A bill to deauthorize permanently the recently halted Cross-Florida Barge Canal.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Deauthorizes halted Cross-Florida Barge Canal, authorized by Federal law.
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United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Deauthorizes halted Cross-Florida Barge Canal, authorized by Federal law.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1973
Interim Fisheries Zone Extension and Management Act - Extends the jurisdiction of the United States over specified ocean areas and fish for purposes of protecting the domestic fishing industry. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to conduct research in order to promote the conservation of fish originating in the United States territorial sea and contiguous fisheries zone. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $1,000,000 in any fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1973
Provides for a revision of the formula employed to compute the allotment of funds for vocational rehabilitation services among the States under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 32)
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1973
Creates a non-legislative Select Committee on Aging, consisting of fifteen members of the House of Representatives, and directs the Committee to conduct a full investigation on all matters pertaining to problems of older people, including problems of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive retirement activity, of securing proper housing, and when necessary, of assuring adequate care or assistance. Authorizes such committee to hold hearings and subpena witnesses and the production of records in carrying out its duties. Directs the Committee to report to the House the results of its study, together with legislative recommendations, as soon as practicable during the 93rd Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1973
Creates a non-legislative Select Committee on Aging, consisting of fifteen members of the House of Representatives, and directs the Committee to conduct a full investigation on all matters pertaining to problems of older people, including problems of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive retirement activity, of securing proper housing, and when necessary, of assuring adequate care or assistance. Authorizes such committee to hold hearings and subpena witnesses and the production of records in carrying out its duties. Directs the Committee to report to the House the results of its study, together with legislative recommendations, as soon as practicable during the 93rd Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1973
Narcotic Addict Treatment Act - Provides that practitioners who dispense or administer narcotic drugs in a treatment program for addicts under the Controlled Substances Act shall obtain an annual registration for that purpose. States that such program may be for maintenance treatment, detoxification treatment, or both. Provides that the Attorney General shall grant a registration under this Act upon a showing that the applicant is qualified to engage in such treatment under standards set by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and is prepared to comply with standards imposed by the Attorney General with respect to the security of narcotic drug stocks, the maintenance of records, and with the concurrence of the Secretary, the quantities of drugs which may be provided for unsupervised use. Makes provision for the denial, suspension, or revocation of the certificate required by this Act for failure to comply with the standards imposed by this Act. Requires registrants to keep records of drug administrations under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1973
Prohibits the Central Intelligence Agency from providing training or other forms of assistance in support of State or local law enforcement activities. (Amends 50 U.S.C. 403(d)(3))
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1973
American Folklife Preservation Act - Creates an American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Provides that the center shall be subject to the supervision and direction of a board of trustees. Provides that such board shall be composed of four members appointed by the President, eight members appointed by the Librarian of Congress, the Librarian of Congress ex officio and the director of the center ex officio. Authorizes the centers to establish and implement a program of contracts, grants, revitalize and scholarships to preserve, protect, revitalize and disseminate American folklife traditions and arts. Provides that no payment shall be made pursuant to this Act to carry out any research or training over a period in excess of two years. States that such research or training may be extended to a period not to exceed five years with the concurrance of at least two-thirds of the members of the board. Provides that no former employee of the Federal government shall be eligible to receive any grant or other assistance under this Act in the two year period following the termination of such employment. Requires the center to submit to the Library of Congress, for inclusion in its annual report to the Congress, an annual report of its operations under this Act. Authorizes such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind, and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 per centum the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1973
Makes inapplicable to the program of aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act the existing provision limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Alaskan Petroleum Transmission Act - Finds that, since energy sources are in short supply, the Congress should act to hasten recovery of underground petroleum on the North Slope of Alaska. Declares it to be the national policy that no decision be made for recovery of petroleum from the North Slope of Alaska until Congress has opportunity to review such plans. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a thorough study of the two principal alternative routes for recovering petroleum reserves from the North Slope of Alaska. Outlines such routes as: (1) a trans-Alaska pipeline from the North Slope to Valdez, Alaska, and then by ocean-going oil tanker taken to the west coast of the United States; and (2) an overland pipeland from the North Slope across northeastern Alaska and through Canada to the midwest section of the United States. Directs the comptroller to report his findings and conclusions to the Congress no later than January 1, 1974. Specifies the considerations to be used in making the study. Authorizes the Comptroller to enter into contracts with the National Academy of Sciences in conducting the study, and to secure information from any Federal department, agency or instrumentality. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and other appropriate Federal officials to enter into negotiations with Canada to determine the feasibility of a right-of-way across Canadian territory for petroleum transmission facilities from the North Slope of Alaska. Directs the Secretary to report the results of their negotiations to the Congress and the Comptroller no later than December 1, 1973. Requires all reports to the Congress under this Act be filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate. Prohibits any order or rule of the Secretary of the Interior , or any other Federal agency or officer of the United States, granting a right-of-way, easement, or special land use permit on any Federal land for the construction and operation of a pipeline for the transmission of petroleum from the North Slope in Alaska from taking effect until the 60-day period beginning on the date the Comptroller files his final report. Allows the Secretary to grant such right-of-way or easements after the 60-day period as he deems necessary for construction of a petroleum transmission system along a route determined by the Comptroller to be the better of two principal alternative routes, unless Congress has disapproved such a route by concurrent resolution. Allows such rights-of-way or easements be granted for such width as the Secretary determines necessary without regard to the National Environmental Policy Act. Provides that action of the Secretary under this section shall not be reviewable by any court of the United States or in any State court. Outlines the congressional procedure in making a concurrent resolution concerning the proposed route and in referring the matter to committee. Limits debate on the resolution to no more than 10 hours. Authorizes necessary funds to carry out the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Provides that appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1973
Requires that future appointments to the offices of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Director of the Domestic Council, Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, and Executive Director of the Council on International Economic Policy, shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1973
Provides that each Government agency that maintains records, including computer records, concerning any person which may be retrieved by reference to, or are indexed under, a person's name, or some other similar identifying number or symbol, and which contains any information obtained from any source other than such person shall, with respect to such records: (1) notify such person by mail at his last known address that the agency maintains or has augmented a record concerning said person; (2) refrain from disclosing the record or any information contained therein to any other agency or to any person not employed by the agency maintaining such record; (3) refrain from disclosing the record or any information contained therein to individuals within that agency other than those individuals who need to examine such record or information for the execution of their jobs; (4) maintain an accurate record of the names and addresses of all persons to whom any information contained in such records is divulged and the purposes for which such divulgence was made; (5) permit any person to inspect his own record and have copies thereof made at his expense, which in no event shall be greater than the cost to the agency of making such copies; (6) permit any person to supplement the information contained in his record by the addition of any document or writing of reasonable length containing information such person deems pertinent to his record; and (7) remove erroneous information of any kind, and notify all agencies and persons to whom the erroneous material has been previously transferred of its removal. Provides that this Act shall not apply to records that are: (1) specifically required by Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of the national security; (2) investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes; and (3) interagency or intraagency memoranda or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency possessing such memoranda or letters in litigation with such agency. Provides that any employee of the United States who under the color of agency authority knowingly and willfully violates a provision of this Act, or permits such a violation, shall be fined $1,000. Establishes a Federal Privacy Board to aid in the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1973
National Diabetes Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to expand the authority of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases in order to advance the national attack on diabetes. Authorizes the Director to the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, with the advice of the National Advisory Council of the Institute, to develop a plan for a national diabetes program. Sets forth general guidelines for such program and provides that the program shall be coordinated with the other programs conducted or administered by the research institutes of the National Institure of Health. Provides that the plan required to be developed by this Act shall be developed within two hundred seventy days after the effective date of this Act. Requires the Director of the Institute at the end of each calender year, to prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a report on the activities, progress and accomplishments under the progrom during the preceding year and a plan for the program for the succeding five-year period. to establish programs as necessary in cooperation with other Federal health agencies, state, local and regional public health agencies, and nonprofit private health agencies, in the prevention, control diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, appropriately emphasizing the prevention, control, diagnosis and treatment of such diseases in children. Authorizes to be appropriated $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, $35,000,000 for fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $45,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, for the purpose of establishing such programs. States that the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases may provide for the development of not less that fifteen centers for basic and clinical research into, training in, and demonstration of advanced diagnostic, prevention and treatment methods for diabetes prevention. States that support of such a center may be for a period of not to exceed five years and may be extended by the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases for additional periods of not more than five years each, after review of the operations of the centers by a scientific review group established by the Director. Establishes an Interagency Technical Committee on Diabetes which shall be responsible for coordinating those aspects of all Federal Health Programs and activities relating to diabetes.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1973
