United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, an exclusion from income taxation for income of condominium housing associations, homeowner associations, and cooperative housing corporations operated for the management, maintenance, landscaping, and repair of common areas and dwellings.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that 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 upon the conversion, sale, or rezoning of such property for another use.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides for the referral, under title XVI of the Social Security Act (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) for appropriate services provided by other State agencies, of blind or disabled children who are receiving supplemental security income benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Inflationary Impact Statement Act - Requires the Congressional Budget Office to supply the Congress with an estimate of the impact on the aggregate rate of inflation and the cost of particular goods and services, for five fiscal years, of any legislation which is reported by Senate and House of Representatives committees for further congressional consideration.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for 25 percent up to $250 ($125 in the case of a married individual filing separately) of the energy conserving residential expenditures incurred by a taxpayer during the taxable year. Authorizes the taxpayer to elect to deduct up to $1000 of such expenses in lieu of the credit provided by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress, including that: (1) because of the critical economic role that energy plays, a comprehensive domestic and international approach to meeting energy problems in a realistic manner is immediately needed; (2) such a comprehensive energy policy neccessitates a dramatic increase in domestic energy production coupled with a reasoned attack on wasteful energy consumption; (3) vital national actions to increase domestic energy production require that the United States - (a) rapidly expand Outer Continental Shelf exploration and development with approriate environmental safequards; (b) lift price constraints on exploration and production of natural gas and other fossil fuels; (c) adopt policies which will encourage the most rapid development of alternative energy sources; and (d) adopt policies which insure adequate opportunity to provide for the massive capital formation required to attain timely domestic energy self-sufficiency; and (4) the reasoned nationwide attack on wasteful energy consumption requires - (a) enactment of energy conservation authority capable of significantly reducing consumption; (b) expanded Federal programs related to increasing the efficiency of energy uses; and (c) a mandatory impact study on energy consumption of planned Federal programs prior to program implementations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Exempts from the sex discrimination guidelines of the Education Amendments of 1972 fraternities, sororities and similar tax-exempt organizations whose active membership consists primarily of students at institutions of higher education. (Amends 20 U.S.C. 1681)
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Emergency Budget Control Act - Authorizes the President, under title X of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, to reduce expenditures and net lending in fiscal year 1975 to not less than $295,000,000,000. Prohibits the reduction of more than 20 percent in the expenditures and net lending of any major department and agency.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Deepwater Port Act - Declares the purposes of this Act, including to authorize and regulate the location, ownership, construction, and operation of deepwater port in waters beyond the territorial limits of the United States. Defines the terms used in this Act. States that no person may engage in the ownership, construction or operation of a deepwater port except in accordance with a license issued pursuant to this Act. Sets forth: (1) the prerequisites for issuance of such licenses; (2) procedures for port evaluation; (3) the conditions of licenses; (4) the procedures for transfer, terms and renewal of licenses; and (5) the eligibility for licenses. Directs the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to: (1) issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act; and (2) prescribe regulations for site evaluation and preconstruction testing at potential deepwater port locations which may adversely affect the environment, interfere with uses of the Outer Continental Shelf or pose a threat to human health and welfare. Sets forth the minimum data required on applications filed under this Act and requires publication of a description of each application area in the Federal Register. Requires the filing of environmental impact statements and public hearings prior to the issuance of a license under this Act. Lists the priorities to be considered by the Secretary in issuing such licenses. Calls for the establishment of environmental review criteria to be used in the evaluation of a deepwater port as proposed in an application. Provides for an antitrust review of licenses. States that a deepwater port shall be subject to regulation as a common carrier in accordance with the Interstate Commerce Act. Provides that the Secretary shall not issue a license without the approval of the Governor of each and any adjacent coastal State. Requires a coastal zone management program to be developed by such States prior to the issuance of a license. Provides for regulations and procedures for marine environmental protection and navigational safety. Empowers the Secretary of State to seek international action and cooperation in support of the policies of this Act. Provides