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United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1975
Uniform Federal Welfare and Medicaid Assistance Act - Increases to 75 percent the Federal matching rate for purposes of reimbursement to States under the Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children programs of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1975
Provides that the inpatient hospital deductible under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act shall be increased from $40 to $92 in the case of any spell of illness beginning before 1977. Sets forth a formula for adjusting the impatient deductible for subsequent years, equal to $92 multiplied by the ratio of the current average per diem rate for inpatient hospital services for the preceding year to the current average per diem rate for such services for 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1975
Authorizes the sale, and shipment incident to such sale, of the chemical substance carbonyl chloride by the Department of Defense.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1975
Defense Officer Personnel Management Act - States that the total strength of an armed force (other than the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy) in members on active duty is as authorized annually by law. States that the Secretary of Defense may, for any armed force except the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, prescribe the total strength in officers on active duty; and that the Secretary of the military department concerned may prescribe the numbers of any other category of members of an armed force under his jurisdiction authorized to be on active duty. Sets forth the number of commissioned officers who may serve in each grade. Provides that in time of war, or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after January 1, 1975, the President may suspend the operation of such provisions related to officer strength. States that the Secretary of the military department concerned shall, whenever the needs of the service require, prescribe the number of commissioned officers that shall be maintained in each of the grades of major through colonel or lieutenant commander through captain (Navy). Provides that original appointments in commissioned grades in the Regular Army, Regular Navy, Regular Air Force, or Regular Marine Corps shall be made by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Establishes basic qualifications for commissioned officers. Prescribes procedures to determine service credit for officers. Requires that at least once a year and at such other times as the needs of the service require, the Secretary of the military department concerned shall convene selection boards to recommend for promotion to the next higher grade officers on the active-duty list in each grade from first lieutenant through lieutenant colonel in the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, and from lieutenant (junior grade) through commander in the Navy. Sets forth the required composition and procedures of such boards. States that such a board may recommend as best qualified for promotion in each competitive category 15 percent of the total in each such category that the board is authorized to recommend for promotion to the grade concerned. Establishes time-in-rank requirements for promotion. Sets forth requirements and procedures for placing officers' names on the active-duty list in various competitive categories. Allows the President or the Senate to remove names from lists of selectees for promotion. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned, under regulations prescribed by him, to discharge any regular officer on the active-duty list who has less than 5 years of active commissioned service; and requires him to discharge a regular officer serving on the active-duty list in the grade of second lieutenant or ensign who is found not qualified for promotion to the next higher grade. States that officers who have failed of selection for promotion to the next higher grade for the second time, and whose names are not on a recommended list for promotion shall be honorably discharged or retired. Provides that the Secretary of the military department concerned may defer retirement or separation if, because of unavoidable circumstances, evaluation of physical condition and determination of entitlement to retirement or separation for physical disability require hospitalization or medical observation that cannot be completed before the date of required retirement or separation. States that the selection and promotion of medical and dental officers to grades below brigadier general or rear admiral shall be based on the needs of the service as determined by the Secretary of the military department concerned. Provides that in time of war, or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after January 1, 1975, the President may suspend such provisions relating to promotion, separation, and retirement. Entitles officers discharged under this Act to readjustment or retired pay. Requires boards of review, each composed of three or more officers, to be convened by the Secretary of the military department concerned, at such times as he may prescribe, to review the records of cases of regular commissioned officers recommended for removal from active duty by boards of inquiry. Allows the Secretary of the military department concerned to remove an officer of a regular component of an armed force from active duty if his removal is recommended by a board of review under this Act. Allows each officer under consideration for removal to be: (1) notified in writing of the reasons, at least 30 days before the hearing of the case by a board of inquiry; (2) allowed reasonable time, as determined by the board of inquiry, to prepare his defense; and (3) allowed to appear in person and be represented by counsel. Sets forth procedures for determination of rank for commissioned officers. States that a regular commissioned officer is not eligible for voluntary retirement until he completes at least six months in the grade in which he is to be retired. Requires that each board convened to consider officers in the Navy Medical Corps, the Judge Advocate General's Corps, the Supply Corps, the Chaplain Corps, the Civil Engineer Corps, the Dental Corps, the Nurse Corps, or the Medical Service Corps shall consist of officers in the corps concerned.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1975
Second Regional Rail Reorganization Act Amendments - States that the Board of Directors of the U.S. Railway Association shall have a Government Investment Committee, vested with the exclusive power to: (1) exercise or decline to exercise, as provided in the final system plan, the rights of the Association as holder of any securities of the Consolidated Rail Corporation issued to the Association; (2) make the affirmative findings and exercise any exclusive powers, as expressly provided in this Act; and (3) exercise the authority expressly conferred on it under this Act. Reduces by $1,000,000,000 the aggregate amount of the obligations of the Association which may be outstanding at any one time. Directs the Association to purchase debentures and series A preferred stock of the Corporation, at such times and in such amounts as may be requested by the Corporation to provide for the modernization, rehabitation, and maintenance of rail properties; for the acquisition of equipment; for the refinancing of indebtedness; or to provide working capital as contemplated by the final system plan. Sets forth terms and conditions governing such purchases. Authorizes appropriations to the Association of $2,100,000,000 to be used for the purchase of securities of the Corporation in accordance with this Act. Authorizes the Corporation to issue debentures, series A preferred stock, series B preferred stock, common stock, and other securities. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to provide financial assistance in the form of grants or loans to, or by the acquisition of securities of (1) the Corporation or other railroads, any State or local or regional transportation authority, or any other responsible person, for the purpose of facilitating the implementation of a supplementary transaction, and (2) the Corporation for the purpose of supplementary assistance. Enumerates the terms, conditions, and prerequisites for such assistance. States the policy of Congress that such terms must furnish reasonable assurance that any borrower will be able to repay the loans within the time fixed. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of $400,000,000 to provide such assistance. Permits discretionary representation by the United States on behalf of profitable railroads in instances where it appears that a judgment against such profitable railroad might be reached. Authorizes implementation of supplementary agreements and transactions when it is determined that they would promote the establishment and retention of a financially self-sustaining rail service system in the region adequate to meet the region's needs. Directs the Association to analyze each proposed supplementary transaction to determine whether it is in the public interest and is fair and equitable. States that if the opinions of the Secretary and the Association are not in agreement as to whether a proposal is fair and equitable, the Secretary may petition for a hearing before a special court. Sets forth procedures governing such hearings. States that all injunctive, declaratory, or enforcement actions under this Act shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the special court. Authorizes appropriations of up to $40,000,000 to meet the costs of the administrative functions of the Association.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1975
Government Secrecy Control Act - States that it is the policy of the United States Government to permit information relating to the national defense or foreign policy of the United States to be kept secret only when the disclosure of such information would harm the national defense or foreign policy or when such information has been provided to the Government of the United States by a foreign government or international organization pursuant to an agreement which conforms to the policy of this Act and which precludes the release of such information without the consent of that foreign government or international organization. States that it is also the policy of the United States Government not to permit information to be kept secret in order to impede access by Congress to such information or to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment to any office or agency, or to restrain competition or independent initiative. Establishes a Joint Committee on Government Secrecy to carry out the policies of this Act, and upon determination that the practices of Government departments and agencies fail to conform to such policies, to direct their revision. Specifies the composition, duties, and powers of the Joint Committee. Establishes the Office of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information within the Executive Office of the President to be headed by a Registrar of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information. States that it shall be the function of the Registrar to compile and transmit to the Joint Committee a Register of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information, and to review and recommend the procedures relating to the disclosure of information by the President, and Federal departments and agencies. Abolishes the Interagency Classification Review Committee. Requires that any document or matter kept secret pursuant to this Act shall be entered on the Register of National Defense and Foreign Policy Information. Specifies the information to be contained in each entry required to be made in the register. Specifies special procedures for the entry of specified classes of matter into the Register.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1975
Establishes the Joint Congressional Task Force on Federal Small Business Impact to be composed of one majority and one minority Member from the House Small Business Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Small Business, and the Joint Economic Committee. Directs the task force to establish subject matter priorities and assignments for the committees of the House and Senate in order to coordinate and assign to such committees areas for investigations to be undertaken. Provides that such investigations shall examine Federal programs and laws that affect small business in America. Requires the task force, upon completion of such investigations, to prepare a report and make recommendations for legislation based upon information by the committees. Provides that expenses of the task force shall be apid from the contingent fund of the Senate and House. Authorizes the appropriation of no more than $50,000 for expenses incurred by any committee during such investigations.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1975
Calls upon the President's Special Representative for Trade Negotiations and other officials to develop a code of conduct and specific trading obligations among governments, together with suitable procedures for dispute settlement.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1975
Authorizes the President to declare November 23 through November 30, 1975, as "National Bible Week."
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1975
Declares that the Congress welcomes to the United States their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1975
Fair Financing for Local Government Act - Title I: Fair Finance Insurance Board - Establishes a Fair Finance Insurance Board with a Chairman and four members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the Board to secure directly from any executive department or agency information, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Act. Directs such executive department or agency to furnish the information, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance directly to the Board upon its request. Title II: Functions of the Board - Authorizes the Board to offer to any insurers, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, reinsurance against 75 percent of losses resulting from the failure of any unit of local government to pay all or any part of scheduled municipal bond principal and interest payments on insured municipal bonds as such payments become due and payable. Authorizes the Board to enter into any contract, agreement, or other arrangement with any insurer for reinsurance coverage, pursuant to this title, in consideration of payment to the Board by the insurer of a premium which shall be determined by the Board, but which shall not exceed 1 percent of the total amount of the interest and principal amounts insured. Authorizes the Board to offer to the local assistance agency of any State, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, a guarantee of payment of 75 percent of the total amount of the interest and principle of bonds issued by such agency for the purpose of purchasing principle bonds issued by a unit of local government within such State. Title III: Special Study and Annual Reports - Directs the Board to conduct a study of the market for securities issued by local governmental units. Stipulates that such study shall include: (1) the availability, and present and potential sources of funds for the purchase of such securities; (2) influences upon, and developments in, interest rates for such securities; (3) suggested reforms in the financial structures and functioning, and in present methods of financing the activities of, units of local government; and (4) Federal and State efforts to assist in the marketing of such securities. Directs the Board to submit such local securities market study to the President for transmission to the Congress no later than 180 days subsequent to the enactment of this Act. Title IV: Advisory Committees - Authorizes the Board to establish special advisory committees which shall consult with the Board during the planning and implementation of its functions and shall provide advice and information to the Board concerning all aspects of its activities. Requires the advisory committees to provide for the representation of the following interests and such other interests as the Board may deem necessary or desirable: (1) city, county and State governments; (2) the labor movement; and (3) the financial community. Title V: Fair Finance Insurance Fund - Establishes a Fair Finance Insurance Fund which shall be available, without fiscal year limitations: (1) to make such payments as may, from time to time, be required under reinsurance or guarantee agreements entered into under this Act; and (2) to pay such administrative expenses as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that in the event there are insufficient moneys in the Fund to meet obligations of the Board, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Fund such sums as may be necessary to fulfill such obligations. Authorizes Secretary of the Treasury to use, for the purpose of making any such transfer, the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey by quitclaim deed the property comprising the Lee Canyon Youth Camp, Toiyabe National Forest, in the State of Nevada to Clark County in such State.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Equity in Health Insurance Act - Prohibits any person who uses the mails or any means of interstate transportation or communication to contract or to advertise services in contracting to provide health insurance from denying or limiting the insurance normally written solely because of the insured's sex or marital status. Requires any such insurance agent to include in any health insurance policy: (1) optional maternity benefits for dependents of the insured; (2) a provision for notice to dependents when they are no longer covered by such policy; and (3) provision of such insurance to part-time employees when made available on a group basis.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1975
