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United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1978
Extends the best wishes of the Senate to Senator Dewey F. Bartlett upon his retirement from the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that the United Nations should consider the placement of a peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
United States · United States Congress · 24 August 1978
Expresses the strong interest and concern of the Senate in the preservation and restoration of Rhodes Tavern, in the District of Columbia, and urges national and local bodies to make every effort to preserve and restore this building to its original condition, or as near thereto as possible.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1978
Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to raise the price support levels for milk, wheat, corn, soybeans, and cotton to 90 percent of their respective parity prices. Reduces the price levels at which producers participating in the wheat and feed grains storage program: (1) may redeem and market commodities securing price support loans (from between 140 to 160 percent of their respective parity prices to 100 percent); and (2) must repay such loans (from 175 to 110 percent of their respective parity prices).
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Unites States Olympic Commemorative Medals Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike up to 1,000,000 medals of four different designs commemorating athletes who have participated in prior Olympic games and to furnish these medals to the United States Olympic Committee for sale.
United States · United States Congress · 17 August 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate the third week in June of 1979 as "National Veterans' Hospital Week."
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments made to landowners under: (1) the water bank program of the Water Bank Act; (2) the emergency conservation measures program of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978; (3) the Great Plains conservation program of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Policy Act; (4) the agricultural Conservation program of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act; (5) the resource conservation and development program of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act and the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act; (6) the rural clean water program of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; (7) the forestry incentives program of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978; (8) the rural abandoned mine program of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977; and (9) any similar State program established for the purposes of conserving soil and water resources and protecting the environment.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Amends the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act to increase from $50,000 to $100,000 the amount for which loans may be made to farmers for the construction or remodeling of feed grain, rice, or soybean storage facilities on the farm.
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the United States Olympic Committee should immediately take such measures as necessary to have the International Olympic Committee select a site for the 1980 summer Olympic games outside the Soviet Union.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Expresses the support of the Senate for the nomination of the Public Groups to Promote Observance of the Helsinki Agreement in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1978
Establishes a National Agricultural Cost of Production Board to review, and advise the Secretary of Agriculture concerning, the adequacy and accuracy of the cost-of-production formulas used by the Department of Agriculture in connection with the administration of its price support programs.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1978
Provides for the orderly management of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) in Minnesota. Redesignates specified lands within such area as the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the area in accordance with this Act and other wilderness laws. Authorizes the Secretary to permit the use of motor boats and snowmobiles, of specified size and power, on specified lakes and rivers within the area. Entitles owners of resorts and commercial recreational enterprises located on land riparian to specified lakes to require purchase of such establishments by the Secretary if they so desire. Grants the Secretary the right of first refusal as to the sale of any privately owned lands or interests in lands riparian to such lakes. Authorizes the appropriation of funds necessary for such acquisitions. Directs the Secretary to terminate timber sale contracts for timber harvested in the BWCA. Provides for compensation for the termination of such contracts. Requires the Secretary to take ameliorative measures to restore the BWCA to its natural state. Authorizes the replacement of such timber production by means of contracts for timber harvesting on other specified Federal land in Minnesota available for such use. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, in cooperation with the State of Minnesota, an intensive forest management program within the Superior National Forest and specified Federal lands for the purpose of replacing timber withdrawn from production by this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to engage in planting and site preparation and employ 20 additional employees, in the administration of the Superior National Forest. Authorizes appropriations for grants to the State of Minnesota for the development of the commercial softwood timber base on specified lands. Establishes the Boundary Water Canoe Area Mining Protection Area. Incorporates the provisions of Executive Order 10092, relating to reservations of airspace, into this Act. Prohibits mining of minerals owned by the United States and located within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Mining Protection Area. Prohibits other mining in such areas which would affect navigable waters in any way or materially impair wilderness or environmental qualities. Authorizes the issuance of permits, leases, or other authorizations for mining activities only if: (1) the Secretary approves an applicant's plan detailing how such activities would comply with relevant laws and how the applicant intends to restore the mining site to its original condition; (2) the applicant posts a performance bond; and (3) the Secretary determines no permanent facility will be constructed which would hinder any restoration of the site. Authorizes the acquisition of mining or mineral rights within the wilderness and mining protection areas by the United States. Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect the jurisdiction of the State with respect to the operation of motorized equipment on waters located within the wilderness except where the State's exercise of such jurisdiction is less stringent than regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Provides that nothing in this Act shall affect rights established by the treaties of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to perform necessary maintenance work on the Prairie Portage Dam. Directs the Secretary to expedite and intensify the development of outdoor recreation programs in the Superior National Forest, including construction of hiking and backpacking trails, programs of outdoor experiences for the disabled, and educational programs on the purpose, value, and use of wilderness lands. Authorizes the Secretary, in cooperation with other approprate executive agencies, to develop a progam of technical and financial assistance to resorts and commercial outfitters located within the mining protection area or on land adjacent to specified lakes. Authorizes the appropriation of funds for grants to the University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service to be used for specified purposes. Requires the Secretary, acting through the Chief, United States Forest Service, to submit to the Congress a comprehensive management plan setting forth specific procedures to implement the purpose of this Act. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1978
Amends the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975 to extend specified payments to assist refugees in the United States from Cambodia, Vietnam or Laos. Increases from $25,000,000 to $40,000,000 the amount available for special projects administered wholly or in part by State, local, or private agencies for such refugees. Makes any such refugee paroled into the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act after March 31, 1975, eligible to have his status adjusted to that of a permanent resident.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1978
Makes Leif Ericson an honorary citizen of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978
Animal Welfare Act Amendments - Amends the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit coursing (an event which involves the pursuit by one or more dogs of another live animal).
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1978
Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish an urban park and recreation recovery program under which matching grants are to be given to local governments on the basis of need for rehabilitation and development of recreation areas and facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to provide additional matching funds equal to the amount of State funding. Prohibits the conversion of property improved or developed with assistance under this Act to other than recreational uses without the Secretary's approval.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1978
Urban and Rural Para-Medical Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for: (1) training allied health personnel to meet the special needs of medically underserved areas; (2) training such personnel in conjunction with hospitals and medical schools in medically underserved areas; and (3) establishing allied health medical centers in affiliation with hospital centers. Directs that priority for such training and employment shall be given residents of medically underserved areas and to veterans who have received similar training.
United States · United States Congress · 24 May 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State: (1) make every effort to negotiate an agreement with Canada to preserve our mutual airshed, protect air resources, and maintain air quality; and (2) take whatever diplomatic actions necessary to reduce or eliminate any undesirable impact on both countries resulting from air pollution from any source.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Act - Title I: Formula and Project Grants for Preventive Health Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to assist them in planning for and in meeting the costs of providing preventive health services. States that an application for such a grant shall provide for a detailed plan of a program to reduce, through the prevention of causative conditions, the mortality rates, and, at the option of the applying State, the burden of illness associated with the five leading causes of death in the State. Sets forth specified information to be included in applications for such grants. Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State pursuant to an approved application. Sets forth a procedure for determining the amount of grants which each State shall receive for planning, providing, and operating preventive health services programs. Requires that all information obtained about any individual under any program that is being carried out with respect to such grants shall not be disclosed without such individual's consent. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States, political subdivisions of States, other public entities, or private entities to assist them in meeting the costs of establishing and maintaining: (1) programs for the screening, detection, diagnosis, prevention, referral for treatment, and follow-up on compliance with treatment of hypertension; (2) programs to immunize children against diseases; (3) community and school-based fluoridation programs; (4) programs designed to prevent illness caused by factors in the immediate living environment; (5) programs to prevent diseases borne by rodents; and (6) comprehensive physical fitness programs. Sets forth specified information to be included in applications for such grants. Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State pursuant to an approved application. Requires that all information obtained about any individual under any program carried out with respect to such grants shall not be disclosed without such individual's consent. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for comprehensive physical fitness programs. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1982 for lead-based paint poisoning prevention programs. Sets forth a new method for determining the total amount of grants received by State health and mental health authorities for comprehensive public health services under the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1982. Title II: Resources for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion - Directs the Secretary to make grants to meet the costs of planning and developing new centers; and operating existing and new centers, for multidisciplinary health promotion. Directs the Secretary to undertake or support five intensive and comprehensive community based programs to demonstrate and evaluate optimal methods for organizing and delivering comprehensive preventive health services to defined populations. Requires the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics or its equivalent, to submit to Congress on January 1, 1981, and on January 1 of every third year thereafter, a national disease prevention data profile in order to provide a data base for the effective implementation of this Act and to increase public awareness of the prevalence, incidence, and any trends in the preventable causes of death and disability in the United States. Title III: Amendments to the Food Provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to Foster Health Promotion - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the publication of additional nutritional information on food package labels. Authorizes exemptions from such guidelines if the Secretary finds that a satisfactory labeling requirement of a State or a political subdivision is required by compelling local conditions. Includes distilled spirits, wines, and malt beverages in the definition of food for purposes of the Act. Directs the Secretary to notify the Federal Trade Commission of the nutritional information required to be on food labels, and to recommend to the Commission which of such information should be required to be included in the advertising of labeled food. Title IV: Programs Designed to Promote Health Trhough Smoking Deterrance - Prohibits smoking in any enclosed area open to the public in any Federal facility or in any stairway, elevator, hallway, conveyance, waiting room, reception room, conference room, or hearing room in any facility. Requires smokers to be effectively separated from nonsmokers in any restaurant, cafeteria, snackbar, or lounge in any Federal facility. Requires each instrumentality of the United States: (1) to use reasonable efforts to effectively separate the workplaces of its employees who do not smoke and who wish to be so separated from the workplaces of its employees who do smoke; and (2) to insure the effective separation of smoking and nonsmoking employees in planning, designing, purchasing, leasing, or otherwise obtaining new facilities. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to impose a health protection tax on every cigarette manufactured in or imported into the United States based on the number of toxic units, as defined in the Act, contained in the cigarette. Authorizes the appropriation of those amounts received from such taxes for use in the provision of preventive health services under the Public Health Service Act. Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to prohibit the manufacture, importation, or packaging for sale or distribution of any cigarettes: (1) if the package fails to bear the tax and nicotine content stated in milligrams; and (2) if the package fails to bear one of a number of specified statements. Requires the Secretary to establish a comprehensive program to deter smoking among children and adolescents. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of: (1) the relative risks associated with smoking cigarettes of varying levels of tar and nicotine; and (2) the health risks associated with smoking cigarettes containing any substances commonly added to commercially manufactured cigarettes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Nutritional Labeling Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the publication of additional nutritional information on food package labels. Authorizes exemptions from such guideline if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare finds that a satisfactory labeling requirement of a State or a political subdivision is required by compelling local conditions. Includes distilled spirits, wines, and malt beverages in the definition of food for purposes of the Act. Directs the Secretary to notify the Federal Trade Commission of the nutritional information required to be on food labels and to recommend to the Commissioner which of such information should be required to be included in the advertising of labeled food.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Smoking Deterence Act - Prohibits smoking in any enclosed area open to the public in any Federal facility or in any stairway, elevator, hallway, conveyance, waiting room, reception room, conference room, or hearing room in any facility. Requires smokers to be effectively separated from nonsmokers in any restaurant, cafeteria, snackbar, or lounge in any Federal facility. Requires each instrumentality of the United States: (1) to use reasonable efforts to effectively separate the workplaces of its employees who do not smoke and who wish to be so separated from the workplaces of its employees who do smoke; and (2) to insure the effective separation of smoking and nonsmoking employees in planning, designing, purchasing, leasing, or otherwise obtaining new facilities. Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to impose a health protection tax on every cigarette manufactured in or imported into the United States based on the number of toxic units, as defined in the Act, contained in the cigarette. Authorizes the appropriation of those amounts received from such taxes to provide preventive health services under the Public Health Service Act. Amends the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to prohibit the manufacture, importation, or packaging for sale or distribution of any cigarettes: (1) if the package fails to bear the tar and nicotine content stated in milligrams; and (2) if the package fails to bear one of a number of specified statements. Requires the Secretary to establish a comprehensive program to deter smoking among children and adolescents. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of: (1) the relative risks associated with smoking cigarettes of varying levels of tar and nicotine; and (2) the health risks associated with smoking cigarettes containing any substances commonly added to commercially manufactured cigarettes.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Formula and Projects Grants for Preventive Health Services and Resources for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Act - Title I: Formula and Project Grants for Preventive Health Services - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to assist them in planning for and in meeting the costs of providing preventive health services. States that an application for such a grant shall provide for a detailed plan of a program to reduce, through the prevention of causative conditions, the mortality rates, and, at the option of the applying State, the burden of illness associated with the five leading causes of death in the State. Sets forth specified information to be included in applications for such grants. Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State pursuant to an approved application. Sets forth a procedure for determining the amount of grants which each State shall receive for planning, providing, and operating preventive health services programs. Requires that all information obtained about any individual under any program that is being carried out with respect to such grants shall not be disclosed without such individual's consent. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States, political subdivisions of States, other public entities, or private entities to assist them in meeting the costs of establishing and maintaining: (1) programs for the screening, detection, diagnosis, prevention, referral for treatment, and follow-up on compliance with treatment of hypertension; (2) programs to immunize children against diseases; (3) community and school-based floridation programs; (4) programs designed to prevent illness caused by factors in the immediate living environment of people; (5) programs to prevent diseases borne by rodents; and (6) comprehensive physical fitness programs. Sets forth specified information to be included in applications for such grants. Requires the Secretary to review annually the activities undertaken by each State pursuant to an approved application. Requires that all information obtained about any individual under any program carried out with respect to such grants shall not be disclosed without such individual's consent. Directs the Secretary to establish standards for comprehensive physical fitness programs. Authorizes appropriations through fiscal year 1982 for lead-based paint poisoning prevention programs. Sets forth a new method for determining the total amount of grants received by State health and mental health authorities for comprehensive public health services under the Public Health Service Act. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1982. Title II: Resources for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion - Directs the Secretary to make grants to meet the costs of planning and developing new centers, and operating existing and new centers, for multidisciplinary health promotion. Directs the Secretary to undertake or support five intensive and comprehensive community based programs to demonstrate and evaluate optimal methods for organizing and delivering comprehensive preventive health services to defined populations. Requires the Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics or its equivalent, to submit to Congress on January 1, 1981, and on January 1 of every third year thereafter, a national disease prevention data profile in order to provide a data base for the effective implementation of this Act and to increase public awareness of the prevalence, incidence, and any trends in the preventable causes of death and disability in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
International Health Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish mechanisms to coordinate and support health activities at the international level. Adds the following new title to the Public Health Service Act, Title XVIII - International Health. Directs the President to establish an Intra-Governmental Coordinating Committee on International Health. Requires the Committee to identify and coordinate all international health activities by any entity of the Federal Government. Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Office of International Health. Requires the Office to be responsible for the identification and coordination of all training, service, and research activities in international health within the Department. Sets forth such activities. Establishes within the Office of International Health a center to be known as the Fogarty International Center for Health Training and Research. Requires the Fogarty Center to be responsible for: (1) the development and coordination of international health manpower training and research programs within the Department; and (2) the development and operation of specified international health manpower development and institutional support programs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide for an initiative within the Department. Requires the initiative to involve increased activity in research and control of selected tropical diseases. Establishes the Hubert H. Humphrey International Health Development Center. States that the goals of the Humphrey Center are to initiate, encourage, support, and sponsor field research and demonstration projects specifically directed toward the implementation of improved health care programs in foreign nations. Authorizes the Humphrey Center, among other things, to: (1) establish, maintain, and operate information and data centers and facilities for health services research; (2) initiate and carry out health services research and technical development; and (3) sponsor or support conferences, seminars, and other meetings. Establishes an Advisory Board to the Center to perform such duties as the Board of Directors may assign. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the International Health Development Fund to be administered by the Humphrey Center, without the requirement of annual authorizations. States that the purpose of such Fund is to provide capital to make grants to private voluntary organizations within and without the United States and to foreign governmental agencies for projects in international health. Authorizes the Director, in order to carry out the purposes of the Fund, to determine amounts to be withdrawn from the Fund. Requires the Director to deposit moneys of the Fund with any Federal Reserve bank, or in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury determines. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary to: (1) make grants and contracts to institutions in the United States and cooperating foreign countries and to multilateral international organizations to assist in the conduct of cooperative programs in health research; and (2) pay the cost of health insurance for foreign participants and accompanying dependents in any program authorized under this Act while such participants and dependents are in the United States. Requires the General Accounting Office to conduct a study of all Federal international health expenditures. Directs the Office to develop and implement in each Federal entity a system for the continuing identification and accounting for all international health expenditures.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Designates the weekend of or preceding April 29 of each year as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust."
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