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United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Disapproves the deferral of specified budget authority relating to rural housing for domestic farm labor grants as proposed by the President on July 26, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Disapproves the deferral of specified budget authority relating to mutual and self-help housing grants as proposed by the President on July 26, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1975
Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the maximum fine which may be imposed on an individual under the Communications Act for each failure to observe the regulations of that Act with respect to licensed broadcast stations. Increases from $10,000 to $20,000 the maximum fine which the Federal Communications Commission may impose on any individual subject to its regulations for violations of such regulations. Establishes a maximum fine of $5,000 for violators which were not subject to the Commission by means of a license or through the conduct of interstate communications activities.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1975
Federal Taxpayers' Rights Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare pamphlets which set forth in nontechnical terms: (1) the rights and obligations of a taxpayer and the Service during an audit; (2) the procedures by which a taxpayer may appeal any adverse decision of the Service (including administrative and judicial appeals); (3) the procedures for prosecuting refund claims and filing of taxpayer complaints; and (4) the procedures which the Service may use in enforcing the internal revenue laws (including assessment, jeopardy assessment, levy and distraint, and enforcement of liens). Establishes within the Internal Revenue Service an office to be known as the Office of Taxpayer Services to be under the supervision and direction of an Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue who shall assist taxpayers in obtaining easily understandable tax information and answering questions on tax liability, among other functions. States that, upon application filed by a taxpayer with the Office of Taxpayer Services, in such form, manner, and at such time as the Secretary or his delegate shall by regulations prescribe, the Assistant Commissioner for Taxpayer Services may issue a Taxpayer Assistance Order if, in the determination of the Assistant Commissioner, the taxpayer is suffering from an unusual, unnecessary, or irreparable loss as a result of the manner in which the internal revenue laws are being administered by the Secretary or his delegate. Authorizes the President of the Legal Services Corporation to establish Taxpayer Representation Offices in four cities selected by such President for purposes of providing legal assistance to individuals in connection with: (1) any audit by the Service of any return made by or on behalf of the individual with respect to any tax imposed by chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, or (2) an assessment or collection from any such individual of any tax imposed by such chapter. Provides for show cause hearings with respect to jeopardy assessments and termination of taxable years. Increases the monetary value of specified items to be exempt from levy. Provides criminal penalties (a fine of up to $10,000, or imprisonment for up to 2 years or both) for investigations into or surveillance over the beliefs, associations, or activities of any individual or organization which are not directly related to such revenue laws. Provides a civil cause of action for damages or an injunction, or both, for such violations. Prohibits inspection of tax returns pursuant to a criminal investigation unless a search warrant has issued upon probable cause to believe that no alternative source of necessary information is available. Provides rules for civil investigation related to: (1) payment of Social Security and Railroad Retirement taxes; (2) pension administration; (3) census information; (4) enforcement of taxpayers' rights under this Act; (5) inspection by States; (6) inspection by Committees of Congress; and (7) disclosure to persons having substantial interest (agents of partnerships and corporations, and shareholders of corporations). Provides a civil action for damages for unauthorized disclosure of tax information.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1975
Provides that the Export-Import Bank shall not approve assistance for the export of nuclear materials or technology to any nation not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Allows for exception to this provision when the President certifies to Congress that such transfer is required in the interest of national security.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1975
Provides for the relief of Dr. Crispin E. See.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1975
Provides for the relief of Mr. Moon Kyu Kim.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1975
Expresses the sense of the Congress that on Child Health Day the first Monday in October of each year, recognition be given to persons who contribute to the operation of children's hospitals.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating Sunday, September 14, 1975, as "National Saint Elizabeth Seton Day."
