United States · United States Congress · 16 October 1973
Employees Comprehensive Respiratory Disease Compensation and Registration Act - Title I: General Provisions - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares the purposes of this Act. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Title II: Claims for Benefits Filed on or Before December 31, 1976 - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make payments of benefits in respect of total disability of any worker due to a respiratory disease arising out of his employment in a health-hazard industry, and in respect of the death of any worker whose death was due to such disease or who at the time of his death was totally disabled by such disease. Directs the Secretary to prescribe standards for determining when a worker is totally disabled due to a respiratory disease. States that the disabled worker shall be paid benefits during the disability at a rate not less than 66 2/3 per cent of the employees' average weekly wage, subject to specified limitations. Makes provisions in the case of death of a worker for benefits to be paid to his widow, children and dependents. Provides that benefit payments shall be reduced by an amount equal to any payment received under the workmen's compensation, unemployment compensation, or disability insurance laws on account of the disability. Enumerates the circumstances under which no claim for benefits shall be considered, including: (1) the claimant has also filed a claim under the applicable State workmen's compensation law; and (2) the claim is filed on or before June 30, 1975, in the case of a claimant who is a widow, within six months after the death of her husband or by June 30, 1975, whichever is the later. Prescribes specific rules governing the procedures for any claim for benefits under this title filed during the period from July 1, 1975, to December 31, 1975. Title III: Claims for Benefits After December 31, 1976 - Provides that on and after January 1, 1976, any claim for benefits shall be filed pursuant to the applicable State workmen's compensation law, except that when claimants are not covered by a State workmen's compensation law which provides adequate coverage for such disease, they shall be entitled to claim benefits under this title. Prescribes the conditions under which a State workmen's compensation law shall not be deemed to provide adequate coverage. Directs the Secretary to publish a list of State workmen's compensation laws which provide adequate coverage for one or more such respiratory diseases. Provides that during any period after December 31, 1976, in which a State workmen's compensation law is not included on such list, benefits shall be paid by each employer. Directs each such employer to secure the payment of benefits for which he is liable by: (1) qualifying as a self-insurer; or (2) insuring and keeping insured the payment of such benefits with any stock company or mutual company or association, or with any person or fund, authorized to insure workmen's compensation. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue such regulations as each deems appropriate to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for specified purposes of this Act $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated for additional purposes such sums as are necessary. Provides that no employer employing workers in a health-hazard industry shall discharge or in any other way discriminate against any worker by reason of the fact that such worker is suffering from a respiratory disease associated with such industry. Sets forth the procedures to be followed by any worker who believes he has been discharged or discriminated against in violation of this Act. Title IV: Nationwide Register of Employee Exposure - Directs the Secretary of Labor, in cooperation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to issue regulations for the collection and maintenance of a national register of persons exposed to the risk of disease of the respiratory tract and related tissues arising out of their employment in a health-hazard industry. Requires that such regulations make appropriate provision for each employee or former employee to have access to information in the register as indicates his own exposure. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary of Labor such sums as may be necessary to carry out his responsibilities under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1973
Randolph-Sheppard Act Amendments - Expresses the findings of Congress. Provides that blind persons licensed under the provisions of this Act shall be authorized to operate vending facilities on any Federal or other property. Gives preference to blind persons licensed by a State agency as provided in this Act. Requires the head of each department or agency in control of Federal property to prescribe regulations assuring such preference. Eliminates the requirement that licensees be 21 years of age. Eliminates the requirement that licensees shall have resided for at least one year in the State for which a license is requested. Requires that in the design, construction, or substantial alteration of each public building after June 30, 1974, there shall be a satisfactory site or sites suitable for the location and operation of a vending facility by a blind person or persons. Authorizes State licensing agencies or any blind licensee to file a complaint with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare who shall convene an arbitration panel to hear appeals when the State licensing agency or licensee feels that any department or agency is failing to comply with the provisions of this Act. States that with specified exceptions, all vending machine income shall accrue to the blind licensee operating the facility. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 October 1973
National Food Bank Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for the storage of food commodities in geographically dispersed areas of the United States so that such commodities will be readily available for distribution in any area which suffers a major disaster. Authorizes the Secretary to take such action as he deems necessary to maintain fresh, nutritious supplies of food commodities and to provide for the periodic turnover of such commodities to avoid spoilage.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1973
Establishes a 33 member Select Joint Committee on the Vice-Presideny to consider the qualification of any individual or individuals nominated under the twenty-fifth amendment to fill the present vacancy in the Office of the Vice President.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1973
