United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1974
Criminal Justice Information Control and Protection of Privacy Act - Title I: Findings and Declaration of Policy; Definitions; Applicability - Declares that in order to insure the security of criminal justice information systems, and to protect the privacy of individuals named in such systems, it is necessary and proper for the Congress to regulate the exchange of such information. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Describes the information systems to which this Act applies, including those operated by the Federal Government, and to which it does not apply, including original books of entry or police blotters. Title II: Collection and Dissemination of Criminal Justice Information, Criminal Justice Investigations Information and Criminal Justice Intelligence Information - Prescribes the procedures for: (1) dissemination, access, and use of criminal justice information by criminal justice agencies; (2) dissemination of identification record and wanted persons record information; (3) dissemination, access, and use of criminal justice information by noncriminal justice agencies; and (4) dissemination, access, and use of criminal justice information with respect to appointments and employment investigations. Prohibits agencies having access to criminal justice information from disseminating it to others not authorized to have it or from using it for a purpose not authorized by this Act, with limited exceptions with regard to rehabilitation officials. Places limitations on access to criminal justice information via categories other than name. Requires every agency information system covered by this Act to promulgate regulations on security, accuracy, updating and purging. Sets out what such regulations must provide. Requires every agency or information system to establish a process for access and challenge of incorrect or inaccurate information. Details what such regulations must provide. Places limitations on the collection and dissemination of intelligence information. States that such information may not be maintained in automated systems and must be kept separate and apart from all other criminal justice files. Enumerates the conditions under which criminal justice investigative information may be disclosed. Title III: Administrative Provisions; Regulations; Civil Remedies; Criminal Penalties - Creates a Criminal Justice Information Systems Board to have responsibility for the administration and enforcement of this Act. Requires each State to establish a central administrative agency, separate and apart from existing criminal justice agencies, with authority to oversee operation of criminal justice information systems in that State. Requires every information system or agency to give public notice, once annually, of the type of information it collects and disseminates, its sources, purpose, administrative director and other pertinent information. Requires audits of systems and agencies which collect and disseminate information. States that such audits are to be conducted by the Board, by the State agency, and by each criminal justice system. Permits the Federal Government to operate an interstate criminal justice information system under the policy control of the Board. Limits information contained in such system. Lists administrative actions that may be taken by the Board in the event that a criminal justice information system is found to have violated any provision of this Act. Provides the judicial machinery for the exercise of the right granted in this Act. Provides that aggrieved individuals may obtain both injunctive relief and damages, $100 recovery for each violation, actual and general damages, and attorney's fees. Provides criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Provides that any State regulation which imposes stricter privacy requirements on the operation of criminal justice information systems or upon the exchange of criminal justice information takes precedence over this Act or any regulations issued pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as the Congress deems necessary for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1974
Freedom From Military Surveillance Act - Restricts, under the first amendment and fourth amendment to the Constitution and the constitutional right of privacy, the actions of any civil officer of the United States or any member of the Armed Forces of the United States from using the Armed Forces of the United States to exercise surveillance of civilians or to execute the civil laws. Provides for actual and punitive damages, as well as reasonable attorney's costs, upon the success of an action against such persons for a violation of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1974
Watergate Reorganization and Reform Act - Title I: Establishment of Government Offices - Establishes, as an independent establishment of the Government, the Office of the Public Attorney, under the direction of the Public Attorney, appointed by three retired courts of appeals judges designated by the Chief Justice of the United States. States that no individual may serve as Public Attorney unless agreeing not to occupy any popularly elected office under the United States or to accept any other employment in the Government for five years aftter termination of services as the Public Attorney. Directs the Public Attorney to investigate and prosecute: (1) allegations of corruption in the administration of the laws by the executive branch of the Government; (2) cases referred by the Attorney General because of actual or potential conflicts of interest; (3) criminal cases referred to him by the Federal Election Commission; and (4) allegations of violations of Federal laws relating to campaigns and elections for elective office. Requires the Public Attorney