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United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1973
Provides for the study of an Indian Nations Trail to determine whether such Trail should be designated to be within the national trails system. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 1244(c))
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1973
Provides for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments to the Creek Nation of Oklahoma in Indian Claims Commission dockets numbered 167 and 273.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1973
Provides for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Creek Indians of Oklahoma in Indian Claims Commission docket numbered 275.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Establishes within the General Accounting Office a Division of Legislative Budget Review. States that within the Division there shall be a separate office for each executive agency which shall: (1) continuously observe and study the operation of the agency to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency in the utilization of appropriated funds; (2) review and analyze the budget estimates submitted by that agency for inclusion in the budget and in supplemental and deficiency requests; (3) review and analyze budget requests for that agency included in the budget and in supplemental and deficiency budget requests submitted to Congress; and (4) make its own present and future budget estimates with respect to that agency; (5) develop, establish, and maintain an up-to-date inventory of executive branch fiscal, budgetary, and program related information; and (6) review these agency operations on a continuing basis and determine whether the agency is satisfying congressional intent and requirements. Directs the Comptroller General to transmit to Congress, as soon as practicable, each review, analysis, and estimate of each such office. States that an officer or employee in an office for an executive agency shall not serve in that office for more than thirty six consecutive months and that upon termination of service in that office such officer or employee shall not be appointed, detailed, assigned, or otherwise made available to perform duties with respect to that same agency unless at least six years have elapsed since the date of such termination of service. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, but not more than 10 percent of the funds utilized by the various agencies of the executive branch in the formulation, presentation, and justification of agency estimates within the various agencies and departments; presentation and justification to the Office of Management and Budget; and presentation and justification to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1973
Extends the time for conducting the referendum with respect to the national marketing quota for wheat under the Agriculture Adjustment Act for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1974 to not later than the earlier of (1) thirty days after adjournment sine die of the first session of the Ninety-Third Congress or (2) October 15, 1973. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1336)
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1973
Provides that meat prepared under State inspection at any establishment in any State in accordance with requirements which the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare has determined are at least equal to those under titles I and IV of the Federal Meat Inspection Act shall be eligible for distribution in commerce. (Amends 21 U.S.C. 661(c)(2))
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1973
Provides for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor of the Ponca Indians of Oklahoma and Nebraska in Indian Claims Commission dockets numbered 322 and 324. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to prescribe necessary rules and regulations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1973
Permits national banks to invest in agricultural credit corporations. (Amends 12 U.S.C. 24)
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Environmental Centers Act - Allows the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to provide financial assistance to enable any State, if such State does not participate in a regional environmental center assisted under this title, to establish and operate one State environmental center. Establishes prerequisites for the designation of such State environmental centers. Allows the Administrator to provide financial assistance to enable two or more States, if none of such States has a State environmental center, to establish and operate a regional environmental center. Establishes prerequisites for the designation of such regional centers. Establishes eligibility requirements for environmental centers. Declares that the functions of each State and regional environmental center shall include: (1) the planning and implementing of research, investigations, and experiments relating to the study and resolution of environmental pollution, natural resource management, and other local, State, and regional environmental problems and opportunities; and (2) the training of environmental professionals through such research, investigations, and experiments, which training may include, but is not limited to, biological, ecological, geographic,geological, engineering, economic, legal, energy resource, natural resource and land use planning, social, recreational, and other aspects of environmental problems. Authorizes $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $9,800,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 to be disbursed in equal shares to the environmental centers, except that each regional center shall receive a number of shares equal to the number of states participating in such regional center. Authorizes $10,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976 to be allocated to the environmental centers on a proportional basis determined by population, land area, severity of the environmental problems in the areas served by the centers, and the ability and willingness of such centers to address themselves to such problems. Establishes the Environmental Centers Research Coordination Board for the purpose of assisting the Administrator with the development and operation of the program. Requires the Governor of each State having a State environmental center, and the Governor of States participating in each regional environmental center, to appoint an advisory board to advise such centers of the efforts of Federal, State, and local governments and private industry relating to the protection and enhancement of the environment. Requires the Administrator to report on or before January 1, of each year to the President and to Congress regarding the receipts and expenditures and works of all State and regional environmental centers.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1973
