United States · United States Congress · 1 December 1977
Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code to include all Members of Congress and other officers and employees in the legislative branch of the Government under the Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance system.
United States · United States Congress · 29 November 1977
Authorizes the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the Department of the Interior to make loans and grants to Indian museums for operational expenses and for management personnel and support expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1977
Prohibits denial of employment (except by an employer with no more than ten employees) to any person because of any obligation as a member of a Reserve component of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior from increasing the grazing fee for the 1978 grazing year in order to allow Congress sufficient time to analyze the Secretaries' report and recommendations with respect to the value of grazing on public lands and the fee to be charged for domestic livestock grazing on such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 3 November 1977
Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants to assist medical schools in the establishment and operation, within such schools, of education programs in geriatrics.
United States · United States Congress · 2 November 1977
Waives certain requirements of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of H.R. 5322 or H.R. 9346 (Social Security financing).
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1977
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior should impose a moratorium with respect to any increase in the charges currently being made for grazing livestock on public lands for such a period as may be necessary to permit the appropriate committees of the Congress a reasonable opportunity to hold hearings on the proposed new formula.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a specified sum to certain individuals in full settlement of such individuals' claims against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 27 October 1977
Refers S. 2246 to the Chief Commissioner of the Court of Claims for a report of findings and conclusions sufficient to inform the Congress of the nature and character of the demand as a claim against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1977
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development should not implement the proposed reorganization of the field and insuring offices of the Department of Housing and Urban Development prior to the time when the appropriate committees of the Congress have had an opportunity to hold hearings on such reorganization.
United States · United States Congress · 25 October 1977
Declares it the sense of the Senate that the President should instruct the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, (1) to submit to the General Assembly a resolution to deny sanctuary to international airline hijackers; (2) to direct the United States delegation to the United Nations to secure international cooperation in reducing, and eliminating, airline hijackings and other acts of terrorism and toward enhancing airport security systems; and (3) to call upon all United Nations members to adhere to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1977
Copper Environmental Equalization Act - Title I: Amendments to the Tariff Schedules of the United States - Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to impose additional customs duties on copper. Title II: Adjustments to Copper Equalization Duty - Directs the President to adjust the customs duties on copper by an amount equal to the excess of the United States environmental production costs over foreign environmental production costs if such article exceeds ten cents per pound. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe a procedure for proposal of such adjustments. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to determine such production costs. Title III: Amendment to the Trade Act of 1974 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to make certain copper imports ineligible for the Generalized System of Preferences. Title IV: Effective Date - Declares this Act effective upon enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 19 October 1977
States that during the year following the enactment of this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall neither withhold water delivery from any beneficiary of a Federal reclamation project nor initiate any proceeding intended to require the sale of privately owned bonds within any project, for purposes of achieving conformity with acreage limitations or residency requirements of reclamation law. Prohibits the Secretary from approving the sale of excess lands during the year following the enactment of this Act unless final excess land regulation become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1977
Amends Senate Resolution 147 (95th Congress) to authorize supplemental expenditures by the Special Committee on Aging for inquiries and investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1977
Declares it the sense of the Congress that the President should instruct the Secretary of State to request the Secretary General of the United Nations to work through existing United Nations agencies to secure a full accounting of Americans listed as missing in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1977
Designates the South Portal Federal Office Building of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare at 200 Independence Avenue Southwest, Washington, D. C., as the "Hubert H. Humphrey Building."