to notify the Attorney General of the initiation of an investigation or proceeding with respect to such matters. Limits the Attorney General's activities in any such matters without prior written approval and requires him to inform the Public Attorney of any investigation which falls udner the Public Attorney's jurisdiction. Enumerates the powers of the Public Attorney, including: (1) to issue appropriate instructions to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other domestic investigative agencies of the United States; (2) to receive appropriate national security clearances; and (3) to exercise all other powers as to the conduct of criminal investigations, prosecutions (including prosecutions for perjury committed in the course of any investigation or judicial or legislative hearing with respect to any matter within his jurisdiction), civil proceedings, and appeals within his jurisdiction that would otherwise be vested exclusively in the Attorney General and the United States attorney. Details the administrative powers of the Public Attorney. Makes unlawful the disclosure of specifiec confidential information to persons who are likely to or have become the subject of an investigation by the Public Attorney, with enumerated limitations, and imposes criminal penalties for so doing. Establishes within the Congress a Congressional Legal Service, under the direction of the Congressional Legal Counsel appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate. Enumerates the duties of the Congressional Legal Counsel, including: to render, upon request of either House of Congress, a joint committee of Congress, any committee of either House of Congress, at least three Senators, or twelve Members of the House of Representatives, legal opinions upon questions arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States. Authorizes to be appointed such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions relating to the Office of the Congressional Legal Counsel and such sums as may be necessary for the performance of the duties of the Congressional Legal Counsel under this title. Title II: Government Personnel - Requires an individual who holds the Office of President or Vice President at any time during the year to file a report with the Comptroller General, not later than May of the following year, containing a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount of each tax paid; (2) the amount and source of each item of income; (3) the identity of each asset held by him; (4) any transaction in securities of any business; (5) all transactions in commodities by him; (6) any purchase or sale, other than the purchase or sale of his personal residence, of real property; and (7) any expenditure made by another individual for the personal benefit of him or his spouse. Provides that all such reports filed shall be maintained by the Comptroller General as public records. Prohibits campaign solicitations by appointees confirmed by the Senate and executive office personnel. Provides that any individual employed by any agency of the Executive Office of the President, who is compensated from appropriated funds, shall not engage in any investigative or intelligence gathering activity concerning national or domestic security unless specifically authorized to do so by statute. Increases the penalties for interference with elections by Government employees. Requires an annual disclosure of requests from an officer, including the President, or employee of the Executive Office for information or an investigation on the tax liability of any taxpayer. Requires that all such requests from the Executive Office of the President be in writing. Title III: Congressional Activities - Provides that the District Court for the District of Columbia shall have original jurisdiction, without regard to the sum or value of the matter in controversy, over any civil action brought by either House of Congress, any committee or joint committee, to enforce or secure a declaration concerning the validity of any subpena or order issued by such House or committee, or by any subcommittee of such committee, to any officer, including the President and Vice President, or any employee of the executive branch of the United States Government to secure the production of information, documents, or other materials. Makes provisions governing perjury before Congressional committees and testimony before Senate committees. Title IV: Federal Election Campaign Activities, Contributions, and Criminal Sanctions - Repeals provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to the deduction for contributions to candidates for public office. Provides that whoever embezzles, steals, or by fraud or deception obtains from any individual who has publicly declared his intent to seek nomination for election, or election, to any Federal office, any campaign materials, documents, or papers which are not available for public dissemination and which belong to any such person shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Imposes criminal penalties for: (1) the use of funds to finance violation of provisions of Federal election laws; (2) contributions by specified recipients of Federal funds; (3) the fraudulent infiltration of Federal election campaigns for espionage and sabotage purposes; (4) misrepresentations of a canditate for elective office; and (5) crimes affecting elections. Provides that whoever intentionally obstructs, impairs, or perverts the Government of the United States, or any department or agency thereof, in any manner, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1974
Voting Rights Amendments - Repeals the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, relating to State-imposed tests on the right to vote, and presumptions of illegal State action. Makes technical and conforming amendments.
