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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
Robert A. Taft Institute of Government Trust Fund Act - Establishes in the United States Treasury the Robert A. Taft Institute Trust Fund. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to make grants from such fund to develop the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government, New York, New York. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to invest portions of the Fund not required to meet current withdrawals. Appropriates $15,000,000 to the Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1978
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to modify the design of the Hart Senate Office Building to provide for: (1) more office space; (2) a hearing room; and (3) a rooftop restaurant for use by the general public. Authorizes the elimination of certain items in the design of the building which are not cost effective or necessary.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, retroactively to August 15, 1971, the investment tax credit for the construction of agricultural structures used for single purpose food and plant production.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments made to landowners under: (1) the water bank program of the Water Bank Act; (2) the emergency conservation measures program of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978; (3) the Great Plains conservation program of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Policy Act; (4) the agricultural Conservation program of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act; (5) the resource conservation and development program of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act and the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act; (6) the rural clean water program of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (7) the forestry incentives program of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978; (8) the rural abandoned mine program of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977; and (9) any similar State program established for the purposes of conserving soil and water resources and protecting the environment.
United States · United States Congress · 8 August 1978
Agricultural Foreign Investment Information Act - Requires a report to the Secretary of Agriculture containing legal name, address, citizenship, type of interest, legal description of the land involved, and other specified information, from any foreign person (including individuals, organizations, governments, or any combination thereof) who holds, acquires, transfers, or accepts transference of any interest, other than a security interest, in agricultural land. Directs the Secretary: (1) to develop and distribute a standard report form to facilitate automated data processing, analysis, and reporting of the information gathered; (2) to analyze such information to determine the trends and the actual and potential effects that the acquisition, transferring, and holding of agricultural lands in the United States by foreign persons have on the agricultural industry, the national economy, and the foreign relations of the United States; and (3) to report his findings and conclusions to the President and to the appropriate committees of Congress. Requires the Office of Inspector General to conduct periodic studies to determine the reliability of information gathered pursuant to this Act. Establishes a civil penalty for violation of any provision of this Act in an amount not to exceed 25 percent of the fair market value of the land interest involved on the date of the penalty assessment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1978
Agricultural Foreign Investment Information Act - Requires a report to the Secretary of Agriculture, containing legal name, address, citizenship, type of interest, legal description of the land involved, and other specified information, from any foreign person (including individuals, organizations, governments, or any combination thereof) who holds, acquires, transfers, or accepts transference of any interest, other than a security interest, in agricultural land. Directs the Secretary: (1) to develop and distribute a standard report form to facilitate automated data processing, analysis, and reporting of the information gathered; (2) to analyze such information to determine the trends and the actual and potential effects that the acquisition, transferring, and holding of agricultural lands in the United States by foreign persons have on the agricultural industry, the national economy, and the foreign relations of the United States; and (3) to report his findings and conclusions to the President and to the appropriate committees of Congress. Directs the Secretary to require the Office of Inspector General to conduct periodic studies to determine the reliability of information gathered pursuant to this Act. Establishes a civil penalty for violation of any provision of this Act in an amount not to exceed 25 percent of the fair market value of the land interest involved on the date of the penalty assessment.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1978
Directs the Civil Aeronautics Board to immediately dissolve the Airlines Mutual Aid Pact. Directs the Board to study the collective bargaining process within the airline industry and to make recommendations to Congress within six months on methods of alleviating the occurrence of protracted airline strikes.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1978
Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to require the export, for sale, donation, or barter, of a minimum aggregate quantity of 7,000,000 metric tons of United States farm commodities each fiscal year from 1979 through 1982, unless: (1) the Secretary of Agriculture determines that export supplies are not available; or (2) the food needs of developing countries, as gaged by specified factors, do not merit such quantity. Requires the President to report to the appropriate committees of Congress the specific reasons for any shortfall should less than the minimum quantities required by this Act be exported.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Rural Development Coordination Act - Title I Directs the Secrerary of Agriculture to establish and maintain a rural development policy management process involving local and State governments and all executive branch departments and agencies and major private sector institutions having policies and programs affecting the quality of life in rural (nonmetropolitan) areas. States that the elements of such process shall include: (1) information development and assessment to determine rural and nonmetropolitan conditions, problems, needs, and opportunities at the national, multistate, State and substate levels, and the impact of governmental policies and program actions thereupon; (2) the formulation of broad, long-range rural development goals; (3) the establishment of short-range rural development strategies and program objectives; and (4) periodic progress reports. Amends the Rural Development Act of 1972 to require, in place of the annual reports currently mandated: (1) an appraisal every five years of rural conditions, needs, problems, and opportunities; and (2) a biennial report on progress toward attaining national rural development goals. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, not to exceed $50,000,000 annually, to State government and State government- designated area planning bodies to assist in establishing and maintaining the rural development policy management process. Title II: General Provisions - States the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Rural Development Consolidation Act - Title I: Transfer of Functions - Transfers to the Department of Agriculture the functions of the Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce and the non-metropolitan portion of the community block grant program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to preserve the community block grant program as a separate and distinct organizational entity, into which the economic development program may be incorporated. Title II: General Provisions - "States that the provisions of this Act shall take effect upon enactment."
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, retroactively to August 15, 1971, the investment tax credit for the construction of agricultural structures used for single purpose food production.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Declares it the sense of the Senate that specified steps should be taken to insure that more efficient use is made of the existing stock of railroad freight cars and power equipment and to encourage the acquisition of new cars and equipment in order to meet the needs of American agriculture.
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 · 9 June 1978
Disapproves the suspension of the quota on imported meat and the President's announced intention of permitting the import this year of 200,000,000 pounds of meat in excess of the established limit before imposing new quotas.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income, statutory subsistence allowances received by State police officers between 1969 and 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Designates the weekend of or preceding April 29 of each year as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust."
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that, in conformity with the Helsinki Final Act, the Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and basic standards of justice, the unjustly imprisoned members and affiliates of the Soviet Helsinki Group should be granted their freedom and allowed to pursue their lawful activities in behalf of basic human rights. Urges the President, the Secretary of State, and other appropriate executive branch officials to continue to express at every suitable opportunity and in the strongest terms the opposition of the United States to the imprisonment of the Helsinki Group members.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Extends to 14 years the deadline for ratification of the equal rights amendment.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Commends Lee Williams for his long, faithful, and exemplary service to the United States Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transport, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Older Americans Act Amendments - Title I: Amendments to the Older Americans Act of 1965 - Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for the National Information and Resource Clearing House for the Aging. Authorizes a recipient of a grant under the Older Americans Act of 1965 to enter into an agreement with a profitmaking organization to carry out the provisions of such Act. Declares it to be the purpose of Title III of such Act (Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging) to encourage and assist State and local agencies to concentrate resources to serve older persons by entering into new cooperative arrangements with providers of social or nutrition services, multipurpose senior centers, or legal services, for the planning and provision of social services, nutrition services, multipurpose senior centers, or legal services. Defines terms used in such Title. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1979, 1980, and 1981 for grants approved under such Title. Requires each State, to be eligible to receive a grant under such Title, to designate a State agency as the sole State agency: (1) to develop and administer a State plan formulated pursuant to this Act; and (2) to divide the State into areas and to designate as a planning and service area any unit of general purpose local government which has a population of 50,000 or more individuals aged 60 or over which contains 15 percent or more of the State population aged 60 or over. Requires each such area agency on aging to prepare and develop an area plan. Sets forth specified material to be included in such plan. Requires each State, in order to be eligible for grants under such Title, to submit to the Commissioner on Aging a State plan. Sets forth specified material to be included in such plan. Requires the Commissioner to make grants to States for any of the following social services: (1) health, continuing education, welfare, informational, recreational, homemaker, counseling, or referral services; (2) transportation services to facilitate access to social services or nutrition services, or both; (3) services to assist older persons to use the services available to them; (4) services to assist older persons to obtain adequate housing; including residential repair and renovation projects; (5) services designed to assist older persons in avoiding institutionalization, including preinstitution evaluation and screening and home health services, homemaker services, shopping services, escort services, reader services, letter writing services, and other services to assist independent living in a home environment; (6) services to provide legal and counseling assistance; (7) services to enable older persons to attain and maintain physical and mental well-being through programs of regular physical activity; or (8) any other services meeting standards prescribed by the Commissioner and necessary for the general welfare of older persons. Requires the Commissioner to make grants to States for: (1) the establishment and operation of nutrition projects for older persons which, five or more days a week, provides, in a congregate setting, at least one meal per day each of which assures a minimum of one- third of the daily recommended dietary allowances; (2) the establishment and operation of multipurpose senior centers for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of social services or nutrition services, or both, for older persons; (3) the provision of legal services for the elderly; and (4) the conduct of projects under which a State long-term care ombudsman receives and investigates complaints made by or on behalf of older persons who are residents of long-term care facilities relating to administrative action which may adversely affect the health, safety, welfare, or rights of such residents. Declares that, under the Act, a national manpower policy shall be developed for the field of aging which will reflect the present and future needs for training personnel in all programs serving the elderly. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants for the purpose of conducting studies on: (1) the utilization of services under this Act and other programs for the elderly, with special attention to accessibility to low-income and minority elderly; (2) the problems of State and area agencies on aging and other service providers in operating transportation services, (3) the impact of this Act and other programs in meeting the long-range needs of the elderly population; and (4) the differences in unit costs, service delivery and access between rural areas and urban areas for services assisted under this Act and the special needs of the elderly residing in rural areas. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to develop and operate statewide, regional, metropolitan area, county, city, or community model projects which will demonstrate methods to expand or improve social services and promote the well-being of older persons. Requires the Commissioner in making such grants to give special consideration to projects designed: (1) to assist in meeting the housing needs of older persons; (2) to provide continuing education to older persons; (3) to provide preretirement education information; (4) to provide services to assist in meeting the particular needs of physically and mentally impaired older persons; (5) to meet the special needs of, and improve the delivery of services to older persons who are not receiving adequate services under other provisions of this Act; and (6) to assist older persons to remain within their communities and out of institutions. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to and enter into contracts with appropriate bodies to support programs of legal services and ombudsman programs established under provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to support the development of comprehensive, coordinated systems of community long-term care for older persons. Requires such grants to be used for the development of programs which provide a full continuum of services supporting alternatives to institutional living, including: (1) adult day health; (2) individual assessment of need, service plan development, monitoring, and evaluation of service effectiveness; (3) supported living in public and private, nonprofit housing; (4) family respite services; (5) preventative health services; (6) home health, homemaker, and other rehabilitative and maintenance in-home services; (7) geriatric health maintenance organizations; and (8) other services which the Commissioner determines are appropriate. Redesignates Title IV (Training and Research) of the Act "Training, Research, and Demonstration. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for multidisciplinary centers of gerontology. Redesignates Title V of the Act "Grants for Indian Tribes. Authorizes the Commissioner, under the Act, to make grants to eligible tribal organizations, as defined in this Act, to pay all of the costs for the delivery of social and nutritional services for Indians who are older persons. Sets forth criteria for applications for such grants. Authorizes the Commissioner to delegate to the Secretary of the Interior or to the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs any functions under this title. Redesignates Title VI of the Act "Community Service Employment for Older Americans." States that such Title may be cited as the Older American Community Service Employment Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to estabLish an older American community service employment program to promote part-time opportunities in community service activities for unemployed, low-income persons 55 years old who have poor employment prospects. States that eligible individuals employed in such projects shall not be considered to be Federal employees. Provides that in awarding grants or contracts for such projects the Secretary shall give special consideration to national organizations which have a proven ability to provide older persons with employment. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Title. Title II: White House Conference on Aging - States that this Title may be cited as the 1981 White House Conference on Aging Act. Declares it the policy of the Congress that the Federal Government should work with the States and citizens to develop recommendations and plans to meet the needs of older persons. Requires that programs developed under this Act place emphasis upon the right of older persons to free choice and self-help in planning their futures. Authorizes the President of the United States to call a White House Conference on Aging in 1981 to develop recommendations for research and action in the field of aging. Requires the Conference to include representatives of Federal, State, and local governments, professional and lay people working in the field of aging including older persons. Directs that a final report of the White House Conference, containing a comprehensive statement of a coherent national policy on aging and the recommendations of such Conference, be submitted to the President and Congress within a specified time. Sets forth the responsibilities and duties of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in administering this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to the Conference and such other technical committees as may be necessary to carry out such Conference. Title III: Study of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Programs for Older Americans - Directs the Commission on Civil Rights: (1) to undertake a comprehensive study of discrimination based on race or ethnic background in any federally assisted programs and activities which affect older persons; and (2) to identify any federally assisted activity in which persons or organizations who are otherwise qualified being, on the basis of race or ethnic background, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, refused employment or contracts with, or subject to discrimination under, such activity.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Lobbying Reform Act - Requires annual registration of any organization which expends at least $1,250 per calendar quarter for lobbying purposes, employs any person as a lobbyist for 24 hours or more per quarterly filing period, or two or more such persons for at least 12 hours each per such period, or which expends in excess of $5,000 per quarter to engage any other person as a lobbyist. Requires such organizations to file quarterly lobbying reports disclosing the identity of paid lobbyists, amounts paid to such lobbyists, and the issues such lobbyists sought to influence during the quarter. Requires the annual registration of organizations acting through their own paid officers or employees engaging in 15 or more oral lobbying communications in any quarterly filing period. Permits the filing of abbreviated quarterly filing reports for organizations required to file solely because of the number of oral lobbying communications made by their own personnel. Requires organizations which have submitted any bid or proposal for any Government contract valued at $10,000,000 or more to file annual reports until such contract or grant is awarded disclosing any attempts such organization has made to influence such award. Specifies the required contents of such reports including: (1) identity of any employee seeking to influence such award who, during the past five years, was a Federal employee of the agency responsible for the award who was paid in excess of the highest rate specified for pay grades GS-11, O-4, or W-2, as the case may be; (2) specified gifts made to Federal officers or employees in excess of $35; and (3) an itemized listing of each expenditure for any reception, dinner, or similar event where the total cost of such event exceeds $500. Specifies recordkeeping and report preparation requirements for any organization required to file under this Act. Requires the Comptroller General, with whom such registrations and reports must be filed, to investigate possible violations of this Act and to establish cross-indexing systems to reveal the identity of individuals employed as lobbyists by more than one organization, and to establish similar cross-indexing systems with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice to identify persons mentioned in reports filed under this Act and the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 or the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Directs the Comptroller General to make available to the public copies of reports filed under this Act and summaries of data in such reports. Forbids the use of information secured under this Act for commercial purposes. Imposes upon the Comptroller General the duty to render advisory opinions with respect to the requirements of this Act upon which seekers of such opinions may justifiably rely. Directs the Comptroller General to refer to the Attorney General any actions or omissions which it is believed constitute violations of this Act. Authorizes the Attorney General to institute civil actions where appropriate and requires the prosecution of criminal actions where appropriate. Imposes civil and criminal sanctions for the violation of this Act. Repeals the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Agricultural Export