United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to require that transportation facilities built and rolling stock purchased with Federal funds under the Urban Mass Transportation Act are designed and constructed to be accessible to the physically handicapped and the elderly. Provides that, with regard to buses only, a Governor or local public body may satisfy the requirements of this Act by providing alternative transportation service for physically handicapped persons and elderly persons with limited mobility in accordance with standards promulgated by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Rail Passenger Service Amendments - Directs the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to establish rail passenger service on such extensions of the basic system as are necessary to provide the following: (A) by July 1, 1974, through service to every standard metropolitan statistical area in the contiguous 48 States exceeding 1,000,000 in population; (B) by July 1, 1976, through service to every such standard metropolitan statistical area exceeding 500,000 in population; (C) by July 1, 1978, through service to every such standard metropolitan statistical area exceeding 250,000 in population; and (D) by July 1, 1976, adequate service between all standard metropolitan statistical areas exceeding 500,000 in population which are between 100 and 300 miles apart. States that the Corporation may preliminarily exclude an entension upon a preliminary finding by the Secretary of Transportation that the public convenience and necessity does not require such extension, or that establishment of such service is unnecessary or impracticable. Authorizes appropriations for the benefit of the Corporation of $10,000,000 in fiscal year 1976, $25,000,000 in fiscal year 1977, and 25,000,000 in fiscal year 1978. Directs the Corporation to initiate not less than two experimental routes each year, such routes to be designated by the Corporation on the sole basis of the demonstrated need and probable use of such service, and to operate such routes for not less than two years. Requires the Corporation to study the need for and potential use of routes between major centers of population and heavily used recreation areas 100 to 300 miles from such population centers. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase evidences of indebtedness and to make loans to any State or to any local or regional agency for purposes of capital construction, acquisition, and improvement cost of rail lines and facilities to recreation areas. Directs the Secretary to study the need for and potential use of routes between urbanized population centers and airports serving those population centers and the estimated initial costs of each such route. Provides that not later than July 1, 1975, he shall report to the Congress on the results of this study along with his recommendations as to whether the Corporation should provide any or all such service.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the President should request the International Wheat Council, at the earliest possible date, to request the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to convene a negotiating conference as provided in article 21 of the International Wheat Agreement, concluded at Geneva on February 20, 1971, with a view toward the negotiation of provisions relating to the prices of wheat and to the rights and obligations of members with respect to international trade in wheat.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Declares that Dr. Kissinger be commended on his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace and that deep gratitude to Dr. Kissinger for his services is hereby expressed by the Senate. Declares that the United States Senate holds in high regard Dr. Kissinger, and regards him as an outstanding member of this Administration, as a patriotic Amercian in whom it has complete confidence, and whose integrity, and veracity are above reproach, and that the U.S. Senate wishes for him success in his continuing efforts to achieve a permanent peace in the world.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, to insure loans to borrowers who: (1) are citizens of the United States engaged solely or primarily in agricultural production (2) are or have been engaged in livestock producing operations, (3) are unable to obtain sufficient credit to finance actual needs in the livestock producing business at reasonable rates and terms, and (4) have, if having received previously a loan, performed successfully the terms of such loan. States that loans isured under this Act must be expended for the purpose of financing the normal operations of buying, raising, and selling meat animals by the borrower whose loan is being insured. Sets forth the terms and conditions of such insured loans. Creates the Livestock Producer's Insurance Fund to be used by the Secretary as a revolving fund for the discharge of obligations under this Act. Empowers the Secretary to transfer assets from the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund, to the Livestock Fund if he determines that such transfer is necessary to establish the insurance program. Directs the Secretary to make and issue notes to the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of obtaining funds necessary for discharging obligations under this Act. Outlines the purposes for which the Secretary shall utilize the fund. Provides that the aggregate amount of the obligations insured under this Act and outstanding at any one time shall not exceed $3,500,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1974
Authorizes the Joint Committee on the Library to obtain, in accordance with this concurrent resolution, likenesses of members of minority groups to be placed in the United States Capitol. Directs the President pro Tempore of the Senate, the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Majority and Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives to jointly appoint: (1) an advisory committee to be composed of 9 distinguished citizens from the public and private sectors, for the purpose of selecting members of minority groups it deems appropriate who have made significant contributions to the United States; and (2) one member of the advisory committee as chairman of the advisory committee. Authorizes the advisory committee to seek advice and recommendations from such historians and other sources including the general public, as it deems advisable. Requires the advisory committee to report any of its selections to the Senate and House of Representatives not later than one year from the date this concurrent resolution is agreed to. Requires the Joint Committee on the Library, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Commission on Art and Antiquities of the United States Senate to provide to the advisory committee, to the maximum extent practicable, employees, facilities, supplies, and equipment that the advisory committee deems appropriate in carrying out its duties under this concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1974