United States · United States Congress · 19 November 1974
Public Interest Regulatory Review Act - Establishes, for a period of one year, as an independent instrumentality in the executive branch of the Federal Government, a National Commission on Regulatory Reform. Directs the Commission to prepare a comprehensive report to the President and Congress containing its findings, conclusions, and recommendations concerning the Federal regulatory agencies with respect to: (1) deficiencies within the regulatory process which contribute to inflation, lessen competition, or adversely affect the public and regulated industries; (2) the extent to which certain areas of the economy are over-regulated or under-regulated; (3) the economic costs and benefits of regulation; (4) the continued appropriateness or applicability of original regulatory purposes and objectives and an evaluation of the purposes which regulation should now serve; (5) the consequences to the Nation of selective deregulation or modification of regulation; (6) the need for increased antitrust enforcement; (7) specific recommendations for legislative action to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and responsiveness to the public of Federal regulatory agencies; (8) evaluation of other specified proposals; (9) assuring an ongoing review and assessment of the economic costs and benefits of the Federal regulatory agencies; and (10) a realistic assessment of the costs or savings of Commission proposals for regulatory reform. Requires the Commission to prepare within 12 months of appointment a comprehensive report to the President and the Congress containing findings and recommendations concerning State, regional and local regulatory agencies, giving special emphasis to areas where Federal regulatory activities interact with them and where they have an important inflationary impact. Gives the Commission administrative powers to carry out its duties. Grants the Commission the power to issue subpenas. Directs agencies, departments and instrumentalities of the Federal Government and State and local agencies to furnish to the Commission such information as the Commission deems necessary to carry out its functions. Defines "Federal regulatory agency" as used in this Act. Provides that the Commission shall cease to exist 60 days after submission of the final report. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1974
National Commission on Regulatory Reform Act - Establishes, in the executive branch of the Federal Government, a National Commission on Regulatory Reform. States that the Commission shall identify regulatory activities of the Independent Regulatory Agencies for detailed review, and conduct such review which shall include, but shall not be limited to: (1) an analysis of the purposes and objectives of the regulatory activities; (2) an assessment of actual performance in achieving the purposes and objectives; (3) an analysis of the costs and benefits of each activity; and (4) an examination of State and local governmental regulatory activities which interact with the Federal independent regulatory system. Directs the Commission to prepare and transmit a report to the President and Congress not later than one year following the appointment of the full Commission. States that the report shall include: (1) the results of the detailed review conducted pursuant to this Act; (2) appropriate revisions to overall goals and procedures of specific Federal regulatory authorities; (3) specific recommendations for legislative actions which would improve the effectiveness or the efficiency of the Federal independent regulatory agencies reviewed; (4) an assessment of the costs, including transition costs, of any modifications recommended or suggested; and (5) recommendations for a means of continuing review of the economic costs of Federal independent regulatory activities. Sets forth the powers of the Commission, including the power to establish such advisory committees as may be necessary or appropriate, to carry out any specific analytical or investigative undertakings on behalf of the Commission. Authorizes appropriations of $500,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Provides for the establishment of the Eutaw Springs National Battlefield Park in the State of South Carolina. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 October 1974
Provides, under the National Trails System Act, for a study of the Daniel Boone Trail to determine the feasibility and desirability of designating such trail as a national scenic trail.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the well-being of the world and all of its people is gravely threatened by exorbitant or rigged foreign oil prices. States that it is further the sense of the Senate that Congress and the American people support President Ford and Secretary Kissinger in their call to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower the price of petroleum.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1974
Presidential Recordings Preservation Act - Directs the Administrator of General Services to obtain, or, as the case may be, retain complete possession and control of all tape recordings of conversations which: (1) involve former President Richard M. Nixon and/or other individuals who, at the time of the conversation, were employed by the Federal Government; (2) were recorded in the White House or the Executive Office Building located in Washington, District of Columbia; and (3) were recorded between January 20, 1969, and August 9, 1974, inclusive. Requires that none of the tape recordings covered by this Act shall be destroyed except as may be provided by Congress. Provides that if a Federal court of competent jurisdiction should decide that the provisions of this Act have deprived any individual of private property without just compensation, the Administrator is authorized to provide such compensation, from funds in the Federal treasury, as may be adjudged just by a Federal court of competent jurisdiction. Directs the Administrator to issue such reasonable regulations as may be necessary to assure the protection of such tape recordings above from loss, destruction, or access to unauthorized persons. Directs the Administrator to issue reasonable regulations governing public access to such tape recordings. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1974
Declares that the President of the United States shall assure full public access to all facts connected with and relating to Watergate matters and the fruits of all investigations conducted pursuant thereto. States that, except in cases clearly vital to the national security interests of the United States, the President shall afford the American public full access to all such papers, documents, memorandums, tapes, and transcripts originating at any time during the period January 20, 1969, through August 9, 1974, at the earliest practicable time and in an adequate and effective manner.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1974
