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United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from four percent to two percent the excise tax on private foundations' investment income.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to state that, regardless of the form of business or method of accounting, no person shall be required to maintain inventories of growing plants in the course of the trade or business of operating a nursery.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to increase the established price for the 1978 crop of wheat from $3.05 to $3.50.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Declares that certain proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury regarding centralized firearms sales recordkeeping and other firearms control measures exceed the Department's authority, and directs that the regulations be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Declares a certain individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, notwithstanding specified provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Job Opportunities and Family Security Act - Title I: Family Security Program - Amends Title IV, part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) (AFDC) of the Social Security Act to include within the definition of "dependent child" a child who has been deprived of parental care or support due to the unemployment of a parent. Repeals requirements that the father of a dependent child be unemployed for specified periods of time before his family becomes eligible for aid. Establishes criteria for determining the employment status of a parent based upon average earnings over a specified period of time. Requires an unemployed parent who is eligible for public service employment under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 to register for and accept such employment. Permits a State to establish up to three different payment standards for cash assistance under the AFDC program, according to variations in the cost of living within the State. Defines the term "assistance unit" and enumerates the individuals to be included in such unit for purposes of this Act. Requires that any income or resources of any member of an assistance unit be included in determining the eligibility of such unit for aid. Sets forth items of income and resources which the State must disregard in determining such eligibility. Increases, to specified levels through fiscal year 1985, the amount of work and child care expenses which are to be disregarded in determining eligibility. Prohibits disregard of the earned income of any member of an assistance unit who refuses or terminates employment without good cause, earns more in any month than the established need of the assistance unit, or fails to give a timely report of his earned income for any month. Reduces, according to a specified formula, AFDC payments in the case of a dependent child who lives in a home in which an individual who is either not legally responsible for the support of such child or is not eligible for assistance payments is also residing. Provides Federal financial and technical support to the States for the installation of automated claims processing and management information systems to aid in the administration of State plans under the AFDC program. Requires members of an assistance unit to apply for any private or public retirement or disability plan, unemployment compensation or similar benefits to which they may be entitled. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay quarterly to each State which has an approved plan for aid and services to needy families with children an amount equal to the Federal public assistance percentage for each State, as determined under this Act, multiplied by the total quarterly amount expended by each State for its AFDC programs. Limits the amount of Federal matching funds payable to the States to 100 percent of the Federal nonfarm poverty line as established by the Office of Management and Budget. Establishes a Federal public assistance percentage for fiscal year 1980, with specified yearly increases through fiscal year 1982. Reduces the Federal public assistance percentage for States that have payment error rates in excess of four percent, and requires such States, subject to a further reduction in the public assistance percentage, to insure that no political subdivision is required to provide any funding under the State plan or to administer any part of such plan. Repeals payment limitations applicable to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam under the programs of AFDC, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income, and certain other titles of the Social Security Act. Directs the States to base eligibility for, and amount of, payments to an assistance unit on a one-month retrospective accounting period or a one-month prospective period. Permits States to require, as a condition of eligibility for AFDC benefits, that assistance units report to the State agency each month any changes in income or circumstances. Establishes minimum benefit amounts which States must pay to eligible assistance units for fiscal years 1981 through 1985. Renders an assistance unit ineligible for aid where the resources of such unit exceed specified levels. Changes all references to the AFDC program throughout the Social Security Act to Family Security Program or Aid for Family Security, as appropriate. Requires AFDC recipients to register for the Work Incentive (WIN) program. Exempts certain employees, college students, and public service workers under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act from registration. Places responsibility for the establishment and operation of the WIN program with the States. Requires the Governor of each State administering a work incentive program to report annually on the operation of such program to the Secretary of Labor. Limits the amount of appropriation that may be authorized for the WIN program. Directs the Secretary of Labor to estimate, prior to each quarter of each fiscal year, the amount required by each State for its WIN program and to pay such amount to each State. Establishes a program of Federal payments for foster care maintenance and adoption assistance under Title IV of the Social Security Act. Declares that a State, to be eligible for payments under this Act, shall have a plan for the administration of such program. Sets forth the requirements for approval