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1977
Directs the Administrator of General Services to sell 30,000 tons of tin from the national or supplemental stockpile of strategic materials and to use the proceeds of such sale to purchase at least 250,000 tons of copper for inclusion in the national stockpile.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1977
Tuition Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a credit against an individual's income tax in an amount equal to 50 percent of the sum of the amounts paid by him to educational institutions as tuition (though no more than $500 for any single individual) for the attendance of the taxpayer, the taxpayer's spouse, or any of his dependents with respect to whom he is entitled to a personal exemption.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1977
Indian Tribal Governmental Tax Status Act - Provides that recognized Indian tribes shall be treated as State governments in determining the tax treatment of: (1) charitable donations to the tribes; (2) excise tax liability on special fuels; manufacturing, communications and highway motor vehicles use; (3) tribal colleges fellowships, scholarships, and universities; (4) tribal taxes; (5) tribal retirement systems and donations to employee benefit systems; (6) contributions to candidates for tribal offices; and (7) interest on tribal bonds and other obligations. Defines "recognized Indian tribes" to include all tribes, bands, communities, villages, and groups of Indians and Alaska Natives which are designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, as performing substantial governmental functions.
United States · United States Congress · 22 September 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) remove the adjusted gross income limitation on the credit for the elderly; (2) increase the amount of the credit; and (3) provide an annual cost-of-living adjustment for the credit.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1977
Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from determining a 45-acre cabin site at Conchas Lake, New Mexico to be in excess of project needs prior to 1996, unless such determination is agreed to by the Governor of New Mexico. Prohibits the Secretary from requiring the removal or sale and purchase of cabins or other privately owned improvements unless agreed to by the Governor of New Mexico.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1977
Continues the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs through December 31, 1979. Authorizes the expenditure of additional funds, not to exceed $250,000 per annum, by the Select Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977
Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to establish special first sale prices for crude oil which is owned by a State or political subdivision thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977
Amends provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act which permit hiring full-time students at less than the minimum wage to, among other revisions, (1) repeal the requirement that an employee obtain prior certification and (2) include youths under 19 during their first 180 days of employment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1977
Title I: Amendments to Title XVIII of the Social Security Act - Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to permit payment under part A (Hospital Insurance Benefits for the Aged and Disabled) of such Title for home care services furnished an individual up to 100 visits. Removes the 100 visit limitation presently applicable to home care services under the supplementary medical insurance program and provides for payment of home care visits not covered by part A of such Title. Includes among the items and services provided under home health care personal and home support services with respect to personal hygiene and care, preparation of meals, shopping, transportation, and light housekeeping services. Title II: Amendments to Title XIX of the Social Security Act - Amends Title XIX (Medicaid) to require the inclusion of home care services in an approved State plan under such Title.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1977
Expresses the displeasure of the Senate toward any policy of the Internal Revenue Service which changes through administrative interpretation long-standing applications of the internal revenue laws. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Internal Revenue Service refrain from changing its policy with respect to taxation of benefits given to employees, without submission of any proposed changes to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1977
Regulatory Flexibility Act - Requires Federal agencies to: (1) assess the costs of private information collection and compliance which are or would be imposed by existing or proposed agency rules; (2) compare such impositions with the importance of the public policy achieved or to be achieved by such rules; and (3) determine whether such rules should apply to the same extent to individuals, and organizations of various sizes and resources. Requires, in the event that it is determined that such proposed rules, will have a substantial effect on any significant number of small businesses, that such rules be submitted to the Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration. Requires such Office to comment on the impact of such proposed rules on smaller enterprises. Requires such comments to be made public and available to Federal personnel responsible for reviewing such rules. Directs that proposed rules be issued in two or more parts when the analysis of such rules indicates the desirability of applying varying requirements for performance or reporting depending on the resources of the organization or individual required to comply with such rules.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977
Extends, by two months through January, 1978, the compulsory completion date of federally assisted construction activities undertaken to mitigate the impact of the drought of 1976-1977. Terminates the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to provide drought relief on November 30, 1977. Increases the number of uses to which funds authorized by law to facilitate emergency actions to mitigate the impacts of the 1976-1977 drought may be put. Removes limitations on the amount which the Secretary may extend to any State water resource agency for drought relief.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977
