United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be labled "imported" at all stages of distribution until delivery to the ultimate consumer.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
National Oil Recycling Act - Directs all Federal officials to act within their authority to encourage the use of recycled oil. States that this Act shall in no way preempt State regulation of recycled oil or used oil disposal whenever such regulation provides for stricter control of recycled oil or used oil than provided for by Federal law. States that the States should encourage the use of recycled oil in order to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Requires that in order to qualify for Federal grants under this Act, a State shall adopt laws, regulations, and administrative machinery which shall provide for, but not be limited to: (1) requiring that used oil collectors obtain a State permit prior to engaging in used oil collecting activities; (2) requiring that used oil recyclers obtain a State permit prior to engaging in recycling operations; (3) when recycled oil is available at prices competitive with new oil produced for the same purpose, using recycled oil for all automotive and industrial uses of the State government, and requiring all parties contracting with the State to use recycled oil in the performance of such contracts; (4) regulating the retail sales of automobile oil so as to encourage the recycling of used oil; (5) prohibiting the use of used oil as fuel oil or for the oiling of State roads, unless such oil has been processed to meet the minimum standards for such uses established by Federal and State pollution control laws; and (6) educating the public and private sectors of the State as to the merits of recycled oil, and the need for its use in order to reduce the drain on the Nation's oil reserves and minimize the disposal of used oil in ways harmful to the environment. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations with respect to the labeling of recycled oil in order to carry out the purpose of this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring all containers of automotive and industrial oil, both new and recycled, to bear labels relating to the proper disposal of such oils after use. Makes it unlawful for any person to enter into any contract or agreement where the intent of such contract or agreement is to discourage the recycling of used oil. Provides for a fine of $50,000 for a violation of such prohibition, or imprisonment for a term of one year or less, or both. Requires records to be kept by parties covered by the provisions of this Act. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make annual reports to the Congress. Sets forth the contents of such reports. Provides that whenever the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that: (1) in implementing the provisions of this Act, a United States patent right not otherwise available is necessary to enable any person to comply with this Act; (2) there are no reasonable alternative methods to accomplish this Act's purposes; and (3) the unavailability of such patent right may result in a substantial lessening of competition or a tendency to create a monopoly in any line of the Nation's commerce; the Administrator, through the Attorney General, may so certify to a district court of the United States, which may order the person owning the patent to license it on such reasonable terms as the court, after hearing, may determine. Provides that any person violating any provision of this Act which does not provide for specific penalties or punishment thereunder shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor which shall be punishable by a term of six months in prison for each violation, or a fine of not to exceed $25,000, or both. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975, and for each succeeding fiscal year, $25,000,000 for grants to the States to assist them in fulfilling the purposes and provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make allotments to the States, not to exceed 10 cents per capita for any State based on the latest national census, when he has determined that they are in compliance with this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975, and for each succeeding fiscal year through fiscal year 1978, $10,000,000 for the development of new processes and technology to be used in the economical and ecological recycling of used oil. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975, and for each succeeding fiscal year, through fiscal year 1978, $5,000,000 for the development of standards and testing methods to facilitate the comparison of recycled oil with new oil. Imposes a tax of 6 cents per gallon on specified oils other than recycled oils sold in the United States by the manufacturer or producer.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes each Senator serving on a committee to hire staff to assist him in his duties as a member of each committee on which such Senator serves. Allows each Senator serving as chairman of any subcommittee or ranking minority member of any subcommittee to hire staff to assist him in his duties. States that individuals so appointed shall be in addition to employees otherwise authorized.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Requests the President to proclaim the period from February 16 to March 15, 1975, as "Energy Conservation Month". Directs the President to publicize the need for energy conservation. Requests the President to report to Congress by March 31, 1975, steps taken to promote energy conservation and recommendations for a continuing program. Directs the President to report monthly to the American people and Congress the state of energy resources.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Indian Health Care Improvement Act - States that the Congress declares that it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligation to the American Indian people, to meet the national goal of providing the highest possible health status to Indians and to provide existing Indian health services with all resources necessary to effect that policy. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare acting through the Indian Health Service, to make grants to public or nonprofit private health or educational entities or Indian tribes or tribal organizations to assist such entities in meeting the costs of: (1) identifying Indians with a potential for education or training in the health professions and encouraging and assisting them; (2) publicizing existing sources of financial aid available to Indians enrolled in any medical or health-related school referred to in this Act are undertaking training necessary to qualify them to enroll in any such school; or (3) establishing other programs which the Secretary determines will enhance and facilitate the enrollment of Indians, and the subsequent pursuit and completion by them of courses of study, in any school referred to in this act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for each of the five fiscal years after enactment of this Act for payment of such grants. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to make scholarship grants for up to two years to Indians who: (1) have successfully completed their high school education or high school equivalency; and (2) have demonstrated the capability to successfully complete courses of study in schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, or allied health professions. Authorizes appropriations for scholarship grants of $2,000,000 for the first fiscal year after enactment of this Act; $4,000,000 for the second fiscal year; and $6,000,000 for each of the three succeeding fiscal years. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to make scholarship grants to individuals who are enrolled in schools of medicine, osteopathy, denistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, or allied health professions, and who agree to provide their professional services to Indians after the completion of their professional training. Authorizes appropriations for such grants of $8,000,000 for the first fiscal year after enactment of this Act; $16,000,000 for the second fiscal year; $22,000,000 for the third fiscal year; $30,000,000 for the fourth fiscal year; $34,000,000 for the fifth fiscal year; and, for each succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to continue to make scholarship grants under this section to individuals who have received such grants prior to the end of the fifth fiscal year and who are eligible for such grants during each such succeeding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to make grants to individuals, nonprofit entities, appropriate public or private agencies, educational institutions, or Indian tribes and tribal organizations to enable the recipients of such grants to establish and carry out programs to train individuals so as to enable them to provide their services to Indians. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this section $1,000,000 for each of the five fiscal years after enactment of this Act. States that the Secretary, may provide allowances to health professionals employed in the Service to enable them for a period of time each year prescribed by regulation of the Secretary to take leave of their duty stations for professional consultation and refresher training courses. Title II: Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend specific amounts of funds over a five-year fiscal period for the following health services: (1) patient care, (2) field health, excluding dental care, (3) dental care, (4) mental health, (5) treatment and control of alcoholism, (6) provision of health care personnel in primary and secondary Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, and (7) maintenance and repair. Title III: Health Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary to expend $561,000,000 over a five-fiscal-year period in order to eliminate inadequate, outdated, and otherwise unsatisfactory service hospitals, health centers, health stations, and other service facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to expend $378,000,000 within a five-fiscal-year period following the enactment of this Act, to supply unmet needs for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities in existing and new Indian homes and communities. Title IV: Access to Health Services - Provides that the Secretary may enter into agreements with the appropriate State agency for the purpose of reimbursing such agency for health care and services provided in Service facilities to Indians who are beneficiaries of the Medicaid provisions of the Social Security Act. Title V: Health Services for Urban Indians - Directs the Secretary, acting through the Service, to enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to assist such organizations to establish and administer, in the urban centers in which such organizations are situated, programs which meet the requirements set forth in this Act of making health services more accessible to the urban Indian population. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purpose of this title: $5,000,000 for the first fiscal year after enactment of this Act; $10,000,000 for the second fiscal year; and $15,000,000 for the third fiscal year. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary to report annually to the President and the Congress on progress made in effecting the purposes of this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of $150,000 to support a one-year study by the National Indian Health Board of mental health problems, including alcoholism and related problems, among Indians.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Food Supplement Amendment - Defines the term "food supplement" for purposes of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act to mean food for special dietary uses, and defines the meaning of "special dietary uses" as particular uses of food for man which meets specified requirements. Provides that in administering such Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall not limit the potency, number, combination, amount, or variety of any synthetic or natural vitamin, mineral, or other nutritional substance, or ingredient of any food for special dietary uses if the amount recommended to be consumed does not ordinarily render it injurious to health.