of such a plan by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Authorizes the States to make payments for foster care maintenance and adoption assistance and sets forth the requirements children and adoptive parents must meet to receive assistance under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to fund the programs established by this Act and provides for payments to the States each quarter, according to a specified formula. Authorizes the Secretary to provide a State with technical assistance in developing programs established by this Act. Title II: Jobs Program - Authorizes appropriations for public service jobs under Title VI of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) of 1973 through fiscal year 1983. Directs each CETA prime sponsor to provide from allocated funds a guaranteed public service job for one adult in any AFDC-Unemployed Parent household who has searched unsuccessfully for a regular job for 90 days. Directs such prime sponsor to provide from 50 percent of available remaining public service jobs, jobs to other AFDC recipients, and from the other 50 percent, jobs to individuals who have been unemployed for 26 weeks or more. Establishes a private sector voucher program for jobs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 to encourage employment in the private sector of AFDC recipients, unemployed adults and youths who have searched unsuccessfully for employment for 90 days, and individuals whose public service employment under CETA has terminated and who have searched for employment for at least 30 days. Provides private sector employers who hire individuals eligible for the voucher program with a one dollar per hour subsidy if such individual is paid according to the prevailing rate for the work he performs. Prohibits employers from using voucher-eligible employees to replace regular employees or reduce their hours. Title III: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the earned income credit to equal 15 percent of an individual's earned income which does not exceed the official poverty line as established by the Secretary of the Treasury. Increases from 10 to 20 percent of the excess adjusted gross income or earned income, whichever is greater, the amount by which the earned income credit will be reduced when such income exceeds the official poverty line. Makes the earned income credit permanent. Requires employers to make advance payments of the earned income credit to employees certified as qualifying for the credit during the current year. Treats payment of this advance credit as payment of the employer's FICA and withholding amounts, and treats failure to make advance payments as a failure to deduct and withhold FICA amounts when they would otherwise be due. Provides that any amount refunded to an individual as an earned income credit shall not be treated as income for purposes of State taxation and shall be disregarded in determining eligibility for a federally funded public assistance program. Sets forth criteria for determining the amount of the credit for the employment of certain new employees. Makes such credit permanent. Increases an individual's income tax liability by the amount that adjusted gross income, plus welfare and food stamp benefits which are received during the year, exceed specified "tabular amounts" based upon such individual's number of personal exemptions. Prescribes "tabular amounts" ranging from $5,470 for individuals with one personal exemption to $14,650 for persons with seven or more exemptions. Limits the credits which can be taken against an individual's income tax liability for excess food stamp and welfare benefits to the credits for excess withholding taxes, certain uses of gasoline, special fuels and lubricating oil, and earned income. Title IV: Supplemental Security Income Payments - Permits States to pay increased cash benefits to supplemental security income recipients in lieu of food stamp coupons. Lowers the age limit for eligibility for supplemental security income benefits from 65 to 64 in 1980, 63 in 1981, and 62 in 1982 and succeeding years. Title V: Food Stamp Provisions - Authorizes demonstration projects for converting food stamp benefits into increased cash payments for recipients of supplemental security income under Title XVI of the Social Security Act. Repeals provisions authorizing payment and distribution of food stamp coupons under the AFDC program. Title VI: Assistance to Meet Emergency Needs - Authorizes appropriations to States for the establishment of plans to provide emergency assistance to any needy family or individual whose living expenses are not met by the State's AFDC program. Sets forth requirements for the operation of a State plan for emergency assistance. Repeals current provisions for emergency assistance to needy families with dependent children. Title VII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (in consultation with the Secretaries of Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, and Labor) to establish demonstration projects to evaluate the feasibility of establishing consolidated public assistance centers to aid individuals in applying for aid under any Federal or federally assisted program for which such individual may be eligible. Directs the Secretary (in consultation with the Secretaries of Agriculture and Labor) to establish demonstration projects to evaluate the feasibility of (1) consolidating public assistance programs and placing the financial responsibility for such programs on the Federal Government and (2) permitting States to operate public assistance programs without Federal regulation. Requires the Secretary (in consultation with the Secretaries of Agriculture, Labor, and the Treasury) to conduct a review of the effects of this Act and to report to Congress. Establishes a National Commission on Public Assistance to conduct a continuing study, investigation, and review of, public assistance programs, and to make recommendations for improvements in such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
PCP Criminal Laws and Procedures Act - Sets forth penalties for the manufacture, distribution, or possession with intent to manufacture or distribute phencyclidine (PCP) and its salts. Requires, with respect to each transfer of piperidine, that the seller report certain information about the buyer to the Attorney General and that the buyer present positive identification. Requires importers to report each shipment of piperidine received. Specifies guidelines for searches of sellers' premises. Prescribes and sets forth penalties for certain other piperidine-related transactions including sales to minors, or sales to or by fugitives or mental defectives, and commerce in stolen piperidine.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1978
