United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Requires motor common carriers of household goods to keep specified records, including late shipments, damaged shipments, and claims settlements, and to file such records quarterly with the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Requires carriers to submit such information on all carriers, to be compiled by the ICC to prospective shippers and to retain a receipt thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnihsing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1974
Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program Amendments - Extends the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program to obtain health related specialists not only for the National Health Service Corps but for such other uniformed or civilian Federal health service as the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare may determine is appropriate. Adds to the criteria for participation in the Program by broadening eligibility to include those selected for civilian service in the National Health Service Corps or in such other uniformed or civilian Federal health service as the Secretary may determine is appropriate and eliminates as criteria for participation in the Program the requirement that each applicant must be eligible for, or hold, an appointment as a commissioned officer in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Service. Eliminates, as a requirement for participation in the Program, written agreement to serve in the Commissioned Corps of the Service while revising the written agreement requirement to include such other uniformed or civilian Federal health service as the Secretary may determine is appropriate. Alters the active duty obligations of participants in the Program by eliminating the alternative of serving as a commissioned officer in the Service and adding the alternative of serving in such other uniformed or civilian Federal health service as the Secretary may determine is appropriate. Eliminates the requirement that at least one-half of the active duty obligation must be spent providing health care and services in specific areas. Provides that periods of internship or residency shall not be creditable in satisfying an active duty service obligation unless the internship or residency is served in a Federal health facility, thus eliminating the restriction that internship or residency are only creditable when served in a facility of the Public Health Service or other facility of the National Health Service Corps. Eliminates the authorization to appropriate $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program. Provides that this Act shall be effective with respect to appropriations for fiscal years ending after June 30, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Declares that the Congress hereby calls upon the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of General Services to cause to be conducted on or about August 10, 1974, appropriate ceremonies in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, in the town of West Branch, Iowa.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Expresses it to be the sense of the Congress that negotiations for a new Panama Canal Treaty are necessary in the interests of both the Republic of Panama and the United States. States that, with reference to the promulgation of such a treaty, the Congress of the United States endorses specified principles agreed to by the United States of America and the Republic of Panama on February 7, 1974 at Panama City.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Establishes the Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers to study and recommend administrative action and legislation necessary for establishing public or private electronic fund transfer systems. Requires such study to take into account: (1) preservation of competition among financial institutions; (2) user and consumer privacy; and (3) the impact on monetary and economic policy and on availability of credit. Authorizes an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Authorizes the head of any agency, with the concurrence of such agent as the President may designate, to determine and fix the minimum and maximum limits of age within which an original appointment may be made to a position as a law enforcement officer or firefighter. Defines the terms law enforcement officer and firefighter. States that a law enforcement officer or a firefighter who is otherwise eligible for immediate retirement shall be separated from the service on the last day of the month in which he becomes 55 years of age and completes 20 years of service if then over that age. Authorizes the head of an agency. when in his judgment the public interest so requires, to exempt an employee from automatic separation until the employee becomes 60 years of age.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Extends the coverage of the National Labor Relations Act to employees of nonprofit hospitals. Defines the term "health care institution" for purposes of this Act. Sets forth collective bargaining notice, mediation, and agreement procedures to govern employees of a health care institution.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Health Resources Planning Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to assist private and public health care systems to plan more effectively the provision of resources necessary to meet the health care needs of the nation, and to facilitate governmental regulation of health care costs. Repeals provisions of the Public Health Service Act, which provide for a National Advisory Council on Comprehensive Health Planning Programs. Directs the chief executive officer of each State to designate geographical regions as health service areas to be served by the Health Systems Agencies. Identifies the geographical characteristics of such health service areas. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to certify a Health Systems Agency for each health service area and to enter into an agreement obligating the Agency: (1) to prepare and maintain a comprehensive plan for the health service area; (2) to review the Secretary's grants of Federal financial assistance for health care activities; (3) to review State and local health care activities; (4) to offer technical assistance in furtherance of the health plan, (5) to participate in the Statewide Health Coordinating Council; and (6) to comply with subsidiary requirements, including auditory and examination of books. Empowers the Secretary to make grants for an agency's operational expenses and to extend to the Agency technical assistance, and to keep it apprised of national health policies and issues. Prescribes the procedures for termination or withdrawal of certification and the organizational requirements to be met by agencies, including that an agency be a nonprofit private corporation that exercises no Federal, State, or local regulatory authority, and is not a provider or insurer of health services or an educational institution. Outlines the composition of the governing body of each agency. Provides that members and employees of the agency are relieved of civil or criminal liability under any law for the performance, with the exercise of due care, of functions authorized by this Act. States that an agency may receive unconditional contributions from any private source of up to 5 percent of the amount of assistance received from the Secretary, and of up to 25 percent of that amount from any public sources. Requires each agency to annually adopt a comprehensive health plan for its health service area identifying shortages, maldistributions, and surpluses of health personnel, facilities, and services, and the most serious organizational and operational deficiencies of health care providers. States that the plan must set forth long-range goals and annual priorities for the establishment or improvement of health care systems, and recommend actions to alleviate the problems identified by the plan. Provides that an agency may provide technical assistance, directly or by grant or contract, to implement the recommendations of its comprehensive health plan. Sets limitations on the purpose, amount and duration of such grants. Requires that two or more agencies that serve health service areas that fall, in whole or in part, within the same State shall form a Statewide Health Coordinating Council. Directs the Council to draw on the comprehensive health plans of its member agencies to prepare a Statewide plan, and perform other advisory analytical and coordinative functions. Directs the Secretary to evaluate the performance of agencies and councils on a regular basis and to prescribe standards of performance to facilitate this evaluation. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 to carry out the provisions of this Act. Establishes a formula grant program to assist the States to pay their costs of regulating capital expenditures related to health care, and to establish or regulate rates used for the payment or reimbursement for health care services. Provides that the allotment would be in accordance with the populations of the respective States eligible for it, and the costs of regulating the activities selected by the States for regulation. States that the Secretary, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to a State, may terminate assistance for noncompliance. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 for grants to States for the regulation of health care costs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
