United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Regulatory Cost Reduction Act of 1979 - Directs the President to establish: (1) methods for determining the costs of compliance with Federal rules and regulations; and (2) methods of comparing the cost effectiveness of alternative ways of achieving regulatory objectives. Requires the President to submit such information to the head of each executive agency after review by the public and specified offices. Requires each agency head to use the most cost-effective method for achieving a regulatory goal whenever alternative methods exist. Directs each agency head to prepare for each proposed rule a regulatory impact analysis which includes: (1) a description of the economic and social consequences of each alternative proposal; (2) a justification of the selection of the final rule; and (3) the paperwork requirements, economic impact, conflicting rules, and a cost-benefit analysis of the final rule. Requires each agency to develop procedures for public participation and comments regarding the regulatory analysis. Requires each agency head to review existing rules within five years of the date of enactment of this Act. Urges the agency head to: (1) eliminate unnecessary rules; (2) clarify rule language; and (3) modify rules where necessary to adjust to technological or economic changes which have occurred since promulgation of the rule. Directs each agency head to publish a draft and, after approval of the President, a final report on the actions taken by the agency to implement this Act. Specifies the contents of the report which include estimates of the annual costs of compliance with the rules of each agency. Requires the Comptroller General to monitor the implementation of this Act and to report to Congress and the President on the effectiveness of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that in the event of military aggression by China against Taiwan, the United States: (1) terminate diplomatic and commercial relations with China; (2) provide military assistance to Taiwan; (3) bring the matter to the prompt attention of the United Nations; and (4) take other necessary actions to secure peace for Taiwan.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1978
Prohibits the President from taking any action that would affect the validity of any post-World War II security and mutual defense treaties without the advice and consent of the Senate, or the approval of both Houses of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1978
Small Business Nonprofit Patent Procedures Act - States that it is the objective of this Act to amend existing patent procedures to promote the marketing of inventions developed under federally supported research and development projects by nonprofit organizations and small business firms. Permits any such organization or firm to elect, within a reasonable amount of time, to retain title to such inventions. Authorizes Federal agencies which have supported such projects to retain title to inventions in specified circumstances. Requires any funding agreement between a Federal agency and a small business firm or nonprofit organization to contain provisions: (1) to insure the rights of the Federal Government under this Act; (2) to provide that the agency shall have a nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable and paid-up license to use the invention; (3) to prohibit a nonprofit organization from assigning rights to the invention without the approval of the Federal agency; (4) to prohibit such an! organization from granting exclusive rights from the earlier of five years from the first commercial use of the invention or eight years from the date of invention; and (5) to require such organizations to use their royalties and earnings to support scientific research or education. Authorizes a Federal agency to transfer or assign its rights, acquired from an agency employee as coinventor, to an inventor electing to acquire title to an invention. Empowers any Federal agency to require inventors or their assigns to grant licenses in order to: (1) achieve practical application of the invention in its field of use; (2) alleviate health or safety needs; and (3) meet requirements for public use specified by Federal regulations. Entitles the government to collect up to 50 percent of all net income above specified amounts received by a patent holder until government research funds have been repaid. Restricts the assignment and licensing of rights by patent holders to foreign owned or controlled firms. Authorizes Federal agencies to exempt reports of inventions from disclosure pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act. Specifies the authority of Federal agencies with respect to obtaining patents, promoting licensing of inventions, granting licenses, conducting market surveys, transferring custody of patents, and receiving funds. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to coordinate a program for assisting Federal agencies in protecting and licensing federally-owned inventions. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to promulgate regulations specifying the terms upon which any federally-owned invention may be licensed. Directs that small business firms receive first priority in such licensing. Sets forth the procedure whereby Federal agencies may grant exclusive or partially exclusive licenses in any invention covered by a federally-owned domestic patent or patent application. Declares that this Act shall take precedence over any other Act in the disposition of inventions.