Public Attorney Act - Establishes the Office of Public Attorney, under the direction of the Public Attorney, to be designated by three retired appellate court judges who, in turn, shall be selected by the Chief Justice of the United States. Requires the appointment of the Public Attorney to be made by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Directs the Public Attorney to investigate and prosecute: (1) allegations of corruption in the administration of the laws by the executive branch of the Government; (2) cases referred by the Attorney General because of actual or potential conflicts of interest; and (3) allegations of violations of Federal laws relating to campaigns and elections for elective office. Confers powers on the Public Attorney for his investigative and prosecutory functions. Requires that the Public Attorney notify the Attorney General of the initiation of any prosecution five days prior to the commencement thereof. Provides criminal sanctions for the disclosure of pertinent information or evidence to a person who is or is likely to become the subject of an investigation by the Public Attorney. Authorizes such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1974
Lister Hill Scholarship Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for additional medical scholarships to be known as Lister Hill Scholarships for award to those who agree to practice family medicine in depressed urban or rural areas. Authorizes appropriations for such scholarships.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
National Emergencies Act - Title I: Terminating Existing Declared Emergencies - States that all powers and authorities conferred by law upon the President, any other officer or employee of the Federal Government, or upon any department, agency, independent establishment, or any other body of the Federal Government, and all powers and authorities conferred by any Executive Order pursuant to law as a result of the existence of any national emergency in effect immediately prior to the two hundred and seventy-first day after the date of enactment of this Act, are terminated on such two hundred and seventy-first day. Title II: Future National Emergencies - Provides that in the event the President finds that the proclamation of a national emergency is essential to the preservation, protection, and defense of the Constitution, and is essential to the common defense, safety, or well-being of the territory and people of the United States, the President is authorized to proclaim the existence of a national emergency. Title III: Declarations of War by Congress - Stipulates that whenever Congress declares war, any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be exercised during time of war or a national emergency shall be effective from the date of such declaration and remain in effect only in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Title IV: Future National Emergencies - Provides that when the President declares a national emergency, or Congress declares war, any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be exercised during such a national emergency or during a war declared by the Congress shall be effective and remain in effect with respect to such emergency or war only in accordance with this Act. States that when the President declares a national emergency, no powers made available by statute for use in the event of an emergency shall become operative unless and until the President specifies by Executive Order the specific provisions of law under which he proposed that he, or other officers of the executive branch, will act. Provides that any national emergency declared by the President in accordance with this title shall terminate 180 days after the date the national emergency was declared unless Congress, by concurrent resolution, provides otherwise. Title V: Miscellaneous - Provides that when the President declares a national emergency, or Congress declares war, the President shall be responsible for maintaining a file, and an index thereof, of all Executive Orders issued by the President. Directs the President to transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate and to the appropriate committees of the Congress the texts of each order, rule, or regulation, by whatever name called, promulgated by any executive department, administration, independent establishment, board, commission, official, group of officials, or other rulemaking authority. Title VI: Repeal of Certain Emergency Power Statutes - Provides for the repeal of specified provisions of law dealing with emergency powers.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1974
Authorizes supplemental expenditures by the Committee on Government Operations for inquiries and investigations by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1974
Requires that any international executive agreement made by the executive branch shall be transmitted to the Congress, which may act within 60 days to disapprove it. Sets forth procedures for such consideration by the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1974
Authorizes the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to transfer its records to the Library of Congress. Provides that the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration shall control access to and use of such records after such transfer.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the leadership of the Nation responsible for our economic wellbeing meet together immediately in a spirit of unity to design a set of policy actions to achieve the common goal of restoring stability and growth to the American economy and confidence and prosperity to the American people. Directs that this domestic summit be convened forthwith comprised of the President, the majority and minority leadership of both Houses of the Congress, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committees of both Houses, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, together with leaders of labor and business, and such other participants as they may agree upon. Provides that they shall meet and devote such time as necessary until a plan of action is decided upon which, by its demonstration of renewed unity, direction, and purpose, will gain the public support and confidence necessary to be effective in overcoming these difficulties.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1974
Requires, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Office of the Budget to prepare fiscal notes for bills and joint resolutions. States that such fiscal note shall contain an estimate of the costs which would be incurred, or the savings which would be realized in carrying out such bill, resolution, or amendment in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in the four fiscal years following such fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1974