Amends the Emergency School Aid Act to make local educational agencies in which more than 50 percent of the enrollment consists of minorities as a result of geographic location eligible for assistance under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Federal Disclosure and Accountability Act - Prohibits any Federal employee from coercing any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right of such individual to disclose any illegal or otherwise improper Government Action to the Review Board on Improper Government Actions established by this Act, and from taking any adverse personnel action against such individual who is a Federal employee in retaliation for such disclosure. Requires the Board to investigate any such disclosure and, in the event further investigation or action is warranted, to notify the person, the head of the agency in which such person is employed, and, if appropriate, the Attorney General and/or the Comptroller General.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Congregate Housing Services Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into contracts with public housing agencies for the establishment of congregate housing projects which are supplemented by supportive services for frail and physically impaired residents. Requires assisted public housing authorities to maintain any financial effort they were making in furtherance of congregate services prior to contract authority approval, unless the Secretary waives such requirement. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit the provision of congregate services in existing public housing. Makes provisions for the administration of services and requires assisted public housing agencies to employ elderly and physically disabled residents to the maximum extent practicable. Sets forth application procedures, requirements for eligibility for services, and rules for the setting of fees for congregate services. Directs assisted public housing agencies to review this program with eligible residents and with the professional assessment committee within the 12 month period prior to the submission of an application for renewed funding.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1978
Older Americans Amendments - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to make the Commissioner on Aging directly responsible to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Abolishes the Federal Council on the Aging. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to continually review all requests for information under this Act and to take such action as necessary to reduce paperwork. States that the program of grants to States and communities for programs on aging should encourage and assist the development of multipurpose senior centers which shall serve as focal points for the delivery of services, including health, social, educational, and nutritional services, and recreation facilities. Includes in the definition of social services, provided by State and local agencies, health screening and preretirement and second career counseling. Extends the authorizations of appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for grants to area planning and social service programs for the aged. Extends for each of the four succeeding fiscal years allotments to States for such programs. Encourages States to include, if feasible, all portions of an Indian reservation within a single planning, and service area for services to the aged. Requires each State to provide, in its plan for services to the aged, for the acquisition, alteration, or renovation of existing facilities to serve as multipurpose senior centers. Requires a State, in order to be eligible for grants, under the Act, to submit to the Commissioner on Aging a State plan for a three-year period. Authorizes appropriations for four succeeding years after fiscal year 1977 for model projects which will expand or improve social services to older persons. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to State agencies for model projects designed to insure: (1) that long-term care needs of individual elderly persons are identified; (2) that such persons are referred to appropriate community-based and institutional services for such care; and (3) that the continued appropriateness of such services be tested through follow-up services and evaluation. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to insure any mortgage for a multipurpose senior center in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Act. Creates a Multipurpose Senior Center Insurance Fund to be used by the Secretary as a revolving fund for carrying out all insurance provisions with respect to such mortgages. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual interest grants to assist nonprofit private agencies in reducing the cost of borrowing from other sources for the acquisition, alteration, or renovation of facilities for multipurpose senior centers. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the four fiscal years following 1977 for training, research, and secretarial programs for personnel in the field of aging. Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish the National Older American Volunteer Programs. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to State agencies or grants to or contracts with other public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations to establish volunteer service programs to help retired persons avail themselves of opportunities for volunteer service in their community. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants or contracts with public and nonprofit private agencies and organizations to finance projects designed for the purpose of providing opportunities for low-income persons aged 60 or over to provide supportive person-to-person services in health, education, welfare, and related settings to children having exceptional needs, including services by individuals serving as "foster grandparents" to children receiving care in hospitals, homes for dependent and neglected children, or other establishments providing care for children with special needs. Directs the Commissioner to coordinate the volunteer programs with other relevant programs at the State and local levels. Requires the Commissioner to insure that special efforts are made to have qualified individuals over 60 from minority groups serve as volunteers. Extends the authorization of appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for nutrition programs for the elderly. Authorizes the Commissioner, under the Act, to make grants to eligible tribal organizations, as defined in this Act, to pay all of the costs for the delivery of social and nutritional services for Indians who are age 60 and over. Sets forth criteria for applications for such grants. Authorizes the Commissioner to delegate to the Secretary of the Interior or to the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs any functions under this title. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make available surplus Indian educational facilities for use as multipurpose senior centers. Extends the authorization of appropriations for the program through fiscal year 1981. Directs the Commissioner to prepare a White House Conference on Aging. Establishes a National Planning and Advisory Council to provide guidance and counseling for the White House Conference on Aging.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1978
Amends Senate Resolution 4 (95th Congress) to make the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs a permanent Senate committee.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration should not promulgate any rules or restrictions on the use and distributions of penicillin and tetracycline products in animal feeds at low levels until a well-designed epidemiological study and a thorough benefit-risk determination are made concerning the safety of such products.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend the grant and appropriation authorization provisions with respect to nutrition education and information programs to fiscal year 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1978
Amends the Public Health Service Act: (1) to include the Director of the Indian Health Service; on the National Council on Health Planning and Development; (2) to include, as an ex-officio member, a representative of the health care facilities of the Indian Health Service on a Health Systems Agency governing body; and (3) to include, as an ex-officio member, a representative of the Indian Health Service health care facilities on the Statewide Health Coordinating Council.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Beef Import Act - Title I: Import Quotas - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Title II: Customs Duties - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the customs duties on beef whenever domestic production is too low to trigger the imposition of import quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1978
Intermediate Term Agricultural Export Credit Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to provide intermediate export loans on terms of from five to ten years in order to develop and expand foreign markets for United State agricultural commodities, including breeding livestock. Prohibits any sale involving such intermediate credit unless the Secretary determines that such sale will develop, expand, or maintain a particular country as a long-term foreign market for United States agricultural commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee, amounts paid or expenses incurred by the employer for educational assistance to the employee. Limits to 25 percent the amount of payments which may be made by such programs to shareholders or owners (or their spouses or dependents), each of whom owns more than five percent of the stock or of the capital or profits interest in the employer.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Agricultural Trade Expansion Act - Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to permit the Commodity Credit Corporation to finance export sales of agricultural commodities on credit terms in excess of three years, but not more than ten years. Exempts such sales from the requirement that exports be transported on privately owned United States - flag commercial vessels.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Equal Access to Courts Act - Entitles a party which: (1) prevails in any civil action, including an action for judicial review of agency actions; and (2) is a small business as defined by the Small Business Act or an individual or entity having assets or income below specified amounts to a judgment for costs and an award for attorney fees, witness fees, and necessary studies and reports. Directs an agency to pay costs and fees to a party meeting the criteria of (2) above if such a party: (1) successfully defends the imposition of an agency sanction; (2) successfully opposes the issuance or amendments of certain agency orders; or (3) successfully appeals agency action or is subject to agency action which is appealed or reviewed. Entitles a party partially prevailing against the United States to costs and fees to the extent to which it prevailed. Authorizes, where in the interest of justice, an award of cost and fees to a party which fails to prevail in a civil action instituted by or against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1977
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry quarterly reports evidencing that all foreign plants exporting meat have been inspected by inspectors appointed by the Secretary and are in compliance with such Act and the regulations issued thereunder.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
International Emergency Food Reserve Act - Authorizes the President: (1) to enter into negotiations with other nations to develop an international system of food reserves to provide for humanitarian food relief needs; and (2) to establish and maintain an International Emergency Food Reserve, as a contribution of the United States toward the development of such a system, to be made available in the event of food emergencies in foreign countries. Requires for such Reserve minimum stocks of two million tons, allowing an increase up to six million tons pursuant to an international agreement.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1977
Designates the South Portal Federal Office Building of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare at 200 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington, D. C., as the "Hubert H. Humphrey Building."