United States · United States Congress · 23 August 1978
Authorizes the President to present, on behalf of the Congress, gold medals to Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman for their distinguished feat as aviation pioneers (first Atlantic balloon crossing). Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell bronze replicas of such medals.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1978
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Offers the tribute of the Senate to Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman, and Ben Abruzzo for their success in being the first human beings to cross the Atlantic in a balloon.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1978
Solar Photovoltaic Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act - Requires the Secretary of Energy to develop research, development, and demonstration programs concerning the use of solar photovoltaic energy systems. Authorizes the Secretary to provide up to 75 percent of the purchase and installation costs of selected systems used for research purposes. Requires the Secretary to formulate interim and definitive performance criteria concerning solar photovoltaic systems and to develop a system certification for conforming systems. Directs the Secretary to consult with appropriate Federal agencies concerning the use of solar photovoltaic systems in Federal facilities. Requires the Secretary to set up a development and demonstration program of prototype photovoltaic systems at the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado. Directs the Secretary to establish a solar energy data bank at the Golden facility. Requires relevant Federal officials to ensure that small business concerns are granted realistic and adequate opportunities to participate, to the maximum extent possible, in the programs under this Act. Establishes a Solar Photovoltaic Energy Advisory Committee to study the need and economic, technological, and environmental consequences of solar photovoltaic energy systems.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1978
Intergovernmental Anti-recession Asssistance Act - Title I: Amends the Public Works Employment Act of 1976 to extend for eight calendar quarters beginning October 1, 1978, the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to States and local governments to stimulate economic recovery. Suspends such assistance if the national rate of unemployment is less than six percent for two consecutive quarters. Title II: Supplementary Fiscal Assistance - Supplementary Fiscal Assistance Act - Authorizes a new program of financial assistance to State and local governments with unemployment rates above six percent at times when the national unemployment rate is between five and six percent. Requires that such payments be used to maintain basic services to persons in the area served by the government.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments under the rural clean water program of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the rural abandoned mine program of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 August 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a one-time tax exclusion of up to $100,000 of the gain from the sale or exchange of a property used by a taxpayer as his principal residence for at least two years during the three year period prior to the date of the sale or exchange.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Amends Title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to pay to each State which has a plan approved under such Title the whole cost attributable to the administration of so much of such plan as relates to the provision of medical assistance in Indian health service facilities which are eligible for reimbursement pursuant to the Medicaid program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Blind Veterans Disability Housing Act - Removes the requirement that blind veterans also be unable to use one of their legs in order to be eligible for special housing for disabled veterans' assistance.
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 · 12 July 1978
National Institute of Justice Act - Establishes an independent agency to be known as the National Institute of Justice. Authorizes and directs the Institute to: (1) make evaluations of the effectiveness and quality of justice and administration of law; (2) conduct research concerning justice and administration of law; (3) conduct experimental programs; and (4) conduct training and educational programs in law and judicial procedures.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Small Communities Act - Title I: Findings and Purposes - States that the purpose of this Act is the simplification of the administrative and financial burdens on small communities in complying with the requirements of Federal assistance programs. Title II: Definitions - Defines terms used in this Act. Defines a "small community" as a county, city, town, township, or other community with a population of less than 50,000. Title III: Administration of Generally Applicable Federal Assistance Requirements - Defines "generally applicable requirements" as requirements which are placed on assistance recipients by Federal legislation or administrative rules and regulations, and which apply to two or more assistance programs. Directs the President to designate Federal agencies to establish standard rules and regulations for, and to report on the implementation of, generally applicable requirements in the areas of: (1) labor practices; (2) equal employment opportunity; (3) public employee standards; (4) equal services requirements based on prohibitions of discrimination; (5) access to government information; (6) citizen participation; (7) environmental protection; (8) relocation and real property acquisition; and (9) procurement standards when such requirements are part of a Federal assistance program. Permits a State or local government to certify to the Federal department or agency administering an assistance program that such government is in compliance with standard rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act or with equivalent State or local rules. Provides for the rescission of such certification by the Federal body upon its finding that the government is not, in fact, in compliance. Title IV: Advance Appropriations - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish procedures for budgeting appropriations for multiyear programs of Federal financial assistance one year before the fiscal year in which the funds are to be spent. Title V: Consolidation of Federal Assistance Programs - Requires the President to examine, from time to time, the various Federal assistance programs and to determine what consolidations are necessary to improve the administration, efficiency, and economy of such programs. Directs the President, upon finding that a consolidation of programs is necessary, to designate a single Federal agency to administer the consolidated program. States that the agency chosen must have been in charge of at least one of the programs involved in the consolidation. Title VI: Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations - Increases from 26 to 29 the membership of the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations by providing for the appointment by the President to the Committee of three elected officials of small communities. Title VII: Flexible Grants Formulas - Directs the President to establish