Health Maintenance Organization Act - Defines health maintenance organization as a public or private entity organized to provide basic and supplemental health services to its members. States that each member of such organization is to be provided basic health services for a basic health services payment which: (1) is to be paid on a regular basis without regard to the dates such services are provided; (2) is fixed without regard to the frequency, extent, or kind of health service furnished; and (3) is established under a community rating system. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to, and enter into contracts with, public or nonprofit private entities for projects for surveys or other activities to determine the feasibility of developing or expanding health maintenance organizations which will serve residents of medically underserved areas. Provides that no grant may be made under this Act unless an application therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary. States that such application shall be in such form, and submitted in such manner, as the Secretary shall by regulation provide. States that, in considering applications for feasibility grants and contract proposals under this Act, the Secretary shall give priority to applications and contract proposals for projects and health maintenance organizations which will serve residents of medically underserved areas. Provides that, if a feasibility project has been assisted with a grant or contract under this Act, the Secretary may not make any other grant or enter into any other contract for such project. Stipulates that any project under this Act must be completed within twelve months from the date the grant is made or contract entered into. Provides that the amount to be paid by the United States for a feasibility grant made, or contract entered into, under this Act shall be determined by the Secretary except that the amount to be paid by the United States for any single grant or contract shall not exceed $50,000. Authorizes $3,700,000 to be appropriated for fiscal 1974 and $500,000 to be appropriated for fiscal 1975 for the purpose of making payments pursuant to grants and contracts under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to and enter into contracts with public or nonprofit private entities, and to make loans to public entities, for projects for the initial development of health maintenance organizations or for significant expansion of the membership of, or area served by, health maintenance organizations. Provides that no grant may be made under this Act unless an application therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary. States that such application shall be in such form, and submitted in such manner, as the Secretary shall by regulation provide. States that, in considering applications for feasibility grants and contract proposals under this Act, the Secretary shall give priority to applications and contract proposals for projects and health maintenance organizations which will serve residents of medically underserved areas. Provides that, if a project has been assisted with a grant or contract under this Act, the Secretary may not make any other grant or enter into any other contract for such project. Stipulates that any project under this Act must be completed within twelve months from the date the grant is made or contract entered into. Provides that the Federal share of any such planning project grant or contract shall not exceed $125,000. Provides that the amounts to be paid by the United States for any initial development project for a health maintenance organization under any grant or contract, or both, when added to the amount of principal of any loans made or guaranteed under this Act for such project may not exceed the lesser of: (1) $1,000,000 or the product of $25 and the number of members that the health maintenance organization will have when it first becomes operational after its establishment or expansion, whichever is the greater; or (2) an amount equal to the greater of: (a) 90 percent of the cost of such project; or (b) in the case of a project for a health maintenance organization which will serve residents of a medically underserved area, up to 100 percent of such cost. Authorizes the appropriation of specified amounts for grants and loans for planning projects and initial development projects. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and loan guarantees for initial operation costs for health maintenance organizations. Authorizes an aggregate of $50,000,000 to be appropriated for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the purposes of this section. Authorizes Loan guarantees for construction projects. Authorizes grants for the enrollment of indigent persons in health maintenance organizations. Prescribes specific requirements to be met by an organization applying for such a grant. States that the amount of any grant under this section shall be determined by the Secretary, except that no grant shall exceed 50 percent of the annual income of such organization. Authorizes an appropriation of $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $21,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $24,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 in order to carry out the provisions of this program. Establishes and makes requirements for the following health maintenance organization projects: (1) demonstration grants and contracts for service in rural medically underserved areas and for enrollment of high risk individuals; (2) specified special project grants and contracts; and (3) grants for health maintenance organization management training. Provides that the Secretary shall evaluate all health maintenance organization projects established under this Act and make the results of such evaluation available to the general public and to the Congress on at least an annual basis. Provides that the United States shall be entitled to recover from an applicant for a loan guarantee under this title the amount of any payment made pursuant to such guarantee, unless the Secretary for good cause waives such right of recovery. States that guarantees of loans under this Act shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines to be necessary to assure that the purposes of this Act will be carried out. Authorizes the Secretary, with due regard to the financial interests of the United States, to sell loans made by him under this title. Establishes within the Treasury a loan guarantee fund which shall be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation, in such amounts as may be specified from time to time in appropriation Acts, to enable him to discharge his responsibilities under loan guarantes issued by him under this Act. Establishes programs for protecting health maintenance organizations against: (1) insolvency; (2) the cost of providing unusual amounts of health services or providing out-of-area health services; and (3) unusual losses. Provides that, if a State or political subdivision of a State refuses to permit a health maintenance organization to do business in such State because of a failure to meet local requirements, the Secretary may bring a civil action in the United States district court for the district in which such health maintenance organization is located to enforce compliance with this Act. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Health Maintenance Organizations to advise and assist the Secretary in carrying out his responsibilities under this Act. Requires the Secretary to make an annual report to the Congress on the programs of assistance under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Health Programs Extension Act - Title I: Amendments to Public Health Service Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Public Health Service Act: (1) Health Services Research and Development; (2) National Health Surveys and Studies; (3) Public Health Training; (4) Migrant Health; (5) Comprehensive Health Planning and Services; (6) Assistance to Medical Libraries; (7) Hill-Burton Programs for Construction of Medical Library Facilities; (8) Training in the Allied Health Professions; (9) Regional Medical Programs; and (10) Population Research and Family Planning. Title II: Amendments to the Community Mental Health Centers Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Community Mental Health Centers Act: (1) Construction Assistance for Mental Health Centers; (2) Staffing Assistance for Mental Health Centers; (3) Alcoholism programs; (4) Drug Abuse programs; (5) Alcoholism and Drug Abuse programs; and (6) Mental Health of Children. Title III: Amendments to the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for construction, services, and planning under the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for programs under the Medical Facilities Construction and Modernization Amendment of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1973
Provides for a revision of the formula employed to compute the allotment of funds for vocational rehabilitation services among the States under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. (Amends 29 U.S.C. 32)
United States · United States Congress · 10 May 1973
National Biomedical Research Fellowship, Traineeship, and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide biomedical research fellowships, traineeships, and training at the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, non-Federal public institution, and nonprofit private institutions in matters relating to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of the disease (or diseases) to which the activities of such Institutes are directed; and to make grants to public or nonprofit private institutions for traineeships in such matters. Sets forth requirements and regulations with regard to such fellowships, traineeships, and training. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the Secretary may not conduct or support research in the United States or abroad which violates any ethical standard respecting research adopted by the National Institute of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, or their respective research institutes.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1973
Interstate Recycling Expansion Act - Sets forth the purposes and definitions of the Act. Title I: Establishment of Nondiscriminatory Rates and Charges for the Transportation of Recyclable and Recycled Solid Waste Materials in Interstate and Foreign Commerce - Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Maritime Commission to investigate all freight rate discriminations against recyclable commodities and within two years to enter appropriate orders terminating all such unreasonable discrimination in transportation charges. Title II: Expansion of Recycling Through Federal Procurement - Directs all Federal procurement agencies to work closely with the Environmental Protection Agency in the establishment of new rules and procedures to maximize the procurement of recyclable materials and products which contain recycled materials. Title III: Modifications of Other Federal Impediments to Expanded Recycling in Commerce - States that labels under the Wool Products Labeling Act shall use the term recycled rather than reused or reprocessed. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Provides that the Act shall be effective on the date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Requires, under the Freedom of Information Act that all information from any Government agency shall be made available to Congress upon request, except where Executive privilege is invoked. (Adds 5 U.S.C. 552(d))
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1973
Title I: Limiting Freedom of Information Act Exemptions - Authorizes a U.S. District Court, upon a complaint under the Freedom of Information Act, to examine and determine the availability of a Government agency's records which such agency refuses to furnish or disclose because of specified exemptions to the Act. Requires an agency, where records contain both available and exempt portions, to furnish the non-exempt portions unless: (1) there would be a serious distortion of meaning if the portions were read separately; or (2) the available portions are so inextricably intertwined with the exempt portions that disclosure would jeopardize the integrity of the exempt portions. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(5), (a)(3),(b)) Title II: Freedom of Information Commission - Establishes the Freedom of Information Commission composed of 7 members and empowered to hold hearings and subpena witnesses. States that upon request by the Commission, each Federal agency is directed to furnish to the Commission all information, documents (including those classified under law or Executive order), data, and statistics necessary for the Commission's performance of its duties. Authorizes the Commission to initiate an investigation requested by a U.S. court, the Congress, the Comptroller General, a Federal agency, or (upon the vote of three members) by a private citizen concerning an allegation that information in the possession of a Federal agency is being improperly withheld under the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that a determination of improperly withheld records shall be prima facie evidence against the agency in any court of Congressional proceeding under the Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary for purposes of this title. Title III: Improving the Administration of Freedom of Information Act - Requires each agency, upon a request for records, to either comply with or deny the request within 10 days unless such records are unavailable for specified reasons and an additional 20 day extension is sought. Provides for a petition for action from denials of records, and final action on such appeals within 20 days. Requires each agency to submit an annual report to the House and Senate on the number of requests for records, the reasons for denials, and the results of complaints and appeals under the Act. (Adds 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(6))
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1973