Makes it the sense of the Congress that a world food conference to include representatives from governments, multinational organizations, academic and research institutions, relief organizations and industry, be organized under United Nations auspices in 1974, to discuss means of increasing food production, improving distribution of food, developing a world policy on food reserves and providing for world relief in cases of natural disasters.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1973
Social Services Amendments - Outlines the objectives to be achieved under this Act, including: (1) the goal of self-support; (2) the goal of family care or self-care; (3) the goal of community-based care; and (4) the institional care goal. Provides, under the Social Security Act, for maximum freedom for each State to determine which services will make available, the persons eligible for such services, the manner in which such services are provided, and any limitations on the receipt of such services. Requires that social services to be offered at the option of the States to all elibible persons shall include: (1) day care services for children; (2) day care services for children with special needs; (3) service for children in foster care; (4) protective services for children; (5) family planning services; (6) protective services for adults; (7) services for adults in foster care; (8) homemaker services for individuals in their own homes; (9) chore services; (10) home delivered or congregate meals; (11) day care services for adults; (12) health related services; (13) home management and other functional education services; (14) housing improvement services; (15) a full range of legal services; (16) transportation services necessary to travel to and from community facilities or resources for receipt of services; (17) educational and training services; (18) employment services; (19) information, referral, and determination of eligibility and the need for services, without regard to individual eligibility criteria; (20) special services for the mentally retarded, or special adaptations of generic services; (21) special services for the blind; (22) services for alcoholism and drug addiction; (23) special services for the emotionally disturbed as defined by the State; (24) special services for the physically handicapped as defined by the State; and (25) any other proposed services at the request of a State. Provides that States are entitled to Federal financial participation for the delivery of mandatory and optional social services under the State plan to the extent of the appropriations allocated by the Congress. Requires that State plans submitted with respect to the services program shall contain provision for a fair hearing, under which applicants and recipients may appeal exclusion from a service program. Provides that State plans shall provide for the establishment of a Social Services Advisory Committee.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1973
Provides, under the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments, that grants for construction of treatment works shall be available to projects (1) initiated after January 1, 1973 and (2) not receiving Federal support to the same extent that they would otherwise have been provided.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Women's Educational Equity Act - Establishes within the Office of Education a Council on Women's Educational Programs to help provide educational equity for women in the United States. States that funds shall be available to such Council to make contracts and engage in activities: (1) to encourage the development of new and improved curriculums; (2) to demonstrate the use of such curriculums in model educational programs and to evaluate the effectiveness thereof: (3) to provide support for the initiation and maintenance of programs concerning women at all levels of education (preschool through adult education); (4) to disseminate instructional materials and other information for use in educational programs throughout the Nation; (5) to provide for the planning of women's resource centers; (6) to provide improved career, vocational, and physical education programs, and to provide for community education programs; (7) to provide programs on the status, roles, and opportunities for women in this society; and (8) to provide for the preparation and dissemination of materials for use in mass media. Authorizes the Council to advise the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare concerning the administration of, preparation of, general regulations for, and operations of, programs assisted under this Act. Sets forth requirements for programs and for applications for financial assistance under this Act. Provides that the Secretary, in cooperation with the heads of other agencies with relevant jurisdiction, shall, upon request, render technical assistance to local educational agencies, public and private nonprofit organizations, institutions at all levels of education, agencies of State, local and Federal governments and other agencies deemed by the Secretary to affect the status of women in this society. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for planning and carrying out community-oriented education programs or projects on women in American society for the benefit of interested and concerned adults, young persons, ethnic and cultural groups, community and business leaders, and other individuals and groups within a community. Authorizes to be appropriated not to exceed $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1973
Authorizes to be appropriated, under the Foreign Assistance Act, additional funds of: (1) $95,000,000 for use by the President for emergency and recovery needs in connection with damage caused by floods in Pakistan; (2) $15,000,000 for emergency and recovery needs in connection with the damage caused by the earthquake in Nicaragua; and (3) $40,000,000 for emergency and recovery needs for the drought-stricken Sahelian nations of Africa.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1973