Expansion Act - Title I: Establishment of United States Agricultural Trade Offices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish abroad not less than six nor more than 25 United States Agricultural Trade Offices, for the purpose of developing, maintaining, and expanding international markets for United States agricultural commodities. Title II: Intermediate Commercial Credit - Amends the Food for Peace Act to permit the Corporation to finance, under its export credit sales program, export sales of agricultural commodities, commodity facilities, and export sales of agricultural commodities for reserve use. Title III: Reorganization - Establishes in the Department of Agriculture an Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs to perform duties related to foreign agriculture and agricultural stabilization and conservation. Title IV: Agricultural Counselors - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1954 to change the title of Agricultural Attaches to Agricultural Counselors, and to require each Counselor to submit to the Secretary annual report detailing the social, political and economic factors affecting agriculture and agricultural trade in the country or area to which such Counselor is assigned. Title V: General Provisions - Requires the Secretary to transmit to Congress annual reports on the activities and accomplishments of the Department, especially those of the United States Agricultural Trade Offices, in developing, maintaining, and expanding foreign markets for United States agricultural commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Eliminates the requirement that States have a program of matching the Federal amounts of veterans' accelerated educational assistance payments in order for a veteran to be eligible for such accelerated payments. Increases the rate at which such accelerated assistance payments may be paid per school term.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Agricultural Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to set the established price for the 1978 crop of upland cotton at 60 cents per pound. Increases the minimum loan levels for the 1978 crop of corn from $2.00 per bushel to $2.20 per bushel. Increases the 1978 established price per bushel of corn from $2.10 to $2.30. Increases the minimum loan levels for the 1978 crop of wheat from $2.35 per bushel to $2.50. Increases the 1978 established price per bushel of wheat from $3.05 to $3.40.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Venereal Disease Amendments - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for projects and programs for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish and maintain a corps of not less than 850 noncommissioned officers and employees of the United States to advise and otherwise engage in the conduct of programs and projects for the prevention and control of venereal disease.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Declares that certain proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury regarding centralized firearms sales recordkeeping and other firearms control measures exceed the Department's authority, and directs that the regulations be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Establishes the Institute for Human Rights and Freedom as a United States corporation to furnish technical and financial assistance to nongovernmental organizations that promote human rights in foreign countries, including support for victim support. Requires the Secretary of State to inform the Institute of United States foreign policy related to the Institute. Requires the Institute to consider the foreign policy of the United States in making aid determinations, but declares such determinations shall not be subject to the direction of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Beef Import Act - Subjects specified kinds of preserved beef and veal products to the policy of Congress related to the restriction of beef imports. Revises the formula for the determination of beef and veal import quotas. Directs the President to limit beef imports at any one port of entry in order to insure the geographical distribution of such imports. Revises the criteria under which the President may suspend a proclamation limiting beef and veal imports to permit such suspension only during a national emergency or when the supply of such products are inadequate to meet domestic supply at reasonable prices.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1978
Lee Metcalf Fair Employment Relations Resolution - Title I: Fair Employment Relations Board - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Board to (1) establish and publish policies and guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of rule L of the Standing Rules of the Senate, (2) supervise the actions of the Director and the operations of the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office, and (3) hear and determine complaints. Title II: Senate Fair Employment Relations Office - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office which shall develop procedures to implement the policies of the Board, gather information relating to Senate employment practices, and review procedures for the hearing and settling of complaints. Title III: Complaints of Violations of Equal Employment Opportunity - Provides for counseling and assistance through the office, to any individual who believes that he or she has been discriminated against in violation of rule L. Sets forth the procedure for filing informal complaints based on employment discrimination, and for the informal settlement of such claims. Sets forth the procedure for filing formal complaints, and for conducting hearings on such claims. Provides for an appeal to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics from an adverse decision or order of the Board. Sets forth remedies available to individuals who have been discriminated against in violation of rule L.
