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United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1976
Increases the amount in controversy required to establish jurisdiction in Federal courts from $10,000 to $25,000. (Amends 28 U.S.C. 1331, 1332)
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1976
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the Congress shall seek to assure that the total outlays of the Government during any fiscal year do not exceed the total receipts of the Government during such fiscal year. Directs the President to ascertain the total receipts and outlays of the Government during each fiscal year. Provides that if the total receipts are less than the total outlays, the President shall determine the percentage rate of income tax surtax to be imposed to equal the amount by which such total receipts are less than total outlays. Provides that the income tax surtax, which would otherwise be in effect for the year, may be suspended in case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1976
Amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to include in the Renewable Resource Program, national program recommendations which take into account specified policy objectives. Requires the Secretary to provide for public participation in the formulation and review of proposed land management plans for units of the National Forest System. Directs the Secretary to promulgate regulations that set out processes for the development and revision of land management plans. Requires that such regulations specify procedures to insure that plans are prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act and guidelines. Authorizes the Secretary to appraise and sell so much of the trees and other forest products found upon National Park System lands as may further the policies set forth in the Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Act and the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources and Planning Act. Repeals the requirement that such forest products be sold for use only in the State or territory in which the timber reservation from which such products were taken is located. Increases to $10,000 in appraised value the maximum value of timber and cord wood which the Secretary may sell without advertisement.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1976
Immigration and Nationality Act Amendments - Provides, under the Immigration and Nationality Act, that included within the definition of aliens are those persons coming temporarily to the United States for a period of not more than a year to perform other than exceptional services or labor if the Secretary of Labor has determined that there are not sufficient workers available at the aliens' destination who are willing and able to perform such services or labor. Limits the number of aliens born in any foreign state or dependent area located in the Eastern Hemisphere who may be issued immigrant visas or who may otherwise acquire the status of lawfully admitted aliens for permanent residence to 45,000 in the first three quarters of any fiscal year and to 170,000 in any fiscal year. Limits such immigrant visas to aliens born in any foreign state of the Western Hemisphere or in the Canal Zone, or in a dependent area located in the Western Hemisphere, to 32,000 in the first three quarters of any fiscal year and to 120,000 in any fiscal year. Provides that, exclusive of conditional entries, the number of aliens entering the United States chargeable to any single foreign state may not exceed 20,000 and to any single dependent area may not exceed 600 in any fiscal year. Sets forth criteria for determining which foreign state or dependent area will be charged for each immigrant. Entitles the Attorney General to admit to the United States any immigrant inadmissable solely because he was not entitled to an exemption to quota limitations if he could not have known before he left a foreign country to enter the United States that he would be excluded by such limitations. States that no immigrant who has been admitted or paroled into the United States may apply to have his status changed to permanent resident alien if such alien was admitted in transit without visa or if such alien accepts employment which has not been authorized by the Attorney General prior to filing such application for change of status. Prohibits the employment of any alien not lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States unless such employment is authorized by the Attorney General. Prescribes a civil penalty on an employer or one who refers such alien for employment of $500 for the first violation of this Act and a penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 for subsequent violations of this Act. Provides that violations will be determined at a hearing on record conducted before an immigration officer. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to disclose to the Attorney General the name and address of any alien not a permanent resident of the United States who is receiving benefits under the Social Security Act. Provides that when changing the status of Cuban aliens under special provisions of the law to that of permanent resident alien, the Secretary of State shall not reduce the number of visas to be issued. States that such provision shall not apply to an alien admitted or paroled into the United States after the enactment of this Act. Repeals the provisions of present law providing immediate relatives of a citizen of the United States with the exemption from entrance quotas accorded special immigrants. States that such revocation of privilege only applies to such immediate relatives who have not established a priority date on the basis of an entitlement in existence immediately prior to the effective date of this Act which is set by this Act as the first day of the first month after the expiration of 90 days following enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1976
Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to solicit or enroll any member of the armed forces in any labor organization, or for any member of the armed forces to join, or encourage other members to join, any labor union. Prescribes a penalty of not more than five years imprisonment for any individual violating this Act, and a fine of not less than $25,000 or more than $50,000 for any labor organization in violation of this Act. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 975)
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1976
