United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Provides that specified rural hospitals shall be exempt for a period of 18 months from the requirements and provisions of Title XI of the Social Security Act relating to the establishment of professional standards review organizations and from the provisions of such Act and the regulations governing utilization review and utilization control procedures under the medicare, medicaid, and maternal and child health programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to investigate alternative methods of utilization review and control for rural hospitals. Defines "rural hospitals" for purposes of this Act as meaning a hospital which is located in a community having a population of less than 50,000, but only if: (1) there is no other is no other community which has a population of fifty thousand or more within a ten-mile radius of such hospital; (2) the combined average patient load for all hospitals within such ten-mile radius is less than forty per day; and (3) the number of practicing physicians on the regular staff of such hospital does not exceed seven.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Beef Research and Consumer Information Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to enable cattle producers to establish, finance, and carry out a coordinated program to improve markets for cattle, beef and beef products, and to provide an adequate supply of high quality beef to the consumers of the Nation at reasonable prices. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue beef research and promotion orders. Provides that such orders shall be issued only after due notice and opportunity for hearing shall have been given to producers and producer organizations, and after the Secretary shall have determined that the issuance of such an order will effectuate the declared policy of this Act. Declares that such order shall not take effect until approved by a majority of two-thirds of the cattle producers voting in a referendum. Establishes a Beef Board to administer the Order in accordance with its terms and provisions, to make rules and regulations to effectuate the terms and provisions of the Order, to receive, investigate and report complaints of violations of the Order, and to recommend to the Secretary amendments to the Order. Lists the procedures for appointing members of such board. Requires that any plans for advertising, sales promotion, consumer education, producer education, research, and the annual budget be developed by the Beef Board and submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for approval. Empowers the Beef Board to enter into contracts or agreements for the development and carrying out of the activities authorized under the Order. Declares that producers of cattle shall be assessed at a specific rate to be determined by stated procedures. Provides that each time cattle are sold, the cattle producer shall pay to the purchaser the amount assessed, based upon the sale price of the cattle. Provides that any cattle producer against whose cattle or beef any assessment is made and collected shall have the right to demand and receive from the Beef Board a refund of such assessment. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to pre-empt or interfere with the workings of any beef board, beef council, or other beef promotion entity organized and operating within and by authority of any of the several states. Provides for the return to any such beef board or council of an amount to be determined by a stated formula. Stipulates that to qualify for the funds, such a state beef board, beef council or other beef promotional entity shall demonstrate ability to provide research, promotion and education within the state consistent with this Act and Order. States that each purchaser, handler or agent may be required to report to the Beef Board periodically concerning number of cattle handled, amount assessed, sale price of cattle on which assessment was collected, and other information necessary for the enforcement of this Act. Declares that this Act and any order issued pursuant to it may be enforced in the District Courts of the U.S., with the U.S. Attorney General having authority to bring any Civil suits authorized under the Act. Provides for a fine of not more than $1,000 for violations of this Act and any orders issued pursuant to it. Stipulates that no funds collected by the Beef Board shall in any manner be used for the purpose of influencing governmental policy or action. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that funds so appropriated shall not be available for payment of the expenses or expenditures of the Beef Board in administering any provisions of any order issued pursuant to the terms of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1975
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 Act, 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 prequisites 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, relating to 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. Authorizes $7,000,000 for the first fiscal year, $10,000,000 for the second fiscal year, $15,000,000 for the third fiscal year, and $20,000,000 for the fourth and fifth fiscal years following enactment of this Act, to be disbursed in equal snares to the environmental centers, except that each regional center shall receive a number of snares equal to the number of States participating in such regional center. Authorizes $10,000,000 for each of the three fiscal years following enactment of this Act, 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, the presence of areas of high environmental importance, 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 of the President and to Congress regarding the receipts and expenditures and works of all State and regional environmental centers.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1975
Regulatory Control Act - Provides that, upon the promulgation of proposed rules and regulations implementing public laws, by the head of an executive or military department, the committee of origin, whether in the Senate or in the House of Representatives, shall give approval or disapproval of said rules and regulations within sixty days from the date of their submission. States that in the event the committee fails to disapprove the proposed rules and regulations, within 60 days, such abstention shall be deemed to be approval of said rules and regulations. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 301).