Federal Taxpayers' Rights Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare pamphlets which set forth in nontechnical terms: (1) the rights and obligations of a taxpayer and the Service during an audit; (2) the procedures by which a taxpayer may appeal any adverse decision of the Service (including administrative and judicial appeals); (3) the procedures for prosecuting refund claims and filing of taxpayer complaints; and (4) the procedures which the Service may use in enforcing the internal revenue laws (including assessment, jeopardy assessment, levy and distraint, and enforcement of liens). Establishes within the Internal Revenue Service an office to be known as the Office of Taxpayer Services to be under the supervision and direction of an Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue who shall assist taxpayers in obtaining easily understandable tax information and answering questions on tax liability, among other functions. States that, upon application filed by a taxpayer with the Office of Taxpayer Services, in such form, manner, and at such time as the Secretary or his delegate shall by regulations prescribe, the Assistant Commissioner for Taxpayer Services may issue a Taxpayer Assistance Order if, in the determination of the Assistant Commissioner, the taxpayer is suffering from an unusual, unnecessary, or irreparable loss as a result of the manner in which the internal revenue laws are being administered by the Secretary or his delegate. Authorizes the President of the Legal Services Corporation to establish Taxpayer Representation Offices in four cities selected by such President for purposes of providing legal assistance to individuals in connection with: (1) any audit by the Service of any return made by or on behalf of the individual with respect to any tax imposed by chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, or (2) an assessment or collection from any such individual of any tax imposed by such chapter. Provides for show cause hearings with respect to jeopardy assessments and termination of taxable years. Increases the monetary value of specified items to be exempt from levy. Provides criminal penalties (a fine of up to $10,000, or imprisonment for up to 2 years or both) for investigations into or surveillance over the beliefs, associations, or activities of any individual or organization which are not directly related to such revenue laws. Provides a civil cause of action for damages or an injunction, or both, for such violations. Prohibits inspection of tax returns pursuant to a criminal investigation unless a search warrant has issued upon probable cause to believe that no alternative source of necessary information is available. Provides rules for civil investigation related to: (1) payment of Social Security and Railroad Retirement taxes; (2) pension administration; (3) census information; (4) enforcement of taxpayers' rights under this Act; (5) inspection by States; (6) inspection by Committees of Congress; and (7) disclosure to persons having substantial interest (agents of partnerships and corporations, and shareholders of corporations). Provides a civil action for damages for unauthorized disclosure of tax information.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1975
Provides that the Export-Import Bank shall not approve assistance for the export of nuclear materials or technology to any nation not a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Allows for exception to this provision when the President certifies to Congress that such transfer is required in the interest of national security.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1975
Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to revise the framework of collective bargaining in the construction industry. Creates, in the Department of Labor, the Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Committee comprised of ten management representatives, ten labor representatives, and up to three neutral members, appointed by the President. Provides that one of the neutral members shall be appointed Chairman. Requires that the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Secretary of Labor shall be ex officio members. Provides that the management, labor, and neutral members shall be appointed after consultation with the national organizations. Requires local labor organizations affiliated with the standard labor organizations in the industry to give 60 days notice to their national unions before the expiration or reopening of agreements, and contractors or associations engaged in collective bargaining with them are similarly required to notify either the national organizations with which they are affiliated, or the Committee directly if there is no national affiliation. Directs standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations engaged in collective bargaining to forward such notices to the Committee. Authorizes the Committee to take jurisdiction of the matter, in which case any strike or lockout is deferred for up to 30 days past the expiration or reopening date. Allows the Committee to decide to refer a matter to a national craft board or to the national machinery established by a branch of the industry, on which national unions and national contractor associations are represented, in an effort to assist the parties to reach agreement. Authorizes the Committee to elect to meet with the parties itself. Provides that the Committee may request the standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations whose members are directly involved to participate in the negotiations. Directs that in that event, any new or revised collective bargaining agreement shall be approved by the standard national construction labor organization with which the local labor organization, or other subordinate body, is affiliated in order for the agreement to be of any force or effect. Prescribes that in the event the standard national labor organization or national contractor association participates in such negotiation, it shall not suffer any criminal or civil liability arising out of such participation; nor shall the standard national labor organization be subject to any civil or criminal liability arising out of its approval, or failure to approve, a collective bargaining agreement. Specifies the standards which the Committee shall take into account in taking jurisdiction of a matter and requesting the participation of the standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations. Authorizes the Committee to make studies of collective bargaining in the industry and to make general recommendations with regard to negotiating structures, improvement of productivity, stability of employment, differentials among branches of the industry, dispute settlement procedures, and other related matters. Provides that this Act shall run for a term of five years. Directs the Committee to submit annual reports to the Congress and, six months in advance of the five-year limit, the Committee shall make recommendations with regard to the extension of the legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate September 20, 1975, as "German-American Day" to be observed with appropriate ceremonies.
