grants under this Act. Requires that such plans shall include: (1) assurances that funds received from grants under this Act will be distributed only to local educational agencies which submit to the State education agency plans for career guidance and counseling programs which shall include the purposes of such programs, and a description of the personnel, facilities, involvement of agencies, business and industry in the community and methods of distribution of funds which will be employed in carrying out such programs; (2) evidence that within the State plan, flexibility and experimentation is encouraged and provided for at the local level; (3) establishment of a mechanism to insure that local educational agencies work cooperatively with the State educational agency in the development of the State plan and the implementation of the career guidance and counseling programs; and (4) the establishment of a State advisory committee on career guidance and counseling which shall be representative of the entire State and shall include representatives from the community at large, including students, parents, and members of business, industry and labor. Provides for grants to States having approved plans under this Act for distribution to local educational agencies and for the support of State education agency activities on the basis of statewide needs and priorities, for career development guidance and counseling programs and services. Provides that such grants shall be used for specified purposes, including the following: (1) promotion of career development over the life-span (early childhood through adulthood) for all individuals; (2) promotion of a greater understanding of educational and career options; (3) providing for self and career awareness, planning, and preparation; and (4) serving the special counseling needs of second careerists, individuals from economically depressed communities or areas, and early retirees. Directs the Commissioner of Education to carry out a program of contracting with postsecondary education in institutions and State and local educational agencies for purposes of providing needed training and retraining of guidance personnel. Provides that such program shall be based on the results of comprehensive needs assessment which shall include analysis of geography, economics, and local employment trends within communities served by local educational agencies and shall serve the following purposes: (1) upgrading conselor training programs through inservice for conselor educators; and (2) providing opportunities for the establishment and development of short- and long-term preservice and inservice training for career guidance and counseling personnel so that those vitally needed vocational, occupational, and career guidance concepts for serving a totality of clients may be engendered. Directs the Commissioner of Education to carry out a program of demonstration and evaluation for the purposes of: (1) developing and demonstrating new guidance counseling techniques relative to career decisionmaking skills and awareness; (2) promoting demonstration activities in career guidance and counseling through the encouragement of pilot projects and the publication of developments in new technology, personnel utilization, multipurpose facilities and delivery systems with innovative administrative and structural designs; (3) providing for evaluation of the programs and services offered to determine their effectiveness and efficiency in meeting the needs of their clients; and (4) providing for the communication of proven effective and efficent career and counseling programs for career development. Directs the Commissioner of Education to carry out a program, consistent with the purposes of this Act and with appropriate State and local guidance and counseling programs, of grants to States and postsecondary educational institution for: (1) providing computer programs and equipment for information services, computer assisted guidance and storage and retrieval of current information on employment trends and educational opportunities in local areas and nationally; and (2) career information systems for local educational agencies which shall be integral parts of the local educational agency's plan for guidance and counseling programs.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal and zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) that there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible, except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestitute of any United States owned peroperty, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides for investigations and studies by standing committees of the Senate to ascertain and identify those areas in which differences in treatment or application, on the basis of sex, exist in connection with the administration and operation of those provisions of law under their respective jurisdictions. Requires that each committee present to the Senate a preliminary and final report on such investigations with recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Revises the provisions of title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act by increasing the increment in old-age benefits payable to individuals who delay their retirement beyond age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1975
Open Government Act - Requires each lobbyist to file a notice of representation with the Federal Election Commission not later than fifteen days after becoming a lobbyist. States that the notice of representation shall be in such form and contain such information as the Commission shall prescribe, including: (1) an identification of the lobbyist; (2) an identification, so far as practicable of each person on whose behalf the lobbyist expects to perform services as a lobbyist; (3) a description of the financial terms and conditions, including contingent fee arrangements or other conditions, under which the lobbyist is employed or retained by any person, and the identification of that person; (4) each aspect of the policymaking process which the lobbyist expects to seek to influence, including any committee, department, or agency, or any Federal officer or employee, to whom a communication is to be made, the form of communication is to be used, and whether the communication is to be for or against a particular measure or action; and (5) an identification of each person who, as of the date filing, is expected to be acting for such lobbyist and to be engaged in lobbying. Requires each lobbyist to maintain such financial and other records of lobbying activity as the Commission shall prescribe. Provides that such records shall be preserved for a period of not less than two years after the date of the activity. Requires that such records shall be available to the Commission for inspection and shall include the following information: (1) the total income received by the lobbyist, and the amount of such income attributable to lobbying; (2) the identification of each person from whom income for lobbying is received and the amount received. Requires each lobbyist, not later than fifteen days after the last day of a quarterly filing period in which such lobbyist engaged in lobbying, to file a report with the Commission covering the lobbyist's activities during that period. Provides for the content of such reports. Grants powers to the Federal Election