United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Solar Energy Research Act - Declares that it is the policy of the Federal Government to pursue a vigorous and viable program of research and development into the utilization of solar energy as a major source for our national energy needs. Provides that, within sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation creating any permanent Federal organization or agency having jurisdiction over the energy research and development functions of the United States Government, the Office of Solar Energy Research shall be established within that agency. Provides that if, within sixty days from the date of enactment of this Act, no agency with jurisdiction over Federal energy research and development has been established, the Office of Solar Energy Research authorized under this Act shall be established, on an interim basis, within the Atomic Energy Commission, until sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation authorizing the new Federal office of energy research and development. Authorizes the Chairman or Administrator to conduct appropriate research and technical development work: (1) to determine, by laboratory and pilot testing, the usable results of scientific research, (2) to develop and fabricate solar energy transformation processes, equipment designs, and components to the point where they can be demonstrated, certified, produced, and operated on a commercially practical scale; (3) to recommend to the Congress, as deemed appropriate, authorizations for the construction and operation or for participation in the construction and operation, of solar energy conversion facilities, and (4) to undertake, through research grants and contracts, studies of possible economic, social, and environmental effects which will result from the use of solar energy. Establishes a Solar Energy Research Council to be chaired by the Chairman or Administrator to coordinate policy and programs in solar energy research. Specifies the composition of the Council. Directs the development of a program to expedite the increased utilization of solar energy technology by the public and private sectors. Establishes a solar energy incentives task force to carry out the following functions: (1) report to the President and the Congress within one hundred and twenty days following enactment, and at least annually thereafter, recommendations for a viable program, of specified, time limited, incentives or modifications to existing and/or proposed incentives programs to accelerate the commercial application of solar energy technology; and (2) carry out a program of research and investigation into the barriers to innovation in the field of solar energy, the barriers to the acceleration of the commercial application of solar energy technology, and the programs needed to remove such barriers. Authorizes the compilation on a semi-annual basis of a listing of all solar energy conversion components, facilities, and equipment, commercially available in the Nation for private or public use. States that utilization of solar energy shall include such applications of solar energy as, but not limited to, the solar heating and cooling of buildings, solar crop drying and other agricultural applications of solar energy, solar thermal and photovoltaic power generation for terrestrial applications, whether situated on the ground or in space, wind energy conversion, ocean thermal gradient conversion, solar stimulated bioconversion, and solar production of synthetic gases and hydrogen. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act the following amounts: (1) for fiscal year 1975, $56,000,000; (2) for fiscal year 1976, $94,000,000; (3) for fiscal year 1977, $150,000,000; (4) for fiscal year 1978, $150,000,000; and (5) for fiscal year 1979, $150,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Homeowners' Loan Act - Establishes the Homeowners' Loan Corporation. Requires the Board of Directors of the Corporation to determine the minimum amount of capital stock of the Corporation and to increase such capital stock from time to time in such amounts as may be necessary. Authorizes the Corporation to issue bonds in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000,000 which may be sold by the Corporation to obtain funds for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Corporation for a period of three years after the date of enactment of this Act, but only during any calendar quarter in which the Federal Home Loan Bank Board determines that the foreclosure rate exceeds one-half of 1 percent, to acquire home mortgages and other obligations and liens secured by real estate. States that each home mortgage or other obligation or lien so acquired shall be carried as a first lien or refinanced as a home mortgage by the Corporation on the basis of the price paid therefore by the Corporation, and shall be amortized by means of monthly payments sufficient to retire the interest and principal within a period of not to exceed thirty years. Directs the Board to issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary, including rules and regulations providng for the appraisal of the property on which loans are made under this section so as to accomplish the purposes of this Act. States that whoever makes any statement, knowing it to be false, or whoever willfully overvalues any security, for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the Homeowners' Loan Corporation of the Board upon any application, advance, discount, purchase, or repurchase agreement, or loan under this Act, or any extension thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1974
Makes it the sense of Congress that: (1) the President of the United States should seek direct negotiations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, designed to achieve agreements on limiting deployment of their respective naval and other military forces in the Indian Ocean and littoral states; (2) these negotiations should be convened, as rapidly as possible, either in a bilateral forum, or within the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean, augmented to include the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; (3) these negotiations should consider, among other topics, agreed limitations by the two Powers on establishment or use of naval and other military facilities in the Indian Ocean and littoral states, numbers of war-ships (or ship-days) deployed in the Indian Ocean basin, and the size and characteristics of warships and other military forces deployed there; (4) during these negotiations, the President should reaffirm the principal of Freedom of the Seas, in regard to the Indian Ocean, and bear in mind the deliberations of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean regarding relevant issues; and (5) the President should report to the Congress at regular intervals, not less frequently than every six months, on progress made pursuant to this concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Provides under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) that an individual may qualify for disability insurance benefits if he has 40 quarters of coverage, regardless of when such quarters were earned.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Provides, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) that an insured individual otherwise qualified may retire and receive full old-age insurance benefits at any time after attaining age 60, if he has been required by his employer (after having been employed by such employer for 5 or more years) to retire at such age in compliance with (1) an Executive order of the President; (2) a regulation or order issued by a Federal department or agency and published in the Federal Register; or (3) a Federal law. Prescribes special rules for determining eligibility for benefits in the case of dependents and survivors.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Permits, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance), the payment of benefits to a married couple on their combined earnings record.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974