procedures for effective consultation among representatives of small communities, Congress, and the executive branch concerning the needs of small communities. Title VIII: Regulatory Flexibility - Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to waive any rule, regulation, or order of any instrumentality of the United States except a Federal court. Title IX: Small Communities Contracts - Permits small communities to obtain assistance or services by contract with other communities or instrumentalities of State or local government. Directs the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to establish guidelines and procedures for such contracts. Title X: Small Community Set-Aside; Cash Grants - Authorizes the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to establish a procedure under which a small community could elect to receive a single cash grant in lieu of the grants presently received through various Federal assistance programs. States that a community selecting such single grant option would not have to meet any Federal requirements or standards imposed by the Federal Government. Title XI: Effect on Other Laws - States that this Act is in addition to the provisions of any other law or regulation under which any remedy or right of appeal is provided for any person, or any procedure is provided for the inquiry into or investigation of any matter. Title XII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Title XIII: Financial Management of Federal Assistance Programs, General Financial Management - Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to establish and maintain, for use by all Federal agencies, standard financial and other requirements for the administration of programs of financial assistance to State and local governments. States that such requirements shall include uniform financial reporting and application forms, standard terms, definitions, and conditions, and procedures for audits of grant programs. Sets forth measures to standardize audits of Federal financial programs. Requires a single audit of a State and local recipient of Federal financial assistance at least once every three years. Title XIV: Effective Dates - Establishes the dates on which specified Titles of this Act shall become effective.
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 · 28 June 1978
Residual Radioactive Materials Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to enter into agreements with designated States under which the Federal Government would agree to pay the entire cost of a joint Federal-State program to assess the radiation levels of residual radioactive materials from former uranium ore processing sites in such States and to perform appropriate remedial action to limit exposure of individuals to such radiation. Exempts certain processing sites from the coverage of this Act. Requires the agreements made by the Secretary and such States include terms providing, among other things, that the Secretary select the appropriate remedial action for limiting radiation exposure, that the States acquire ownership of the land upon which the radioactive materials are located, and that the States reimburse the Secretary in the amount, if any, that the proceeds of subsequent sale or disposition of such lands exceed the cost of acquisition, in proportion to the Secretary's share of the total costs of the remedial action program or, in the event the State does not dispose of the lands within two years of their acquisition, in the amount of the increase in value of the lands over their acquisition costs. Requires the United States to obtain ownership of lands to be designated as a disposal site, and transfers ownership of residual radioactive materials involved in any remedial action effort under this Act to the United States. Directs the Secretary to enter into similar agreements with the Secretary of the Interior and any Indian tribes residing on lands owned by Indians or held in trust for them upon which uranium ore processing operations have occurred. Authorizes the Secretary to establish such rules and regulations deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish standards to assure that the public health and safety and the environment are not impaired by the remedial action undertaken, pursuant to this Act, and are consistent with the applicable provisions of the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act of 1976, the Clean Air Act of 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and any other Federal environmental protection laws. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Uranium Miners' Compensation Act - Requires claims for benefits for death or total disability due to lung disease as a result of employment in a uranium mine to be filed pursuant to State workmen's compensation law. Provides that such claims may be filed pursuant to this Act when a State workmen's compensation law does not provide adequate coverage for such lung disease. Directs the Secretary of Labor to publish in the Federal Register a list of State workmen's compensation laws which do not provide adequate coverage. Requires any claim for benefits under this Act to be filed within three years of the discovery of total disability due to lung disease in a uranium mine or in the case of death, the date of such death. Requires uranium mine operators, in States included on the list, to secure the payment of benefits for which such operator is liable by qualifying as a self-insurer, or insuring the payment of benefits with any stock company or mutual company. Sets forth requirements to be included in such insurance policies. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to initiate research within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and authorizes the Secretary to make research grants, relating to lung disease in uranium mines. Prohibits discrimination against any worker by a mine operator due to such miner suffering from such lung disease. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act Amendments - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act to prohibit the level of total budget outlays in any concurrent resolution passed in accordance with such Act from exceeding, in any calendar year, 20 percent of the gross national product of the United States, unless waived by a two-thirds vote in each House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1978
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey to each of the several States which have submitted an application meeting specified requirements those public lands which as a result of land grants made to railroads under any Act of Congress or as a result of other specified grants are intermingled with lands not owned by the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1978
States that the President should, pending removal of Cuban military forces from Africa, (1) recall the United States Interests Section from Cuba and expel the Cuban Interests Section from the United States, (2) deny any license for commercial trade with or export to Cuba under the Export Administration Act of 1969, (3) reverse any other action toward the normalization of relations with Cuba, and (4) defer any further official actions toward normalization of United States relations with Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978
Animal Welfare Act Amendments - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit coursing (an event which involves the pursuit by one or more dogs of another live animal).