Oil and Gas Regulatory Reform Act - Title I: Natural Gas Natural Gas Amendments - States that the provisions of the Natural Gas Act shall, with specified exceptions, apply to the transportation and sale of natural gas and/or to natural gas companies engaged in such transportation and sale. Sets forth the definitions of the terms used in such Act. Directs the Federal Power Commission to establish and periodically revise a national area rate for production of natural gas, reflecting differences in production costs, state taxation, and similar costs. Prescribes the rules for implementation of such rates. States that the Commission shall not order any increase in existing area rates for natural gas unless such an increase is justified on the basis of an actual increase in costs of operation or maintenance (including a fair rate of return). Provides that in determining present and future requirements of consumers for natural gas, the Commission shall implement conservation policies including rate design revision, end use controls, and termination of promotional practices. Directs the Commission to conduct studies of the transportation and sale of natural gas throughout the United States whether or not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, make an independent evaluation of the proven and probable natural gas reserves of the United States identifying volumes committed to contract and volumes not committed and the reasons for such noncommitment. Directs the Commission to conduct studies of the transportation and sale of natural gas throughout the United States whether or not otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, and make an independent evaluation of the proven and probable natural gas reserves of the United States identifying volumes committed to contract and volumes not committed and the reasons for such noncommitment. Authorizes the Commission to obtain reserve information on natural gas reserves from natural gas companies, whether or not such companies are otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. Provides that a small producer shall be exempt from the provisions of this Act for a period of five years from the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that each new producer contract, other than a small producer contract, shall be filed by the producer with the Commission. States that upon such filing, the Commission shall review the contract to insure that the rate does not exceed the national area rate and (1) approve such contract unconditionally; (2) approve such contract subject to such reasonable terms and conditions specified by the Commission as to price, expiration, determination, or other provision thereof; or (3) disapprove such contract. Requires that natural gas which is produced from its own wells by a natural-gas company engaged in the transporation of natural gas in commerce, which is not sold under a producer contract, and which is taken and delivered into its own transportation facilities or into the transportation facilities of any person transporting such natural gas for its account in interstate commerce shall be delivered only pursuant to a schedule of terms and conditions, including pricing provisions, applicable to the taking of such natural gas. States that any new producer contract shall be accepted for filing if it includes any of specified types of indefinite pricing clauses. Prescribes that conditions under which a seller shall be entitled to receive a price increase for natural gas. Authorizes the Commission to allocate natural gas among pipelines to attain specific objectives including: (1) protection of public health, safety, and welfare, and the national defense; (2) maintenance of all public services; and (3) maintenance of all essential agricultural operations directly related to the cultivation, production, and preservation of food. Title II: Oil Pipeline Transportation - Oil Pipeline Transportation Act - Transfers all function of the Interstate Commerce Commission with respect to the regulation of oil pipelines to the Federal Power Commission. Provides that whenever the Commission finds such action necessary or desirable in the public interest, it may by order, direct an oil pipeline company (1) to extend or improve its transportation or storage facilities, or (2) establish a physical connection of its transportation or storage facilities with the facilites of any person engaged or legally authorized to engage in the refining or distribution of oil. States that no oil pipeline company shall (1) abandon its facilities or any service rendered without the permission and approval of the Commission; or (2) undertake the construction of extension of any facilities for the transportation or storage of oil, unless there is in force a certificate issued by the Commission authorizing such acts. Prescribes the procedures and requirements for granting of such certificates of public convenience and necessity. States that the Commission shall not grant, issue, or renew a certificate of public convience and necessity until it has received the advice of the Attorney General of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission. Makes it unlawful for any pipeline company to refuse to provide any shipper of such oil or products who meets minimum tender requirements access of exit storage of terminal facilities at any origin point of any destination point. Provides that a pipeline company may file an application with Commission requesting that the required minimum tender be raised. States that in every determination by the Commission upon an application for an increased tender, the burden of proof shall be on the applicant. Requires that such hearing shall include consideration of: (1) evidence from factural tests of the degree of intermixture of crude oil or refined petroleum products; (2) other relevant scientific, technological, and engineering calculations; (3) the opinion of the National Transportation Safety Board; (4) the opinion of the Department of Justice regarding the effects on competition of the proposed increased minimum tender as requested by such pipeline company. Prescribes penalties for violations of this Act. Directs the Commission to monitor the activities of oil pipeline companies subject to the provisions of this Act by periodic investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1973
Provides, under the Social Security Act, for additional Federal payments to States on account of specified public assistance expenditures with respect to Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos, native Hawaiians, or other aboriginal persons. Authorizes to be appropriated, for each fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1973
Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to take action to limit the rates of interest or dividends which may be paid on time deposits of less than $100,000 by institutions regulated by them.