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate September 20, 1975, as "German-American Day" to be observed with appropriate ceremonies.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1975
Provides that the beneficiary of an insured individual who dies shall, if otherwise qualified under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, be entitled to a prorated benefit for the month of death of the insured.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Includes independent owner-operator truckers as an exempted class under the Interstate Commerce Act. States that no driver of a motor vehicle performing exempt transportation may collect compensation for transportation at a rate lower then the lowest rate specified for commodities between identical points served.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Requires that the support price of milk be adjusted by the Secretary of Agriculture at the beginning of each quarter to reflect estimated changes during the immediately preceding quarter in the index of prices paid by farmers for production items, interest, taxes and wage rates.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare should withdraw its proposed Consolidated Procedural Rules for Administration and Enforcement of the Department's statutory responsibilities. States that if additional positions are required for enforcement of Civil Rights laws such need should be brought to the attention of the Senate. Directs the Office of Civil Rights to continue to make efforts to detect systematic discrimination including those areas relating to discrimination based on sex and handicap.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Family Research Act - Authorizes a program of research to help better understand, identify and prevent pressures on families; to be carried out, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, through State agricultural experiment stations and land-grant colleges of the United States and by other qualified and nonprofit agencies and organizations. Sets up procedures to be followed in making initial research grants. Provides that each land grant college submitting a research project approved by the Secretary shall be entitled to an initial grant of $100,000. Authorizes the appropriation of $7,100,000 for fiscal year 1976 and the three succeeding fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make supplemental grants to land grant colleges after specified requirements are met. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 for 1976; $12,000,000 for 1977; $14,000,000 for 1978; and $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 for the purpose of making supplemental grants. Requires that in order to be eligible for such grants under this Act the institutions concerned must expend, on the same general type of research for which funds are made available, an amount at least equal to the amount of funds such institution averaged spending on such type of research in the three calendar years before this Act was enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Establishes a timetable for Senate consideration of and action on legislative proposals relating to continuing congressional oversight of Government intelligence and other surveillance activities.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Rural Manpower Service Act - Provides for job development, training and placement service programs for eligible residents of each State with rural subdivisions of 10,000 population or less. Establishes within the Department of Labor a Rural Manpower Service to guarantee equitable manpower and employment services to rural people. Sets forth administrative controls to be adhered to by the Secretary of Labor. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress annually on the activities of the Department and its affiliated State employment service agencies in carrying out this Act. Directs the Secretary to estimate the funds necessary for the administration of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Establishes in the Department of State the United States Passport Service which shall have as its purpose the administration of the laws and regulations relating to nationality, documentation, protection, and control of international travel of nationals of the United States. Transfers to the Service all functions, powers, duties, and authority of the Passport Office of the Department of State, together with those funds, liabilities, commitments, authorizations, allocations, personnel, properties, and records of the Department of State which the Secretary of State shall determine to be primarily related to, and necessary for, the exercise of such functions, powers, duties, and authority. Provides for the appointment of a Director and enumerates his duties and responsibilities. Establishes a fund for the Service. States that the fund shall be capitalized on the basis of: (1) an initial appropriation by the Congress to the fund of a sum of at least $20,000,000, which sum is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; (2) any unexpended balances of appropriations, the inventories, and other physical assets of the Passport Office (exclusive of buildings occupied and land), such inventories and other physical assets to be capitalized at their fair and reasonable value; and (3) assumption by the fund of all obligations, commitments, and liabilities of the Passport Office as of the effective date of this Act. Provides that the fund shall be available without fiscal year limitation for financing the direct cost and expenses of operating and maintaining the Service.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1975
Provides that no funds authorized for the construction of any military facility on the island of Diego Garcia may be obligated for such purpose: (1) prior to September 1, 1976, unless the President determines and notifies the Congress in writing that the Soviet Union has, after the date of enactment of this Act, continued to construct and substantially expand military facilities in Somalia, the Indian Ocean, and the Persian Gulf area; and (2) after September 1, 1976, unless the President is unsuccessful in negotiating an agreement with the Soviet Union by September 1, 1976, to limit the military presence of both the Soviet Union and the United States in the Indian Ocean area.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1975
Provides that the numerical value appearing in the four corners on the face of all paper money of the United States which is printed after January 1, 1976, shall be embossed indicating the denomination thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1975
Declares that the Senate's approval of United States facilities on Diego Garcia shall not be considered as constituting approval of substantial expansion of United States naval presence in the Indian Ocean or the establishment there of a permanent United States fleet.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1975