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Designates, specified lands in Michigan, Missouri, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and Puerto Rico as wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the U.S. Government should ask all parties signatory to the Paris Agreement and to the Lao protocols to abide by their provisions. Directs the President and the Secretary of State to continue to take the necessary steps, including new negotiations as may be deemed necessary, to obtain an honorable determination of the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Occupational Safety and Health Act Amendments - Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall not propose any rule promulgating a new occupational health or safety standard before (1) he has as part of each such proposal reviewed and published in the Federal Register the financial impact of such proposed standard and (2) has determined with due regard for that impact that the benefit to be derived from such standard justified such proposal. Directs the Secretary to provide for an emergency standard to take effect immediately after publication in the Federal Register if he determines (1) that there is clear and recognized evidence of employees being exposed to serious danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards, and (2) that such emergency standard is necessary to protect employees from such danger. Requires the Secretary to provide at least twenty-four hours advance notice to the employer to be inspected that an inspection will be made where (1) such notice would afford the employer an opportunity to have qualified management personnel or consultants present during the inspection and (2) where the Secretary has determined that such notice would not unreasonably hamper or defeat the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Directs the Secretary to visit the workplace of employers for the purposes of affording consultation and advice to such employers, upon the request of the employers.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Provides for the reimbursement to taxpayers of all expenses, including court costs and legal and accounting fees, incurred by them in contesting second audits of their income tax liability in the case where such second audit reveals no deficiency other than any deficiency assessed against and accepted by the taxpayer after the first audit.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Adds condominium owners, homeowner's associations, and cooperative housing corporations not organized for profit to the list of tax- exempt orgainizations under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Provides, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, for Federal matching rate with respect to medical assistance provided to Indians eligible for services under the Indian Health Service program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Army to establish one or more national cemeteries in the State of Arizona. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Prohibits the distribution of food stamps, under the Food Stamp Act, to any household where the head of the household is engaged in a labor strike. Removes such restriction in cases of an employer lockout.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1975
Allows purchasers of national forest timber to transfer earned but unused purchaser credits between timber sales on the same national forest where timber sale contracts involve road construction.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Youth Camp Safety Act - Makes it the purpose of this Act to protect and safeguard the health and well-being of youth attending day and resident camps by providing for the development of standards for the safe operation of such camps. Confers upon the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare the primary responsibility for the promulgation and enforcement of Federal and State youth camp safety regulations. Requires the development and modification of youth camp safety standards. Directs that such standards shall relate to personnel qualifications for directors and staff, ratio of staff to campers, medical services, and water safety. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to any State desiring to develop a youth camp safety program. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Advisory Council on Youth Camp Safety and to submit to Congress at least once in each fiscal year a comprehensive and detailed report on the administration under this Act. Prescribes penalties of up to $1,000 for each violation by youth camp advertising regulations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975 and 1976 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Prohibits the use of funds to furnish food stamps under the Food Stamp Act to persons over 18 years of age, enrolled in institutions of higher education, and who are claimed as dependents for income tax purposes by households not eligible for food stamps.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides, under the Gun Control Act of 1968, for separate offense and consecutive sentencing in felonies involving the use of a firearm. States that in the case of a second or subsequent conviction under this Act, the convicted person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than two nor more than twenty-five years.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Establishes a National Commission on Social Security. States that it shall be the duty and function of the Commission to conduct a continuing study, investigation, and review of: (1) the Federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established by title II of the Social Security Act; and (2) the health insurance programs established by title XVIII of such Act. Provides that such study, investigation, and review of such programs shall include, but not be limited to: (1) the fiscal status of the trust funds established for the financing of such programs and the adequacy of such trust funds to meet the immediate and long-range financing needs of such programs; (2) the scope of coverage, the adequacy of benefits, and the conditions of qualification for benefits provided by such programs; (3) the impact of such programs on, and their relation to, public assistance programs, nongovernmental pension and insurance programs, other governmental retirement and annuity programs, medical service delivery systems, and national employment practices; (4) the quality of the administration of such programs; and (5) any inequities which affect substantial numbers of individuals who are insured under such programs. Directs the Commission to submit an annual report of its study, investigation, and review of programs, together with its recommendations with respect to such programs, to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