Provides for compensation to the Cherokee Nation for the loss of specified lands. States that no more than 10 percent of the amount of the claim shall be received by any agent or attorney on account of services rendered with respect to each claim. Sets forth a penalty of up to a $1000 fine for a violation of this limitation.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1973
Choctaw-Chickasaw-Cherokee Boundary Dispute Act - Grants the consent of the United States to the Choctaw Nation, the Chickasaw Nation, and the Cherokee Nation to bring suit against each other, and against any other persons, or entities, to quiet the beneficial title in and to the bed of the Arkansas River below the Canadian fork and to the eastern boundary of Oklahoma. Provides that any action commended under this Act shall be heard and determined by a three-judge Federal court.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1973
Federal Child Support Security Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to assure that parents who have abandoned their children will be required to carry out their obligations for child support and maintenance, and that such children will receive the parental support to which they are entitled. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide, to an authorized person, the most recent address and place of employment of any individual if the Secretary is reasonably satisfied that such information is sought in connection with the enforcement of the legal duty of the individual to provide for the support and maintenance of a child or children of such individual. Authorizes the Secretary to secure such information from other departments and agencies of the Government. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Federal Child Support Security Fund which shall be available to the Secretary to enable him to make child support payments authorized by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the security fund an initial fund of $75,000,000, and thereafter such sums as may be necessary to enable the Secretary to make such child support payments. Provides that the Secretary shall make child support payments under this Act. States that the Secretary shall provide reasonable notice and opportunity for any child who is or claims to be eligible for child support payments under this Act and is in disagreement with any determination of the Secretary shall be subject to judicial review. Provides that the final determination of the Secretary shall be subject to judicial review. Provides penalties for fraud with respect to an application for child support payments under this Act. Provides that any child support payments made under this Act shall be considered to have been made for the benefit of the parent of the child and such parent shall be liable to the United States for the amount of such payments plus interest. Authorizes the Attorney General to initiate appropriate proceedings or the recovery of such amounts due the United States. Declares that it is the duty of recipients of aid to families with dependent children to provide any information which such individual has regarding the identify, address, or place of employment of the parent of such dependent child. States that whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce to avoid parental responsibilities shall be fined not more than $1,000 and/or imprisoned for not more than one year. Provides that legal services programs shall be operated in such cases involving the securing of parental support for children who have been abandoned by a parent.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1973
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. Provides that such Board shall be composed of four members appointed by the President eight members appointed by the Librarian of Congress the Librarian of Congress ex officio and the Director of the Center ex officio. Authorizes the Center to establish and implement a program of contracts, grants, revitalize and scholarships to preserve, protect, revitalize and disseminate 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. States that such research or training may be extended to a period not to exceed five years with the concurrance of at least two-thirds of the members of the Board. Provides that no former employee of the Federal Govermnent 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 Library of Congress, for inclusion in its annual report to the Congress, an annual report of its operations under this Act. Authorizes such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Declares that on Memorial Day, May 28, 1973, special remembrance be given by a grateful people to the 1,288 members of the Armed Forces of the United States currently listed as missing in action in Indochina. Declares that all American motorists are encouraged to turn on their automobile lights throughout Memorial Day, May 28, 1973, as a symbol of this remembrance. Provides that every effort be made to secure the cooperation of all parties in the Indochina conflict to insure the fullest and most expeditious resolution of the status of members of the U.S. Armed Forces missing in Indochina.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a program of research into the substantial losses of animals sustained through specified diseases and injuries while such animals are being transported to market. Requires the Secretary to submit a report on the results of such research program not later than 4 years after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1973