procedures for the suspension and termination of licenses. Sets forth the recordkeeping and inspection requirements of each licensee, providing for public access to specified information. Imposes criminal and civil penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes citizen civil actions in enumerated instances. States that the discharge of oil or natural gas into the marine environment from a vessel within any safety zone or from a deepwater port is prohibited. Imposes civil penalties for violation of this prohibition and liability for cleanup costs and damages. Establishes the Deepwater Port Liability Fund to be liable for all cleanup costs and damages in excess of the maximum liabilities of vessel owners and operators and licensees. Calls for a study of the methods for implementing a uniform law providing liability for cleanup costs and damages from oil spills from Outer Continental Shelf operations. Authorizes to be appropriated for the administration of this Act $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1975, 1976 and 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1974
States that the purpose of this Act is to eliminate the obstructions to the free flow of commerce in wine among the several States resulting from acts of the States which impose discriminatory and unreasonable burdens upon such commerce. Prohibits any State which permits the transportation or importation of wine into that State from imposing, with respect to any wine produced outside the State, or from materials originating outside the State, any tax, regulation, prohibition, or requirement which is not equally applicable with respect to wine of the same class (1) produced in, or from materials originating in, the State imposing such tax, regulation, prohibition, or requirement, or (2) produced outside the State, or produced from products produced outside the State. Stipulates that a State which permits the sale of wine within the State shall permit the transportation or importation of wine of the same class produced outside the State, or from materials originating outside the State, into such State for sale therein upon terms and conditions equally applicable to all wine of the same class sold in the State. Declares that notwithstanding the provisions of this Act, each State retains the right: (1) to engage in the purchase, sale, or distribution of wine; and (2) to exercise discretion in the selection and listing of wine to be purchased or sold by each such State.
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
Provides that tax returns are confidential, and, therefore, are not open to inspection, and that information contained in them shall not be disclosed. Permits, under regulations established by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the inspection of tax returns by the taxpayer, the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department, State tax authorities, the President, and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Requires a report to the Joint Committee of returns inspected and by whom inspected. Establishes criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure or receipt of tax return information.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1974
Authorizes the President to reduce Federal expenditures for fiscal year 1975 to $295,000,000,000. Provides that in making reductions in amounts appropriated in order to reduce budget outlays to such amount, the President shall not reduce the amount of an item of appropriation: (1) if that appropriation does not exceed an amount equal to 95 percent of the sum requested in the budget for that fiscal year, unless (A) the President transmits a special message to Congress stating that he proposes to reduce the amount appropriated for such item and the sum by which that appropriation is to be reduced, and (B) neither House of Congress passes a resolution, during thirty calendar days of continuous session occurring immediately after transmittal of the message, stating in substance that it disapproves the reduction; and (2) in the case of any other item of appropriation, by more than 15 percent of the amount appropriated.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
States that in order to implement the seacoast status of the Great Lakes, as recognized in the Merchant Marine Act, there is established within the Maritime Administration a Great Lakes Region Office through which the Secretary of Commerce shall carry out the activities of the Administration with respect to programs relating to the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway system. Authorizes to be appropriated such amounts as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1974
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who has been a citizen of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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 · 30 July 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer ownership of two naval vessels, the U.S.S. Essex and the U.S.S. Randolph, no longer needed by the Navy, to the city of New York, New York.
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 · 17 July 1974
Provides for the monthly publication by the Secretary of Labor of a Consumer Price Index for the aged which shall be used in the provision of cost-of-living benefit increases authorized by title II of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1974
Requires, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Office of the Budget to prepare fiscal notes for bills and joint resolutions. States that such fiscal note shall contain an estimate of the costs which would be incurred, or the savings which would be realized in carrying out such bill, resolution, or amendment in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in the four fiscal years following such fiscal year.