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Attorney General designate appoint a special prosecutor in any and all criminal actions arising from any illegal activities in the Presidential election of 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Public Health Act - Title I: Health Service Research and Development - Health Services Research and Development Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake and support research, development, and demonstrations respecting health services. Directs the Secretary to give appropriate emphasis to research, development and demonstrations respecting: (1) the determinants of an individual's health; (2) the impact of the environment on individual health and on health care; and (3) the accessibility, acceptability, organization, distribution, utilization, quality, and financing of systems for the delivery of health care. Establishes, in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a National Center for Health Services Research and Development. Directs the Secretary to act through such Center in undertaking and supporting the research and demonstration projects under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to assist, by grants or contracts, private nonprofit entities in meeting the costs of planning and establishing new centers, and operating existing centers and new centers, for multi-disciplinary health services research, development, demonstrations, and evaluations respecting the matters covered under this Act. Authorizes appropriations of $80,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $90,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 to carry out programs under this title. Establishes in the Department a National Center for Health Statistics. Provides for the duties of such Center. Makes authorizations of appropriations for such Center. Provides for the Secretary to annually call a conference of the health authorities of the several States. Title II: Revision and Extension of Medical Library Assistance Programs - Authorizes appropriations for grants and contracts under this title. Title III: Conforming and Technical Amendments - Declares the position of the Congress that Federal financial assistance must be directed to support the marshaling of all health resources to assure comprehensive health services of high quality for every person. Authorizes the Secretary to accept from State and local authorities any assistance in the enforcement of programs pursuant to this Act which such authorities may be able and willing to provide. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any public or nonprofit private entity to cover all or any part of the cost of projects for training to provide improved or more effective comprehensive health planning throughout the Nation.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1973
Comprehensive Manpower Act - Title I: Manpower Services Program - Provides that the Secretary of Labor shall provide assistance to prime sponsors to develop manpower programs to: (1) provide prompt referral of the unemployed to suitable employment opportunities; (2) provide training and related manpower services to all other persons who are employed (3) provide training and related services to persons in correctional institutions; (4) provide training and related services to persons recently separated from military service; (5) develop systems for a timely and adequate response to major economic dislocations; (6) promote employment practices that will remove unreasonable barriers to employment and expand opportunities for upward mobility; (7) reduce the level of youth unemployment; and (8) support the development of broad and diversified training programs. Provides that a prime sponsor shall be: (1) any State; (2) any unit of general local government; (3) any combination of units of general local government which covers a geographical area which has a population of 100,000 or more persons; or (4) any combination of units of general local government, without regard to population, in rural areas designated by the Secretary which have substantial outmigration and high unemployment. Provides that any such eligible prime sponsor which wishes to be designated as such by the Secretary shall submit to the Secretary a prime sponsorship plan including provisions which evidence capability of carrying out a comprehensive manpower services plan in accordance with this Act. Provides that the Secretary may approve any prime sponsorship plan submitted under this section if it is consistent with the provisions of this title. Provides that any State seeking assistance under this Act or the Wagner-Peyser Act shall submit a State comprehensive manpower plan to the Secretary for approval. Provides that such plan shall provide for the cooperation and participation of all State agencies providing manpower services in the development and implementation of comprehensive manpower services plans. Provides that the Secretary shall have continuing authority to monitor all programs under this title and to suspend such programs found to violate one or more of the requirements of this Act. Provides that the United States Court of Appeals shall have jurisdiction to affirm or modify such actions of the Secretary, or to set it aside in whole or in part. Authorizes the Secretary to provide manpower services directly to States and localities that have not established manpower programs under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to provide financial assistance pursuant to applications submitted by eligible applicants to be used in providing manpower services. Provides that an application for financial assistance under this title may be approved only if the Secretary determines that the application is consistent with the purpose of this title, and the approvable request for funds does not exceed 90 percent of the cost of carrying out the programs proposed in such application. Provides that the prime sponsor shall, where appropriate, provide for the payment of weekly allowances to individuals receiving services under this title at a rate prescribed by the Secretary which, when added to amounts received by the trainee in the form of public assistance or unemployment compensation payments, shall approximate the minimum wage for a workweek of forty hours under the Fair Labor Standards Act, or, where the trainee is being trained for particular employment, at a rate equal to 80 percent of the weekly wage for such employment. Provides that any person receiving services under this title shall be considered an employee of the United States within the meaning of chapter 8l of title 5 of the United States Code. Provides that the Secretary shall not provide financial assistance for any program under this title unless he determines that such program includes: (1) appropriate conditions of employment or training; (2) appropriate standards of health and safety; (3) appropriate workman's compensation; (4) provision against political activities; (5) provision against employment in the construction, maintenance, or operation of religious places of education or worship; and (6) provision against displacement of employed workers or impairment of existing contracts for services. Provides that the Secretary shall not issue rules, regulations, standards of performance, or guidelines with respect to assistance for services of a health, education, or welfare character under this title and he shall not provide financial assistance for services of a health, education or welfare character under this title unless he shall have first obtained the concurrence of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Title II: Public Service Employment - Authorizes prime sponsors, defined under title I, to carry out a program under which Federal, State, and local governments will provide useful public service employment to unemployed persons. Provides that any application for financial assistance under this title shall set forth a public service