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1978
Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit any Commissioner or grade GS-15 or higher employee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from representing any person before the Commission for a period of one year beginning on the last day of service as such Commissioner or employee.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1978
Refugee and Displaced Persons Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 to define refugee or displaced person for purposes of such Act. Authorizes the admission of up to 40,000 refugees or displaced persons per year as immigrants. Empowers the Secretary of State to recommend to the Attorney General that all or any portion of a group of refugees or displaced persons be admitted into the United States conditionally in certain circumstances. Authorizes the Attorney General to allow parole admission of aliens for humanitarian reasons. Increases from 20 per cent to 26 per cent of the number of additional visas that shall be allocated to spouses, and unmarried sons or daughters of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1978
Rural Health Services Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act: (1) to define environmental health services provided by community health centers as the identification and detection of unhealthful conditions associated with water supply, sewage treatment, solid waste disposal, rodent and parasitic infestation, field sanitation, and other environmental factors related to health; and (2) to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to carry out developmental and demonstration projects for providing health care to rural medically underserved populations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1978
Federal Buildings Artistic Enhancement Act - Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to direct the Administrator of General Services to acquire works of art by living American artists and to circulate such works among public buildings throughout the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Amends the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968 to establish a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in Social and Political Thought at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution. Establishes the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Trust Fund in the Treasury.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to study the feasibility of using solar energy for heating the hot water in the Phillip A. Hart Office Building now under construction. Directs the Architect to make cost comparisons between solar and conventional energy systems over specified periods of time and report such findings to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Federal Disclosure and Accountability Act - Prohibits any Federal employee from coercing any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right of such individual to disclose any illegal or otherwise improper Government Action to the Review Board on Improper Government Actions established by this Act, and from taking any adverse personnel action against such individual who is a Federal employee in retaliation for such disclosure. Requires the Board to investigate any such disclosure and, in the event further investigation or action is warranted, to notify the person, the head of the agency in which such person is employed, and, if appropriate, the Attorney General and/or the Comptroller General.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Emergency Agricultural Act - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949, with respect to 1978 crops only, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Commodity Credit Corporation, to make payments to cotton, feed grains, soybean, and wheat producers for setting aside acreage to approved conservation uses in addition to required set-asides. Requires a minimum acreage set-aside, under this program, of: (1) 15 million acres for wheat; (2) 10 million acres for feed grains; and (3) 3 million acres each for cotton and soybeans. Authorizes additional payments for set-aside acreage opened to the general public for hunting, trapping, fishing, and hiking. Requires the Secretary to make up to 50 percent of any such payment immediately, in advance of determination of performance. Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase the Corporation's borrowing authority from $14,500,000,000 to $25,000,000,000. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make private domestic corporations and partnerships controlled by farmers and ranchers, and engaged primarily in farming or ranching, eligible for real estate and operating loans. Increases the maximum allowable total principal indebtedness for real estate loans which may be outstanding by any one borrower to $200,000, or $300,000 in the case of a guaranteed loan. Increases the amount of indebtedness which may be outstanding for operating loans for an individual from $50,000 to $100,000, or in the case of a guaranteed loan, $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1978
Small Business Reduction and Stimulation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide graduated income tax rates for corporations with a maximum rate of 46 percent on income in excess of $150,000 and a minimum rate of 15 percent on income not in excess of $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
