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United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1978
Extends the best wishes of the Senate to Senator Dewey F. Bartlett upon his retirement from the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1978
Space Policy Act - Establishes a national space policy and program to enable the United States to maintain leadership in space science and technology. Declares such policy, including that the United States: (1) is committed to space exploration for peaceful purposes and the benefit of mankind; (2) rejects claims of sovereignty over outer space and celestial bodies; and (3) will continue to participate in cooperative international space activities. Directs the President to assure the space program proceeds toward enumerated goals in space and terrestrial application and in space science. Details the goals to be achieved within ten years, including: (1) design of prototype electric power generation transmission systems; (2) design of space technologies determining the feasibility of space-based manufacturing; (3) establishment of a remote-sensing system of earth's resources; and (4) the pursuit of planetary and lunar science and exploration. Requires the President to submit to Congress a five-year schedule, with annual revisions, identifying missions, projects, and programs to achieve the objectives of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1978
Amends the National Housing Act to extend specified Federal Housing Administration insurance programs for 30 days. Amends the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 to extend for 30 days the authority for financial assistance to community development programs. Extends for 30 days the authority for the purchase of mortgages under the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act of 1974. Amends the National Flood Insurance Act to extend the authority: (1) to enter into new flood insurance contracts; and (2) to provide subsidized flood insurance in emergencies. Extends the authority for rural housing programs under the Housing Act of 1949. Amends the National Housing Act to extend the Federal riot reinsurance program and the Federal crime insurance program for 30 days.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1978
National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility Act - Establishes the National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility to provide funds to meet the liquidity needs of credit unions. Vests management of the Facility in the National Credit Union Administration. Declares the initial capitalization of the Facility shall be by stock subscription consisting of shares having par value of $50 each. Entitles any member of the Facility to apply on a form prescribed by regulations for advances. Authorizes the Administration to deny or grant any application upon such terms as it may prescribe by regulations. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to lend the Facility up to $500,000,000 to enable it to meet the obligations arising under this Act. Directs the Administration to prepare and submit to the President and to the Congress annually a full report on the activities of the Facility for the previous year. Directs the Comptroller General to audit the Central Liquidity Facility.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1978
Extends the authority of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to regulate interest rates on deposits and share accounts in depository institutions from December 15, 1980. Prohibits the establishment, by State or Federal law, of interest rate differentials between: (1) banks, other than savings banks, the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and (2) savings and loan, building and loan, or homestead associations (including cooperative banks) the deposits of which are insured by the FSLIC, or mutual savings banks, on savings deposits or accounts from which transfers to the depository institution itself, or to a demand or other deposit account of the same depositor or account holder may be made automatically or as a normal practice pursuant to the authorization of such a depositor or account holder.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1978
Extends the authority of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to regulate interest rates on deposits and share accounts in depository institutions from December 15, 1978, to December 15, 1980. Prohibits the establishment, by State or Federal law of interest rate differentials between: (1) banks, other than savings banks, the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and (2) savings and loan, building and loan, or homestead associations (including cooperative banks) the deposits of which are insured by the FSLIC, or mutual savings banks, on savings accounts from which automatic transfers to third-party payment accounts may be made pursuant to the prearranged agreement of depositors or accountholders.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1978
Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require every member bank to maintain reserves against its demand deposits at a rate between three and ten percent as determined by the Federal Reserve Board. Requires member banks to maintain reserves against savings deposits from which transfers to third parties may be made at a rate between two and seven percent as determined by the Board. Imposes reserve requirements for all other time and savings deposits at a rate between one and seven percent as determined by the Board. Requires the Board to establish uniform reserve ratios applicable to all member banks. Directs that the required reserves held by any depository institution be in the form of balances maintained in a Federal Reserve Bank and in the currency and coin held by such institution. Permits such balances to be used in their entirety to purchase non-transferable and nonassignable certificates of deposit issued by the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank. Requires such certificates to pay interest at a rate of one-half of one percent below the average return on the Federal Reserve System portfolio.