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 · 10 July 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms of the United States Treasury Department not promulgate the intended regulations requiring a statement of ingredients on every bottle of distilled spirits and wine in the United States until the Congress of the United States be given the opportunity to consider this matter and its broad implications in full.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1974
Provides, under the provisions of the Health Programs Extension Act of 1973, that no individual shall be required to perform or assist in the performance of any portion of a health service program or research activity funded in whole or in part by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare if such performance or assistance would be contrary to his religious beliefs or moral convictions. Provides that no entity shall be required to make its facilities available for the performance of any health service program or research activity funded in whole or in part by the Department of Health, Education, Welfare if such performance is prohibited by the entity on the basis of religious beliefs or moral convictions. Provides that no entity may (1) discriminate in the employment, promotion, or termination of employment of any physician or other health care personnel, or (2) discriminate in the extension of staff or other services to any physician or other health care personnel solely because he performed or assisted in the performance of a lawful health service program or research activity in an unrelated facility, or solely because he refused to perform or assist in the performance of such a health service program or research activity, in a facility controlled by such entity on the grounds that his performance or assistance in the performance of such health service program or research activity would be contrary to his religious beliefs or moral convictions.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Provides that income from entertainment activities held in conjunction with a public fair conducted by a tax exempt organization shall not be unrelated trade or business income and shall not affect the tax exemption of the organization under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism; and that the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to call upon all governments to condemn inhuman acts of violence against innocent victims and to strongly urge the countries where these groups and individuals are found to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terroism and senseless violence.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1974
Sets conditions for the awarding of the gold star lapel button under the approval of the Secretary of Defense in instances of members of the Armed Forces who fall in armed conflict while serving with friendly foreign forces. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1126)
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production, and if such negotiations prove unfruitful to exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act and to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that the initial tax on failure to distribute income shall not apply to the undistributed income of a private foundation for any taxable year for which it is an organization operating long-term care facilities. Defines the term "organization operating long-term care facilities" as a private foundation: (1) whose principal purpose is the long-term care, comfort or maintenance of resident permanently and totally disabled persons, elderly persons, needy widows, or children; and (2) which normally makes qualifying distributions.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in 18 States and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Lowers from 72 to 70 the age at which all earnings become excluded in determining excess earnings under title II (Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Prescribes exempt amounts for each month for taxable years 1976-1984 (after which all amounts shall be exempt) in determining the amount of outside earnings which may be excluded for purposes of entitlement to benefits under title II of the Social Security Act. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 203(f))
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Title I: Federal Privacy Board - Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the executive branch of the Government and specifies the composition of the Board. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to publish a Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system. Specifies the powers of the Board, including the power to conduct inspections of information systems at reasonable times, and to order an organization to desist from acts in violation of rules or orders promulgated under this Act. Title II: Standards and Management Systems For Handling Information Related To Individuals - Establishes requirements for the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination by Federal agencies, or State or local governments, or any other organization maintaining an information system, of personal information collected for administrative, statistical-reporting, and research purposes. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board. Specifies the elements of public notice required under this Act to be contained in such notice. States that organizations maintaining personal information shall inform individuals asked to supply personal information of consequences of providing or not providing such information, shall request permission of a data subject to disseminate such information, and grant such individual the right to inspect and to know all personal information about the individual, the nature and sources of the information, and the recipients of personal information about such individual. Provides methods for the challenging, correction, and explanation of personal information by the subject of such information. Requires each such organization maintaining a personal information system to inform all data subjects of the fact within two years of enactment of this Act by notice containing specified elements. Exempts information determined to be vital to the national defense, contained in active criminal investigatory files compiled by Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, and that maintained by the news media (except information relating to the employees of such organizations) from the provisions of this Act. States that it shall be unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number for any activity, unless the disclosure is required by law. Title III: Miscellaneous - Defines the terms used in this Act. States that any revelation of trade secrets required under this Act shall be treated as confidential by those to whom they are made. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1974
Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act - Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for automatic cost-of-living adjustments, based on the Consumer Price Index, in: (1) the income tax rates; (2) the amount of standard deductions; (3) the amount of personal exemptions; (4) the amount of depreciation deductions; and (5) the adjusted basis for property. Makes cost-of-living adjustments in specified United States savings bonds and certificates and on other obligations of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Revises the Small Business Act by providing that the Small Business Administration may guarantee equity investments made by investment companies in small business concerns which will contribute to a well-balanced national economy by facilitating ownership in such concerns by persons whose participation in the free enterprise system is hampered because of social or economic considerations. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Includes organizations which maintain facilities for long-term care, comfort, maintenance, or education of residents permanently and totally disabled persons, elderly persons, needy widows, or children within the category of institutions to which tax deductible charitable contributions may be made under the Internal Revenue Code.