Foreign Surveillance Prevention Act - Directs the President, whenever an individual with diplomatic immunity is engaged in electronic surveillance for a foreign power: (1) to inform certain Members of Congress; (2) to inform the targets of the surveillance unless to do so would compromise intelligence gathering by the United States; (3) to demand that such surveillance cease unless to do so would compromise intelligence gathering by the United States; and (4) to declare such individual to be persona non grata if the surveillance is not ceased and to demand that such individual leave the United States unless to do so would seriously damage national security.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that the United States Tax Court may issue a reviewable declaratory judgment as to whether a precedential revenue ruling issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, which modifies a revenue ruling issued at least five years earlier, is consistent with the internal revenue laws to which such ruling relates.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat as a scholarship and to exclude from gross income any amounts received by an individual under the Armed Forces health professions scholarship program or the National Health Service Corps scholarship program.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1977
National Crude Oil Supply and Transportation Act - Expresses the intent of Congress that the continuation of a transportation system to deliver Alaskan crude oil to Northern Tier or inland States be accomplished through expedited administrative procedures. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a time schedule for the completion of required environmental impact statements in order to select a crude oil transportation system by February 1, 1978. Establishes criteria to be considered by the Secretary in selecting a transportation route. Directs the Secretary and other appropriate Federal officials to take all actions necessary to provide rights of way, permits, leases, and other authorizations necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the transportation system approved under this Act. Declares that the actions of Federal officers and agencies under this Act shall not be subject to judicial review by the courts. Allows for claims that: (1) actions under this Act will deny Constitutional rights; and (2) actions taken are beyond the scope of authority conferred by this Act, provided that such claims are filed within 60 days following the date of the challenged action. Vests exclusive jurisdiction to hear such claims in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, acting as a special court. Stipulates that any judicial proceedings should be completed at the earliest possible date. Declares that nothing in this Act shall authorize or imply an exemption from provisions of the antitrust laws.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1977
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Salinas National Monument in the State of New Mexico. Abolishes the Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico, and transfers any funds available for such monument to the Salinas National Monument.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Guayule Rubber Demonstration and Economic Development Act - Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a program of research, development, and demonstration of guayule rubber production and manufacture as an economic development opportunity for the southwestern States. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative projects with the Government of Mexico to accomplish this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain individuals to compute the amount of the deduction for retirement savings on the basis of the earned income of their spouses.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1977
Exempts the Rio Grande project, in the States of New Mexico and Texas from the acreage limitation provisions of Federal reclamation laws which limit the acreage of irrigable land which may receive irrigation benefits from, through or by means of Federal reclamation works.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1977
Optional Educational Simplification Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to provide an optional program of consolidation and simplification of certain Federal assistance programs to State and local educational agencies, and to provide such agencies with greater flexibility in the use of such assistance. Title I: Special Needs Programs - Directs States desiring to participate in such a program to design their programs to; (1) meet the special educational needs of children from low income families; (2) provide health, nutritional, and educational services of such children, including preschool children and those previously enrolled in Headstart or Follow Through programs; (3) meet the educational needs of migratory children, including preschool children; (4) meet the educational needs of handicapped children, and establish standards for such programs; and (5) provide bilingual instruction for children with limited English speaking ability, and such instruction and bilingual vocational training programs for adults. Specifies how a State shall allocate funds to local educational agencies for each of such programs under this Title. Title II: Vocational, Adult, and Continuing Education and Employment Training - Authorizes Federal grants to assist States to; (1) extend programs of vocational, homemaking, and consumer education; (2) develop new programs of vocational education; (3) develop and carry out programs to overcome sex discrimination and sex stereotyping in vocational education programs; and (4) provide part-time employment for youths in order for them to continue vocational training. Sets forth the programs for which funds provided under this Title may be used. Requires a State desiring to participate in such consolidation program authorized by such Act to develop programs for adult basic education and for children in adult correctional institutions. Requires