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United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1976
Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to guarantee loans to States and localities for advanced construction of eligible treatment works facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1976
Government Economy and Spending Reform Act - Title I: Authorizations of New Budget Authority - Terminates all budget authority for Federal programs on specified dates according to the functional or subfunctional category of each program as set forth in the fiscal year 1977 budget. Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress by April 1, 1977, on specified programs with respect to the laws under which such program is carried on, the amount of new budget authority received by such program during the four fiscal years ending before April 1, 1977, and to identify programs for which no outlays have been made during the last two fiscal years ending before April 1, 1977. Prohibits providing new budget authority after the applicable review date set forth in this Act unless the provision of such budget authority is specifically authorized by law or the standing rules of either House of Congress. Title II: Zero-Base Program Review - Sets forth a timetable for Congressional zero-base review of new budget authority. Defines "zero-base review" as an evaluation of a given program to determine the merits of its continuation at a level less than, equal to, or more than its existing level. Requires each congressional committee conducting a zero-based program review to adopt tentative and final review plans, receive reports from the Comptroller General and Federal agencies on the program being reviewed, and report to their respective House the results of such zero-base review of the program. Sets forth minimum objectives of inquiry for such reviews. Requires that any committee reporting pursuant to this Act recommend the extent to which any program reviewed should be continued or eliminated. Title III: Continuing Review - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 to require, whenever the Comptroller General issues a report which discloses any substantial deficiency in the achievement of the objectives of any Federal program, the agency conducting such program to report to specified congressional committees 60 days after such report and every six months thereafter to deliniate the actions taken with respect to such deficiency. Requires that such agency continue to issue such reports until such time as the Comptroller General determines that no purpose is served by their submission. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the inclusion in the Budget of a statement of the specific objectives of each Government program, and a comparison, in each subsequent Budget, of the achievement of such objectives for the last completed fiscal year with the planned objectives of such year. Title IV: Citizens Bicentennial Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government - Establishes the Citizens' Bicentennial Commission on the Organization and Operation of Government, an independent agency of 18 members to study Federal agencies. Directs the Commission to make recommendations to the President and Congress for the restructuring of such agencies to improve their efficiency. Requires the Commission to submit its final report by September 30, 1979, and terminate it 90 days thereafter. Authorizes to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation $12,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this title. Title V: Miscellaneous - Requires the Director of Management and Budget to study the feasibility of zero-base budgeting for Federal agencies. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office to study the feasibility of personnel ceilings on employees of the United States and their relationships to alternative methods of carrying out the activities of such employees. Requires that such reports be submitted to Congress. Requires Federal agency heads to report requests for new budget authority to Congress. Requires specified committees to study the effectiveness of the zero-base review procedures required by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1976
Expresses the Senate's gratitude to Mike Mansfield of Montana for his participation in the Government and his service on behalf of the Nation's people.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1976
Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud Act - Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, an Office of Central Fraud and Abuse Control. Provides that such Office shall have the overall responsibility for directing and establishing policies with respect to the undertaking of activities which are designed to deal with fraud and abuse in the Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children's Services, Medicare and Medicaid. Specifies that the Office shall also have responsibility for investigating alleged fraud or abuse in any such program, and assisting State agencies, at their request, in the establishment and operation of State antifraud and abuse activities. Directs that no payment for Medicare service may be made to a person claiming such payment under an assignment, including a power of attorney, but may be made to an agent of the person furnishing such service. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare or the Comptroller General to require providers or suppliers of items or services, with respect to which payment is claimed under one of the programs within the jurisdiction of the Office, to furnish specified information including the following: (1) the identity of persons having ownership interest in such entity; and (2) a consolidated certified costs report with respect to its costs and charges, including costs and charges of related organizations. Specifies sanctions which shall be imposed upon entities which fail to comply with requests for information. Increases the penalties for defrauding the Medicare or Medicaid programs. Provides that it shall be a felony (presently misdemeanor) punishable by imprisonment of up to five years for such an offense. States that where a Professional Standards Review Organization is found competent by the Secretary to assume review responsibility with respect to specified types of health care services or specified providers or practitioners of such services and is performing such reviews, such reviews shall constitute the conclusive determination on those issues for purposes of payment under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 August 1976
Authorizes courts with naturalization jurisdiction conferred to them under the Immigration and Nationality Act to retain up to $20,000 (presently $6,000) of the fees collected in naturalization proceedings held in such courts in any fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 31 August 1976
Economic Recovery and Sustained Growth Act - Title I: Short Title - States that this Act may be cited as the "Economic Recovery and Sustained Growth Act. Title II: Tax Reform - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the exclusion from gross income of amounts up to $100 received as interest from savings deposits. Provides that no gain or loss shall be recognized for income tax purposes on the sale or exchange of securities or bonds issued by a corporation to the extent that the proceeds from such sale or the value of the securities or bonds exchanged is applied against the purchase of securities or bonds issued by any other corporation. Computes the basis of such purchased bonds or securities from the basis in the securities or bonds sold or exchanged plus any additional consideration paid, or minus whatever additional consideration received. Allows domestic corporations to deduct all dividends paid to shareholders. Requires a preliminary adjustment to property basis by adding an amount equal to the difference between the property's basis multiplied by the price index for the year in which the property was acquired, or for calendar year 1975, whichever is earlier, and the property's basis. Directs the Secretary of Labor to report the consumer price index ratio between the previous calendar year and preceding years. Computes the depreciation allowance as the product of such ratio and the depreciation allowance. Applies the provisions of this title to taxable years ending after enactment. Title III: Expenditure Control - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act to restrict the growth of the total budget outlays and new budget authority, approved in Congress's first concurrent resolution on the budget, to the same growth rate, in percentage terms, which is anticipated in the next year's gross national product. Title IV: Monetary Policy Stabilization - Directs the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee to maintain longrun growth of the money supply at rates commensurate with the economy's potential to increase production. Directs the Federal Reserve Board Chairman to consult with Congress at quarterly hearings before the Committees on Banking concerning the Board's long term money supply targets and monetary policy actions required during the next year. Title V: Expanding Employment Opportunities for Youths - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow any employer, in compliance with applicable child labor laws, to employ persons under 18 years of age, or who are 18 or 19 years of age and are full-time students or in their first six months of full-time employment, at a wage rate which is 65 percent of minimum rate otherwise prescribed by the Act, or the wage orders applicable to American territories and Puerto Rico. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to ensure that these wage rates for youths will not substantially threaten full-time employment opportunities for other persons.