Constitutional Amendment - Vests the executive power in a President of the United States of America. States that he shall hold his office during the term of four years, and together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected as provided by this Constitution. Recongnizes the existence of political parties, whose membership consists of citizens voluntarily associated together for the purpose of selecting and electing candidates for political office in the United States. Provides that the two political parties with which the greatest number of Members of the Congress are affiliated are authorized to nominate candidates for President and Vice President as herein provided. Provides that the official candidates for President of political parties shall be nominated in a national primary election by direct popular vote of the qualified voters in each State who shall be eligible to vote only in the primary of the party of their registered affiliation. States that Congress shall provide by law the time, place, and manner for the certification of persons as candidates for nomination for President. Provides that no person shall be a candidate for nomination of President except in the primary of the party of his registered affiliation, and his name shall be on that party's ballot in all the States if he shall have filed a valid petition at the seat of the Government of the United States. Provides that each political party for which, in accordance with this article, a presidential candidate shall have been nominated, shall nominate a candidate for Vice President who shall be the official candidate of such party for Vice President throughout the United States. Provides that the President and Vice President of the United States shall be elected at a general election by direct popular vote of the qualified voters of each State. Provides that the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President having the greatest number of votes shall be elected President and Vice President. Provides that the places and manner of holding the primary, runoff, and general elections shall be prescribed in each State by the legislatures thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations. Provides qualifications requisite for voters of the most numerous branch of the State legislature.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Establishes the Chickasaw National Recreation Area and outlines the boundaries for such area. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands within the boundaries of the recreation area by donation, purchase or exchange. Permits the Secretary to specify the type of activity to occur on such lands. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1973
Provides for a daily index of the Congressional Record.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1973
Extends insurance coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act to all areas of the United States and to all agricultural commodities. Removes the appropriations limit on amounts that may be authorized under the Act. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1508(a),1516(a))
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Provides that in any proceeding before the Tax Court for the redetermination of a deficiency, the prevailing party may be awarded a judgment of costs to the same extent as is provided for civil actions brought against the United States. States that a judgment of costs entered by the Tax Court shall be treated, for purposes of this Act in the same manner: (1) as an overpayment of tax, in the case of a judgment of costs in favor of the petitioner, and (2) as an underpayment of tax, in the case of a judgment of costs against the petitioner. Provides that interest or penalty shall be allowed or assessed with respect to any judgment of costs. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 7465)
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1973
Expands the definition of the term "export trade" under the Export Trade Act to include data, goodwill, insurance, technological know-how, services, facilities, or similar properties or services. Provides that the criminal provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act shall not apply to the export trade-related activities of any association registered with the Federal Trade Commission under the Export Trade Act. Provides that specified sections of the Export Trade Act dealing with unfair methods of competition shall not apply to the export trade-related activities of a registered association. Authorizes the Commission to take such action as it deems proper to obtain compliance by an association with the recommendations of the Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1973
Expresses the gratitude of the Congress to the President for attaining an honorable termination of the involvement of the United States in hostilities in Vietnam.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1973
Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments - Authorizes to be appropriated for carrying out the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, $697,482,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and $700,096,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974. Provides for the making of grants to public or nonprofit private agencies for paying part of the cost of planning, preparing for, and initiating programs to provide vocational rehabilitation services to individuals with spinal cord injuries or to low-achieving deaf individuals. Provides for grants to any State agency designated pursuant to a plan approved under this Act, or to any local agency participating in the administration of such a plan, for paying part of the cost of pilot or demonstration projects for the provision of vocational rehabilitation services to handicapped individuals who, as determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, are migratory agricultural workers, and to members of their families (whether or not handicapped) who are with them, including maintenance and transportation of any such individual and members of his family where necessary to the rehabilitation of that individual. States that whenever the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare determines that any amount of an allotment to a State for any fiscal year will not be utilized by such State in carrying out the purposes of this Act, he may make such amount available for carrying out the purposes of this Act to one or more other States to the extent he determines such other State will be able to use such additional amount during such year for carrying out such purposes. Provides for the inclusion of American Samoa and Trust Teritory of the Pacific Islands in State Programs. States that the State agency plan submitted for approval must provide satisfactory assurance to the Secretary that the State agency designated (or each State agency if two are so designated) and any sole local agency administering the plan in a political