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United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1974
States that the Senate expresses its disapproval of proposed deferral D75-115 pertaining to the Atomic Emergy Commission's biomedical and environmental research program as set forth in the President's message of November 26, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1974
Requires each agency of the United States Government to publish and distribute current indexes of matters issued, adopted or promulgated after July 4, 1967, which are required to be maintained by the Freedom of Information Act, or, if the agency determines publication to be unnecessary or impracticable, to make copies available on request at a cost not to exceed the direct cost of duplication. Directs each agency to promulgate regulations specifying a uniform schedule of fees for document search and duplication. Limits such fees to recovery of direct costs, except that the cost of reviewing and examining records may be charged when it is in excess of $100. Provides that documents shall be published without charge or at a reduced charge where the agency determines that such action is in the public interest. Authorizes the District Courts, on complaint, to enjoin an agency from withholding records and to order the production of records improperly withheld. Provides that the Court may examine the records in camera in determining whether they should be withheld under any of the exemptions set forth in the Act. Places the burden on the agency to sustain its action. Requires the agency-defendant to serve an answer to any complaint within 30 days of service of such complaint. Stipulates that proceedings under the Act take precedence over all other cases in the District Court and shall be expedited in every way. Allows the Court to assess reasonable attorney fees and other costs against the United States when the complainant has substantially prevailed. Directs the Civil Service Commission to initiate proceedings to determine whether disciplinary action is warranted against an employee primarily responsible for a withholding, when the District Court has found it to be improper, has assessed costs against the United States, and has issued a written finding that the circumstances raise questions as to whether agency personnel have acted arbitrarily or capriciously. Requires the agency to take whatever corrective action the Commission recommends. Allows the District Court to punish for contempt the responsible employee or officer in the event of non-compliance with the order of the Court. Requires each agency to notify a person making a request within 30 days whether it will comply and the reasons for its decision, and to inform such person of his right to appeal an adverse determination. Requires a decision with respect to an appeal within 20 days, and if denial of the request is upheld on appeal, notification to the requester of the provisions for judicial review under this Act. Provides for extension of these time limits under specified circumstances. States that any person making a request shall be deemed to have exhausted his administrative remedies if the agency fails to comply with the applicable time limits, but allows a court to extend them if the Government can show exceptional circumstance and that the agency is exercising due diligence in responding to the request. Provides that any denial of a request shall set forth the name and title of each person responsible for the denial. Exempts matters properly kept secret under Executive Order in the interest of national defense or foreign policy, but grants jurisdiction to the District Court to examine such records to determine if they have been properly classified. Exempts investigatory records compiled for law enforcement purposes under specified circumstances. Requires each agency to submit to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on or before March 1 of each year a report on requests made under the Freedom of Information Act during the previous year. Requires the Attorney General to submit a report on or before March 1, describing for the prior year the number and disposition of cases, as well as the efforts of the Department of Justice to encourage agency compliance with the Act. Provides that the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day beginning after the date of enactment of this Act. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 552)
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1974
United States Enrichment Corporation Act - Establishes the United States Enrichment Corporation for the following purposes: (1) to acquire feed material, enriched uranium, and the Commission's uranium enriching and related facilities, and to enrich uranium; (2) to distribute enriched uranium to the Atomic Energy Commission for governmental purposes and to qualified domestic and foreign persons by sale or by the provision of enrichment services; (3) to take all appropriate action to stimulate and assist in the development of a private enterprise uranium enrichment capability; (4) to conduct its activities so as to strengthen free competition in private enterprise and assumption by private industry of full commercial and industrial responsibility for uranium enrichment as soon as possible, and promote international cooperation in matters relating to availability of enriched uranium for nuclear reactor fuel as well as retention for the United States of an appropriate share of the market for enriched uranium for peaceful purposes