Commission. Provides that the Commission has the power for the purposes of this Act: (1) to require, by special or general orders, any person to submit in writing such reports, records, and answers to questions as the Commission may prescribe relating to the execution of its duties; and such submission shall be made within such a reasonable period of time and under oath or otherwise as the Commission may determine; (2) to administer oaths or affirmations; and (3) to require by subpena, signed by the chairman or the vice chairman, the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of all documentary evidence relating to the execution of its duties. Sets forth the duties of the Commission under this Act. Provides that any lobbyist who fails to comply with the notice and record-keeping requirements of this Act shall be fined not more than $1,000 and be required to fully comply, retroactively or otherwise, with such requirements. Provides that any lobbyist who knowingly and willfully violates such requirements of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than two years. Provides that any person who knowingly and willfully falsifies all or part of any notice of representation or report which he files with the Commission under this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both. Directs the Commission to transmit reports to the President of the United States and to each House of the Congress no later than March 31 of each year. Requires that each such report shall contain a detailed statement with respect to the activities of the Commission in carrying out its duties under this Act, together with recommendations for such legislative or other action as the Commission considers appropriate. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1975
Part-Time Career Opportunity Act - Phases in, at the rate of 2 percent each year for five years up to a maximum of 10 percent, part-time jobs in the Federal Civil Service. Authorizes the Civil Service Commission to waive or reduce any such percentage minimum for a period not to exceed one year under specified circumstances. Authorizes to be appropriated the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life Act - Title I: General Provisions - States that it is the purpose of this Act to consolidate in one governmental unit the responsibility to: (1) establish a national policy for short-term and long-term productivity growth and quality of working life in the United States; (2) correct those public and private structural imbalances which impede productivity, growth, improved quality of working life, and the effective performance of society and the economy; (3) identify ways and means for more effective collaborative joint efforts by labor and management to effect growth in productivity and improved quality of working life; (4) identify, encourage, and support development and implementation of all useful technologies, systems, incentives, methods, and techniques for enhancing growth of productivity and improving work quality in the public and private sectors of the United States; (5) maximize the contributions of the Federal Government to productivity growth and improved work quality in both the private and public sector, including the Federal Establishment; (6) increase public understanding of productivity and the quality of working life the ways in which productivity and the quality of working life can be improved, and the urgency of such improvement in all sectors of the economy; and (7) identify ways to eliminate or minimize the human costs of productivity change. Title II: National Center and Advisory Council for Productivity and Quality of Working Life - Establishes as an independent establishment of the executive branch the National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life to be under the general direction of a board of directors. Specifies the functions of the Center consonant with the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Executive Director of the Center to enter into contracts for research and demonstration programs or projects to effectuate the achievement of the purposes of this Act. Specifies limitations to be placed on the authority to make grants and contracts under this Act. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Productivity and the Quality of Working Life. Directs the National Council to, on a continuing basis, review and evaluate the administration, operation and performance of the Center in carrying out the functions and duties established pursuant to this title, including its effectiveness in improving the growth of productivity and the quality of working life. Directs the National Council to make recommendations for the improvement of this title and its administration and operation. Sets forth functions of the Center under this title. Establishes in the Department of Labor and in the Department of Commerce an Office of Productivity and Quality of Working Life. Makes each such office responsible for: (1) integrating, coordinating and centralizing all research and activities in its respective Department which pertain to matters of productivity organizational effectiveness, and the quality of working life; and (2) providing liaison with the Center in the formulation of new policies and programs pursuant to this Act, and consistent with the policy of the Center, so that programs developed by the Departments and the Center shall be mutually facilitating. Directs the Office of Productivity and Quality of Working Life in the Department of Labor to develop and apply a set of indicators of quality of working life in order to collect such data as may be required by the Secretary of Labor to analyze and evaluate the health, safety and general well-being of American workers and the quality of working life in America. Directs the Office of Productivity and Quality of Working Life in the Department of Commerce to be chiefly responsible for developing indicators of economic and organizational effectiveness and productivity in order to collect such data as may be required by the Secretary of Commerce and the Center to identify economic blocks to American productivity and to analyze and evaluate proposals for improving productivity. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides that the duties, functions, and personnel of the National Commission on Productivity and Work Quality are transferred to the Center, and the Commission is abolished. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act specified sums for fiscal years 1976 through 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
Authorizes the Government National Mortgage Association, under the emergency program authorized by the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act, to purchase qualified mortgages covering multifamily rental, cooperative, or condominium housing.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1975
Provides for a credit under the Internal Revenue Code for 20 percent of the amounts deposited by the taxpayer in an educational savings plan for himself or a dependent. Sets limitations on the amount of such credit, depent upon the nature of the account. Defines "educational savings plan" and other terms used in this Act. Provides for the recapture of any such credit allocable to nonqualified noneducational uses or for failure to use the account.
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