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Disaster Relief Amendments - Amends the Small Business Act to cancel $5,000 of the principal of a loan made in connection with the snow storms in Massachusetts on February 6 or 7, 1978, upon proof of loss and a bona fide estimate of the cost to rectify such loss. Limits the total amount cancelled plus the total amount of any grant under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 to change eligibility for direct grants for disaster related expenses. Increases the Federal share in the matching grant program from 75 to 80 percent. Increases the amount of Federal loans available to a local government for disaster relief from 25 to 30 percent of such government's annual operating budget. Shortens from three to two years the period of time before repayment of such loans can be cancelled in the event of the inability of such local governments to meet their expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Congressional Award Program Act - Establishes the Congressional Award Program in the United States and its territories to recognize and promote youth leadership and excellence in the areas of expedition fitness, personal creative development, and public service. Creates a Congressional Award Board with a Director to supervise such program. Authorizes the appointment of State award directors under this Act. Creates three Congressional Award Medals to be awarded under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 August 1978
Anti-Inflation Tax Reduction and Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide cost-of-living adjustments for the individual income tax rates and withholding tables.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide transportation to the Girl Scouts of the United States to international world friendship events or troops on foreign soil meetings which occur outside the United States. Requires the Girl Scouts to reimburse the Government for the actual cost of such transportation.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1978
Veterans' Geriatrics and Gerontological Health Services Act - Establishes the Office of Assistant Chief Medical Director for Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Extended Care within the Office of the Chief Medical Director in the Veterans' Administration. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to designate 20 Veterans' Administration hospitals as Geriatrics centers. Establishes a Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Extended Care Task Force within the Veterans' Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1978
Designates July 18, 1979, as "National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States Olympic Committee should immediately take such measures as necessary to have the International Olympic Committee select a site for the 1980 summer Olympic games outside the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to render the basis rule for player contracts transferred in connection with the sale of a sports franchise inapplicable to the sale or exchange of a sports franchise after December 31, 1975, and before March 1, 1977, if the principal stockholder of such franchise at the time of its sale had purchased more than 50 percent of its voting stock prior to December 31, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Expresses the support of the Senate for the nomination of the Public Groups to Promote Observance of the Helsinki Agreement in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Expresses the sense of the Congress that (1) the trials of Antoly Shcharansky, Viktoras Petkus, and Aleksandr Ilyich Ginzburg are matters of deep concern to the American people that adversely affect Soviet-American relations; and (2) the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet should seek a humanitarian resolution to these cases and work toward improving such relations.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
States the interest of the United States to be to undertake certain diplomatic and economic initiatives to increase opposition to the Soviet and Cuban military presence in Africa, and to increase pressure for their withdrawal. Declares that any normalization of relations with Cuba after such withdrawal should be conditioned upon questions of (1) human rights; (2) U.S. citizens held in Cuban prisons; (3) expropriation of property belonging to U.S. citizens; and (4) the antihijacking agreement between the United States and Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1978
Amends Title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to exclude from an individual's income, for the purpose of determining such individual's eligibility for the supplemental security income program, interest income received by an individual from a negotiated order of withdrawal account, on which interest payments are made more frequently than quarterly.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to enter into a contract with the Boston Educational Marine Exchange or any other private or public nonprofit organization to utilize the Coast Guard cutter Chautaque for the purposes of establishing an exhibit to educate the public regarding the mission of the Coast Guard and to use space and facilities abroad the vessel for marine education activities.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to prohibit bank holding companies and their subsidiaries from selling property and casualty insurance as principals, agents, or brokers. Exempts from such prohibition credit insurance and insurance sold in a community that has a population less than 5,000 or that the bank holding company demonstrates has no other adequate insurance agency facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Disapproves the determination of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the Tariff Act of 1930, transmitted to the Congress on June 13, 1978 (waives the imposition of countervailing duties on Canadian fish).
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that neither the exchange of the Panama Canal Treaty instruments of ratification nor the incurring of any international obligation to exchange such documents should take place earlier than March 31, 1979, unless implementing legislation has been enacted prior to such date.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1978
Medicare Mental Illness Non-Discrimination Act - Makes findings that mental illness is more prevalent in elderly persons than in younger adults and that the social security coverage for mental illness is not on an equal basis with coverage for other types of illnesses. Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the 190 day lifetime limit for in-patient psychiatric care; and (2) limit the amount which a provider of services may charge a Medicare patient for mental health care services to 20 percent of the amount customarily charged for such services.
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