United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1974
Authorizes Federal reimbursement to the States for the construction of specified sewage treatment works constructed with financial assistance appropriated pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act for any fiscal year beginning July 1, 1966, and ending June 30, 1971. (Amends 86 Stat. 838)
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the well-being of the world and all of its people is gravely threatened by exorbitant or rigged foreign oil prices. States that it is further the sense of the Senate that Congress and the American people support President Ford and Secretary Kissinger in their call to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower the price of petroleum.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1974
Joint Committee on Intelligance Oversight Act - Establishes a Joint Committee on Intelligence Oversight, specifying the composition of such Committee and enumerating its duties, including to conduct a continuing study of the activites of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and other specified agencies of the Federal Government. States that no funds may be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out any intelligence or surveillance activity unless such funds have been specifically authorized by legislation enacted after this Act. Sets forth the administrative powers of the Committee, the procedures for classification of information, and the recordkeeping requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1974
Lister Hill Scholarship Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for additional medical scholarships to be known as Lister Hill Scholarships for award to those who agree to practice family medicine in depressed urban or rural areas. Authorizes appropriations for such scholarships.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Provides that tax returns are confidential, and, therefore, are not open to inspection, and that information contained in them shall not be disclosed. Permits, under regulations established by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the inspection of tax returns by the taxpayer, the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department, State tax authorities, the President, and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Requires a report to the Joint Committee of returns inspected and by whom inspected. Establishes criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure or receipt of tax return information.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Prohibits the interstate shipment of dogs trained for or intended to be used in dogfights for purposes of sport, wagering, or entertainment. Specifies punishments for persons involved in such commerce and for promoters of and participants in activities which include such dogfights if any one of the dogs involved had been moved in such commerce. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 48)
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1974
Home Purchase Assistance Act - Requires that whenever the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development determines that a substantial number of families are unable to obtain mortgage credit at reasonable rates due to high interest rates or reduced availability of mortgage credit and that the inability to obtain such credit is causing or threatening to cause a significant reduction in the volume of home construction or acquisition and thereby adversely affect the economy and delay the orderly achievement of the national housing goals contained in title XVI of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, the Secretary shall direct the Government National Mortgage Association to begin making commitments to purchase mortgages in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Establishes within the Association a housing trust fund which shall be used to carry out such purposes. Provides that mortgages may be purchased under this Act only if: (1) such mortgage was executed to finance the acquisition of the principal residence of the mortgagor; and (2) such mortgage involves the acquisition or construction of a residential dwelling at a cost which does not exceed $30,000 (or such greater amount, but not to exceed $45,000 as may be necessary to meet the need for mortgage credit in high cost areas). States that the Association shall not permit the aggregate outstanding amount of mortgages held by the fund under this section to increase by more than $10,000,000,000 in any single fiscal year. Requires that 50 percent of the aggregate principal amount of home mortgages purchased under this Act in any fiscal year shall involve residences upon which construction has been completed within 12 months preceding the date of purchase.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Title I: Replacement of Lost, Stolen, or Delayed Checks - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish procedures for expedited payment of monthly benefits. Requires the Secretary, within one day after the date an individual files for late payment of benefits, to cause such monthly insurance benefits to be paid. Title II: Expediting of Hearings and Determination - States that in the administration of the programs established by titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, the Secretary shall establish procedures designed to assure that: (1) any duly requested hearing to which an individual is entitled thereunder will be held within a reasonable period of time after such hearing is so requested, if such hearing is requested with respect to a determination of entitlement to benefits; and (2) not later than ninety days after such a hearing is requested, the Secretary shall render a final determination on the issues which were the subject of such hearing, or if no final determination of the Secretary has been made at that time, the Secretary shall make payments of benefits to such individual in like manner as if a final determination has been made fully in favor of such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Foreign Investment Review Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish procedures which require maintenance of records and submission of reports by foreign investors who acquire specified interests in domestic businesses and property. Sets forth what information must be kept and submitted by such investors, including country with which affiliated and extent of ownership in domestic businesses. Requires that such information shall be made public by the Secretary. Grants powers to the Secretary to enable him to collect such information. Establishes penalties for violations of this Act, including injunctive remedies. Establishes the Foreign Investment Review Administration in the Commerce Department to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of necessary sums