Prevents State supplementation benefits from being reduced on account of increases in the level of benefits payable under the supplemental security income program under the Social Security Act. Allows repayment to States of one-half of their expenses in fulfilling such requirement. Prevents qualified individuals from losing medicaid eligibility because of increases in social security benefits or supplemental security income benefits. Requires old-age, survivors, and disability insurance benefit increases to be disregarded in determining Veterans pensions and food stamp benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual educational scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award fifty-one scholarships in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, for undergraduate study for persons who plan to pursue a career in public service. States that each recipient shall be known as a Truman scholar. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the scholarship requirements; (2) the procedure for selection of Truman scholars; (3) stipends and institutional allowances; and (4) the scholarship conditions. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedure for expenditures from the fund. Directs that there shall be an Executive Secretary of the Foundation, appointed by the Board, who shall be the chief executive officer and shall carry out the functions of the Foundation subject to the supervision and direction of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 to the fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1974
Provides that, under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, real property which is farmland, woodland, or open land and forms part of an estate may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value as farmland, woodland, or open land (rather than at its fair market value). Provides that real property which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value for its existing use. Provides for the revocation of such lower valuation and recapture of unpaid tax with interest under specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the contribution by the United States to the growing economic and human crisis in the developing world should be primarily in the form of food and the means and technology to produce it; (2) the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture and their advisors should give the highest priority to the immediate expansion of American food assistance and take such additional steps as might be necessary to expedite the transfer of American food commodities on concessional and donation terms to those nations most severely affected; (3) the United States should increase its matching pledge to the World Food Program for 1975-1976 and encourage other nations to do so; (4) the President and the Secretary of State should negotiate with other major food exporting nations to seek to obtain their participation in this emergency effort proportionate to their share of world food exports, and should strongly encourage oil exporting nations to contribute a fair share to these efforts to assist the most severely affected nations; (5) the United States should announce its desire to work with the oil exporting and other nations in a major effort to increase world fertilizer production with the possibility of including the offer of American technology and capital; and (6) the President should encourage the American people to reduce the non-critical, non-food-producing uses of fertilizer which now total nearly three million tons of nutrient a year, to make available increased fertilizer supplies for raising food production at home and in the developing world. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States and the Secretaries of State and Agriculture should, and are hereby urged and requested to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward formulating an American response in a cooperative framework to the world food crisis and the needs of the most severely affected developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1974
Provides for the issuance of a special series of postage stamps for the Bicentennial celebration depicting an historical event or individual from each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 21 May 1974
Provides for the issuance of a special series of postage stamps, in conjunction with the Bicentennial celebration of the United States, depicting the flags of each of the fifty States, Guam, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism; and that the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to call upon all governments to condemn inhuman acts of violence against innocent victims and to strongly urge the countries where these groups and individuals are found to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terroism and senseless violence.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974
Equal Credit Opportunity Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to require that financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extension of credit make that credit equally available to all creditworthy customers without regard to sex or marital status. Makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant on the basis of sex or marital status. Defines the terms used in the Act. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Makes changes in specified Acts of Congress in order to make those Acts comply with the purposes of this Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the requirements of this Act to the extent that they will not be enforced by another Government agency after enactment of this Act. Provides for the assessment by a United States District Court of actual and punitive damages in any action brought against a violator of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
National Summer Youth Sports Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants or enter into contracts for the conduct of an annual National Summer Youth Sports Program concentrated in the summer months, with opportunity for continued activities throughout the year, designed to offer disadvantaged youth living in areas of concentrated poverty an opportunity to receive educational instruction, sports instruction, and health and nutritional services, and to participate in educational programs and sports competitions. Prohibits assistance under this Act unless 90 percent of the youths participating in a program are from families with incomes below the poverty level and that such youths will have maximum participation in program planning and operation. Provides that programs under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary, through grants or contracts with the National Collegiate Athletic Association or any other qualified national organization of colleges and universities. Provides that each such grant or contract shall contain provisions to assure that the program to be assisted