United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Requires that information concerning accords reached at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe be supplied to the Congress. Directs that any such agreement be submitted to Congress for approval. States that accords reached at the Conference shall not be binding on the United States until a satisfactory agreement is reached at the Conference on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions in Europe.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1975
States that the Congress finds that sections 86.37 (c) and 86.41 of the regulations of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare relating to non-discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities receiving Federal fianancial assistance exceed the authority conferred by title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Disapproves such sections of such regulations in that they seek to regulate athletic programs and activities which receive no Federal financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1975
Broadcast License Renewal Act - Requires the Federal Communications Commission to establish procedures to be followed by licensees of broadcasting stations for ascertaining the problems, needs, and interests of the residents of their respective service areas for purposes of their broadcasting operations. States that a license granted for the operation of any class of station shall be for not more than five years. Permits such licenses to be renewed if the Commission finds that the public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served thereby. States that in making such a determination, the Commission shall consider whether the licensee followed applicable procedures for the ascertainment of the problems, needs, and interests of the residents of its service area for purposes of its broadcast operations. Authorizes the Commission to prescribe the period or periods for which licenses should be granted and renewed for particular classes of stations. States that appeals from any order or decision of the Commission should be brought in the U.S. court of appeals for the circuit in which such broadcast facility is located. Directs the Commission to review its rules and regulations to determine which ones no longer serve the public interest. Requires the Commission to report to specified committees of the Congress and to include any recommendations for legislation resulting from its review.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Secuirty Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1975
National Food Stamp Reform Act - Defines the term "income" as used in the Food Stamp Act as the monthly gross income of all members of a household, including any in-kind payment, and the total value of any publicly funded assistance payments which supplement food and housing needs. Excludes specified individuals from the definition of "household. Provides for the distribution of federally donated foods to households upon the request by a political subdivision that such distribution be made to all eligible households in lieu of food stamps. Excludes households from eligibility for food stamps: (1) if the monthly household income exceeds the poverty index level of income established by the Office of Management and Budget; or (2) if the market value of liquid and nonliquid resources of a household consisting of one individual exceeds $1,500 or the resources of a multiple-member household exceed $2,250 exclusive of specified resources. Excludes from eligibility households which include an able-bodied adult between the ages of 18 and 65 who is enrolled in an institution of postsecondary education and such enrollment is a substitute for fulltime employment. Declares that a refusal to work at a plant or site because of a strike or other labor dispute shall be deemed a refusal to work which makes the household of the nonworking individual ineligible for food stamps. Rejects as an excuse for refusal to accept work a condition of employment which requires an individual to join, resign from, or refrain from joining any labor organization. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to require each household receiving benefits under this Act to report its income at least once each month. Requires food coupons to be designed with a space for the recipient to sign upon receipt and again at redemption. Requires one member of each eligible household to be issued a photo-identification card with color photograph. States that such card must be presented at redemption at a food store. Sets forth specific instructions to provide control and accountability over the distribution of food coupons to State agencies. Ties the value of the coupon allotment to the overall retail cost-of-living index. States that the "nutritionally adequate diet" as used to determine the amount of the coupon allotment shall mean the low-cost food plan developed by the Agricultural Research Service of the Department of Agriculture. Establishes as the charge a household shall pay for its coupon allotment the lesser of: (1) the percentage of its income which would be expended for food by an average household of its size and income range in the same region of the country; or (2) 30 percent. Provides, under the requirements for State plans for the administration of the food stamp program, for closer State supervision of eligibility by households. Requires the State agencies administering the program to conduct nutrition education programs for recipients. States that the United States Postal Service shall serve as a food stamp issuing agency upon the request of a State food stamp administration agency. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to pay the States 100 percent of the costs of providing food stamps to eligible aliens, and 75 percent of the costs of State investigations, prosecutions, collections of claims and other State activities related to retrieving food stamp losses. Provides for payment by the Federal Government to the States of a share of the difference between the face value of the coupon allotment and the amount charged eligible households for the allotment. Sets forth the method of determining and paying the Federal share. Directs the transfer of all functions of the Secretary of Agriculture under the Food Stamp Act to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to engage in feasibility investigations of potential water resource developments related to the Frenchman-Cambridge Division, Pick Sloan Missouri Basin program, in specified counties in Nebraska.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Authorizes the disposition of funds appropriated to pay judgments in favor of the Sac and Fox Indians in specified Indian Claims Commission dockets. Sets forth distribution requirements for such funds.