Revises the Housing and Community Development Act: (1) to provide that 70 percent of the amount appropriated for grants to help finance Community Development Programs be allocated to metropolitan areas; (2) to provide that 30 percent of the amount appropriated for such grants be allocated to units of local government and areas of States outside of metropolitan areas; (3) to set aside a portion of such grants for use by Indian tribes; and (4) to increase from $8,400,000,000 to $8,825,000,000 the amount of obligations which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is authorized to incur in the form of grant agreements.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1975
Directs the Department of Labor, in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, to study the feasibility and cost of developing and publishing monthly a nationwide unemployment rate among Americans of Spanish origin or descent. Directs such departments and the Department of Agriculture to each collect, and regularly publish, statistics which indicate the social and economic condition of Americans of Spanish origin or descent. Requires the Department of Commerce to provide for the use of bilingual questionnaires in the collection of data required by this Act. Requires such department to implement an aggressive affirmative action program within the Census Bureau for the employment of personnel of Spanish origin or descent.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1975
Directs the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration to encourage local communities to participate in special celebrations during the evening of July 1, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1975
Solar Energy Equipment Loan Act - Establishes as an independent agency of the executive branch the Solar Energy Loan Administration to provide financing to homeowners for the purchase of solar-powered residential heating and cooling equipment. Authorizes the Administrator of the Solar Energy Loan Administration to make loans, repayable at 2 percent interest, for the purchase and installation of such equipment. Requires that equipment meet such minimum standards as are developed under the Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974. Authorizes up to $100,000,000 to be appropriated to provide an initial amount for the program under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Provides, under title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act, that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided thereunder to groups of low-income individuals aged sixty or older.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust funds established pursuant to the Social Security Act, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Departments of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapters and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each trust fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administrating titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Revises the formula by which the adjustment to the contribution and benefit base is to be computed following an increase in social security benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Indochina Refugee Children Assistance Act - Defines terms used in this Act. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State and territorial educational agencies for the public education of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee children. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grants. States that no such grants may be made unless the State submits an application to the Commissioner containing specified information and assurances that such payments will be distributed among local educational agencies within that State in direct proportion to the number of Indochinese refugee children served by each such local educational agency. Authorizes supplementary assistance grants of $300 per child to any State educational agency which provides for the unique educational needs of Indochinese refugee children who are aged five to seventeen, inclusive. Authorizes appropriations for basic entitlement grants of $57,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $14,500,000 for the period beginning January 1, 1976 and ending September 30, 1976, and $29,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes specified appropriations for supplementary assistance grants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Makes permanent specified amendments to the Internal Revenue effected by the Tax Reduction Act of 1975, including: (1) the increase from $50,000 to $100,000 on the dollar limitation on used property; (2) the increase in the corporate surtax exemption from $25,000 to $50,000; and (3) the reduction in the normal corporate tax rate from 22 percent to 20 percent on the first $25,000 of net income.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Requests the Secretary of Agriculture to submit, to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry of the Senate, a plan for the eradication of the animal disease brucellosis over a five-year period.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Provides for the relief of Miss Kathleen Pollonais.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Expresses the sense of the Congress that Members of the Armed Forces interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetary shall be awarded the Purple Heart posthumously on Memorial Day during the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1975
Permits regional agencies authorized by State law to undertake planning for areawide waste treatment management to receive Federal planning grants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1975
Makes it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, or a $5,000 fine, or both, to take a controlled substance, as defined by the Controlled Substances Act, from a registered pharmacy by force or intimidation.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1975
Prohibits the importation of Rhodesian chrome so long as United Nations' sanctions against Rhodesia are in effect.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1975
Directs that during fiscal year 1976 not less than 70 percent of the value of government-to-government commodity grants and of funds expended under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 shall be allotted to countries designated by the United Nations as "Most Seriously Affected". Establishes priorities for such distribution. Establishes procedures whereby the President may, subject to congressional approval, provide commodity assistance in excess of the limitations specified in this resolution if such assistance is for humanitarian purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1975
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to designate the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Recreation Area, and, within such Area, the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Specifies the boundaries of such Area and Refuge. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1975