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1977
Expresses Congressional objection to the site of seven airborne early warning aircraft to Iran, proposed by the President on September 7, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1977
Declares that the President should establish a Commission on Domestic and International Hunger and Malnutrition which should: (1) collect and generate information and resources on food, hunger, malnutrition and related concerns; (2) assess current programs affecting domestic and international hunger and malnutrition; (3) analyze and report its findings and recommendations to the President, the Congress, and the public; and (4) assist the President and the Congress in implementing its recommendations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1977
Continues the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs through December 31, 1979. Authorizes the expenditure of additional funds, not to exceed $250,000 per annum, by the Select Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977
Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to establish special first sale prices for crude oil which is owned by a State or political subdivision thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977
Deep Seabed Mineral Resources Act - Title I: Regulation of Exploration and Commercial Recovery by United States Citizens - Prohibits exploration and commercial recovery activities in the deep seabed by United States citizens except: (1) under a license or permit issued pursuant to this Act; (2) under an equivalent authorization issued by a reciprocating state; or (3) under international agreement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue licenses for exploration and permits for commercial recovery in accordance with prescribed criteria. Stipulates that no permit issued under this Act shall authorize commercial recovery before January 1, 1980. Requires review of applicants by the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission for possible antitrust violations. Directs the Secretary to establish terms, conditions, and restrictions on licenses and permits issued under this Act. Authorizes modification of such terms where necessary to protect the marine environment. Establishes procedures for denial, proposed suspension and revocation of licenses or permits by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, with the Secretary of Commerce (acting through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) to establish controls designed to minimize adverse environmental impact of developments authorized by this Act, and to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement on exploration and commercial recovery. Stipulates that approval of any license or permit application shall be deemed to be a major Federal action for purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Directs the Secretary to establish minimum reasonable expenditure requirements for exploration activities, and to specify a maximum time interval within which commercial recovery must commence. Imposes recordkeeping and disclosure requirements on all licensees and permitees. Establishes procedures governing designation of foreign nations as reciprocating states by the President. Title II: Transition to International Agreement - Stipulates that provisions of this Act not inconsistent with any subsequent international agreement shall continue in full force. Authorizes compensation to licensees and permitees for losses resulting from implementation of any such international agreement. Establishes a Deep Seabed Mining Fund in the Treasury for the payment of such compensation, to consist of funds collected from annual premiums paid by licensees and permitees. Title III: Civil Penalties and Criminal Offenses - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to Assess civil penalties up to $50,000 for each violation of the provisions of this Act or of the terms of any license or permit issued pursuant to this Act. Imposes criminal penalties of up to $250,000 for willful and knowing violations. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to submit an annual report to Congress on the administration of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1977
Amends Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to delay until January 1, 1979, the date by which the States must implement procedures for making payments on a cost related basis to skilled nursing and intermediate care facilities for services.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1977
Makes a technical amendment to the provision of the Internal Revenue Code which exempts businesses operating nurseries from the requirement of computing income on an accrual method with the capitalization of preproductive period expenses applied to corporations engaged in farming.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1977
Provides for the distribution, investment, and use of funds appropriated in satisfaction of the judgment awarded to the Seminole Indians in dockets 73 and 151 before the Indian Claims Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the carryover basis provisions enacted by the Tax Reform Act which provide that beneficiaries receiving property from a decedent's estate will retain the decedent's basis in the property. Restores prior law which "stepped up" or "stepped down" the property's basis to its market value at the time of death without imposing tax consequences on the appreciation or depreciation the property underwent while held by the decedent.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Amends Part A of Title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of the Social Security Act to require that dependent children of unemployed fathers be eligible for assistance under the program and to provide 100 percent Federal funding for such aid.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Reenacts the authority for the States to establish community work and training programs under Part A of Title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of the Social Security Act. Exempts from participation in such programs individuals who are presently participating in work incentive or training programs under Title IV or who are under age 18, ill, or responsible for the care of another. Limits to three years the period in which an individual may participate in such programs. Provides for reimbursement to States of 90 percent of the cost of administering such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1977
