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United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1979
Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require specified drugs found by the Secretary to be hazardous when used in combination with alcohol to be deemed misbranded if the label of such drug fails to disclose such information.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include in gross income the interest on any mortgage revenue bonds which are unsecured by any Federal, State, or local obligations. Excepts from such inclusion interest on any mortgage revenue bond issued as part of a bond issue substantially all of the proceeds of which are to be used in any State or local government housing, redevelopment, or renewal program with respect to which the bond issuer makes a program contribution equal to at least five percent of the aggregate authorized face amount of such issue. Defines the kinds of payments covered by the term "program contribution".
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow public utilities and home heating energy suppliers a refundable income tax credit for the cost of maintaining a program to supply home heating energy to the aged (age 60 or over) and the disabled (disability benefit recipients under the Social Security Act) at prices which are 25 percent lower than those prices charged other individuals. Specifies that such a program may qualify for the tax credit even if its prices exceed ten percent of the income of the eligible aged or disabled individual as long as such prices are less than 25 percent the cost at which energy is supplied to other individuals. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to consult with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Administration on Aging, the administrators of various State public assistance programs, and the public utility commissions of the various States to devise a system for identifying eligible recipients and encouraging public utilities and home heating energy suppliers to establish programs for furnishing inexpensive energy for the age and disabled. Permits a taxpayer to apply for a tentative refund of any credit amount for which he is eligible under this Act at the end of the first quarter of the taxable year in which he qualifies.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to budget funds for certain specified purposes to assist the Civil Air Patrol. Authorizes appropriations for such purpose. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to give, sell, or lend to the Civil Air Patrol excess property acquired by the Air Force under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Designates the Department of Labor Building in Washington, D.C., as the Frances Perkins Department of Labor Building.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1979
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer election to amortize, on the basis of 60 months, business start-up expenditures incurred prior to the commencement of such business on an ongoing basis. Defines "start-up expenditures" as expenditures which are incurred in the investigation, formation, and creation of a trade or business, are chargeable to capital account, and are of a character which, if expended incident to the investigation, formation, and creation of a trade or business having a determinable life, would be amortized over such life.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1979
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that no office building should be constructed for the Senate after the date on which this resolution is agreed to, other than any office building which is under construction on such date.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that low-income elderly and handicapped individuals be appointed to, or serve as advisers to, State commissions regulating public utilities.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1979
Savings and Investment Encouragement Act of 1979 - Title I: Incentives for Individual Saving - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income up to $100 of the interest earned on a savings account. Permits an exclusion of up to $500 for interest which is reinvested in a savings account. Excludes from gross income up to $500 of dividends received which are reinvested in the stock of domestic corporations. Requires that the sum of the adjusted basis of stock in domestic corporations held by the taxpayer plus the amount held in a savings account (investment base) on the last day of a taxable year exceed the investment base of the taxpayer as of the first day of such taxable year, plus the amount of dividends and interest excludible for such taxable year. Title II: Incentives for New Plant and Equipment - Revises the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and a six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the cost recovery period. Permits taxpayer to deduct less than the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year. Title III: Incentives for Research and Development - Qualifies research and development expenditures related to a trade or business for the investment tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate May 1, 1980, as "National Bicycling Day."
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1979
States the findings of Congress with respect to the utility of regulations issued by Federal financial regulatory agencies. Requires regulations issued by Federal financial regulatory agencies to insure that: (1) the need for and purpose of such regulations are clearly established; (2) meaningful alternatives to the issuance of regulations are considered; (3) compliance costs, paperwork, and other costs are kept at a minimal level; (4) conflicts, duplications and inconsistencies between regulations are avoided; (5) opportunities for comment by interested parties are made available; and (6) the language of such regulations is clear and simple. Directs Federal financial regulatory agencies to establish a program which assure periodic review of existing regulations. Requires all Federal financial regulatory agencies to submit reports outlining their progress in implementing financial regulation simplification to the appropriate committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Terminates the provisions of this Act five years after its effective date.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1979
Declares an individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1979
Declares two individuals lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1979
Designates the period of April 13 through April 19, 1980, as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of Holocaust."
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1979
Designates the week of October 8 through October 14, 1979, as "National Diabetes Week."