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1975
Occupational Safety and Health Amendments - Provides that due consideration be given to the gravity of a violation, the good faith of the employer, and the history of previous violations prior to the assessment of a penalty under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Stipulates that, in order to carry out his responsibilities the Secretary of Labor shall, upon request, visit the workplaces of employers having 100 or fewer employees for the purpose of affording consultation and advice to such employers. Directs the Secretary to make recommendations regarding the elimination of any hazards disclosed within the scope of the onsite consultation. Declares that this Act shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Authorizes, under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, each Senator to have one or more mobile offices in the State he represents. Specifies the formula for determining the maximum rental amount to be paid for such offices.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Title I: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1976 - Authorizes to be appropriated to the Energy Research and Development Administration specified sums for research, development, and national security purposes for fiscal year 1976. Title II: Authorization of Appropriations for the Period July 1, 1976 Through September 30, 1976 - Authorizes appropriations for the Energy Research and Development Administration for the period July 1, 1976 through September 30, 1976. Title III: Authorization of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1977 - Authorizes appropriations to the Energy Research and Development Administration for fiscal year 1977. Title IV: General Provisions - Authorizes the Administration to perform construction design services under urgent circumstances upon the enactment of legislation appropriating funds for such construction. Allows the monies appropriated pursuant to this Act to remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Reduces the aggregate amount of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle, goat, and sheep meat which may be imported into the United States in any given year (beginning after December 31, 1974,) to 750,000,000 pounds. Provides for the quarterly adjustment of such poundage limitation.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Permits the guarantee of up to 90 percent of the loan amount under the Emergency Livestock Credit Act of 1974. Increases the aggregate amount of loans which may be guaranteed under such Act from $250,000 to $500,000. Extends the period for guaranteeing such loans to December 31, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes each Senator serving on a committee to hire staff to assist him in his duties as a member of each committee on which such Senator serves. Allows each Senator serving as chairman of any subcommittee or ranking minority member of any subcommittee to hire staff to assist him in his duties. States that individuals so appointed shall be in addition to employees otherwise authorized.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Requests the President to proclaim the period from February 16 to March 15, 1975, as "Energy Conservation Month". Directs the President to publicize the need for energy conservation. Requests the President to report to Congress by March 31, 1975, steps taken to promote energy conservation and recommendations for a continuing program. Directs the President to report monthly to the American people and Congress the state of energy resources.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Extends the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs established by S. Res. 281, Ninetieth Congress, through February 19, 1976. Authorizes the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, in studying matters pertaining to the lack of food, medical assistance, and other related necessities of life and health, from March 1, 1975, through February 28, 1976, in its discretion: (1) to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate, (2) to employ personnel, (3) to subpena witnesses and documents, (4) with the prior consent of the Government department or agency concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel, information, and facilities of any such department or agency, (5) to procure the temporary services (not in excess of one year) or intermittent services of individual consultants, or organizations thereof, (6) to interview employees of the Federal, State, and local governments and other individuals, and (7) to take depositions and other testimony. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution. Limits the expenses of the committee under this resolution to $485,000.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Provides that messages received in the Senate and bills and resolutions introduced with respect to such messages shall be referred concurrently to the Appropriations Committee, to the Budget Committee, and to any other appropriate authorizing committee. States that if any committee to which a bill or resolution has been referred recommends its passage, the Appropriations Committee shall report that bill or resolution together with its views and reports of the Budget and any appropriate authorizing committees to the Senate within specified time intervals.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Expresses the sense of the Congress that in the event that economic controls are imposed, business concerns who, on or after January 1, 1975, lowered prices shall not be penalized in the establishment of any base price pursuant to those controls.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Directs the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration to provide for radio and television coverage of proceedings in the Senate Chamber during the first session of the Ninety-fourth Congress, except for closed-door sessions. Requires video tapes of such broadcasts to be kept and made available to commercial broadcast stations. Provides for monitors of such broadcasts in various offices and for audio monitors in members' offices, if desired.