to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Equal Opportunity and Full Employment Act - Directs the President, with the assistance of the Council of Economic Advisors, to transmit annually a full employment and production program to the Congress. Sets forth a summary of the content to be contained in such annual report. Provides for annual Labor Reports of the President. Requires the Labor Reports to provide detailed attention on a continuing and progressively analytical basis to the changing volume and composition of the American labor supply. Renames the United States Employment Service as the United States Full Employment Service. Creates a Job Guarantee Office in the United States Full Employment Office headed by a Job Guarantee Officer whose responsibility is to provide useful and rewarding employment for any American, able and willing to work but not yet working, unable otherwise to obtain work, and applying to such office for assistance. Directs the Job Guarantee Office to carry out responsibilities under this Act upon the recommendation and approval of the local planning councils. Requires that the Job Guarantee Office in carrying out its responsibilities shall insure that among projects planned that adequate consideration be given to such individuals and groups as may face special obstacles in finding and holding useful and rewarding employment and shall provide or have provided through the coordination of existing programs special assistance including but not limited to counseling, training, and, where necessary, transportation and migration assistance. Provides that such individuals and groups shall include (1) those suffering from past or present discrimination or bias on the basis of sex, age, race, color, religion, or national origin; (2) older workers and retirees; (3) the physically or mentally handicapped; (4) youths to age 21; (5) potentially employable recipients of public assistance; (6) the inhabitants of depressed areas, urban and rural; (7) veterans of the Armed Forces; (8) people unemployed because of the relocation, closing, or reduced operations in industrial or military facilities; and (9) such other groups as the President or the Congress may designate from time to time. Directs that the Job Guarantee Office may, subject to the limitations specified in this Act, enter into agreements with public agencies and private organizations operating on a profit, nonprofit, or limited-profit basis. Requires such agreements to contain assurances that the agency or organization will: (1) provide an annual independent audit to the Job Guarantee Office; and (2) not discriminate on the grounds of sex, age, race, color, religion, or national origin in the administration of any program encompassed within the agreement. Directs the Job Guarantee Office to: (1) refer jobseekers to the private sector and general public sector employment placement facilities of the Full Employment Service (other than as supplemented by this Act); and (2) directly refer jobseekers for placement in positions on projects drawn from the reservoir of public service and private employment projects. Provides that any jobseeker who presents himself or herself in person at the Full Employment Office shall be considered prima facie "willing and able" to work. Provides that this stipulation specifically shall include persons with impairments of sight, hearing, movement, coordination, mental retardation, or other handicaps. Directs that this stipulation be implemented by the Job Guarantee Officer, pursuant to regulations issued by the Secretary of Labor. Establishes a Standby Job Corps which shall consist of jobseekers registered pursuant to this Act. Provides that such Corps shall be available for public service work upon projects and activities that are approved as a part of community public service work reservoirs established by community boards pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary, by regulation, to provide for: (1) a requirement that jobseekers registered in the Standby Job Corps maintain a status of good standing, which status shall include attendance and performance standards; and (2) a system of compensation for Corps members. Provides that no Standby Job Corps members shall be paid less than the minimum wage in effect in the area. Directs the Joint Economic Committee to: (1) annually review the activities of the executive branch under all sections of this Act; (2) regularly conduct on its own behalf, or in cooperation with or through the facilities of the appropriate legislative committees or subcommittees of the Senate and the House, public hearings in as many labor market areas as feasible; and (3) annually report upon, with its own conclusions and recommendations, the development and administration of the policies and programs mandated by this Act. Establishes a National Institute for Full Employment within the Department of Labor, under a Director to be appointed by the Secretary of Labor, and to operate in continuing consultation with a National Commission for Full Employment Policy Studies. Authorizes and directs the Institute to make, or have made through grants to or contracts with individual researchers and private or public research organizations, universities, and other Government agencies, studies that shall include, but need not be limited to, such subjects as: (1) the policies and programs needed to reduce whatever inflationary pressures may result from full employment to manage any such inflationary pressures through appropriate fiscal policies and indirect and direct controls, and to protect the weaker groups in society from whatever inflationary trends cannot be avoided or controlled; (2) the identification of human potentialities that are hidden, undeveloped, or underdeveloped because of the lack of suitable job opportunities, encouragement, education, or training and of various ways of releasing such potentialities; (3) the forms of education and training needed to help provide people with the skills, knowledge, and values required by existing employment opportunities and technologies and needed to assist in developing such new types of goods, services, technologies, and employment opportunities as may better meet human needs; and (4) the policies and programs needed to substantially eliminate substandard employment, wages, and working conditions and the techniques for establishing standards for employment, wages, and working conditions in accordance with changing levels of national output and resources, and regional variations in output. Authorizes the appropriation for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1977, and for each succeeding fiscal year of such sums as may be needed to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the actions of the President's Committee on Food should in no way assume, displace or otherwise interfere with responsibilities delegated by law to the Secretary of Agriculture or other officials of