Comprehensive Medicare Reform Act - Title I: Revision of Medicare Entitlement and Benefits - Repeals Parts A (Hospital Insurance Benefits for the Aged) and Part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance Benefits for the Aged) of Title XVIII (Health Insurance for the Aged) of the Social Security Act and enacts in lieu of those parts the provisions of this title. Lowers the age for participation in the Insurance Plan (Medicare) provided under title XVIII for specified classes of individuals. Makes the following classes of persons entitled to benefits under such title: (1) specified individuals receiving disability payments, and (2) specified individuals with chronic renal disease. Specifies covered institutional services including, but not limited to: (1) inpatient and outpatient hospital services; (2) skilled-nursing home services; (3) intermediate-care facility services; and (4) home health services. Lists the following covered services: (1) physicians' services (including psychiatric services if provided by a health maintenance organization); (2) dental services; (3) drugs; (4) devices, appliances, and equipment (if the item is prescribed or certified as medically necessary by an appropriate professional practitioner and if it appears on a current list of items established by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare); and (5) other professional and supporting services, including, but not limited to (a) the professional services of optometrists, (b) the professional services of podiatrists, and (c) the diagnostic services of independent pathology laboratories, and diagnostic and therapeutic radiology furnished by independent radiology services. Excludes services and items from coverage under this title, including but not limited to: (1) services furnished outside the United States, with an exception for specified hospital services and related professional services; (2) the furnishing of personal comfort items; (3) purely custodial care; (4) cosmetic services; and (5) services for which the individual has no legal obligation to pay. Provides for the reduction in the amount otherwise payable under this title from the Medicare Trust Fund with respect to a covered service based upon the applicable amount of coinsurance held by individuals entitled for benefits under this title. Provides for exceptions to the above reductions in the cases of low-income persons, members of low-income families, and specified cases of payment of catastrophic expense benefits. Sets forth a schedule for the degree of payment reduction by type of service to be effectuated by the individual's coinsurance amount. Sets forth an initial table for the determination of income classes for individuals and members of families under this title. Provides for the periodic revision of income classes established under this title. Provides for the periodic revision of the catastrophic expense benefit expenditure limitations under this title. Provides that payment of covered services provided to an individual by an institutional provider shall be made only to that provider. States that the amount payable to that provider with respect to such services shall be the reasonable cost of the services to the provider governed by the provisions of this title less the amount of any payment of coinsurance. Provides that payment for covered services that were furnished to an individual by a noninstitutional provider shall be made only to: (1) the participating provider who furnished the services, or (2) in the case of emergency services furnished by a nonparticipating provider, either (a) to the individual on the basis of an itemized bill, or (b) to the provider on the basis of an assignment from the individual. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts with carriers under which the carrier, on behalf of the Secretary (and subject to review by the Secretary), will perform administrative functions, including the administration of benefits under this Act. Provides that no contract shall be entered into with a carrier unless the Secretary finds that the carrier will perform its obligations under the contract efficiently and effectively and will meet such requirements as to financial responsibility, legal authority, and other matters as he finds pertinent. Creates the Medicare Trust Fund which shall consist of the assets and liabilities of the Federal Hospital Insurance Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Trust Fund a Government contribution in an amount, as estimated by the Board of Trustees, which when added to other income and assets of the Trust Fund will make the Trust Fund sufficient for the prompt payment of all amounts required or authorized by law to be paid therefrom. Authorizes the Board to borrow funds from the Treasury, pending the approval by Congress of the Government contribution, if the Board determines that the amount of the Trust Fund is insufficient to make all required payments in the next three calendar months. Creates an Institutional Provider Reimbursement Review Board to hear disputes presented by any institutional provider of services which has filed a required cost report (for purposes of reimbursement) within the time specified in regulations if: (1) the provider is dissatisfied with a final determination of the organization serving as its fiscal intermediary as to the amount of total program reimbursement due the provider for the items and services furnished to individuals for which payment may be made under this title for the period covered by the report; (2) the amount in controversy is $10,000 or more; and (3) the provider files a request for a hearing within 180 days after notice of the intermediary's final determination. Title II: Health Insurance Taxes - Defines the term "employment" for purposes of the health insurance tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. Provides for the exclusion of employer payment of employee taxes from employees' gross income as determined under such provisions of such Code. Title III: Studies Related to Long-Term Care - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of Labor to conduct a joint study on the subject of health related and other long-term institutional care. Authorizes additional studies by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development concerning the provision of social services to enable elderly persons to live in their own homes. Requires the Secretaries to submit reports to the President and the Congress not later than two years after the date of enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Social Security Administration Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to strengthen the fiscal and administrative structure of the contributory social security programs. Title I: Social Security Administration - Establishes, as an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration, headed by a Board appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Declares that it shall be the duty of the Administration to administer the programs established by titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and to discharge the duties and responsibilities imposed on the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in connection with the administration of the program established by title IV of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. States that the Administration shall also have the duty of studying and making recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance, and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy. Provides for the appointment of an Executive Director and a General Counsel of the Administration. Makes the Administration responsible for administering the old age, survivors, and disability insurance program, medicare, supplemental security income, and the black lung benefit program under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Prohibits the mailing of announcements with Social Security and SSI checks which make reference by name, title, or signature to any officer of the United States. Transfers to the Social Security Administration: (1) all functions carried out by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to the administration of programs and activities the administration of which is vested in such Administration, by reason of this Act; and (2) all personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, and records, which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines to be employed, held, or used by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare primarily in connection with the functions, activities, and programs which, by reason of this Act are vested in or become the responsibility of the Administration. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security. Title II: Miscellaneous and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Social Security Act, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, the Budget and Accounting Act, and the Executive Schedules of the United States Code.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1974
Child Nutrition Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate and administer in cooperation with State educational agencies a universal food service program for children in high school grades and under and in service institutions conducting programs for the benefit of all children. Authorizes to be appropriated, for each fiscal year, such sums as are necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Provides that meals and supplemental food services provided by schools and service institutions shall meet nutritional standards prescribed by the Secretary. Requires food service programs operated under this Act to be operated on a nonprofit basis and each participating school and service institution shall offer at least one meal per day without charge to all children in attendance. States that State agencies shall determine the eligibility of applicant schools and service institutions and shall establish controls to insure effective use of funds. Provides that each school or service institution shall utilize in its program food donated by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize annually not to exceed $200,000,000 of certain available funds for the purchase and distribution of especially nutritious agricultural commodities to assist the food service program in meeting the nutritional requirements under this Act. Provides that the apportionment of funds to each State shall be based on two factors: (1) the number of children in average daily attendance during the preceding year in schools and service institutions eligible under this Act and (2) the rate of Federal assistance per child per year. Requires State and local matching funds shall constitute at least 15 