United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1973
Directs the Librarian of Congress to establish and maintain a library containing recordings and film prints of television and radio programs, distributed nationally, which the Librarian determines to be substantial public interest. Provides that the Librarian shall conduct and report to Congress on: a study (1) the type of guidelines to be used in determining what programs that it would be in the public interest to preserve, and the cost, and (2) the recordings and film prints necessary in order to have as complete a collection as possible of radio and television programs that have been broadcast and are of historical significance, and of such acquisition. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1973
Commodity Futures Exchange Act - Repeals the Grain Futures Act of September 21, 1922. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Establishes a Commodity Exchange Commission, composed of seven Commissioners appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Specifies the requirements and terms of office of such Commissioners. Makes specified Acts unlawful, including delivery through the mails or in interstate commerce by telephone or other means of communication of any offer, confirmation, quotation or report of the price of, any contract of sale of any commodity for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any board of trade in the United States. Directs the Commission to fix limits on the amount of trading which may be done or positions which may be held by any person under contracts of sale for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market as the Commission finds are necessary to diminish, eliminate, or prevent specified burdens. Prescribes the procedure for promulgation of such orders. Enumerates the items to be included in the amount of any commodity which may be hedged by any person. Specifies additional actions made unlawful under this Act. Provides that any person desiring to register as future commission merchant or as floor broker shall be registered upon application to the Commission. Outlines the material and information to be included in such application. Requires the making of reports by persons so registered. Authorizes the Commission to designate any board of trade as a "contract market" when, and only when, such board of trade complies with and carries out specified conditions and requirements. Enumerates such requirements and the procedure for application to the Commission for designation as a "contract market". Empowers the Commission to suspend or to revoke the designation of any board of trade as a "Contract Market". Prescribes the procedure and circumstances under which a complaint may be served stating charges of violations of this Act. States that if any person (other than a contract market) is manipulating the market price of any commodity, in interstate commerce, or for future delivery on or subject to the rules of any contract market, or otherwise is violating any of the provisions of this Act or of the rules of the Commission, the Commission may make an order directing such person to cease and desist, and, if such person fails or refuses to comply with such order, such person shall be guilty of misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $100,000, or imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than two years, or both, with specified exceptions. States that whenever it appears to the Commission than any contract market or other person has engaged in any act in violation of this Act or is in a position to effectuate a squeeze or corner or otherwise restrain trading in any commodity for future delivery, the Commission may notify the Attorney General, and the Attorney General may bring an action in the proper court to enjoin such Act or practice. Empowers the Commission to make such investigations as necessary to ascertain the facts regarding the operations of boards of trade and other persons subject to any of the provisions of this Act. Enumerates additional actions and activities in which the Commission may engage, including: (1) establishing reasonable fees and charges for registrations and renewals; (2) making and promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate any of the provisions of this Act; and (3) communicating to the proper committee or officer of any contract market and publishing the full facts concerning any transaction or market operation. States that so much of the personnel, property, and unexpended balances of appropriations, and other funds for administration of the Commodity Exchange Act shall be transferred to the Commodity Exchange Commission as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine to be necessary. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed as requiring the Commission to report minor violations of this Act for prosecution, whenever it appears that the public interest does not require such action.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1973
Authorizes appropriations of $150,000,000; $175,000,000; and $200,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively, for the nutrition program for the aged under title VIII of the Elder Americans Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1973
Provides that the Secretary of Agriculture may loan specified Rural Loan Investment Companies up to five times their capital for a period of five years to allow them to purchase government guaranteed loans from qualified lenders in rural areas of less than fifty thousand population.
United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1973
Directs the President, under the Economic Stabilization Act, to permit all classes of marketers of petroleum products at all levels of distribution a dollar-for-dollar passthrough for increases in the cost of such products.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1973
Combined Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Income Tax Reporting Amendments - Title I: Amendments to Title II of the Social Security Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to make available specified tax returns to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Empowers the Secretary of HEW and the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement for the processing of information contained in such returns. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to provide to the Secretary of the HEW any documents they agree are necessary for such processing. Directs the Managing Trustee of the Trust Funds, including the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, to pay into the Treasury the amounts he and the Secretary of HEW estimate will be expended from the general fund of the Treasury by the Department of HEW and Treasury for the administration of (1) titles II, XVIII of the Social Security Act, and (2) specified chapter and subchapters of the Internal Revenue Code. Requires the Secretary of HEW to apportion (between each Trust Fund and the general fund in the Treasury) the costs of administratering titles II, XVI and XVIII of the Social Security Act and its costs in carrying out specified functions of this Act. Provides that average monthly wage, quarters of coverage, and coverage credits derived from self-employment income for taxable years beginning before 1974 are to be determined on a basis of income credited to calender quarters. Limits quarters coverage to quarters occuring before 1974 and make additonal modification to taxation of self-employed persons. Allocates, under the Social Security Act, coverage credits for earnings before 1974 based on quarters of coverage and after 1973 on the basis of earnings durings the calendar year. Provides that a person will satisfy the requirements prerequisite to a determination of disability if he has 20 or more coverage credits which were credited to the period ending on the day the disability arose and consisting of that part of the current calendar year up until the day the disability began and the nine prior calendar years. Redefines a "fully insured individual" in terms of coverage credits rather than quarters of coverage." States that any person upon obtaining the age of 62 with the proper number of coverage credits is fully insured. Provides that specified benefits be paid to individuals not citizens of the United States who amassed sufficient coverage credits. Title II: Amendments Preserving Relationship Between Railroad Retirement and Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance - Provides, under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, that in the calculation of an employee's "average monthly renumeration" after calendar 1974 an individual employee shall obtain the benefit of full allowable coverage credits, irrespective of whether particular quarters of coverage were otherwise available for calculation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1973