Government, and that in the conduct of its activities the President's Committee on Food shall: (1) consult with and maintain close liaison with the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry; (2) take into consideration the increased costs of agricultural production and shortages or potential shortages of farm inputs in any actions it may take or recommendations it may make; and (3) provide such information and reports as may be requested by the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on behalf of the Senate. Provides that (1) all agencies of the Federal Government, which have any responsibility for establishing priorities for the allocation of materials, supplies or facilities utilized in the production or distribution of fertilizer, fuels and energy, farm chemicals, and other inputs essential to agricultural production, give the highest priority to the agricultural industry and related industries regarding the allocation of such materials, supplies, or facilities; (2) the Federal Power Commission take immediate steps to provide the highest possible priority for the allocation of natural gas for the expansion of existing capacity for the production of synthetic anhydrous ammonia; feedstocks, intermediates, and solvents utilized in the production of farm chemicals; feed phosphates; and for all other agricultural uses of natural gas; (3) the President expand the scope and responsibility of the Intergovernmental Agency Task Force on Fertilizer to include all essential farm inputs with respect to their supply availability, pricing (wholesale and retail), exports and imports and their equitable distribution among farm producers; and (4) the Federal Energy Administration consult with and maintain close liaison with the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry with respect to any plans or proposals that may affect the current priority status that agriculture and related industries now enjoy under Federal mandatory fuel and propane allocation regulations.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1974
Extends coverage, under the supplementary medical insurance benefits program established by title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, for one routine physical checkup, including diagnostic tests, each year and for preventive and maintenance care for individuals insured under such program.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1974
Records Management Act - Requires the establishment of standards and procedures to assure efficient and effective government records management. States that such standards and procedures shall seek to effectuate the following goals: (1) accurate and complete documentation of the policies and transactions of the Federal Government; (2) control of the quantity and quality of records produced by the Federal Government; (3) simplification of the processes through which records are created, stored, retrieved, and used; (4) the judicious preservation and disposal of records; (5) the establishment and maintenance of a system which focuses continuous attention upon records from their initial creation to their final disposition; (6) the establishment and maintenance of mechanisms of control with respect to records creation, in order to assure the prevention of unneccessary records; and (7) the establishment and maintenance of such other systems or techniques as the Administrator considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the Administrator shall provide guidance and assistance to Federal agencies with respect to records creation, records maintenance and use, and records disposition. Directs the Administrator of General Services to: (1) conduct inspections or paperwork studies, at regular intervals as determined to be necessary by the Administrator, of the records and records management practices and programs of every Federal agency; (2) require the head of every Federal agency to transmit a report to the Administrator with respect to the records management practices and programs of each such Federal agency during each period of two calendar years; (3) prescribe rules with respect to records management; and (4) order, to the extent he considers necessary, the head of any Federal agency to take specific action with respect to the records or records management practices of his agency. Establishes in the executive branch a Records Review Board to review any order issued by Administrator under the provisions of this Act upon appeal by any Federal agency. Directs the head of each Federal agency to make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the Federal agency and designed to furnish the information neccessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Federal Government and of persons directly affected by the activities of the Federal agency. Requires each agency head to establish safeguards against the removal or loss of records he determines to be necessary and required by the rules of the Administrator. Authorizes the establishment on the books of the Treasury of a Federal Records Management Fund which shall be available without fiscal year limitations to meet expenses, including personal services and such costs as are required to provide necessary assistance to the Federal agencies.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Supplemental Security Income Amendments - Provides, for purposes of determining benefits under the supplemental security income provisions of the Social Security Act, that individuals in residential institutions which charge more than the basic benefits allowable but which waive such excess shall not have any amount greater than such excess counted as unearned income. Excludes from the computed income of such individuals one-half of the unearned income received as support in cash or kind. Requires the establishment of criteria for determining presumptive disability under such program. Sets forth increased amounts which may be paid as cash advances to persons in an emergency who are initially applying for supplemental security income benefits. Requires administrative coordination of such benefits program with other assistance programs. Removes the requirement defining "household" under the Food Stamp Act that household members be related. Includes, in such definition, specified alcoholics, addicts, and elderly residents of federally subsidized housing. Places households where someone receives supplemental security income within the food stamp eligibility requirements of non-public assistance households. Removes the third-party payee requirements of the supplemental security income provisions where direct payment would be therapeutic to the recipient. Requires action within 30 days upon applications for such income benefits. Allows a hearing to the aged, blind, and disabled who are denied social services.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