States that the Senate of the United States: (1) commends the agreement in principle reached at Vladivostok on November 24, 1974; (2) expresses its firm belief that this agreement in principle must lead to further mutual arms limitations and reductions; and (3) expresses its understanding that the Vladivostok agreement establishes limits within which the United States and the Soviet Union may deploy strategic forces, but than any deployment of United States strategic nuclear weapons, up to the limits established by the Vladivostok agreement, should be based solely upon the actual needs of United States security. Expresses the advice of the Senate that the President should make every possible effort: (1) to complete the negotiations resulting from the Vladivostok agreement in principle; and (2) in addition, to reach further specified agreements regarding nuclear arms limitations. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Vladivostok agreement be submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent in accordance with the treaty provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Natural Gas Priority Act - Directs the Federal Power Commission, for one year following enactment of this Act, to prohibit any interruption or curtailment of natural gas and to take such other steps as are necessary to assure as soon as possible the availability in interstate commerce of sufficient quantities of natural gas for use as a raw material feedstock or process fuel in the production of fertilizer, animal feed grade chemicals, and essential agricultural chemicals. Provides for direct Commission authority over agricultural requirements for natural gas.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for 25 percent of the expenses incurred (1) in improving the thermal design of a taxpayer's principal residence; or (2) in purchasing specified energy conserving devices incident to the purchase of the taxpayer's principal residence. Permits the taxpayer to elect to deduct the above expenses in an amount not to exceed $4000.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides a penalty of 5 to 10 years imprisonment for possession or use of a firearm during the commission of a felony subject to original jurisdiction in Federal court. States that this penalty is in addition to the punishment imposed for the felony itself. Lowers the age limit for persons who may purchase firearms from 21 to 18 years of age. Eliminates record keeping requirements with respect to the identity and address of purchase of ammunition.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Grants a Federal charter to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Incorporated, a non-profit corporation with its principal offices in Indianapolis. States that such Corporation's purpose shall be to preserve and encourage the study of historical evidence relating to December 7, 1941, and to stimulate interest in the affairs and future of America.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Government in the Sunshine Act - Title I: Congressional Procedures - Requires each meeting of each standing, select, or special committee or subcommittee of the Senate and House of Representatives, including meetings to conduct hearings, to be open to the public. Provides that a portion or portions of such meetings may be closed to the public if the committee or subcommittee determines by vote of a majority of a quorum of the members present that the matters to be discussed or the testimony to be taken: (1) will disclose matters necessary to be kept secret in the interests of national defense or the confidential conduct of the foreign policy of the United States; (2) will relate solely to matters of committee staff personnel or internal staff management; or (3) will tend to charge with crime or misconduct, or to disgrace any individual, or will represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of the privacy of any individual (unless it relates to any government officer or employee with respect to his official duties or employment); (4) will disclose information pertaining to any investigation conducted for law enforcement purposes, with specified limitations; or (5) will disclose information relating to the trade secrets or financial or commercial information pertaining specifically to a given person. Directs each standing, select, or special committee or subcommittee of the Senate and House of Representatives to make a public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of each meeting at least one week before such meeting unless the committee or subcommittee determines by a vote of the majority of a quorum that committee business requires that such meeting be called at an earlier date, in which case the committee shall make public announcement of the date, place and subject matter of such meeting at the earliest practicable opportunity. Provides that a complete transcript shall be made of each meeting of each standing, select, or special committee or subcommittee. Provides that a copy of each such transcript shall be made available for public inspection within seven days and additional copies shall be furnished to any person at the actual cost of duplication. Provides that all the aforegoing requirements and exceptions applicable to the meetings of the committees and subcommittees of the House and Senate shall also be applicable to each meeting of a committee of conference. Establishes procedures to review and reverse any committee and subcommittee vote to close a meeting to the public or to delete from the publicly available copy a portion of a meeting transcript. Title II: Agency Procedures - Requires all meetings of any Federal agency to be open to the public unless a majority of the entire membership of an agency determines the meeting: (1) will disclose matters necessary to be kept secret in the interests of national defense or the