Child Abuse and Protective Services Amendments - Provides that where the State agency (which administers the plan for aid to needy families with children) has reason to believe that the home in which a relative and child receiving aid reside is unsuitable for the child because of the neglect, abuse, or exploitation of such child it shall bring such condition to the attention of the appropriate court or other agency, including law enforcement agencies, in the State providing such data with respect to the situation it may have, and that the State agency will provide such multidisciplinary services (including, but not limited to medical, legal, social, and other services) as necessary to aid the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect. Provides for payments to State child welfare plans if such plans provide for the establishment and implementation of effective procedures for the prevention, identification, and treatment of cases of child abuse or neglect including, but not limited to: (1) procedures for the discovery and reporting of instances of neglect or abuse of children; (2) use of the full resources of local communities including public and nonprofit agencies and organizations which provide services and activities that would be beneficial to a child and his parents or guardians; (3) a systematic method for receiving reports of suspected or known instances of child abuse or neglect on a twenty-four-hour a day basis; and (4) a central collection point for all data and information on child abuse and neglect. Exempts expenditures for multidisciplinary services (including, but not limited to, medical, legal, social, and other services) as necessary to aid the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect, from the requirement that not more than 10 percent are to be paid in providing services to individuals who are not recipients of certain aid or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1973
Rape Prevention and Control Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, within the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center for the Control and Prevention of Rape. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Center, to conduct a continuing study and investigation of specified areas, including: (1) the effectiveness of existing Federal, State and local laws dealing with rape; (2) the relationship, if any, between traditional legal and social attitudes toward sexual roles, the act of rape, and the formulation of laws dealing with rape; (3) the treatment of the victims of rape by law enforcement agencies, hospitals, or other medical institutions, prosecutors, and the courts; (4) the causes of rape; and (5) sexual assaults in correctional institutions. Provides that the Center shall compile and publish annually a summary of its findings. Directs the Center to develop an information clearinghouse with regard to enumerated materials regarding rape and rehabilitation of offenders. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Provides that the Secretary, through the National Center for the Control and Prevention of Rape, shall make grants to community mental health centers, nonprofit private organizations, and public agencies for the purpose of conducting research and demonstration projects concerning the control and prevention of rape. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes. Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to him on matters relating to rape prevention and control.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1973
Elementary and Secondary Education Assistance Act - Title I: General Grants for Elementary and Secondary Education Grants Authorized - Directs the Commissioner of Education to make payments to State educational agencies for the Federal share of the cost of grants to local educational agencies and for other elementary and secondary education programs. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Commissioner, for the purpose of carrying out this title, $4,500,000 annually for fiscal year 1974, and for each of the two succeeding fiscal years. Provides for the reservation of specified precentages for enumerated purposes, and for the apportionment of sums not reserved. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Provides that any State desiring to receive financial assistance shall submit a plan to reduce disparities in per pupil expenditures among local educational agencies within such State. Enumerates the criteria to be met by such plan. Requires the chief State officer to submit annually to the Commissioner an application in such detail and containing or accompanied by such information as the Commissioner deems necessary. States that a local educational agency may receive a grant from the appropriate State educational agency under this title for any fiscal year only upon an application approved by the appropriate State educational agency, upon its determination consistent with such basic criteria as the Commissioner may establish, including: (1) that the programs and activities will be administered by or under the supervision of the applicant; and (2) that such agency will make provisions for the benefit of children in schools of secular, neutral, and nonideological educational services, materials, and equipment. Provides that the State shall not finally disapprove any application for funds without first affording the local educational agency reasonable notice and opportunity for a hearing. Provides that the Commissioner shall pay to each State which has established eligibility under this Act, in advance or by way of reimbursement, the amount of such State's apportionment. States that no payments shall be made to any State in which per pupil expenditures for elementary and secondary education for the preceding year from State sources, excluding the payment of the State share for grants, programs, and activities undertaken pursuant to this Act, are less in such State than such expenditures for the second preceding fiscal year. States that if any State or local educational agency is dissatisfied with the Commissioner's final action with respect to the approval of its application, they may file with the United States court of appeals for the circuit for which such agency is located a petition for review of that action. Title II: Experimental Achievement Progress Test - States that, after consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Education, the Commissioner is directed, on an experimental basis, to conduct a program to demonstrate the feasibility of administrating achievement progress tests in reading and mathematics to be given by local educational agencies to the elementary and secondary school children, in order to provide financial assistance to such agencies, in accordance with this Act, based upon the improvement reflected in such achievement progress tests.