will: (1) expand educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths, designed to provide an opportunity to engage in competitive sports and benefit from sports skills instruction; (2) help young people learn good health practices and become better citizens by utilizing the personnel and facilities of higher education; (3) enable the contractor and institutions of higher education located conveniently to areas of concentrated poverty and their personnel to participate more fully in community life and in the solution of community problems; (4) provide a combination of employment and on-the-job training in sports instruction and administration; and (5) serve major metropolitan centers of the United States as well as other areas, within the limits of program resources. Requires local projects under any such program to be conducted under approved contracts between the principal contractor or grantee and selected institutions of higher education qualified to carry out a program under this Act. Provides that, except where the Secretary determines that unusual circumstances make a larger percentage necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, a contract under this Act with respect to any program may not provide for payment of more than 80 percent of the direct costs incurred in carrying out the total program. Provides that the non-Federal share may be cash or in-kind contributions. Permits such payments to be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, June 30, 1976, and June 30, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President should immediately initiate negotiations at the highest level of the Turkish Government to prevent the resumption of opium production, and if such negotiations prove unfruitful to exercise the authority provided by the Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act and to terminate all assistance to the Government of Turkey.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use funds available for the direct distribution of food to needy children and low income persons for donation to maintain the traditional level of assistance for food assistance programs as are authorized by law, including but not limited to school lunch, institutions, supplemental feeding, disaster relief, and, until July 1, 1976, the family commodity distribution program on Indian reservations not requesting the food stamp program. Provides that the Secretary may, if stocks of the Commodity Credit Corporation are not available, use the funds of the Corporation to purchase agricultural commodities and the products thereof of the types customarily available under the program of commodity distribution to prevent waste. Provides, under the Food Stamp Act, that upon request to the Secretary by the appropriate officials of any Indian tribe, such tribe is authorized to administer a food stamp program under this Act on behalf of the eligible households of such tribe living on an Indian reservation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior or any State to administer a food stamp program on behalf of any tribe residing on an Indian reservation. Authorizes the Secretary under such Act to pay to each State agency an amount equal to 62.5 percent of all administrative costs, including, but not limited to, the cost of (1) the certification of households; (2) the acceptance, storage, and protection of coupons after their delivery to receiving points within the States; (3) the issuance of such coupons to eligible households; (4) the outreach and fair hearing requirements of this Act; and (5) the control and accounting of coupons. Authorizes the appropriation of necessary sums to encourage milk consumption in schools. Provides that, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for subsequent fiscal years, the minimum rate of reimbursement for a half-pint of milk served in schools and other eligible institutions shall not be less than 5 cents per half-pint served to eligible children, and such minimum rate of reimbursement shall be adjusted on an annual basis each fiscal year thereafter, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, to reflect changes in the series of food away from home of the Consumer Price Index.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act Amendments - Provides that for the fiscal year 1975, and subsequent fiscal years, the national average value of donated foods, or cash payments in lieu thereof under the National School Lunch Act, shall not be less than 10 percent per lunch. Provides that that amount shall be adjusted on an annual basis each fiscal year after June 30, 1975, to reflect changes in the series for food away from home of the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. Provides that such adjustment shall be computed to the nearest one-fourth cent. Provides that among those commodities delivered under this Act the Secretary of Agriculture shall give special emphasis to high protein foods, meat, and meat alternates. Increases the authorized appropriations under such Act for nonfood assistance. Increases the authorized appropriations under such Act for the special supplemental food program.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1974
Energy Resources Expansion Act - Requires a 25 percent royalty on leases of government oil and gas lands Requires the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations requiring bids on such leases to contain work programs for the geophysical exploration and exploratory drilling and development and production of oil and gas from such lands. Authorizes the Secretary to promote the maximum recovery of crude oil and gas from government lands, consistent with sound conservation, economic, and engineering principles. Requires all proceeds from sales of royalty oil and gas lands to be deposited in the Energy Resources and Technology Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress within 180 days after enactment of this Act, a five-year plan for conducting and assisting research and development of alternative energy sources and energy supply technology. Apportions funds in the trust fund to the various programs under this Act, and provides for the termination of such fund in 10 years. Requires the Secretary to report every six months to the Congress on the compliance of lessees with their work plans and drilling schedules. Provides that 5 percent of rentals and royalties from leases on the Outer Continental Shelf shall be paid to the States adjacent to such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Petroleum Moratorium Act - States that no person directly or indirectly engaged in the production of crude petroleum who possesses a major market share shall (1) control either directly or indirectly any pipeline or refinery which, on the effective date of this Act is controlled by any person who does not possess a major market share; or (2) operate either directly or indirectly any out- let which, on the effective date of this Act, is not operated by such person, or any subsidiary corporation or