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United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1978
Extends the best wishes of the Senate to Senator Dewey F. Bartlett upon his retirement from the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1978
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to enter into agreements with eight States for the purpose of conducting demonstration projects for the training and employment as homemakers or home health aides of individuals who have been certified by the appropriate State or local government agency as being eligible for financial assistance under a State plan of Aid to Families with Dependent Children approved under Title IV of the Social Security Act. Directs the Secretary to submit annual reports to the Congress evaluating the demonstration projects.
United States · United States Congress · 28 September 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President take necessary steps to: (1) assure domestic tanners of adequate supplies of cattle hides; (2) enlarge export possibilities to Japan for shoes and tanned leather; and (3) maintain favorable export opportunities of hides for domestic cattle producers.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1978
Amends Title XI (General Provisions and Professional Standards Review) of the Social Security Act to include within the definition of an organization qualified for conditional designation as a Professional Standards Review Organization, an organization of health care practioners who hold independent hospital admitting privileges and who are invited to become members by the organization. Includes as members of the advisory group for each statewide Professional Standards Review Council at least one registered professional nurse and doctor of dental surgery. Includes one registered professional nurse, one doctor of dental surgery, and one health practioner other than a physician in the National Professional Standards Review Council. Establishes an advisory committee to the National Professional Standards Review Council to be made up of representatives of health care practitioners other than physicians.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1978
Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the requirement that prior hospitalization is necessary before receiving extended care services under the Medicare program.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1978
Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide homemaker services as part of the home health services provided under Medicare.
United States · United States Congress · 6 September 1978
Fishery Conservation Amendments - Amends the Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 to declare the need for a national program to prevent overfishing, rebuild overfished stocks, promote the development of the domestic fishing industry and to utilize the full potential of the Nation's fishery resources. Requires programs for fishery conservation and management to take into account the economic impact such plans will have on the fishing industry in that region. Declares the fishery conservation programs shall: (1) utilize all scientific information available; (2) develop the domestic fishing industry; (3) minimize adverse impacts on commercial fishermen; (4) provide the greatest overall benefit to the Nation; and (5) encourage the maximum sustainable yield from the fishing industry. Provides for the total closing of a species to fishing upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State and the appropriate regional council that there is an imminent threat to that species. Declares that the Secretary of State shall coordinate a fishery research program with any relevant State, local, academic, or industry sponsored program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 August 1978
Drug Trafficking Control Act - Title I: Possession of a Controlled Substance on the High Seas - Amends the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 to make it unlawful: (1) to manufacture, distribute, or possess a controlled substance on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States with intent or knowledge of its unlawful importation into the United States; or (2) to possess a controlled substance on board any vessel or aircraft of the United States, even it the act of possession is committed outside the United States or its customs territory. Title II: Illegal Export of Cash - Amends the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act to require filing of a report prior to departure from the United States or arrival in the United States of any transport of monetary instruments in a amount exceeding $5,000. Authorizes any officer of Customs to conduct a search without warrant when exigent circumstances prevent his obtaining one, if he has probable cause to believe that monetary instruments are in the process of transportation with a false or no report filed. Title III: Prompt Reporting of Vessels - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require the immediate report at the nearest customhouse or other prescribed place of the arrival of any foreign vessel, or any vessel of the United States carrying bonded merchandise, or foreign merchandise for which entry has not been made.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Community Mental Health Assistance Act - Amends Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to include among the services provided under such Title: (1) outpatient services by community mental health centers for up to ten visits per year; and (2) partial hospitalization services by a community mental health center for up to 60 visits per year. Stipulates that the 190 days of inpatient psychiatric hospital services to which an individual is entitled under Title XVIII during a lifetime shall be reduced by one day for every three partial hospitalization visits to a community mental health center. Sets forth the conditions of and limitations on payments for community health center services, including criteria for utilization review plans of community mental health centers and transfer agreements between hospitals and community mental health centers. Amends the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 to include among the benefits which may be provided under such Act partial hospitalization services and outpatient services furnished by a community mental health center.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Unites States Olympic Commemorative Medals Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike up to 1,000,000 medals of four different designs commemorating athletes who have participated in prior Olympic games and to furnish these medals to the United States Olympic Committee for sale.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the third week in June of 1979 as "National Veterans' Hospital Week."