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Provides for the reimbursement to taxpayers of all expenses, including court costs and legal and accounting fees, incurred by them in contesting second audits of their income tax liability in the case where such second audit reveals no deficiency other than any deficiency assessed against and accepted by the taxpayer after the first audit.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Revises, under the Agricultural Act, the period used for determining changes in the index of prices paid by farmers and in the national average yield per acre for the purpose of making adjustments in the target price of the 1976 and 1977 crops of wheat, feed grains, and cotton.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Family Farm Inheritance Act - States that for purposes of the estate tax under the Internal Revenue Code the value of the taxable estate shall be determined by deducting the lesser of: (1) $200,000; or (2) the value of the decedent's interest in a family farming operation continuously owned by him or his spouse for five years prior to his death and which passes to a related individual. Disqualifies the individual to whom the estate passes from the tax benefit authorized by this Act if such individual, within five years after the decedent's death, sells or removes the family farming operation.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for 25 percent of the expenses incurred (1) in improving the thermal design of a taxpayer's principal residence; or (2) in purchasing specified energy conserving devices incident to the purchase of the taxpayer's principal residence. Permits the taxpayer to elect to deduct the above expenses in an amount not to exceed $4000.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Coal Research Laboratory and Energy Research Fellowship Act - Title I: University Coal Research Laboratories - Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation, after consultation with the National Academy of Engineering, to designate five institutions of higher education at which university coal research laboratories will be established and operated. States that, in making designations under this Act, the Director shall consider the following criteria: (1) the institution of higher education shall be located in a State with abundant coal reserves; (2) the institution of higher education shall have experience in coal research, expertise in several areas of coal research, and currently active, outstanding programs in coal research; and (3) the institution of higher education has the capacity to establish and operate the coal laboratories to be assisted under this title. Provides that not more than one coal laboratory established pursuant to this title shall be located in a single State. Specifies information to be included in applications by institutions of higher education desiring to be designated under this title. Authorizes the Director to make grants to any designated institution of higher education to pay the Federal share of the cost of establishing and maintaining a coal laboratory. States that no institution of higher education may receive more than $4,000,000 for the construction of its coal research laboratory, including initially installed fixed equipment, nor may it receive more than $1,500,000 for initially installed movable equipment, nor may it receive more than $500,000 for new program startup expenses. Provides that no institution of higher education may receive more than $1,500,000 per year from the Federal Government for operating expenses. Establishes an Advisory Council on Coal Research. Stipulates that the Advisory Council shall advise the Director with respect to the general administration of this title, and furnish such additional advice as he may request. Authorizes appropriations of not to exceed $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 (including the cost of construction, equipment, and startup expenses) and $7,500,000 beginning with the fiscal year 1977 and for each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 1981, to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Energy Resource Graduate Fellowships - Authorizes the Director to award under the provisions of this title not to exceed one thousand five hundred fellowships for fiscal year 1976, and each of the five succeeding fiscal years. States that fellowships shall be awarded under the provisions of this title for graduate study and research in those areas of applied science and engineering that are related to the production, conservation, and utilization of fuels and energy. Provides that fellowships shall be awarded to students in programs leading to master's degrees. States that such fellowships may be awarded for graduate study and research at any institution of higher education, library, archive, or any other research center approved by the Director after consultation with the Commissoner of Education. Provides that recipients of fellowships under this title shall be: (1) persons who have been accepted by an institution of higher education for graduate study leading to an advanced degree or for a professional degree; and (2) persons who plan a career in the field of energy resources, production, or utilization. States that each person awarded a fellowship under this title shall receive a stipend of $4,000 for each academic year of study, and an additional amount of $500 for each such calendar year of study shall be paid to such person on account of each of his dependents. Authorizes appropriations of $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides for the direct popular election of the President and Vice President. Provides that each voter shall cast a single vote for two persons who shall have consented to the joining of their names as candidates for the offices of President and Vice President. States that the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President having the greatest number of votes shall be elected President and Vice President, if such number be at least 40 percent of the total number of votes cast. Stipulates that if, after such election, none of the persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President is elected, the Congress shall assemble in special session and choose immediately, from the two pairs of persons joined as candidates for President and Vice President who received the highest numbers of votes cast in the election, one such pair by ballot. States that the Congress may by law provide for the case of the death, inability, or withdrawal of any candidate for President or Vice President before a President and Vice President have been elected, and for the case of the death of both the President-elect and Vice-President-elect.