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1979
Local Energy Management Act of 1979 - Title I: Findings, Declaration of Purpose, and Definitions - Declares that the purposes of this Act are: (1) to establish a demonstration grant program applicable to localities proposing energy conservation and renewable energy resource development plans; (2) to establish a documentation and distribution grants program; and (3) to establish a local energy reference center to disseminate information on such programs. Title II: Program Administration - Directs the Secretary of Energy to carry out the provisions of this Act and to report annually to the Congress on activities of the programs established under this Act. Requires the Secretary to consult and cooperate with appropriate Federal and other public and private agencies to provide a coordinated approach to the programs established under this Act. Title III: Demonstration Grants Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make nonrenewable grants to localities for the development of measures to promote energy conservation and the development of renewable resources. Sets forth application and other procedures for such grants program. Title IV: Documentation and Distribution Grants Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make renewable, one-year grants to localities to document and distribute practical information on programs to promote energy conservation or the development of renewable energy resources. Sets forth application and other procedures for such grants program. Title V: General Grant Guidelines - Sets forth general guidelines for awarding grants under title III and title IV of this Act. Title VI: Local Energy Reference Center - Directs the Secretary to establish a local energy reference center to serve as a data bank and information center for localities. Sets forth the responsibilities of the center. Title VII: Technical Assistance Panel - Directs the local energy reference center to establish a technical assistance panel to provide information to localities on energy conservation and development of renewable energy resources. Title VIII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes the appropriation of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1980, $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1981, and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1982 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1979
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to admit free of duty (or refund duty already paid on) a certain item purchased by a named Cultural Center.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1979
Prohibits any instrumentality of the United States from withholding Government contracts to enforce compliance with voluntary wage-price guidelines.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1979
Health Maintenance Organizations Medicare Reimbursement Amendments of 1979 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise provisions relating to payments to and contractual arrangements with health maintenance organizations (HMO) on behalf of individuals eligible for Medicare. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to determine annually a per capita rate of payment for each class of individuals entitled to benefits under such title who are enrolled pursuant to this Act with a HMO. Directs the Secretary to define classes of members based on such factors as age, sex, institutional status, disability status and place of residence. Provides a rate for each class equal to 95 percent of the adjusted average per capita cost for that class. Defines the term "adjusted average per capita cost" to mean the average per capita amount that the Secretary estimates would be payable for services furnished under the Medicare program, if the services were to be furnished by other than an HMO. Provides that every individual entitled to benefits under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII or part B only shall be eligible to enroll with an HMO with which the Secretary has contracted to provide services. Sets limits on an HMO's premium rate and the actuarial value of its other charges for individuals enrolled under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to contract with any HMO that can provide the benefits required by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1979
Veteran Senior Citizen Health Care Act of 1979 - States the purposes of this Act to be: (1) to provide for the increasing demand for geriatric and extended health care and medical services being placed on the Veterans' Administration (VA) hospital system; and (2) to make the VA hospital system foremost in the area of geriatric health care and the repository of gerontology medical knowledge. Directs that within the Office of the Chief Medical Director of the VA one Assistant Chief Medical Director shall be doctor of geriatrics, and shall be responsible for the VA's geriatric services. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to designate 15 VA hospitals as demonstration centers of geriatric research, education, and clinical operations. Stipulates that such centers shall operate until September 30, 1983. Directs the Administrator to provide that: (1) each hospital operating as a geriatric center on the date of enactment of this Act be designated as the location for a demonstration center; and (2) such designated hospitals be geographically dispersed across the United States. Directs the Administrator to establish a Geriatrics and Extended Care Task Force within the VA's Special Medical Advisory Group. Stipulates that such Task Force shall assess: (1) the VA's capability to provide geriatric services on a sustained and growing basis to eligible veterans; and (2) the current and projected needs for geriatric and extended health services among eligible veterans. Requires such Task Force to submit a report to the Administrator and the Special Medical Advisory Group within 18 months after the effective date of this Act. Directs the Administrator to transmit such report, (within 90 days of receipt) along with any comments, to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees. Requires a final report to be submitted by such Task Force within four years of the effective date of this Act. Authorizes appropriations of: (1) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1980; (2) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1981; (3) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1982; and (4) $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1979
Health Incentives Reform Act of 1979 - Establishes title XXI (Standards for Health Benefit Plans) under the Social Security Act. Declares the purpose of such title to be to establish standards which must be met by any employer-offered health benefit plan in order for contributions to such plan to be tax deductible. Requires, under such title, each employer to make available to his or her employees a choice of not less than three health benefit plans which meet the requirements of such title and each of which is offered by a different carrier. Requires at least two of the plans to be offered by a qualified health maintenance organization (HMO). Stipulates that if plans offered by HMO's are not available, the employer must offer alternative plans which provide at least the minimum services required of a plan under this Act and under which the providers of services under the plan constitute a small enough percentage of the total number of providers of such services in the community so as to generate competition with other providers. Requires each employer offering more than one health benefit plan to make an equal contribution for each employee regardless of which plan the employee chooses. Stipulates that if the contribution amount selected by the employer is in excess of the total cost of any plan offered the employer shall contribute, to any employee choosing such plan, an amount equal to the difference between the employer contribution amount and the total cost of the plan chosen by the employer. Stipulates that an amount contributed by an employer to a health benefit plan shall not be excluded from the gross income of the employee to the extent that such contribution exceeds the average cost for health benefit plans offered by HMO's. Sets forth a method for determining such cost. Requires each health benefit plan to provide that any individual covered under an employer's group health insurance plan may convert to an individual plan without regard to prior medical condition or proof of insurability. Requires each health benefit plan to provide an employee the option to purchase coverage under the group plan for his or her spouse and dependent children. Requires each health benefit plan to provide: (1) physician services; (2) inpatient and outpatient hospital services; (3) medically necessary emergency services; (4) short-term outpatient mental health services; (5) medical treatment and referral services for the abuse of or addiction to alcohol or drugs; (6) diagnostic laboratory and diagnostic and therapeutic radiologic services; (7) home health services; and (8) specified preventive health services. Requires each plan to provide for payment of the entire cost of the services included in the plan which are incurred after the out-of-pocket expenses for such services have reached $3,500 for an individual, spouse, and dependents in any calendar year. Sets forth requirements for health insurance carriers under this Act. States that the reasonable premium rate for a health benefit plan shall be determined by the appropriate State agency in accordance with standards established by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that contributions by an employer to accident plans, dental plans, and health plans for compensation to his or her employees shall not be included in gross income provided the plan meets the requirements of this Act. Authorizes an employee to deduct his or her payments for health insurance under title XXI. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise provisions relating to payments and contractual arrangements with HMO's under the Medicare program. Directs the Secretary to annually determine a per capita rate of payment for each class of individuals entitled to benefits under such program who are enrolled with a HMO or a health benefit plan with which the Secretary has contracted under the Medicare program. Directs the Secretary to define appropriate classes based on such factors as age, sex, institutional status, disability status, and place of residence. States that the rate for each class shall be equal to 95 percent of the "adjusted average per capita cost" for each class. Defines the term "adjusted average per capita cost" to mean the average per capita amount that the Secretary estimates would be payable for services furnished under the Medicare program, if the services were furnished by other than a HMO or a health benefit plan. Provides that every individual entitled to benefits under parts A (Hospital Insurance) and B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII or part B only shall be eligible to enroll with a HMO with which the Secretary has contracted to provide services. Sets limits on a HMO's premium rate and the actuarial value of its other charges for individuals enrolled pursuant to this Act. Defines the term "health benefit plan" to mean a nongovernmental organization which provides or pays for the cost of health services under group insurance policies, medical or hospital service agreements, membership or subscription contracts, or similar group arrangements, in consideration of premiums or other periodic charges payable to the plan, but does not include a HMO.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1979
Directs the Commissioner of Education to make a grant to Tuskegee Institute to construct a building on the campus in memory of the late General Daniel "Chappie" James. Stipulates that such building shall: (1) contain the papers and memorabilia concerning James; and (2) serve as the Tuskegee Institute Art Museum.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1979
Environmental Emergency Response Act - Defines containment as the onsite actions taken in the event of a discharge or release or significant threat of discharge or release of a hazardous substance from a hazardous substance disposal site to prevent or minimize such discharge or release. Defines hazardous substance as: (1) any hazardous substance so designated by the Clean Water Act; (2) any hazardous waste having the characteristics identified under or listed pursuant to the Solid Waste Disposal Act; (3) any toxic pollutant listed under the Clean Water Act; (4) any hazardous air pollutant listed under the Clean Air Act; (5) any imminently hazardous chemical substance or mixture as defined by the Toxic Substances Control Act; (6) any substance or mixture designated as a hazardous substance by the President pursuant to this Act; or (7) any element, substance, compound, or mixture which after release into the environment and upon exposure, ingestion, inhalation or assimilation into any organism, directly or indirectly, will or may reasonably be anticipated to cause death, physical or behavioral malfunction or disease. Directs the President to promulgate and revise regulations designating as hazardous substances, in addition to those defined above, such elements and compounds which, if released in a determined quantity into the environment, may present substantial danger to the public health or environment. Prohibits the discharge of any hazardous substance in violation of the Clean Water Act or the release or disposal of such substances which may affect the natural resources belonging to, appertaining to, or under the exclusive management authority of the United States. Directs any person in charge of any vessel or onshore or offshore facility which is discharging, releasing, or disposing of a hazardous substance to immediately notify the appropriate agency of the United States Government of such discharge, release, or disposal. Establishes criminal penalties for failing to provide such notice. Requires any person subject to liability for a noncomplying waste disposal site to notify the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) within a specified period of: (1) the existence of such site; (2) the amount and type of hazardous substances to be found at such site; and (3) the likelihood of discharge or release of such substances from such site. Establishes criminal penalties for failing to provide such notice. Precludes such persons from any limitation or defense of liability to which they would otherwise be entitled. Prohibits such persons from knowingly rendering unavailable or unreadable any record relating to the to the site or any hazardous substances contained or deposited therein. Authorizes the Administrator to establish and enforce such control or removal requirements as are deemed appropriate to protect the public health and environment from any hazardous substance disposal site not in compliance. Authorizes the President to take any emergency response measure including removal or containment, necessary to protect the public health or the environment whenever a hazardous substance is discharged or released into the environment, unless it is determined that the owner or operator of the source of the release will properly remove such substance. Directs the President, within a specified period, to revise and republish the National Contingency Plan for the removal of oil and hazardous substances to reflect and effectuate the responsibilities and powers created by this Act. Specifies that such revision include a National Hazardous Substance Disposal Site Response Plan, such plan to include: (1) methods for discovering and investigating such sites; (2) methods for evaluating and containing any actual or threatened discharges or releases from such sites which pose a substantial danger to the public health or the environment; (3) methods and criteria for determining the appropriate extent of emergency response, containment, and other measures authorized by this Act; (4) appropriate roles and responsbilities for various governmental and nongovernmental entities in effectuating the Plan; (5) provision for response equipment and supplies; and (6) provision for reporting the existence of and any releases of hazardous substances from sites which may be located on federally-owned or controlled properties. Authorizes the Administrator to require any person involved in activities which may present a danger to public health or the environment related to the handling, storage, treatment, transportation, or disposal of any hazardous substance to take any necessary actions to ascertain the nature and extent of such danger, or to bring suit in the appropriate United States district court to require any such person to take such actions. Makes the owner or operator of a vessel or an onshore or offshore facility from which a hazardous substance is discharged jointly and severally liable for specified damages resulting from such discharge, with specified exceptions. Authorizes the President or the authorized representative of a State to act on behalf of the public as trustee of any natural resources damaged or lost as a result of such discharge and to recover for such damages. Stipulates that each department, agency, or instrumentality of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government shall be subject to and comply with this Act. Imposes liability upon any generator or transporter of any hazardous substance for such discharge by the facility which was the source of the discharge if such generator or transporter could have reasonably anticipated such discharge. Imposes punitive damages upon the owner or operator of a hazardous substance disposal site for failure to properly provide emergency response or containment upon request of the President. Establishes in the United States Treasury a Hazardous Substance Response Fund to be constituted from specified fees, and all moneys recovered on behalf of the Fund or recovered or collected under the Clean Water Act. Requires manufacturers, importers, and generators of hazardous substances to pay fees on each unit of hazardous substance produced, manufactured, or imported into the United States and each unit of hazardous waste generated. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to promulgate rules and regulations relating to the collection of such fees, and sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violation of such regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to invest any excess of the Fund in interest-bearing special obligations of the United States. Directs the President to issue notes or other obligations to the Secretary in the event the moneys available in the fund are inadequate to meet the obligations of the fund. Directs the Administrator of EPA, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, and the Comptroller General to conduct a study of possible incentives to safer operation of vessels and facilities to reduce the potential of discharges or releases of hazardous substances, and of measures to prevent or avoid the occurrence of such discharges. Sets forth the purposes for which Fund moneys may be used. Authorizes the President to delegate his duties under this Act to the heads of appropriate Federal agencies, departments, and instrumentalities. Directs the President to establish a national priority system for responding to releases of hazardous substances and a system whereby States affected by such discharges may act to provide emergency response and be reimbursed for reasonable costs incurred thereof. Directs the President to notify an owner, operator, or guarantor of a vessel or an offshore or onshore facility of any allegation as to costs incurred for removal or damages resulting from the discharge of a hazardous substance for which such person would be liable under this Act. Sets forth procedures for the disposition of claims resulting from such discharges. Establishes a six year statute of limitation for claims presented or actions commenced under this Act. Subrogates to the United States Government all rights of a claimant to recover the costs of removal or damages from the person responsible for a hazardous substance discharge prior to payment of any claim by the Fund. Subrogates any person, including the Fund, who pays compensation pursuant to this Act to any claimant for damages or removal costs, to all rights, claims, and causes of action for such damages and removal costs of such claimant. Directs the Attorney General, upon request of the President, to commence on action on behalf of the Fund to recover any compensation paid by the Fund to any claimant pursuant to this Act. Directs the President, acting through the Administrators of the EPA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, to issue regulations for the assessment of damages for injury to or loss of natural resources resulting from a discharge of hazardous substances. Directs the Comptroller General to provide for auditing of all payments and other uses of the Fund. Requires owners and operators of vessels carrying hazardous substances and of onshore and offshore facilities to establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility in an amount consistent with the risks associated with the transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances. Imposes civil penalties on such persons for failure to comply with such requirements. Authorizes judicial review of any regulation issued under this Act only in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Grants jurisdiction to the United States district courts over all controversies arising under this Act. Makes conforming amendments to the Clean Water Act. Transfers to the Fund one-half of any sums appropriated under the oil and hazardous substances liability provisions of such Act and all of the sums appropriated under the emergency powers provisions of this Act. Terminates the authority to establish and collect fees under this Act on October 1, 1986.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1979
Capital Cost Recovery Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise the method for determining useful lives of business assets for purposes of computing allowable depreciation deductions. Replaces the asset depreciation range (ADR) method with a schedule of capital cost recovery periods for three classes of business property. Establishes capital cost recovery periods for the following classes of business property: (1) buildings and their structural components, ten years; (2) tangible property, five years; and (3) automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks (up to $100,000), three years. Allows a ten percent investment tax credit for buildings and tangible property, and six percent credit for automobiles, taxis, and light-duty trucks. Requires the recapture of depreciation amounts and investment tax credit amounts applicable to assets which are sold or otherwise disposed of prior to the expiration of the capital cost recovery period. Permits a taxpayer to deduct less the full allowance for capital cost recovery in any taxable year. Permits a carryover to succeeding taxable years of any unused depreciation amounts. Disqualifies capital cost recovery property from the allowance for first year depreciation. Treats amounts claimed as the capital cost recovery of noncorporate lessors as an item of tax preference for purposes of the minimum tax. Adopts as an accounting practice the "half year convention" under which investments eligible for capital cost recovery treatment or the investment tax credit which are made at any time during the taxable year are deemed to be made in the middle of such year.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1979
Paperwork and Redtape Reduction Act of 1979 - Title I: Central Management and Control Responsibility - Requires Federal agencies to utilize methods of collecting information which: (1) impose a minimum burden on business; (2) require a minimum cost to the Government; and (3) eliminate any unnecessary duplication of efforts. Establishes, within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Federal Information Management Policy (OFIMP) to have government-wide responsibility for setting policies and coordinating procedures governing the planning, budgeting, management, and control of Federal information management activities and of the measurement of the burdens imposed by such activities on businesses, State and local governments, and individuals. Requires the Administrator of OFIMP to: (1) publish, annually, a report of the burdens imposed by the reporting requirements of each agency; (2) review, at least every three years, the information management activities and the paperwork reduction activities of each agency; (3) establish goals for the reduction of reporting requirements; (4) assist agencies in developing information management programs; (5) recommend policies to Congress, the President, and agencies concerning the confidentiality and security of information; (6) study and develop improved information and paperwork cost accounting and reduction techniques; and (7) promulgate standards concerning recordkeeping requirements imposed on the public. Sets forth procedures which enable the Administrator to designate one agency to collect information for two or more agencies requiring similar data. Prohibits any agency from collecting information which: (1) is collected by a designated agency; or (2) the Administrator determines is unnecessary. Authorizes the Administrator to order the exchange of information among agencies. Requires an agency, before collecting any information, to: (1) eliminate reporting requirements which seek information which is available through another Government source; (2) minimize the compliance burden on respondents; (3) plan the tabulation of the information in a manner which maximizes its usefulness to other agencies; and (4) obtain the Administrator's approval of such collection. Directs the Administrator to approve a collection request within 60 days after its receipt for a period not to exceed two years. Directs the Administrator to report to Congress annually on the activities of OFIMP. Grants access to all records of such Office to the Comptroller General. Requires that formal meetings of OFIMP to establish policies and regulations be open to the public. Specifies conditions under which confidential information may be released from one agency to another. Delegates specified information management duties of the Director of the OMB to the Administrator. Title II: Elimination of Unnecessary Duplication - Establishes, within OFIMP, a Federal Locator System composed of an information locator, a data element dictionary, and an information referral service. Directs the System to serve as the authoritative register for all recordkeeping requirements and all public use, interagency, and intra-agency reports. Directs the Administrator to: (1) design and operate the system; (2) require the head of each agency to insert into the system a synopsis of the questions of each report and the information maintained for each reporting requirement of that agency; (3) compare the information sought by proposed reporting requirements to information in the System; and (4) make available the comparison results to agencies and the public. Requires the Administrator to insure that no actual data is contained within the locator system, except descriptive data profiles necessary to identify duplicative data or to locate information. Requires that any information holding which contains a data element of a personal or proprietary nature within the meaning of the Privacy Act of 1974 be identified as such and restricted in access and use. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes the appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that this Act shall take effect 60 days after its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1979
Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in consultation with other Federal agencies, to report to Congress concerning: (1) the impact of foreign takeovers of U.S. financial institutions; and (2) statutory changes to prevent or limit such takeovers. Prohibits the approval of applications relating to the foreign takeover of any U.S. financial institution, with specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President shall call as soon as possible an Energy Summit Conference to bring together representatives of the oil industry, consumer representatives knowledgeable on energy matters, officials of the executive branch and other levels of government, and such other persons as the President deems necessary to review any data submitted and report to the President on current and expected energy shortages, a prognosis for the future, and recommendations for public and private action to meet those shortages. Directs the Conference to consider the establishment of a national energy council. Directs the President to report to the American people the results of the Conference along with his recommendations for a national energy policy.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1979
Trade Agreements Act of 1979 - Approves specified trade agreements and the statements of administrative action proposed to implement such agreements. Authorizes the President to accept the final legal instruments embodying such agreements. Limits the President's acceptance authority. Requires the President to submit regulations and any amendments of existing statutes necessary to implement such agreements to Congress. Directs the Special Representative for trade negotiations to keep the Congressional delegates to trade negotiations informed of any requirements of, amendments to, or recommendations under, such agreements. Title I: Countervailing and Antidumping Duties - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to require that a countervailing duty be imposed on imported merchandise if: (1) the administering authority determines that such merchandise receives any subsidy from a country subject to the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures or a similar agreement; and (2) the U.S. International Trade Commission determines that U.S. industry is materially injured or retarded by reason of such imports. Stipulates that such countervailing duty equal the amount of the net subsidy. Directs the administering authority to investigate whether such a subsidy is being provided to imported merchandise upon receiving: (1) information that such a situation exists; or (2) a petition from an interested party alleging such a situation exists. Stipulates that such petition be filed with the Commission in addition to the administering authority. Requires the administering authority to notify the Commission of any investigation in order that the Commission determine whether there is any indication of material injury to U.S. industry. Requires preliminary and final determinations to be made within specified time periods. Provides for the termination or suspension of such an investigation upon: (1) withdrawal of the petition by the petitioner; or (2) the country which allegedly provides subsidies, agreeing to eliminate such subsidy, cease exports of such merchandise, or (in extraordinary circumstances) eliminate the injurious effect of exports to the United States. Sets forth limitations to such agreements. Requires the administering authority to publish a countervailing duty order upon final affirmative determinations by the administering authority and the Commission concerning subsidies on imported merchandise. Requires that an antidumping duty be imposed on imported merchandise if: (1) the administering authority determines that such merchandise is, or is likely to be, sold in the United States at less than its fair value; and (2) the Commission determines that U.S. industry is materially injured or retarded by reason of such imports. Stipulates that such an antidumping duty equal the amount by which the foreign market value exceeds the U.S. price for such merchandise. Sets forth procedures for investigations by the administering authority and the Commission into sales at less than fair value similar to the countervailing duty investigations. Requires the administering authority to publish an antidumping duty order upon final affirmative determinations by the administering authority and the Commission that imported merchandise is being sold in the United States at less than fair value. Directs the administering authority to review annually: (1) the amounts of countervailing and antidumping duties; and (2) any agreements suspending countervailing or antidumping duty investigations. Requires the results of such review to be published along with any adjustments in the amounts of duty. Authorizes the administering authority to: (1) revoke a countervailing or antidumping duty order; or (2) terminate a suspended investigation after such review. Sets forth methods for determining the amounts of subsidies, material injury, U.S. prices, and foreign market value. Requires the administering authority and the Commission to hold a hearing during the course of any investigation at the request of a party to such investigation. Provides for the establishment of a library of information concerning foreign subsidy practices and countervailing measures. Requires specified information be available to the public. Provides for the confidentiality of certain information. Stipulates that interest be paid on overpayments and underpayments of amounts deposited on imported merchandise subject to countervailing or antidumping duty investigations. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commission to terminate pending investigations into subsidies or sales at less than market value and continue such investigations pursuant to this title. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to make existing provisions concerning countervailing duty investigations applicable only to imported articles from countries not parties to the Agreement. Revises the existing investigation procedures to conform with this title, with specified exceptions. Requires the administering authority to notify the Commission of specified countervailing duty orders. Directs the Commission to determine whether U.S. industry has been materially injured. Directs the administering authority to terminate the waiver of countervailing duties upon being notified by the Commission of an affirmative determination. Stipulates that countervailing duty orders issued under existing provisions shall remain in effect, but subject to review under this title. Continues the waiver of countervailing duty orders applicable to imported merchandise from countries under the Agreement, until the Commission determines whether U.S. industry has been materially injured. Repeals the Antidumping Act, 1921. Continues the effectiveness of findings made under such Act, subject to review under this title. Title II: Customs Valuation - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to revise the methods for appraising imported merchandise based on the transaction value, deductive value, computed value, or similar value. Repeals the existing alternative valuation standards. Directs the President to report to Congress with an evaluation of the domestic and international operation of the Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Specifies the effective dates of the revised valuation standards which vary depending on particular circumstances. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to increase the rate of duties on ball and roller bearings and pneumatic tires. Repeals provisions stipulating that the duties on clams, footwear, wool knit gloves, and chemicals be based on the American selling price. Increases the rate of duties on such products. Authorizes the President to modify the descriptions of chemicals contained in the Tariff Schedules in specified circumstances. Title III: Government Procurement - Authorizes the President to waive government procurement regulations for eligible products of designated countries, if such regulations result in less favorable treatment than that accorded to U.S. products or products from countries which are parties to the Agreement. Directs the President to prohibit the procurement of otherwise eligible products from countries which are not designated. Authorizes deferrals and waivers from such prohibition in specified circumstances. Requires the President to report to Congress concerning: (1) the effects on the U.S. economy of the refusal to allow the Agreement to cover governmental entities which are principal purchasers of goods and recommendations of alternative means; and (2) actions to establish reciprocity with industrialized countries in the area of government procurement. Authorizes the President to waive application of the Buy American Act in the case of procurement of civil aircraft and related articles from countries which are parties to the Agreement on Trade in Civil Aircraft, specifies objectives, including more open market access abroad, to be sought in the renegotiations provided for in the Agreement. Directs the President to report to Congress if the renegotiations are not progressing satisfactorily. Requires the President to give careful consideration to monitoring and enforcing the requirements of the Agreement and this title. Directs the President to report to Congress concerning: (1) administrative practices in the United States and other industrial countries regarding country of origin determinations; and (2) the economic impact on labor surplus areas of the waiver of the Buy American Act. Requires the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations to make procurement information available to the designated congressional advisors. Title IV: Technical Barriers to Trade (Standards) - Permits private persons and Federal and State agencies to engage in standards related activities that do not create unnecessary obstacles to U.S. foreign commerce. Requires Federal agencies which are engaged in such activities to: (1) ensure nondiscriminatory treatment of domestic and imported products; (2) take into consideration international standards; and (3) develop standards based on performance criteria. Gives the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations responsibility for: (1) coordinating and developing international trade policy; and (2) coordinating negotiations with foreign countries concerning standards-related activities. Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and Agriculture to establish technical offices within their Departments to carry such functions as the President prescribes to implement this title. Requires the Secretary concerned to consult and coordinate, with the Special Representative, international standards-related activities. Stipulates that private organization members shall represent U.S. interests before any private international standards organization, unless the Secretary concerned has reason to believe such representation will be inadequate. Directs the Secretary concerned to encourage cooperation among interested Federal agencies which are the U.S. representatives to any international standards organization. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to maintain a standards information center to serve as a national collection facility. Authorizes the Special Representative and the Secretary concerned to make grants, enter into contracts, or provide other assistance for assisting appropriate standards-related activities. Requires such officials to solicit technical and policy advise from the trade policy advisory committees. Permits parties to the Agreement and countries extending similar rights and privileges to the United States to make a representation to the Special Representative alleging that a standards-related activity violates U.S. obligations under the Agreement. Directs the interagency trade organization established by the President to review any findings by an appropriate international forum that a standards-related activity violates U.S. obligations under the Agreement. Permits Federal agencies to consider petitions against standards-related activity in specified circumstances. Exempts specified standards activity from this title. Requires the Special Representative to report to Congress concerning international and domestic operation of the Agreement. Title V: Implementation of Certain Tariff Negotiations - Authorizes aggregate reductions in the rates of duty which exceed the maximum specified in the Trade Act of 1974 in specified circumstances. Directs the President to increase the rates of duty on textile products if the Arrangement Regarding International Trade in Textiles, or substitute Arrangement, ceases to be effective. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide for the separate tariff treatment of sheep, goats, and prepared beef and veal. Authorizes the President to reduce the rate of duty applicable to yellow dent corn below statutory limitations. Revises the tariff provisions for carrots, dinnerware, watches, and brooms. Authorizes the duty-free entry of agricultural or horticultural machinery, equipment, implements, and parts, with specified exceptions. Continues the duty-free entry of certain wool through June 30, 1985. Converts various specific rates of duty to ad valorem equivalents. Title VI: Civil Aircraft Agreement - Authorizes the President to proclaim duty-free treatment for specified articles certified for use in civil aircraft when the conditions for acceptance of the Agreement on Trade Civil Aircraft are fulfilled. Title VII: Certain Agricultural Measures - Directs the President to limit the amount of quota cheese which may enter the United States. Requires the administering authority, with the Secretary of Agriculture, to determine whether countries are providing subsidies to quota cheese. Permits any person to file a complaint with the Secretary alleging that a quota cheese is being: (1) offered for sale at less than the U.S. domestic market price; and (2) subsidized by a foreign government. Directs the Secretary to investigate such complaint and report the determinations to the President. Requires the President to: (1) impose a fee on the imported article to insure that the price will not be less than the U.S. price; or (2) prohibit or limit the entry of such articles. Stipulates that the countervailing duty provisions under title I of this Act shall be inapplicable with regard to quota cheese from countries with whom we have entered into cheese agreements. Directs the President to increase the quota for chocolate crumb. Establishes limits on the aggregate quantity of specified meat articles which may be imported into the United States. Title VIII: Treatment of Distilled Spirits - Distilled Spirits Tax Revision Act of 1979 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to repeal: (1) the wine-gallon method for determining the excise tax on distilled spirits; (2) the rectification taxes on such spirits; and (3) the occupational taxes on rectifiers. Revises the method for determining the tax on distilled spirits and the time for paying such tax. Revises the provisions concerning the establishment, operations, and bonding of distilled spirits plants to require that all operations of distillers, warehousemen, or processors be conducted only on bonded premises by qualified persons. Revises the procedure for tax refunds for loss of distilled spirits. Permits distilled spirits to be denatured on the bonded premises of a qualified distilled spirits plant. Limits the transfer of wine between bonded premises. Sets forth transitional rules for collecting the distilled spirits taxes. Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to repeal the wine-gallon method for assessing duties on distilled spirits, imports and instead, uses the internal revenue standard. Revises the rates of duty on distilled spirits to reflect such change. Directs the President to review foreign barriers to U.S. exports of alcoholic beverages and report the results to Congress. Authorizes the President to proclaim a lower rate of duty on a proof gallon basis upon receiving adequate reciprocal trade concessions. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to permit the transfer of specified liquor products between bonded warehouses, regardless of their location. Title IX: Enforcement of United States Rights - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to direct the President to take all feasible action to: (1) enforce U.S. rights under any trade agreement; and (2) respond to foreign practices which are inconsistent with trade agreements or are unreasonable or discriminatory. Permits the President to take such action even if no petition requesting such action has been filed. Sets forth the procedures for processing petitions filed by interested persons with the Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. Requires the Special Representative to recommend actions to the President after investigating such a petition and consulting with the foreign country concerned. Requires the Special Representative to provide information to private persons about foreign trade practices and trade agreements. Repeals provisions permitting congressional disapproval of such Presidential actions. Title X: Judicial Review - Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to set forth procedures for judicial review of countervailing and antidumping duty proceedings. Permits any interested party to petition for judicial review. Gives the U.S. Customs Court exclusive jurisdiction of any civil action brought to review a final determination concerning government procurement. Title XI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend the President's authority to enter into agreements to reduce nontariff barriers or other distortions to trade until January 3, 1988. Authorizes the President to sell import licenses at public auction. Directs the President to seek advice from the private sector concerning the operation of trade agreements and trade policy administration in general. Provides for the establishment of advisory committees representing service interests. Repeals the requirement that advisory committees report to Congress in 1980. Stipulates that committee members shall be consulted before and during negotiations. Exempts committees from reporting requirements contained in the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. Requires the President to study and report to Congress concerning mutual expansion of market opportunities with other North American countries. Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to permit the International Trade Commission to investigate matters involving countervailing duty or antidumping law only if such matters in part involve acts independently establishing a basis for relief under the unfair trade practices provisions. Provides for civil penalties for violations of cease and desist orders issued in response to such unfair trade practices. Makes technical amendments to the Trade Act of 1974 and the Tariff Schedules of the United States. Requires monthly reports on the port of entry value of each item in the Tariff Schedules of the United States and the aggregate values of U.S. imports and exports based on such values. Requires the reporting of rates of duty which would be imposed on dutiable imports based on such values. Directs the President to submit a proposal to Congress concerning a restructuring of the executive branch's international trade functions. Requires the President to report to Congress with a review of export promotion and disincentives. Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include regional economic organizations within the meaning of beneficiary developing country. Permits certain nations which are members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to be designated beneficiary developing countries. Revises limitations on the value of goods qualifying for duty-free treatment. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, at the request of any U.S. possession, to determine whether trade concessions have adversely affected tax revenues of such possessions. Authorizes the President to include amounts in the budget to offset such reduced revenues.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should call upon Paraguay to apprehend and extradite Josef Mengele to stand trial in the Federal Republic of Germany.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Energy should issue a rule to assure that activities directly related to coal exploration, extraction, and production receive 100 percent of their current needs for diesel fuel.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1979
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) eliminate the 190 day lifetime limit for in-patient psychiatric care; and (2) limit the amount which a provider of services may charge a Medicare patient for mental health care services to 20 percent of the amount customarily charged for such services. Provides coverage under the Medicare program for services furnished in qualified community mental health centers. Prohibits reimbursement under the Medicare program for psychoanalysis.
United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1979
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the week of September 16 through September 22, 1979, as "National Meals on Wheels Week."
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1979
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, through the Chief of Engineers, to construct a channel improvement project for the Saw Mill Run at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in accordance with the recommendations of the District Engineer and the Department of Army report.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1979
Allows a person to be sentenced to death for a violation of Federal law only if a separate sentencing hearing is conducted before: (1) the jury which determined such person's guilt; (2) a jury impaneled for such purpose; or (3) the court, upon motion of the defendant and the approval of the court and the Government. Requires the court to disclose all material in any presentence report, except as required to be withheld to protect human life or national security, but prohibits any such information withheld from being considered in determining a sentence of death. Permits any mitigating information to be presented regardless of its admissibility under the rules of evidence, but requires aggravating factors to be governed by such rules. Requires the Government to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that aggravating factors exist. Requires the defendant to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that mitigating factors exist. Requires the jury or court to return special findings setting forth any such factors found to exist. Requires the court to sentence the defendant to death upon a unanimous finding of the jury that such sentence should be imposed. Enumerates the mitigating and aggravating factors to be considered in determining whether to impose the death sentence. Changes the penalty for first degree murder of foreign officials, official guests, or internationally protected persons from life imprisonment to death. Makes kidnapping punishable by death if the death of any person results. Changes the maximum penalty for rape from death or life imprisonment to life imprisonment. Imposes the penalty of death or life imprisonment where in the commission of a bank robbery death results. Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to repeal the provision setting forth the procedure for determining the death sentence with respect to aircraft piracy. Prohibits a death sentence from being carried out on a pregnant woman. Allows a defendant to appeal a sentence of death to the court of appeals. Directs such court to affirm the sentence upon its determination that: (1) the sentence was not imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; (2) the evidence supports the finding of the existence of any aggravating factor or the failure to find any mitigating factor; and (3) the sentence is not excessive, considering the crime and the defendant. Stipulates that the sentencing procedure established by this Act shall not apply to prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1979
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to delete wire that is cut to length from the tariff provisions applicable to iron or steel.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1979
Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1965 to stipulate that any person who presents a Medicare card when boarding or paying mass transit fares shall receive the reduced rates for the elderly or handicapped as provided in such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States should pursue a policy of displacing a specified percentage of foreign oil with domestic coal.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1979