United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1975
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for the exclusion from gross income of the interest on State and municipal obligations issued to provide facilities for the furnishing of water whether or not to the general public. Provides such exclusion for facilities which convert gas or oil burning equipment to equipment which burns other energy burning materials. Increases from $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 the amount of interest on industrial development bonds which may be excluded from gross income.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1975
Changes Senate Rule XIX to provide that no Senator may: (1) speak from prepared materials on the Senate floor; (2) insert prepared remarks in the Congressional Record to be shown as delivered by him on the floor; and (3) make use of any staff member for advice in the performance of his duties while on the Senate floor.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Defines the term "navigable waters", for purposes of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as it applies to Corps of Engineers authority and responsibility to regulate the discharge of dredged or fill material.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Disapproves specified regulations of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare relating to nondiscrimination on the basis of sex in education programs and activities receiving or benefiting from Federal financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Nation is grateful to all American servicemen who participated in the Southeast Asian conflict and their families. Pays tribute to veterans of the Vietnam era and of all wars.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1975
Omnibus Rail Act - Title I: Alternative Rail Reorganization Plan - Directs the United States Railway Association to formulate and transmit to Congress an alternate plan to that required in the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 for the preservation of essential rail service in the northeast and midwest regions of the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to formulate such plan. Title II: Modern Rail Transportation Act - Permits any railroad to abandon, discontinue, or change rail service, notwithstanding the laws of any State or order of any State agency or court, 90 days after notifying the Secretary of Transportation of such plans. Authorizes the Secretary to prohibit such proposed abandonment, discontinuation, or change if he finds that such action is necessary to the national or regional economy, or to the national defense. Requires the Secretary to reimburse railroads for losses incurred as a result of continued operation. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to make such reimbursement. Permits any railroad to establish and revise rates, fare and charges for the transportation of property so long as such rates, fares, and charges are nondiscriminatory, and are established in accordance with specified factors. Authorizes the imposition of a fine of not more than $10,000 for any railroad, or officer or agent which knowingly sets discriminatory rates or makes rebates to shippers. Title III: Reformation of Railroad Work Rules - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to formulate and report within one year to the Congress a plan for reforming railroad work rules, including recommendations for necessary legislation to implement such plan and protect existing railroad employees. Authorizes appropriations necessary for such purposes. Title IV: National Transportation Right-of-Way Land Bank - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire, other than by condemnation, title to railroad rights-of-way which are not being used to provide rail services. Provides that all such acquired rights-of-way shall be maintained by the Secretary in a National Transportation Right-of-Way Land Bank and may be made available on a lease basis to public or private entities to be used for public recreational purposes or other public purposes. Authorizes to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1975
Limits to five percent cost-of-living benefit increases under the Old-age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and supplemental security income programs established by the Social Security Act through June 30, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Maternal and Child Health and Crippled Children's Services and Medicaid Cost Control Amendments - Provides that after June 30, 1975, the Federal share of payments to States for maternal and child health services under Title V (Grants to States for Maternal and Child Welfare) of the Social Security Act shall be reduced from 50 to 40 percent of the cost of the service plan. States that after February, 1975, Federal matching payments to States under Title XIX (Medicaid) of such Act shall no longer be made for dental services provided to individuals over the age of 21, except for emergency dental services and oral surgical services and treatment related thereto. Stipulates that the Federal share of Medicaid payments shall not be less than 40 percent of total costs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Revises the timing for making determinations of, and the amounts of, medical insurance premiums for enrollees in the supplementary medical insurance program under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