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that, pursuant to the statutory mandate that the price of milk be supported at such level as to assure the maintenance of productive capacity sufficient to meet anticipated future needs, the Secretary of Agriculture redetermine and set the support level at 80 percent of parity for the remainder of the 1974-1975 marketing year, based on the latest available data, thereby enabling milk producers to offset part of their rising production costs.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide funds, in an amount to be matched by the States, to carry out an emergency assistance program to assist States in relieving severe drought conditions that threaten to destroy livestock or crops. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer up to $5,000,000 from the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Allows the outside inspection of income tax returns only upon written order of the President stating the reasons necessary for the accomplishment of a legal duty. Requires an audit of Members of Congress tax returns and publication of the results in the Federal Register. Grants specified legal costs to prevailing parties in Tax Court proceedings held for the redetermination of a deficiency.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Fiscal Stabilization Act - Establishes as an independent agency of the Government a Fiscal Stabilization Board: (1) to monitor the fiscal and monetary conditions of the United States and to advise the President with respect thereto, and (2) to recommend to the President action to be taken by him to stabilize the national economy by controlling the aggregate amount of borrowing in any fiscal year for federally sponsored or guaranteed purposes. States that if the Board determines that the aggregate impact on the economy would be adverse, it shall prepare a Federal Financing Plan for that fiscal year. Provides that Congress may disapprove any Federal Financing Plan by action of both Houses of the Congress within sixty days after the Plan is submitted to the Congress by the Fiscal Stabilization Board, whereupon the Board shall make another plan, taking into account the objections of the Congress, and that Plan shall be subject to review also.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Places a ceiling of $295,000,000,000 on expenditures and net lending under the United States budget for fiscal year 1975. Directs the President to control expenditures so as to conform with such ceiling. Specifies programs, such as social security benefits, which may not be cut under this Act. Prohibits the impoundment of appropriated funds for purposes of terminating a program.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the actions of the President's Committee on Food should in no way assume, displace or otherwise interfere with responsibilities delegated by law to the Secretary of Agriculture or other officials of Government, and that in the conduct of its activities the President's Committee on Food shall: (1) consult with and maintain close liaison with the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry; (2) take into consideration the increased costs of agricultural production and shortages or potential shortages of farm inputs in any actions it may take or recommendations it may make; and (3) provide such information and reports as may be requested by the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on behalf of the Senate. Provides that (1) all agencies of the Federal Government, which have any responsibility for establishing priorities for the allocation of materials, supplies or facilities utilized in the production or distribution of fertilizer, fuels and energy, farm chemicals, and other inputs essential to agricultural production, give the highest priority to the agricultural industry and related industries regarding the allocation of such materials, supplies, or facilities; (2) the Federal Power Commission take immediate steps to provide the highest possible priority for the allocation of natural gas for the expansion of existing capacity for the production of synthetic anhydrous ammonia; feedstocks, intermediates, and solvents utilized in the production of farm chemicals; feed phosphates; and for all other agricultural uses of natural gas; (3) the President expand the scope and responsibility of the Intergovernmental Agency Task Force on Fertilizer to include all essential farm inputs with respect to their supply availability, pricing (wholesale and retail), exports and imports and their equitable distribution among farm producers; and (4) the Federal Energy Administration consult with and maintain close liaison with the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry with respect to any plans or proposals that may affect the current priority status that agriculture and related industries now enjoy under Federal mandatory fuel and propane allocation regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1974