percent of total operating costs of the program. Authorizes to be appropriated for the first fiscal year and for any subsequent fiscal year not to exceed $100,000,000 to assist the States to supply schools and service institutions with equipment for the storage, preparation, transportation, and serving of food. Provides that the Secretary shall apportion 50 percent of the funds among the States on the basis of the ratio between the number of children enrolled in schools without a food service in each State and the number of children enrolled in schools without a food service in all States. Provides that the remainder of the funds shall be apportioned among the States on the basis of the ratio between the number of children enrolled in schools in each State and the number of children enrolled in schools in all States. Authorizes the Secretary to formulate a program for nutritional training of food service persons and conduct of nutrition education activities. Authorizes appropriations for such programs. Requires the State educational agencies to submit plans of operation to the Secretary at least three months prior to the first fiscal year of operations under this Act. Provides grants for State administrative expenses and the costs of local supervision. Provides that Federal assistance for food service to nonprofit private schools shall be provided by the State educational agency and authorizes the Secretary to make direct payments to such schools if the State agency is precluded by State law from making such payments. Directs the Secretary to begin a pilot operation in at least ten school systems in the first full fiscal year following the passage of this Act to test and develop the most effective techniques and procedures for use under this Act. Requires the States and the participating schools and institutions to keep such accounts and records as the Secretary may require. Requires the Secretary to provide for an evaluation of the programs conducted under this Act. Establishes a National Advisory Council on Child Nutrition which shall make a continuing study of the operations carried out under this Act with a view to determining how such programs can be improved. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Transfers the functions of the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Social and Rehabilitation Services Administration to the Office of Human Development.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1974
Child and Maternal Health Care Extension Act - Authorizes to be appropriated, under title V (Grants to States for Maternal and Child Welfare) of the Social Security Act, for the purpose of enabling the States to diagnose, screen, and provide immediate limited treatment of child health and maternal health conditions, for each fiscal year a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides that such funds shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, State plans for establishment and operation of mobile health care facilities. Enumerates criteria which a State plan must meet prior to approval, including: (1) to provide that a mobile health care team shall be in existence and operate in each of the eligible counties within the State; (2) to provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration of the plan; and (3) to provide that the State agency will have authority to carry out the plan in conformity with this Act. Requires the periodic review of the eligibility of all counties in each State. Provides that if the State agency supervising the administration of the State plan finds that: (1) the plan has been so changed that it no longer complies with the provisions of this Act; (2) in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply substantially with this Act; or (3) an eligible county within the State is not included within the State plan; further payments will not be made to the State until the Secretary is satisfied that there will no longer be any such failure to comply. Defines the terms used in this Act. Provides, under the Social Security Act, for: (1) the training of pediatric nurse practitioners; (2) the payment for services rendered by such pediatric nurse practitioner; (3) expanded services for crippled children; and (4) maternal and child health services for low-income families.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1974
Provides for the establishment, under the Rail Passenger Service Act, of a demonstration project providing regular scheduled rail transportation between the major metropolitan areas and the major recreation areas of the Nation for highway recreational vehicles with passengers being transported in such vehicles. Defines "highway recreational vehicle" as a self-propelled or trailer type vehicle for use on the highways to provide recreational transportation and lodging, and includes the vehicle used to tow such a trailer. Authorizes to be appropriated funds to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974
Provides loans under the Small Business Act to any small business concern seriously and adversely affected by a shortage of: (1) fuel; (2) electrical energy; (3) energy-producing resources; or (4) raw or processed materials resulting from such shortages. Requires that the Small Business Administration determine that a concern has suffered or is likely to suffer substantial economic injury prior to the making of such loans. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 636(6))
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974
Revises the Internal Revenue Code by not allowing a deduction from income tax for the depletion of any mine, oil or gas well, other natural deposit, or timber if: (1) in the case of a mine, an oil or gas well, or any other natural deposit, the mineral rights to the property to which the deduction relates belong to the United States; or (2) in the case of timber, it is located on land belonging to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974
States that royalties shall not be included in the definition of income war profits, and excess profits taxes as creditable taxes in the case of taxes paid or accrued to any foreign country with respect to income derived from the extraction, production, or refining of oil or gas in such country. States in regard to transitional rules for carrybacks and carryovers, relating to income from without the United States, that whenever pre 1974 taxes are deemed to be post-1973 taxes, the pre-1974 taxes shall be redetermined as if those provisions applied to the taxable year in which the pre-1974 taxes were paid or accrued.
United States · United States Congress · 28 February 1974
Makes the Special Committee on Aging, a permanent, special committee of the Senate consisting of twenty-two members appointed by the President of the Senate, thirteen of whom shall be appointed from the majority party and nine of whom shall be appointed from the minority party. Requires the committee to make a continuing study and investigation of any and all matters pertaining to problems and opportunities of older people, including but not limited to, problems and opportunities of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary, or obtaining care or assistance. Provides that no proposed legislation shall be referred to the committee, and the committee shall not have power to report by bill, or otherwise have legislative jurisdiction. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Survivors Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Act - Increases the rates of dependency and indemnity compensation to widows of veterans by sixteen percent. Authorizes dependency and indemnity compensation for a survivor of any veteran released from the service with a disability permanent and total in nature. Provides that survivors of an eligible veteran whose subsequent release from active duty developed a service-connected disability, permanent and total in nature, are eligible for dependency and indemnity compensation if the veteran had that rating for at least 20 years prior to his death.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Increases, by 20 percent, the maximum limitations on loans made or guaranteed for the purchase of homes under the Veterans' Administration housing programs.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Provides, under the Higher Education Act, that Social Security payments shall not be counted as effective income for students if the effective family income of the student is less than $9,000. States that if the effective family income of the student is: (1) between $9,000 and $15,000, one-half of the amount received by the student from Social Security would be considered as effective income; and (2) over $15,000, all Social Security payments will be considered as effective income.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Veterans Disability Compensation Act - Increases the rates of disability compensation for veterans who have been disabled in or due to their service. Increases by 15 percent: (1) the basic disability compensation, and (2) the dependency allowances payable to veterans with disabilities rated 50 percent or more.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1974
Provides, relating to travel expenses of persons going to and from a Veterans' Administration facility, that in no event shall the per diem rate for meals and lodging be less than $20 or the mileage rate be less than the current Department of Transportation estimate of the average costs of operating an automobile. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 111(a))
