United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1975
Federal Financial Disclosure Act - Requires the President; the Vice President; each Member of Congress; each officer and employee of the United States who is compensated at a rate in excess of $25,000 per annum; any individual occupying the position of an officer or employee of the United States who performs duties of the type generally performed by an individual occupying grade GS-16 of the General Schedule or any higher grade or position as determined by the Comptroller General of the United States regardless of the rate of compensation of such individual; and any member of a uniformed service who is compensated at or in excess of pay grade 0 - 6, to file annually, and each individual who is a candidate of a political party in a general election for the office of a Member of Congress but who, at the time he becomes a candidate, does not occupy any such office, to file within one month after he or she becomes a candidate for such office, with the Comptroller General a report containing a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount and source of each item of income, and each item of reimbursement for any expenditure and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source (other than gifts received from his spouse or any member of his immediate family) received by him or by him and his spouse jointly during the preceding calendar year which exceeds $100 in amount or value, including any fee or other honorarium received by him for or in connection with the preparation or delivery of any speech or address, attendance at any convention or other assembly of individuals, or the preparation of any article or other composition for publication, and the monetary value of subsistence, entertainment, travel, and other facilities received by him in kind; (2) the identity of each asset held by him, or by him and his spouse jointly which has a value in excess of $1,000, and the amount of each liability owed by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which is in excess of $1,000 as of the close of the preceding calendar year; (3) any transactions in securities of any business entity by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in transactions in the securities of such business entity exceeds $1,000 during such year; (4) all transactions in commodities by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in such transactions exceeds $1,000; and (5) any purchase or sale, other than the purchase or sale of his personal residence, of real property or any interest therein by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, during the preceding calendar year if the value of property involved in such purchase or sale exceeds $1,000. Provides that such reports are to be filed no later than May 15 of each year. Provides that any person who willfully fails to file a report, or who knowingly and willfully files a false report, shall be fined $2,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years or both. States that the Comptroller General shall maintain such reports as public records.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Authorizes the Public Printer to designate employees of the Government Printing Office to administer oaths. Specifies that such employees may not charge fees for the administration of such oaths.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Directs that in computing the total number of civilian personnel authorized in any fiscal year for the Department of Defense or any military department thereof, there shall be excluded from such computation civilian personnel engaged in industrially funded activities.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Creates a nine-member Commission on the operation of the Senate. Provides that all Commissioners shall be appointed by the President of the Senate upon the joint recommendations of the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate. Provides that the Commission shall make a study of the organization and operation of the United States Senate. Directs that such study shall include: (1) the functioning of Members, officers, and employees of the Senate in the light of the responsibilities of the Senate; (2) conflicts in the programming of business; (3) office accomodations and facilities; (4) information resources; (5) internal management administrative support structures; and (6) ways of improving Senate coordination with the House of Representatives. Authorizes compensation for the Commissoners and appointment of such staff as necessary to carry out the purpose of this resolution. Directs the Commission to submit reports to the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, which shall set forth the results of the study together with its findings and recommendations. Authorizes the expenditure of an amount not to exceed $500,000 to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1975
Authorizes the use of the Naval Petroleum Reserves by any of the Armed Forces. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to explore, develop, operate, and produce petroleum from Naval Petroleum Reserves Numbered 1, 2, and 3, up to an amount specified in this Act. Establishes a naval petroleum and oil shale reserves special fund. Provides that amounts from the fund shall be available for the exploration, development, operation and production of naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a proposal for the development and production of Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 4, including incentives for the participation by private capital in such development. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 7420)
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1975
Directs that rule IV of the Rules for the Regulation of the Senate Wing of the United States Capitol be temporarily suspended to permit a photograph of the Senate in session. Authorizes the Sergeant at Arms to make the necessary arrangements.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Authorizes the construction and maintenance of the General Draza Mihailovich Monument in Washington, District of Columbia, in recognition of the role he played in saving the lives of approximately five hundred United States airmen in Yugoslavia during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Expresses the disapproval of the United States Senate of attempts to expel Israel for the United Nations. States that if Israel is expelled the Senate will review United States commitments to the Third World nations involved in the expulsion and will consider the implication of continued membership in the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1975
Revises Senate Resolution III, 94th Congress as agreed to March 17, 1975, to extend through July 31, 1975, the authority of Senate committees to pay compensation and make expenditures for inquiries and investigations, and for other purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1975
Provides that Senate document entitled "Enactment of Law," relative to the procedural steps in the legislative process, be revised by the Parliamentarian of the Senate and be reprinted as a Senate document. Directs that 10,000 copies of such document be printed for the use of the Committee on Rules and Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Authorizes, under the International Travel Act of 1961, additional appropriations for transition periods in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979, to carry out specified programs funded under such Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Interior for fiscal years 1976-1978 to promote, through the National Park Service, travel within the United States. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote and develop travel within the United States through activities which are in the public interest and which do not complete with activities of any State, city, or private agency.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Airport and Airway Development Act Extension - Continues in effect for an additional 90 days the current authorization for programs under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is 60 years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of a permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949, and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Establishes within the Internal Revenue Service a Division for Taxpayer Assistance to investigate taxpayer complaints and criticisms. Requires the Internal Revenue Service to publish and distribute with every return form furnished to a taxpayer an outline of criteria used to select returns for audit and the procedures relevant to assessments and collections arising out of an audit for a taxpayer's return.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Industrial Energy Conservation Act - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes, and defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to conduct energy efficiency surveys for the purpose of compiling information with respect to: (1) the major energy consuming industrial processes utilized within each industry; (2) the current level of the energy efficiency of such process; (3) the maximum level of energy efficiency achievable by 1980; and (4) the prerequisites to achieving improvements in energy efficiency. Directs the Secretary to establish and publish an Industrial Energy Efficiency Target for industries surveyed. Requires the chief executive officer of each major energy-consuming company, as defined by this Act, to submit to the Secretary an annual energy conservation report. Imposes civil penalties for failure to do so. Directs the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration to establish and maintain a comprehensive program for research, development, and demonstration of energy conserving industrial technologies. Sets forth priorities for determining grant and contract recipients under such program. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans, and to guarantee the payment of loans and other obligations, for the purchase, construction, operation, or maintenance of energy efficient equipment or facilities. Sets forth priorities for determining recipients for such loans and loan guarantees. Authorizes specified appropriations for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibility investigations of potential water resource development at Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada boundary.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate the week beginning on the first Saturday after the first Tuesday in January as "National Ski Week".