a participating State to show how its education training programs relate to manpower programs established under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year ending prior to October 1, 1982, funds for such programs. Provides for the distribution of Federal funds to local educational agencies by the States for programs under this Title, and defines how they are to be allocated. Title III: Special Emphasis Projects - Requires a participating State to provide funds to local educational agencies for: (1) school library resources; (2) instructional equipment; (3) model elementary and secondary school programs; (4) counseling, testing, and guidance services; (5) nutrition and health services in low income area elementary and secondary schools; (6) programs aimed at lowering the dropout rate in secondary schools with high dropout rates; (7) strengthening the leadership resources of State and local educational agencies; (8) encouraging the use of the metric system; (9) education of gifted children; (10) career education; (11) educational equity for women; (12) drug and alcohol abuse projects; (13) curriculum materials on American ethnic groups and their contributions; (14) the Teacher Corps; (15) programs aimed at children with reading deficiencies; and (16) environmental activities. Directs that local educational agencies establish the needs and priorities of such programs. Provides for the allocation of State funds under this Title to local agencies. Title IV: General Provisions - Provides for the reserving of certain funds from the amounts appropriated to carry out programs consolidated by such Act, and the allocation of such reserved funds among those States participating in the consolidation program. Directs the United States Commissioner of Education to pay to each participating State an amount equal to the amount expended in that State for carrying out the State plan adopted pursuant to this Title. Provides for a participating State to receive a planning grant for use in preparing the comprehensive plan required by such Act. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year ending prior to October 1, 1981, to make these planning grants. Requires a State desiring to receive a grant for such consolidation program to; (1) designate a State agency to administer the financial assistance made available under this Act; (2) develop a four-year plan with an annual update; and (3) submit such plan or update to the Commissioner for his approval. Authorizes grants to States for the costs of administering the consolidation program. Requires a participating State to establish certain procedures for use in developing its comprehensive plan designed to assure: (1) the identification of children and adults with special educational and vocational needs; (2) determination of priorities by local education agencies; (3) participation of interested citizens, local government units, appropriate State agencies in the development of the plan; (4) coordination of consolidation funds with State, local, and other Federal funds extended for similar purposes; and (5) publication of the final plan or annual update. Deems a State plan to meet the necessary requirements if it includes; (1) the goals and program objectives; (2) the assessments of needs determined above; (3) the types of individuals to be served and the estimated enrollment of each program; (4) procedures to assure the proper distribution of funds as authorized by such Act; (5) a description of the program's administrative structure; (6) procedures for monitoring the local educational agencies; (7) procedures that the State will use to insure that any local educational agency receiving funds under such Act will annually develop or update a comprehensive plan for the use of such funds; (8) procedures for auditing local educational agency expenditures under such Act; (9) Minimum expenditures of funds from non-Federal sources; (10) procedures to assure that funds made available under such Act supplement and not supplant State and local funds; (11) due process procedures, including withholding of funds, available to a State against a local educational agency which has failed to implement a comprehensive program plan; and (12) an appeal process within the State for a local educational agency dissatisfied with such State's compliance with such Act. Provides for an annual evaluation of a State's program by the Commissioner. Authorizes the Commissioner to conduct annual monitoring programs of States' programs, and to establish procedures to rectify areas of noncompliance. Directs the Commissioner to provide technical assistance upon request of State and local educational agencies. Directs the Commissioner to issue grants to participating States for interstate programs of educational research and planning, and common administrative problems. Authorizes appropriations of $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending prior to October 1, 1982, to carry out such provision. Directs that the consolidation program authorized by this Act be administered by a separate Federal administrative unit to be established within 60 days after enactment of this Act. Provides the Commissioner with certain enforcement procedures against participating States, and provides such States with judicial recourse against such action. Authorizes the use of funds paid to a State under this Act for construction purposes where such construction funds would have been available under a program consolidated under this Act. Subjects funds made available under this Act to certain civil rights requirements. Provides the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with certain enforcement procedures against local educational agencies not in compliance with such requirements. Provides for the participation of eligible children in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and Indian tribal schools in the programs authorized under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1977
Federal Computer Systems Protection Act - Makes it a Federal crime for a person to directly or indirectly access or cause to be accessed for fraudulent purposes a computer system affecting commerce or having a connection with a Federal agency or financial institution.
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