Records Management Act - Requires the establishment of standards and procedures to assure efficient and effective government records management. States that such standards and procedures shall seek to effectuate the following goals: (1) accurate and complete documentation of the policies and transactions of the Federal Government; (2) control of the quantity and quality of records produced by the Federal Government; (3) simplification of the processes through which records are created, stored, retrieved, and used; (4) the judicious preservation and disposal of records; (5) the establishment and maintenance of a system which focuses continuous attention upon records from their initial creation to their final disposition; (6) the establishment and maintenance of mechanisms of control with respect to records creation, in order to assure the prevention of unneccessary records; and (7) the establishment and maintenance of such other systems or techniques as the Administrator considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the Administrator shall provide guidance and assistance to Federal agencies with respect to records creation, records maintenance and use, and records disposition. Directs the Administrator of General Services to: (1) conduct inspections or paperwork studies, at regular intervals as determined to be necessary by the Administrator, of the records and records management practices and programs of every Federal agency; (2) require the head of every Federal agency to transmit a report to the Administrator with respect to the records management practices and programs of each such Federal agency during each period of two calendar years; (3) prescribe rules with respect to records management; and (4) order, to the extent he considers necessary, the head of any Federal agency to take specific action with respect to the records or records management practices of his agency. Establishes in the executive branch a Records Review Board to review any order issued by Administrator under the provisions of this Act upon appeal by any Federal agency. Directs the head of each Federal agency to make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the Federal agency and designed to furnish the information neccessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Federal Government and of persons directly affected by the activities of the Federal agency. Requires each agency head to establish safeguards against the removal or loss of records he determines to be necessary and required by the rules of the Administrator. Authorizes the establishment on the books of the Treasury of a Federal Records Management Fund which shall be available without fiscal year limitations to meet expenses, including personal services and such costs as are required to provide necessary assistance to the Federal agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, under the Rural Development Act, to identify rural communities where emergency ambulance services are needed and to encourage the development of such services by guaranteeing loans to associated community health councils. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 to establish pilot programs under this Act. Empowers the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to suspend or modify regulations and policies with respect to ambulance vehicles and equipment to insure availability of emergency services to citizens in rural areas.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Terminates the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act of 1973 on the last Sunday of October 1974 (now April 1975). Provides that daylight saving time, as provided for under the Uniform Time Act of 1966, shall be from the last Sunday in February until the last Sunday in October of each year.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Provides, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, that the Secretary of Agriculture may guarantee a loan made by an approved lender without regard to the limitation and prohibitions in such Act if such loan is secured by a second mortgage on real estate and the total principal indebtedness outstanding against such real estate, if such second mortgage is taken, does not exceed 85 percent of its appraised value.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the leadership of the Nation responsible for our economic wellbeing meet together immediately in a spirit of unity to design a set of policy actions to achieve the common goal of restoring stability and growth to the American economy and confidence and prosperity to the American people. Directs that this domestic summit be convened forthwith comprised of the President, the majority and minority leadership of both Houses of the Congress, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committees of both Houses, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, together with leaders of labor and business, and such other participants as they may agree upon. Provides that they shall meet and devote such time as necessary until a plan of action is decided upon which, by its demonstration of renewed unity, direction, and purpose, will gain the public support and confidence necessary to be effective in overcoming these difficulties.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1974
Provides for the construction, operation, and maintenance of facilities to deliver a water supply to the city of Frederick, Oklahoma, from the Mountain Park reclamation project.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Commerce to make a full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of determining a policy and role for the Federal Government on tourism in the United States which will most effectively enable the industry to realize fully its potential to contribute to the social well-being, the cultural understanding, and the economic prosperity of the United States. Provides that the chairman and ranking minority member of each of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agriculture and Forestry, Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works, Foreign Relations, Government Operations, Labor and Public Welfare, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Small Business, or a member of such committees designated by each such chairman or ranking minority member to serve in his place, shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee on Commerce for purposes of this study. Directs the Committee on Commerce to report its findings, together with its recommendations for such legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Emergency Livestock Credit Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to bona fide farmers and ranchers, including operators of feedlots, who are primarily engaged in agricultural production for the purpose of breeding, raising, fattening or marketing livestock. Defines "livestock" to mean beef cattle, dairy catttle, swine, chickens, turkeys or the products thereof. Directs the Secretary to provide such assistance by guaranteeing loans made by any Federal or State chartered bank, savings and loan association, cooperative lending agency, or other approved lender. Requires that the total guaranteed under this Act for any farmer or rancher shall not exceed $1,000,000; and that in the case of any loan to refinance the livestock operations of a farmer or rancher, the loan and refinancing are absolutely essential in order for the farmer or rancher to remain in business. States that loans guaranteed under this Act shall bear interest at a rate to be agreed upon by the lender and borrower. Limits loan guarantees outstanding at any one time to $3,000,000,000. Terminates this Act one year after enactment, except the authority to make guarantees may be extended for 6 months if the Secretary of Agriculture determines guarantees are needed and notifies the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Occupational Safety and Health Amendments - Provides that any employer who is issued a citation under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, and who believes that he maintains work conditions which would meet the criteria for a variance under the provisions of the Act, may apply to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for such a variance. States that, except where the Secretary finds it frivolous and submitted for the purpose of delay, such application shall result in the suspension of all further proceedings with respect to such citation pending final action by the Secretary on such application. Stipulates that, in order to carry out his responsibilities under the Act, the Secretary shall, upon request, visit the workplaces of employers having 100 or fewer employees for the purpose of affording consultation and advice to such employers. Directs the Secretary to make recommendations regarding the elimination of any hazards disclosed within the scope of the onsite consultation.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
States that, effective July 1, 1974, the eligibility for participation in the food stamp program of any household which contains a member with respect to whom supplemental security income benefits are being paid under the Social Security Act shall be determined on the basis of the uniform national eligibility standards for nonpublic assistance households established by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should immediately terminate the suspension of any Presidential proclamation limiting the total quantity of imports, or withdrawals from warehouses for consumption, of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle, sheep and other specified meat.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Provides for the designation, under the provisions of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968, of the Illinois River and its tributaries as a potential component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Declares that Dr. Kissinger be commended on his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace and that deep gratitude to Dr. Kissinger for his services is hereby expressed by the Senate. Declares that the United States Senate holds in high regard Dr. Kissinger, and regards him as an outstanding member of this Administration, as a patriotic Amercian in whom it has complete confidence, and whose integrity, and veracity are above reproach, and that the U.S. Senate wishes for him success in his continuing efforts to achieve a permanent peace in the world.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to finance livestock producers where the applicant's usual credit source is unable or unwilling to provide additional credit without the guarantee provided by this Act. States that a borrower's total principal indebtedness may not exceed $250,000 under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Fiscal Stabilization Act - Title I: Fiscal Stabilization Board - Establishes the Fiscal Stabilization Board. Specifies the composition and length of terms of members of the Board. States that it shall be the function and duty of the Board: (1) to monitor the fiscal and monetary conditions of the United States and to advise the President with respect thereto; and (2) to recommend to the President action to be taken by him to stabilize the national economy pursuant to the authority conferred by the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Adjustment of Income Taxes for Economic Stabilization - Provides for the preparation and submission to the Congress of a tax adjustment plan within the limits of the recommendations of the Board. Provides that such plan may be disapproved within 30 days of submission by either House of Congress. Lists items to be contained in and the duration of such tax adjustment plans. Title III: Rules for Congressional Action on Tax Adjustment Plans - Specifies rules to be followed in the separate Houses of Congress in acting on proposed tax adjustment plans. Title IV: Fiscal Stabilization Debt Retirement Fund - Establishes a Debt Retirement Fund in the United States Treasury to be known as the "Fiscal Stabilization Debt Retirement Fund". Provides for transfer to such Fund of amounts equal to tax increases under tax adjustment plans, and for the transfers to the general fund of the Treasury from the Debt Retirement Fund. Requires the use of monies in the Debt Retirement Fund not required to meet withdrawals to reduce the Federal debt.
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