United States · United States Congress · 5 September 1975
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Extension Act - Provides for the extension of the Emergency Allocation Act from August 31, 1975, to December 31, 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1975
Designates 1975 as Workmen's Circle Anniversary Year in recognition of its 75th jubilee.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Family Research Act - Authorizes a program of research to help better understand, identify and prevent pressures on families; to be carried out, under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, through State agricultural experiment stations and land-grant colleges of the United States and by other qualified and nonprofit agencies and organizations. Sets up procedures to be followed in making initial research grants. Provides that each land grant college submitting a research project approved by the Secretary shall be entitled to an initial grant of $100,000. Authorizes the appropriation of $7,100,000 for fiscal year 1976 and the three succeeding fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make supplemental grants to land grant colleges after specified requirements are met. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 for 1976; $12,000,000 for 1977; $14,000,000 for 1978; and $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 for the purpose of making supplemental grants. Requires that in order to be eligible for such grants under this Act the institutions concerned must expend, on the same general type of research for which funds are made available, an amount at least equal to the amount of funds such institution averaged spending on such type of research in the three calendar years before this Act was enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Establishes a timetable for Senate consideration of and action on legislative proposals relating to continuing congressional oversight of Government intelligence and other surveillance activities.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Securities Protection Act - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that criminal dealings in marketable securities affect interstate and foreign commerce, and that such dealings are harmful to the national economy. Declares the following activities to be crimes under the criminal laws of the United States and establishes fines and prison sentences for: (1) forging or counterfeiting of marketable securities and possession thereof; (2) possession of stolen United States marketable securities; (3) theft and unlawful possession of marketable securities; and (4) use of stolen or counterfeit marketable securities at a financial institution. Defines terms used in this Act. States that the United States Secret Service shall investigate the forging and counterfeiting of marketable securities, and the possession of stolen United States marketable securities.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1975
National Productivity and Quality of Working Life Act - Title I: Findings, Purpose, and Policy Definitions - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that the rate of productivity growth has declined during four of the past six years in the United States, and that such decline is detrimental to the social and economic welfare of the American people. States that there is a national need to identify the factors which affect adversely the productivity growth, to improve productivity, and to increase employment security. Declares it to be the purpose of this Act: (1) to establish a national policy which will encourage productivity growth consistent with needs of the economy, the natural environment, and the needs, rights, and best interests of management, the work force, and consumers; and (2) to establish as an independent establishment of the executive branch a National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life to focus, coordinate, and promote efforts to improve the rate of productivity growth. Title II: National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life Established - Creates as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government the National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life. Sets forth provisions for the establishment of the Board of Directors of the Center. Includes specified cabinet members and Federal officials ex officio, and provides for the appointment of other members by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. Enumerates the functions of the Center, including: (1) the development and establishment of a national policy for productivity growth in the public and private sectors of the United States; (2) the stimulation of the maximum participation of the public and private sectors of the Nation's economy in efforts to improve the rate of productivity growth; (3) the recommendation of legislation and revision of regulations as appropriate to achieve the purposes of this Act; and (4) the dissemination of information collected through surveys and studies conducted under this Act. Defines the powers of the Center, including the power to organize and contract for studies pursuant to the purposes of this Act. Requires the Center to report annually to the President and to the Congress on its activities during the preceding fiscal year. Title III: Federal Agency Coordination and Liaison with Center - Directs each department, agency, and independent establishment of the Federal Government to designate an individual to serve as liaison with the Center. Directs such offices to keep the Center informed of all programs and initiatives relevant to this Act, and to provide the Center with any information and material which it may request. Title IV: Administrative Provisions - Authorizes the Executive Director of the Center to carry out such actions as are necessary for effective operation pursuant to this Act. Title V: Evaluation by the Comptroller General - Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to audit, review, and evaluate the implementation of the provisions of this Act by the Center and to report the results of such inspection to Congress within 30 to 36 months of the enactment of this Act. Title VI: Repeal and Transfer - Transfers the functions and staff of the National Commission on Productivity and Work Quality to the Center. Title VII: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes the appropriation of funds to carry out the purposes of this Act for fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1975
Authorizes the appropriation of $50,000,000 to the Secretary of Commerce for his use in the organization for, planning, design, and construction of facilities in connection with the 1980 Olympic winter games at Lake Placid, New York.