States that in order to implement the seacoast status of the Great Lakes, as recognized in the Merchant Marine Act, there is established within the Maritime Administration a Great Lakes Region Office through which the Secretary of Commerce shall carry out the activities of the Administration with respect to programs relating to the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway system. Authorizes to be appropriated such amounts as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) act to relieve immediate threats of famine where it exists and assist food-short nations in increasing food production; (2) attempt to achieve an international agreement on a food reserve to be used in emergencies; (3) assist in social and economic growth and in population control (as requested) in underdeveloped nations; and (4) support the efficient use and equitable distribution of food worldwide.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Cost of Living Task Force Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to focus public attention on private and governmental actions which have an impact upon national price stability. Establishes an independent agency to be known as the Cost of Living Task Force. Specifies the membership composition of the Task Force. Enumerates the duties of the Task Force, including to monitor the economy and to develop and recommend to private parties, the President and the Congress, policies and procedures to achieve and maintain price stability in a growing economy, and to advise those parties, government agencies and the public at large of any action or anticipated action which would have a materially adverse impact on price stability. Directs the Task Force to collect data, evaluate the reasonableness of price and wage increases, make recommendations, and report within one year on the effectiveness of existing institutions within the Federal Government for dealing with inflation. Details the administrative powers of the Task Force. Provides for confidentiality of information obtained under this Act. Requires a semi-annual report by the Task Force. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $10,000,000 in any fiscal year, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1974
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 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, $4,800,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976 and $9,600,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct 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, 1977, 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 · 6 August 1974
Establishes the National Commission on Inflation. Sets forth the duties of the Commission, including the following: (1) to develop and recommend to the President and the Congress policies, mechanisms, and procedures to achieve and maintain stability of prices and costs in a growing economy; (2) to promote the consistency of price and wage policies with fiscal, monetary, international, and other economic policies of the United States; (3) to provide information to the public, agriculture, industry, labor, and State and local governments concerning the need for controlling inflation and encourage and promote voluntary action to that end; (4) to review the programs and activities of Federal departments and agencies and the private sector which may have adverse effects on supply and cause increases in prices and make recommendations for changes to increase supply and restrain prices; (5) to review industrial capacity, demand, and supply in various sectors of the economy, working with the industrial groups concerned and appropriate governmental agencies to encourage price restraint; and (6) to work with labor and management in the various sectors of the economy having special economic problems, as well as with appropriate Government agencies, to improve the structure of collective bargaining and the performance of those sectors in restraining wages and prices. States that to furthur promote voluntary wage and price restraints and to promote the level of consumer and international confidence in the Nation's ability to moderate the rate of inflation, the Commission shall: (1) conduct public hearings when appropriate to provide for public scrutiny of inflationary problems in various sectors of the economy; (2) report to the President, the Congress, and the public, when appropriate, of any decisions, actions, or price and wage increases which the Commission determines would substantially contribute to inflationary pressures in the economy; (3) within ninety days from the date of passage of the resolution, report to the Congress and to the President specific anti-inflation policies and programs it believes to be needed; and (4) transmit to the President and the Congress within twelve months of the date of enactment of this resolution a final report on its findings and recommendations. Enumerates the powers and privileges of the Commission. Authorizes appropriations of up to $1,500,000 to carry out the provisions of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1974
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 section. 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 its 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) amount of gross and taxable income, total deductions and tax liabilities, as well as tax paid reflected on his Federal income tax return for the preceding calender year, and for purposes of this paragraph; (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 his spouse or any member of his immediate family) received by him or by him and his spouse jointly during the preceding calendar year which exceeds $100 in amount or value, including any fee or other honorarium received by him 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 by him in kind; (3) the value of each asset held by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, which has a value in excess of $1,000, and the amount of each liability owed by him or by him and his spouse jointly, 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 by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in transactions in the securities of such business entity exceeds $1,000 during such year; (5) all transactions in commodities by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, 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 his personal residence, of real property or any interest therein by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf or pursuant to his direction, 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 it 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 the Congress, any joint commitee, 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 · 31 July 1974
Requires the heads of the respective executive agencies to provide the Congress with advance notice of planned organizational and other changes or actions which would affect Federal civilian employment by the closing down of plants or the transfer of civilian employees.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