subdivision of the State will take into account, in connection with matters of general policy arising in the administration of the plan, the views of, among others, individuals who are recipients of vocational rehabilitation services, individuals who represent citizen groups, individuals who represent professional groups, and individuals who are providers of vocational rehabilitation services. Increases the training allowances under the Act from $25 or $30. Allows State agencies for the blind to act as State evaluation and work adjustment agencies under this Act. Provides that an individual who, as a part of his rehabilitation under a State plan approved under this Act, participates in a program of work experience in a Federal agency, shall not, by reason thereof, be considered to be a Federal employee or to be subject to the provisions of law relating to Federal employment, including those relating to hours of work, rates of compensation, leave, unemployment compensation, and Federal employee benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1973
Requests the President of the United States to take such action as is necessary to begin a national program of public information to inform the commuter of the benefits of car pools and economy cars and that the President report to the Congress on possible legislative incentives to promote such a program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Provides for the collection of special recreation use fees for the use of sites, facilities, and equipment or services furnished at Federal expense.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Animal Health Research Act - Sets forth the purpose of this Act and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the several States for the purpose of encouraging and assisting them in carrying out programs of animal health research at eligible institutions. Authorizes the Congress to appropriate such funds as it may determine to be necessary to support such research programs. Specifies the formula by which funds appropriated under this Act shall be apportioned. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to support research on specific national or regional animal health problems. Provides that in developing plans for the use of such funds the Secretary shall consult the Advisory Board created by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to support costs of providing veterinary medical science research facilities. Provides that such funds shall be apportioned in accordance with the formula set forth in this Act. States that each dean or director of an eligible institution shall submit a brief annual report of research accomplishments on a project-by-project basis. Directs the Secretary to appoint a Veterinary Medical Science Research Advisory Board which shall consist of not less than nine nor more than twelve members. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to call a hearing in a milk market order area upon petition of one-third or more of the producers.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may permit producers of wheat, cotton and feed grain to have acreage devoted to soybeans, guar, and feed grain to the extent determined by the Secretary, that such production shall not impair the effective operation of the grain acreage allotment program.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1973
National Energy Resources Development Act - Title I: Change of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy into Joint Committee on Energy - Changes the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy to a Joint Committee on Energy which shall make studies of problems relating to the development, use, and supply and make such recommendations to Congress as it deems is in the interests of national security, the public health and welfare, and economic stability. Provides that all legislation in the House and Senate relating to Atomic Energy or the Atomic Energy Commission will be referred to the Joint Committee. Title II: Office of Under Secretary of the Interior for Energy and Mineral Resources and New Programs in the Department of the Interior - Establishes an Undersecretary for Energy and and Mineral Resources in the Department of the Interior who will carry out all functions of the Secretary and the Department as it relates to energy. Abolishes the Office of Assistant Secretary for Mineral Resources. Establishes in addition to the present system of leasing of Federal lands a system of payments for leases on offshore lands based on the amount of production under such leases. Provides that this system applies to all new leases made 90 days after enactment and to renewals of existing leases. Provides for a leasing plan to increase the amount of leased land in the first year to 5 times the amount of land leased in the year preceding enactment of the Act. Establishes a Commission on Energy Utilization and Logistics in the Department of the Interior. States that the Commission shall study and investigate means of making optimum use of supplies, and the best uses and systems of delivery of energy sources. Title III: Termination of Federal Power Commission's Authority to Regulate Charges for the Production or Gathering of Natural Gas - Provides for the setting by the Federal Power Commission of a minumum charge for natural gas within 90 days after enactment of the Act. Provides that this minimum charge is to be equal to the average charge during 1972 for all domestically produced and gathered natural gas (not including transportation) increased by 50 percent. Provides that the following year after enactment the charge is to be raised 25 percent above the first minimum and the third year an additional 25 percent. Directs that all price fixing authority of the Commission is terminated other than the foregoing. Title IV: Additional Percentage Depletion for Increased Domestic Production of Oil and Gas and Elimination of Percentage Depletion for Oil and Gas Wells Located Outside the United States - Allows for an additional one percent depletion allowance for each 5 percent of increased production up to 10 percent. States that this provision applies to domestic production only. Provides for the repeal of the depletion allowance for wells located outside the United States in a three year period: first year reduction from present 15 percent to 10 percent; second year from 10 percent to 5 percent; and third year from 5 percent to zero (0). Title V: Other Provisions to Promote Domestic Energy Supplies - Exempts from antitrust laws specifeid activities of parties when those activities relate to research and development of way to improve energy use and recovery. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to enter into contracts with companies who will produce low sulphur hydrocarbon fuels from coal and/or oil shale.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Deep Seabed Hard Mineral Resources Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to administer the provisions of this Act. Provides that no person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States shall directly or indirectly develop any portion of the deep seabed except as authorized by license issued pursuant to this Act or by a reciprocating State. Authorizes the Secretary to issue fifteen year licenses recognizing rights to develop the deep seabed block designated in such license. Provides that a license shall be issued by the Secretary to the first qualified person who makes written application and tenders a fee of $5,000 for the block specified in the application. Provides that no license shall be issued under this Act for any portion of the deep seabed: (1) which has been relinquished by the applicant under license issued by any State within the prior three years; (2) which is subject either to a prior application for a license or an outstanding license under this Act or from a reciprocating State; (3) which if licensed would result in the applicant holding under licenses issued by any State or States more than 30 percent of that area of the deep seabed which is within any circle with a diameter of one thousand two hundred and fifty kilometers where the licensed area consists of surface blocks and one hundred twenty-five kilometers where the licensed area consists of subsurface blocks; or (4) which if licensed would result in the United States licensing more than 30 percent of such area. Requires the licensee to make minimum annual expenditures for the development of each licensed block until commercial recovery from such block is first achieved. Provides that the licenses shall relinquish 75 percent of such block within ten years of the date any block is licensed. Provides for the establishment of a fund for assistance to developing reciprocating States. Provides that licenses issued under this Act may be made subject to any international regime for development of the deep seabed hereafter agreed to by the United States. Requires the United States, on payment of a premium by the licensee, to guarantee to reimburse the licensee for certain losses caused through license infringement by another party. Provides that minerals recovered pursuant to this Act shall be deemed to have been recovered within the United States for purposes of the import and tax laws and regulations of the United States. Provides that any willful violation of the license protections of this Act shall be a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months imprisonment, a fine of $2,000, or both. Provides that the United States district court shall have jurisdiction to enforce the license rights under this Act, and the United States court of appeals shall have jurisidiction to review the rulings of the Secretary under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Title I: Wildlife Restoration Fund - Assigns the tax imposed on component parts of ammunition for pistols, revolvers, and other firearms to the Wildlife Restoration Fund for apportionment among the states. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 669c(b)) Title II: Tax on Sale of Firearms Parts and Ammunition Components - Establishes an 11 percent tax, under the Internal Revenue Code, on component parts of ammunition (including but not limited to, cartridge cases, primers, bullets, shot, and powders) for firearms (including pistols and revolvers). (Amends 26 U.S.C. 4181-82)
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Occupational Safety and Health Act Amendments - Requires that when a proposed rule, which would establish a new occupational safety and health standard, or which would affect an existing standard, is published in the Federal Register, it shall be accompanied by a statement summarizing its economic impact on affected employers, including an estimate of the total cost which would be incurred by employers in each affected industry in complying with such rule. Provides that after a violation of an occupational safety and health standard has been abated an employer need not continue to post the citation for such violation at or near the site of the violation. Establishes a procedure whereby an employer receiving a citation can obtain a variance from the standard violated by persuading the Secretary that work procedures in operation at the time of the citation are equally effective in protecting his employees. Changes from mandatory to permissive the assessment of fines for serious violations. States that determining whether a fine should be assessed, due consideration would be given to the gravity of the violation, the good faith of the employer and the history of previous violations. Requires the Secretary of Labor to provide advice and technical assistance through consultation at the work sites of employers who have 100 or fewer employees, and who request such assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1973
Delcares that the President of the United States, Richard Nixon, be commended for rightfully making firm demands on North Vietnam to live up to its agreement regarding the return of American prisoners of war. Makes it the sense of the Senate that any reconstruction aid for North Vietnam should be contingent upon the following conditions set forth in this resolution: (1) North Vietnam should completly meet its obligations under the Vietnam and Laos ceasefire agreements, including the return of all known American prisoners of war within the time period agreed upon; (2) North Vietnam should cooperate fully in an effort to locate or give an accounting for the more than 1,500 Americans missing in action; (3) the United States should obtain firm assurances from other countries, including Japan, the Western European countries, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Peoples Republic of China, that they are willing to contribute substantial amounts of aid; and (4) other spending priorities of the United States, including funds for education, health, housing and other domestic programs, should be given full consideration in determining the amount of aid to be given to Vietnam, since these programs represent an investment in the future of citizens of this country.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Provides, under the Federal Trade Commission Act, that exclusive territorial arrangements in any trademarked licensing contract an agreement for the manufacture, distribution and sale of a trademarked food product shall not be deemed unlawful, provided: (1) that such product is in free and open competition with products of the same general class manufactured, distributed, and sold by others; (2) the licensee is in free and open competition with vendors of other products of the same general class; and (3) the licensor retains control over the nature and quality of such product in accordance with the provisions of the Trademark Act. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 41)