in cooperating nations; (5) to expedite attainment of the maximum production potential of its own plans as soon as practicable in order to preproduce enriched uranium for future deliveries, while planning and, as circumstances permit, taking appropriate action to withdraw from its own commitments for future delivery of enriched uranium as private enterprise becomes able to assume such commitments; (6) to operate, to the extent consistent with its other objectives, on a businesslike, economic, efficient, and self-financing basis; (7) to transfer part or all of its business and properties to private ownership as provided for in this Act; (8) to pursue in coordination with the Atomic Energy Commission and private industry, as appropriate, a vigorous course of research and development; and (9) to take all other lawful action in furtherance of the foregoing purposes, except that the Corporation shall not construct any new enrichment capacity or additions to existing enrichment plants without an amendment to this Act expressly granting such authority. Provides that this provision shall not apply to improvements, alterations, maintenance, or repairs to the existing Government-owned gaseous diffusion plants, or new enrichment capacity planned primarily for research, development, demonstration, or experimentation purposes. Provides for the composition of a Board of Directors. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Uranium Enrichment to advise the Corporation. Authorizes the President, with respect to any matter in which he determines that the national interest so requires, to issue directives to the Corporation as to the exercise of its authority, and such directives shall be binding upon the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Provides for the relief of Kenji Okuma.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
States that income tax returns and return information shall be confidential. Defines returns and return information for purposes of this Act. Permits the inspection of returns and return information by individuals filing such returns by State tax officials, corporation officials, trustees, estate administrators, and by the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation upon request and in closed session. Permits the inspection by other committees if authorized by resolution. Allows the inspection of returns and return information by the President or his designees upon his order, and by Justice Department attorneys, without request, for use in relevant proceedings under the tax laws. Allows such inspection, under specified conditions, by the Commerce Department for statistical purposes and by other executive officials for administrative or judicial proceedings other than under the tax laws. Conditions the foregoing inspections upon whether: (1) the taxpayer is a party to the proceedings; (2) the taxpayer consents; or (3) such return information has or may have a bearing on the outcome of such proceedings. Allows qualified inspection of return information by authorized executive officials for purposes of assessing persons being considered for appointments. Authorizes the disclosure of return information to the Attorney General when such information indicates possible criminal violations. Sets forth procedures for disclosure and inspection of return information, including maintenance of a record of who inspects such returns. Establishes penalties for unauthorized disclosure of return information.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Inflationary Impact Statement Act - Requires the Congressional Budget Office, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, to prepare inflationary impact statements in connection with legislation reported by Senate and House committees.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
States that the Supreme Court shall not have jurisdiction to review any case arising out of any State statute or arising out of any Act interpreting a State statute, which relates to voluntary prayers in public schools and public buildings. Provides that the district courts shall not have jurisdiction of any case or question which the Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction to review.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Designates February 15, the birthday of Susan B. Anthony, as a legal holiday.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Expresses the findings of Congress, including that Federal information reporting requirements have placed an unprecedented paperwork burden upon private citizens, recipients of Federal assistance, businesses, governmental contractors, and State and local governments. Establishes a Commission on Federal Paperwork to study procedures and practices of the Federal Government relating to information gathering, dissemination, and the management and control of information activities. Enumerates the areas to be considered by the Commission in its studies. Directs the Commission to make a final report to the Congress and the President within two years of the date of its first meeting. Sets forth the membership composition of the Commission and their compensation. Details the administrative powers of the Commission. Calls for cooperation between Federal agencies and the Commission. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Commission such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Extends the authorization of appropriations for the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 for seven years (through fiscal year 1983).