Entitles a certain individual, upon her death, to be interred in Arlington National Cemetery at a site adjacent to the grave of her deceased former husband.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1977
National Crude Oil Supply and Transportation Act - Expresses the intent of Congress that the continuation of a transportation system to deliver Alaskan crude oil to Northern Tier or inland States be accomplished through expedited administrative procedures. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a time schedule for the completion of required environmental impact statements in order to select a crude oil transportation system by February 1, 1978. Establishes criteria to be considered by the Secretary in selecting a transportation route. Directs the Secretary and other appropriate Federal officials to take all actions necessary to provide rights of way, permits, leases, and other authorizations necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the transportation system approved under this Act. Declares that the actions of Federal officers and agencies under this Act shall not be subject to judicial review by the courts. Allows for claims that: (1) actions under this Act will deny Constitutional rights; and (2) actions taken are beyond the scope of authority conferred by this Act, provided that such claims are filed within 60 days following the date of the challenged action. Vests exclusive jurisdiction to hear such claims in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, acting as a special court. Stipulates that any judicial proceedings should be completed at the earliest possible date. Declares that nothing in this Act shall authorize or imply an exemption from provisions of the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1977
Makes a technical amendment to the provision of the Internal Revenue Code which exempts businesses operating nurseries from the requirement of computing income on an accrual method with the capitalization of preproductive period expenses applied to corporations engaged in farming.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1977
Establishes the George W. Norris Home National Historic Site in the State of Nebraska.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Alaska National Interest Lands Act - Declares it to be the policy of Congress to protect the national interest by establishing specified Alaskan lands as new units or additions to existing units of Federal management systems and by establishing a program of cooperative management with State and private landowners. Establishes and provides for the administration of the following: Title I: Aniakchak-Caldera National Monument; Title II: Cape Krusenstern National Monument; Title III: Kobuk Sand Dunes National Monument; Title IV: Gates of the Arctic National Park; Title V: Katmai National Park; Title VI: Mount McKinley National Park Addition; Title VII: Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park; Title VIII: Alaska Coastal National Wildlife Refuge; Title IX: Innoko National Wildlife Refuge; Title X: Kaiyuh National Wildlife Refuge; Title XI: Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge; Title XII: Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge; Title XIII: Selawik National Wildlife Refuge; Title XIV: Shishmaref National Wildlife Refuge; Title XV: Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge; Title XVI: College Fjord Addition to the Chugach National Forest; Title XVIII: Porcupine National Forest; Title XIX: Yukon Flats National Forest; Title XX: Birch Creek National Wild River; Title XXI: Charley National Wild River; Title XXII: Noatak National Wild River; Title XXIII: Katmai Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXIV: Gates of the Arctic Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXV: Mount McKinley Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXVI: Wrangell-Saint Elias Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXVII: Lake Clark Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXVIII: Charley River Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXIX: Innoko Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXX: Chandalar Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXI: Shishmaref-Imuruk Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXII: Cape Newenham Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXIII: Noatak Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXIV: Yukon Delta Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXV: Andreafsky Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXVI: Illiamna Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXVII: Chugach Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXVIII: Porcupine Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXIX: Yukon River Federal Cooperative Lands; Title XXXX: Alaska Cooperative Lands; and Title XXXXI: Private Cooperative Lands. Title XXXXII: Alaska Land Classification Commission - Establishes the Alaska Land Classification Commission to perform specified functions, including: (1) to provide for the inventory of lands under its jurisdiction; (2) to develop comprehensive land use plans; and (3) to recommend measures to insure that economic growth and development are orderly and in keeping with environmental objectives, the public interest in parks and other public lands in Alaska, and the economic and social well-being of the residents of the State. Title XXXXIII: Management and Administration - Sets forth the management duties of of the Alaska Land Classification Commission including: (1) mineral, wildlife, and agricultural development; (2) boundary adjustments; and (3) property acquisition. Title XXXXIV: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture and the Alaska Land Classification Commission to promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out their functions under this Act. Title XXXXV: Location-Lease System for Hardrock Mineral Exploration and Development.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1977