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Revenue Act - Title I: Short Title, Etc. - Entitles this Act the "Revenue Act of 1978" and provides that amendments made by this Act shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1978. Title II: Tax Treatment of Individuals - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce income taxes for individuals and trusts and estates. Increases the minimum income levels at which individuals are required to file tax returns. Eliminates deductions for personal exemptions and the general tax credit. Establishes a $275 personal tax credit for a taxpayer, spouse and dependents, and additional credits if the taxpayer or spouse is blind or has attained age 65. Revises requirements for the withholding of income tax to reflect the substitution of the personal tax credit for personal exemptions. Lowers from 65 to 55 the age requirement for the exclusion of gain on the sale or exchange of the taxpayer's principal residence. Eliminates the $35,000 ceiling on the adjusted sales price of a principal residence for purposes of computing the amount of gain excludable. Exempts gain from the sale or exchange of a principal residence from the minimum tax. Allows a tax credit equal to 50 percent of the State and local real property taxes paid by a taxpayer on his principal residence in a taxable year. Limits the credit to $1,000 for a taxable year. Increases the allowable amount of the earned income credit. Eliminates the requirement that an individual maintain a household in the United States to be eligible for the earned income credit. Requires employers to make advance payments of the earned income credit to employees certified as qualifying for the credit during the current year. Treats payment of this advance credit as payment of the employer's FICA and withholding amounts, and treats failure to make advance payments as a failure to deduct and withhold FICA amounts when they would otherwise be due. Provides that any amount refunded to an individual as an earned income credit shall not be treated as income for purposes of State taxation and shall be disregarded in determining eligibility for a federally funded public assistance program. Makes the earned income credit permanent. Allows a ten percent tax credit for purchase of stock in a corporation with an equity capital of less than $25,000,000. Limits the amount of such credit to $750 for a taxable year. Extends to 24 months the time period during which a personal residence must be held to qualify for nonrecognition of the gain from its sale or exchange when the gain is reinvested in a personal residence. Title III: Tax Treatment of Business - Revises the normal tax on corporate income to provide a 20 percent tax on income less than $150,000. Increases the surtax exemption to $150,000. Makes permanent the ten percent investment tax credit and the $100,000 limitation on used property eligible for the credit. Provides that the first $25,000 of an investment tax credit shall be refundable. Limits the allowable credit to the greater of $25,000 or 90 percent of the tax liability for the taxable year. Repeals the provisions permitting a taxpayer to carryback excess credit to the three preceeding taxable years. Extends the investment tax credit to the rehabilitation of certain buildings and their structural components. Increases the investment tax credit for pollution control facilities and expenditures for research and experimentation in connection with a trade or business. Increases from 10 to 15 the number of shareholders a small business may have without losing Subchapter S corporate status. Treats a husband and wife owning stock in a Subchapter S corporation as one stockholder for purposes of determining the number of stockholders in such a corporation. Permits the grantor of a trust and current income trusts to qualify as shareholders in a Subchapter S corporation. Sets forth new rules for making a Subchapter S election and for terminating or revoking such an election. Increases the amount of allowable first year additional depreciation for small business property to 25 percent of the first $20,000 of such property ($40,000 for married individuals filing joint tax returns). Limits eligibility for such depreciation allowance to those taxpayers whose depreciable property has an aggregate adjusted basis of less than $1,000,000. Increases to $50,000 ($100,000 for married individuals filing joint tax returns) the amount of loss on small business corporation stock which may be treated as ordinary, rather than capital loss. Extends for three years provisions authorizing depreciation of expenditures to rehabilitate low-income rental housing. Title IV: Tax Impact Study - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury and the Council of Economic Advisers to study the impact of Federal, State, and local government taxation on the American economy and to submit their findings to Congress by January 31, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 9 August 1978
Intergovernmental Anti-recession Asssistance Act - Title I: Amends the Public Works Employment Act of 1976 to extend for eight calendar quarters beginning October 1, 1978, the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to make payments to States and local governments to stimulate economic recovery. Suspends such assistance if the national rate of unemployment is less than six percent for two consecutive quarters. Title II: Supplementary Fiscal Assistance - Supplementary Fiscal Assistance Act - Authorizes a new program of financial assistance to State and local governments with unemployment rates above six percent at times when the national unemployment rate is between five and six percent. Requires that such payments be used to maintain basic services to persons in the area served by the government.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate November 11 through 17, 1978, as "Vietnam Veterans Week."