United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1973
National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act Amendments - Increases the national average payment established under the National School Lunch Act to 12 cents per lunch (presently 8 cents). Sets forth the procedure and percentages of cash payments to be made to State educational agencies in lieu of commodities. Extends the special supplemental food program of the Child Nutrition Act to Indian Reservations, including the Indian Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Provides that a school food authority that operates a lunch program under the National School Lunch Act in one or more of the public schools in its jurisdiction shall operate the program in all schools under its jurisdiction by no later than fiscal year 1976. Authorizes appropriations and expands eligibility for the special milk program of the Child Nutrition Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1973
Permits, under the Internal Revenue Code, aircraft owners to choose, under specified conditions, the yearly period for application of the tax on use of civil aircraft. Provides for election to use a year other than the period beginning July 1 only if the person required to pay the tax on the use of the aircraft establishes that climatic conditions beyond his control will prevent him from using such aircraft for a continuous period of 90 days or more during the one year. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 4492 (c)(1)).
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
African Development Fund Act - Authorizes the President to accept participation for the United States in the African Development Fund of the Untied Nations. Directs the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint a Governor, Alternate Governor, Director, and Alternate Director of the Fund. Authorizes to be appropriated without fiscal year limitation, as the United States subscription, $15,000,000, to be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Fund in three annual installments of $5,000,000 each. States that the agreement shall have full force and effect in the United States. Provides that the President shall instruct the United States Director to vote against any utilization of funds of the Fund for the benefit of any country when such country: (1) has nationalized, expropriated or seized property owned by any United States citizen, corporation, partnership, or association not less than 50 percent benefically owned by United States citizens, or (2) has taken steps to repudiate or nullify existing agreements with any United States citizen, corporation, partnership, or association not less than 50 percent benefically owned by United States citizens, or (3) has imposed discriminatory taxes or other exactions, or restrictive maintence or operational conditions, or has taken other actions, which have the effect of nationalizing, expropriating, or otherwise seizing ownership or control of property so owned, and (4) fails within a reasonable time to take appropriate steps to discharge its obligations under international law toward such citizen or entity.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Coastal and Anadromous Fish Conservation Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to provide for the conservation of fish under United States jurisdiction until such time as the necessary treaties or conventions can be entered into. Provides that the United States extends its jurisdiction for conservation purposes over all United States coastal and anadromous fish. Empowers the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize a vessel other than a vessel of the United States to engage in fishing for fish under the jurisdiction of the United States under specified terms and conditions. States that such fishing must not cause or significantly contribute to the commercial depletion of fish and that such fishing is to be carried out in accordance with good conservation practices. Enumerates the circumstances under which such fishery conservation jurisdiction may be terminated. Directs the Secretary of State to: (1)direct the United States delegation to the Law of the Seas Conference to support articles at the conference to carry out the policies of this Act; (2) initiate negotiations with foreign governments which are engaged in commercial fishing operations for fish protected by this Act; and (3) review treaties, conventions, and agreements to which the United States is a party in order to make them consistent with the policies of this Act. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Provides, under title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that persons who are blind and have at least six quarters of coverage shall be eligible for disability insurance benefits. Outlines those regulations which apply to the amount of benefits to be received. Defines blindness as used in this Act. Continues payment of such benefits as long as the blindness lasts, notwithstanding the amount of the individuals' earnings.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Declares that Federal, State, and local governments set a precedent for private business by making all public signs and inscriptions read in at least two different languages, one being English and the other being either Spanish, French, or Japanese, or that these signs and inscriptions be pictorially represented so that they may be universally understood.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Makes it the sense of the Senate: (1) that the United States shall cooperate to the fullest possible extent with appropriate international agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in efforts to establish world reserves of basic food commodities; (2) that the President of the United States should immediately initiate a study to determine proper levels of appropriate rules and regulations for the effective management of domestic reserves of basic food commodities, accounting for domestic and foreign demands in both commercial and concessional markets; and (3) that at the beginning of the Second Session of the 93d Congress, the President should recommend to the Congress a plan for the establishment of domestic food reserves, and that he should report to the Congress at the same time on progress toward the establishment of world food reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Establishes a temporary, select committee of the Senate to be known as the Select Committee on Regulatory Commissions and the United States Economy to conduct a complete study and investigation on regulatory commissions and agencies of the United States Government, including: (1) the influence and impact of the activities, procedures, rules, orders, and decisions of such regulatory commissions and agencies, in particular, the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission; (2) the accountability of such regulatory commissions and agencies to the Congress, the relationships of these commissions and agencies to other departments, agencies, and independent establishments of the executive branch of the United States Government, the relationship of each such commission or agency to any sectors of private or public enterprise the commission or agency is charged by statute with regulating, and the relationships of those commissions and agencies to the United States consumer; (3) the appropriateness of regulation for given sectors of the economy, the adequacy of current legislative statutes, and the economic consequences of commission and and agency regulatory activities for the United States consumer; and (4) such other matters as the committee considers appropriate. Directs the committee to submit a final report to the Senate not later than January 20, 1976, containing a comprehensive summary of the work of the committee and to include such recommendations as the committee deems appropriate. Provides that the Committee shall have no authority to report any legislative measure to the Senate nor shall it otherwise have legislative jurisdiction.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1973