United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1975
Provides for the payment of thirty five dollars for each full day of travel and attendance for witnesses summoned to appear before the Senate or any of its committees. Allows the payment of transportation expenses not to exceed thirty five cents a mile for not more than 600 miles and twenty cents a mile if the distance traveled is more than 600 miles.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Provides that the Senate shall vote separately on each issue listed in this resolution with respect to which tie votes were cast by the members of the Committee on Rules and Administration in its consideration of the contested election for a seat in the United States Senate from the State of New Hampshire.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Declares it to be the policy of the Congress to support research in agriculture and forestry at State agricultural experiment stations, land grant colleges, and other forestry research institutions through Federal grants to help finance physical facilities as required for the effective conduct of adequate research programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to eligible institutions for purposes of planning, acquisition, construction, repair, rehabilitation, renovation, and remodeling of buildings, laboratories and other capital facilities (including the acquisition of fixtures and equipment which are to become a part of such buildings) which are necessary to more effectively conduct research in agriculture, forestry, and sciences related thereto. Authorizes to be appropriated for allocation to eligible institutions for purposes of making such grants such sums as the Congress deems advisable. Sets forth procedures for allocating funds among eligible institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the seven calendar days commencing on April 30 of each year as "National Beta Sigma Phi Week".
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Authorizes the printing, as a Senate document, of the prayers offered by the Chaplain of the Senate, the Reverend Edward L. R. Elson, S.T.D., during the Ninety third Congress. Authorizes the printing of 2,000 additional copies of the document for the use of the Senate (1,030) and the Joint Committee on Printing (970).
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Voter Registration Act - Establishes within the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, the Voter Registration Administration. Provides that the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Administrator and two Associate Administrators for terms of four years each. Sets forth the duties and powers of the Administration. Authorizes the Administration to establish and administrater a voter registration program in accordance with this Act for all Federal elections. Provides that an individual who fulfills the requirements to be a qualified voter under State law and who is registered to vote under the provisions of this Act shall be entitled to vote in Federal election in that State, except that each State shall provide for the registration or other means of qualification of all residents not later than 30 days prior to any Federal election. Directs the Administration to prepare voter registration forms. Authorizes the Administration to enter into agreements with the Postal Service, with departments and agencies of the Federal Government, and with State officials for the distribution of registration forms. Requires the Administration to assist State officials in detecting fraudulent voter registration, when such assistance is requested. Provides that the district courts of the United States or the United States District Court of the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction, without regard to any amount in controversy, of proceedings instituted pursuant to this Act. Provides that whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information for the purposes of establishing eligibility to register or vote, or conspires for the purpose of encouraging false registration or illegal voting, or pays, offers, or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting registers to vote with intention of voting more than once in the same election shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. States that any person who deprives, or attempts to deprive any other person of any right under this Act shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Authorizes the Administration to pay to each appropraite State the reasonable cost of processing registration forms prescribed under this Act. Provides that any State that adopts the Federal assistance post card form shall be deemed to be in full compliance with specified provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations of such as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Directs the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the contingent fund of the Senate, from March 1, 1975, through May 31, 1975, the compensation of employees and other expenses of standing, select, and special committees of the Senate, which would have been payable on and after March 1, 1975, if Senate resolutions referred to and under consideration by the Committee on Rules and Administration had been agreed to by that date. Continues through May 31, 1975 all functions, duties, powers, and authority which were conferred on any standing, select or special committee of the Senate by Senate resolutions agreed to during the second session of the ninety-third Congress and which could otherwise expire on February 28, 1975. Limits the provisions of this resolution to the extent that compensation paid for each committee under authority of this resolution during the period March 1, 1975, through May 31, 1975 shall not exceed three-twelfths of the aggregate amount authorized by Senate resolutions for such committee for the twelve-month period ending February 28, 1975. Authorizes the chairmen of such committees to allocate such amounts as they deem appropriate for subcommittees.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