Increases the expenditures for the Senate Committee on Government Operations to $2,099,000 to examine, investigate, and make a complete study of any and all matters pertaining to each of the subjects set forth in S. Res, 269, 93d Congress. Provides that not to exceed $209,000 shall be available for a study and investigation of any and all matters pertaining to the budget and accounting measures and operations, other than appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides that the effective date of the proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure which the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court transmitted to the Congress on April 22, 1974 shall be postponed until August 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Public Prosecutor Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is the purpose of this Act to establish within the Department of Justice, an official, independent of the President and the Attorney General, empowered and authorized to take such steps as necessary to assure the public that the criminal laws applicable to the conduct of officers and employees of the executive branch of the Government and of Presidential election campaigns are vigorously enforced. Title I: Judicial Code Amendments - Establishes the Office of the Public Prosecutor, under the direction of the Public Prosecutor appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires that no individual shall be appointed Public Prosecutor or Deputy Public Prosecutor unless such individual: (1) is eligible to receive security clearance; (2) is, and for a period of at least fifteen years to such appointment, has been admitted to the practice of law before the highest court of a State or States or of the District of Columbia and at the time of such appointment is a member in good standing of the bar; and (3) is, at the time of such appointment, a member in good standing of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and for a period of at least ten years prior to such appointment has been such a member. Sets forth the conditions under which the Public Prosecutor may be removed from office. Details the jurisdictional powers of the Public Prosecutor and details the relationship between him and the Attorney General. Enumerates the powers of the Public Prosecutor, including: (1) conduct investigations; (2) obtain and review evidence or information; (3) issue instructions to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other domestic investigative agencies of the United States for the collection and delivery solely to the office of the Public Prosecutor of information or evidence relating to investigations; and (4) review any evidence being withheld on the ground that it is classified or relates to the national security of the United States, with specified exceptions. States that the Public Prosecutor shall have no authority to initiate any criminal proceeding against an individual then serving as the President of the United States, although he shall have authority to submit any evidence or information obtained by him which, in his judgment, furnishes reasonable grounds for a belief that an incumbent President has committed any impeachable offense to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives. Title II: Criminal Code Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the criminal code provisions of the United States Code. Makes it unlawful for any officer or employee of the United States, or member of any grand jury convened at the request or under the direction of the Public Prosecutor who, in the course or under color of his duties, has come into the possession of evidence or information obtained by or in the possession of the Public Prosecutor to disclose such evidence to any person other than; (1) an officer or employee of the Office of the Public Prosecutor or the Department of Justice; (2) of a court in which a grand jury convened at the request or under the direction of the Public Prosecutor is proceeding; or (3) to a person who is likely to or has become the subject of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor. Permits the Public Prosecutor to make such public disclosure as permitted by law. Title III: Miscellaneous - Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Government Data Bank Right to Privacy Act - Requires that any organization of Federal, State, or local government maintaining an information system that includes personal information shall: (1) collect, maintain, use, and disseminate only personal information necessary to accomplish a proper purpose of the organizationa; (2) collect information to the greatest extent possible from the data subject directly; (3) maintain information in the system with accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and pertinence as necessary to assure fairness in determinations relating to a data subject; (4) make no dissemination to another system without specifying requirements for security and the use of information exclusively for the purposes set forth in the notice required under this Act; (5) maintain for a reasonable time related to the purposes of the particular system a complete and accurate record, including identity and purpose, of every access to any personal information in a system; and (6) collect no personal information concerning the political or religious beliefs, affiliations, and activities of data subjects unless expressly authorized by statute. Prohibits any Federal agency from requiring any individual to disclose for statistical purposes any personal information unless such disclosure is required by a constitutional provision or Act of Congress, and the individual is so informed. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to: (1) give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board; (2) give public notice of the existence and character of each existing system each year, in the case of Federal organizations in the Federal Register, or in the case of other organizations in local or regional printed media likely to bring attention to the existence of the records to data subjects; (3) assure that such public notice specifies the categories of data maintained, and the categories of all information sources, a description of types of use made of information, and the procedures whereby an individual can gain access to such information and contest its accuracy and the necessity for its retention; and (4) prepare and publish a privacy impact statement describing the consequences to the individual, including his rights, privileges, benefits, detriments, and burdens, of the proposed data system, or in the case of an existing system, any proposed expansion. Requires any organization maintaining personal information to inform an individual asked to supply personal information whether he is legally required, or may refuse, to supply the information requested, and also of any specific consequences which are known to the organization, of providing or not providing such information. Requires data subjects which dispute information about them to have such disputed information disseminated when other information about him is disseminated. Requires, upon request, corrections in information to be sent to past recipients of information, Directs organizations maintaining information to inform, within two years and each year thereafter, individuals on whom data is stored of its content and where a copy of such data may be obtained. Allows the President to exempt organizations from requirements of this Act in the interest of national defense. Makes it unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number, for any purpose in connection with any business transaction, because such individual does not disclose or furnish such number unless the disclosure or furnishing of such number is specifically required by Federal law. Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the Government Accounting Office, whose five members shall be appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States. Directs the Board to: (1) publish an annual Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system covered by this Act; (2) make rules to assure compliance with this Act; (3) upon the determination of a violation of a provision of this Act or regulation promulgated under the Act, and after opportunity for a hearing, order the organization violating such provision to cease and desist such violation; and (4) conduct open, publc hearings on all petitions for exceptions or exemptions from provisions, application, or jurisdiction of this Act. States that any organization or responsible officer of an organization who willfully keeps an information system without having notified the Federal Privacy Board; or issues personal information in violation of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 in each instance or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Provides that any person, system, or agency which violates the provisions of the Act, or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, shall be liable to any person aggrieved thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Declares that Dr. Kissinger be commended on his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace and that deep gratitude to Dr. Kissinger for his services is hereby expressed by the Senate. Declares that the United States Senate holds in high regard Dr. Kissinger, and regards him as an outstanding member of this Administration, as a patriotic Amercian in whom it has complete confidence, and whose integrity, and veracity are above reproach, and that the U.S. Senate wishes for him success in his continuing efforts to achieve a permanent peace in the world.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1974
Provides for the protection of the constitutional and common law rights of citizens who are the victims of tortious acts or omissions by agents or employees of the Federal Government. States that for claims arising under the Constitution or statutes of the United States or for intentional torts, recovery shall be allowed for all actual, general, consequential, and liquidated damages and, where appropriate, reasonable compensation for interest prior to judgment, punitive or exemplary damages not to exceed $50,000 and reasonable compensation for litigation expenses and attorneys' fees. Stipulates that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Secretary of Defense, and the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, or their designees may, to the extent deemed appropriate, hold harmless or provide liability insurance for any officer or employee of their respective departments or agencies for damage for personal injury, including death or property damage, negligently caused by an officer or employee while acting within the scope of his office or employment and as a result of the performance of medical, surgical, dental, or related functions, including the conduct of clinical studies or investigations, if such employee is assigned to a foreign country or detailed to other than a Federal agency or institution, or if the circumstances are such as are likely to preclude the remedies of third persons against the United States for damage or injury.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual educational scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award fifty-one scholarships in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, for undergraduate study for persons who plan to pursue a career in public service. States that each recipient shall be known as a Truman scholar. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the scholarship requirements; (2) the procedure for selection of Truman scholars; (3) stipends and institutional allowances; and (4) the scholarship conditions. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedure for expenditures from the fund. Directs that there shall be an Executive Secretary of the Foundation, appointed by the Board, who shall be the chief executive officer and shall carry out the functions of the Foundation subject to the supervision and direction of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 to the fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
Increases the expenses of the select committee on Presidential Campaign Activities during the full period specified in S. Res. 60, 93d Congress, as amended, to not exceed $2,000,000, of which amount not to exceed $70,000 shall be available for the procurement of the services of individual organizations or consultants thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974
Extends the deadline for the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to make a final report of the results of the investigation and study conducted by it pursuant to S. Res. 60, 93d Congress, together with its findings and such legislative proposals as it deems necessary or desirable, to the Senate at the earliest practicable date, but no later than June 30, 1974. Provides that after submission of its final report, the Select Committee shall have three calendar months to close its affairs, and on the expiration of such three calendar months shall cease to exist. Provides that, in case the judicial action brought by the Select Committee against the President to obtain specified taped recordings of conversations in which the President and his former aide, John W. Dean, participated is not finally adjudicated before the expiration of such three calendar months, the Select Committee shall continue in existence thereafter until thirty days subsequent to the occurrence of one of these alternative events.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Provides that the authorization (pursuant to Senate Concurrent Resolution 29, 93d Congress, agreed to June 28, 1973) for the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to have printed for its use 5,000 additional copies of its hearings on illegal, improper, or unethical activities during the Presidential election of 1972 be extended through the duration of its existence as a select committee. Provides that there shall be printed for the use of the Senate Select committee on Presidential Campaign Activities 6,000 additional copies of its final report to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1974
Refers S. 3482, entitled "A bill for the relief of Monroe Garment Company, Incorporated," to the Chief Commissioner of the United States Court of Claims for a report thereon.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Bill of Rights Procedure Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to prohibit any interception of communication, other electronic surveilance, surreptitious entry, mail opening, or the inspection of and procuring of the records of telephone, bank, credit, medical, or other business or private transaction of any individual without a court order issued upon probable cause that a crime has been or is about to be committed, supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. Provides that any officer, agent, or employee of the United States or any department or agency thereof who willfully (1) searches any private dwelling used and occupied as a dwelling without a warrant directing such search or maliciously and without reasonable cause searches any other building or property without a search warrant; (2) procures or inspects the records of telephone calls, bank, credit, medical, or other business or private transactions of any individual without a search warrant or the consent of the individual; (3) opens any foreign or domestic mail not directed to him without a search warrant directing such opening or without the consent of the sender or addressee of such mail; (4) intercepts, endeavors to intercept, or procures any other person to intercept any wire or oral communication except as authorized; shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Requires that within thirty days after the date of an order authorizing the interception of a wire or oral communication or the opening of mail the person seeking such order or warrant shall report to the Administration Office of the United States Courts and to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and House of Representatives certain specified information, including: (1) the fact that an order or extension was applied for; (2) the kind of order or extension applied for; and (3) the fact that the order or extension was granted as applied for, was modified, or was denied.