employment program designed to provide transitional employment for employed and underemployed persons in jobs providing needed public services. Outlines provisions required of an application for financial assistance for a public service employment program. Provides that the Secretary shall approve such applications when the approvable request for funds does not exceed 90 percent of the cost of carrying out the program proposed in such application, and an opportunity has been provided to officials of the appropriate units of general local government which are not the prime sponsors to submit comments with respect to the application to the applicant. Provides that financial assistance may be approved only for those programs meeting minimum wage standards for employees, making most efficient use of such employees without duplicating other jobs or displacing existing jobs, providing full employee benefits to workers, and contributing, to the maximum extent feasible, to the occupational development or upward mobility of individual participants. Title III: Special Federal Responsibilities - Provides that the Federal Government shall administer manpower programs to certain Indian tribes: the Menominees in Wisconsin, the Klamaths in Oregon, the Oklahoma Indians, the Passamaquoddys and Penobscots in Maine, and the Eskimos and Aleuts in Alaska. Provides that the United States shall provide financial assistance to public and private nonprofit agencies to develop and carry out imaginative programs to increase employment and training opportunities for persons with limited English-speaking ability. Provides that such programs shall include all of those described under title I. Provides that the Secretary is authorized to carry out programs and activities especially designed to meet the special manpower needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, of middle-aged and older workers, and of youth. Transfers the administration of the job corps to the Secretary of Labor. Provides that financial assistance for any program authorized under this title may be made to any public or private agency in such manner as the Secretary deems necessary. Provides that the Secretary shall establish criteria designed to achieve an equitable distribution of assistance under this title between the purposes and groups to be served and among the States and between urban and rural areas. Provides that the Secretary shall establish a comprehensive program of manpower research utilizing the methods, techniques, and knowledge as will aid in the solution of the Nation's manpower problems. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a program of experimental, developmental, demonstration and pilot projects for the purpose of improving techniques and demonstrating the effectiveness of specialized methods in meeting the manpower, employment, and training problems. Provides that the Secretary of Labor shall develop a comprehensive system of labor market information on a national, State, local, or other appropriate basis. Provides that the Secretary shall establish a program for the improvement of manpower utilization in sectors of the economy experiencing persistent manpower shortages. Provides that the Secretary shall establish a computerized job bank program to identify manpower supply and job vacancies, and to provide an expeditious means of matching the qualifications of unemployed, underemployed, and disadvantaged persons with employer requirements and job opportunities. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake studies of the contributions of Federal grants-in-and and other Federal assistance programs to the overall employment level, and to conduct pilot programs to find a more effective use of such grants-in-aid and other programs as an increased source of opportunities for the employment and advancement of disadvantaged persons. Provides that the Secretary shall carry out a program under which public and private employers will undertake to provide the necessary education and skill training to prepare employees for positions of greater skill, responsibility, and remuneration in the employ of their employers. Provides that, with respect to all programs funded under the authority of this Act, the Secretary shall require assurances that special consideration will be given to unemployed or underemployed persons who serve in the Armed Forces in Indochina or Korea on or after August 5, 1964. Requires the Secretary, under all programs under this Act, to give special attention to the development of more effective, systematic, and professional job counseling and quidance services and job placement. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Authorizes to be appropriated, for the purposes of carrying out this Act, $2,500,000,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Provides that 75 percent of such appropriations shall be employed in the training and employment programs carried out under titles I and II of this Act, and 25 percent shall be employed toward activities authorized under title III of this Act. Provides that whoever, being an officer, director, agent, or employee of or connected in any capacity with any agency receiving financial assistance under the Comprehensive Manpower Act, embezzles, willfully misapplies, steals, or obtains by fraud any of the moneys, funds, assets or property which are the subject of a grant or contract of assistance pursuant to this Act shall be fined not more than $l0,000 or imprisoned for not more than two years, or both; but if the amount so embezzled, misapplied, stolen, or obtained by fraud does not exceed $l00, he shall be fined not more than $l,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Provides that whoever, by threat of procuring dismissal of any person from employment or of refusal to employ or refusal to renew a contract of employment in connection with a grant or contract of assistance under the Comprehensive Manpower Act, induces any person to give up any money or thing of any value to any person (including such grantee agency) shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Title V: National Institute for Manpower Policy - Establishes, in the Executive Office of the President, a National Institute for Manpower Policy to: (1) formulate recommendations for a coherent national manpower policy; (2) examine and evaluate the effectiveness of any Federally-assisted education, training, or manpower development programs; and (3) examine and evaluate major Federal programs which are intended to contribute to achieving major objectives of existing manpower and related legislation. Provides that the Institute shall annually issue a report to the President and the Congress of its proceedings, findings, and recommendations. Authorizes for fiscal year 1974, and for each succeeding year, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this title.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 16 April 1973
Authorizes each Member of the House of Representatives (including the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and each Delegate to the House) to hire and pay not more than two additional student congressional interns (to serve as such within or outside the District of Columbia).