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1974
Disallows the depletion allowance, under the Internal Revenue Code, for oil, gas and other mineral production on lands owned by or leased from the United States Government. (Adds 26 U.S.C. 613(f))
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Balanced National Growth and Development Act - Title I: Statement of Policy; Findings; and Purpose - Declares that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government, in concert with State and local governments, to undertake the development of a balanced national growth and development policy. Expresses the findings of Congress and the purposes of this Act by setting out sixteen national goals. Title II: Office of Balanced National Growth and Development - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Balanced National Growth and Development, having in the Office a Council on Balanced National Growth and Development. Prescribes the membership composition of such Council. Directs the Office to fulfill enumerated objectives, including to provide for: (1) the policy direction and coordination of all Federal and federally assisted programs for planning and land use development, human resources improvement and resource and energy allocation; (2) the preparation of an annual report, to be known as the Annual Report on Balanced National Growth and Development, detailing the progress made in carrying out the provisions of this Act; (3) the assessment of national needs, goals, and priorities; and (4) the evaluation of Federal and State tax policies upon the private industrial mix. Outlines the content required in the Annual Report on Balanced National Growth and Development. Directs the Council of Economic Advisors, the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Citizens Council on the American Future, and the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to review all policies and report their recommendations to the Office. Transfers all functions of the Domestic Council related to national growth and development policy to the Office. Provides for the consolidation of Federal comprehensive planning activities and planning assistance programs. Title III: Transfer of Certain Functions from Office of Management and Budget with Respect to Review of Federal Projects and Liaison with State and Local Governments - Transfers specified functions of the Office of Management and Budget under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to the Office. Title IV: Multi-State Regional Planning and Development Commissions - States that for purposes of this title the Nation shall be divided into a system of not less than eight, nor more than twelve, planning and development regions. Sets forth the criteria to be taken into account by the President in establishing such regions. Provides that for each region, there shall be established a multi-State regional planning and development commission. Specifies the composition of such commissions and outlines their functions and administrative powers. Provides for the adjustment of boundaries of present regional commissions established under the Public Works and Economic Development Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for the expenses of this title $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $20,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter. Title V: Comprehensive Planning Assistance - Directs the President to transfer the administration of the planning assistance program provided for in the Housing Act of 1954 from the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to the Office. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1975 and each fiscal year thereafter for specified provisions of the Housing Act of 1954. Title VI: Uniform Planning and Requirements for Grant-in-Aid Programs - States that is is the purpose of this title to eliminate inconsistent and overlapping grant requirements by providing a method of identifying development policy and by establishing a basis for the use of common data and information. Requires Federal departments and agencies administering grant programs which require planning as a condition to making the grants to require: (1) that such planning be consistent with the policies of the Regional Planning and Development Commissions; and (2) that such planning utilize the same geographic areas, time periods, and base data as used by the Regional Commissions. Title VII: National Citizens' Council on the American Future - Establishes a National Citizens Council on The American Future to advise the Office and Congress in the formulation, evaluation, and implementation of national growth policies and in carrying out its other activities pursuant to this Act. Prescribes the rates of compensation of Council members and the Council's administrative powers. Directs the Office to encourage the formation of multistate and State citizens councils to advise Regional Planning and Development Commissions and governments and industry with respect to planning and development. Title VIII: Joint Congressional Committee on Balanced National Growth and Development and Congressional Office On Policy and Planning - Establishes a joint committee of the Congress to be known as the Joint Committee on Balanced National Growth and Development. Specifies the membership composition of such committee and their administrative powers. Creates a Congressional Office of Policy and Planning which shall conduct a continuing, non-partisan analysis of national goals, priorities, and urban, rural, and national growth policies and shall provide the Congress with the information, data, and analyses necessary for enlightened decisions with respect to such matters. Authorizes the Librarian of Congress to make available to the Congressional Office such services and assistance by the Congressional Research Service as may be appropriate and feasible. Provides for: (1) the utilization of the Foundation of the American Future; (2) coordination with the Office of Technology Assessment; (3) coordination with the National Science Foundation; and (4) utilization of the General Accounting Office. Title IX: Requirements with Respect to the Location Impact of Federal Facilities, Activities, and Federal Procurement - Sates that the Congress directs that to the fullest extent possible: (1) the policies, regulations, and public laws of the United States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in this Act, and (2) all departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall include specified population, cost and time information in every report on proposals significantly affecting the growth of the United States. Sets forth Federal procurement policies to be achieved under this Act. Title X: Foundation on the American Future - Establishes an independent agency of the Federal Government to be known as the Foundation on the American Future: (1) to conduct projects to determine the interactions, social benefits and costs, rates of national change, and present and likely future patterns of important scientific, social, and economic programs and activities; (2) to evaluate the effects of national development policy, or its lack, on these interactions, social benefits and costs, rates of national change, and patterns; and (3) to determine and formulate alternative future national growth patterns, and development of policy recommendations which can bring them into existence. Enumerates twelve administrative powers of the Foundation. Calls for coordination of the Foundation's activities with the National Science Foundation and other agencies and institutions. Title XI: Establishment of Agency for Population and Demographic Analysis within the Bureau of Census, Department of Commerce - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish within the Bureau of Census an Agency for Population and Demographic Analysis to be headed by a Deputy Director for National Population and Demographic Analysis. States that the Agency shall include Divisions of Demographic Analysis, Economic and Social Analysis, and Political and Fiscal Analysis. Sets forth the functions of the Agency. Title XII: Authorization for Appropriations Authorization - States that in addition to specific authorizations in this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated such other amounts as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Emergency Energy Conservation Economic Opportunities Amendments - Provides, under the Economic Opportunity Act, for the establishment of an Emergency Energy Conservation Services Program, designed to enable low-income individuals and families, including the elderly and the near poor, to participate in energy conservation programs designed to lessen the impact of the energy crisis on such individuals and families. States that such program shall provide financial and other assistance for enumerated activities, including winterization of old or substandard dwellings; emergency loans, grants, and revolving funds to deal with increased housing expenses relating to the energy crisis; special fuel voucher or stamp programs; and outreach efforts, including the establishment of energy crisis centers. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act for fiscal year 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture should each conduct an immediate and thorough investigation to determine whether: (1) foreign currencies generated from the sale of agricultural commodities under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954; and (2) agricultural commodities intended for use under such Act have been or are being utilized in violation of that or any other Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture should report the results of their respective investigations to the Congress within 90 days after this resolution is agreed to by both Houses of Congress together with such recommendations for legislation as they may individually or jointly deem appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Increases to $19,000,000 the maximum allowable appropriations for the acquisition and development of land and interests in land within the 27-mile segment of the Lower Saint Croix River, in Wisconsin and Minnesota, to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Weather Modification Regulation Act - Title I: Weather Modification Licenses and Permits, Reporting Requirements, and Penalties - Requires any State which establishes a system to regulate any weather modification activity to license any person engaged in such activity and enumerates qualifications for such licenses. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to assist any State in its regulation of weather modification activity and in the dissemination of information concerning such activity. Requires a Federal permit for any person engaged in any weather modification activity, and enumerates qualifications for such permit. States that no permit shall be issued unless the applicant has first obtained a license. Outlines conditions whereby a permit may be revoked or suspended by the Secretary after an opportunity of hearing. Requires any holder of a permit to make daily reports covering any weather modification which are to be transmitted to the Secretary by certified mail daily. Outlines what information shall be included in each report. Requires additional weather reports if the Secretary requests them. Allows the Secretary to require records to be maintained by each holder of a permit which can be inspected under prescribed conditions by the Secretary. Requires any agency, military department, local government or State conducting weather modification activities to prepare daily reports, and to submit such reports to the Secretary by certified mail daily. Prescribes penalties for the violation of requirements for a Federal permit of fines between $10,000 and $50,000, and fines of not more than $25,000 for failure to make weather reports to the Secretary. Gives the U.S. district courts power to enjoin any violation concerning Federal permits reporting requirements, or other regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Title II: Weather Modification Information System - Authorizes the Secretary to establish within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a weather modification information system to monitor daily weather conditions, and to record and evaluate weather modification. Permits the Secretary to use the system to assist in determining whether: (1) to issue, revoke or suspend permits; (2) to obtain data from the Weather Bureau on a timely basis; and (3) to use such system to maintain records of any weather modification and such activity conducted in any State. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a computerized data processing system to facilitate the operation of the weather modification information system. Title III: International Weather Modification Control - Allows the President to enter into agreements with other nations and international organizations to establish, monitor, and regulate weather modification activities. Requires any U.S. citizen who has primary supervisory responsibility for carrying out weather modification activities in any foreign nation to submit reports to the Secretary at lease 10 days prior to such activity. Outlines what information is to be included in these reports. Requires the Secretary to establish and maintain a register of persons engaged in weather modification activities in the U.S. and other nations whom he deems properly qualified. Allows the Secretary to distribute copies of such register upon request to any foreign nation. Requires approval by the Secretary of State, unless the President determines it unnecessary in a particular case, for any agency or military department before engaging in any weather modification activity in any foreign nation. Prescribes penalties of fines up to $25,000 for failure of a U.S. citizen to make reports or register while engaging in weather modification activities in any foreign country. Title IV: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to make such regulations as are necessary to carry out this Act. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out this Act. Repeals the former provisions of law regulating weather modification activities. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 330 et seq.)
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Energy Emergency Employment Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is the purpose of this Act to detect unemployment and underemployment as a result of the "energy crisis", to provide workers with assistance, to return workers to employment, and to provide areas with particularly heavy energy related joblessness special employment assistance. Title I: Energy Emergency Employment Board - Establishes within the Department of Labor an Energy Emergency Employment Board, consisting of five private members appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and two "ex officio" members: the Director of the Federal Energy Office and the Secretary of Labor, who will also serve as Chairman. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to: (1) oversee the implementation of the energy emergency employment programs authorized in this Act; (2) recommend programs that will return persons unemployed or underemployed, as a result of the energy emergency, to productive full-time employment as rapidly as possible; (3) develop an early energy unemployment warning system; and (4) undertake manpower planning projects to estimate long and short term energy emergency related employment trends. Requires the Board to make reports to the Congress and the President. Title II: Energy Emergency Employment Opportunity Program - Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into arrangements with public service employers in order to make financial assistance available for the purpose of providing employment opportunities, particularly for persons who are unemployed or underemployed as a result of the energy emergency, in jobs providing needed public services. Sets forth the procedure and requirements to be met by applications for financial assistance for the purpose of carrying out a public service employment program under this Act. Provides that the amounts appropriated pursuant to this Act for any fiscal year shall be allocated by the Secretary in such manner as prescribed by the Board. Provides that 80 percent of such amount shall be apportioned among the States in that proportion which the total number of persons underemployed or unemployed in each such State bears to such total number of such persons, respectively, in the United States, and the remainder shall be available to carry out a special Energy Emergency Area Employment Assistance Program. States that the Secretary shall not provide financial assistance for any program or activity under this Act unless he determines that specified criteria are met, including that the program: (1) will result in an increase in employment opportunities over those which would otherwise be available; (2) will not result in the displacement of currently employed workers; (3) will not impair existing contracts for services or result in the substitution of Federal for other funds in connection with work that would otherwise be performed; and (4) will not substitute public service jobs for existing federally assisted jobs. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to develop and carry out a program of incentives to private industry to hire, and train if necessary, persons unemployed or underemployed as a result of the energy emergency. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out this title. Title III: Energy Emergency Employment Assistance - Provides that any person unemployed or underemployed as a result of the energy emergency may file an application with the Secretary for economic adjustment assistance provided under this title. States that economic adjustment assistance under this title consists of: (1) readjustment allowances; (2) training and counseling benefits; (3) relocation allowances; and (4) health benefits. Prescribes the requirements to be met by an adversely affected worker before readjustment allowances will be paid. Provides that payment of readjustment allowances shall not be made for more than twenty-six weeks, unless upon application to the Secretary for extension, proof of a good faith effort to attain employment has been made, in which case one additional 26 week extension shall be allowed. Sets forth the qualifying requirements for relocation allowances and health benefits. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title IV: Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act, including "adversely affected worker" and "unemployed or underemployed person."