States the findings of Congress that: (1) air express is essential to the present and future needs of the domestic commerce of the United States; and (2) REA express has continuously and ably provided such service for over 40 years; and (3) the continuation of this vital service, and the interests of shippers, have been threatened with disruption. Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to issue a certificate to engage in air transportation as a carrier air express, though not directly engaged in the operation of the aircraft, to an applicant who has continuously operated as such from May 14, 1938, for a period of at least 35 years. Directs that each air carrier directly engaged in the operation of aircraft shall provide necessary and adequate service, equipment, and facilities for the transportation of air express shipments upon request by the holder of such certificate, giving such shipments priority on aircraft after passengers, their accompanied baggage and airmail, on the basis of charges which shall not be unjustly discriminatory, unduly prejudicial, or disadvantageous.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, during intervals between decennial censuses of population, to produce and publish for each State, county, and local unit of government with a population of 50,000 or more current data on total population. Authorizes the Secretary to make surveys on subjects (other than population) covered by the censuses provided for in this title. Requires that data most recently produced and published shall be used in the administration of any law of the United States in which population is used to determine the amount of benefit received by State and local units of general purpose government. Directs the Secretary and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to jointly initiate the development of uniform methods and procedures in producing statistical information used in effecting the delivery of Federal benefits to State and local governments and report progress toward the development of such procedures not later than one year after enactment of this Act. Specifies that this Act does not limit the present authority of the Office of Management and Budget to develop statistical standards. (Amends 13 U.S.C. 181; Adds 13 U.S.C. 182, 183, 184)
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Price Disclosure Act - Provides that no person engaged in business in the sale at retail of any packaged consumer commodity which has been distributed in commerce, shall sell, offer for sale, or display for sale any such commodity unless: (1) the total selling price of such commodity is plainly marked by a stamp, tag, or label affixed to a principal display panel of the package; and (2) the retail unit price of such commodity is plainly marked by a stamp, tag, or label affixed to a principal display panel of the package, or a label or sign in close proximity to the point of display of such package, which label or sign shall also contain the name and quantity of contents of such commodity. Exempts from these requirements any individual retail outlet which sells or offers for sale packaged consumer commodities and whose total gross sales do not exceed $250,000 per annum, unless such an outlet is one of a number of outlets owned substantially or whose inventory is supplied substantially, by a single person, partnership, or corporation whose total gross sales exceeds $500,000 per annum; or any retail outlet in any State which has enacted mandatory unit pricing law and whose law, in the judgment of the Federal Trade Commission, is in full effect and is comparable in scope and comprehensiveness to the requirements of this Act, except that retailers (including chainstores and affiliated stores) who operate outlets in any such State shall be subject to the provisions of this Act if they also operate outlets in one or more other States. Redefines the term "consumer commodity" and defines the term "retail unit price" for purposes of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. Abolishes the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to promulgate regulations under such Act, and transfers that authority to the Federal Trade Commission. Directs the Commission to request, and the Secretary of Commerce to initiate, a voluntary product standard for consumer commodities under the procedures for the development of voluntary products standards established by the Secretary pursuant to specified provisions of law whenever the Commission determines that there is undue proliferation of the weights, measures, or quantities in which any consumer commodity or reasonably comparable consumer commodities are being distributed in packages for sale at retail and such undue proliferation impairs the reasonable ability of consumers to make value comparisons with respect to such consumer commodity or commodities. Requires that regulations with respect to fair packaging and labeling standards be promulgated by the Commission in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Administrative Procedures Act. Directs the Commission to give interested persons an opportunity for oral presentations of views, data, and arguments. Authorizes travel and per diem reimbursement for persons being trained by the Commission to carry out the provisions of the Act. Declares that any violation of any of the provisions of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act or the regulations issued pursuant to such Act, with respect to any consumer commodity delivered for introduction in commerce, or sold at retail, offered for sale at retail, or displaced for sale at retail, shall constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting commerce and shall be subject to penalties under specified provisions of law.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
States that the following Members are elected to the following committees of Congress: (1) Joint Committee on Printing - Mr. Hatfield of Oregon; (2) Joint Committee of Congress on the Library - Mr. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Older Americans Community Service Employment Amendments - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish an older American community service program in order to promote useful part-time work opportunities in community service activities for unemployed low-income persons 55 years old or older who have poor employment prospects. Makes provisions for allotment of funds to State, local and private organizations to further the purposes of the program. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating October 5-11, 1975, as "Newspaper Week" and designating October 11, 1975, as "Newspaper Carrier Day".
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in collaboration with the Secretary of State, to report to the Congress on action which can be taken to promote international compliance with conservation measures established by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. Specifies that such consideration should include a determination of whether the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 should be invoked. Provides for an examination of United States trade agreements with Ecuador in view of that nation's claim in the high seas not recognized by the United States.
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