Extends an invitation to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn to address a joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Land and Water Resource Conservation Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States to achieve and maintain: (1) quality and quantity in the national resource base of land and water for sustained use; (2) quality in the environment; and (3) quality in the standard of living based on community improvement and adequate income. Provides for an appraisal of the land and water resources of the Nation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a program for furthering the protection and enhancement of land and water resources on private and non-Federal lands. Requires the Secretary to formulate a resource appraisal by December 31, 1976, and in each five-year interval thereafter. Directs the development, through the Soil Conservation Service, of a National Land and Water Conservation Program. Stipulates that the program shall set forth the direction of future soil and water conservation efforts based on the current resource appraisal as formulated under the provisions of this Act. Requires a report to be transmitted to the Congress on the first day Congress convenes in 1977, and each five-year interval thereafter. Defines the terms used in this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Conservation and Solar Energy - Federal Buildings Act - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that energy conservation practices adopted for the design, construction, and utilization of Federal facilities will have a beneficial effect on the Nation's overall supply of energy, and the procurement of solar heating and cooling units for use in Federal buildings should help to create a market for such units generally. States that it is the policy of this Act to insure that energy conservation and solar energy technology be employed in the design and construction of certain Federal facilities as set forth in this Act, and, to the maximum extent feasible, in the design and construction of all other Federal and federally assisted facilities. Defines terms used in this Act, including the terms "energy use analysis" and "life cycle energy costs". Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration and the Secretary of Defense to, in consultation with each other, develop, publish, and from time to time update guidelines designed to assure that the most effective and efficient measures for the conservation of energy and the use of solar energy systems are incorporated in (1) the design, construction, and renovation of Federal and federally assisted buildings, and (2) the procurement of goods and services for such buildings and for other Federal purposes. States that the guidelines developed by the Secretary and the Administrator shall be consistent with each other. Requires the guidelines developed by the Secretary to be applied to all new and existing buildings under his control. Requires the guidelines developed by the Administrator to be applied to all other new and existing buildings as defined in this Act. Directs all other Federal agencies to comply with the requirements of the applicable guidelines. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator: (1) to submit to Congress an energy use analysis with respect to the construction, acquisition, or leasing of any new building to which guidelines apply; and (2) with respect to existing buildings, to submit an inventory and energy use analysis of all such buildings, setting forth detailed plans for incorporating required improvements. Directs each Federal agency to submit to the Administrator or Secretary a detailed life cycle energy cost analysis of any building to be constructed, acquired, or leased by it for its use. Prohibits the purchase of any major energy using, generating, or conserving equipment by a Federal agency without prior submission of life cycle energy cost analysis. Provides for an increase in the allowable dollar amount of Federal assistance for building construction or major rehabilitation to cover the cost of solar energy equipment or other special energy equipment. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
States that the purpose of this Act is to provide a source of financial assistance for homeowners and builders to enable them to purchase and install solar heating equipment or combined solar heating and cooling equipment, primarily through the small business segment of the economy, while substantially reducing energy use. Authorizes the Small Business Administration, under the Small Business Act, to make loans to individuals and families owning and occupying one-to-four family residential structures to assist them in purchasing and installing qualified solar heating and cooling equipment. States that such loans may be made in an amount covering up to 75 percent of the cost of purchasing and installing the necessary equipment, and not exceeding amounts specified in this Act. Sets forth the terms and conditions governing the loans. Defines "qualified solar heating equipment" as meaning equipment which utilizes solar energy to provide heating for a residential structure and which is certified by the Administration as meeting minimum specified standards, including a requirement that the equipment must be designed to meet more than 40 percent of the total heating needs of the types of structure for which it is intended. Directs the Energy Research and Development Administration to establish procedures for periodic inspection and review of solar heating and cooling equipment models, and certifications. Directs the Administration to disseminate full, complete, and current information concerning recommended standards and types of qualified solar heating or solar heating and cooling equipment appropriate for use in residential structures of varying sizes and types and in various regions of the country. Establishes, under the Small Business Act, a solar heating and cooling loan fund for financing loans made pursuant to this Act. Sets a $600,000,000 limit on the total amount of loans, guarantees and other obligations entered into by the Administration which are outstanding at any one time for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Interstate Taxation Act - Title I: Sales and Use Taxes - Establishes uniform standards under which a State or a political subdivision of a State may exercise the power to impose a sales tax or to require a person to collect a sales or use tax with respect to an interstate sale of tangible personal property with a destination in the State or political subdivision. Authorizes a State to require an out-of-State seller to collect and remit a uniform combined State and local sales and use tax with respect to an interstate sale of tangible personal property. States that such a tax shall not be required of a business whose annual receipts from within the State levying such tax are less than $20,000. Precludes the imposition of separate State and local taxes when a combined tax is provided for by State law. Establishes criteria with respect to the authority of a State to require the collection