Paperwork Review and Limitation Act - Requires, under the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970, that each public bill or resolution reported by a Congressional committee must be accompanied by a Paperwork Impact Statement which must assess the amount and character of the information that such bill or resolution will require of private individuals and businesses and the cost or time required of such individual or businesses. Requires each committee of Congress to review annually the reporting requirements (including the number and character of reporting forms issued and withdrawn) of any agency under such committee's jurisdiction. States that no Federal agency may collect information from ten or more persons, other than Federal employees, unless the Director of the Office of Management and Budget has approved the proposed collection and the forms to be used. Limits the Director's approval for the collection of information to one year, and provides that the forms used must indicate when such approval expires, and that such forms must indicate that no response is required if the approval date has expired. Requires each agency to report annually to the Director and Congress concerning all forms such agency has issued or withdrawn during the calendar year. Requires the Director to study the feasibility of requiring a single standard form for collecting information by all Federal agencies and to report the results of such study not later than one year after the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1976
Provides for the relief of Dr. Carlos Arturo Camacho Amador.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1976
Requires the United States Postal Service to consider specified factors in determining the need for an existing third- or fourth-class post office. Sets guidelines relating to such determinations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Transfers from Federal to State courts jurisdiction to enter decrees requiring the transportation of students or teachers to carry out a plan of racial desegregation, when such cases arise within a State. Vests appellate jurisdiction of such cases in the Supreme Court of the United States by writ of certiorari from the highest State or territorial court exercising such jurisdiction. Terminates the order of any Federal court requiring the transportation of students and teachers to carry out a plan of racial desegregation. Directs any State court of appellate jurisdiction to assume jurisdiction of such cases upon application of a party.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1976
Government Economy and Spending Reform Act - Title I: Authorizations of New Budget Authority - Terminates on specified dates budget authority for all Government programs except health care services, general retirement and disability insurance, and Federal employee retirement and disability programs which are funded by trust funds. Declares out of order in either the Senate or the House of Representatives any legislation which authorizes new budget authority not in compliance with this Act. Requires the Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on the Budget of both Houses of Congress to identify each program's functional and subfunctional category (as so characterized in the Budget of the United States, Fiscal Year 1977, transmitted to Congress by the President on January 21, 1976), the committees having legislative jurisdiction over such program, and whether such program operates under permanent authorizations and budget authority. Makes the budget termination provisions of this Act effective on the first day of the Ninety-fifth Congress. Title II: Early Elimination of Inactive and Duplicate Programs - Requires the Comptroller General of the United States to identify for Congress any programs which have duplicate objectives or for which no outlays have been made for the last two fiscal years. Directs the standing committees of both Houses to consider such programs and report recommendations on such programs before March 15, 1978, if possible. Title III: Quadrennial Program Review and Evaluation - Sets forth a timetable for reviewing the budget of a Government program. Requires review by standing committees of the Congress every four years of each program's cost, effectiveness, and the extent to which such program duplicates or is similar to any other program. States that such review shall include a comprehensive evaluation of the merits of such program to determine if it warrants continuation. Requires justification of any recommendation to fund any program which has objectives similar to or the same as another program's objectives. Directs the Comptroller General and the Congressional Budget Office to provide Congress with information and analysis of programs being reviewed under this Act. Requires the President to similarly review the merits of continuing programs contained in annual Budget and to report the finding of such review prior to transmitting the Budget to Congress. Title IV: Continuing Review and Evaluation - Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress the result of any audit which shows a substantial deficiency in achievement of the objectives of any Government program. Requires subsequent audits, a report of which must be submitted to Congress, to determine if such deficiency has been eliminated. Title V: Miscellaneous - States that those provisions of this Act which direct the operation of either House are enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of such House and recognizes the right of either House to change such rules.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1976
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning May 9, 1976, as "National Small Business Week", in recognition of the achievements and contributions which small and independent family-farmers and business men and women have made to American society.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1976