Civil Service Reform Act - Title I: Merit System Principles - Enumerates the principles of the merit system in the Federal work force. Prohibits the taking of personnel actions to discriminate against a Federal employee on such bases as race, religion, sex, age, or handicapping condition. Prohibits, generally, taking or influencing personnel actions for political or other nonmerit reasons. Title II: Civil Service Functions; Performance Appraisal; Adverse Actions - Abolishes the Civil Service Commission. Establishes within the Executive Branch the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to which the President is authorized to delegate authority for personnel management functions, and which, in turn, is authorized to delegate such authority to the heads of Federal agencies. Establishes the Merit Systems Protection Board made up of members appointed to seven-year terms who may be removed only for cause (as contrasted with the present Civil Service Commissioners who serve at the will of the President). Grants to the Board the power to subpena witnesses and evidence. Authorizes the Special Counsel of the Board to investigate complaints concerning personnel practices which violate this Act. Authorizes the Board to discipline violators by requiring removal, demotion, suspension, a fine up to $1,000, or by issuing a reprimand or barring the violator from Federal employment for up to five years. Authorizes the Special Counsel to investigate incidents of reprisal against employees who have lawfully disclosed agency violations of laws. Establishes new procedures for the appraisal of the performance of employees covered by this Act. Entitles any employee to 30 days' notice, a hearing attended by counsel, and a written decision if he is to be removed, or have his grade reduced, or pay a specified amount. Permits specified adverse personnel actions to be appealed to the Board. Requires appeals from Board decisions to be taken to the Court of Claims or a United States court of appeals. Requires such courts to sustain the Board's decision if supported by substantial evidence. Title III: Staffing - Authorizes agencies to accept voluntary uncompensated service by a student who does not displace a Federal employee. Authorizes agencies to make noncompetitive appointments of any disabled veteran with a 50 percent or more disability or who is enrolled in or has completed a course of job related training prescribed by the Veterans' Administration. Limits the veterans' preference for employment to a maximum of ten years following military separation for nonretirees and to a maximum of three years for persons who retired from the military below the rank of major or lieutenant commander. Provides for no such preference for persons retiring at or above such rank. Changes the nature of the preference in connection with a Federal reduction-in-force. Authorizes specified employees to retire before they are affected by a major reorganization. Authorizes agencies to retrain for positions in other agencies those employees whose positions are eliminated by a reduction-in-force. Title IV: Senior Executive Service - Establishes a Senior Executive Service which includes government managers classified above GS-15 and below Executive Level III who are not Presidential appointees and Foreign Service Officers of equivalent rank, provided such managers supervise employees or are responsible for the success of programs. Permits the transfer of a career Senior Executive to any Government agency. Directs the Office of Personnel Management to encourage Senior Executives to improve their skills by serving in a variety of agencies and by accepting placements in State or local governments or in the private sector. Authorizes agencies to grant such persons a sabbatical period of up to 11 months to be taken not more than once in any ten-year period to study or engage in uncompensated work experience. Provides for the periodic appraisal of Senior Executives. Authorizes the removal of career Executives for any reason during the first year of appointment as a Senior Executive and for less than fully successful managerial performance or misconduct anytime thereafter. Grants persons removed for reasons other than misconduct to be appointed to a Federal position outside the Service. Requires a Senior Executive to serve at the pleasure of the appointing agency and states that removal from the Senior Executive Service for less than fully successful performance does not constitute a disciplinary action and is, therefore, not appealable. Authorizes the Office of Personnel Management to name no more than 15 percent of active duty members of the Service to the rank of Meritorious Executive and not more than one percent of such persons to the rank of Distinguished Executive. Entitles persons receiving the Meritorious rank to a five-year stipend of $2,500 per year and persons receiving the Distinguished rank to a five-year stipend of $5,000 per year in addition to their normal salary. Authorizes the appointing agency to establish the pay rate for each member of the Service in such agency at a rate not to exceed a specified maximum. Authorizes each agency to pay a lump-sum performance award to not more than half of all Senior Executives employed by such agency of an amount not exceeding 20 percent of such Executive's annual salary. Entitles persons serving presently in positions to be designated as Senior Executive Service positions when this Act becomes effective to choose to convert to a Senior Executive Service appointment or remain in such position under the current pay system. Title V: Merit Pay - Requires the OPM to establish a merit pay system applicable to all managerial or supervisory persons related at grades GS-13 through GS-15. Limits the pay for such grades to the minimum and maximum rates for each such grade. Requires the OPM to determine the extent to which the annual pay adjustments for other civil service employees shall be permitted for employees in the merit pay system. Makes sums attributable to the difference between such allotted adjustments and the increases in pay which would have been allowed had such employees been entitled to the entire adjustment permitted other civil servants to be made available to the agencies for merit pay raises. States that the award of such merit pay raises may be made on the basis of individual as well as organizational performance. Authorizes agency heads and the President to make cash awards to such employees of up to $25,000 for contributions to the efficiency of Government Operations. Title VI: Research, Demonstration, and Other Programs - Requires the OPM to establish and maintain research and development projects concerning Federal personnel management. Authorizes the OPM to conduct and evaluate demonstration projects relating to personnel management issues such as recruitment, promotion, and employee discipline pursuant to a plan which is agreeable to the agency involved in such project. Requires such plan to be published in the Federal Register and submitted to a public hearing. Limits the size of such demonstration project to the involvement of not more than 5,000 employees. Limits the life of such a project to not more than five years. Title VII: Miscellaneous - Makes technical and conforming amendments. States that the powers of the President not expressly limited by this Act shall remain unaffected by the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