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1978
Names the building known as the Federal Building in Portland, Maine, as the "Frederick G. Payne Building."
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1978
Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal Offenders Act - Rescinds the authority of the Attorney General with respect to: (1) certification of community supervision programs for drug dependent persons on probation and termination of a person's participation in such a program; and (2) contracting for supervisory aftercare of an offender.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1978
Small Business Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit equal to ten percent of the cost of small business incentive stock (original issue stock issued by a corporation which has equity capital of $25,000,000 or less) acquired by a taxpayer who holds such stock for more than one year. Limits the allowable amount of such credit to $750 for any taxable year. Denies eligibility for such credit to individuals who are claimed as dependents by another taxpayer for purposes of the personal exemption. Disqualifies stock acquired more than 180 days after issuance, stock acquired by an underwriter, certain redemptions or refinancing issues, and investment company stock from treatment as incentive stock. Renders estates or trusts ineligible for the incentive stock tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1978
Designates July 18, 1979, as "National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day."
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1978
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury and the Council of Economic Advisors to report to Congress on the impact of Federal, State, and local government taxation on the American economy. Requires that such report include an analysis of (1) the distribution of the tax burden according to income classes and (2) the effect of taxes on the pricing of goods and services, the determination of wages and fringe benefits, and the return on capital investment for holders of securities.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Domestic Petroleum Supply and Security Act - Amends the Export Administration Act to prohibit the exportation of domestically produced petroleum products as defined in the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Allows such petroleum products to be temporarily exported for refining or processing if such products reenter and are consumed in the United States. Sets forth criteria which must be met for domestically produced petroleum products to be exported under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1978
Expresses the sorrow of the Senate upon the death of the Honorable Frederick G. Payne, ex-Senator from the State of Maine.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Disapproves the determination of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the Tariff Act of 1930, transmitted to the Congress on June 13, 1978 (waives the imposition of countervailing duties on Canadian fish).
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
State and Local Government Funding Impact Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to improve congressional oversight of Federal programs and activities and to increase the understanding by State and local governments of the effects of such programs and activities by requiring greater specificity in stating the administrative and fiscal impact of such programs and activities on State and local governments. Prohibits the consideration of any bill or resolution in either the House or the Senate which directly or indirectly authorizes the enactment of new budget authority for a Federal assistance program or provides new spending authority for such program, unless the report accompanying such bill or resolution contains: (1) a statement as to whether or not the program would be administered in whole or in part by State or local governments or by nongovernmental sources; (2) a statement of the program's requirements for additional matching expenditures by State or local governments or by nongovernmental sources; or (3) a statement which identifies potentially or actually conflicting activities in other governmental and nongovernmental programs on the State or local level, and explains the relationship of such other programs and activities to the program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1978
Fair Labor Pension Act - Amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it an unfair labor practice for any employer or labor organization to enter into any contract whereby such employer or labor organization establishes or maintains a benefit plan or a pension plan which was established prior to September 1, 1974, unless such plan qualifies for the guarantee of benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or the labor organization maintains a plan for officers, directors, and other highly compensated employees which does qualify for the guarantee of such benefits. Extends retroactive coverage by the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation to a plan determined to have been established pursuant to such an unfair labor practice.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1978
Pension Protection Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to extend insurance coverage by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation to certain plans, retroactive to September, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1978
Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act - Extinguishes all claims by any Indian involving any transfer of lands or waters located within the State of Maine from, by, or on behalf of any Indian, including but not limited to, transfers pursuant to State statutes. States that the exclusive remedy for any such claimant shall be a claim against the United States as provided for in this Act. Stipulates that any Indian whose claim to occupancy, possession, or trespass was extinguished by this Act shall have the right to maintain an action against the United States for damages on the grounds that the transfers, when made, were in violation of the laws of the United States. Stipulates that the Court of Claims shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear any claim and that a claim shall be barred unless filed within six years from the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1978