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
Terminates, under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966, those requirements pertaining to seatbelt standards which require the vehicle to be equipped with any starter interlock system, or any buzzer light, or other warning system.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
Authorizes an agreement to provide that the Secretary of Defense need not withhold tax on or report moving expense reimbursements to armed forces personnel. Permits such reimbursements to be exclusions for income tax purposes for recipients. Permits an income tax deduction for amounts in excess of such reimbursement.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
Authorizes an agreement to provide that the Secretary of Defense need not withhold tax on or report moving expense reimbursements to armed forces personnel. Permits such reimbursements to be exclusions for income tax purposes for recipients. Permits an income tax deduction for amounts in excess of such reimbursement.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
States that any amount received from appropriated funds as a scholarship, including the value of contributed services and accommodations, by a member of a uniformed service who is receiving training under the Armed Forces health professions scholarship program (or any other program determined by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate to have substantially similar objectives) from an educational institution (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) shall be treated as a scholarship and excluded from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
States that any amount received from appropriated funds as a scholarship, including the value of contributed services and accommodations, by a member of a uniformed service who is receiving training under the Armed Forces health professions scholarship program (or any other program determined by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate to have substantially similar objectives) from an educational institution (as defined in the Internal Revenue Code) shall be treated as a scholarship and excluded from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency should, in the application of regulations pursuant to the Clean Air Act with respect to supplying, after July 1, 1974, unleaded gasoline for automobiles: (1) grant reasonable extensions of time for compliance to retailers who are unable to obtain such gasoline or delivery systems for such gasoline; and (2) consult with the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration in order to obtain a fair allocation of such gasoline for all segments of the petroleum industry marketing structure.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are commended on July 24, 1974, for their many achievements as a major religion and a humanitarian people.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
States that a court of appeals of the United States may appoint necessary legal assistants to positions authorized by the Judicial Conference of the United States. Provides that such legal assistants shall perform duties involving the preliminary processing of matters filed in the court. States that the approval of the Judicial Conference of the United States shall be required prior to the establishment of each such position. (Adds 28 U.S.C. 714)
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to pay $326,600, representing a portion of the cost of corrective work on the Starvation Reservoir Bridge, Utah.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1974
Allows, under the Internal Revenue Code, a deduction for gifts by employers to employees in recognition of length of service or achievement. Limits such deduction to $200.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974
Authorizes, under the Funeral Transportation and Lving Expense Benefits Act of 1974, memorial transportation and living expense benefits to the families of deceased servicemen classified as prisoners of war or as missing in action.
United States · United States Congress · 9 July 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to pay $326,600, representing a portion of the cost of corrective work on the Starvation Reservoir Bridge, Utah.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Authorizes Congress under the Atomic Energy Act, to concur in or disapprove international agreements for cooperation in regard to certain nuclear technology.
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 · 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 · 11 June 1974
Extends for three years the requirement of increased payments to States under medicaid plans for compensation or training of inspectors of long-term care institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Provides for the relief of Precisa Calculating Machine Co., Inc.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1974
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for the collection of income tax at source on amounts awarded in State-conducted lotteries. States that the amount of such tax to be deducted and withheld shall be 20 percent of the prize.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1974
Provides that, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, real property which is farmland, woodland, or open land and forms part of an estate may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value as farmland, woodland, or open land (rather than at its fair market value). Provides that real property which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value for its existing use. Provides for the revocation of such lower valuation and recapture of unpaid tax with interest under specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1974
States that, except as provided in this Act, no funds authorized to be appropriated under any provision of law shall be available for obligation or expenditure for the protection of the President or the Vice President through the purchase, lease, construction, installation, or placement of any property at, on, in, or on the grounds of, any private residence of the President or Vice President unless such obligation or expenditure is: (1) incurred or made by the Secret Service; (2) certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the Secret Service as necessary for the protection of the President or Vice President; and (3) approved by the Director or Deputy Director of the Secret Service. Allows the President and Vice President each to designate one private residence with respect to which funds may be made available pursuant to this Act, by notifying the Director of the Secret Service of the residence so selected. Requires, not later than February 1 of each year, the Director of the Secret Service to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the majority and minority leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, a report setting forth in detail, with respect to the preceding fiscal year the amount of each obligation or expenditure of funds in accordance with this Act, including a full explanation of the purposes for which such obligation or expenditure has been made. Requires, not later than February 1 of each year, the President to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President pro tempore of the Senate, and the majority and minority leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives a report, setting forth in detail, with respect to the preceding fiscal year, the amount of each obligation or expenditure of funds pursuant to this Act, including a full explanation of the purposes for which such obligation or expenditure has been made.