salaried employee of such person. States that a knowing violation of this provision shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100,000 or by imprisonment for not exceeding ten years, or both. Directs the Federal Trade Commission, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of the Federal Energy Office (or any successor office), the Secretary of Commerce, the Comptroller General, and the Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs to each undertake a study of the actions which may be required to preserve and enhance competition in the production, refining, transportation, and marketing of petroleum and petroleum products in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in 18 States and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Rural Rail Preservation and Improvement Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to prepare a comprehensive report containing his conclusions with respect to essential rail services within a specifically defined region, essentially comprising the Northeastern United States, pertaining to the geographic zones at and between which rail service should be provided. Requires the Secretary to formulate and submit to Congress a national transportation policy within one hundred and eighty days after enactment of this Act. Requires the Rail Services Planning Offices to prepare a detailed information survey and detailed comprehensive reports with respect to States outside the region. Requires the Interstate Commerce Commission to report within ninety days of enactment of this Act the environmental effects of abandonments and imposes a 730-day moratorium on such abandonments. Provides subsidies for rail properties remaining in condition for rail service which have been issued a certificate of abandonment within 5 years prior to enactment of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973. Authorizes to be appropriated up to $200,000,000 for rail service continuation subsidies for each of the first two fiscal years including and following the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Title I: Federal Privacy Board - Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the executive branch of the Government and specifies the composition of the Board. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to publish a Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system. Specifies the powers of the Board, including the power to conduct inspections of information systems at reasonable times, and to order an organization to desist from acts in violation of rules or orders promulgated under this Act. Title II: Standards and Management Systems For Handling Information Related To Individuals - Establishes requirements for the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination by Federal agencies, or State or local governments, or any other organization maintaining an information system, of personal information collected for administrative, statistical-reporting, and research purposes. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board. Specifies the elements of public notice required under this Act to be contained in such notice. States that organizations maintaining personal information shall inform individuals asked to supply personal information of consequences of providing or not providing such information, shall request permission of a data subject to disseminate such information, and grant such individual the right to inspect and to know all personal information about the individual, the nature and sources of the information, and the recipients of personal information about such individual. Provides methods for the challenging, correction, and explanation of personal information by the subject of such information. Requires each such organization maintaining a personal information system to inform all data subjects of the fact within two years of enactment of this Act by notice containing specified elements. Exempts information determined to be vital to the national defense, contained in active criminal investigatory files compiled by Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, and that maintained by the news media (except information relating to the employees of such organizations) from the provisions of this Act. States that it shall be unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number for any activity, unless the disclosure is required by law. Title III: Miscellaneous - Defines the terms used in this Act. States that any revelation of trade secrets required under this Act shall be treated as confidential by those to whom they are made. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Authorizes an annual appropriation through fiscal year 1989 to the land and water conservation fund of sums necessary to make the income of the fund $500,000,000 annually (now $300,000,000). (Amends 16 U.S.C. 4601-5(c))
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Special Supplemental Food Program Amendment - Increases the amount of annual Federal financial assistance to the special supplemental food program authorized pursuant to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to $131,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Prescribes a World War I veterans' pension of $150 for married veterans or veterans with one child or $135 for unmarried veterans, and an extra $125 for those in need of regular aid and attendance. Authorizes hospital, domiciliary, and medical care of such for non-service-connected disabilities, and costs for medical services unavoidably incurred outside Veterans' Administration facilities. Authorizes the payment of a pension to the widow of a World War I veteran if she is not otherwise entitled to a pension.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Assistance for the Developmentally Disabled - States that the purpose of this title is to improve the provisions of services to persons with developmental disabilities. Defines "developmental disability" as a disability: (1) attributable to mental retardation, or cerebral palsy, or epilepsy, or autism, or learning disability; or (2) attributable to any other condition of an individual found to be closely related to mental retardation as it refers to general intellectual functioning or impairment in adaptive behavior or to require treatment similar to that required for mentally retarded individuals, which disability originates before such individual attains age eighteen, has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely, and constitutes a severe handicap to such individual's ability to function normally in society. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for the fiscal year June 30, 1975, and a like amount for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of assisting in the modernization and renovation of facilities which will aid in demonstrating provision of specialized services for the diagnosis and treatment, education, training or care of persons with developmental disabilities or in the interdisciplinary training of physicians and other specialized personnel needed for research, diagnosis and treatment, education, training or care of persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to cover costs of administering and operating demonstration facilities and interdisciplinary training programs for personnel needed to render specialized services to persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and each of the next four succeeding fiscal years to cover the costs of the grants. Sets forth requirements pertaining to the application for and payment of grants to States. Provides for grants to States for planning, provision of services, and construction and operation of facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $70,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $85,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 and such sums as may be necessary for succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making such grants. Establishes in the office of the Secretary a National Council on Services and Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled. States that it shall be the duty and function of the Council to: (1) advise the Secretary with respect to any regulations promulgated or proposed to be promulgated by him in the implementation of this title, (2) study programs authorized by this title to determine their effectiveness in carrying out the purposes for which they were established, (3) monitor the development and execution of this title and report directly to the Secretary on any delay in the rapid execution of this title, and (4) submit directly to the Congress annually an evaluation of the administration of this title. Requires States desiring to apply for grants to submit specific goal oriented plans for approval by the Secretary. Sets forth specific requirements to be met in order for State plans to be approved by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to prescribe general regulations applicable to all the States to carry out the purposes of this Act and to develop an evaluation system and action plan for implementation of such system and report to the appropriate committees of Congress within eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts to conduct feasibility studies with regard to developing an evaluation system for developmental disabilities services. Authorizes appropriations of $1,000,000 for this purpose for fiscal year 1975 and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for grants for special projects for services to persons with developmental disabilities of $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, $17,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977, $22,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1978, and $25,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1979. Title II: Bill Of Rights For The Mentally Retarded And Other Individuals With Developmental Disabilities - States that the purpose of this title is to establish standards which assure humane care, treatment, habilitation, and protection of the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities in residential facilities and minimize inappropriate admissions to such residential facilities. Sets forth standards for residential facilities for the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities. States that the ultimate aim of the facility shall be to foster those behaviors that maximize the human qualities of the resident, increase the complexity of his behavior, and enhance his ability to cope with his environment. Prescribes the provisions governing (1) staff-resident relationships and activities, (2) food services, (3) residents' clothing, (4) health, hygiene, and grooming, (5) grouping and organization of living units, (6) resident-living staff, and (7) design and equipage of living units. Directs that residents be provided with professional and special programs and services in accordance with their needs for such programs and services. States that all professional services to the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities should be rendered in the community, whenever possible, rather than in a residential facility, and where rendered in a residential facility, such services must be at least comparable to those provided the nonretarded in the community. Sets forth specifications governing the provision of the following services to residents: (1) dental services, (2) educational services, (3) food and nutrition services, (4) library services, (5) medical services, (6) nursing services, (7) pharmacy services, (8) physical and occupational therapy services, (9) psycological services, (10) recreation services, (11) religious services, (12) social services, (13) speech pathology and audiology services, (14) vocational rehabilitation services, and (15) volunteer services. States that a record shall be maintained for each resident that is adequate for: (1) plannning and continuous evaluating of the resident's habilitation program, (2) providing a means of communication among all persons contributing to the resident's habilitation program; (3) furnishing documentary evidence of the resident's progress and of his response to the habilitation program; (4) serving as a basis for review, study, and evaluation of the overall programs provided by the facility for its residents; (5) protecting the legal rights of the residents, facility, and staff; and (6) providing data for use in research and education. Stipulates that all information contained in a resident's record, including information contained in an automated data bank, shall be considered privileged and confidential. Provides that opportunities and resources should be made available to members of the staff who are equipped by interest and training to conduct applied and/or basic research. States that resources and/or necessary research assistance should be made available to all staff members who have identified researchable problems related to the programs for which they are responsible. Sets forth requirements pertaining to safety and sanitation in the resident facilities. Details provisions regarding the (1) provision of administrative support services, (2) fiscal affairs, (3) purchase, supply, and property control, (4) communications, (5) engineering and maintenance, (6) housekeeping services, and (7) laundry services.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Revises the Small Business Act by providing that the Small Business Administration may guarantee equity investments made by investment companies in small business concerns which will contribute to a well-balanced national economy by facilitating ownership in such concerns by persons whose participation in the free enterprise system is hampered because of social or economic considerations. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1974