National Technology Innovation Act of 1979 - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish and maintain an Office of Industrial Technology to enhance technological innovation for the improvement of the economic, environmental and social well-being of the United States. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to the President and Congress, within three years after the date of enactment of this Act, a report on the progress, findings, recommendations, and conclusions of activities conducted. Requires the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Director of the Office who shall provide assistance for the establishment of Centers of Industrial Technology, whose activities shall include: (1) research supportive of technology and industrial innovation including cooperative industry-university basic and applied research; (2) assistance in the evaluation and development of technological ideas supportive of industrial innovation and new business ventures; (3) technological assistance and advisory services to industry; and (4) curriculum development and instruction in invention, entrepreneurship, and industrial innovation. Declares that such centers shall be affiliated with a university or nonprofit institution, and authorizes the Director to make available nonrenewable planning grants to such universities or nonprofit institutions for the purpose of developing a plan for the management and evaluation of the activities proposed within the particular Center, including the consideration of means to place the Center on a self-sustaining basis. Declares that each Center has the option of acquiring title to any invention conceived under the auspices of the Center that was supported at least in part by Federal funds and that the Secretary shall obtain title to any invention for which such option is not exercised. Authorizes the Director to make grants and enter into cooperative agreements to assist any activity established under this Act. Prohibits any such grant or cooperative agreement from exceeding 75 percent of the total cost of the program or project involved. Sets forth the terms and conditions for such grants or cooperative agreements. Requires the Director to seek the advice and cooperation of departments and agencies whose missions contribute to or are affected by the programs established under this Act. Authorizes the Director to receive moneys from other departments and agencies to support activities of the Centers. Establishes an independent committee to be known as the Industrial Technology Review Panel which shall review annually the activities of the Office and advise the Secretary and the Director with respect to such activities. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the purposes of this Act through fiscal year 1984.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1979
Permits a named corporation to file a claim within six months with the appropriate Federal agency, notwithstanding certain time limitations for filing a claim against the United States or for effecting an administrative settlement.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Child Health Assurance Act of 1979 - Title I: Child Health Assurance Program; Medicaid Eligibility of Poor Children - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require a State's Medicaid program to provide medical assistance to any individual under the age of 18 whose resources do not exceed specified levels. Requires a State plan for medical assistance under title XIX to provide for a child health assurance program (CHAP). Requires each such program to: (1) assure the availability to each eligible child of child health assessments which may only be performed by a health care provider who has entered into a specified written agreement with a State; (2) provide, with respect to certain medical services, for the continuing care of eligible children; (3) assure that all eligible children are informed of the need for and availability of dental services, and are referred to providers of such care and services on a timely and periodic basis; and (4) provide for "outreach" to children eligible for assessments. Requires a State's Medicaid program to provide the following services for individuals under the age of 18: (1) inpatient hospital services; (2) outpatient hospital services; (3) rural health clinic services; (4) certain laboratory and X-ray services; (5) child health assessment services and the continuing care services of a CHAP; (6) immunizations; (7) prescribed drugs and insulin; (8) diagnosis and treatment of vision and hearing problems, including eyeglasses and hearing aids; (9) certain ambulatory mental health services; (10) routine dental care services; and (11) physicians' services furnished by a physician. Exempts the individuals eligible for such services from any enrollment fee, premium, deductible, cost sharing, or similar charges with respect to any such services. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to promulgate regulations establishing a formula for measuring the effectiveness of a State's CHAP. Directs the Secretary to publish a formula to determine a State's Federal medical assistance percentage for an ambulatory care and services for children based on the effectiveness of its program. Directs the Secretary to evaluate at least biannually the effectiveness of each State's program based on specified standards. Requires States under part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of title IV of the Social Security Act to inform all families receiving AFDC benefits of the availability of child health assurance services under title XIX. Title II: Medicaid Eligibility of Pregnant Women - Requires a State plan for medical assistance under title XIX to make medical assistance available for care and services provided during pregnancy aid and for 60 days following the termination of pregnancy to women whose resources do not exceed specified levels. Title III: Effective Dates; Regulations - Sets forth the effective date of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that disability insurance benefits for an individual having a terminal illness shall begin with the first month during all of which such individual has such illness. Defines the term "terminal illness" to mean a medically determinable physical impairment which is expected to result in death within the next 12 months.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977, with regard to certain deductions from household income for a household composed entirely of persons age 60 or over or a household which includes one or more persons entitled to benefits under the supplemental security income program under title XVI of the Social Security Act, in order to provide for: (1) an alternative standard deduction of $45 a month plus an amount equal to a household's average monthly expenditures for medical and dental services, including prescription drugs; and (2) an increase in the maximum excess shelter deduction by an amount equal to its average monthly expenditures for household fuel and utilities.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the report of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare entitled "Report on Home Health Services Under Titles XVIII, XIX, and XX" is not responsive to the requirements set forth in the Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments; and (2) such report shall be returned to the Secretary and revised to comply with such requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1979
Commends the American Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, and the Public Broadcasting Service for their work in closed-captioned television programming for the deaf and hearing-impaired.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1979
Expresses the sense of Congress that the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada should meet to discuss energy issues and establish a common economic bond of energy cooperation.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1979
Amends the Tariff Schedules of the United States to extend the duty-free entry of manganese ore until June 30, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1979
Authorizes and directs the Committee on Rules and Administration to provide for television and radio coverage of proceedings in the Senate during consideration of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1979
Terminates the Dickey-Lincoln School hydroelectric power project on the Saint John River, Maine.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1979
Solar Global Marketing Survey Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, to conduct a global market survey to determine which foreign countries might serve as markets for solar energy equipment manufactured in the United States. Requires such survey be completed by September 1, 1981. Limits the amount which may be authorized to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1979
Designates the week commencing with the first Sunday in October of each year as "National Hawk Watching Week."