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Title I: Federal Privacy Board - Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the executive branch of the Government and specifies the composition of the Board. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to publish a Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system. Specifies the powers of the Board, including the power to conduct inspections of information systems at reasonable times, and to order an organization to desist from acts in violation of rules or orders promulgated under this Act. Title II: Standards and Management Systems For Handling Information Related To Individuals - Establishes requirements for the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination by Federal agencies, or State or local governments, or any other organization maintaining an information system, of personal information collected for administrative, statistical-reporting, and research purposes. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board. Specifies the elements of public notice required under this Act to be contained in such notice. States that organizations maintaining personal information shall inform individuals asked to supply personal information of consequences of providing or not providing such information, shall request permission of a data subject to disseminate such information, and grant such individual the right to inspect and to know all personal information about the individual, the nature and sources of the information, and the recipients of personal information about such individual. Provides methods for the challenging, correction, and explanation of personal information by the subject of such information. Requires each such organization maintaining a personal information system to inform all data subjects of the fact within two years of enactment of this Act by notice containing specified elements. Exempts information determined to be vital to the national defense, contained in active criminal investigatory files compiled by Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, and that maintained by the news media (except information relating to the employees of such organizations) from the provisions of this Act. States that it shall be unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number for any activity, unless the disclosure is required by law. Title III: Miscellaneous - Defines the terms used in this Act. States that any revelation of trade secrets required under this Act shall be treated as confidential by those to whom they are made. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1974
Justice Department Reform Act - Prohibits any individual who held a position of trust and responsibility to an individual who was elected President or to an organization working on such individual's campaign or who was employed by a political party to campaign for an individual who was elected to the office of President from serving in appointive office in the Justice Department. Makes the Attorney General responsible for appointment and removal of United States attorneys.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible,except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) there be no cession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or tangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Consitituion.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make indemnity payments for poultry and egg products at a fair market value to poultry and egg producers and processors who have been directed by the United States Government to remove their poultry or egg products from commercial markets because such products contained residues of chemicals registered and approved for use by the Federal Government at the time of such use. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that the authority granted under this Act shall expire on December 31, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974
Federal Protective Service Act - Revises the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act by establishing within the General Services Administration a permanent trained security force to be known as the Federal Protective Service. Provides that uniformed members of the Federal Protective Service shall have the power to enforce Federal laws as well as rules and regulations issued pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to make all needful rules and regulations for the protection and government of property under his control, and to annex to such rules and regulations such reasonable penalties within the limits prescribed in this Act as will insure their enforcement. Provides that violators of any rule or regulation promulgated under this Act shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Impoundment Prohibition Act - Provides that in apportioning any appropriation, reserves may be established solely to provide for contingencies, or to effect savings whenever savings are made possible by or through changes in requirements or greater efficiency of operations. States that reserves shall not be established for fiscal policy purposes or to achieve less than the full objectives and scope of programs enacted and funded by Congress. Authorizes the Comptroller General to bring a civil action in the United States Court for the District of Columbia to enforce the provisions of this Act. Provides that nothing contained in this Act shall be interpreted as constituting a ratification or approval of any reservation of budget authority by the President or any other Federal employee, in the past or in the future, unless done pursuant to statutory authority in effect at the time of such reservation. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 665)
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Authorizes the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to make available to the Internal Revenue Service information requested by that agency. Authorizes the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities to investigate, receive and inspect any data, documents or other information held by the Internal Revenue Service which relates directly to that investigation presently being conducted by the Internal Revenue Service and by the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities as authorized by Senate Resolution 60 (93d Congress, 1st Session).