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1975
Congressional Right to Information Act - Requires the head of every Federal agency: (1) to keep each committee and subcommittee of Congress fully informed with respect to all matters relating to the agency which are within the jurisdiction of the committee or subcommittee; and (2) to provide the Congress, its committees and subcommittees, with all information requested. Requires all officers or employees of the United States, when summoned to testify or to produce evidence before Congress or a committee or subcommittee thereof, to appear as requested, and to furnish all information required. Provides for the withholding of such information by instruction of the President. Provides for the subpena of an officer or employee of the United States or of information requested by Congress, when such officer fails to appear or such information is withheld. Provides for the bringing of a civil action to enforce such subpena. Sets forth rules for the treatment of any resolution introduced in Congress to enforce a subpena issued pursuant to this Act. Grants to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia the original jurisdiction over actions brought to enforce a subpena issued pursuant to this Act. Directs the Congress, and each committee and subcommittee thereof to take measures to insure the confidentiality of any information made available to it under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1975
Lobbying Disclosure Act - Title I: Regulation of Lobbying - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that many Americans believe that special interest groups get more from the Government than they do, and that the existing legislation designed to provide public disclosure of the efforts of such groups to affect the policymaking process fails in a narrow interpretation of those considered to be lobbyists and in the limitation to the legislative process. Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to provide for the disclosure of the communications, activities, and the origin, amount, and utilization of funds and other resources of and by persons who seek to influence the legislative or executive process. Defines terms used in this Act, including: (1) "Federal agency;" and (2) "officer or employee of the Congress." Includes in the definition of the term "lobbyist" a legislative agent retained to make executive or legislative communications; the person or organization employing the agent; the employees of any person or organization who are paid to make legislative communications when they make more than 15 in one quarter or 5 in one day; the person or organization for whom such employee works; any person who solicits at least 100 persons to make communications or contributions of $5000 or more to make such communications; and any person who solicits at least 25 persons who will be paid to make communications. Requires each lobbyist to register with the Comptroller General of the United States within five days of first becoming a lobbyist and at times thereafter as stated in this Act. Requires the representation notice filed at the time of registration to set forth: (1) the identification of the lobbyist; (2) the identification of every person or whose behalf the lobbyist expects to perform services; (3) a description of the financial terms under which the lobbyist is employed; (4) each aspect to the legislative or the executive policymaking process which the lobbyist expects to seek to influence, including any officer, employee, or committee of the Congress or of any Federal agency to whom a communication is to be made; (5) the identification of any person who is expected to be acting for such lobbyist; and (6) the approximate number of members of a voluntary organization, and a description of the methods of operation of such an organization. Requires lobbyists to maintain such records, including financial records, as the Comptroller General shall prescribe. Requires the identification of all sources of income. Requires lobbyists to submit quarterly reports to the Comptroller General covering the lobbyist's activities during the quarter. Provides for the weekly filing of reports if required by the Comptroller General to give a timely accounting of activities related to a pending major issue. Sets forth items of information which must be reported, including: (1) an identification of the lobbyists and the persons on whose behalf he has acted; (2) an identification of each decision of the legislative or executive policymaking process the lobbyist or anyone acting on his behalf; (3) a record of each oral and written communication expressing an opinion or containing information with respect to the Executive or legislative processes; (4) a copy of each written communication and a description of the procedures used by the lobbyist to solicit other persons to make executive or legislative communications and an estimate of the number of persons contacted and who engaged in lobbying; (5) the total income and expenditures of the lobbyist for lobbying; (6) an itemization of each expenditure made directly or indirectly to or for any Federal officer or employee which is over $15 within that quarter or which is in the aggregate is $60 a year; and (7) the amount and recipient of any contribution to a candidate for Federal office. Title II: Disclosure of Executive Branch Communications - Requires any Federal agency official, as defined in this title, to prepare a record of any oral or written communication which he may receive which pertains to any agency activity or policy issue. Sets forth the information required to be included in such record, including the identification of the person with whom the communication occured, and a summary of the subject matter of such communication. Requires all such communications to be made available for public inspection and copying. Title III: Duties of the Comptroller General - Directs the Comptroller General to administer this Act. Requires the Comptroller General: (1) to prepare forms and procedures for complying with this Act; (2) to develop a cross-indexing system to identify lobbyists with issues; and (3) to make notices of representation and reports available for public inspection. Requires the Comptroller General to: (1) ascertain if any lobbyist has failed to comply with the disclosure requirements of this Act or if any Executive Branch officer or employee has failed to record communications with outside parties and to promptly report such failure to that person; (2) make audits and field investigations of failures to comply with this Act on its initiative or upon any complaint by an individual; (3) prepare reports for members of the House or Senate from materials in its files; and (4) when he deems necessary and is requested by any person to issued advisory opinions as to whether a person or activity is covered by this Act. Sets forth the powers of the Comptroller General with respect to his or her enforcement of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Comptroller General to order a party, against whom a complaint has been filed alleging a violation of this Act, to cease and desist from the activity complained of if a hearing conducted by the Comptroller General shows the complaint to be valid. Establishes civil and criminal penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. Provides for the bringing of actions in a United States district court to construe the constitutionality of any provision of this Act. Title IV: General Provisions - Transfers to the Comptroller General all powers with respect to the registration and control of lobbyists.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Provides, under title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act, that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided thereunder to groups of low-income individuals aged sixty or older.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Indochina Refugee Children Assistance Act - Defines terms used in this Act. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State and territorial educational agencies for the public education of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee children. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grants. States that no such grants may be made unless the State submits an application to the Commissioner containing specified information and assurances that such payments will be distributed among local educational agencies within that State in direct proportion to the number of Indochinese refugee children served by each such local educational agency. Authorizes supplementary assistance grants of $300 per child to any State educational agency which provides for the unique educational needs of Indochinese refugee children who are aged five to seventeen, inclusive. Authorizes appropriations for basic entitlement grants of $57,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $14,500,000 for the period beginning January 1, 1976 and ending September 30, 1976, and $29,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes specified appropriations for supplementary assistance grants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Intergovernmental Handgun Control Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to provide: (1) a new organizational structure of improved performance, coordination, and evaluation of firearms control functions at the Federal level, (2) more effective coordination between Federal, State, and local governmental agencies, (3) procedures for the prohibition of handguns in certain areas with high crime rates, and (4) for increased public safety by banning the manufactures, sale, importation, and possession of handguns not suitable for sporting or other lawful purpose. Title I: Intergovernmental Cooperation Act Amendments - Directs the Attorney General to establish and maintain a National Handgun Statistics Office to identify and distribute statistical information relating to handguns. Requires that the loss or theft of a handgun should be reported to the office of the Attorney General, Sets forth criminal penalties for failure to comply with the provisions of this Act. Makes it unlawful to sell or otherwise dispose of any firearm or ammunition unless a card containing specified information about the transferee has been forwarded to the Attorney General. States that it is unlawful to sell or deliver more than one handgun per calendar year to any person except a licensed importer, manufacturer, dealer or collector. Directs the Attorney General to prescribe standards for theft prevention and security requirements involving handguns. Authorizes the Attorney General to establish joint Federal-local task forces for handgun trafficking control. Directs the Attorney General to prescribe standards to assure that Federal licenses to manufacture, import, or deal in firearms will be issued only to persons determined to be responsible and legitimately engaged in the business for which the license is sought. Makes it unlawful to possess a handgun in an area statistically determined to be a high crime area. Provides that reasonable compensation shall be made to owners of handguns required to forfeit them under this Act. Title II : Prohibits the possession, sale, or transfer of any handgun which the Attorney General determines to be unsuitable for law enforcement, military uses, hunting, sport shooting and other lawful purposes based upon standards established by the Attorney General. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth when the various provisions of this Act shall become effective.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Provides for the relief of Carolyn Joan Bodden.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Title I: - Provides that benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act shall be payable in an amount equal to 60 percent of the daily rate of compensation (but not less than $12.70 per day nor more than $24.00 per day) to any qualified employee for each day of unemployment or sickness in excess of four during any registration period. Provides for enlargement of the extended benefit period for railroad employees leaving work involuntarily and with less than 10 years of service by up to 65 days otherwise compensable but for the fact that benefits have been exhausted for that benefit year. Sets forth a method for determining the beginning date of an extended benefit period. Increases the rate of employers' contributions to the railroad unemployment insurance account when the amount in such account drops below $300,000,000 on September 30 of any year. Decreases the qualifying period for first-year employees for railroad unemployment benefits from 7 to 5 months of railroad employment during such year. Title II: Amendments to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 and the Railroad Retirement Tax Act - Authorizes to be appropriated from time to time such sums as may be necessary to provide for the expenses of the Board in administering the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Intergovernmental Law Enforcement Cooperation and Reorganization Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to provide: (1) a new organization structure for improved performance, coordination, and evaluation of firearms control functions at the Federal level; and (2) more effective coordination between Federal, State, and local government agencies in an effort to assist States and localities in improving interstate and local regulation of illicit handgun traffic. Defines terms used in this Act. Title I: Gun Control Transfers - Transfers to the Attorney General all functions of the Secretary of the Treasury under the Gun Control Act. Establishes within the Department of Justice the Firearms Safety and Abuse Control Administration, to be headed by an Administrator appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Requires the Attorney General to submit an annual report to the Congress covering the activities of the Administration, including: (1) an assessment and evaluation of specific programs of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies to reduce illicit handgun traffic; (2) a description of the nature, extent, and effect of Federal, State and local law enforcement agency intelligence operations relating to illicit handgun traffic; and (3) such recommendations, including recommendations for additional legislation, as the Attorney General deems appropriate. Stipulates that in the exercise of the functions transferred under this title, the Attorney General shall have the same authority as that vested in the agency or authority exercising such functions immediately preceding their transfer. Title II: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations - Directs the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, in consultation with the United States Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities, and representatives of Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies, to investigate, analyze, and report within six months of the enactment of this Act upon: (1) intergovernmental problems involved in controlling illicit handgun traffic; and (2) the effectiveness of the Gun Control Act, particularly the requirements for licensing of manufacturers, importers, and dealers.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Expresses the disapproval of the United States Senate of attempts to expel Israel for the United Nations. States that if Israel is expelled the Senate will review United States commitments to the Third World nations involved in the expulsion and will consider the implication of continued membership in the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1975
Expresses the objection of the Congress to the proposed sale of Improved Hawk missiles and Redeye missiles to Jordan.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1975
Conservation and Solar Energy - Federal Buildings Act - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that energy conservation practices adopted for the design, construction, and utilization of Federal facilities will have a beneficial effect on the Nation's overall supply of energy, and the procurement of solar heating and cooling units for use in Federal buildings should help to create a market for such units generally. States that it is the policy of this Act to insure that energy conservation and solar energy technology be employed in the design and construction of certain Federal facilities as set forth in this Act, and, to the maximum extent feasible, in the design and construction of all other Federal and federally assisted facilities. Defines terms used in this Act, including the terms "energy use analysis" and "life cycle energy costs". Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration and the Secretary of Defense to, in consultation with each other, develop, publish, and from time to time update guidelines designed to assure that the most effective and efficient measures for the conservation of energy and the use of solar energy systems are incorporated in (1) the design, construction, and renovation of Federal and federally assisted buildings, and (2) the procurement of goods and services for such buildings and for other Federal purposes. States that the guidelines developed by the Secretary and the Administrator shall be consistent with each other. Requires the guidelines developed by the Secretary to be applied to all new and existing buildings under his control. Requires the guidelines developed by the Administrator to be applied to all other new and existing buildings as defined in this Act. Directs all other Federal agencies to comply with the requirements of the applicable guidelines. Requires the Secretary and the Administrator: (1) to submit to Congress an energy use analysis with respect to the construction, acquisition, or leasing of any new building to which guidelines apply; and (2) with respect to existing buildings, to submit an inventory and energy use analysis of all such buildings, setting forth detailed plans for incorporating required improvements. Directs each Federal agency to submit to the Administrator or Secretary a detailed life cycle energy cost analysis of any building to be constructed, acquired, or leased by it for its use. Prohibits the purchase of any major energy using, generating, or conserving equipment by a Federal agency without prior submission of life cycle energy cost analysis. Provides for an increase in the allowable dollar amount of Federal assistance for building construction or major rehabilitation to cover the cost of solar energy equipment or other special energy equipment. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Provides under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 that the gross income of an employee does not include amounts received as payment or reimbursement for legal services furnished to the employee under a group legal service plan, the value of legal services rendered to the employee under such plans, or amounts contributed by the employee's employer to such plan.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1975
Authorizes the President to issue annually a proclamation designating that week in November which includes Thanksgiving Day as "National Family Week".