National Diabetes Advisory Board Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Diabetes Advisory Board to insure the implementation of the long-range plan formulated by the National Commission on Diabetes to combat diabetes. Specifies seven Federal health officers as members of the Board, in addition to seven health professionals and five members of the general public to be appointed by the Secretary. Makes provision for staffing and compensation. Authorizes the Board to enter into contracts or other arrangements, or to take such other action as may be necessary to carry out its functions. Authorizes the Board to engage in and sponsor activities, collect data, and provide technical assistance as it deems necessary and advisable in the performance of its functions. Requires the Board to submit simultaneously to the President and Congress an Annual Diabetes Report describing Board activities in the prior year and progress made in diabetes research, treatment, and education with specific reference to the long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus and suggesting recommended future expenditures and legislation. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and such sums as necessary for each of the four fiscal years thereafter. Authorizes the Secretary to make distinguished scientist awards to individual scientists who have shown continuous and outstanding productivity in diabetes research for the purpose of continuing such research. Limits the amount of each grant to no more than $35,000 per year. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for the purpose of making such grants in fiscal years 1976-1980. Authorizes, under the Public Health Service Act, the appropriation of specified sums in fiscal years 1977-1981 for the purpose of making grants to centers for research and training in diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic disorders.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1976
Authorizes the Senate Committee on the Judiciary to expend an amount not to exceed $4,274,400 for the period March 1, 1976, through February 28, 1977. Allocates such funds as follows: (1) $497,000 for a study of administrative practice and procedure; (2) $799,100 for a study of antitrust and monopoly; (3) $323,000 for a study of constitutional amendments; (4) $390,000 for a study of constitutional rights; (5) $245,700 for a study of criminal laws and procedures; (6) $20,000 for a study of Federal charters, holidays, and celebrations; (7) $233,500 for a study of immigration and naturalization; (8) $267,100 for a study of improvements in judicial machinery; (9) $295,300 for a study of administration, operation, and enforcement of laws relating to espionage, sabotage, and the protection of the internal security of the United States; (10) $419,800 for a study of juvenile delinquency; (11) $168,000 for a study of patents, trademarks, and copyrights; (12) $220,000 for a study of refugees and escapees; and (13) $293,000 to study the separation of powers between the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of Government. Directs the committee to report its findings and recommendations for legislation to the Senate no later than February 28, 1977. Provides that expenses of the committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Regulatory Review Act - Requires that all regulations proposed by any officer or agency of the United States be submitted to the Congress for review. Requires each submission to include a report of the probable effects of such regulation on the Federal and State governments and consumers. Provides that such regulations will become effective 60 legislative days after submission to the Congress or later if so provided for by such regulation unless either House of Congress adopts a resolution disapproving such regulation. States that this Act shall not apply to regulations dealing with national security, foreign affairs, agency management, or personnel matters.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1976
Requests the President to engage in the negotiation of agreements with other nations to help prevent acts of terrorism by, among other means, denying assistance or asylum to persons who perpetuate acts of terrorism, and by invoking sanctions against any nation which gives assistance or grants asylum to such person.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Amends the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 to stipulate that price controls shall not apply to the first sale of crude oil produced from domestic wells whose daily production of crude oil for the preceding year did not exceed ten barrels per well.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1975
Provides that the small farm extension, research and development programs established pursuant to the Rural Development Act shall be conducted by the Federal-State Cooperative Extension Services. States that the duties of the Extension Services shall be expanded to include a study to identify small farmers in each State and to determine their resources, abilities, education and willingness to upgrade their farm operation through improved farm management practices (presently the research is limited to new approaches for small farms in management, agricultural production, techniques, new products, and marketing). Requires the Secretary of Agriculture and the Federal-State Cooperative Extension Services to implement a program to improve operations of small farmers, to establish procedures for evaluating the social and economic consequences of such program, and to submit an annual report to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate regarding the extent to which the objectives of the program provided for in this subsection are being achieved. Defines "small farmer" as any person who depends on farming as his primary source of income, whose gross annual sales from farming operations are less than $20,000, and whose income from nonfarm sources is less than $5,000.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1975
Regulatory Reform Act - States Congress' finding that Government economic regulation has become a burden to American business, consumers, and the economy. Requires the President to submit at least once a year a plan designed to eliminate regulation which has led to inflationary consumer prices or a reduction of competition. Directs that each plan establish more efficient organizational and administrative forms for the regulation of commerce, and include provisions necessary to modify or abolish existing agencies and functions so as to eliminate overlapping regulatory jurisdictions, and anticompetitive and duplicative regulations. Defines terms as used in this Act. Provides that the President shall submit each plan required by this Act to the Congress for review by the Committees on Government Operations of the House of Representatives and Senate. Requires such committees to review the plan and report a bill approving or disapproving such plan in whole or in part, with such amendments as are deemed appropriate. Directs that in the event no regulatory reform legislation has been enacted with respect to any area covered by this Act, all rules of any agency described in the President's plan shall be of no force or effect after the last day of June in the calendar year next following the calendar year in which such plan was submitted.