National Welfare Reform Act - Stipulates that no family shall be eligible for the aid to families with dependent children program (AFDC) under the Social Security Act if its total income, without regard to exclusions, exceeds 150 percent of the family's needs. Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall provide the full cost of AFDC services to needy families who are not U.S. citizens and are lawfully present in the United States. States that unemployed individuals shall be ineligible for AFDC services for specified periods of time such individual is determined to have, without good cause, refused an offering of bona fide employment or refused to participate under a work incentive program. Provides procedures for the determination of good cause. States that no sanctions will be applied for a ten day period after failure without good cause has been established if the individual participates in counseling services. Sets forth procedures governing adjustment of AFDC grant overpayments. Prohibits AFDC grant payments where the caretaker relative is unemployed due to participation in a strike or because he has voluntarily terminated his employment. Defines "income" for purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to pay directly to any State up to 75 percent of the costs of investigating and prosecuting complaints of fraud under the AFDC program. Requires that recipients of aid be issued a detailed identification card specifying the programs for which the recipient is eligible. Provides that any person who resides in the same household as an eligible family, but is not himself eligible for aid, shall be required to make a contribution to the State in an amount equal to the amount of the standard payment for single person household under the State's plan.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Social Security Cost Control Act - Eliminates specified optional payment provisions under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Revises the qualifications for retirement under such program. States that the first $60 of earned income per month plus an amount equal to dependent child care expenses shall be disregarded in determining need under the aid to families with dependent children program of the Social Security Act. Modifies the rate of Federal financial participation state programs of aid to needy families with children and aged, blind, or disabled individuals. Provides that the amount payable for inpatient hospital services under title XVIII (Medicare) during any spell of illness shall be reduced by a deduction equal to the inpatient hospital deduction, or, if less, the charges for such services imposed with respect to such indivdiual for such services, and by a coinsurance amount equal to one-tenth of the charges imposed. Sets forth provisions regulating the amount of Medicare supplementary medical insurance coinsurance available under specified instances. Provides for the automatic adjustment of the medicare supplementary medical insurance deductible, according to whether or not the primary insurance amount exceeds or is less than $354.50. Authorizes the establishment of limits on the rate of increase of costs recognized as reasonable under the medicare program. Reduces from 75 to 65 percent the share of Federal financial participation in State services and training expenditures under the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Provides that the eligibility of recipients of supplemental security income benefits under the Social Security Act to receive food stamps and federally donated agricultural commodities shall be determined by regulations in effect on May 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, under the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, to require reasonable bonds from market agencies, dealers, and packers to secure the performance of their obligations with respect to transactions involving livestock or poultry. Authorizes the Secretary to summarily order, without a hearing, any person subject to the provisions of such Act to pay a seller of livestock or poultry by certified check or to establish a custodial account if the Secretary has reason to believe that such action is necessary to protect vendees. Empowers the Secretary to request the Attorney General of the United States to apply to the United States district court for a temporary injunction or restraining order whenever the Secretary has reason to believe that any person subject to this Act: (1) is unable to pay for livestock products; (2) has operated while insolvent; or (3) does not have the required bond. Provides that debts of a bankrupt that are owing for the purchase of livestock or poultry shall have priority if, at the time such debts where incurred, the bankrupt was a packer, market agency, or dealer subject to such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Condemns violations of the Paris agreement by the Communists in Vietnam. Calls upons all governments to join in this condemnation. Notifies the governments of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China that their actions in Vietnam shall be considered a test of good faith in efforts toward detente. Calls upon individual nations and the United Nations to take action to assure the right to asylum to Vietnamese refugees.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States delegation to the European Security Conference should not agree to the recognition by the European Security Conference of the Soviet Union's annexation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and it should remain the policy of the United States not to recognize in any way the annexation of the Baltic nations by the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1975
Calls upon the President to direct the United States ambassador to the United Nations to insist that the United Nations take all necessary actions to obtain a full and accurate accounting for members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action in Southeast Asia. Directs that if such action is not taken the United States contribution to the United Nations shall be cut from 25 to 10 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Directs the Commodity Credit Corporation under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to make loans to grain growers for financing the construction or purchase of suitable storage for dry or high moisture forage, silage, or grain.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make a loan of $100,000,000 to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. Requires the Secretary to obtain satisfactory assurance from the company that no less than two-thirds of such loan will be utilized for capital expenditures or expenditures for maintenance of property within three years from the date of the loan. Directs the Secretary to obtain the best security practicable from the Company as assistance for the loan. Provides that the Secretary shall determine the rate of interest which the loan shall bear. Directs the Secretary to formulate appropriate regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to take such enforcement action as he deems appropriate. States that the Secretary shall, within one year after the enactment of this Act, report to the President and the Congress with respect to his activities pursuant to this Act. Gives the Comptroller General of the United States access to such information as he determines necessary to audit financial transactions of the Secretary. Authorizes appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act in addition to the amount set forth for the loan.