United States · United States Congress · 27 August 1976
Designates the extension of the Senate Office Building presently under construction pursuant to the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973, as the "Philip A. Hart Office Building."
United States · United States Congress · 26 August 1976
Urges the President to direct United States Ambassadors abroad to seek the consideration by foreign governments of suspension of their air service to any foreign nation aiding or abetting terrorism. States that the President should undertake international discussions and negotiations which would strengthen the current minimum safety standards established pursuant to the Convention on International Civil Aviation. Urges the President to end air transportation between the United States and any foreign nation which violates such act; services violating nations; or does not maintain transportation security sufficient to meet the minimum security standards established pursuant to the Convention.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1976
Grants, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, priority status for an immigrant visa to any alien who is a resident of the Friuli region of Italy and whose residence or place of business was destroyed in the earthquake that occurred on May 6, 1976. Grants an immigrant visa to an alien spouse, child, or parent of such Italian national if such relative is not in the United States and resides with such Italian national. Requires all persons covered by this Act to apply for such visas within one year after the enactment of this Act. Makes their entrance not chargeable against any immigration quota.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1976
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a corporation a charitable deduction for a contribution or a gift to a charitable organization which is to be used outside the United States or its possessions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to exempt contributions from the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1976
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President make available the good offices of the United States to effect a peaceful resolution of the dispute in Northern Ireland.
United States · United States Congress · 23 August 1976
Expresses the sorrow of the Senate with respect to the death of Hazel R. Garn, Wife of the Senator from Utah.
United States · United States Congress · 23 August 1976
Grants a Federal charter to the International Veteran Boxers Association. States that the purposes of the corporation are to promote the general welfare of active and retired veteran boxers and to stimulate, preserve, and defend the sport of boxing. Stipulates the nonpolitical nature of the corporation. Requires the corporation to maintain complete books and records and to make such records available for inspection by any member entitled to vote. Grants to the corporation the exclusive right to use the name the "International Veteran Boxers Association."
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1976
Expresses the sense of the United State Senate that before requesting a review and extension of the 1975 United States-Romanian Trade Agreement the Administration shall submit a full report to Congress on fundamental human rights and cultural freedoms in Romania. Provides that if no measures are taken to ameliorate the situation of national minorities by the Romanian Government, the 1975 United States-Romanian Trade Agreement and the most favored-nation treatment of the Socialist Republic of Romania shall not be extended.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1976
Disapproves the deferral of budget authority for operating grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation as reported by the Comptroller General of the United States to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives in his letter dated July 29, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1976
Authorizes and directs the President to issue a proclamation designating the week of October 10 through 16, 1976, as "Native American Awareness Week."
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1976
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to authorize the Civil Aeronautics Board to grant exemptions from the requirements of such Act for all-cargo operations in interstate air transportation pending consideration of an application for initial certification under such Act if such exemption is in the public interest.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1976
Waives provisions of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 restricting the consideration of appropriation legislation to a May 15 deadline with respect to the consideration of S.J. Res. 201 dealing with "Operation Sail."
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1976
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to dredge New York Harbor in the vicinity of the South Street Seaport Museum, Manhattan, New York, to provide adequate docking for ships of Operation Sail. Authorizes the Secretary to use any funds presently available to him for operation and maintenance of navigation in New York Harbor.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1976
Lake Ontario Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, to develop a plan for shoreline protection and beach erosion control along Lake Ontario.
United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1976
Authorizes representatives of the Polish Legion of American Veterans to act as claims agents for claims arising under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 3402)
United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1976
Increases to $60,000, multiplied by the ratio which the Consumer Price Index for the taxable year bears to the Consumer Price Index for 1976, the amount of gain excluded from the gross income of a taxpayer over the age of 65 who sells his principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1976
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act to change the definition of city to include any town or township which contains incorporated places within its boundaries.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1976
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct fish and wildlife studies, and the Secretary of Transportation to conduct intermodal economic transportation studies, to determine the impact of the proposed replacement of components of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway System. Directs the Secretary of the Army to give full consideration to the recommendations of such Secretaries and Federal, State, and local officials, and the public with respect to such waterway system. Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer funds for such studies to the Secretaries of the Interior and Transportation. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from carrying out such replacement prior to receipt of such studies, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary of the Army to develop and implement a plan to minimize delays in lockage at certain existing points on the waterway system.
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