United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
National Venereal Disease Prevention and Control Amendments - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish, under the National Venereal Disease Prevention and Control Act, a national program for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States for projects for the prevention and control of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States to establish and maintain adequate public health programs for the diagnosis and treatment of venereal disease. Authorizes to be appropriated $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the next four fiscal years for grants to States for venereal disease surveillance activities and casefinding and case followup activities respecting venereal disease.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Marihuana Control Act - Provides that the possession of not more than one ounce of marihuana for private use, or the transfer of not more than one ounce of marihuana without profit for private use, shall not constitute a crime against the United States. Provides for a civil penalty of not more than $100 for such possession or transfer.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1975
Federal Handgun Control Act - Defines the term "handgun" as a firearm designed or redesigned to be fired by the use of a single hand, including the parts from which a firearm can be assembled. Excludes antique firearms from the term. Makes it unlawful for any person to import, manufacture, sell, buy, transfer, receive, or transport any handgun which the Secretary of the Treasury has determined to be unsuitable for lawful purposes. States that a handgun which has a barrel of less than six inches in length shall not be approved for lawful purposes. Exempts from the provisions of this Act handguns sold or delivered to designated research facilities and duly commissioned law enforcement officers. Exempts firearms which are designated as curios or relics, and also occasional, sporadic sales by a licensed collector who is not a dealer. Prohibits any person other than a licensed importer, licensed dealer, or licensed manufacturer from knowingly possessing or transferring any handgun unless it is registered with the Secretary under this Act. Permits the Secretary to enter into grant agreements with State agencies who agree to carry out the registration requirements of this Act for handguns within the State. Authorizes appropriations of sums necessary to enable the Secretary to make such grants. Provides that the application for registration shall be filed in such form as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe, including: (1) the name and address of the applicant; (2) the number of the Federal handgun license issued to the applicant pursuant to this section; (3) the name of the manufacturer, the caliber or gage, the model and the type, and the serial number of the handgun; and (4) the date, place, name and address, of the person from whom the handgun was obtained. Specifies registration fees to be paid by applicants. Makes ineligible for registration any person who: (1) is under 18 years of age; (2) is, because of alcoholism, drug addiction, or mental disease or defect, an individual who cannot possess or use handguns safely or responsibly; (3) has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; (4) is a fugitive from justice; or (5) is not qualified under all appliable Federal, State, and local laws to register a handgun. Requires notice to the Secretary from a person to whom a handgun registration certificate has been issued under this section if such person changes his address, or transfers possession of a registered handgun. Makes similar provisions for obtaining a Federal handgun license for a handgun and ammunition of a caliber other than .22 rimfire. States that information required to be included in any application, certificate, or license submitted to or issued by the Secretary under this Act shall not be disclosed by him except to the National Crime Information Center established by the FBI, and to law enforcement officers requiring such information in pursuit of their official duties. Prescribes penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes the payment of compensation for the reasonable value of handguns voluntarily transferred to law enforcement agencies. Provides that the Secretary may prescribe such other rules and regulations as he deems reasonably necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Permits the Secretary to declare periods of amnesty for the registration of handguns under this Act or the transfer of handguns to any law enforcement agency. Specifies the effective dates of the provisions of this Act. Authorizes such appropriations as necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 April 1975
Provides under the Internal Revenue Code that the reduction in the value of a charitable contribution shall be decreased by 75 percent in the case of a contribution of a copyright, a literary, musical, or artistic composition, a letter or memorandum, or similar property by a taxpayer. Limits such tax deduction to an amount not to exceed the income for such year from the sale or exchange of property which qualifies for the reduction under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
States that it is the purpose of this Act to insure the free flow of oil in foreign and interstate commerce at the lowest possible price. Revises the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act by providing that on and after October 15, 1975, no person shall import into the United States any crude oil or refined petroleum product unless it has been purchased from the Federal Energy Administration, or manufactured from crude oil purchased from the Administration. Establishes a fine for importation in violation of such requirement. Sets forth the functions of the Administration. States that the Administration shall act as the exclusive agent of the United States in buying and selling petroleum products. Directs the Administration to function without loss or profit. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Requires the Administrator to submit to the President, for transmittal to Congress, an annual report which shall include a financial accounting of purchases and sales by the Administration together with recommendations by the Administrator for additional necessary legislation. States that the General Accounting Office shall audit the functions of the Administration under this Act semi-annually and report to the President and Congress. Imposes criminal penalties for the divulgence of information required to be kept secret by this Act. (Amends 18 U.S.C. 1924)
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Removes the numerical limitation on Allen J. Ellender Fellowships to disadvantaged secondary school students. Authorizes $750,000 for each of fiscal years 1977 and 1978 and $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1979 and 1980.
United States · United States Congress · 8 April 1975
Directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1975
Authorizes special pay in order to provide incentives for lawyers to enter and remain in the Armed Forces judge advocate programs. Sets forth pay schedules for such purposes and duty requirements for qualification thereunder. (Amends 37 U.S.C. 302)
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1975
Intergovernmental Countercyclical Assistance Act - Declares it to be the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to make State and local government budget-related actions more consistent with Federal Government efforts to stimulate national economic recovery; to enhance the stimulative effect of a Federal Government income tax reduction; and to enhance the job creation impact of Federal Government public service employment programs. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to make emergency support grants to State and local governments to carry out the purposes of this legislation. Authorizes for each of 12 succeeding calendar quarters (beginning with the first calendar quarter after the date of enactment of this Act) $500,000,000 when the national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reaches 6 percent plus an additional $250,000,000 for each whole percentage point over 6 percent of the national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the preceding calendar quarter. Provides that no funds would be authorized for any calendar quarter during which the national unemployment rate was under 6 percent. Provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall reserve one-third of the authorized funds for distribution to State governments and two-thirds of the authorized funds for distribution to local governments. Directs the allocation of assistance to State governments. Specifies State allocations would be made two-thirds on the basis of its unemployment and one-third on the basis of its adjusted taxes. States that in each case, the particular State's unemployment (in numbers) and its taxes raised would be compared to national totals, with the unemployment percentage weighted double. Provides for the allocation to local governments which would be made according to the same formula as for State governments. Provides that grants under this program should be used for the maintenance of basic services ordinarily provided by the State and local governments and that State and local governments shall not use funds received under this Act for the acquisition of supplies and materials or for construction unless essential to maintain basic services. Establishes an application procedure for State governments and identifiable local governments eligible to receive assistance under this Act. Requires that each application shall: (1) include the applying government's program for maintenance, to the extent practicable, of levels of employment and basic services that it customarily provides; (2) in the case of a State government, provide assurance that it will not reduce the total amount of financial assistance, in dollars, which it provides to local governments within its boundaries; (3) provide that necessary fiscal control and fund accounting procedures will be established to assure proper disbursal, and accounting for, Federal funds paid to State and local governments under this Act; (4) provide that reasonable reports will be furnished as the Secretary of the Treasury may require and that the Secretary of the Treasury has access to the records he needs to verify those reports; (5) provide that the nondiscrimination requirements of this legislation will be complied with; (6) provide that labor standards and wage requirements of this Act be complied with; (7) provide that the Act's requirements that governments receiving assistance under this Act report tax changes and changes in levels of services provided to the Secretary of the Treasury be complied with; and (8) provide that all funds received under this Act be expended by the recipient State or local government within 12 months of the time it is received. Provides that applications for payment of funds to other local governments shall be filed by the States. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to approve any application which meets the requirements of this Act within 30 days and to not finally disapprove, in whole or in part, any application for an emergency support grant under this Act without first affording the State or local government reasonable notice and an opportunity for a hearing. Requires that no person shall, on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under, any program or activity funded in whole or in part with employment made available under this Act. States that laborers and mechanics employed by contractors on all substantial repair renovation construction programs funded under this Act be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar projects in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor under the Davis-Bacon Act. Directs that each State or local government which receives a grant under this Act shall report to the Secretary, within 30 days, any increase or decrease in any tax which it imposes and substantial reductions in employment levels or in services which that jurisdiction provides. Gives the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to make payments from the funds authorized under this Act. Provides that no fund be paid to any State or local government under this Act for any calendar quarter if the unemployment rate within that jurisdiction during the previous calendar quarter was less than 6 percent. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold funds from any jurisdiction which fails to comply substantially with any of the provisions set forth in the application it submitted for funds under this Act. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report as soon as practical after the end of each calendar quarter on the implementation of the program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of Labor, to prescribe such rules as may be necessary to carry out this Act. Provides the Secretary of the Treasury with the authority to use services and facilities of any agency of the Federal government and of any other public agency or institution in accordance with appropriate agreements and to pay for such services either in advance or by way of reimbursement as may be agreed upon.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Requests the President to proclaim April 6, 1975, as a day of observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the liberation of the survivors of the Holocaust. States that it was on that day in 1945 that the Allied soldiers liberated the survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Extends the special food service program for children under the National School Lunch Act through September 30, 1975. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use not more than $52,700,000 from funds appropriated to encourage the domestic consumption and exportation of agriculture products to carry out the purpose of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Emergency Special Public Service Employment and Railroad Improvement Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to provide, under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, transitional job opportunities and related training for unemployed and underemployed persons and to stimulate and expedite repair and rehabilitation of the Nation's rail transportation network. Authorizes appropriations of $300,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Labor to enter into arrangements with eligible applicants in order to make financial assistance available for the purpose of providing employment for unemployed and underemployed persons in transitional jobs for improvement of railway lines and facilities, and training and manpower services related to such employment. Requires that preference be given to unemployed persons who are either ineligible for or have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits. Sets forth provisions governing approval of applications for assistance under the provisions of this Act. Limits the average Federal financial assistance for each public service job to $10,000 per year. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds on an equitable basis, taking into account the severity of unemployment in particular areas and the recommendations of the Secretary of Transportation. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to certify to the Secretary particular railroad lines and facilities which are in special need of maintenance, upgrading, or improvement and which can be substantially completed within twelve months after financial assistance is made available. Limits the Federal share of programs funded under this Act to 70 percent. Requires any State or local or regional transportation authority receiving financial assistance under this Act to contribute at least 30 percent of the cost of the program for which Federal assistance is provided. Directs the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to execute an agreement with the eligible applicant which will describe the work to be done, the timetable, and which will provide a mechanism for insuring that the National Railroad Passenger Corporation will receive a reasonable portion of the benefit of the value added to the rail lines or facilities involved.
United States · United States Congress · 24 March 1975
Authorizes the President to call a White House Conference on Women in 1976. States that the purpose of the Conference shall be the recognition of the contributions of women to the development of our country and to set goals and recommendations for the improvement of the status of women. Directs that the Conference shall be planned and conducted under the direction of the Citizen's Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Authorizes the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate to appoint six additional members to the Council. Directs the Council to cooperate with Federal departments and agencies in providing technical and financial assistance to the States to enable them to organize and conduct local and State conferences. Calls upon the Council to prepare and make available background materials for the use of delegates to the Conference, insure each State is adequately represented and establish a travel budget for those unable to pay their own expenses. Authorizes the Council to accept in the name of the United States grants, gifts and bequest of money for the furtherance of the Conference. Authorizes, without fiscal year limitations, the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 as may be necessary to carry out this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1975
Increases to $5,100 the annual amount which individuals may earn without suffering deductions from benefits on account of excess earnings under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Federal Mine Safety and Health Amendments - Title I: Amendments to the General Provisions of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 - Sets forth the definition of "mine" under this Act. Transfers the functions of the Secretary of the Interior in developing health and safety standards to the Secretary of Labor. Title II: Mine Safety and Health Standards Amendments - Revises title I of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. Establishes the duty of: (1) each mine operator and miner to comply with the health and safety standards of this Act, and (2) each mine operator to furnish a place of employment free from recognized hazards. Provides that the Secretary may by rule promulgate, modify, or revoke any health and safety standard. Provides that the Secretary may request the recommendations of an advisory committee whenever he determines that a rule should be promulgated. Sets forth the time period for the reporting of any recommendations by the Committee. Prescribes procedures for publication and public hearings with respect to any rule proposed by the Secretary prior to its issuance. Requires the Secretary, in promulgating standards, to set the standard which assures miners will not suffer impairment of health, functional capacity, or diminished life expectancy even if regularly exposed to hazards throughout their working lives. Directs the Secretary to consider (1) the latest available scientific data in the field; (2) the feasibility of the standards; and (3) experience gained under this and other health and safety statutes. Provides that any standard promulgated must prescribe the use of labels or other warnings necessary to ensure that miners are apprised of all hazards to which they are exposed, relevant symptoms and appropriate emergency treatment and proper conditions and precautions of safe use or exposure. Sets forth additional factors which must be prescribed in specified instances. Requires that no safety or health standard promulgated under this Act shall reduce the protection afforded miners below that provided by any safety or health standard previously in effect. States that where the Secretary determines that miners are potentially subjected to physical or mental impairment from exposure to toxic substances, he may promulgate an emergency standard. Sets forth the procedures for promulgation of such emergency standard. Allows operators to apply to the Secretary for a temporary order permitting limited non- compliance with a standard. Specifies the circumstances under which such order shall be originally granted and renewed. Allows an operator to apply for a variance from a standard. Permits persons adversely affected by a standard to challenge its validity, within 60 days of its promulgation, in the appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals. Empowers the Secretary to appoint advisory committees to assist and advise him. Sets forth the composition and compensation of the members of any such committee. Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare: (1) to enter any mine subject to this Act, and (2) to make reasonable inspections and investigations and to question privately employers, owners, operators, agents, or employees. Requires inspections of underground mines at least four times a year. States that no advance notice of inspections shall be given. Sets forth rules regarding the maintenance of records by operators with regard to work-related deaths, injuries, illness, miner exposure to toxic substances, and all accidents, except specified roof falls. Provides that if any miner or their representative believes that a standard violation exists that threatens physical harm or that an imminent danger exists, he may request an inspection by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to provide a minimum of one spot inspection of all or part of a mine during every five working days at irregular intervals, if the mine contains some especially hazardous conditions. Provides that if, upon inspection or investigation, the Secretary or his representative believes an operator has violated any standard, he shall issue a citation to the operator, describing the nature of the violation, and fixing a reasonable time for the violation's abatement. Prescribes rules governing (1) gross violations of standards; (2) follow-up inspections; and (3) withdrawal from the area of unabated violations of all but specified personnel. Requires the Secretary to notify, within a reasonable time, an operator issued a citation of any penalty to be assessed, and that the operator has 15 working days to notify the Secretary that he wishes to contest the citation or proposed penalty. Prohibits discharging, discriminating against, or interfering with the exercise of statutory rights by any mine employee or applicant for employment because he filed a complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this Act or testified or is about to testify for himself or others. Provides that if an operator notifies the Secretary that he intends to contest a citation, the Secretary shall immediately advise the Commission, which must then provide an opportunity for a hearing and issue an order affirming, modifying, or vacating the Secretary's order. Permits any person adversely affected or aggrieved by an order of the Commission to obtain review of such order in any appropriate U.S. Court of Appeals and specifies the procedures to be followed after a petition for review is filed. Provides procedures for counteracting dangerous conditions, including: (1) issuance of withdrawal orders barring all except specified persons from an area, and (2) issuance of notices where less than imminent dangers exist and an investigation is being conducted into such conditions. Authorizes the Secretary to institute civil action for relief, including a permanent or temporary injunction, in any appropriate United States district court whenever an operator or his agent: (1) violates or does not comply with any order or decision issued under this Act; (2) hinders the Secretary or the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare or their representatives in carrying out the provisions of this Act; (3) refuses to admit such representatives to the mine; (4) refuses to permit the inspection of the mine, or the investigation of an accident or occupational disease related to such mine; (5) refuses to furnish any information or report requested in furtherance of this Act's provisions; or (6) refuses to permit access to and copying of such records as are necessary in carrying out provisions of this Act. Imposes penalties for violation of this Act. Provides that if a mine is closed by an order issued under this Act, all miners working during the shift when the order was issued who are idled shall be entitled to full compensation at their regular rates of pay for the period they are idled, but not more than the balance of the shift. Authorizes the Secretary to administer this Act through the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Authorizes the appropriation of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated that may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Title III: Relationship to Occupational Safety and Health Program - Provides that nothing in this Act applies the provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1972 to the working conditions in the mines. Increases the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission from three to five members appointed by the President with the Senate's consent. Sets forth the duties and procedure for operation of the Commission. Directs the Commission to prescribe rules of procedures for its review of decisions in cases under this Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 which shall meet specified standards. Authorizes the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to conduct research related to the development of safety and health standards under this Act. Provides that the Secretary, in carrying out his functions under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, shall include accurate statistics on the work injuries and illnesses occurring in the mines. States that nothing in this Act prohibits the application of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to sand and gravel mines. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Transfers the functions of the Secretary of the Interior under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 and the Federal Metallic and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act of 1966 to the Secretary of Labor, except those expressly transferred to the Commission by this Act. Provides that the mandatory and advisory standards relating to mines which are in effect on the date of enactment of this Act shall remain in effect as mandatory standards under title I of this Act until the Secretary issues new or revised standards. Establishes in the Labor Department a Mine Administration for Safety and Health to be headed by an Administrator appointed by the President, with the Senate's advice and consent. Provides that research activities relating to mine health will be carried out by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare through the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Secretary's research activities relating to safety are extended to all mines now covered by this Act. Extends to all mines covered by this Act the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare's authorization to conduct studies and research involving the protection of life and prevention of diseases relating to certain non-miners who work with or around mine products. Provides that any State law or regulation providing for health and safety standards applicable to any mine now covered by this Act and that (1) is more stringent than Federal law, or (2) applies to any area not covered by Federal law, shall not be held to be in conflict with this Act. Repeals the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act of 1966.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Clemency Board Reorganization Act - States that the Presidential Clemency Board shall be composed of nine members to be appointed by the President, one of whom shall be designated by the President to serve as Chairman. Provides that all jurisdiction, responsibility, or function with respect to any draft evader or military deserter is transferred from the Department of Defense to the Presidential Clemency Board. Authorizes the Board to recommend alternate service of up to 2 years for draft evaders and military deserters. Authorizes the reacquisition of United States citizenship by appearance before a United States district court judge, renouncement of citizenship acquired from another country, and pledging allegiance to the United States. Provides that veterans benefits may be conferred in the discretion of the Veterans' Administration or Department of Defense after issuance of a clemency discharge under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Drug Utilization Improvement Act - Title I: National Center for Clinical Pharmacology - Establishes, under the Public Health Service Act and within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the National Center for Clinical Pharmacology to provide support in the nature of grants for the study of clinical pharmacology. Enumerates the nature and general provisions of such grants. Provides for the collection of data regarding drug experiences and adverse drug reactions. Directs a study to be conducted on the inappropriate prescribing of drugs and on whether controls are needed for such inappropriate prescribing. Requires all organizations receiving assistance under this Act to review the prescribing and administering of all drugs in the course of delivery of health care. Authorizes to be appropriated $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $9,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 for grants and projects. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 for the collection of data regarding drug experience. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 for the study of inappropriate prescription of drugs. Title II: Promotional Practices - Prohibits the transfer of any gift, product, premium, prize, or other thing of value, to any individual if the purpose of such transfer is to influence the prescribing, administering, or dispensing of such drug. Prohibits the transfer of any free drug, including any sample, to any individual by any person engaged in manufacturing except pursuant to a written request of a practitioner licensed by law to prescribe and administer such drugs. Prohibits the inspection of any written prescription or evidence of any oral prescription without the express consent of the prescribing physician and of the individual for whom the prescription was given. Prohibits the use by any person of any information contained in such files for any purpose. Requires that information regarding the price at which such drug is available to various classes of purchasers be included in advertisements concerning such drug. Prohibits the Secretary from exempting any advertisement with respect to specified required information. Prohibits anyone engaged in the manufacture or distribution of any drug to promote its use to any individual engaged in the delivery of health care unless certified by the Secretary under this Act. Directs every person engaged in the manufacture or distribution of any drug to register with the Secretary a list of employees, agents, or other representatives engaged in the promotion of any drug. Directs the Secretary to appoint at least one advisory committee to advise him in the certification of programs. Title III: Drug Quality - Requires the Secretary to establish requirements for proof of therapeutic equivalence to assure reasonably uniform therapeutic performance among chemically equivalent drug formulations for each drug or class of drugs subject to this Act. Revises the standard for determining whether or not a drug or device shall be deemed to be adulterated to require that such drug conform to current good manufacturing practice as determined by regulations of the Secretary, and to require that its label bear the date beyond which the drug should not be used. Empowers the Secretary to provide for batch by batch certification of drugs, whenever the protection of the public health cannot be adequately assured without such certification. Requires any person subject to registration to establish and maintain such records and make such reports to the Secretary as the Secretary may by regulation require to assist him in carrying out the purposes of this Act. Title IV: National Drug Compendium - Directs the Secretary to prepare and publish a drug compendium which shall list all drugs requiring prescription that are lawfully available in the United States. States that such drugs shall be arranged by the therapeutic classification. Requires the Secretary to include in such compendium the proprietary names or designations under which a drug is listed in the compendium. Establishes in the Department an advisory committee consisting