United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1975
Provides that before any rule promulgated by any agency can become effective, it must be submitted to the Congress for approval. Requires that an economic impact statement accompany such submission. Authorizes agencies to make rules which impose a penalty upon an employer of an employee who violates any rule or regulation in effect against such employer. States that no agency may require an applicant or a party to an agency proceeding to provide such agency with information or documents which have been previously furnished to such agency or which are not directly relevant to such application or proceeding. Entitles the applicant for any license to reimbursement by such agency for the complete costs of such party's application if such agency has not made a final determination in the licensing proceeding within six months of the date of announcement of the initiation of any such proceeding.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1975
Provides that counseling offered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to veterans eligible for educational assistance may include assisting any veteran: (1) to select the occupation or training objective suitable to him in terms of his personal circumstances, characteristics, financial resources, dependent responsibilities and other relevant factors; (2) to select the occupation or training objective which will provide him, after he has developed the required job skills, with reasonable opportunities for employment and with job satisfaction; (3) to select the educational institution that will effectively assist him in attaining his educational or vocational objective; and (4) to develop a program of education that will lead to a recognized and predetermined educational, vocational, technical or professional objective within the veteran's period of entitlement. Authorizes specified veterans pursuing full-time programs of institutional training to apply to have their monthly educational assistance allowance accelerated.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating July 2, 1976, as an official holiday. Calls upon all States to encourage individuals to participate in Bicentennial celebrations organized for the weekend of July 4, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1975
Increases the authorization for supplemental expenditures by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for inquiries and investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1975
Authorizes the extension of the provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act to members of the National Guard when such members are engaged in training duty under specified Federal law.
United States · United States Congress · 20 November 1975
Provides for the designation, at the Department of the Treasury and in the Congress, (as part of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation), of experts on long-range tax simplification and tax reform for small business.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1975
States that Congress has not delegated to the Federal Trade Commission any authority to determine whether, or to what extent, any rule issued under the Federal Trade Act preempts the laws of the States.
United States · United States Congress · 10 November 1975
Authorizes additional expenditures of $25,000 by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary for inquiries and investigations within its jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1975
Allows a tax deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code, of an amount equal to 25 percent of the gross income from a geothermal steam and geothermal resources property. States that such deduction may not exceed 50 percent of the taxpayer's taxable income from the property.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the current violence in Lebanon is deplorable. Disapproves any unilateral intervention of any nation in the conflict. Declares that the United States should provide, through the United Nations, on request of the Government of Lebanon, humanitarian aid.