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 · 2 April 1974
Clean Air Amendments - Authorizes $150,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for research related to fuels and vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Authorizes $300,000,000 to be appropriated for the fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for air pollution control under the Clean Air Act. States that, upon application by the Governor of a State on or after June 1, 1976, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency may extend for not more than five years the deadline for attainment of national primary ambient air quality standards where transportation control measures are necessary for the attainment of such standards, and where the implementation of such control measures would have serious adverse social or economic effects. Provides that, within one hundred and twenty days following the submission of an application and all supporting materials, and after providing an opportunity for public comment, the Administrator shall grant an extension, if he determines that the requirements of this subsection have been met. Authorizes the Governor of any State, on or after June 1, 1981, to apply for a further extension. Provides that no extension may go beyond May 31, 1987. Provides that if the Administrator determines that technological or economic limitations on the application of measurement methodology to a particular class of new stationary air pollutant sources (as defined under the Clean Air Act) would make the imposition of an emission standard infeasible, he may instead prescribe a design or equipment standard meeting the requirements of this Act. Authorizes the Administrator to request the Attorney General to commence a civil action for a permanent or temporary injunction or to assess and recover a civil penalty of not more than $25,000 per day of violation, or both, whenever any person: (1) violates or fails or refuses to comply with any order issued under the Clean Air Act; or (2) violates any requirement of an applicable implementation plan during any period of federally assumed enforcement or more than thirty days after having been notified by the Administrator of a finding that such person is violating such requirement. Authorizes the Administrator to, for any period beginning on or after the date of enactment of this section and ending on or before November 1, 1974, temporarily suspend any stationary source fuel or emission limitation under specified conditions. States than any such suspension shall be conditioned upon compliance with such interim requirements as the Administrator determines are reasonable and practicable. Provides that, after public notice and public hearing, the Administrator may, for any period beginning after November 1, 1974, and ending not later than January 1, 1980, temporarily suspend any stationary source fuel or emission limitation as it applies to any fuel burning stationary source if the Administrator makes specified findings. Authorizes the President, to the extent practicable and consistent with the objectives of this Act and any legislation relating to the production, conservation, distribution, or allocation of energy or energy resources, to prohibit the burning of natural gas or petroleum products by any major fuel-burning installation (including any existing electric powerplant) which, on the date of enactment of this section, has the capability and reasonably available necessary plant equipment to burn coal. Directs the Administrator to promptly review all State implementation plans and revisions thereof and to determine whether in the aggregate (1) available domestic supplies of fossil fuels, or (2) supplies of control systems, are adequate to enable applicable emission requirements, standards, or limitations to be met within the date set for attainment of a national ambient air quality standard under the Clean Air Act.
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
Provides for displaying for public viewing at the Arlington National Cemetery the names of veterans who died after February 17, 1967. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
Provides that any United States district court shall have jurisdiction to make an order in a disciplinary proceeding disbarring, suspending, censuring, or taking such other action as justice may require, with respect to any attorney who is a member of the bar of such court and has: (1) been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude in any State, territory, Commonwealth, possession, or the District of Columbia; or (2) is guilty of conduct unbecoming a member of the bar of such court. States that, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, conduct unbecoming a member of the bar of a United States district court shall be deemed to include fraud, deceit, malpractice, conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice, incitement to arson, riot, espionage, or sabotage or violation of the Code of Professional Responsibilities of the American Bar Association or the bar association of the State in which such United States district court has jurisdiction. Provides that, whenever it shall come to the attention of the district court by any means that a member of its bar may have been convicted as defined in this Act or may have been guilty of unbecoming conduct under this Act, the court shall refer the matter to the United States attorney for such district. States that if the United States attorney believes that the attorney has either been convicted as defined in this Act or has been guilty of unbecoming conduct as defined by this Act he should proceed against such attorney by a petition setting forth the charges against him. Provides, in the case of conviction, disbarment, or suspension, that notice of such transaction will be transmitted to the Court of the State, territory, Commonwealth, or possession where the attorney was admitted to practice. (Adds 28 U.S.C. 1364)
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants for the construction of bikeways in urbanized areas. Provides that the Federal share of any project for the construction of a bikeway shall be 80 percent of the total cost of such project, with the remaining 20 percent of such cost to be paid by the grantee. Authorizes $10,000,000 to be appropriated per fiscal year from the Highway Trust Fund, and $10,000,000 per fiscal year out of any other money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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