confidential conduct of the foreign policy of the United States; (2) will relate solely to individual agency personnel or to internal agency office management and administration or financial auditing; (3) will tend to charge with crime or misconduct, or to disgrace, any person, or will represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of the privacy of any individual (unless it relates to any government officer or employee with respect to his official duties or employment); (4) will disclose information pertaining to any investigation conducted for law enforcement purposes, with specified limitations; or (5) will disclose information relating to the trade secrets or financial or commercial information pertaining specifically to a given person. Directs each agency to make public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of each meeting (whether open or closed to the public) at least one week before each meeting unless the agency determines by a vote of the majority of its members that agency business requires that such meetings be called at an earlier date, in which case the agency shall make public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of such meeting at the earliest practicable opportunity. Provides that a complete transcript, including a list of all persons attending and their affilations, shall be made of each meeting of each agency (whether open or closed to the public). Provides that a copy of each such meeting shall be made available to the public for inspection, and additional copies of any transcript shall be furnished to any person at the actual cost of duplication. Requires each agency to promulgate regulations to implement the requirements of this title. States that any citizen or person resident in the United States may bring a proceeding in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: (1) to require an agency to promulgate such regulations if such agency has not done so within the time period specified herein; or (2) to set aside agency regulations that are not in accord with the requirements of this title and to require the promulgation of regulations that are in accord with such requirements. Gives the district courts of the United States jurisdiction to enforce the requirements of this title by declaratory judgment, injunctive relief, or otherwise. Provides that such actions shall be brought in the district wherein the plaintiff resides, or has his principal place of business, or where the agency in question has its headquarters. Sets forth provisions governing ex parte communications in agency proceedings.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior, at any time prior to January 1, 1980, from issuing or carrying out any order banning the use of lead shot for the hunting of waterfowl.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Coal Research Laboratory and Energy Research Fellowship Act - Title I: University Coal Research Laboratories - Authorizes the Director of the National Science Foundation, after consultation with the National Academy of Engineering, to designate five institutions of higher education at which university coal research laboratories will be established and operated. States that, in making designations under this Act, the Director shall consider the following criteria: (1) the institution of higher education shall be located in a State with abundant coal reserves; (2) the institution of higher education shall have experience in coal research, expertise in several areas of coal research, and currently active, outstanding programs in coal research; and (3) the institution of higher education has the capacity to establish and operate the coal laboratories to be assisted under this title. Provides that not more than one coal laboratory established pursuant to this title shall be located in a single State. Specifies information to be included in applications by institutions of higher education desiring to be designated under this title. Authorizes the Director to make grants to any designated institution of higher education to pay the Federal share of the cost of establishing and maintaining a coal laboratory. States that no institution of higher education may receive more than $4,000,000 for the construction of its coal research laboratory, including initially installed fixed equipment, nor may it receive more than $1,500,000 for initially installed movable equipment, nor may it receive more than $500,000 for new program startup expenses. Provides that no institution of higher education may receive more than $1,500,000 per year from the Federal Government for operating expenses. Establishes an Advisory Council on Coal Research. Stipulates that the Advisory Council shall advise the Director with respect to the general administration of this title, and furnish such additional advice as he may request. Authorizes appropriations of not to exceed $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 (including the cost of construction, equipment, and startup expenses) and $7,500,000 beginning with the fiscal year 1977 and for each fiscal year thereafter through fiscal year 1981, to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Energy Resource Graduate Fellowships - Authorizes the Director to award under the provisions of this title not to exceed one thousand five hundred fellowships for fiscal year 1976, and each of the five succeeding fiscal years. States that fellowships shall be awarded under the provisions of this title for graduate study and research in those areas of applied science and engineering that are related to the production, conservation, and utilization of fuels and energy. Provides that fellowships shall be awarded to students in programs leading to master's degrees. States that such fellowships may be awarded for graduate study and research at any institution of higher education, library, archive, or any other research center approved by the Director after consultation with the Commissoner of Education. Provides that recipients of fellowships under this title shall be: (1) persons who have been accepted by an institution of higher education for graduate study leading to an advanced degree or for a professional degree; and (2) persons who plan a career in the field of energy resources, production, or utilization. States that each person awarded a fellowship under this title shall receive a stipend of $4,000 for each academic year of study, and an additional amount of $500 for each such calendar year of study shall be paid to such person on account of each of his dependents. Authorizes appropriations of $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and for each of the five succeeding fiscal years.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