Authorizes classification of a certain individual as a child for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Formula and Projects Grants for Preventive Health Services and Resources for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Act - Title I: Formula and Project Grants for Preventive Health Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to assist them in planning for and in meeting the costs of providing preventive health services. States that an application for such a grant shall provide for a detailed plan of a program to reduce, through the prevention of causative conditions, the mortality rates, and, at the option of the applying State, the burden of illness associated with the five leading causes of death in the State. Sets forth specified information to be included in applications for such grants. Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State pursuant to an approved application. Sets forth a procedure for determining the amount of grants which each State shall receive for planning, providing, and operating preventive health services programs. Requires that all information obtained about any individual under any program that is being carried out with respect to such grants shall not be disclosed without such individual's consent. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States, political subdivisions of States, other public entities, or private entities to assist them in meeting the costs of establishing and maintaining: (1) programs for the screening, detection, diagnosis, prevention, referral for treatment, and follow-up on compliance with treatment of hypertension; (2) programs to immunize children against diseases; (3) community and school-based floridation programs; (4) programs designed to prevent illness caused by factors in the immediate living environment of people; (5) programs to prevent diseases borne by rodents; and (6) comprehensive physical fitness programs. Sets forth specified information to be included in applications for such grants. Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State pursuant to an approved application. Requires that all information obtained about any individual under any program carried out with respect to such grants shall not be disclosed without such individual's consent. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for comprehensive physical fitness programs. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1982 for lead-based paint poisoning prevention programs. Sets forth a new method for determining the total amount of grants received by State health and mental health authorities for comprehensive public health services under the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1982. Title II: Resources for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion - Directs the Secretary to make grants to meet the costs of planning and developing new centers, and operating existing and new centers, for multidisciplinary health promotion. Directs the Secretary to undertake or support five intensive and comprehensive community based programs to demonstrate and evaluate optimal methods for organizing and delivering comprehensive preventive health services to defined populations. Requires the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics or its equivalent, to submit to Congress on January 1, 1981, and on January 1 of every third year thereafter, a national disease prevention data profile in order to provide a data base for the effective implementation of this Act and to increase public awareness of the prevalence, incidence, and any trends in the preventable causes of death and disability in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Designates the weekend of or preceding April 29 of each year as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust."
United States · United States Congress · 16 May 1978
Amends the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 to prohibit bank holding companies and their subsidiaries from selling property and casualty insurance as principals, agents, or brokers.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
National Workers' Compensation Standards Act - Establishes minimum standards for State workers' compensation laws. Provides that the employers in any State in which the laws do not meet the minimum standards shall be required to pay to any employee the difference between the State payments and the payments the Federal standards would require. Authorizes grants to States to assist them in achieving compliance with the minimum standards set forth in this Act. Vests administrative responsibility for these provisions in the Department of Labor. Establishes a National Workers' Compensation Advisory Commission to monitor the progress of the States in meeting the standards established by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, by rule making proceedings, standards for determining whether diseases arise out of the course of employment and cause death or disability. Requires any such standard to be a minimum standard for State workers' compensation laws for that disease.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1978
Amends Title XVI (Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to exclude from the definition of "income" under such Title any support or maintenance furnished in kind to a recipient of supplemental security income benefits (and his eligible spouse, if any) by a relative, for purposes of determining the eligibility of such recipient for benefits under the Supplemental Security Income Program. Specifies a formula for determining the value of such support or maintenance.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Commends Lee Williams for his long, faithful, and exemplary service to the United States Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the customs duties on potatoes, and to lower the quota on potatoes which may be imported at the lesser of two rates of duty.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1978