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Extends the life of the Drug Abuse Office and the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention an additional six months, through January 1, 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Director of the Drug Abuse Office. Prohibits any private or public general hospital which receives Federal support from discriminating against drug abusers solely because of their drug dependence or abuse. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1978 for State drug abuse prevention programs. Revises State plan requirements. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1978 for special drug abuse prevention project grants and contracts. Grants high priority in the implementation of such grants and contracts to primary prevention projects.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
National Workers' Compensation Act - Declares the findings of Congress that existing State workers' compensation laws are inadequate and that basic, national minimum requirements for State workers' compensation laws must be mandated and enforced by Congress for the protection of workers who are injured, or killed, or who contract diseases in the course of their employment. States that it is the purpose of this Act: (1) to establish minimum workers' compensation laws; (2) to establish procedures for their enforcement; and (3) to assist the States in improving existing workers' compensation systems in order to provide a uniform system of compensation, and to restore disabled workers to the fullest possible physical, mental, and economic usefulness through medical and vocational rehabilitation services. Defines the terms used in this Act. States that this Act applies to all employers and all employees. Enumerates the States in which an injured employee or the survivors of a deceased employee may claim benefits when injury or death occurred during the work-related travel of the employee. Enumerates workers' compensation benefits for any employee who becomes disabled or the survivor of any employee who dies due to any injury arising out of and in the course of employment. Sets forth the time limits for filing claims under this Act. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake a study of diseases related to employment, and recommend standards for determining: (1) whether such disease arose out of employment; and (2) whether death or disease was due to such employment. Sets forth administrative requirements for State workers' compensation agencies. Includes requirements: (1) that a single State agency be designated for administering workers' compensation law throughout the State; (2) that such agency maintain a rehabilitation services unit; and (3) that the hiring of qualified handicapped workers be encouraged. Provides for adjudication of disputed compensation cases in Federal district courts when the amount in controversy exceeds $10,000. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to enforce the provisions of this Act through action in the Federal district courts. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to assist them in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated through fiscal year 1978 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program of grants. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop and maintain a program of collection and analyses of workers' compensation statistics. Grants access to books, documents, papers and records of any grantee under this Act to the Secretary of Labor and the Comptroller General. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress on the subject matter of this Act. Establishes the National Workers' Compensation Advisory Commission. Defines the composition of the group. Directs the Commission to monitor the progress of the States in implementing the provisions of the Act and to advise the Secretary of compliance or noncompliance by the States, and to make recommendations for improving workers' compensation programs including recommendations for determining the compensation payable for permanent partial disability. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
National Institutions Act - Title I: Executive Accountability: - Directs the President, at the beginning of each regular session of Congress, to report to the Congress on the steps taken to faithfully execute the laws passed by Congress and enacted into law during its preceding session in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Provides that, not later than thirty days after the report of the President is received by the Congress, the Committee on Rules and Administration of each House after consultation with the appropriate standing committee shall report to its House a joint resolution on the report of the President which approves or disapproves such report. States that any joint resolution of disapproval shall also specify in detail the steps to be taken by the President in order to execute any such laws in accordance with the intent of the Congress. Specifies that each standing committee of the Senate shall: (1) review and study, on a continuing basis, the application, administration, and execution of the laws within it jurisdiction; (2) assign employees to carry out the above requirement; and (3) report, not less often than annually, on its studies and reviews including such comments and recommendations as may be appropriate. Title II: Congressional State of the Union: - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to report to the Congress at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress on the State of the Union. Stipulates that such report shall include a statement of congressional legislative priorities and recommendations to the executive branch for action which may be required to implement those priorities. Title III: Financial Disclosure: - Requires the President, Vice President, each Member of Congress, and other specified Government employees to file annually, with the Comptroller General, a report containing a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount of gross and taxable income, total deductions and tax liabilities, as well as tax paid as reflected on his/her Federal income tax return for the preceding calendar year; (2) the amount and source of income, each item of reimbursement for any expenditure, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source (other than gifts received from a spouse or from the immediate family) during the preceding calendar year which exceeds $100 in amount or value, including any fee or other honorarium received for or in connection with the preparation or delivery of any speech or address, attendance at any convention or other assembly of individuals, or the preparation of any article or other composition for publication, and the monetary value of subsistence, entertainment, travel, and other facilities received in kind; (3) the value of each asset held which has a value in excess of $1,000, and the amount of each liability owed which is in excess of $1,000 as of the close of the preceding calendar year; (4) any transactions in securities of any business entity during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in transaction in the securities of such business entity exceeds $1,000 ; (5) all transactions in commodities during the preceding calendar year if the aggregate amount involved in such transactions exceeds $1,000; and (6) any purchase or sale, other than the purchase or sale of a personal residence, of real property or any interest therein during the preceding calendar year if the value of property involved in such purchase or sale exceeds $1,000. Title IV: Office of Legal Counsel to the Congress: - Establishes in the legislative branch the Office of Legal Counsel to the Congress, which shall be under the direction and control of the Legal Counsel. Stipulates that any appointment as Legal Counsel shall be with the approval