Declares that the United States Senate does hereby congratulate and felicitate the distinguished Senator from Mississippi, the Honorable John C. Stennis, on his birthday and expresses the wish that he will enjoy many other such anniversaries in the future. Declares that members of the Senate greatly miss the distinguished Senator and wish for him an early return to the Senate Chamber and to his duties in the Senate. Directs that a copy of this Resolution be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and a copy furnished to Mr. Stennis.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1973
Foreign Assistance Act - Expresses the findings of Congress with regard to restructuring our relationships with foreign countries. Authorizes appropriations for specified programs under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Directs the Secretary of State to promote multilateral approaches to the development of foreign countries. Includes specified categories of personnel as participants in the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System. Directs the President to establish a Development Coordination Committee to direct United States policies which affects interests in the development of low-income countries. Directs the President to establish the United States Export Development Credit Fund to extend credit for the sale of goods to low-income countries. Provides for the financing of such fund. Authorizes the President to provide postwar relief and reconstruction assistance to South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1973
Vietnam Era Veterans and Dependents Psychological Readjustment Assistance Act - Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out a special program for the treatment and rehabilitation of veterans, especially former prisoners of war and their dependents who are experiencing psychological problems as the result of the active service performed by the veteran. States that such program shall include psychiatric, psychological, and counseling services. Provides that the participation of any veteran or dependent in such program shall be wholly voluntary and shall not be a prerequisite to eligibility for any other service or assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1973
Consumer Fuel Disclosure Act - Sets forth the purposes of this Act, including to assist consumers in avoiding the purchase of gasoline with unnecessarily high octane ratings. Prohibits the shipment, transportation, or sale of gasoline which has been shipped in interstate commerce unless the person offering such gasoline for shipment, transportation, or sale has certified the octaine rating of such gasoline. Provides additional octaine-rating prohibitions relating to the sale of such gasoline to consumers and the sale of automobiles. Prescribes penalties for violations of each such prohibition. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to: (1) establish standard methods to measure octaine; (2) conduct a study of the quality of performance of various brands of gasoline; (3) require manufacturers of gasoline which has been moved in interstate commerce to provide adequate substantiation of any claim advertised with respect to the performance of such gasoline or any additive; and (4) perform spot tests of the quality of various brands of gasoline. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1973
Provides that whoever, by force and violence, or by intimidation, takes or attempts to take, from the person or presence of another, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of a narcotic controlled substance set forth in a schedule of controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act and belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or posession of, any pharmacist, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. Provides that whoever takes and carries away, with intent to steal or purloin, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of a narcotic controlled substance belonging to, or in the care, custody, control, management, or possession of, any pharmacists, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1973
Freedom from Surveillance Act - States that, except as expressly provided, whoever, being a civil officer of the United States or an officer of the Armed Forces of the United States, employs any part of the Armed Forces or the militia of any State to conduct investigations into, maintain surveillance over, or record or maintain information regarding, the beliefs, associations, or political activities of any person not a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, or of any civilian organization, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Exempts from such provisions the use of the Armed Forces of the United States or the militia of any State: (1) when they have been actually and publicly assigned by the President to the task of repelling invasion or suppressing rebellion, insurrection, or domestic violence pursuant to the Constitution or specified sections of the United States Code; or (2) to investigate criminal conduct committed on a military installation or involving the destruction, theft, or trespass of the property of the United States; or (3) to determine the suitability for employment of any individual for the Armed Forces of the United States, by the militia of any State, or by a defense facility; or (4) whenever the militia of any State is under the command of the chief executive of that State or any other appropriate authorities of that State. Sets forth the definitions of the terms used in this Act, including "surveillance". Prescribes procedures for the bringing of civil actions and special class actions against illegal surveillance.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1973
Directs a hearing of right with the Provider Reimbursement Review Board to any provider of service under titles XVIII and XIX (Medicare and State Medical Assistance Programs) who has filed a required cost report within the time specified and whose complaint falls within specified reviewable subject areas. Outlines the procedure to be used at a hearing and permits judicial review of any final decision of the Board. Outlines the composition of the Board and authorizes it to engage such technical assistance as may be required to carry out its functions . Makes conforming amendments to the Social Security Act concerning the rulemaking authority conferred upon the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1973