States that, notwithstanding the compilation or publication of any other index, the Secretary of Labor through the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall continue to compile and publish a Consumer Price Index measuring the changes in consumer prices of goods and services which is based upon prices paid by urban wage earners and clerical workers.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Energy Resources Expansion Act - Requires a 25 percent royalty on leases of government oil and gas lands. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to issue regulations requiring bids on such leases to contain work programs for the geophysical exploration and exploratory drilling and development and production of oil and gas from such lands. Allows the reimbursement to oil and gas land lessees of 50 percent of the amount expended by the lessee in carrying out such program. Authorizes the Secretary to promote the maximum recovery of crude oil and gas from government lands, consistent with sound conservation, economic, and engineering principles. Requires all proceeds from sales of royalty oil and gas lands to be deposited in the Energy Resources and Technology Trust Fund. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress, within 180 days after enactment of this Act, a five-year plan for conducting and assisting research and development of alternative energy sources and energy supply technology. Apportions funds in the trust fund to the various programs under this Act, and provides for the termination of such fund in 10 years. Requires the Secretary to report every six months to the Congress on the compliance of lessees with their work plans and drilling schedules. Provides that 5 percent of rentals and royalties from leases on the Outer Continental Shelf shall be paid to the States adjacent to such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Cost of Living Act - Specifies the techniques and methods to be used by the President to monitor public and private economic activity in order to constrain domestic inflation. States that the President may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, require the keeping of records, the making of reports and inspections, and the taking of sworn testimony as may be necessary or appropriate to obtain information crucial to achieving the purposes of this Act. Specifies information which the President shall not be entitled to request. Provides that the President may establish a board or commission of specified composition, along with advisory committees, to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that experts and consultants may be employed for the performance of functions under this Act. Requires the President, in carrying out his authority under this Act, to study and evaluate the relationship between excess profits, the stabilization of the economy, and the creation of new jobs. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to carry out the provisions of this Act. States that this Act shall become effective on May 1, 1974, and expire on April 30, 1975. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Interstate Railroad Act - Title I: Findings, Purposes, and Definitions - Defines the terms in this Act. Sets forth the findings of Congress in regard to the present railroad system in the United States. Title II: Interstate Railroad System - Requires all rail carriers to provide the Secretary of Transportation with copies of all current restrictions on train operations, including employees' operating timetables and all "sloworders". Designates all rail lines operated by domestic railroad companies subject to traffic usage of at least twenty million gross ton-miles per year as part of the initial Interstate Railroad System. Sets forth procedures for final designation of the Interstate Railroad System. Authorizes appropriations for use of the Secretary of Transportation and the Rail Services Planning Office. Title III: Rehabilitation, Maintenance, and Modernization of Rail Lines - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to prescribe standards for maintenance of all rail lines. Provides that rail lines included within the System shall be maintained for smooth and dependable operation of freight trains at speeds up to sixty miles an hour. Provides that all rail lines shall be in compliance with the standards prescribed in accordance with this title on or before the expiration of 3 years following enactment of this Act. Provides that no rail line shall contract out any project for rehabilitation or maintenance work required by this Act of a value of over $450 per month in labor and materials which is normally performed by employees in any bargaining unit covered by a labor agreement between the rail line and any labor organization. Authorizes the Secretary to make rehabilitation assistance grants for the purpose of enabling railroad companies to comply with the provisions of this title. Sets forth criteria for such grants and the application procedures for obtaining them. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975-77 to carry out the "grants" provisions of this title. Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee any lender against loss of principal and interest on securities, obligations, or loans issued to finance rehabilitation work required by this Act. Sets forth application procedures for such guarantees. Authorizes the appropriation of such amounts as are necessary to discharge obligations to honor loan guarantees made under this Act. Provides that any railroad company may apply to the Secretary for a grant to reconstruct railroad lines which have been damaged or destroyed by unforeseeable disaster outside the control of the applicant. Authorizes the appropriation of not in excess of $10,000,000 per year for such purpose. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 in each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975-77 for the Secretary to undertake a continuing program of research and development into improving the stability, ride quality, longevity, and maintenance economies of railroad track and roadbed. Directs the Secretary and the Corps of Engineers to jointly undertake and carry out a study of the long-term capital needs for modernization and upgrading of the Interstate Railroad System. Sets forth the prescribed content of such study and the reporting requirements for the study. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out such study. Title IV: Access to Rail Lines and Facilities - Authorizes the Interstate Commerce Commission to order access for use of any rail line or other facility by a rail carrier. Sets forth procedures for the modification of existing arrangements with respect to access to rail lines. Requires the rail carrier whose employees will be affected by rail lines access arrangements to protect individual employees against a worsening of their positions with respect to their employment. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to consider and determine the extent to which a rail carrier has availed itself of the provisions of this title to effect economics and efficiencies in its operations, when passing upon any application by such carrier for increased freight rates, increased division of revenues, or other financial relief. Title V: Records, Reports, Administration, and Enforcement - Provides for public inspection of records relating to this Act and sets forth reporting requirements for the Secretary of Transportation with respect to activities under this Act. Establishes an advisory committee composed of one representative from each of the following organizations: (1) National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; (2) National Governors Conference; (3) Association of American Railroads; (4) National Railroad Passenger Corporation; (5) Congress of Railway Unions; (6) Railway Labor Executives Association; (7) National Industrial Traffic League; and (8) National Association of Railroad Passengers. Requests the committee to monitor the activities of the Secretary of Transportation pursuant to this Act and submit an annual report evaluating the effectiveness of this Act to the Secretary, the Congress, and the public. Authorizes the Secretary to perform such acts as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Sets forth penalties for the violation of any provision of this Act by any railroad company. Authorizes the appropriation to the Secretary of Transportation such sums as are necessary for the administration and enforcement of this Act, not to exceed $10,000,000 in any one fiscal year. Title VI: Miscellaneous Provisions - Relieves all persons contracting for the joint use of railroad tracks and facilities from all prohibitions of existing law, including the antitrust laws of the United States, with respect to such contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
Provides for cost-of-living increases in the benefits provided under the program of supplemental security income for the aged, blind, and disabled under title XVI of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1974
Authorizes any officer or employee of the United States to accept the voluntary services of secondary and college and university students for the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,00 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30l 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to ddisseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1085, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment. National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screeening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ednding June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
Declares that the United States Senate expresses its congratulations to Hank Aaron on hitting home run number 714 on the date of April 4, 1974, in the game between Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds, at Cincinnati, Ohio.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnihsing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Declares that the Congress hereby calls upon the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of General Services to cause to be conducted on or about August 10, 1974, appropriate ceremonies in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, in the town of West Branch, Iowa.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Expresses it to be the sense of the Congress that negotiations for a new Panama Canal Treaty are necessary in the interests of both the Republic of Panama and the United States. States that, with reference to the promulgation of such a treaty, the Congress of the United States endorses specified principles agreed to by the United States of America and the Republic of Panama on February 7, 1974 at Panama City.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Provides, under the Act which created the United States Olympic Committee, that the corporation created therein shall have the power to adopt and alter a constitution and bylaws not inconsistent with the laws of the United States, except that the corporation may alter the constitution only if: (1) the corporation publishes in a newspaper or magazine of national circulation or in any publication published by the corporation, and in the Federal Register, a general notice of the proposed alteration of the constitution including the terms of substance of such alteration, the time and place of the corporation's regular meeting at which such alteration is to be decided, and a provision informing interested persons that they may submit materials as authorized by such Act; and (2) for a period of at least thirty days after the date of publication of such notice in the Federal Register, the corporation gives to all interested persons an opportunity to submit written data, views, or arguments concerning the proposed alteration. Provides that no individual who is eligible under applicable international or applicable reasonable national amateur athletic rules and regulations may be directly or indirectly denied his right to attempt to qualify for selection, or his right (if he so qualifies) to participate, as an athlete, coach, trainer, administrator, manager, or other official representing the United States in any international amateur athletic competition, if such competition involves any sport included on the Olympic games or Pan-American games program during the Olympic time period concurrent with such attempt to qualify for such participation. Provides that any national amateur sports organization may seek recognition as a governing body under such Act if it establishes, among other requirements, that: (1) it provides, at the time of arbitration under such Act, and in comparison with the governing body, if any, more effective national competition (for individuals at all levels of athletic ability) in the sport for which it claims recognition as the governing body, so that such competition will result in a higher quality of United States athletes in all international amateur athletic competition for such sport; (2) it provides (without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or sex) equal opportunity, for competition in the sport for which it claims recognition as the governing body, to all individuals who are eligible under applicable international or applicable reasonable national amateur athletic rules and regulations; and it applies international rules and regulations concerning athletic competition without discrimination to all such individuals; and (3) it has a reasonable number of amateur athletes who represented the United States in any international amateur athletic competition in the sport for which the organization claims recognition under this subsection, and which is included on the Olympic games or Pan-American games during the Olympiad time period concurrent with or immediately preceding such claim.