of the House of Representatives and the Senate, without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the office. States that is shall be the duty of the Legal Counsel, subject to professional standards: (1) to render to committees, Members, and other officers of the Congress legal opinions upon questions arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States; (2) to render, upon request to committees and Members of Congress, advice with respect to the purpose and effect of provisions contained in existing or proposed laws; (3) to perform such other duties with respect to legislative review of executive actions as shall be prescribed by the Congress; (4) (A) upon the request of any Member and subject to the direction and control of that Member's House, to intervene or appear as amicus curiae in any action pending in any court of the United States, or of a State or political subdivision thereof, in which there is placed in issue the constitutional validity or interpretation of any law or regulation of the United States, or the validity of any official proceeding of, or official action taken by, either House of Congress, any committee of either House of Congress, any joint committee, Member, officer, employee, office, or agency of the Congress; and (B) to represent Congress, committees, Members, and employees of Congress. Title V: Miscellaneous: - States that specified provisions of this Act are enacted by the Congress: (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Secuirty Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Emergency Mortgage Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make emergency mortgage relief payments to mortgagees on behalf of distressed homeowners. Sets forth as conditions for making such payments: (1) the holder of the mortgage has indicated an intention to foreclose; (2) mortgage payments have been delinquent for at least two months; (3) the mortgagor has incurred a substantial reduction in income as result of involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to adverse economic conditions and is financially unable to make the full payments; (4) there is a reasonable prospect that the mortgager will be able to make the adjustments necessary for a full resumption of mortgage payments; and (5) the mortgaged property is the principal residence of the mortgagor. States that mortgage relief payments may be made in amounts up to $250 per month for up to twelve months with an extension of up to an additional twelve months. States that the payments shall be repayable with an annual interest rate not exceeding eight percent. Directs the Secretary and the Federal supervisory agencies with respect to financial institutions to take steps to encourage forebearance in residential mortgage loan foreclosures, and to request all mortgagees to give such agencies at least 30 days notice prior to instituting foreclosure proceedings. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of this Act not to exceed $500,000,000. States that mortgage relief payments shall not be made after July 1, 1976. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within sixty days after enactment and at sixty-day intervals thereafter on the actions taken under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Provides that specified publications of institutions of higher education shall continue to qualify as second-class mail. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3626)
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Commends the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for contributions to the well-being of all peoples on its seventy-fifth anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1975
Authorizes, under the International Travel Act of 1961, additional appropriations for transition periods in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979, to carry out specified programs funded under such Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Interior for fiscal years 1976-1978 to promote, through the National Park Service, travel within the United States. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to promote and develop travel within the United States through activities which are in the public interest and which do not complete with activities of any State, city, or private agency.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1975
Market Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to foster and promote, through appropriate means and on an economically sustainable basis, the development and expansion of both traditional and innovative approaches to direct marketing of agricultural commodities from farmers to consumers. States that for purposes of this Act, the term "farmers market", is any marketplace (including, but not limited to, roadside stand, city markets, and vehicles used for house-to-house marketing of agricultural commodities) established and maintained for the purpose of enabling farmers to sell their agricultural commodities directly to individual consumers or organizations representing consumers. Directs the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture to conduct and facilitate activities designed to foster farmers' markets, including: (1) the designation of a specialist in each State responsible for a direct marketing program; (2) the sponsorship of conferences designed to facilitate the sharing of information on direct marketing programs; and (3) the providing of technical assistance to groups establishing direct marketing programs. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to foster the development of innovative farmer-to-consumer marketing arrangements by engaging in specified activities, including the establishment of at least five different projects involving innovative methods of direct marketing from farmers to consumers. Authorizes to be appropriated specified sums for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is 60 years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of a permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949, and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Provides that volunteers in foster grandparent programs administered pursuant to the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 may furnish supportive services to mentally retarded individuals regardless of the age of such individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments - Makes the offering of supplemental health services, as defined by the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, optional by health maintenance organizations. Eliminates the requirement imposed by such Act that health maintenance organizations offer annual open enrollment for individual membership. Redesignates medical treatment and referral services for drug or alcohol abuse or addiction and home health services as supplemental health services for purposes of such Act. Enables private entities to obtain federally guaranteed loans for the planning, initial development, and operation of a health maintenance organization to serve populations in addition to medically underserved populations. Includes State and local governmental employers as among those employers which must offer employees the option of membership in a health maintenance organization. Sets forth new procedures, penalties, and other requirements to be applied by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare where health maintenance organizations are alleged to be in noncompliance with such Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act an additional two years.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Directs the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to prescribe such regulations with respect to the regulation of rates for electric generating utilities, including the use of fuel adjustment clauses, as will encourage such utilities to use the lowest cost fuels consonant with environmental requirements.