Optional Educational Simplification Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to provide an optional program of consolidation and simplification of certain Federal assistance programs to State and local educational agencies, and to provide such agencies with greater flexibility in the use of such assistance. Title I: Special Needs Programs - Directs States desiring to participate in such a program to design their programs to; (1) meet the special educational needs of children from low income families; (2) provide health, nutritional, and educational services of such children, including preschool children and those previously enrolled in Headstart or Follow Through programs; (3) meet the educational needs of migratory children, including preschool children; (4) meet the educational needs of handicapped children, and establish standards for such programs; and (5) provide bilingual instruction for children with limited English speaking ability, and such instruction and bilingual vocational training programs for adults. Specifies how a State shall allocate funds to local educational agencies for each of such programs under this Title. Title II: Vocational, Adult, and Continuing Education and Employment Training - Authorizes Federal grants to assist States to; (1) extend programs of vocational, homemaking, and consumer education; (2) develop new programs of vocational education; (3) develop and carry out programs to overcome sex discrimination and sex stereotyping in vocational education programs; and (4) provide part-time employment for youths in order for them to continue vocational training. Sets forth the programs for which funds provided under this Title may be used. Requires a State desiring to participate in such consolidation program authorized by such Act to develop programs for adult basic education and for children in adult correctional institutions. Requires a participating State to show how its education training programs relate to manpower programs established under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year ending prior to October 1, 1982, funds for such programs. Provides for the distribution of Federal funds to local educational agencies by the States for programs under this Title, and defines how they are to be allocated. Title III: Special Emphasis Projects - Requires a participating State to provide funds to local educational agencies for: (1) school library resources; (2) instructional equipment; (3) model elementary and secondary school programs; (4) counseling, testing, and guidance services; (5) nutrition and health services in low income area elementary and secondary schools; (6) programs aimed at lowering the dropout rate in secondary schools with high dropout rates; (7) strengthening the leadership resources of State and local educational agencies; (8) encouraging the use of the metric system; (9) education of gifted children; (10) career education; (11) educational equity for women; (12) drug and alcohol abuse projects; (13) curriculum materials on American ethnic groups and their contributions; (14) the Teacher Corps; (15) programs aimed at children with reading deficiencies; and (16) environmental activities. Directs that local educational agencies establish the needs and priorities of such programs. Provides for the allocation of State funds under this Title to local agencies. Title IV: General Provisions - Provides for the reserving of certain funds from the amounts appropriated to carry out programs consolidated by such Act, and the allocation of such reserved funds among those States participating in the consolidation program. Directs the United States Commissioner of Education to pay to each participating State an amount equal to the amount expended in that State for carrying out the State plan adopted pursuant to this Title. Provides for a participating State to receive a planning grant for use in preparing the comprehensive plan required by such Act. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year ending prior to October 1, 1981, to make these planning grants. Requires a State desiring to receive a grant for such consolidation program to; (1) designate a State agency to administer the financial assistance made available under this Act; (2) develop a four-year plan with an annual update; and (3) submit such plan or update to the Commissioner for his approval. Authorizes grants to States for the costs of administering the consolidation program. Requires a participating State to establish certain procedures for use in developing its comprehensive plan designed to assure: (1) the identification of children and adults with special educational and vocational needs; (2) determination of priorities by local education agencies; (3) participation of interested citizens, local government units, appropriate State agencies in the development of the plan; (4) coordination of consolidation funds with State, local, and other Federal funds extended for similar purposes; and (5) publication of the final plan or annual update. Deems a State plan to meet the necessary requirements if it includes; (1) the goals and program objectives; (2) the assessments of needs determined above; (3) the types of individuals to be served and the estimated enrollment of each program; (4) procedures to assure the proper distribution of funds as authorized by such Act; (5) a description of the program's administrative structure; (6) procedures for monitoring the local educational agencies; (7) procedures that the State will use to insure that any local educational agency receiving funds under such Act will annually develop or update a comprehensive plan for the use of such funds; (8) procedures for auditing local educational agency