National Art Bank Act - Establishes, within the National Endowment for the Arts, an Art Bank to be headed by a Director. Authorizes the Director to purchase visual works of art for the Art Bank, to make such works available on loan to certain private and governmental entities for public display, to sponser exhibitions, and to assist State and local governments and nonprofit institutions in establishing Art Banks, of funds which may be expended for the work of any one artist during any one fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1978
WIC Amendments - Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide the funds necessary to enable all States to operate or expand programs that provide supplemental nutrition and nutrition education to pregnant and breastfeeding women, infants, and children (WIC programs). Requires each State to publicize the availability of WIC program benefits, using bilingual material in areas where a substantial number of low-income households speak a language other than English. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for WIC programs through fiscal year 1982. States that 20 percent of the funds appropriated for WIC programs shall be made available for State and local agency operational costs. Requires each State to submit annual plans describing how WIC program funds will be used. Requires States to hold public hearings on such plans. Increases the membership of the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition from 15 to 20 members. Adds representatives from specified groups, among them, Indian WIC programs and migrant WIC programs. Directs the Secretary to require all States receiving funds under this Act to insure continuous availability of program benefits to eligible migrant agricultural workers as they move from State to State. Requires the Secretary to issue regulations to prevent the dual receipt of benefits under the WIC program and the commodity supplemental food program.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Beef Import and Labeling Act - Title I: Import Quotas and Customs Duties - Revises the quotas on the importation of beef. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to determine the domestic production quantity of beef each quarter in order that the import quota may be determined. Directs the Secretary to establish a system for the equitable distribution of such quota among importers. Repeals current beef import quotas, and the authority of the President to suspend or increase such quota. Title II: Meat Import Labeling - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that any imported meat or meat food product made in whole or in part of imported meat be labeled "imported", "imported in part", or with the name of the country of origin. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to assess exporters of meat to the United States for the cost of such labeling.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1978
Genetic Disease Amendments - Title I: Revision and Extension of Genetic Diseases - Amends the National Sickle Cell Anemia, Cooley's Anemia, Tay-Sachs, and Genetic Diseases Act to include genetic conditions, as well as genetic diseases, within the program of research, counseling, and education established by such Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for such program for three fiscal years, through 1981. Title II: National Commission Amendment - Directs the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research to conduct a study of the ethical, social, and legal implications of voluntary testing, counseling, and information and education programs with respect to genetic diseases and conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1978
National Home Delivered Meals Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to establish a nutrition project for the elderly which, five or more days per week, provides at least one home-delivered hot meal which assures a minimum of one-third the daily recommended dietary allowances. Requires the State agencies administering the grant programs under which such nutrition projects are established to give preference in designating projects and awarding contracts or subcontracts, to the extent feasible, to existing meals-on-wheels projects. Directs the Commissioner on Aging to conduct a study of the effectiveness of the national home-delivered meals program. Directs the Commissioner to conduct a demonstration project involving at least three States to determine the feasibility of using shelf-stable and/or frozen meal systems for the elderly as a component or as a substitute in emergencies for regular nutrition projects assisted under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Amends the Community Mental Health Centers Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a grant program with State and local government agencies and nonprofit organizations to provide assistance and related services to victims of rape.
United States · United States Congress · 22 February 1978
Amends the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to extend the grant and appropriation authorization provisions with respect to nutrition education and information programs to fiscal year 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Authorizes the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to acquire the Museum of African Art. Establishes within the Smithsonian Institution a bureau to be known as the Museum of African Art. Sets forth the functions of such bureau. Establishes a Commission for the Museum of African Art to assist the Board in the operation and development of the Museum. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.