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Equal Credit Opportunity Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to require that financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extension of credit make that credit equally available to all creditworthy customers without regard to sex or marital status. Makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant on the basis of sex or marital status. Defines the terms used in the Act. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Makes changes in specified Acts of Congress in order to make those Acts comply with the purposes of this Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the requirements of this Act to the extent that they will not be enforced by another Government agency after enactment of this Act. Provides for the assessment by a United States District Court of actual and punitive damages in any action brought against a violator of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
States that the Congress recognizes the role of minerals in the United States economy. Requires that each department and agency of the United States shall undertake an immediate review of its existing statutory authority, regulations, policies, and procedures for the purpose of determining whether there are any deficiencies or inconsistencies therein which prohibit full compliance with the purpose and provisions of this Act and the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970. Provides that, on or before the expiration of the one hundred and twenty day period following the date of the enactment of this Act, each department and agency, on the basis of such review, shall report to the President and the Congress the results of its review, together with its recommendations as to what actions, legislative or otherwise, are necessary to bring its authority and policies into conformity with the intent, purposes, and procedures set forth in this Act and the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970. Requires that on or before July 31, 1974, and not less than annually thereafter the President of the United States shall transmit to the Congress a report on the state of the domestic mining, minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation industries. Creates in the Executive Office of the President a Council on Mineral Resources composed of five members appointed by the President to serve at his pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Makes it the duty and function of the Council: (1) to gather timely and authoritative information concerning the state of domestic mining, minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation industries, both current and prospective, to analyze and interpret such information for the purpose of determining whether such conditions and trends are interfering, or are likely to interfere, with the achievement of the policy set forth in the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970, and to compile and submit to the President studies relating to such conditions and trends; (2) to review and appraise the various programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in such Act for the purpose of determining whether such programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the President with respect thereto; (3) to develop and recommend to the President national policies to foster and promote the improvement of domestic minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation industries goals of the Nation; (4) to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and analyses relating to domestic mining and mineral resources; (5) to document and define changes or trends on the state of domestic mining, minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation and to interpret the underlying causes; (6) to report, at least annually, to the President on the state and condition of the domestic mining, minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation industries; and (7) to make and furnish such studies, reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to matters of policy and legislation as the President may request. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act not to exceed $300,000 for fiscal year 1975, $700,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1974
Provides that the Secretary of Labor shall not apply the Federal regulations governing permanent housing for agricultural workers to the nonwintering, mobile housing facilities (commonly known as "camp wagons") used in the range sheep industry.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
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 establsihed 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 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 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 (including the cost of construction, equipment, and startup expenses; and $7,500,000 beginning with the fiscal year 1976 and each fiscal year thereafter through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1980, 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 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and each of the five succeeding fiscal years. States that fellowships shall be awarded under the provsions 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 fellowships shall 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 Commissioner 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 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1974
Prevents the importation of honeybees into the United States except: (1) by the United States Department of Agriculture for experimental or scientific purposes; (2) from countries determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be free of diseases or parasites harmful to honeybees, and undesirable species or subspecies of honeybees; and (3) to have in operation precautions adequate to prevent the importation of honeybees from other countries where harmful diseases or parasites, or undesirable species or subspecies, of honeybees exist. Provides a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for not more than one year, or both for violations of this Act or any regulation issued pursuant to it. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with the governments of specified nations in carrying out necessary research, surveys, and control operations in those countries in connection with the suppression, control, and prevention of the spread of undesirable species and subspecies of honeybees, including but not limited to the African or Brazilian honeybee. Authorizes to be appropriated the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Revises the Social Security Act by increasing the increment in old-age benefits payable to individuals who delay their retirement beyond age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the month of May 1974, as "National Arthritis Month".