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1978
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to make a full investigation and study to determine the feasibility of carrying out a project to rehabilitate and improve the existing Santa Cruz Dam and Reservoir, Santa Cruz Irrigation District, New Mexico. Directs the Secretary to consider the potential for developing the Santa Cruz Dam and Reservoir as a unit or part of the San Juan-Chama project. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from issuing any regulation between July 1, 1978, and July 1, 1979, providing for the inclusion of any fringe benefit in gross income for purposes of taxation.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore part of the pre-1969 tax treatment of capital gains by repealing the capital gains item of tax preference for the minimum tax; lowering the corporate alternative tax to 25 percent of net capital gain; and lowering the alternative individual tax to 25 percent of net capital gain.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1978
Expresses the sorrow of the Senate for the death of Aldo Moro. Condemns the Red Brigade for this murder. Declares it the sense of the Senate that Italy deserves the praise of the United States for its efforts to prevent this murder. Declares it the sense of the Senate that the President should instruct the Ambassador to the United Nations to press for consideration of proposals to end terrorism.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Directs the Internal Revenue Service not to adopt a position which is inconsistent with previous general audit procedure or regulations in determining whether an individual is an employee for purposes of social security taxation, unemployment taxation, and income tax withholding until a law amending the definition of "employee" is enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Enhanced Oil Recovery Commercialization Act - Amends the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of Federal loan guarantees to carry out the provisions of the Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, to gurantee the payment of interest on, the principal balance of, and obligations issued by or for borrowers for the purpose of financing the construction and startup costs of full scale facilities and to demonstrate new and improved methods of enhanced recovery of crude oil. Sets forth conditions to be qualified for such guarantees and requires the Secretary to review and approve plans for the construction and operation of any commerical demonstration program and related facilities constructed with assistance under this Act. Directs the Secretary to annually report to Congress on recommendations to implement a program of federal financial assistance to demonstrate full scale enhanced oil recovery production and conservation of energy, including a comprehensive plan to acquire information and evaluate the environmental, economic, social and technological impacts of the demonstration program. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress prior to issuing any guarantee under this Act. Establishes, within the Treasury, the Enhanced Oil Recovery Fund to carry out the enhanced oil recovery program of this Act. Requires each officer or employee of the Department of the Energy who performs duties under this Act to file a financial information statement with the Secretary. Requires information maintained by the Secretary under this Act to be made available to the public and other Government agencies. Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to provide that qualified enhanced oil recovery processes shall consist of those processes where a determination is made that such process will increase recovery of petroleum in excess of that which would occur using only waterflooding techniques. Prohibits crude oil produced by enhanced oil recovery methods, and in amounts exceeding that produced by primary and secondary recovery methods, from being regulated as to price. Requires the Secretary to establish procedures for calculating the incremental oil production as a result of enhanced oil recovery when such procedures do not exist with State agencies. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee a price of $25 per barrel, adjusted for inflation, where the unregulated oil price is insufficiently high to encourage private investment in "first of a kind" enhanced oil recovery operations. Requires the Department of Energy to establish annual mean projections for world oil prices based on estimates of the supply and demand for world oil.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Uranium Mill Site Restoration Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to make grants to States, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming, to carry out abandoned uranium mill site restoration plans. Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires States submitting applications to acquire the land upon which the tailings and abandoned millsite are located prior to release of grant funds. Requires sale of the site within three years after restoration and payment or title transfer to the Secretary. Sets forth procedures for site restoration on Indian lands. Provides for direct restoration action by the Secretary upon a State's failure to act within three years or upon direct request. Makes the Secretary responsible, in such cases, for restoring background radiation levels, disposing of uranium mill tailings, and monitoring of site radiation levels. Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish regulations assuring that the public health and the environment are not impaired by remedial actions taken pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot study of uranium mill site radiation in Salt Lake City, Utah,and report the findings to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Enhanced Oil Recovery Tax Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from gross income for all expenses paid or incurred for the tertiary or enhanced oil recovery production of domestic crude oil.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to a certain company in full settlement of such company's claims against the United States.