National Nutrition Education Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to encourage the provision of nutrition education programs in the classroom and lunchrooms of elementary and secondary schools by establishing a system of grants for teacher training, pilot and demonstration projects, and the development of comprehensive nutrition education programs. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State educational agencies and institutions of higher education for teacher training with respect to the provision of nutrition education programs in schools. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $12,500,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 to carry out the provision of grants. Provides that the Commissioner may make grants to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public or private nonprofit education or research agencies, institutions, or organizations to pay the cost of pilot demonstration projects in elementary and secondary schools with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. States that the Commissioner may make grants to State education agencies to pay the Federal share of the cost of developing and carrying out nutrition education programs in elementary and secondary schools within each State. Sets forth criteria to be followed in applying for grants under this Act. Directs the Commissioner to render technical assistance to local education agencies, through qualified staff members having expertise in nutrition, health education, school food services, home economies, dietetics, and physical education, to public and private nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of education programs with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. Stipulates that in order to be eligible for assistance under this Act a State shall appoint a State coordinator for nutrition education. Directs the State coordinator for each State to develop, prepare, and furnish to the Commissioner a comprehensive plan for nutrition education within that State. Establishes in the office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Nutrition Education Resources Center. Sets forth the functions of the Center, including the following: (1) collect and create curriculum materials relevant to nutrition education, including, but not limited to, the integration of nutrition education materials into all subject matter at the elementary and secondary education levels; and (2) collect information and materials relating to nutrition education and maintain such information and materials in a library for the use of State coordinators and other interested persons. Authorizes appropriations of up to $2,000,000 per fiscal year to establish and maintain the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1974
Increases the authorized annual ceiling for the Land and Water Conservation fund from $300 million to $750 million. Specifies that of this amount, two-thirds will be available for the present purposes of the Fund. Makes $250 million annually available to the Senate out of the fund on a 30 percent State and 70 percent Federal match basis. States that such moneys would be used for: (1) the acquisition of urban area land that has value for park and recreation purposes, for conservation of land and other natural resources, and for historic, architectural or scenic purposes; and (2) the acquisition by the States of fragile or historic lands where uncontrolled or incompatible and geological formations, significant could result in substantial damage to such lands, including shorelands, rare or valuable ecosystems, wildlife habitats, wilderness areas and wetlands. Creates a National Historic Preservation Fund to meet the funding needs of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, to derive its revenues from the sale of resources under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Provides up to $150 million annually to match State preservation expenditures under the National Historic Preservation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Economic Opportunity and Community Partnership Act - Extends the authorization for appropriations of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, for an additional three year period through fiscal year 1977. Extends such Act for an additional three year period, through fiscal year 1978. Authorizes an aggregate of $1,548,000 for fiscal year 1975, $1,761,500 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,983,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides for automatic extension of the authorizations beyond fiscal year 1977, unless the Congress passes or formally rejects extension of authorizations, or by concurrent resolution, provides that the automatic extension shall no longer apply. Establishes an independent "Community Services and Community Economic Development Administration," headed by an Administrator appointed by the President, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. States that "Community Services" would include continued direct funding for community action "local initiative" programs, "Community Partnership Agreements", and national emphasis anti-poverty activities such as Emergency Food and Medical Services, Senior Opportunities and Services, and other projects such as evaluation and demonstration activities. Provides for the continuation of the current legal services program. Stipulates that "local-initiative" programs would be continued under current authority. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes of $330,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, 330,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and such sums as may be necessary in succeeding fiscal years. States that the Federal share for such activities would be 80 percent. Provides that demonstration community partnership agreements would be funded by the Agency upon approval of an agreement entered into by a community action agency or similar public or private non-profit agency, and the public agency of a State or political subdivision of a State, or any combination, for local initiative type programs. Sets forth requirements concerning the use of funds. Stipulates that funds should not be used in substitution of local-initiative or other antipoverty programs. Establishes a National Intergovernmental Review Board on the Financing of Community Services to review community partnership agreements, as well as sources for funding of antipoverty efforts. States that the Board, appointed by the President, and subject to Senate confirmation, would consist of nine members, including three representives of State and local government, three of community action and similar agencies and the remainder from the private sector. Stipulates that community economic development programs would include "special impact" programs through community development corporations in rural and urban areas; special rural programs, including funding of rural cooperatives; developmental loans for community economic development programs including establishment of a model domestic development enterprise corporation; and training and technical assistance. Establishes an Interagency Community Economic Development Resource Committee to insure the maximum application of reasources of other agencies, such as the Small Business Administration, the Department of Houasing and Urban Development, and the Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Administration. Provides for a Joint Congressional study during the fiscal year ending June 30,1975, to provide for an appropriate administering agency to conduct the community economic development program in the future, including consideration of an independent community economic development agency.