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that whenever the estimated Federal contribution to the construction cost of works of improvement in the plan for any watershed or subwatershed area exceeds $750,000 (currently $250,000) a copy of the plan shall be submitted to the Congress by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Repeals, under the Social Security Act, the provisions for the establishment of Professional Standards Review Organizations to review services covered under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Authorizes to be established and maintained, under the Flood Control Act, an emergency fund, to remain available until expended, for use by the Secretary of the Army in carrying out emergency works of improvement. Authorizes the appropriation of necessary sums for the initial establishment and periodic replenishment of such fund.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Provides that any grant funds under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act which were withheld from allotment by Presidential direction for fiscal years 1973, 1974, and 1975 shall be alloted among the States by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in accordance with a specified formula. Revises the distribution of such allotments to the States for fiscal years beginning with 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Provides that, beginning with fiscal year 1975, if the outlays of the United States Government exceed receipts, then during the immediately succeeding fiscal years the rate of compensation that each Senator, Representative, Delegate, and the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico would have been paid but for the enactment of this Act shall be reduced by 10 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Exempts from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act employees of a State-operated residential treatment facility intended to approximate a home environment for children for whom living at home is not feasible.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Increases the value of exemptions for taxable estates under the Internal Revenue Code from $60,000 to $200,000 of the value of the gross estate. Increases the limitation on the aggregate marital deduction to 50 percent of the adjusted gross value of the estate, plus $100,000. Allows an executor to value farmland, woodland, and scenic open land at its current use value rather than at its fair market value.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Fully Free Press Act - Provides, under the Communications Act of 1934, that nothing in such Act shall be understood or construed to require that broadcasting time be set aside for any purpose or purposes or to any person or persons, or to grant to the Federal Communications Commission jurisdiction over the content matter of any broadcast. Provides that nothing in such Act shall be understood or construed to grant to the Commission the power to require any licensee to develop programing specifically designed to provide balance to points of view previously broadcast or to require any licensee to make broadcast time available to spokesmen for contrasting views on controversial issues of public importance presented on his station. Repeals the provision of the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act which makes it unlawful to advertise cigarettes on any medium of electronic communication subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission. Permits the Poastal Service to use any form of advertising deemed appropriate in order to provide necessary communication with the public.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Provides under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that persons who are blind and have at least six quarters of coverage shall be eligible for disability insurance benefits. Outlines those regulations which apply to the amount of benefits to be received. Defines blindness as used in this Act. Continues payment of such benefits as long as the blindness lasts, notwithstanding the amount of the individual's earnings.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of the taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year to: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Directs the President during the last month of each fiscal year to review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays other than trust funds for that fiscal year. Provides that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he consideres necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Authorizes the suspension of the provisions of this Article in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress (including a state of war formally declared by Congress) by a concurrent resolution agreed to by a rollcall vote of three-fourths of all the Members of each House of Congress, with each such resolution providing the period of time (not exceeding one year) during which those provisions are to be suspended.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Establishes a temporary select committee of the Senate comprised of 12 members to conduct a thorough study of the Senate committee system. Provides the committee with the powers necessary to carry out the study. Authorizes the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $900,000. Requests the select committee to submit interim reports and a final report with recommendations by February 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