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1974
Emergency Energy Employment Assistance Act - Provides for an emergency energy employment assistance program under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. States that in addition to the amounts authorized to be appropriated for carrying out such Act, there are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974, and the succeeding fiscal year, such sums, not to exceed $4,000,000,000 in the aggregate for such period, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Emergency Employment Assistance Fund. Provides that under specified circumstances amounts from such fund shall be obligated to provide unemployment and underemployed persons with transitional employment in jobs providing needed public services, and, wherever feasible, related training and manpower services to enable such persons to move into employment or training not supported under this Act. Requires the filing of a special report, within 21 days after enactment, on the implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Modern Congress Act - Title I: Citizens' Committees to Study Congress - Establishes a committee to be known as the Citizen's Committee To Study Congress to make a complete study relating to the functions, powers, duties, and operation of the Congress. Specifies the membership composition and selection process for such Committee. Enumerates the areas to be studied by the Committee, including: (1) determination of how the Congress may best exercise its function of reviewing and evaluating programs and activities of the United States Government; and (2) examining the operation of the Congress itself (including but not limited to its powers, priorities, privileges, traditions, the means by which the Congress makes decisions, its committee system, and its staffs). Requires the Committee to submit, not later than two years after the date of enactment of this Act, a final, comprehensive report to the Senate and the House of Representatives with respect to its study. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Senate Committee Jurisdiction - Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that there is a demonstrated need for the United States Senate, as one House of the United States Congress, to assert its policy and that the Joint Committee on Congressional Operations should immediately begin an in-depth analysis of the committee jurisdictions of the United States Senate, taking into account the need to reduce fragmentation of policy and program oversight. Provides for the payment of expenses of the Joint Committee for such activities. Title III: Office of Congressional Counsel General - Establishes in the legislative branch of the Government the Office of Congressional Counsel General, which shall be under the direction and control of the Congressional Counsel General. Enumerates the duties of the Congressional Counsel General including to: (1) render to the Congress, and to the Comptroller General, legal opinions upon questions arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States; and (2) render to the Congress advice with respect to the purpose and effect of provisions contained in laws, or to be inserted in proposed legislative measures. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Office of the Congressional Counsel General such sums as may be required for the performance of the duties of the Congressional Counsel General under this title. Title IV: General Accounting Office - States that whenever the Comptroller General has reasonable cause to believe that any officer or employee of the executive branch is about to expend, obligate, or authorize the expenditure or obligation of public funds in an illegal or erroneous manner or amount, he may institute a civil action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for declaratory and injunctive relief. Provides that specified provisions of this title shall be construed as creating a procedural remedy in aid of the statutory authority of the Comptroller General and not as otherwise affecting such authority. Title V: Congressional Annual Reports - Provides that not later than 60 days after the end of each regular session of Congress, the Majority Leaders and Minority Leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall submit to Congress and the President a "State of the Congress" message with respect to such session. Requires that each such message shall include statements concerning; (1) those matters about which the Congress has taken the initiative, (2) priorities established by the Congress, and (3) matters not acted upon by Congress but upon which Congress should act or have acted. Title VI: Fiscal and Budgetory Reform - Establishes an Office of Budget Analysis and Program Evaluation, subject to the supervision and control of the Joint Economic Committee. States that the Office shall have four sections: (1) Informational Section, (2) Analytic Section, (3) Program Evaluation Section, and (4) Special Studies Section. Provides for the appointment of a Technical Director and other personnel of the Office. States that prior to the submission of the Budget of the United States Government for each fiscal year, the Joint Committee staff, including the Office, shall make a thorough study of the Nation's economic conditions, and the factors having a bearing thereon and shall make a report to the Joint Committee with: (1) an estimate of the revenues that will be received by the Federal Government during the forthcoming fiscal year; and (2) a recommendation of the amount, if any, by which Federal outlays should exceed revenues, or revenues should exceed outlays, in order to promote the general welfare and to provide maximum employment production, and purchasing power. Directs the Joint Committee to hold hearings to determine the appropriate Federal fiscal policy and make a report to all committees of the Senate and House of Representatives and all joint committees of the Congress. Specifies the content of such report. Provides that after receiving the report of the Joint Economic Committee, the Committees on Appropriations of each House of Congress shall report to its House a bill establishing the total amount of outlays to be made during the fiscal year by the United States Government. Prescribes the procedures for consideration of such bill. Makes it the duty of the Informational Section of the Office, to provide information to the Congress, on request, with respect to the budget, appropriation bills, revenue receipts and estimates, and changing revenue conditions. Enumerates the duties and functions of the Analytic Section, Program Evaluation Section, and Special Studies Section of the Office. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to enable this Office to carry out its duties and functions. Provides, under the Budget and Accounting Procedures Act, that the head of each executive agency shall give notice to the Governors of the States and to the chief executive officers of their political subdivisions that such agency is formulating its budget requests for such fiscal year. Provides for meetings with such State officials for comments with respect to budget requests. Requires that public hearings be held on budget requests. States that specified provisions of this title shall not apply with respect to budget requests or requests for legislation which the national security requires to be kept confidential. Requires that, upon the receipt of each individual's income tax return, the Secretary or his delegate shall furnish to the individual a statement setting forth in dollar amounts the proportionate amounts of that individual's income taxes which were spent by the Federal Government, based upon the most recent information furnished by the Director or the Office of Management and Budget, for each of the following: (1) national defense; (2) space research and technology; (3) agriculture and rural development; (4) natural resources; (5) transportation; (6) community development; (7) housing; (8) education; (9) manpower; (10) health; (11) social services; (12) welfare payments; (13) veterans' pensions; (14) veterans' benefits and services; (15) law enforcement; (16) general administrative expenses of government; (17) interest payments; (18) foreign aid consisting of military assistance; and (19) foreign aid consisting of economic and technical assistance. Title VII: Senate Legislative Review Subcommittees - Adds, to the Standing Rules of the Senate, a rule providing that each standing committee shall establish a subcommittee on legislative review to study the application, administration, and execution of those laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of which is within the jurisdiction of the committee or the subcommittee. Title VIII: Office of Congressional Communications - Establishes for the Congress, under the Architect of the Capitol, an Office of Congressional Communications. States that the Office shall: (1) maintain a library of video tapes of all television network news programs and television programs of significant public interest; (2) provide for closed circuit telecasts of, and tape, committee proceedings and proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives; (3) provide equipment in the office of each Member of Congress to receive telecasts of any such proceedings and for the viewing of any tapes; (4) have installed, at appropriate places, equipment to receive information transmitted by any of the major news wire services; and (5) upon request, assist Members with respect to press, photographic, recording, taping, radio, and television matters. Transfers the House Recording Studio and the Senate Recording Studio, and all their records, property, assets, and personnel to the Office. Title IX: Open Committee Meetings - Provides, under the Standing Rules of the Senate, that meetings for the transaction of business of each standing committee shall be open to the public except when the committee, by rule or by majority vote, determines otherwise. Title X: Study of Computer Scheduling of Senate Work - States that the Citizen's Committee established in this Act shall arrange for a detailed study, including specific recommendations, of the applicability of computer programs to the scheduling problems of the Senate. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this title, but, in no case shall this sum exceed $100,000. Title XI: Joint Committee on National Security - Provides that in order to enable the Congress to more effectively carry out its constitutional responsibility in the formulation of foreign, domestic, and military policies of the United States and in order to provide the Congress with an improved means for formulating legislation and providing for the integration of such policies which will further promote the security of the United States, there is established a joint committee of the Congress which shall be known as the Joint Committee on National Security. Details the membership composition of such Committee and outlines its functions, including: (1) to make a study of the foreign, domestic, and military policies of the United States to determine whether such policies are being appropriately integrated in furtherance of the national security; (2) to make a study of the recommendations and activities of the National Security Council relating to such policies; (3) to make a study of Government practices and recommendations with respect to the classification and declassification of documents.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Urban Hospitals Emergency Assistance Act - Expresses the findings of Congress. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public general hospitals to assist such hospitals in meeting the costs of: (1) modernization of patient care facilities in urban areas, and (2) construction or modernization of outpatient facilities of such hospitals located apart from the hospital so that ambulatory care service may be decentralized. Enumerates the eligibility requirements to be met for receiving such grants and the priority of applicants. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out such grant provisions $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $250,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Empowers the Secretary to make grants to public and private nonprofit hospitals for special projects to demonstrate innovations in health care delivery construction which implement quality control or improve efficiency in the provision of health services by meeting identified needs, and reducing documented inefficiencies. Authorizes appropriation for fiscal years 1975 through 1977 for such grants. Provides that each public general hospital shall be entitled for each fiscal year to a grant equal to 75 percent of the annual net cost incurred by the hospital for patient care. Sets forth additional grant requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, that each hospital having adopted uniform cost accounting and utilization and reporting systems procedures shall be entitled for each fiscal year to a grant to assist such hospital in meeting the costs of training residents, interns, except noncitizen graduates of foreign medical schools, and individuals preparing for careers in nursing or the allied health professions in programs approved by him after consultation with the appropriate professional accrediting agency or specialty board. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Defines the terms used in this Act, including "annual net cost of patients care," "low-income person," and "urban". Requires that each recipient of Federal assistance under this Act shall keep such records as the Secretary shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such assistance, the total cost of the project or undertaking in connection with which assistance is given or used, the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit. Provides that no funds other than those appropriated under the provisions of this Act may be used for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Washington Energy Conference should consider: (1) conservation measures in major oil consuming countries which are necessary to reduce demand, and should be a major part of the policy adopted in concert by the oil consuming nations; (2) an effective plan for the emergency sharing of oil resources which could be acted on subject to the constitutional processes of each country; (3) guidelines for bilateral agreements between individual oil consuming and oil producing countries, which in the present situation of embargo and skyrocketing prices could prove very harmful to the interests of the major oil consuming nations, and could incur the danger of introducing excessive and sophisticated arms into the oil producing nations beyond their legitimate needs for their own security; (4) coordination of research efforts in developing conservation practices and alternative sources of energy; (5) the responsibility for and the means to help to alleviate the plight of the developing countries in the oil crisis; and (6) closer coordination of fiscal and monetary policies to prevent excessive strain on the international monetary systems and the currencies of oil importing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1974
National Chronicare Demonstration Center Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to establish demonstration programs to provide a basis for a commitment to a lasting national program for long-term health care for the chronically ill. Authorizes to be appropriated $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $4,500,000 for fiscal year 1976, to enable the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to make grants to any entity to cover the cost of a project, in an area of the country representative of a rural population, for programs designed to provide a combination of rehabilitative, habilitative, personal support, residential, medical, dental, and mental health services for the chronically ill residents of such area through a community chronicare health center. Authorizes to be appropriated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, to enable the Secretary to make grants for the cost of two projects, in areas of the country representative of suburban populations, for the development of programs to provide health services for the chronically ill residents of such area through community chronicare health centers. Authorizes to be appropriated $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $9,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, to enable the Secretary to make grants to cover the cost of two projects, in areas of the country representative of metropolitan populations for the development of programs providing health services for the chronically ill residents of such area through community chronicare health centers. Authorizes to be appropriated $4,500,000 for fiscal year 1974; $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $3,500,000 for fiscal year 1976, to enable the Secretary to make grants for a project which will operate in conjunction with an existing health maintenance organization which is not currently providing long-term health care. Authorizes to be appropriated $14,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $11,500,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $9,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, to enable the Secretary to make grants to cover the cost of two projects, for the development of combination programs for the chronically ill residents of an identified population area through community chronicare health centers, in conjunction with a State chronicare commission, and a State chronicare data center. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for such grants. Requires each community chronicare health center assisted under this Act to maintain a therapeutic service team responsible for patient care plans, health status, and service professionals. Directs each State chronicare commission to establish a State chronicare data center for the purpose of gathering and supplying information. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Indian Health Care Improvement Act - Declares that it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special responsibilities and legal obligation to the American Indian people, to meet the national goal of providing the highest possible health status to Indians and to provide existing Indian health services with all resources necessary to effect that policy. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Indian Health Manpower - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make scholarship grants to individuals: (1) who are enrolled in medical schools; schools of optometry, osteophathy, dentistry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, or nursing, or schools licensed by a State to train persons in the allied health professions, and (2) who agree to provide their professional services to Indians after completion of their professional training. Establishes a priority according to which the Secretary shall award scholarship grants under this Act. States that any scholarship grant awarded to any individual under this Act shall be awarded under the condition that such individual will, after the completion of his professional training, provide his professional services to Indians for a reasonable period of time as prescribed by the Secretary. Sets forth a formula by which the United States shall be entitled to recover scholarship grants from individuals who fail to comply with such condition for the full period. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $22,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $30.000,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $34,000,000 for fiscal year 1979, and for each succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to continue to make such grants to individuals who (prior to July 1, 1979) have received such grants and who are eligible for such grants under this Act during such succeeding fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make scholarship grants for a period not to exceed two academic years to Indians who: (1) have successfully completed their high school education; and (2) have demonstrated an aptitude for being capable of successfully completing a premedical, predental, or preosteopathy course of study. Authorizes to be appropriated for the above program: $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $3,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years. Permits the Secretary to provide continuing education allowances to Indian Health Service physicians. Authorizes to be appropriated for such programs: $350,000 each year for fiscal years 1975 and 1976; $375,000 for fiscal year 1977, $390,000 for fiscal year 1978, and $410,000 for fiscal year 1979. Title II: Health Services - Authorizes the Secretary to expend over a five-fiscal-year period $123,500,000, in addition to the annual appropriations required to continue the health service program to the Indian people, and to employ additional personnel for the purpose of eliminating backlogs in Indian health care services and to supply known, unmet medical, surgical, dental and other Indian health needs. Title III: Health Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary to expend $400,000,000 over a five-fiscal-year period for the purpose of eliminating inadequate, outdated, and otherwise unsatisfactory Service hospitals, health centers, health stations, and other Service facilities. Enables the Secretary to expend $470,000,000 within a five-fiscal-year period to supply unmet needs for safe water and sanitary waste disposal facilities in existing and new Indian homes and communities. Directs the Secretary to develop a plan, together with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to assure that the five-year schedule provided for in this Act will be met. Title IV: Access to Health Services - States that the Service facilities used to provide health care and services to Indians are hereby deemed to be accredited facilities for the purposes of title XVIII (Medicare) and title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act. Title V: Access to Health Services for Urban Indians - Defines "Urban Indian", "urban Indian organization" and "urban center" as used in this Act. Provides that the Secretary shall enter into contracts with urban Indian organizations to provide Federal assistance to such organizations for the purpose of establishing and administering outreach programs to make urban Indians in the urban centers in which such organizations are situated knowledgeable of the health service resources available within such centers and the means of gaining access to those resources. Directs the Secretary to prescribe the criteria for selecting urban Indian organizations with which to contract pursuant to this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for this program: $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that, within six months after the end of fiscal year 1976, the Secretary shall review the above program and shall submit to the Congress his assessment of it and recommendations for any further legislation. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Requires the Secretary to report annually to the President and the Congress on progress made in effecting the purposes of this Act. States that within three months after the end of fiscal year 1978, the Secretary shall review the programs established or assisted under this Act and shall submit to the Congress his assessment and recommendations of additional programs or additional assistance necessary to, at a minimum provide health services to Indians, and insure a health status for Indians, which is at a parity with the health services available to, and the health status of, the general population. Provides that the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act shall remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President direct the Secretary of State to bring to the immediate attention of the Soviet Government the deep and growing concern among citizens of the United States over the plight of Simas Kudirka and to urge his release from imprisonment and his return to his family. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President of the United States forward a copy of this resolution to the United States Representative to the United Nations for transmission to the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Provides, under the Agriculture and Consumer Protection Act, for an adjustment in the established price for the 1974 through 1977 crops of wheat and feed grains to reflect any change in the immediately preceding year in the index of prices paid by farmers for production items, interest, taxes, and wage rates.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Extends the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, established by S. Res. 281, Ninetieth Congress, through February 28, 1975. Authorizes the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs in studying matters pertaining to the lack of food, medical assistance, and other related necessities of life and health from March 1, 1974, through February 28, 1975, in its discretion: (1) to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate, (2) to employ personnel, (3) to subpena witnesses and documents, (4) with the prior consent of the Government department or agency concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel, information, and facilities of any such department or agency, (5) to procure the temporary services (not in excess of one year) or intermittent services of individual consultants, or oragnizations thereof, (6) to interview employees of the Federal, State, and local governments and other individuals, and (7) to take depositions and other testimony. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution. Limits the expenses of the committee under this resolution to $399,000.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Declares that specified lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, White Earth Reservation, are to be held by the United States in trust for the tribe, and the lands shall be a part of the reservation established for the tribe. Directs the Indian Claims Commission to determine the extent to which the value of the beneficial interest conveyed by this Act should or should not be set off against any claim against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1974
Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act - States that, within two years after the date of enactment of this Act, each county shall elect whether it wishes to proceed under the terms of this Act to receive payments from the Federal Government equal to the real property taxes otherwise due from public lands within such county, or to continue to receive whatever payments such county is entitled to receive under any existing applicable Federal law providing for Federal payments for such county similar to those available under this Act for payment to such county of part of the revenue derived from such public land. Establishes procedures for the appraisal of public lands. Provides that when any county within a State has elected to proceed under the terms of this Act, there shall be established for that State a State board of appraisal appeal. Provides that each board shall consider and decide any appeal from a county within the State relating to the appraisal of public land within such county. States that decisions of the board shall not be subject to judicial review unless arbitrary or capricious. States that, begining in the first complete fiscal year after the acceptance of such appraisal by both the county involved and the Administrator, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay annually to the State in which such county is located an amount equivalent to the State, county, and local real property taxes on public lands within such county, based on the tax rate applicable to similar private lands at the value arrived at under the appraisal conducted under this Act. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall interfere with the right of State or local governments to levy possessory interests taxes on private owners of improvements made by private users on public lands. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to administer this Act and to make the payments authorized by it.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1974
Allows an individual, under the Internal Revenue Code, a credit against tax of $200 multiplied by the number of personal exemptions he is entitled to for the taxable year. Provides that such election to take a credit in lieu of a deduction for exemptions shall apply with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1974
National Cancer Act Amendments - Increases the authorization of appropriations under the Public Health Service Act for the basic cancer research and training program and the prevention and control program. Extends such act for three years with appropriations of $750,000,000, $830,000,000 and $985,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively. Authorizes the awarding of grants for the improvement of basic research laboratory facilities, including those related to biohazard control, as deemed necessary, for the national cancer program.
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