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the leadership of the Nation responsible for our economic wellbeing meet together immediately in a spirit of unity to design a set of policy actions to achieve the common goal of restoring stability and growth to the American economy and confidence and prosperity to the American people. Directs that this domestic summit be convened forthwith comprised of the President, the majority and minority leadership of both Houses of the Congress, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committees of both Houses, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, together with leaders of labor and business, and such other participants as they may agree upon. Provides that they shall meet and devote such time as necessary until a plan of action is decided upon which, by its demonstration of renewed unity, direction, and purpose, will gain the public support and confidence necessary to be effective in overcoming these difficulties.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1974
Emergency Health Professions Educational Assistance Act - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1975 for Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of health professions education schools.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1974
Provides for the monthly publication by the Secretary of Labor of a Consumer Price Index for the aged which shall be used in the provision of cost-of-living benefit increases authorized by title II of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1974
Increases, under the Internal Revenue Code, from $20,000 to $30,000, the exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of a residence by an individual who is sixty-five years old or older.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974
Child and Family Services Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that the purposes of this Act are to establish and expand children and family service programs, build upon the experience of Headstart, give special emphasis to preschool children and families with the greatest needs, and provide decision making with direct parent participation through a partnership of parents, State, local and Federal government. Authorizes to be appropriated $150 million for fiscal year 1975 and $200 million for fiscal year 1976 for training, planning, and technical assistance and $500 million in fiscal year 1976 and $1 billion in fiscal year 1977 for program operation. Title I: Child and Family Service Programs - Establishes the Office of Child and Family Services in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the principal agency for administration of this Act. Creates the Child and Family Services Coordinating Council with representatives from various federal agencies to assure coordination of federal programs in the field. Defines the purposes for which Federal funds can be used: (1) planning and developing programs, including pilot programs; (2) establishing programs, including child care in the home: after-school programs; family prenatal care; programs to meet special needs of minorities, Indians, migrants and bilingual children; food and nutrition services; and special activities for handicapped children within regular programs; (3) rental, renovation, acquisition or construction of facilities, including mobile facilities; (4) preservice and inservice training; (5) staff and administration expenses of councils and committees required by the Act; and (6) dissemination of information to families. Provides for the reservation of funds proportionately for handicapped children and for migrant and Indian children, and up to 5 percent for model programs. Allocates the remainder among the States and within the States, and within the States, 50 percent according to relative number of economically disadvantaged children, 25 percent according to relative number of children through age five, and 25 percent according to relative number of children of working mothers and single parents. Allows the use of up to 5 percent of a State's allocation for special State programs. Provides that a State, locality, or combination of localities may be designated by the Secretary as a prime sponsor for the purpose of entering into arrangements to carry out programs under this title. Establishes performance criteria for prime sponsors, including coordination of all services for children within the prime sponsorship area and establishment of a Child and Family Service Council to administer and coordinate programs. Empowers the Secretary to directly fund an Indian tribe to carry out programs on a reservation and public or private nonprofit agencies to operate migrant programs, model programs, or programs where no prime sponsor has been designated or where a designated prime sponsor is not meeting certain needs. Provides for the Governor to comment on prime sponsorship applications and provides appeal procedures for applicants who are disapproved. Sets forth the composition, method of selection, and functions of Child and Family Service Councils to be established by each prime sponsor. Requires that at least one-third of the total membership of the Child and Family Service Council shall be persons who are economically disadvantaged. States that financial assistance under this title may be provided by the Secretary for fiscal year 1975 and any subsequent fiscal year to a prime sponsor only pursuant to a child and family service plan which is approved by the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of this title. Sets forth the conditions for such approval, requiring that any such program shall: (1) provide that programs or services under this title shall be provided only for children whose parents request them; (2) identifies child and family service needs and goals within the area and describes the purposes for which the financial assistance will be used; and (3) meets the needs of children and families in the prime sponsorship area, with priority for services to children who have not attained six years of age, and