of persons qualified in pharmacology, safety, efficacy, and relative therapeutic value of drugs, appointed by the Secretary, to advise the Secretary on matters pertaining to the compendium. Empowers the Secretary in order to prepare the compendium to obtain from any person in drug commerce any information available for such compendium, and to require such persons to establish and maintain such records, and permit access to such records as the Secretary by regulation may require. Grants the district courts of the United States jurisdiction to issue orders requiring compliance with a Secretary's order, and to punish as contempt the failure to obey such order. Title V: Consumer Drug Information - Requires that drugs subject to the Act bear a label containing the established name, and in the case of a drug fabricated from two or more active ingredients, a list of the active ingredients of such drug by their established name. Directs the Secretary to establish by regulation a uniform code of symbols representing: (1) manufacturer; (2) the identity of the drug; (3) the identity of the final packager of the drug; (4) the dosage form and strength of the drug; and (5) the number of drug units. Declares a drug to be misbranded whose label does not contain such code. Prohibits the doing of any act which causes a drug to be misbranded, and permits any drug that is misbranded to be proceeded against on libel of information. Requires every person who owns or operates a pharmacy or other establishment subject to applicable local law, and which regularly dispenses drugs upon prescription of practitioners, to display a list of those drugs most frequently sold in the area, the professional services associated with the dispensing of such drugs, and the charges of such pharmacy to the public for such services.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1975
Calls upon the President to seek direct negotiations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in an effort to limit military forces in the Indian Ocean and littoral states. Directs that such negotiations shall be convened as soon as possible in a bilateral multilateral forum. States that these negotiations should consider, among other things, agreed limitations by the two powers on the establishment or use of naval and other military facilities in the Indian Ocean and littoral states, number of warships deployed, and the size and characteristics of warships and other military forces deployed there. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should not make any agreement for the use by the United States of military facilities in the Sultanate of Oman, until he has used his best efforts to convene such negotiations.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Small Business Emergency Relief Act - Authorizes the head of any executive agency to terminate for the convenience of the Government any fixed-price contract between that agency and a small business concern encountering significant and unavoidable difficulties during performance because of the energy crisis or rapid and unexpected escalations of contract costs. Specifies the documentation and certification required of a small business concern to support such a request for relief. Gives to the term "small business concern" the same meaning for the purpose of this Act as such term has for purposes of the Small Business Act. States that the authority conferred by this Act shall terminate December 31, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Radiation Health and Safety Act - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall develop and issue to the States criteria and minimum standards for the accredition of education institutions conducting programs for the training of radiologic technologists and for education institutions conducting programs for the training of medical and dental practitioners, dental hygienists, and dental assistants. Provides that the Secretary shall develop and issue to the States criteria and minimum standards for licensure of radiologic technologists, and such other advice and assistance as he deems necessary. Provides that State and local governments shall be encouraged to minimize exposure of the public to potentially hazardous radiation from all sources. Provides for procedures for the adoption of such standards by the States. Provides that the Secretary may make grants to States in an amount up to two-thirds of the first year and one-third of the second year costs of planning, developing, or establishing programs to carry out the purposes of this Act. Declares it to be unlawful to conduct activities contrary to this Act. Provides that any violation of this Act by an individual applying radiaiton to human beings for diagnositc or therapeutic purposes shall be subject to a civil penalty of not more $1,000.
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Grants a Federal charter to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation with its principal offices in Indianapolis. States such Corporation's purposes, including: historical evidence relating to December 7, 1941, and to stimulate interest in the affairs and future of America so as to "keep America alert".
United States · United States Congress · 18 March 1975
Requires the heads of the respective executive agencies to provide the Congress with advance notice of planned organizational and other changes or actions which would affect Federal civilian employment by requiring the transfer or termination of a significant number of civilian employees.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Plutonium Recovery Control Act - Prohibits the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from licensing, permitting, or otherwise authorizing, except for military or research and development purposes (1) the operation of any nuclear power reactor using recycled plutonium fuel, or (2) other construction or operation of any facility which reprocesses or recovers plutonium from spent nuclear power reactor fuel. Requires the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct and complete within three years a comprehensive study of the recycling of plutonium for the purpose of determining the extent of the dangers to the public health and safety and to the environment from such recycling. States that such study shall include: (1) investigation of the toxicity and carcinogenic characteristics of plutonium; (2) investigation of the risks of the unauthorized diversion or theft of plutonium; and (3) consideration of the development of systems for the use of plutonium which will assure the protection of the public health and safety and of the environment.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Summer Food Corps Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and carry out a summer farm job program for eligible youth. Defines "eligible youth" to mean anyone who: (1) is a citizen of the United States and who has attained age 16 but not attained age 21 at the time of selection for the program authorized by this Act; and (2) resides in an urban community. Directs the Secretary in carrying out the program, to establish procedures to: (1) identify, recruit, and select eligible youth; (2) identify, screen, and qualify reputable farm and ranch operators to serve as employers of such youth; (3) assure that youth are paid a minimum of $30 per week; (4) provide appropriate training; and (5) provide for the transportation of such youth to and from their place of employment. Authorizes $20,000,000 to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares the purpose of this Act in establishing a coordinated national program in earthquake mitigation. Provides that the Director of the Geological Survey, in consultation with the National Science Foundation, shall develop and carry out a program of research and implementation in the areas of tectonics, seismology, geology, engineering, planning, and social sciences necessary to achieve the purposes of this Act, specifying the nature of such program. States that the Director of the Geological Survey and the Director of the National Science Foundation, jointly, shall: (1) establish an advisory committee composed of representatives of the research community to review periodically the earthquake mitigation program and to recommend to the Directors, through periodic written reports, appropriate modifications in the conduct or emphasis of the program; (2) establish an information dissemination mechanism to make available in a timely manner information developed pursuant to this Act; (3) prepare and submit annual reports to the Congress on the progress of the program and achievements in earthquake mitigation; (4) establish a joint program to evaluate, synthesize, and present, through appropriate educational programs, the knowledge developed pursuant to this Act; and (5) assist the States in carrying out their responsibilities under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 by making readily available the results of research conducted pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and the same amount for each of the following nine fiscal years. Provides, under the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, for authorization of appropriations of $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $25,000,000 for each of the nine following fiscal years, for carrying out the duties of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Voter Registration Act - Establishes within the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, the Voter Registration Administration. Provides that the President shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Administrator and two Associate Administrators for terms of four years each. Sets forth the duties and powers of the Administration. Authorizes the Administration to establish and administrater a voter registration program in accordance with this Act for all Federal elections. Provides that an individual who fulfills the requirements to be a qualified voter under State law and who is registered to vote under the provisions of this Act shall be entitled to vote in Federal election in that State, except that each State shall provide for the registration or other means of qualification of all residents not later than 30 days prior to any Federal election. Directs the Administration to prepare voter registration forms. Authorizes the Administration to enter into agreements with the Postal Service, with departments and agencies of the Federal Government, and with State officials for the distribution of registration forms. Requires the Administration to assist State officials in detecting fraudulent voter registration, when such assistance is requested. Provides that the district courts of the United States or the United States District Court of the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction, without regard to any amount in controversy, of proceedings instituted pursuant to this Act. Provides that whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information for the purposes of establishing eligibility to register or vote, or conspires for the purpose of encouraging false registration or illegal voting, or pays, offers, or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting registers to vote with intention of voting more than once in the same election shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. States that any person who deprives, or attempts to deprive any other person of any right under this Act shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Authorizes the Administration to pay to each appropraite State the reasonable cost of processing registration forms prescribed under this Act. Provides that any State that adopts the Federal assistance post card form shall be deemed to be in full compliance with specified provisions of this Act. Authorizes appropriations of such as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Provides under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act, that persons who are blind and have at least six quarters of coverage shall be eligible for disability insurance benefits. Outlines those regulations which apply to the amount of benefits to be received. Defines blindness as used in this Act. Continues payment of such benefits as long as the blindness lasts, notwithstanding the amount of the individual's earnings.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1975