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnihsing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Declares that the Congress hereby calls upon the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of General Services to cause to be conducted on or about August 10, 1974, appropriate ceremonies in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, in the town of West Branch, Iowa.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible,except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) there be no cession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or tangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Consitituion.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Establishes the Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers to study and recommend administrative action and legislation necessary for establishing public or private electronic fund transfer systems. Requires such study to take into account: (1) preservation of competition among financial institutions; (2) user and consumer privacy; and (3) the impact on monetary and economic policy and on availability of credit. Authorizes an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
Job Security Assistance Act - Title I: Unemployment Compensation Amendments - Provides that with respect to benefit years beginning on or after July 1, 1976, the weekly benefit amount for any individual eligible for unemployment compensation shall be: (1) an amount equal to at least one-half of such individual's average weekly wage as determined by the State agency; or (2) the maximum weekly benefit amount payable under such State law, whichever is the lesser. Requires that the state maximum weekly benefit amount shall be no less than 66 2/3 percent of the statewide average weekly wage most recently computed before the beginning of the individual's benefit year. States that compensation shall not be paid to any person who the State finds is a striker under the law of that State. Stipulates that compensation shall not be denied to any other person otherwise eligible who is unemployed as a result of a labor dispute and who the State finds is an innocent bystander under the law of that State. Extends coverage of unemployment compensation to agricultural labor performed for an employer who during any calendar quarter in the calendar year for the preceding calendar year paid remuneration in cash of $5,000 or more to individuals employed in agricultural labor; or on each of some 20 days during the calendar year or preceding calendar year, each day being in a different calendar week, employed in agricultural labor for some portion of the day (whether or not at the same moment of time) 4 or more individuals. Increases the unemployment compensation tax on wages paid from 0.5 percent to 0.58 percent. Title II: Special Unemployment Compensation Program - Special Unemployment Compensation Act - Provides that each State which enters into an agreement with the Secretary of Labor, pursuant to which it makes payments of special unemployment compensation in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor hereunder, shall be paid by the United States from time to time such amounts as are deemed necessary by the Secretary of Labor to carry out the provisions of this Act in the State. Provides that an individual shall be eligible to receive a payment of special unemployment compensation or waiting period credit with respect to a week of unemployment occurring during and subsequent to a special unemployment compensation period in accordance with the provisions of this Act if the individual: (1) has exhausted all rights to regular, additional, and extended compensation under all State unemployment compensation law and has no further rights to regular, additional, or extended compensation under any State or Federal unemployment compensation law (including the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act) with respect to such week of unemployment, and is not receiving compensation with respect to such week of unemployment under the unemployment compensation law of Canada; or (2) is not otherwise eligible for compensation under any State or Federal unemployment compensation law (including the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act) with respect to such week of unemployment and is not receiving compensation with respect to such week of unemployment under the unemployment compensation law of Canada; and (3) if the individual is totally or partially unemployed, and is able to work, and is available for work, within the meaning of the applicable State unemployment compensation law, and is not subject to disqualification under that law; and (4) the individual has filed a claim for compensation or waiting period credit under this Act; and (5) in the area in which the individual was last employed for at least one week prior to filing a claim under this Act for compensation or waiting period credit with respect to such week of unemployment, a special unemployment compensation period is in effect with respect to such week of unemployment. Sets forth schedules for the determination of special unemployment compensation periods and weekly benefit amounts under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1974
Professional and Technical Assistance to Exporting Act - Declares the finding of the Congress that the expansion of this Nation's exports is urgently needed to enable the United States to carry out its international responsibilities, to finance imports, to stimulate domestic employment, and to permit the pursuit of policies fostering beneficial interantional trade. Defines the terms used in this Act. Defines the term "international trade specialist" as meaning an individual who has academic training and private professional experience in international trade either in the broad disciplines of trade administration or experience with individual industries and who is employed pursuant to this Act. Establishes within the Department of Commerce and in its field offices an International Trade Specialist Program. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to recruit, train, and assign such personnel to the program as may be necessary to implement the purposes of this Act, except that the number of such personnel shall not exceed three in each field office, and shall not exceed one hundred for the entire program. Provides that each international trade specialist appointed under this Act shall have had at least five years of executive level experience in private industry directly related to exporting products from the United States. Provides that any individual who is or who has been a career employee of the United States shall be ineligible for an appointment under this Act for a period of five years following the date of his separation from employment by the United States. Directs the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of the program carried out under this Act and transmit a report to the Congress not later than three years after the date of enactment of this Act. Requires that such report shall include information on the recruitment, training, and placement of personnel, the export expansion programs under which such personnel operated, data on increased exports in terms of dollar amounts and quantity of shipments, and recommendations with respect to the program's continuation. Authorizes, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act related to such program, the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $3,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and not to exceed $3,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976. Requires the Secretary to establish and implement a procedure within the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce to insure that each shipper's export declaration contains the address (including the State) of the exporter. Requires total exports for each State to be compiled in a monthly report for each of the field office areas established under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $175,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975, and June 30, 1976, for the purpose of a pilot project encompassing the exports of not less than 8 States for not less than 6 months. Requires an evaluation of the measurement program established under this Act to be carried out by the Office of Field Operations, Department of Commerce, in cooperation with its field offices. Requires that, not later than eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit a report on such evaluation to the Congress including therein information on the implementation of such procedures, an analysis of results, and recommendations as to improvements, or discontinuation of the program. Provides that in order to carry out the purposes of this Act related to such evaluation, there are authorized to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
States that the Secretary of the Interior is prohibited from publishing any orders with respect to any prohibition of the use of lead shot for the hunting of waterfowl, until the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs holds public hearings and issues legislative findings.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Extends the use of tax-free industrial bonds under the Internal Revenue Code, without limit, to be used in the conversion from gas burning to oil burning equipment or oil burning equipment to other energy burning materials. Raises the limit of general industrial revenue bonds intended for small business.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Allied Services Act - Title I: Human Services Planning Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to State governors or agencies to plan, coordinate, and consolidate human services programs within the State. Defines human services as services provided to individuals or their families to help them achieve, maintain, or support the highest level of personal independence and economic self-sufficiency. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct evalutations, directly or by grant or contract, of programs for the coordinated provision of services and to provide such technical assistance as may be necessary to assist in the planning or operation of such programs. Sets forth the criteria for participation in the program established under this Act for States and for local agencies. Sets forth the criteria for local allied services plans to be approved and incorporated into the State allied services plan. Provides that in order for a State to be eligible to participate in the program established under this Act for any fiscal year, a State allied services plan must be submitted which describes the current status of the coordinated provision of services within the State and the steps planned for such year and thereafter. Sets forth the criteria for approval of such plan by the Secretary. Title II: Administrative Support Services - Allows the Secretary to make grants to States which have in effect State plans approved under this Act or through such States to local agencies which have local plans approved by such States, to assist in meeting the initial costs of allying or consolidating administrative support services and management functions necessary to facilitate the allied delivery of human services where funds to cover such costs cannot be obtained from other sources. Title III: Special Authorities - Sets forth regulations for the transfer of funds (provided by the Secretary) within the State. Provides that where funds are advanced for a single project or program pursuant to more than one statutory authority or by more than one Federal agency, any one Federal agency may be designated to act for all in administering the funds advanced. Provides that five years after the date of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall make a report to the Congress on the activities that have been carried out under this Act, including his evaluation of those activities and his recommendations with respect to appropriate legislation dealing with allied delivery of human services.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Authorizes the President to declare by proclamation Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn an honorary citizen of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
Adds the Escalante Trail to the National Trails Act. Describes such trail as the route of the 1776 expedition of Father Velez de Escalante through New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. (Adds 16 U.S.C. 1244(c)(15))
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Meetinghouse Preservation Act - States that the purpose of this Act is: (1) to celebrate the Bicentennial of this country through the preservation within each of the several States of a historic site that might otherwise be lost; (2) to provide a meetingplace in each of the several States for those citizens interested in retaining their tangible, indigenous heritage, whether historic, cultural, or natural, and in planning for future changes and developments, and (3) to give existing State programs involved with preserving historic and architecturally important structures an illustration of the best possible techniques used in the preservation of such historic sites and structures, and the multiple, significant ways in which such sites and structures can be used. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to each of the several States for the purpose of enabling each State to acquire and restore an historic site within each State for use as a meetinghouse in accordance with the provisions of this Act, except that no grant to any one State shall exceed $1,000,000. Provides that any application for a grant under this Act shall contain an estimated budget of various acquisition, restoration, and maintenance expenses. Sets forth provisions governing the approval of any application. Establishes a Meetinghouse Coordination Board to review each application made in accordance with the provisions of this Act for the purpose of making recommendations to the Secretary as to which of the historic site or sites contained in such application should be approved by the Secretary. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.