other enumerated criteria. Allows Federal funding for construction or acquisition only where no alternatives are practicable. Provides that no more than 15 percent of a prime sponsor's funds may be used for construction, and that no more than half of that may be in the form of grants rather than loans. Requires that the Federal Government and prime sponsors make available for child and family service programs, facilities they own and lease, when they are not fully utilized for other purposes. Provides a 100 percent Federal share for planning in the first year, 90 percent Federal share for fiscal years 1976 and 1977, and 80 percent for subsequent fiscal years. Provides a 100 percent Federal share for programs for migrants and Indians, and allows waiver of part or all of the non-Federal share where necessary to meet needs of economically disadvantaged children. States that the non-Federal share may be in cash or in kind. Requires that revenues generated by fees may not be used as the non-Federal share but must be used as the non-Federal share but must be used by the prime sponsor to expand programs. Title II: Supportive Services and Special Activities - Requires a national committee on Federal standards, with one-half parent participation, to establish standards for all child care services programs funded by this or any other Federal act. Requires a committee to develop a uniform minimum code dealing with health and safety of children and applicable to all facilities funded by this Act. Requires the Secretary to make annual evaluations and report to Congress on Federal child family services activities. Title III: Research and Demonstrations - Authorizes child and family services research and requires that the Office of Child and Family Services coordinate research by Federal agencies. Title IV: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act. Requires that procedures be established to assure adequate nutrition services in programs under this Act, including use of the special food service programs of the School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act. Sets forth an anti-crimination provision, including separate provisions on sex discrimination. Requires that programs meet the minimum wage. Prohibits the use of funds for constructing, operating, or maintaining facilities for sectarian instruction or religious worship. Provides that no child may be the subject of research or experimentation without parental approval, and that no child may be forced to undergo examination or treatment if parents object. Requires approval of the Secretary for child development programs for very young children. Requires that all applications, plans, and written material pertaining thereto be made available to the public without charge.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974
Amendments Act to the Federal-Aid Highway Act - Declares it to be a finding of the Congress that it is in the highest national interest that there should be established a national transportation policy which takes fully into account the interdependence of the cities and the countryside, the metropolitan areas and the nonmetropolitan areas, and the interrelationships of the various transportation modes, and which encourages the development of and the most efficient multimodal use of the best available technology and transportation resources in such a way as to fill the needs of the whole Nation. Makes it the intent of the Congress that this Act shall be administered as an integral part of said national transportation policy. Drops the use of the term "rural" areas in specified highway-aid legislation to redefine such areas as "countryside areas', covering all areas of a State not included in urban areas. Authorizes the following appropriations under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973: (1) for the Federal-aid primary system in rural areas, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $1,400,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and (2) for the Federal-aid secondary system in rural areas, out of the Highway Trust Fund, $500,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $500,000,000 for the fiscal 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1974
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Extension Act - Provides for the extension of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 from February 28, 1975, to June 30, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1974
Allows a tax deduction, under the Internal Revenue Code, for expenses of purchasing and installing solar heating and cooling equipment in residences. Limits such tax deduction to $5,000, and allows such deduction to be taken over a 60 month period.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Commerce to make a full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of determining a policy and role for the Federal Government on tourism in the United States which will most effectively enable the industry to realize fully its potential to contribute to the social well-being, the cultural understanding, and the economic prosperity of the United States. Provides that the chairman and ranking minority member of each of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agriculture and Forestry, Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works, Foreign Relations, Government Operations, Labor and Public Welfare, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Small Business, or a member of such committees designated by each such chairman or ranking minority member to serve in his place, shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee on Commerce for purposes of this study. Directs the Committee on Commerce to report its findings, together with its recommendations for such legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Emergency Livestock Credit Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide financial assistance to bona fide farmers and ranchers, including operators of feedlots, who are primarily engaged in agricultural production for the purpose of breeding, raising, fattening or marketing livestock. Defines "livestock" to mean beef cattle, dairy catttle, swine, chickens, turkeys or the products thereof. Directs the Secretary to provide such assistance by guaranteeing loans made by any Federal or State chartered bank, savings and loan association, cooperative lending agency, or other approved lender. Requires that the total guaranteed under this Act for any farmer or rancher shall not exceed $1,000,000; and that in the case of any loan to refinance the livestock operations of a farmer or rancher, the loan and refinancing are absolutely essential in order for the farmer or rancher to remain in business. States that loans guaranteed under this Act shall bear interest at a rate to be agreed upon by the lender and borrower. Limits loan guarantees outstanding at any one time to $3,000,000,000. Terminates this Act one year after enactment, except the authority to make guarantees may be extended for 6 months if the Secretary of Agriculture determines guarantees are needed and notifies the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioner of the United States Customs Service should desist immediately from any actions furthering the transfer of any responsibilities legally vested in the United States Customs Service to any other agency, and, specifically, should desist from actions furthering the transfer of responsibility for interdiction of contraband along the Mexican border from the United States Customs Service to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1974