and remittance of a uniform combined State and local sales and use tax by an out-of-State business. Limits the sales on which an out-of-State seller may be required to collect a sales or use tax of a political subdivision or a geographic area of a State to those interstate sales in which the seller has a business location or regularly makes deliveries other than by common carrier or United States Postal Service. Provides for the collection of a use tax by a State or political subdivision thereof with respect to property: (1) acquired in an interstate sale from an out-of- State seller who is not required to collect a uniform combined State and local sales and use tax with respect to such sale; or (2) acquired outside the State and brought into the State or political subdivision by such user or purchaser. Provides for an out-of-State seller to elect to become subject to the sales and use tax laws of a State or political subdivision thereof in lieu of collecting the uniform combined State and local sales and use tax. Requires States having a uniform combined State and local sales and use tax to establish a tax rate to be applied by out-of-State sellers in collecting such tax which is uniform throughout the State. Sets forth regulations to prevent the collection of excess or multiple taxes on the same goods. Provides for a refund of specified excess taxes. Enumerates exempt transactions and costs from the amount to which a sales or use tax rate may be applied. Title II: Net Income and Gross Receipts Taxes - Prohibits States and political subdivisions thereof from: (1) imposing a net income tax on a corporation unless the corporation has a business location in the State or political subdivision in the taxable year; or (2) imposing a gross receipts tax with respect to a sale of tangible personal property unless the seller has a business location in the State or political subdivision. Sets forth conditions by which it may be determined if a corporation is taxable in a State and if it is taxable in more than one State. Sets forth a formula by which may be determined that portion of the net income of a corporation taxable in more than one State. Defines the terms "property factor," "payroll factor," and "sales factors" as used in the formula. States that: (1) income from sources without the United States; and (2) certain corporate dividends shall be excluded from apportionable income. Title III: Definitions and Miscellaneous Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act. Prohibits the States from increasing sales or use taxes because of occurrences outside the State if the same occurrences within the State would not increase the tax. Clarifies regulations with respect to liability for unassessed sales, use, net income, and gross receipts taxes. Title IV: Jurisdiction of Federal Courts - Gives the United States Court of Claims the jurisdiction to review de novo any issues relating to a dispute arising under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Provides under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 that the gross income of an employee does not include amounts received as payment or reimbursement for legal services furnished to the employee under a group legal service plan, the value of legal services rendered to the employee under such plans, or amounts contributed by the employee's employer to such plan.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1975
Authorizes the President to issue annually a proclamation designating that week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day as "National Family Week".
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Prescribes the conditions pursuant to which States may continue eligibility for payments under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income Benefits) of the Social Security Act. States that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall not discontinue payments to a State not meeting one of such conditions if the level of benefits provided by such State is not significantly lower than the level which would obtain if the requirements were fully met.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish an outreach program under title XVI (Grants to the States for Aged, Blind, and Disabled) of the Social Security Act to assure that potentially eligible recipients of supplemental security income benefits will be fully informed of the availability of such benefits and the steps to be taken in obtaining them. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
National Workers' Compensation Act - Declares the findings of Congress that existing State workers' compensation laws are inadequate and that basic, national minimum requirements for State workers' compensation laws must be mandated and enforced by Congress for the protection of workers who are injured, or killed, or who contract diseases in the course of their employment. States that it is the purpose of this Act: (1) to establish minimum workers' compensation laws; (2) to establish procedures for their enforcement; and (3) to assist the States in improving existing workers' compensation systems in order to provide a uniform system of compensation, and to restore disabled workers to the fullest possible physical, mental, and economic usefulness through medical and vocational rehabilitation services. Defines the terms used in this Act. States that this Act applies to all employers and all employees. Enumerates the States in which an injured employee or the survivors of a deceased employee may claim benefits when injury or death occurred during the work-related travel of the employee. Enumerates workers' compensation benefits for any employee who becomes disabled or the survivor of any employee who dies due to any injury arising out of and in the course of employment. Sets forth the time limits for filing claims under this Act. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake a study of diseases related to employment, and recommend standards for determining: (1) whether such disease arose out of employment; and (2) whether death or disease was due to such employment. Sets forth administrative requirements for State workers' compensation agencies. Includes requirements: (1) that a single State agency be designated for administering workers' compensation law throughout the State; (2) that such agency maintain a rehabilitation services unit; and (3) that the hiring of qualified handicapped workers be encouraged. Provides for adjudication of disputed compensation cases in Federal district courts when the amount in controversy exceeds $10,000. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to enforce the provisions of this Act through action in the Federal district courts. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to assist them in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated through fiscal year 1978 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program of grants. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop and maintain a program of collection and analyses of workers' compensation statistics. Grants access to books, documents, papers and records of any grantee under this Act to the Secretary of Labor and the Comptroller General. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress on the subject matter of this Act. Establishes the National Workers' Compensation Advisory Commission. Defines the composition of the group. Directs the Commission to monitor the progress of the States in implementing the provisions of the Act and to advise the Secretary of compliance or noncompliance by the States, and to make recommendations for improving workers' compensation programs including recommendations for determining the compensation payable for permanent partial disability. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