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 · 13 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual to deduct from gross income the cost, not in excess of $50,000 of acquiring stock in a qualified energy invention corporation, which had income preceding the year of stock issuance not more than $100,000, and which owns a patent relating to the invention of an energy saving device or process.
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 · 23 March 1978
Comprehensive Employment and Training Amendments - Restructures and generally revises the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. Consolidates most administrative provisions of such Act into a separate title. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, as a first recourse when an area is not being served by a prime sponsor, to designate a public agency to serve. Authorizes the Secretary to directly make payments to public and private entities under this Act in an area not served by a prime sponsor only when no suitable substitute agency is found. Revises requirements for comprehensive prime sponsor plans to limit them to (1) a prime sponsor program plan for all grants made by formula under this Act, (2) annual individual program supplements for nonformula programs in which the prime sponsor desires to participate, and (3) assurances that the prime sponsor will comply with the provisions of the Act, the regulations of the Secretary, and the plan. Stipulates that the prime sponsor program plan shall serve as the basic long-term agreement between the Secretary and the prime sponsor and shall be submitted every three years. Details information to be included in the program plan. Requires each prime sponsor to develop for each participant in a program under this Act an assessment of employment and advancement barriers and to attempt to provide for each former participant a followup assessment and appropriate additional services. Amends procedures for review of comprehensive plans. Requires States seeking financial assistance under the Act to submit a Governor's coordination and special services plan. Specifies conditions applicable to all programs under this Act and those applicable to public service employment programs. Focuses the primary programs under the Act on the easing of structural unemployment through the establishment of separate specified mission objectives and activities for different age groups of socially and economically disadvantaged individuals. Includes among the mission objectives relative to youth employment: (1) programs, such as on-the-job training, job sampling, and bilingual training to develop basic skills; (2) programs, such as outreach, counseling, and job restructuring, to better enable youth to function within the private labor market; (3) programs, incorporating public service and community improvement activities along with private employment subsidized through tax vouchers, to provide transitional job opportunities for unemployed youth; (4) programs, such as training allowances, child care services, and transportation assistance, to reduce financial barriers to labor force participation; and (5) programs to provide summer employment and training opportunities for economically disadvantaged youth. Requires that a youth be between the ages of 16 and 21, inclusive, and unemployed or underemployed in order to participate in employment and training programs. Requires that a youth be unemployed for at least 15 weeks to participate in public service employment and community improvement activities or in subsidized private employment. Directs that at least 70 percent of participating youths be economically disadvantaged. Sets a 12-month limit on public service employment and a 24-month limit for subsidized private employment. Directs the Secretary to enter into arrangements with selected prime sponsors to demonstrate the efficacy of guaranteeing otherwise unavailable part-time employment during the school year and part-time and full-time employment during the summer for economically disadvantaged youths ages 16-21 who resume or maintain attendance in a secondary school. Lists alternative forms for such projects and specifies criteria for the selection of participant prime sponsors. Stipulates that sums available for the youth employment and training programs and the youth incentive pilot projects shall be allocated as follows: (1) 90 percent to prime sponsors; (2) five percent to State Governors for special statewide youth services; and (3) five percent to State vocational education boards for the coordination, provision, and upgrading of vocational education services. Retains the Job Corps and the Young Adult Conservation Corps. Authorizes to be appropriated for youth programs under this Act $2,800,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1979-84. Sets forth mission objectives designed to overcome employment barriers faced by unemployed and underemployed adults, including: (1) programs, such as concentrated skills training in occupations with available employment, on-the-job training, and bilingual training, to develop skills for labor force entry, continuation, and advancement; (2) programs, such as relocation subsidies, job restructuring, and counseling, to provide displaced workers maximum flexibility within the labor force and labor market areas; (3) programs providing transitional public service employment opportunities; (4) programs, such as child care, training allowances, and transportation assistance, to reduce financial barriers to labor force participation; and (5) programs to develop strategies for linking employment and training activities under this Act with efforts to stimulate local private economic development. Encourages each prime sponsor to additionally develop experimental programs designed to coordinate employment and training programs with programs under