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Provides for the relief of Jean W. Davis.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Requires the U.S. Postal Service to establish and assure, to all postal patrons, service standards which include but are not limited to: (1) next-day delivery of mail deposited for delivery within a city; (2) delivery within not more than 3 consecutive days of mail deposited for delivery within the U.S.; (3) carrier service on a six-day-a-week basis; (4) post office window service on a six-day-a-week basis; (5) second-attempt delivery of parcel post; and (6) multiple delivery and collection service. Provides for the payment out of the general fund of the Treasury of public service costs for providing a maximum degree of effective postal service nationwide, in communities where post offices may not be deemed self-sustaining, and in complying with the standards set forth under this Act. Requires the Postal Service annually, in requesting authorizations, to present to the appropriate legislative and appropriations committees of the Congress a comprehensive statement of its compliance with the public service cost policy established under this Act. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 101(b), 2401(b),(c),(d),(e))
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Opportunities Industrialization Assistance Act - Authorizes $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1974. $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for the purposes of this Act. Provides that appropriations not obligated in one fiscal year may be obligated in the next fiscal year and that obligated funds may be expended for two years after obligations. Directs the Secretary of Labor to assist the States in the establishment and operation of opportunities industrialization centers designed to provide comprehensive employment services and job opportunities for low-income persons who are unemployed or underemployed. Requires assurances that residents of the area to be served participate in the planning and operation of the center and that local businessmen will be consulted as to its development and operation. Gives priority to programs in the inner-city areas with high unemployment or underemployment. Authorizes the Secretary to establish criteria for the equitable distribution of money to the States. Limits federal financial assistance to 90 percent of the program costs. Permits contributions in excess of this percentage if the Secretary determines that this is necessary in furtherance of the objectives of this Act. Requires the Secretary to prescribe regulations to assure that these programs are operated in a manner designed to best fulfill the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to include, in the annual Department of Labor report, information as to activities conducted under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Creates a non-legislative Select Committee on Aging, consisting of fifteen members of the House of Representatives, and directs the Committee to conduct a full investigation on all matters pertaining to problems of older people, including problems of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive retirement activity, of securing proper housing, and when necessary, of assuring adequate care or assistance. Authorizes such committee to hold hearings and subpena witnesses and the production of records in carrying out its duties. Directs the Committee to report to the House the results of its study, together with legislative recommendations, as soon as practicable during the 93rd Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1973
Makes it the sense of Congress that it shall be the policy of the United States to require repayment of the longstanding debts which are delinquent in nature. Makes it the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury submit to the Congress within ninety days of passage of this resolution a list and report on the extent of such indebtedness on the part of foreign nations. Declares that it is the sense of Congress that the Department of the Treasury, through the appropriate departments and agencies, should, immediately after the filing of this report, begin consultations with foreign governments involved for the purpose of making arrangements for the prompt repayment of those longstanding debts which are delinquent.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1973
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to issue rights-of-way and special land use permits for the construction of pipelines in the State of Alaska, along the shortest feasible route between Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and the Canadian border after complying with all applicable provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to initiate intensive investigation into the feasibility of a Trans-Canadian pipeline.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) continue in operation the Office of Economic Opportunity administering and supervising the important programs and activities entrusted to that Office under the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, utilizing fully funds appropriated by the Congress for such purposes; and (2) submit a revised budget request for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, requesting appropriations for the Office of Economic Opportunity and its administration of programs and activities entrusted to it under and in accordance with the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1973
Places methaqualone on schedule II of controlled substances.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1973
Emergency Medical Services Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and other nonprofit entities for projects to study the feasibility of and plan the establishment and operation of an emergency medical service system for an area. Defines such a system in terms of personnel, facilities, equipment, and service. Authorizes the Secretary of each military department to enter into agreements with such system to provide transportation and other services in emergency conditions. Requires applications for planning grants to demonstrate the need of the area for an emergency medical service system, and to contain assurances that the applicant is qualified for the plan. Authorizes appropriations for such program of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Sets conditions for grants for the establishment and initial operation of such systems, and authorizes to be appropriated a total of $95,000,000 for fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to schools of medicine, dentistry and osteopathy and to other educational institutions for research and training programs in the techniques and methods of medical emergency care and treatment. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975. Provides that the Secretary shall establish an Interagency Technical Committee on Emergency Medical Services to evaluate the adequacy of all Federal programs and activities which relate to emergency medical services, and to assist in coordinating such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Research on Aging Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish in the Public Health Service, the National Institute on Aging for the conduct and support of biomedical, social, and behavioral research and training related to the aging process and the diseases and other special problems of the aged. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Advisory Council on Aging to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to him on programs relating to the aged which are administered by him and on those matters which relate to the Institute. Provides that the Secretary shall, through the Institute, carry out the purposes of this Act with respect to research investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies related to the aging process and the diseases and other special problems and needs of the aged. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Institute and such other appropriate advisory bodies as he may establish, to within one year after the effective date of this Act develop a plan for an aging research program designed to coordinate and promote research into the biological, medical, psychological, social, educational, and economic aspects of aging. States that such plan shall be transmitted to the Congress and the President and shall set forth the staffing and funding requirements to carry out the program contained therein.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1973
Truth in Savings Act - Declares that economic stability would be enhanced and competition among savings institutions improved by full disclosure of the terms and conditions under which earnings on savings deposits are payable. Declares that the purposes of this Act to be the meaningful disclosure of terms and conditions of the payment of earnings on individual savings deposits. Establishes a method to determine annual percentage rate, periodic percentage rate, and annual percentage yield. Confers on the Federal Reserve Board authority to issue appropriate regulations which provide for uniform disclosures and regulations as the Board determines are necessary. Establishes disclosure requirements to be applied to any individual at a time before he initially places funds in an individual savings deposit in a savings institution. Authorizes the Federal Reserve Board to establish additional disclosure requirements. Requires a savings institution to notify its depositors 10 days in advance of any change in policy or procedure with respect to any item of information required to be disclosed. Requires advertisements relating to the earnings payable on an individual savings deposit to state with equal prominence the annual percentage rate and the annual percentage yield. Prohibits any indication of any percentage rate or percentage yield based on a period in excess of one year or based on the effect of any grace period. Establishes the governmental agencies which have responsibility for enforcing compliance with the requirements of this Act. Establishes civil liability for a savings institution which fails to comply with this Act. Permits savings institution to avoid liability if it notifies individuals of errors within 15 days of discovery or if a preponderance of evidence shows that error was, unintentional and resulted from a bona fide error. Provides a maximum $5,000 fine for willful and knowing violation of the requirements of the Act. Authorizes the Board to obtain the view of any other Federal or State agency exercising regulatory or supervisory functions with respect to any class of savings institutions subject to this Act. Limits effect of the Act on pertinent State laws and on the validity and enforceability of any contract or obligation under State or Federal law. Requires the Board to make an annual report to Congress concerning the administration of its functions under this Act. Provides for the continued validity of the remainder of this Act should any provision be held invalid.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1973
Extends to all unmarried individuals the tax treatment of income splitting now utilized by married individuals filing joint returns under the Internal Revenue Code. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe and publish tables reflecting the amendments made by this Act which shall apply in lieu of the tables set forth in the Internal Revenue Code with respect to wages paid on or after the first day of the first month which begins more than 20 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 15 March 1973
Makes inapplicable to the aged, blind and disabled the existing provision of the Social Security Act limiting to 10 percent the portion of the total amounts paid to a State as grants for social services which may be paid with respect to individuals who are not actually recipients of or applicants for aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
National Health Research Fellowship and Traineeship Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to increase the capability of the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of Mental Health to maintain a national program of biomedical research. Establishes, under the Public Health Service Act, a national program of health research fellowships and traineeships for persons intending to enter research or teaching. Authorizes appropriations for the purposes of carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1973
Health Programs Extension Act - Title I: Amendments to Public Health Service Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Public Health Service Act: (1) health services research and development, (2) national health surveys and studies, (3) public health training, (4) migrant health (5) comprehensive health planning and services (6) assistance to medical libraries (7) Hill-Burton programs for construction of medical library facilities (8) training in the allied health professions, (9) regional medical programs, and (10) population research and family planning. Title II: Amendments to the Community Mental Health Centers Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for the following programs under the Community Mental Health Centers Act: (1) construction assistance for mental health centers, (2) staffing assistance for mental health centers, (3) alcoholism programs (4) drug abuse programs, (5)consultation services, and (6) mental health of children. Title III: Amendments to the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for construction, services, and planning under the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act. Title IV: Funding Assurances - Extends appropriations through fiscal year 1974 for programs under the Medical Facilities Construction and Modernization Amendment of 1970.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1973
Provides that no license granted for the operation of a broadcasting station under the Communications Act of 1934 shall be for a longer term than five years. Provides for renewal of such license where the Federal Communications Commission finds that the public interest, convenience, and necessity would be served. Provides that an applicant for renewal who is legally, financially and technically qualified shall be awarded the license if such applicant shows that its broadcast service during the preceding license period has reflected a good-faith effort to serve the needs and interests of its area as represented in its immediately preceding and pending license renewal application and if it has not demonstrated a callous disregard for law or the Commission's regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1973
Extends the Clean Air Act for one year by authorizing for fiscal year 1974 additional sums totalling $450,000,000.