National Forest Environmental Management Act - Declares that comprehensive planning is needed to secure the greatest net public benefit from the National Forest System. Sets forth definitions of terms used in this Act, including differentiations between "forest land," "rangeland," and "recreational land." Title I: General Management Authority - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to manage the National Forest System in a manner which will assure payment of fair market value by users of such lands and which will provide maximum opportunities for the public to participate in decisionmaking concerning such lands. Prescribes rules regarding the management of national forest lands and the authority for promulgation of such rules. Requires the Secretary to prepare an inventory of all national forest lands, and their tangible and intangible resource values. Specifies the content and currency of such inventory. Provides that the Secretary shall develop, maintain, and revise land use plans for the National Forest System. States that in the development and maintenance of such land use plans, the Secretary shall: (1) use a systematic interdisciplinary approach integrating physical, biological, economic, and social sciences considerations; (2) give priority to the protection of areas of critical environmental concern; (3) consider the relative scarcity of the values involved; (4) weigh long-term public benefits against short-term local or individual benefits; and (5) consider the requirements of applicable pollution control laws. Provides that the Secretary shall present to the Congress a long-range natural resources physical budget for the National Forest System which sets forth specified factors. Enumerates such factors. States that in fiscal year 1975 and thereafter at the start of each decade the Secretary shall present to the Congress his estimate of the natural resources physical budget of the National Forest System along with his recommendations for each of the next 5 decades ahead. Provides for public hearings and a joint resolution by Congress on such policy. Requires that there be included in the annual fiscal budget for the management of the National Forest System a request for funding sufficient to assure a high level of resource growth and production under high environmental standards. Requires that as part of this goal each annual budget contain a request for funds sufficient to reforest an acreage equal to at least 110 percent of the area on which it is estimated timber will be harvested in the preceding fiscal year plus an amount to improve the stands of young growing forests with trees between the ages of five years and seventy-five years on an acreage equal to at least 110 percent of the areas computed above. Directs the Secretary to determine an environmentally sound level of timber harvest for the commercial forest land within each national forest management unit. Provides that the Secretary shall determine an environmentally sound level of grazing, water, soil, recreation, and wildlife management for each national forest management unit. Title II: Other Acts Amended - Specifies new procedures for the sale of trees and forest products. Provides that the Secretary shall maintain a long-term, decade ahead, and annual transportation plan for the national forests. States that the on-the-ground field offices, district rangers and forest supervisors, and the field supervisory offices and regional offices shall be so situated as to provide the optimum level of convenient, useful services to the public.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1973
Childrens's Trust Fund Act - Declares the policy of Congress that a specific share of public revenues be reserved for use in the financing of children's and youth programs. Title I: Creation and Administration of Trust Fund - Creates a Children's Trust Fund to be administered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay into the Trust Fund from general revenues the amount of forty-five cents a week for each child in the United States under the age of 18. Directs the Secretary to establish an allocation account for each State. Provides that funds from the Trust Fund shall be available to carry out programs authorized by Titles IV-B and V of the Social Security Act, the Early Education of the Handicapped Act, Head Start and Follow Through of the Economic Opportunity Act. Title II: Allocation and Use of Trust Fund - Directs the Secretary to annually make an estimated allocation of trust funds in accordance with the procedure enumerated in this Act. Title III: States Functions Under Child Revenue Sharing - Requires that each State submit to the Secretary a letter showing the distribution of funds it wishes to make among the programs financed through this Act. Directs each State to establish local service areas for the purpose of allocating funds within the State. Sets forth the procedures for such allocation. Requires States to submit reports to the Secretary. Provides that each State shall establish an advisory committee which is representative of (1) parents whose children may be served by the program; (2) professionals knowledgeable in such fields as child development, maternal and child health, juvenile delinquency and education; and (3) private citizens interested in these areas. Provides that the advisory committee shall have a right (1) to evaluate the performance of all programs financed through the Trust Fund; (2) to recommend future fund allocations within the State; and (3) to comment on recommendations by local advisory committees. Provides that there shall be local advisory committees of the same composition and powers as the State committees. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions -Directs the Secretary to appoint a national advisory committee to conduct necessary evaluations; submit an annual report to the Secretary, the President and the Congress in which it shall evaluate programs financed under this Act; and recommend necessary adjustments in the level of Federal contributions to the Trust Fund. Authorizes appropriations of such funds as are required for purposes of this Act. Sets forth the form for such appropriations. Title V: Amendments to Title IV-B of the Social Security Act - Retitles Title IV-B of the Social Security Act to Child and Youth Services. Expresses the intent of the Congress that funds appropriated under the title shall be available to children in need of service with regard to family income; provided, that a state may, at its option, establish reasonable fees for service related to family income. Empowers each State to spend up to 20 percent of the funds available to it under the Children Trust Fund for innovative programs designed by the State, for expenses of administration; and for expenses of advisory bodies and for training of staff. Title VI: Amendment of Social Service Limitation and Day Care Authorization - Provides that no funds shall be available for child care under this section except as required to meet the needs of persons participating in the Work Incentive Program.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1973
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to compile an inventory of all mineral fuel reserves containing hydrocarbons and uranium in the public domain lands of the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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