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 and 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) that 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) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestitute of any United States owned peroperty, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Antitrust Law Labor Amendments - Removes statutory limitations upon the application of the Sherman Act to labor organizations and their activities. States that every contract or agreement between any labor organization and any employer whereby such employer undertakes to cease or to refrain from using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in any of the products of any producer, processor, or manufacturer which are distributed in trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared illegal. Provides that every person who enters into, attempts to enter into, or conspires with any other person to enter into any such contract or agreement shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $100,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding three years or both.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to decrease to 5 percent the applicable percentage for determining the tax on private foundations for failure to distribute income.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Exempts refiners whose total refining capacity on January 1, 1975, did not exceed one hundred thousand barrels per day from regulation promulgated under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act which would require the purchase of entitlement, or the payment of money through any other similar transfer arrangement aimed at equalizing the cost of crude oil domestic refiners during the existence of a two-tiered market for crude oil. Provides that this Act shall not restrict the rights of small refiners to receive such payments.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Beef Research and Consumer Information Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to enable cattle producers to establish, finance, and carry out a coordinated program to improve markets for cattle, beef and beef products, and to provide an adequate supply of high quality beef to the consumers of the Nation at reasonable prices. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to issue beef research and promotion orders. Provides that such orders shall be issued only after due notice and opportunity for hearing shall have been given to producers and producer organizations, and after the Secretary shall have determined that the issuance of such an order will effectuate the declared policy of this Act. Declares that such order shall not take effect until approved by a majority of two-thirds of the cattle producers voting in a referendum. Establishes a Beef Board to administer the Order in accordance with its terms and provisions, to make rules and regulations to effectuate the terms and provisions of the Order, to receive, investigate and report complaints of violations of the Order, and to recommend to the Secretary amendments to the Order. Lists the procedures for appointing members of such board. Requires that any plans for advertising, sales promotion, consumer education, producer education, research, and the annual budget be developed by the Beef Board and submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture for approval. Empowers the Beef Board to enter into contracts or agreements for the development and carrying out of the activities authorized under the Order. Declares that producers of cattle shall be assessed at a specific rate to be determined by stated procedures. Provides that each time cattle are sold, the cattle producer shall pay to the purchaser the amount assessed, based upon the sale price of the cattle. Provides that any cattle producer against whose cattle or beef any assessment is made and collected shall have the right to demand and receive from the Beef Board a refund of such assessment. Declares that nothing in this Act shall be construed to pre-empt or interfere with the workings of any beef board, beef council, or other beef promotion entity organized and operating within and by authority of any of the several states. Provides for the return to any such beef board or council of an amount to be determined by a stated formula. Stipulates that to qualify for the funds, such a state beef board, beef council or other beef promotional entity shall demonstrate ability to provide research, promotion and education within the state consistent with this Act and Order. States that each purchaser, handler or agent may be required to report to the Beef Board periodically concerning number of cattle handled, amount assessed, sale price of cattle on which assessment was collected, and other information necessary for the enforcement of this Act. Declares that this Act and any order issued pursuant to it may be enforced in the District Courts of the U.S., with the U.S. Attorney General having authority to bring any Civil suits authorized under the Act. Provides for a fine of not more than $1,000 for violations of this Act and any orders issued pursuant to it. Stipulates that no funds collected by the Beef Board shall in any manner be used for the purpose of influencing governmental policy or action. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that funds so appropriated shall not be available for payment of the expenses or expenditures of the Beef Board in administering any provisions of any order issued pursuant to the terms of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Reaffirms, under the Clean Air Act, the standards to protect the quality of the Nation's air. Limits such standards by providing that nothing in such Act is intended to require or provide for the establishment of standards more stringent than primary and secondary ambient air quality standards.
United States · United States Congress · 11 February 1975
Authorizes the Small Business Administration to make loans for plant acquisition. States that loans made for the purpose of acquiring real property and constructing improvements thereon shall have a maturity of twenty years. Limits the maturity of other loans to 10 years.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Prohibits any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973, have been fully complied with by North Vietnam or the President has determined and reported to Congress that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members.
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