National Institutions Act - Title I: Executive Accountability: - Directs the President, at the beginning of each regular session of Congress, to report to the Congress on the steps taken to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress and enacted into law during its preceding session in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Provides that, not later than thirty days after the report of the President is received by the Congress, the Committee on Rules and Administration of each House after consultation with the appropriate standing committee shall report to its House a joint resolution on the report of the President which approves or disapproves such report. States that any joint resolution of disapproval shall also specify in detail the steps to be taken by the President in order to execute any such laws in accordance with the intent of the Congress. Specifies that each standing committee of the Senate shall: (1) review and study, on a continuing basis, the application, administration, and execution of the laws within it jurisdiction; (2) assign employees to carry out the above requirement; and (3) report, not less often than annually, on its studies and reviews including such comments and recommendations as may be appropriate. Title II: Congressional State of the Union: - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to report to the Congress at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress on the State of the Union. Stipulates that such report shall include a statement of congressional legislative priorities and recommendations to the executive branch for action which may be required to implement those priorities. Title III: Financial Disclosure: - Requires the President, Vice President, each Member of Congress, and other specified Government employees to file annually, with the Comptroller General, a report containing a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount of gross and taxable income, total deductions and tax liabilities, as well as tax paid as reflected on his/her Federal income tax return for the preceding calendar year; (2) the amount and source of income, each item of reimbursement for any expenditure, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source (other than gifts received from a spouse or from the immediate family) during the preceding calendar year which exceeds $100 in amount or value, including any fee or other honorarium received for or in connection with the preparation or delivery of any speech or address, attendance at any convention or other assembly of individuals, or the preparation of any article or other composition for publication, and the monetary value of subsistence, entertainment, travel, and other facilities received in kind; (3) the value of each asset held which has a value in excess of $1,000, and the amount of each liability owed which is in excess of $1,000 as of the close of the preceding calendar year; (4) any transactions in securities of any business entity during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in transaction in the securities of such business entity exceeds $1,000 ; (5) all transactions in commodities during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in such transactions exceeds $1,000; and (6) any purchase or sale, other than the purchase or sale of a personal residence, of real property or any interest therein during the preceding calendar year if the value of property involved in such purchase or sale exceeds $1,000. Title IV: Office of Legal Counsel to the Congress: - Establishes in the legislative branch the Office of Legal Counsel to the Congress, which shall be under the direction and control of the Legal Counsel. Stipulates that any appointment as Legal Counsel shall be with the approval of the House of Representatives and the Senate, without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office. States that is shall be the duty of the Legal Counsel, subject to professional standards: (1) to render to committees, Members, and other officers of the Congress legal opinions upon questions arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States; (2) to render, upon request to committees and Members of Congress, advice with respect to the purpose and effect of provisions contained in existing or proposed laws; (3) to perform such other duties with respect to legislative review of executive actions as shall be prescribed by the Congress; (4) (A) upon the request of any Member and subject to the direction and control of that Member's House, to intervene or appear as amicus curiae in any action pending in any court of the United States, or of a State or political subdivision thereof, in which there is placed in issue the constitutional validity or interpretation of any law or regulation of the United States, or the validity of any official proceeding of, or official action taken by, either House of Congress, any committee of either House of Congress, any joint committee, Member, officer, employee, office, or agency of the Congress; and (B) to represent Congress, committees, Members, and employees of Congress. Title V: Miscellaneous: - States that specified provisions of this Act are enacted by the Congress: (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Wage Supplements for Handicapped Individuals Act - Provides that in order to demonstrate the feasibility of the payment of wage supplements to handicapped individuals and severely handicapped individuals who are employed on a long-term basis in rehabilitation facilities which are sheltered workshops or work activity centers, there are authorized to be appropriated $2,200,000 for fiscal year 1976, $4,800,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $9,600,000 for fiscal year 1978. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide for demonstration projects under which wage supplements are paid to handicapped or severely handicapped individuals. Sets forth the conditions and eligibility requirements of such wage supplement payments. States that not later than April 1, 1978, the Secretary is authorized to prepare and submit to the Congress a report on programs authorized by this Act together with such recommendations for additional legislation as he determines desirable.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Secuirty Act for optometric and medical vision care.