First Amendment Clarification Act - Makes it the purpose of this Act to recognize and confirm the applicability of, and to strengthen and further the objectives of, the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States by removing statutory and regulatory restrictions on broadcasters operating under the Communications Act of 1934. Provides, under such Act, that the term "public interest, convenience, and necessity" shall not be construed to give the Federal Communications Commission jurisdiction to require the provision of broadcast time to any person for the expression of any viewpoint or otherwise to exercise any power, supervision, or review, over the content or schedule of any program broadcast by licensees, except where the broadcast of such material is otherwise prohibited by law. Repeals the prohibition under such Act relating to political editorials.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Inflationary Impact Statement Act - Requires the Congressional Budget Office to supply the Congress with an estimate of the impact on the aggregate rate of inflation and the cost of particular goods and services, for five fiscal years, of any legislation which is reported by Senate and House of Representatives committees for further congressional consideration.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress, including that: (1) because of the critical economic role that energy plays, a comprehensive domestic and international approach to meeting energy problems in a realistic manner is immediately needed; (2) such a comprehensive energy policy neccessitates a dramatic increase in domestic energy production coupled with a reasoned attack on wasteful energy consumption; (3) vital national actions to increase domestic energy production require that the United States - (a) rapidly expand Outer Continental Shelf exploration and development with approriate environmental safequards; (b) lift price constraints on exploration and production of natural gas and other fossil fuels; (c) adopt policies which will encourage the most rapid development of alternative energy sources; and (d) adopt policies which insure adequate opportunity to provide for the massive capital formation required to attain timely domestic energy self-sufficiency; and (4) the reasoned nationwide attack on wasteful energy consumption requires - (a) enactment of energy conservation authority capable of significantly reducing consumption; (b) expanded Federal programs related to increasing the efficiency of energy uses; and (c) a mandatory impact study on energy consumption of planned Federal programs prior to program implementations.
United States · United States Congress · 9 December 1974
Provides that in the case of any State which does not have in effect a State plan approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, and is preparing to put such a plan into effect not later than January 1, 1976, such State shall with respect to expenditures made in preparation of its implementation, be entitled to payments under specified provisions of the Social Security Act. Imposes a liability to repay if any State fails to implement by January 1, 1976, a State plan approved under title XIX of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Exempts from the sex discrimination guidelines of the Education Amendments of 1972 fraternities, sororities and similar tax-exempt organizations whose active membership consists primarily of students at institutions of higher education. (Amends 20 U.S.C. 1681)
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Exempts from the sex discrimination guidelines of the Education Amendments of 1972 fraternities, sororities and similar tax-exempt organizations whose active membership consists primarily of students at institutions of higher education. (Amends 20 U.S.C. 1681)
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Stipulates that expenditures and net lending during the fiscal year 1975 under the Budget of the United States Government shall be limited to $297,000,000,000. States that if such expenditures and net lending during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, exceed $297,000,000,000, a surtax of five percent shall be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers for taxable year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the establishment of the Father Marquette National Memorial in Saint Ignace, Michigan. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $500,000 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1974
Provides that not less than 15 percent of the total value of food stamps issued pursuant to the Food Stamp Act to an eligible household during each month or other time period shall be coded as to be usable only for the purchase of beef, pork, or poultry unless the State agency finds that such coding is impracticable with regard to a specific household. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 2013(a))
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1974
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that the first $1,000 of dividends on interest received by, or credited to the account of, an individual on deposits or withdrawable accounts in a savings institution shall be excluded from gross income.
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 · 19 September 1974
Excludes from gross income, under the Internal Revenue Code, the interest or dividends on an amount of savings not in excess of $20,000 in a bank, savings institution, or credit union.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Inflationary Impact Statement Act - Requires the Congressional Budget Office, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, to prepare inflationary impact statements in connection with legislation reported by Senate and House committees.
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