expenditures under such Act; (9) Minimum expenditures of funds from non-Federal sources; (10) procedures to assure that funds made available under such Act supplement and not supplant State and local funds; (11) due process procedures, including withholding of funds, available to a State against a local educational agency which has failed to implement a comprehensive program plan; and (12) an appeal process within the State for a local educational agency dissatisfied with such State's compliance with such Act. Provides for an annual evaluation of a State's program by the Commissioner. Authorizes the Commissioner to conduct annual monitoring programs of States' programs, and to establish procedures to rectify areas of noncompliance. Directs the Commissioner to provide technical assistance upon request of State and local educational agencies. Directs the Commissioner to issue grants to participating States for interstate programs of educational research and planning, and common administrative problems. Authorizes appropriations of $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending prior to October 1, 1982, to carry out such provision. Directs that the consolidation program authorized by this Act be administered by a separate Federal administrative unit to be established within 60 days after enactment of this Act. Provides the Commissioner with certain enforcement procedures against participating States, and provides such States with judicial recourse against such action. Authorizes the use of funds paid to a State under this Act for construction purposes where such construction funds would have been available under a program consolidated under this Act. Subjects funds made available under this Act to certain civil rights requirements. Provides the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with certain enforcement procedures against local educational agencies not in compliance with such requirements. Provides for the participation of eligible children in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and Indian tribal schools in the programs authorized under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1977
Federal Officials' Antidefamation Act - Renders a person who with actual malice, makes a false and defamatory communication concerning a Federal official liable for damages in a Federal court defamation suit.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a wellhead excise tax on crude oil production which would penalize producers who "plowback" fewer funds into new production. Repeals the President's authority, after 1977, to determine prices for crude, residual and refined oil and petroleum products under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977
Designates the Federal Aviation Administration Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma as the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1977
Grants a Federal charter to the National Ski Patrol System, Incorporated. Declares that the purpose of such corporation is to promote public safety in skiing.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977
Prohibits commerce in contraband cigarettes. Defines "contraband cigarettes" as a quantity of more than 20,000 cigarettes, bearing no evidence of payment of applicable State cigarette taxes, which are in the possession of any person other than (1) a person licensed by the State where the cigarettes are found or by the Internal Revenue Service, (2) a common or contract carrier, or (3) a government agent in the performance of duties. Subjects dealers in cigarettes to such reporting requirements as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt certain incorporated fraternal organizations and lodges from the special tax rules applicable to private foundations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977
Bikeway Transportation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for 80 percent of the cost to States and municipalities of bikeway construction projects in urban territories or connecting such areas with national, State, or local parks, seashores or recreational areas. Requires such bikeway projects to be in accordance with a continuing comprehensive transportation planning process carried on cooperatively by States and local communities and in accordance with construction standards established by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1977
Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to expand the coverage of the supplementary medical insurance program to include the services of physician extenders, nurse practitioners, and the clinical staff of community mental health centers to the extent recognized under State law. Authorizes full reimbursement to States when services are rendered in health manpower shortage areas and 15 percent reimbursement when services are rendered outside of a shortage area. Limits reimbursement to the cost of the services of two physician extenders or two nurse practitioners per supervising physician.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1977
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to provide for radio and television coverage of proceedings in the Senate Chamber during the second session of the Ninety-fifth Congress. Directs the Committee to maintain videotapes and recordings of such coverage to be made available to public and commercial broadcasting stations. Directs the Committee to compile a daily written summary of Senate proceedings to be made available to the news media and to Senate Members, officers, and committees.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1977
Academic Freedom Act - Requires any regulation affecting any institution of higher learning to be published in the Federal Register and include an educational impact statement. Prohibits enforcement of any regulation which fails to maintain academic requirements for graduate or undergraduate admissions. Restricts the authority and enforcement powers of Federal officials with respect to educational programs or activities of institutions of higher education receiving Federal financial assistance.