Authorizes the President to proclaim April 6, 1975, as a day of observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the liberation of the survivors of the holocaust.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President's proposal to restructure the medicare deductible for physician services and the copayment for inpatient hospital services to require citizens to pay more of the health bill shall not be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Antitrust Enforcement Authorization Act - States that it is the purpose of Congress in this Act to support and invigorate a national antitrust enforcement program authorizing sufficient appropriations to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to permit vigorous and effective enforcement of the antitrust laws. Authorizes to be appropriated to both the Commission and the Justice Department, in addition to such sums as are authorized by any other provisions of law, sums not to exceed $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; not to exceed $6,250,000 for the transitional period ending September 30, 1976; not to exceed $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1977; and not to exceed $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, such sums to remain available until expended for the purposes authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax and to allow an Automobile Efficiency Incentive Credit on every new automobile manufactured, produced, or imported, based on the fuel consumption rate of such automobile. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to study and determine the fuel consumption rates of automobiles which are or may be subject to the tax or credit imposed or allowed by this Act. Directs the Administrator to annually prepare and transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury a schedule of fuel consumption rates to be known as the Automobile Fuel Consumption Schedule. Imposes an excise tax of 10 percent of the retail purchase prices on every new petroleum powered recreational vehicle.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Establishes a temporary select committee of the Senate comprised of 12 members to conduct a thorough study of the Senate committee system. Provides the committee with the powers necessary to carry out the study. Authorizes the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $900,000. Requests the select committee to submit interim reports and a final report with recommendations by February 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Small Business Emergency Tax Reduction Act - Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for an increase from $10,000 to $15,000 in the dollar limitation on property eligible for an additional first-year depreciation allowance for small business. States that in the case of a husband and wife who file a joint return, the limitation shall be increased from $20,000 to $30,000. Removes the requirement that such eligible property have a useful life of six years or more. States that in the case of corporations, the normal tax on a corporation's taxable income shall be equal to 22 percent of the amount by which the taxable income exceeds the normal tax exemption for the taxable year. Provides that the normal tax exemption for any taxable year beginning after December 31, 1974, shall be $5,000, with specified exceptions. Increases the corporate surtax exemption from $25,000 to $100,000. Provides, in the case of a corporation other than a mere holding or investment company, for an increase in the minimum accumulated earnings credit from $100,000 to $150,000. States that in computing the taxable income of a partnership, there shall be allowed a deduction to the partnership for organizational expenses. Defines "organizational expenses" as any expense of a character which, if expended incident to the creation of a corporation having a limited life, would be amortizable over such life. Provides for an increase in the investment credit to 12 percent of so much of the qualified investment as does not exceed $20,000, plus 10 percent of so much of the qualified investment as exceeds $20,000 but does not exceed $50,000, plus eight percent of so much of the qualified investment as exceeds $50,000.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Revises the Small Business Act by providing that the Small Business Administration may guarantee equity investments made by investment companies in small business concerns which will contribute to a well-balanced national economy by facilitating ownership in such concerns by persons whose participation in the free enterprise system is hampered because of social or economic considerations. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Performance Rights Amendment - Provides under the Copyright Act, for the establishment of a performance royalty. Gives exclusive rights to a copyright holder to perform publicly for profit and to reproduce and distribute to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending, any reproduction of a copyrighted work which is a sound recording. Limits the exclusive rights of the owner of a copyright to duplicate the sound recording in a tangible form that recaptures the actual sounds fixed in the recording, and to perform those actual sounds. Provides that these rights do not extend to the making or duplication of another sound recording that is an independent fixation of other sounds, or to the performance of other sounds, even though such sounds imitate or simulate those in the copyrighted sound recording; or to reproductions made by broadcasting organizations exclusively for their own use. Provides that where the copyrighted sound recording has been distributed to the public under the authority of the copyright owner, the public performance of the sound recording shall be subject to compulsory licensing. Establishes a compulsory licensing system whereby those who use sound recordings for profit would be required to pay a fee (performance royalty) to the copyright owner. Provides that such fees shall be placed in a fund out of which copyright owners are compensated. Specifies that the annual royalty fees, at the user's option, may be computed on either a blanket or a prorated basis. Allows the substitution of a negotiated license for the compulsory license at a rate not less than specified in this Act. Sets forth detailed payment requirements for royalties under the compulsory licensing provisions of this amendment. (Amends 17 U.S.C. 1; Adds 17 U.S.C. 33)
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
National Biomedical Heart, Lung, Blood, Blood Vessel, and Research Training Act - Title I: National Heart and Lung Institute - Directs the Director of the Institute to prepare in consultation with the National Heart and Lung Advisory Council and submit to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for transmittal to the President and the Congress simultaneously an annual report on the activities, progress, and accomplishments under the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung and Blood Disease program during the preceding year and a plan for the next five years, including projections of the staff required and recommendations for appropriations. Redesignates the Assistant Director for Health Information Programs as the Assistant Director for Prevention and Education. Authorizes $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs. Authorizes cardiovascular, lung, and blood disease prevention programs to be carried out in chronic lung disease research and demonstration centers. Limits payments under the Act to heart, blood vessel, lung and blood disease centers to $5,000,000 for any year. Authorizes the Advisory Council to approve areas or research in heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases to be supported by the awarding of contracts and approve the percentage of the budget of the Institute which may be expended for such contracts. Excludes indirect costs in determining the maximum amount of research and training grant authorized by the National Heart and Lung Act. Authorizes $475,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 for carrying out the programs of such Act. Title II: National Research Service Awards - Authorizes the awarding of National Research Awards for biomedical and behavioral research at Federal institutions. Authorizes $207,947,000 for the National Research Service Awards program for fiscal years 1975 and 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Health Professions Educational Assistance Act Title I: General Provisions - Renumbers, consolidates, and rearranges existing provisions in title VII of the Public Health Service Act which authorizes Federal assistance to schools of the health professions. Expands the membership of the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education to include representatives of all the health professions schools assisted under title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Sets forth a revised advanced funding provision. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Extends provisions of the Public Health Service Act authorizing grants, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies for the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and public health personnel. Authorizes $100 million for fiscal year 1975; $125 million for fiscal year 1976; and $150 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years for the construction grant program. Authorizes $2 million for fiscal year 1975; $2.5 million for fiscal year 1976; and $3 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years for loan guarantees and interest subsidies. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Revises the student assistance programs authorized under the Public Health Service Act. States that students pursuing a graduate degree in public health would become eligible to apply for health professions student loans under this Act. Repeals the advanced traineeship program for students of public health. Increases the maximum amount of a health professions student loan to equal a health professions student's tuition plus $2,500 per year. Provides that authorizations for the health professions student loan fund are $60 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Provides for the forgiveness or cancellation of professional educational expenses at the rate of 50 percent for the first year and 50 percent for the second year of service in a health manpower shortage area. Makes students pursuing graduate degrees in public health eligible for the loan forgiveness program. Obligates each individual who receives any student loan under title VII to serve at least 2 years in an area or institution designated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as having a shortage of health manpower. States that the individual could serve the obligated period in a shortage area as designated by the Secretary, or could serve as a member of the National Health Service Corps. Provides that individuals who fail to serve the obligated period would be required to pay damages equal to twice the original value of the student assistance received. Repeals the program of health professions student scholarships and the physician shortage area scholarship program, to be replaced by an amended Public Health and National Health Service Corps scholarship training program. Sets forth the features of such program. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Extends the existing programs of capitation and special project grants to health professions schools and the program of assistance to area health education centers. Provides that schools of public health shall be eligible for capitation grants awarded on the basis of the number of students enrolled. States that each grant will equal one-third of the net educational costs of training a student multiplied by the number of full-time students enrolled in the school. Provides total authorizations for the capitation grant program of $292,273,250 for fiscal year 1975, $304,626,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $316,747,350 for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years. Prohibits the Secretary from making any capitation grant after June 30, 1974, unless the school assures the Secretary that each student accepted for enrollment agrees to serve in the National Health Service Corps or in a medically underserved area as a private practitioner. Authorizes grants for projects to assist schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry to plan, develop, and implement a nutrition education curriculum. Provides for authorizations for the special projects program of $100 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Extends the program of start-up assistance for new schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Authorizes $11 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Repeals the program of financial distress grants to health professions schools. Revises the program of assistance to area health education centers by requiring all new centers receiving assistance to: (1) encourage the establishment or maintenance of programs to alleviate shortages of health personnel through training or retraining; (2) provide training programs leading to more efficient utilization of health personnel; (3) initiate new types and patterns or improve existing patterns of training, retraining, continuing education, and advanced training of personnel; and (4) encourage new or more effective approaches to the organization and delivery of health services through the use of team approaches. Authorizes appropriations for area health education centers of $75 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Title V: Assistance for Specialized Training - Extends provisions of the Public Health Service Act which authorize grants to hospitals to develop training programs in family medicine and to provide financial assistance to students and physicians who participate in family medicine programs. Authorizes, for the family medicine grant program, $40 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Repeals the programs for grants for computer technology health care demonstration programs and grants for training, traineeships, and fellowships for health professions teaching personnel. Authorizes grants to medical and osteopathic schools to train U.S. citizens who transfer from foreign medical schools to a U.S. medical school. Authorizes for such program $5 million for fiscal year 1975; $10 million for fiscal year 1976; and $15 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years. Title VI: Allied Health Personnel - Defines the term "allied health personnel". Authorizes a program of allied health special project grants for States, schools and representatives of the allied health professions. Authorizes, for this allied health special projects grant program, $40 million for fiscal 1975; $45 million for fiscal year 1976; and $50 million for fiscal year 1977 and the next 2 fiscal years. Revises the advanced traineeship program for professional allied health personnel and authorizes appropriations of $7.5 million for fiscal year 1975; $9 million for fiscal year 1976; and $10.5 million for fiscal year 1977 and the next 2 fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations for the identification of and assistance to financially, culturally, or educationally deprived persons who have a potential to become allied health personnel. Requires the compilation and dissemination of statistics on allied health personnel and submission to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee and the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of an annual report on these statistics. Title VII: Postgraduate Physician Training - Authorizes a program to certify a limited number and an appropriate balance of postgraduate physician training programs. States that the program would be administered by the Secretary, according to the recommendations of the National Council on Postgraduate Physician Training and 10 regional councils on postgraduate physician training throughout the Nation. Directs the Secretary, according to the recommendations of the council, to set the total number of internship and residency positions to be certified nationwide in the following year. Provides that the total number could not exceed 110 percent of the total number of medical and osteopathic degrees granted in that year. Authorizes the Secretary to compensate institutions which are forced to decrease their number of postgraduate physician training positions because of the 110 percent limit. Requires the Secretary to make grants of up to $100,000 to develop new additional training positions in specialties, and in geographic areas, if the national and regional councils determines such additional positions are needed. Authorizes a study to determine the desired balance of physicians in the various medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. Title VIII: Minimum National Licensure of Physicians and Dentists - Requires the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate professional organizations, to develop and establish national standards for the licensure of all physicians and dentists who wish to practice in the United States. Directs the Secretary to prepare a national examination to initially license physicians and dentists and subsequent reexaminations to renew licenses which would be given at least every 6 years. States that, under the provisions of the national licensure program, individual States would be encouraged to establish their own licensure programs, which must be in accordance with national standards. Provides that the new national licensure relationships between States must comply with the national standards for licensure of physicians and dentists. Prohibits States from establishing any requirement for the licensure of physicians and dentists which: (1) would be inconsistent with national standards; or (2) would require that the individual applying for the license reside in the State for a certain period of time. Prohibits a State from renewing the license of any physician or dentist who is obligated, under the provisions of this Act, to provide health service in a medically underserved area or as a member of the National Health Service Corps, unless that physician or dentist has fulfilled his obligation, as certified by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Title I: Replacement of Lost, Stolen, or Delayed Checks - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish procedures for expedited payment of monthly benefits. Requires the Secretary, within one day after the date an individual files for late payment of benefits, to cause such monthly insurance benefits to be paid. Title II: Expediting of Hearings and Determination - States that in administration of the programs established by titles II, (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) XVI, (Grants to States for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled), and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary shall establish procedures designed to assure that: (1) any duly requested hearing to which an individual is entitled will be held within a reasonable period of time after requested, if such hearing is requested with respect to a determination of entitlement to benefits; and (2) not later than ninety days after such a hearing is requested, the Secretary shall render a final determination on the issues, or if no final determination of the Secretary has been made at that time, the Secretary shall make payments of benefits to such individual in like manner as if a final determination has been made full in favor of such individual. Title III: Expedited Payment of Black Lung Benefits; and Expedited Hearings and Determinations Respecting Such Benefits - Provides for expedited payments of black lung benefits under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for expediting hearings and determinations on claims for such benefits. Title IV: Limitation of Benefit Reduction to Compensate for Benefit Overpayment - Limits to 25 percent the reduction that may be made in an individual's Social Security benefit check for any month because of any previous overpayment of monthly benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Health Manpower Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations of $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976 and 1977. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools. Prescribes procedures for the establishment of a National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements by the Secretary to the Congress in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975-1977 for carrying out this section. Revises the Public Health and National Health Services Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligiblity requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the program $80,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorization of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances from each type of school, including assurances that the first year enrollment of health profession schools will rise by specified percentages in succeeding years. Title V: Special Project Grants and Contracts - Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Specifies the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1977. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000, $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively, for the establishment of area health education centers. Title VI: Public and Allied Health Personnel - Revises the training programs for public and community health personnel and allied health personnel, extending appropriations through fiscal year 1977. Title VII: Medical Residency Training Programs - Provides for the accrediting and operation of medical residency training programs with the number of first year positions not to exceed 125 percent of the estimated number of products from accredited school of medicine in the preceding calendar year. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to contract for a study analyzing the current distribution of physicians by speciality, projecting such analysis to 1980, 1985, and 1990, and examining and developing a method for establishing the optimal distribution of physicians by geographic area. Requires the Secretary to make specified quality assurances to the Congress regarding education and training of allied health personnel. Calls for an allied health personnel study, detailing the contents of such study, including identification of classifications in which there are critical shortages of personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Title I: National Health Services Manpower Act - Establishes the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program for the purpose of obtaining physicians for the National Health Service Corps. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for participation in the Program. Provides that each eligible individual shall be entitled to the payment by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of a scholarship for each approved academic year of training (not to exceed four years). Sets forth the dollar amounts of such scholarships. Requires an individual participating in the Program to serve on active duty as a commissioned officer in the Public Health Service or as a civilian member of the National Health Service Corps following completion of academic training. Provides that such period of active duty shall be six months of service for each year of training received under the Program, with a minimum service time of 12 months. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the National Health Service Corps Trust Fund from which scholarships under this Act shall be paid. Authorizes appropriations for such fund. Establishes, within the Public Health Service, the National Health Service Corps to improve the delivery of health services to medically underserved populations. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to designate the medically underserved populations in the States. Defines the term "medically underserved population" and enumerates the factors to be taken into account in making such designations, including: (1) ratios of available health manpower to the population; (2) indicators of the population's access to health services; and (3) indicators of health status and need of the population. Empowers the Secretary to assign Corps personnel to State health agencies, private health entities, local governments, and medical, dental or other appropriate health societies. Enumerates the requirements to be met prior to the making of any such assignments and for the continuing of expired assignments. Provides that Corps personnel shall be assigned on the basis of the extent of the population's need for health services and without regard to the ability of members of the population to pay for health services. Directs the Secretary, in making an assignment, to seek to match characteristics of the assignee and of the population in order to increase the likelihood of the assignee remaining to serve the population upon completion of his assignment period. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance to all medically underserved populations to which are not assigned Corps personnel; (2) make arrangements to enable Corps personnel to utilize the health facilities of the areas in which the population resides; and (3) make grants, with specified limitations, for purposes of providing health services. States that the Secretary shall require as a condition to the approval of an application that the entity enter into an appropriate arrangement with the Secretary under which: (1) the entity shall be responsible for charging for health services by the Corps personnel to be assigned; (2) the entity shall take action for the collection of payments for such health services; and (3) the entity shall pay to the United States specified, calculated amounts. Directs the Secretary to conduct, at schools of the health professions and allied health professions, recruiting programs for the Corps. Directs the Secretary to adjust the monthly rate of pay of each physician and dentist member of the Corps who is directly engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress and specifies the content of such reports. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps to consult with, advise, and make recommendations to, the Secretary with respect to his responsibilities in carrying out this Act, and to review and approve regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Sets forth the membership composition of the Council. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal years 1975-77 to carry out the establishment and functions of the National Health Service Corps and the Council. Establishes in the Public Health Service the National Council on Postgraduate Physician Training. Sets forth the membership composition of the National Council. Provides that the National Council shall conduct studies and other activities relevant to the various matters related to the postgraduate training of physicians. Establishes a Regional Council on Postgraduate Physician Training for each of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare regions. Sets forth membership composition of such Councils. Provides that each regional council shall conduct studies and other activities relevant to the various matters related to the postgraduate training of physicians within the region served by the regional council. Provides that the National Council and each regional council shall annually certify postgraduate training positions in entities, and associations of such entities, which directly provide such training. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to, and contract with, entities which directly provide, or have the capacity to provide directly, postgraduate training of physicians and which are certified to the Secretary by the National Council and a regional council as likely to receive an increased number of certified postgraduate positions subsequent to July 1, 1977, to allow such entities to develop new, and expand existing, postgraduate physician training programs. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1978-80 to carry out such program and make such grants. Directs the Secretary to contract for the conduct of a study to: (1) analyze the current and projected geographical distribution of physicians by specialty; and (2) examine, evaluate, and develop a reliable and appropriate methodology to establish the optimal distribution of physicians by specialty and by geographic area. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 for the conduct of such study. Authorizes the Secretary to make special project grants to schools, agencies, organizations and institutions for the improvement of health professions training. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such special project grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public or private nonprofit entities to assist in projects for planning, developing, and operating area health education systems. Defines "area health education systems." Authorizes appropriations for the making of such grants. Authorizes the Secretary, between July 1, 1974 and June 30, 1977, to provide loan guarantees and interest subsidies to students obtaining loans from banking institutions to meet the cost of education expenses in pursuing an approved course of study leading to an undergraduate degree in nursing, pharmacy, or other allied health professions. Establishes in the United States Treasury a health service manpower loan guarantee fund to enable the Secretary to discharge his responsibilities with respect to loan guarantees and interest subsidies under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation to the fund of such amounts as may be required from time to time for the fund. Title II: Miscellaneous Repeals - Revises the Public Health Service Act by repealing the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, Traineeships for Professional Public Health Personnel, Project Grants for Graduate Training in Public Health, the National Health Service Corps, programs for Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel, and programs for Nurse Training.