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1973
Provides for the publication in the Federal Register of information regarding the exportation of agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 714c(f))
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1973
Provides for the disposition of funds appropriated to pay a judgment in favor of the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma and the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska in Indian Claims Commissions docket number 135.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1973
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and furnish to the Jim Thorpe Memorial, Oklahoma Athletic Hall of Fame Commission, not more than one hundred thousand medals with suitable emblems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the Secretary after consultation with the commission. Provides that the medals, which may be disposed of by the commission at a premium, shall be delivered at such times as may be required by the commission in quantities of not less than two thousand. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to cause such medals to be struck and furnished at not less than the estimated cost of manufacture, including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses, and security satisfactory to the Director of the Mint shall be furnished to indemnify the United States for the full payment of such costs. Provides that no medals shall be made under the authority of this Act after December 31, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1973
Permits the recomputation of retired pay for any member or former member of the Armed Services who was on active duty or in an active status before April 1, 1958, for a period of not less than 10 years, and who became or will become entitled to retired pay based upon age, length of service, or physical disability under the provisions of the Career Compensation Act of 1949. Provides that the Act shall not retroactively entitle any member or former member to additional retired or retainer pay. Provides that the Act shall not reduce the retired or retainer pay to which a member or former member was entitled before this enactment. States that eligibility for recomputation under this Act begins on the first day of the first month after the member or former member reaches 60 years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1973
Community Supervision and Services Act - Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act. Provides that the administrative head of a program of community supervision and services, established under this Act, shall, to the extent possible, interview each person charged with a criminal offense against the United States whom he believes may be eligible for release in accordance with this Act and assist such person in preparing a preliminary plan for his release to a program of community supervision and services. States that any appropriate committing officer may, in his discretion, release any eligible individual charged with a criminal offense to a program of community supervision and services at the time for the setting of bail. Provides that if such person is released to a program of community supervision the administrative head shall report on the progress of such individual at ninety-day intervals following the date of such individual's release. Provides that the criminal charge against the released individual shall be continued for ninety days following such individual's release and authorizes the committing officer to dismiss the charge against him if at the end of such period the administrative head certifies that the individual has successfully completed his plan. States that the chief judge of any district may appoint an advisory committee for a program of community supervision and services, to be composed of the chief judge, who shall serve as chairman, the attorney for the United States, and any other judges of the district or persons residing in the district so designated. Provides that the committee shall plan for the implementation of any such program and shall regularly review the administration and progress of any such program. Sets forth the administrative powers delegated to the Attorney General under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1973 and for each fiscal year thereafter the sum of $2,500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973
Makes it unlawful, under the Clayton Act, for any person engaged in commerce to sell, offer to sell, or contract to sell goods below cost for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competion.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1973