United States · United States Congress · 30 October 1975
Provides for the relief of Margret Chun.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make financial assistance available to agricultural producers who suffer losses as the result of having their agricultural commodities or livestock quarantined or condemned because such commodities or livestock have been found to contain toxic chemicals dangerous to the public health. Directs that the amount of each such loan shall be limited to $100,000. Provides that such loans shall not be available to any producer who has been fully compensated for the loss for which the loan is requested. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 October 1975
Revises the Internal Security Act to provide that any person convicted of terrorism or against whom there is produced convincing evidence that he has engaged in terroristic activities shall not be admitted to or granted citizenship in the United States. Directs that any such person who gains admittance to the United States by fraudulently concealing such prior activity be deported upon production of evidence of such activity. Provides that any person not subject to jurisdiction of the United States who advocates any crime of terrorism shall not be admitted into the United States except to appear as a witness for the prosecution of a criminal case or to appear as a defendant in such a case. Directs that it shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to send or receive anything of value for the purpose of committing any crime of terrorism. Specifies that it shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly possess, or dispose of, anything of value gained by any crime of terrorism. Provides that a violation of this Act shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or ten years imprisonment, or both. Requires that any person convicted in the United States of a crime of terrorism which resulted in the death of a hostage shall be imprisoned for life and shall be ineligible for any parole, time off for good behavior or any mitigation of sentence whatsoever. Grants the United States a civil right of action to impose a constructive trust upon all property acquired by violation of any Federal criminal statue and upon the fruit or product thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word "person", as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development. Provides that no person shall be deprived of life by any person. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause the death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 20 October 1975
Constitutional Amendment - States that, with respect to the right to life, the word 'person,' as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth amendments to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency. Provides that this article shall not apply in an emergency when a reasonable medical certainty exists that continuation of the pregnancy will cause death of the mother.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1975
Authorizes funds under the Rural Development Act through September 30, 1979, for rural development and small farm research and education programs.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1975
Stipulates that Members of Congress may not, for purposes of State income tax laws, be treated as residents of any State other than the State from which they were elected. (Amends 4 U.S.C. 113)
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1975
Provides for the holding of terms of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Mississippi in Corinth, Mississppi.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should, upon his visit to the People's Republic of China, request that the Chinese officials use their offices to obtain an accounting of members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action and confined as prisoners of war in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1975
Provides an additional personal exemption of $1,000 to the taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code for each senior citizen whose principal place of abode is in the principal residence of the taxpayer, unless the taxpayer is allowed a deduction for trade or business expense for the housing of such senior citizen.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Title I: Rice Allotments and Price Support - Rice Production Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, to establish for each of the 1976 and 1977 rice crops a national acreage allotment of 1,800,000 acres. States that the national acreage allotment shall be apportioned, for each crop of rice, by the Secretary to farms and producers on the basis of allotments established for the 1975 crop. Provides for reserving a portion of the rice allotment for apportionment to new rice farms and new rice producers. Sets forth criteria for reducing or withdrawing entirely the rice allotment of a farm or producer which plants to rice less than the total acreage allotted to it for that crop. Defines exceptions to such criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer for any year because of natural disaster all or a part of such rice acreage for any farm in the county or in any other nearby county on which one or more producers on the farm from which the transfer is to be made will be engaged in the production of rice and will share in the proceeds in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. Directs the Secretary to permit the owner and operator of any farm for which a farm acreage allotment has been established to sell or lease all or any part to any other owner or operator of a farm in the same administrative area, or to transfer all or any part of such allotment to any other farm owned or controlled by him in the same administrative area. Provides for the apportionment among the heirs of a rice producer of the farm rice acreage allotment of such producer in States in which the allotment is based on past production of rice. Provides for apportionment of acreage upon dissolution of a partnership in such States. Provides for the voluntary surrender to the county committee of a portion of a farm's rice acreage allotment. States that any acreage planted to rice in excess of the farm or producer acreage allotment in the crop years 1975 and 1977 shall not be taken into account in establishing farm or producer acreage