Supplementary Fiscal Assistance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make quarterly payments to local governments experiencing substantial unemployment or secular economic decline. Authorizes appropriations for such supplemental fiscal assistance payments to eligible territorial governments, Indian tribes and Alaskan native villages. Stipulates eligibility criteria and provides the formula for the allocation of funds under this Act. Requires every eligible government, territory, tribe, or Alaskan village to file a statement which assures that payments received under this Act shall be used for basic services customarily provided to persons in the area under the jurisdiction of such government. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, handicap, or religion under any program of this Act or of title II of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976. Makes provisions for the administration of programs under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1978
Rural Elders Assistance Act - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to assure that all older persons residing in a planning and service area, including those residing in isolated or sparsely populated rural communities, will have reasonably convenient access to information and referral sources for such older persons. Requires the Commissioner on Aging to give special consideration to model projects designed: (1) to meet the special needs of older persons in rural areas; and (2) to develop models for independent living for older persons to assist such persons to remain within their communities and out of institutions. Includes mobile units within the definition of multipurpose senior center.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1978
Corporate Tax Reduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the rate of tax on the first $150,000 of corporate income and to increase the corporate surtax exemption.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1978
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include specified textiles and textile products in the articles reserved from tariff reduction or elimination negotiations by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Drug Abuse Office, Prevention, and Treatment Amendments - Amends the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act to extend authorizations of appropriations for programs under such Act through fiscal year 1979. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to transmit to the President and Congress an annual report on drug abuse in the United States, including an evaluation and description of the drug abuse functions carried on by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Requires the Secretary to submit a separate report to Congress on drug abuse in rural areas. Requires the National Drug Abuse Strategy developed by the Strategy Council established by the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act to include a mechanism to identify, provide for, and evaluate effective drug abuse prevention programs designed to discourage people from initial experimentation with drugs. Directs State drug abuse agencies to coordinate drug abuse prevention planning with local agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Adolescent Health, Services, and Pregnancy Prevention and Care Act - Makes findings concerning the health, social, and economic consequences of unwanted initial and repeat pregnancies among adolescents and declares the purpose of this Act to be the prevention of unwanted adolescent pregnancies and the provision of proper care to pregnant adolescents. Title I: Grant Program - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and nonprofit private organizations (grantees) to coordinate their services for the purposes of preventing unwanted adolescent pregnancies and providing care for infants born to adolescents. Sets forth purposes for which grantees may use funds under this Act. Includes among such purposes: (1) the coordination of services aimed at preventing unwanted initial and repeat adolescent pregnancies; (2) the referral of pregnant adolescents or adolescent mothers to maternal health care services; and (3) the supplementation of inadequate local services and care designed to prevent unwanted adolescent pregnancies. Prohibits grantees from establishing income eligibility requirements for the receipt of services funded by this Act or from charging fees for such services, except pursuant to a fee schedule approved by the Secretary. Establishes priorities in choosing which organizations shall receive grants, based upon the incidence of adolescent pregnancies in a particular area served by an organization, the organization's ability to provide services, and other factors. Sets forth the information which a grant application must contain. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Title II: Improving Coordination of Federal and State Programs - Directs the Secretary to coordinate Federal policies and programs which provide services designed to prevent unwanted adolescent pregnancies. Sets forth measures which the Secretary is required to take to coordinate such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Amendments - Amends the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Act to emphasize prevention of alcohol and drug abuse in stating congressional purpose and to expand the focus of the Act to include "approaches" to the prevention of alcohol and drug abuse rather than limiting the scope to curricula. Authorizes grants to State and local educational agencies and other nonprofit agencies to establish demonstration projects for determining the most effective methods of alcohol and drug abuse prevention. Requires that at least 25 percent of such grant money for demonstration projects be used for programs in rural areas. Establishes the Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education within the Office of Education. Extends the Act for three years and authorizes appropriations to carry out programs under the Act. Requires that at least 25 percent of the sums appropriated for any fiscal year be used for programs in rural areas.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Venereal Disease Amendments - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations through fiscal year 1981 for projects and programs for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish and maintain a corps of not less than 850 noncommissioned officers and employees of the United States to advise and otherwise engage in the conduct of programs and projects for the prevention and control of venereal disease.