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Establishes a Joint Committee on Energy, to be composed to twenty members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Directs the President to submit to the Congress an annual report on energy. States that such report should specify the status of energy resources both domestic and imported and include information about energy consumption, utilization, allocation, control, research and development efforts, long-term needs and demands, and tariff and tax measures. Directs the joint committee, on a continuing basis, to investigate and study the development, use, and control of all forms of energy other than energy which is released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation. Provides that such investigations and studies shall relate, but shall not be confined, to information or recommendations contained in the President's Annual Report on Energy. States that investigations and studies conducted by the joint committee shall include: (1) studies on coordination of energy policy; (2) examination of current proposals for legislation relating to the development, use, and control of energy; and (3) review of the policies and actions of the agencies of the executive branch with respect to the development, use, and control of energy. Sets forth powers of the joint committee. Authorizes the committee to secure from any executive department, agency, board, bureau, independent establishment, or instrumentality of the Federal Government any information, suggestions, rulings, data, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of making investigations, reports, and studies relating to energy. Provides that the expenses of the joint committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate from funds appropriated for the joint committee.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Provides for displaying for public viewing at the Arlington National Cemetery the names of veterans who died after February 17, 1967. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Authorizes the use of rail passenger equipment by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, either by voluntary agreement between the Corporation and the railroads or by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission if an urgent need is established. (Amends 45 U.S.C. 562)
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Revises the Rules of the Senate to require each standing committee to establish a Subcommittee on Legislative Review to assist the Senate in: (1) its analysis, appraisal and evaluation of the application, administration, and execution of those laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of the committee of each such subcommittee, and in particular, in its analysis, appraisal and evaluation of any order, regulation, rule, certificate code of fair competition, license, notice, or similar instrument, issued, prescribed, or promulgated in the administration and execution of such laws or parts of laws, and (2) its formulation, considereation and enactment of such modifications of or changes in those laws, and of such additional legislation, as may be necessary or appropriate. Provides that in the case of a committee having one or more subcommittees to which the committee has given responsibility for considering and making recommendations with respect to subject matters within the subject jurisdiction of the committee, the Subcommittee on Legislative Review of that committee shall assist that subcommittee in reviewing and studying the application, administration and execution of those laws, or parts of laws, which are within such responsibility. Provides that in any case in which the Subcommittee on Legislative Review has not submitted a report to be prepared by it pursuant to this resolution within the period of time provided in this resolution, the Comptroller General shall, within one year after the last day on which the subcommittee report was to have been submitted, make such study and report the subcommittee was to have made, and submit a report thereon to the committee. Excludes the provisions of this rule from applying to the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
National Transportation Safety Board Independence and Improvement Act - Removes the National Transportation Safety Board from the auspices of the Department of Transportation and establishes it as an independent agency within the executive branch of the Government. Enumerates powers granted to the Board in order to carry out its function. Specifies that the board is authorized to employ experts and consultants as provided by law, appoint advisory committees, make contracts, and take such other actions as may be required. States that the Board may hold hearings and that the process of the Board is recognizable and punishable by any court of law with proper jurisdiction. Lists the powers of duly designated employees, officers, and agents relating to the conduct of surface transportation accidents. Authorizes the Board to carry out a statewide motor vehicle accidents demonstration project in a State representative of the conditions and highways existing in the Nation. Declares that the purpose of such project is to determine if a greater focus on motor vehicle accidents by the Board would significantly reduce the number of motor vehicle accidents and fatalities. Authorizes the appropriation of $4,000,000 for this project for fiscal year 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 27 March 1974
Establishes a Joint Committee on Energy, to be composed to twenty members of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Directs the President to submit to the Congress an annual report on energy. States that such report should specify the status of energy resources both domestic and imported and include information about energy consumption, utilization, allocation, control, research and development efforts, long-term needs and demands, and tariff and tax measures. Directs the joint committee, on a continuing basis, to investigate and study the development, use, and control of all forms of energy other than energy which is released in the course of nuclear fission or nuclear transformation. Provides that such investigations and studies shall relate, but shall not be confined, to information or recommendations contained in the President's Annual Report on Energy. States that investigations and studies conducted by the joint committee shall include: (1) studies on coordination of energy policy; (2) examination of current proposals for legislation relating to the development, use, and control of energy; and (3) review of the policies and actions of the agencies of the executive branch with respect to the development, use, and control of energy. Sets forth powers of the joint committee. Authorizes the committee to secure from any executive department, agency, board, bureau, independent establishment, or instrumentality of the Federal Government any information, suggestions, rulings, data, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of making investigations, reports, and studies relating to energy. Provides that the expenses of the joint committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate from funds appropriated for the joint committee.
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