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Accounting and Auditing Act - Title I: Enforcement of Divisions and Settlements - Authorizes the Comptroller General to bring a suit for declaratory and injunctive relief when he has reasons to believe that any official of the executive branch is about to expend, obligate, or authorize the expenditure or obligation of public funds in an illegal or erroneous manner. Directs the Comptroller General to institute a civil action for such relief in the District Court for the District of Columbia. Title II: Subpena Power - Authorizes the Comptroller General to sign and issue subpenas requring the production of negotiated contract and subcontract records and records of other non-Federal persons or organizations to which he has a right of access by law or agreement. Title III: Budget, Fiscal, and Program Information for the Congress - Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) conduct a continuing program to ascertain congressional needs for budgetory, fiscal, and program information; (2) assist congressional committees in developing specifications for legislative requirements for executive branch evaluations of Federal programs and reports thereon to Congress; and (3) monitor reporting requirements of Congress and congressional committees, and recommend improvements to enhance their usefulness and to eliminate duplicative or unnecessary reporting. Title IV: Access to Records - Authorizes the Comptroller General to institute a civil action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to compel the furnishing of any information, books, documents, papers, or records which have not been made available to him upon request. Title V: Profits Study - Authorizes the Comptroller General to make selective studies of the profits of major Government contractors, for the purpose of comparing profits from government business with those from commercial sources and ascertaining whether proper allocation of costs are made to government business. Permits the Comptroller General to audit and inspect any books or records necessary for his calculation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
General Accounting Office Act - Title I: Statistical Sampling Procedures in Examination of Vouchers - Provides that whenever the head of any department or agency of the Government or the Commissioner of the District of Columbia determines that economies will result therefrom, such agency head or the Commissioner may prescribe the use of adequate and effective statistical sampling procedures in the examination of disbursement vouchers. Title II: Audit of Transportation Payments - Allows the payment for transportation of persons or property for or on behalf of the United States by any carrier or forwarder to be made upon presentation of bills therefore prior to audit by the executive agency or agencies designated by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, but the right is reserved to the United States Government to deduct the amount of any overcharge by any carrier or forwarder from any amount subsequently found to be due such carrier or forwarder. Title III: Audit of Nonappropriated Fund Activities - Provides that the operations of nonappropriated funds and related activities within the executive branch, the systems of accounting and internal controls and any internal or independent audits or reviews of such funds and activities, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be subject to review by the Comptroller General of the United States in accordance with such principles and procedures and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. Authorizes the Comptroller General to have access to such books, accounts, records, documents, reports, files, and other papers, things, or property relating to such funds and activities as he deems necessary. Title IV: Employment of Experts and Consultants - Limits the number of experts the Comptroller General is permitted to hire. Provides that compensation for such experts shall not exceed the rate for level V of the Executive Schedule. Title V: General Accounting Office Building - Gives the Comptroller General exclusive custody and control over the General Accounting Office Building, including the operation, maintenance, repairs, alterations, and assignment of space therein. Title VI: Audits of Government Corporations - Provides that each wholly owned Government corporation shall be audited at least once in every three years. Requires that a report of each audit shall be made by the Comptroller General to the Congress not later than six and one-half months following the close of the last year covered by such audit. Title VII: Revision of Annual Audit Requirements - Provides that, as of June 30 of each year, there shall be covered into the United States Treasury as miscellaneous receipts any surplus in the General Supply Fund, all assets, liabilities, and prior losses above the amounts transferred or appropriated to establish and maintain said fund. Requires the Comptroller General to make audits of the General Supply Fund in accordance with the provisions of the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950 and to make reports on the results thereof. Makes technical and conforming amendments to specified Acts. Title VIII: Limitation of Time on Claims and Demands - Reduces the statute of limitations on claims against the United States under the jurisdiction of the General Accounting Office from ten years to six years.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Extends and increases the expenses authorized to carry out the investigation of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities through May 28, 1974, to not exceed $1,800,000, of which amount not to exceed $70,000 shall be available for the procurement of the services of individual consultants or organizations thereof.
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