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Comprehensive Health Professions Education Act - Title I: Loan Guarantees for Construction For Replacement Or Remodeling Of Teaching Facilities - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to assist eligible nonprofit private entities in carrying out approved projects for the construction of teaching facilities of private nonprofit schools of medicine, nursing, osteopathy, veterinary medicine, optometry, or podiatry, other than the construction of new buildings or the expansion of existing buildings, during the period beginning July 1, 1974, and ending with the close of September 30, 1977, by guaranteeing to any non-Federal lender that makes a loan to an eligible entity, for that project, payment when due of the principal of and interest on that loan. Sets forth eligibility requirements for such loan guarantees. Terminates loan guarantees for the construction of new teaching facilities and the expansion of existing teaching facilities. Terminates interest subsidy payments on such loan guarantees. Title II: Capitation Grants, Start-Up Assistance And National Priority Incentive Awards - Directs the Secretary to make annual grants to schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, and veterinary medicine for the support of the education programs of those schools, for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Reduces the amount of such grants for each such fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations for each such fiscal year. Limits start-up assistance grants to schools that have received a start-up grant for fiscal year 1974. Establishes a program of National Priority Incentive Awards to each school of medicine and osteopathy in an amount equal to $2,000 for each of its graduates who enters a residency in the practice of family medicine, and to award grants to pay part of the cost of planning, developing, and operating for an initial period, not to exceed three years, programs of graduate or specialized education or training in family medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, and other health care shortage fields. Title III: Special Projects, Health Manpower Education Incentive Awards, And Financial Distress Grants - Expands the health manpower special projects authority to include assistance presently authorized under existing comparable special project authority contained in the nursing, allied health, and public health professions portions of the Public Health Service Act. Consolidates the authorizations of appropriations for the special project grants for the health professions and the health professions Health Manpower Education Incentative Awards into a single provision of law. Authorizes appropriations for both programs for an additional three years. Authorizes appropriations for the health professions financial distress grant program for an additional three years. Makes schools of pharmacy ineligible for such grants. Limits the financial distress grant to any school for a fiscal year to 75 percent of the financial distress grant awarded for the previous fiscal year. Title IV: Student Assistance - Authorizes the payment to eligible disadvantaged individuals of stipends, with allowances for travel and for dependents, for post-secondary education or training required to qualify such individual for admission to a school providing health training, or to assist such individual in undergoing that training. Authorizes appropriations for the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Authorizes the Secretary to assign participants in the program to any civilian or uniformed Federal health service. Raises the interest rate on health professions and nursing student loans supported by the Federal Government from 3 to 7 percent. Title V: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective date with respect to the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Health Manpower Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Services Act. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1978. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools. Prescribes procedures for the establishment of a National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements of the Secretary to the Congress in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1976-1978 such purposes. Revises the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligibility requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the Program $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1978. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorization of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances that the first year enrollment of health profession schools will rise by specified percentages in succeeding years, are met. Title V: Special Project Grants and Contracts - Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Specifies the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1978. Title VI: Medical Residency Training Programs; Admission of Alien Doctors; Reports - Provides for the accrediting and operation of medical residency training programs. Provides for exclusion of alien doctors who have not met specified requirements of this Act as to certification and demonstrated competency in oral and written English, as well as other criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Land Resource Planning Assistance Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to assist the States to develop and implement State land resource programs and to assist Indian tribes to inventory and plan the use of reservation and other tribal lands. Preserves the rights and jurisdiction of States and other property owners with respect to non-Federal lands. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Program of Assistance to the States - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make annual grants to the States to assist each State in developing and administering a State land resource program for non-Federal lands. Defines "state land resource program" as a program which includes (1) a land resource planning process, (2) a land planning agency, (3) a study of existing land resource planning and management authority, (4) a statement of policies and objectives, (5) methods of implementation and coordination, and (6) an energy facility planning program. Requires such programs to provide for the participation of owners of real property, local government, and the public, and to otherwise meet the requirements of this Act. States that land resource planning processes shall include specified criteria, including the preparation and continuing revision of an inventory of environmental, geological, and physical conditions (including soil types) which influence the desirability of various land uses. Provides that each State land planning agency shall have primary authority to develop and administer the State land resource planning, and to define the policies and objectives of each State's particular land program. Requires that methods of controlling land sales and development projects be included in each State program. Stipulates that Federal projects and activities on non-Federal lands significantly affecting land use must be consistent with State land resources programs, except in cases of overriding national interest. Title II: Administration of State Assistance Programs and Coordination of Federal Land-Related Activities - Requires the President to issue guidelines to the Federal agencies and the States within 6 months after enactment to assist them in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Establishes in the Department of the Interior the Office of Land Resource Planning Assistance. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Office, to (1) administer the grant-in-aid programs established under this Act, (2) develop and maintain a Land Resource Information Center, and (3) perform specified duties relating to the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to establish an Interagency Land Resource Advisory Board to provide advice and assistance to the President, the Secretary, and the Federal agencies in carrying out the programs authorized by this Act. Requires the Secretary to annually evaluate State land resource programs to determine whether such programs conform with the requirements for grant eligibility. Provides an appeal procedure for States which have been notified of ineligibility for grant assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education to assist the conduct of research and investigations into the theoretical and practical problems of land resource planning and management. Directs the Secretary to report biennially to the President and the Congress on land resources, uses of land, and current and emerging problems of land use. Title III: Energy Facilities Planning : Energy Facilities Planning Act - Requires that five years after enactment of this Act, State land resource programs must contain an energy facility planning program which is compatible with State land and water resource and planning management. States that such energy facility planning programs must provide for: (1) an energy facility planning process; (2) a coordinated review and approval process at the State level; (3) consideration of the national, regional, and marketing area energy needs in the planning, licensing, or permitting of energy facilities; (4) cooperation with other States in planning, siting, and approving energy facilities; and (5) public participation in the energy facility planning process. Requires the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to prepare annually and submit to the President and to the Congress a National Energy Facility Planning Report. States that such report shall include specified comprehensive energy data, including information on the location, size, and production capacity of existing energy facilities and present and projected long range energy needs. Authorizes the Administrator to request, collect, and acquire information from States and other non-Federal governmental entities for the proper exercise of his responsibilities under this Act. Directs the Interagency Land Resource Advisory Board to conduct a study of methods to reduce the delays in obtaining, conflicting requirements for, and number of permits, licenses, and other governmental decisions which serve as prerequisites to proposed development activities. Requires the Administrator to develop and implement an expedited Federal energy facility licensing program. Title IV: Program of Assistance to Indian Tribes - Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants to Indian tribes to assist any such tribe to inventory, and plan the use of, reservation and other tribal lands, and to enter into contracts to obtain expert assistance in such inventorying and planning activities. Directs the Secretary to appoint a Commission to study the existing legal authority for tribal management, regulation, or control of reservation and other tribal lands, and to make recommendations on the advisability of a land resource program applicable to such lands. Requires the Secretary to submit the study and the recommendations of the Commission to Congress not later than 18 months after enactment of this Act. Title V: Authorizations and Allocations - Authorizes appropriations for grants to the States of $100,000,000 for each of the next 8 fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations of $2,000,000 for each of the next 8 fiscal years for training and research grants and contracts. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for each of the next 8 fiscal years for grants to Indian tribes. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary for the next 2 fiscal years to carry out the study on Indian lands. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary for each of the next 5 fiscal years to administer this Act. Limits the amount of grants to States found eligible pursuant to this Act to 90 percent of the estimated cost of developing and administering the State land resource programs.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Authorizes the President to annually issue a proclamation designating the second week of April of each year as "National Medical Laboratory Week". Urges the President, Governors and mayors to take further action during that week to impress upon the american people the importance of laboratory services.
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