States that any expenditure paid or incurred by a taxpayer in connection with his trade or business for the development or improvement of a product shall be treated, under the Internal Revenue Code, as a research or experimental expenditure irrespective of the nature of such product and irrespective of whether the product constitutes the result of research on a literary, historical, or similar project. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 174)
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1974
Authorizes and directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library. Provides that expenses incurred by the Joint Committee on the Library in carrying out this concurrent resolution, which shall not exceed $2,500, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate on vouchers approved by the chairman of the joint committee.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Condominium Disclosure Act - States that it shall be unlawful for any developer or agent, directly or indirectly, to make use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interestate commerce, or of the mails: (1) to sell or lease any condominium in any project unless a statement of record and a printed public offering statement with respect to such condominium is in effect in accordance with the provisions of this Act, is furnished to the purchaser in advance of the signing of any contract or agreement for sale or lease by the purchaser; and (2) in selling or leasing, or offering to sell or lease, any condominium in a project to employ and device, scheme, or artifice to defraud, or to obtain money or property by means of a material misrepresentation with respect to any information included in the statement of record or the public offering statement or with respect to any other information pertinent to the lot or the subdivision and upon which the purchaser relies, or to engage in any transaction, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon a purchaser. Provides that any contract or agreement for the purchase or leasing of a condominium in a project covered by this Act, where the public offering statement has not been given to the purchaser in advance or at the time of his signing, shall be voidable at the option of the purchaser. Requires a project to be registered by filing with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development a statement of record, and specifies the information to be contained in such statement. States that a public offering statement relating to the condominiums in a project shall contain such of the information contained in the statement of record, and any amendments thereto, as the Secretary may deen necessary, and shall disclose fully and accurately the characteristics of the project and the condominiums therein offered and shall make known to prospective purchasers all unusual and material circumstances or features affecting the condominiums. Provides that the public offering statement shall not be used for any promotional purposes before registration of the project and afterward only if it is used in its entirety. Provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of this Act, or any person who willfully, in a statement of record filed under, or in a public offering statement issued pursuant to this Act, makes any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. States that, unless the method of disposition is adopted for the purpose of evasion of this Act, the provisions of this Act shall not apply to: (1) the sale or lease of real estate not pursuant to a common promotional plan to offer or sell condominiums in a project; (2) the sale or lease of condominiums solely for commercial or industrial purposes or uses; (3) the sale or lease of real estate under or pursuant to court order; or (4) the sale or lease of real estate by any government or government agency. Grants jurisdiction to United States District Courts over any suit or action which may be brought to enforce any liability or duty created by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Requires, under the Export - Import Bank Act, that the prohibition on purchase or lease of products by a Communist country or for use in a communist country may be wavied by the President in the national interest if he reports each transaction to Congress at least 30 days prior to final approval of the transaction. Provides that no loan, guarantee, or insurance, or combination thereof, in an amount which equals or exceeds $50,000,000 shall be finally approved by the Board of Directors of the Bank unless the Bank has submitted to the Congress with respect to such loan, guarantee, or insurance a detailed statement describing the transaction; and the President has transmitted to the Congress a detailed statement of the impact of the proposed loan, guarantee, or insurance on the national security and economy of the United States. Requires the Bank to submit to the Congress, upon request, all such data, documents, and reports. Sets forth rules and procedures to be followed in Congress for consideration of transactions of the Bank. Provides that, after the date of enactment of this Act, the Bank shall not approve loans, guarantees, and insurance in connection with exports to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in an aggregate amount in excess of $300,000,000. Provides that after June 30, 1975, the Bank shall issue no loan, guarantee, or insurance in connection with the purchase of any goods or services by a communist country, excluding Romania and Yugoslavia, or any agency or national thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Establishes, under the Social Security Act, a procedure for the prompt payment of social security benefits to individuals whose social security checks have been lost, stolen, or otherwise delayed. Provides for expedited hearings and determinations respecting claims for benefits under titles II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) and Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Provides for the coverage of psychologists' services under the supplementary medical insurance benefits program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act.
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