allotments in any year following such period. Establishes, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, the price to be used in making payments on rice under the price support program. Sets the price for the 1976 crop at $8 per hundredweight, adjusted for economic and agricultural factors designated in this Act. Bases the 1977 price on the price paid in 1976 as adjusted. Directs the Secretary to make loans and purchases on the 1976 rice crop available to producers who are in cooperation with the rice acreage allotment at a rate of $6 per hundredweight as adjusted for economic and agricultural factors. Bases 1977 loans and purchases on the price paid in 1976 as adjusted. Directs the Secretary to make payments available to cooperators for each of the 1976 and 1977 rice crops. Sets forth criteria for determining the rate of such payments and the total amount of such payments to a cooperator. Directs the Secretary to provide for a set-aside of cropland for a rice crop if an excessive supply of rice for the marketing year under consideration is predicted. Declares that, if set-aside conditions are in effect, cooperators, as a condition of eligibility for payments, loans, and purchases must set aside and devote to conservation uses an acreage of cropland specified in this Act. Authorizes the raising of specified crops other than rice on set-aside acreage. Limits to $55,000 the total amount of payments which a person shall be entitled to receive during a crop year under this rice program. Makes inapplicable to the 1976 and 1977 crops of rice those sections of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which regulate the apportionment of the national acreage allotment and marketing quotas with respect to rice. Title II: Rice Research - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out regional and national research programs with respect to rice for specified purposes, including: (1) to reduce fertilizer and herbicide usage in excess of production needs; (2) to develop varieties of rice more susceptible to complete fertilizer utilization; and (3) to improve the resistance of rice plants to disease and to enhance their conservation and environmental qualities. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $1,000,000 in any fiscal year to carry out such research. Title III: Miscellaneous - Provides, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, that for the 1975 through 1977 crops of rice, a cooperator shall be a person who has a rice acreage allotment, and, if a set-aside is in effect, who has set aside the acreage required.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
States that whenever any officer in the executive branch of the Federal Government proposes to prescribe any rule or regulation, or change any existing rule or regulation, such rule or regulation must be submitted to each House of Congress together with a report containing a full explantion thereof. Provides that no such rule shall become effective if the Congress disapproves it within a sixty-day period. Specifies that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to regulations dealing with national security, foreign affairs, agency management, or personnel matters.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Increases the authorization of appropriations from $2,050,000 to $4,050,000 in order to complete the Mission 66 Bypass Road at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Comprehensive Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act - Title I: Domestic Oil Pollution Liability, Compensation and Fund - Establishes a fund of $200,000,000 in the Tresury to carry out the purposes of this title. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to collect a fee from owners of oil refineries and from owners of export-import terminals to maintain the fund at that level. Permits recovery of damages from the fund for loss or injuries due to oil contamination. Imposes strict liability on the owner and operator of a ship or oil facility for all damages due to discharged oil. States that no liability shall be imposed where the discharge was caused solely by: (1) an act of war; (2) an act of God; or (3) a combination thereof. Establishes limits on such liability. Requires vessels or ships over three hundred gross tons to file evidence of financial responsibility to the extent of the limit of liability. Sets forth penalties for violations of the provisions of this title. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to carry out the purpose of this title. Title II: International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage - Stipulates that ship owners shall be liable for pollution damage caused by oil discharges. Limits such liability to an aggregate amount equal to the dollar equivalent of 2000 francs for each ton of the ship's tonnage. Requires the owner to guranatee his limited liability by establishing a fund or equivalent guarantee. Provides for the issuance of certificates to attest that insurance or an equivalent guarantee has been obtained. Title III: International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage - Establishes an international fund for compensation for oil pollution damage. Sets forth provisions governing contributions to the fund. States that any person suffering pollution damage arising out of an incident occurring more than one hundred and twenty days after the entry into force of the convention shall be entitled to compensation from the fund if that person has been unable to obtain full and adequate compensation for the damage under the terms of this Act. Stipulates that the fund shall incur no obligation for pollution damage resulting from an act of war or if the claimant cannot prove that the damage resulted from an incident involving one or more ships. Limits the aggregate amount of liability for any one incident to the dollar equivalent of 450,000,000 francs. Title IV: Apportionment of Claims and Subrogation; Exclusive Remedy; Effective Date; Conforming Amendments - Sets forth provisions governing the apportionment of claims which exceed the liability limit imposed by this Act. Provides that no action for compensation for oil pollution damage may be maintained unless it is in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Makes technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture to submit, to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate, a plan for the eradication of the animal disease brucellosis over a five-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1975