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Expressess the sense of the Senate that all efforts to bring major league baseball back to Washington, District of Columbia, should be assisted and encouraged to the full extent it is proper to do so.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Teacher Training Programs and Teacher Centers Amendments - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the 1979 authorization for teacher training programs under such Act from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000, and to provide for minimum State grants of $250,000 in any fiscal year in which more than $50,000,000 is appropriated for such teacher training programs. Revises certain application review procedures with regard to grant applications for teacher centers.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Bilingual Education Equitable Distribution Act - Amends the Bilingual Education Act to give priority in the funding of new applications for demonstration grants to geographic areas and groups which have historically been underserved by such programs, and to allocate funds appropriated in proportion to the geographic distribution of children of limited English language proficiency throughout the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Education Fiscal Assistance Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow each individual taxpayer a refundable $100 income tax credit for each dependent child who is enrolled in a school, from the elementary level through graduate studies, whether or not any expenses are incurred for the child's education. Forbids any construction of this Act as granting the government additional authority to examine the books or activities of church schools except to the extent necessary to determine whether they are educational institutions within the meaning of this Act. Provides for the immediate certification of any judicial action brought in a United States district court concerning the constitutionality of this Act to the appropriate circuit court of appeals. Authorizes direct appeal to the Supreme Court of any decision by a circuit court. Directs the expedited consideration of such a case at both judicial levels. Provides that if any provision of this tax credit, or its application, is held invalid to any provision of this tax credit, or its application, or is held invalid to any person or circumstances, the ruling shall not affect the remainder of the provisions of the credit, nor the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances. Provides that the refund of this tax credit shall not be used in computing any person's eligibility for federally-funded educational assistance benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1978
Amends Title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act to require that not less than one-half of one percent of a State's allocation under such Title be directed to a "regional planning organization," as defined by this Act, for purposes of involving local government in the planning and evaluation of services provided under such Title.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1978
Regulatory Control Act - Requires every agency rule promulgated pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act to be reviewed every five years in the same manner as provided under that Act. Requires the Comptroller General to participate in the original promulgation and subsequent public review of all such rules. Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to require all legislation reported out of committee to include a statement requiring one of five specified forms of congressional review of agency rules which would be promulgated pursuant to such legislation if it becomes law.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Older Americans Act - Title I: Amendments to the Older Americans Act of 1965 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require each Federal agency proposing to establish programs and services substantially related to the purposes of such Act to consult with the Administration on Aging prior to the establishment of such programs and services. Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the position of Counselor to the President on Aging to be appointed by the President. Sets forth the duties of the Counselor. Includes among such duties the representation of the interests of older Americans before the departments and agencies of the United States and to the general public. Declares it to be the purpose of Title III of such Act (Grants for State and Community Programs on Aging) to encourage and assist State and local agencies to concentrate resources to serve older persons by entering into new cooperative arrangements in each such State with State and local agencies, and with the providers of social services or nutrition services or multipurpose senior centers, for the planning for the provision of, and for the provision of, social services, nutrition services, or multipurpose senior centers. Declares it further to be the purpose of such Title to combine within a single authorization, the programs of such Title, Title V (Multipurpose Senior Centers), and Title VII (Nutrition Program for the Elderly). Sets forth the definitions used in such Title. Includes within the social services to be provided the services of an Ombudsman at the State level to receive, investigate, and act on complaints by older persons who are residents of nursing homes and to advocate the well-being of such persons. Defines "nutrition services" as any nutrition projects which, five or more days a week, provide at least one meal per day each of which assures a minimum of one-third of the daily recommended dietary allowances. Defines a "multipurpose senior center" as a community facility for the organization and provision of a broad spectrum of social services (including provision of health, social, and educational services and provision of facilities for recreational activities) or nutrition services, or both, for older persons. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1979 and 1980 for grants approved under such Title. Requires each State, to be eligible to receive a grant under such Title, to designate a State agency as the sole State agency: (1) to develop and administer a State plan formulated pursuant to this Act; and (2) to divide the State into areas and to designate as a planning and service area any unit of general purpose local government which has a population aged 60 or over of 15,000 individuals or more which contains 15 percent or more of the State population aged 60 or over. Requires each such area agency on aging to prepare and develop an area plan. Sets forth specified material to be included in such plan. Requires each State, in order to be eligible for grants under such Title, to submit to the Commissioner on Aging a State plan. Sets forth specified material to be included in such plan. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to develop and operate statewide, regional, metropolitan area, county, city, or community model projects which show promise of expanding or improving social services or nutrition services or otherwise promote the well-being of older persons. Requires the Commissioner in making such grants to give special consideration to projects designed: (1) to assist in meeting the housing needs of older persons; (2) to provide continuing education to older persons; (3) to provide preretirement education information; (4) to provide services to assist in meeting the particular needs of physically and mentally impaired older persons; and (5) to assist older persons to remain within their communities and out of institutions. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to insure any mortgage for a multipurpose senior center in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Act. Creates a Multipurpose Senior Center Insurance Fund to be used by the Secretary as a revolving fund for carrying out all insurance provisions with respect to such mortgages. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual interest grants to assist nonprofit private agencies in reducing the cost of borrowing from other sources for the acquisition, alteration, or renovation of facilities for multipurpose senior centers. Authorizes appropriations as necessary for each fiscal year prior to 1980 for training, research, and secretarial programs for personnel in the field of aging. Redesignates Title V of the Act "Community Service Employment for Older Americans." States that such Title may be cited as the Older American Community Service Employment Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish an older American community service employment program to foster and promote useful part-time opportunities in community service activities for unemployed low-income persons who are 55 years old and who have poor employment prospects. States that eligible individuals employed in such projects shall not be considered to be Federal employees. States that in awarding grants or contracts for such projects the Secretary shall give special consideration to national organizations owned or operated by members of minority groups which have a proven ability to provide older persons with employment. Sets forth definitions used in this Title. Title II: White House Conference on Aging - 1981 White House Conference on Aging Act - Declares it the policy of the Congress that the Federal Government should work with the States and citizens to develop recommendations and plans to meet the needs of older persons. Requires that programs developed under this Act place emphasis upon the right of older persons to free choice and self-help in planning their futures. Authorizes the President of the United States to call a White House Conference on Aging in 1981 to develop recommendations for research and action in the field of aging. Requires the Conference to include representatives of Federal, State, and local governments, professional and lay people working in the field of aging including older persons. Directs that a final report of the White House Conference, containing a comprehensive statement of a coherent national policy on aging and the recommendations of such Conference, be submitted to the President and Congress within a specified time. Sets forth the responsibilities and duties of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in administering this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to the Conference and such other technical committees as may be necessary to carry out such Conference. Title III: Study of Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Programs for Older Americans - Directs the Commission on Civil Rights: (1) to undertake a comprehensive study of discrimination based on race or ethnic background in any federally assisted programs and activities which affect older persons; and (2) identify with particularity any such federally assisted program or activity in which evidence is found of persons or organizations who are otherwise qualified being, on the basis of race or ethnic background, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, refused employment or contracts with, or subject to discrimination under, such program or activity.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1978
Regional Development Act - Establishes one independent capital development bank in each of the ten standard Federal administrative regions. Provides for the management and capitalization of such banks. Empowers each bank to issue notes, debentures, bonds, and other evidence of indebtedness in such amounts and on such terms and conditions as its board of directors may determine subject to the limitations prescribed in this Act. Authorizes the banks to make or guarantee loans to provide funds for: (1) the purchase of real and personal property and for working capital necessary for the location of new business and industry or the improvement of existing business and industry in depressed urban and rural areas; (2) financing capital expenditures for public works and community facilities; and (3) making loans to appropriate public agencies, nonprofit cooperatives and corporations, developers, and other persons to provide construction loans for low and moderate income housing loan programs of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Veterans' Administration, and the Farmers Home Administration of the Department of Agriculture.