Fiscal Responsibility Act - Provides that after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government and upon recommendation of the President for each fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974), the Congress shall, by law, prescribe a limit on: (1) the total amount of expenditures and net lending to be made by the United States Government during such fiscal year; and (2) the total amount of new obligational authority and loan authority to be made available for such fiscal year. Requires the President to reserve from expenditure and net lending during each fiscal year and from appropriations or other obligational authority otherwise made available, such amounts as may be necessary to keep expenditures and net lending during the fiscal year within the limit on the total amount prescribed for the fiscal year pursuant to this Act. Requires the President to reserve from the new obligational and loan authority for each fiscal year such amounts as may be necessary to keep the new obligational authority and loan authority for the fiscal year within the limit on the total amount prescribed for the fiscal year pursuant to this Act. States that, except in emergency Presidential requests for appropriations, it shall not be in order, in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, to consider any bill or joint resolution making appropriations for any fiscal year (beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974) prior to the date of the enactment of a law prescribing a limit on the total amount of expenditures and net lending to be made by the United States Government during such fiscal year and a limit on the total amount of new obligational and loan authority to be made available for such fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Prohibits the impoundment of funds from the Highway Trust Fund which have been apportioned and appropriated by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Provides that whoever: (1) uses a firearm to commit any felony for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States; or (2) carries a firearm during the commission of any felony for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the United States, shall, in addition to the punishment provided for the commission of such delony, be sentenced for the additional offense defined in this Act to a term of imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years. States that in the case of his second or subsequent conviction under this Act, such person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment for not less than two nor more than twenty-five years. Provides that the execution or imprisonment of any term of imprisonment imposed under this Act may not be suspended, and probation may not be granted. Provides that any term or imprisonment imposed under this Act may not be imposed to run concurrently with any term or imprisonment imposed for the commission of such felony.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1973
Establishes an eight-member Ad Hoc Senate Committee on Military Oversight for the purpose of keeping abreast of changing military requirements resulting from developments of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Conference on Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II in order to ascertain the proper level of our future military security posture. Authorizes to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee a sum not to exceed $250,000.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Declares that specified land of the United States in the State of Oklahoma is held by the United States in trust for the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Extends titles, I,II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII of the Agricultural Act of 1970 for five years.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Extends the provisions of Title IV of the Agricultural Act of 1970 concerning the crop of winter wheat through 1974, unless a new farm bill shall have been passed by Congress and signed by the President prior to July 1, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Establishes at 5 percent the interest rate on emergency loans under the Consolidated Farmers Home Administration Act. Repeals the provision under such Act allowing forgiveness of $5,000 on disaster loans under this Act. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 1964; P.L. 92-385)
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides, under the Export Administration Act of 1969, that the Secretary of Agriculture shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to assure that a license be obtained by an exporter prior to sale of any agricultural commodity produced in the United States, its territories and possessions, to any country which denies United States citizens or employees or agents of the United States Deparment of Agriculture freedom to gather information relating to crop conditions in agricultural producing areas of such country. Sets forth procedures to be followed in granting such license. (Amends 50 App. U.S.C. 2403(e))
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Creates an Atlantic Union delegation, composed of 18 eminent citizens, which is authorized to organize and participate in a convention made up of similar delegations from such North Atlantic Treaty parliamentary democracies as desire to join in the enterprise, and other parliamentary democracies the convention may invite, to explore the possibility of agreement on: (a) a declaration that the goal of their peoples is to transform their present relationship into a more effective unity based on Federal principles; (b) a timetable for the transition by stages to this goal; and (c) a commission to facilitate advancement toward such stages. Requires the convention's recommendations to be submitted to the Congress. Provides that not more than half of the delegation's members shall be from one political party, and that 6 of the delgates shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, after consultation with the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 6 by the President of the Senate, after consultation with the Senate committee on Foreign Relations, and 6 by the President of the United States. Allows all members of the delegation to speak and vote individually in the convention. Authorizes the delegation in carrying out the purposes of this Act: (a) to seek to arrange an international convention and such other meetings and conferences as it may deem necessary; (b) to employ and fix the compensation within prescribed limits of such temporary professional and clerical staff as it deems necessary; and (c) to pay not in excess of $100,000 toward such expenses as may be involved as a consequence of holding any meetings or conferences authorized by subparagraph (a) above. Authorizes not to exceed $200,000 to be appropriated to the Department of State to carry out the purposes of this resolution, payments to be made upon vouchers approved by the Chairman of the delegation subject to the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the obligation and expenditure of appropriated funds. Requires the delegation to make semiannual reports to Congress accounting for all expenditures and such other information as it deems appropriate. Provides that the delegation shall cease to exist at the expiration of the three-year period beginning on the date of the approval of this resolution.