Makes it a Federal crime to use false documents or make false use of official documents to obtain official identification. Makes the production, sale, or transmission of false documents to be used in obtaining official identification a Federal crime. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 1028, 1029)
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 · 10 July 1975
Land and Water Resource Conservation Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to achieve and maintain: (1) quality and quantity in the national resource base of land and water for sustained use; (2) quality in the environment; and (3) quality in the standard of living based on community improvement and adequate income. Provides for an appraisal of the land and water resources of the Nation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a program for furthering the protection and enhancement of land and water resources on private and non-Federal lands. Requires the Secretary to formulate a resource appraisal by December 31, 1976, and in each five-year interval thereafter. Directs the development, through the Soil Conservation Service, of a National Land and Water Conservation Program. Stipulates that the program shall set forth the direction of future soil and water conservation efforts based on the current resource appraisal as formulated under the provisions of this Act. Requires a report to be transmitted to the Congress on the first day Congress convenes in 1977, and each five-year interval thereafter. Defines the terms used in this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 July 1975
Requires States to permit motor vehicle drivers to turn right on red lights as a condition for receiving Federal funds under the Federal-Aid Highway Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Livestock Marketing Reform Act - Title I: General Provisions and Definitions - Declares that it is in the public interest to apply open, free, and competitive factors to purchases and sales of livestock in commerce. Defines terms used in this Act. Title II: Livestock Marketing Commission - Establishes the Livestock Marketing Commission to be composed of three commissioners appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Empowers the Commission to prevent persons or organizations subject to this Act or combinations of persons and organizations, as defined herein, from engaging in transactions or practices, or both transactions and practices, which are declared unlawful, unfair, or illegal by this Act. Title III: Advisory Board - Directs the Commission to establish an Advisory Board to advise and consult with the Commission on questions affecting the livestock industry and the exercise of the Commission's functions. Title IV: Jurisdiction - Places jurisdiction over violations of the provisions of this Act under the district courts of the United States. Empowers the Commission to investigate suspected violations of the provisions of this Act. Grants the Commission the power to subpena witnesses and require the production of evidence. Title V: Unlawful Transactions - Declares it unlawful for persons engaged in the livestock business to: (1) commit any act of fraud or deceit; (2) misrepresent a material fact with intent to mislead any person; or (3) steal, appropriate, or embezzle livestock or money. Title VI: Illegal Marketing Practices - Declares it an unfair marketing practice, and illegal, for any livestock market, livestock dealer, or livestock broker, in the course of his, or its, business, in commerce to: (1) violate any of the provisions of this Act relating to financial responsibility; (2) violate any of the provisions of this Act relating to scales and weighing; (3) knowingly be a party to any act not done in "good faith" in the sense of that term as defined with respect to the definition of "merchant" in the provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State in which any livestock marketing transaction originated or was consummated; (4) conspire, combine, or arrange with any other person to fix, manipulate, or control the prices of livestock; and (5) become voluntarily involved in unfair methods of competition, deceptive acts or practices. Title VII: Financial Responsibility - Requires every livestock market, livestock dealer, and livestock broker to maintain a financial position reflecting total assets in excess of total liabilities under established accounting principles customary and usual to those businesses. Requires every such market, dealer, and broker to settle by check, draft, or other bankable instrument from secured funds each livestock purchase or sale transaction in commerce involving any other such market, dealer, or broker upon completion of such transaction. Requires every such market, dealer, and broker to maintain a current daily balance and reconciliation of all seller and buyer accounts in commerce involving any other such market, dealer, or broker. Title VIII: Scales and Weighing - Requires the use of fully modern and accurate scales in each livestock transaction in which the sale price is determined by the weight of the livestock. Title IX: Multiple Businesses - States that it is legal for livestock markets, dealers, or brokers to engage in other businesses. Title X: Arbitration - Directs the Commission to establish and conduct arbitration procedures for the settlement of disputes arising out of livestock transactions. Title XI: Penalties - Provides punishment by fine or imprisonment for a violation of Title V of this Act. Provides for the issuance of a cease and desist order with respect to any illegal marketing practices enumerated in Title VI of this Act. Title XII: Repealing Clauses - Repeals specified provisions of existing statutes. Title XIII: General Provisions - States that if any part of this Act is held to be invalid, the remainder shall not be affected thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Applies the protection of the Federal Seed Act to a variety of seed while an application for a certificate of plant variety protection is pending.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Provides that specified publications of institutions of higher education shall continue to qualify as second-class mail. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3626)