the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Administration, and State and local public and private efforts to stimulate economic growth. Makes eligible for participation in activities under (1) and (2) above persons between age 21 and 55, exclusive, who are unemployed, underemployed, or facing imminent unemployment due to a decline in a particular industry and are members of households with income less than the lower living standard budget. Restricts participation in activities under (3), (4), and (5) to eligible persons who have been unemployed for at least 15 weeks. Gives such individuals priority consideration for all services. Limits adult public service employment under the structural unemployment program to 12 months. Authorizes the appropriation of $3,000,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1979-84 for adult employment and training programs. Establishes mission objectives and programs similar to those created for adult workers for unemployed or underemployed workers age 55 and older who are members of low income households. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000,000 for activities for older workers for each of fiscal years 1979-84. Requires prime sponsors to involve private employers to the greatest extent possible in planning and implementing various employment and training programs. Incorporates most present research, training, and evaluation provisions. Authorizes specified experimental programs, including an expanded program to test the efficacy of various forms of wage subsidy and a program to link the employment and training activities of prime sponsors to strategies for stimulating local private economic development and replacing declining industries. Directs the Secretary and prime sponsors to give special consideration in carrying out youth and experimental programs to community-based organization such as SER-Jobs for Progress, the National Urban League, and Opportunities Industrialization Centers. Authorizes the appropriation of $400,000,000 to carry out research, evaluation, and experimental projects for each of fiscal years 1979- 84. Retains, with certain modifications, special programs for offenders, persons of limited English-speaking ability, Native Americans, and migrant and seasonal workers. Authorizes job search and relocation assistance on a permanent, rather than demonstration, basis. Continues the National Commission for Manpower Policy as the National Commission for Employment and Training Policy. Authorizes agreements for the employment of participants under this Act by executive agencies, the United States Postal Service, the Postal Rate Commission, AMTRAK, and ConRail. Sets forth a separate temporary public service employment program for persons from low-income households who have been unemployed for at least 15 weeks. Authorizes the appropriation for such program of $4,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 and for any succeeding fiscal year through 1982 in which the average unemployment rate for the last two quarters of the preceding fiscal year equals or exceeds 5.5 percent.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1978
Bilingual Education Act Amendments - Revises the Bilingual Education Act to extend the general authorization for appropriations under such Act to 1981. Stipulates that grants for assistance to bilingual education programs will be available for fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981. Revises application requirements for such grants, including provisions regarding an evaluation plan and bilingual personnel recruitment. Provides special provisions for Puerto Rico regarding use and distribution of funds under such Act. Directs the Commissioner of Education to conduct a study on the need for compensatory English proficiency programs in Puerto Rico. Revises specified bilingual education training provisions under such Act. Extends indefinitely the Commissioner of Education's authority to award fellowships for bilingual teachers training. Directs the Commissioner to undertake an ongoing study of the impact of such fellowships on the field of bilingual education. Revises the definition of "eligible applicant" for purposes of such training grants. Requires an individual receiving such assistance to work in a bilingual education related activity for a period equivalent to the period such assistance was received. Establishes within the Office of Education in place of the existing Office of Bilingual Education a Bureau of Bilingual Education to be headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Bilingual Education. Revises the composition of the National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, including a requirement that at least two parents of children whose language proficiency is other than English be included in such Council. Extends authorizations for research and demonstration projects under such Act to fiscal year 1981. Provides for a program of grants for fiscal years 1982 and 1983 to States for bilingual education. Provides guidelines for State applications for such bilingual education grants, including a two year comprehensive program plan and a matching funds requirement. Amends the Emergency School Aid Act to revise certain appropriations allocations and application requirements regarding (1) educational television; (2) special projects; and (3) evaluations of specific projects assisted under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit against an employer's liability for his employees' withholding tax, in the amount of certified hourly employment benefits (between $.50 and $1.00 per hour) attributable to the employment of eligible youth certified by a prime sponsor under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973, as amended by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Amendments of 1978.
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