National Health Service Corps Amendment - 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 the 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. Provides for 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. Authorizes to carry out the provisions relating to the National Health Service Corps to be appropriated $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to Congress the criteria used by him in designating medically underserved populations; and the number of populations in each State meeting such criteria; and (2) conduct or contract for studies of methods of assigning National Health Service Crops personnel to medically underserved populations and of providing health care to such populations. Directs the Secretary to establish the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program to obtain trained physicians, dentists, nurses, or other health-related specialists for the National Health Service Corps or other units of the Service. Enumerates the eligibility requirements for participation in such program and the regulations governing program members. Provides that, to carry out the program, there is authorized to be appropriated $3,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Social Security Administration Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to strengthen the fiscal and administrative structure of the contributory social security programs. Title I: Social Security Administration - Establishes, as an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration, headed by a Board appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Declares that it shall be the duty of the Administration to administer the programs established by titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and to discharge the duties and responsibilities imposed on the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in connection with the administration of the program established by title IV of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. States that the Administration shall also have the duty of studying and making recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance, and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy. Provides for the appointment of an Executive Director and a General Counsel of the Administration. Makes the Administration responsible for administering the old age, survivors, and disability insurance program, medicare, supplemental security income, and the black lung benefit program under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Prohibits the mailing of announcements with Social Security and SSI checks which make reference by name, title, or signature to any officer of the United States. Transfers to the Social Security Administration: (1) all functions carried out by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to the administration of programs and activities the administration of which is vested in such Administration, by reason of this Act; and (2) all personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, and records, which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines to be employed, held, or used by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare primarily in connection with the functions, activities, and programs which, by reason of this Act are vested in or become the responsibility of the Administration. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security. Title II: Miscellaneous and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Social Security Act, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, the Budget and Accounting Act, and the Executive Schedules of the United States Code.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1974
Health Planning Act - Provides that the Governors of each State, subject to the approval of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall establish health areas with respect to which health planning agencies shall be designated. Sets forth criteria that each health area shall meet. Declares that, within 120 days following the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register proposed boundaries for health that if the States fail to establish health areas within 60 days following the date of enactment, the Secretary shall establish such health areas soliciting the views of the Governor of each State. Defines the terms "health planning agency" and "Public Benefit Corporation". States that a health planning agency shall have a staff which provides the agency with expertise in at least the following: (1) the gathering and analysis of data, (2) planning and (3) health manpower, facilities, and services. Sets forth provisions for each planning agency's governing body. Enumerates the functions of health planning agencies including the functions a health planning agency shall perform in implementing its long-range and short-term plans. Provides that in conducting reviews of proposed health system change, each health planning agency shall follow procedures and apply criteria developed and published by the agency in accordance with regulations of the Secretary. Lists the minimum procedures to be included by each health planning agency and State Health Commission in reviewing proposed health system changes. Enumerates the elements to be considered for agency and Commission review. Enables the Secretary to provide all necessary technical and nonfinancial assistance (including the preparation of prototype plans of organization and operation) to nonprofit private entities which: (1) express a desire to organize a public benefit corporation to be designated as a health planning agency, and (2) the Secretary determines have a potential to meet the requirements of a health planning agency. Permits the Secretary to make grants to nonprofit private entities to assist them in meeting the costs of complying with the organization and operation requirements; authorizes to be appropriated for this purpose $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1976 and 1977. Requires the Secretary to designate a health planning agency, upon the recommendation of the State Health Commission, for each health area established. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into an agreement for the initial designation of an entity as the health planning agency for a health area unless the Governor of each State in which such area is located approves such designation of such entity. Directs the Secretary to provide health planning agencies and State Health Commissions (1) model health plan and planning processes, (2) technical materials and standards for use in health planning, and (3) such other technical assistance as they may require to perform their functions. Enumerates the elements to be included in these materials provided by the Secretary. Requires that the Secretary make in each fiscal year a grant to each health planning agency with which there is in effect at the beginning of the fiscal year a designation agreement. Provides that this grant shall be made on such conditions as the Secretary determines are appropriate and shall be used by a health planning agency for compensation of agency personnel, collection of data, planning, and other activities of the agency. Prohibits a health planning agency from using this grant to make payments under a grant or contract with another entity for the development of health services. Provides a formula for determing the amount of any grant to any health planning agency, the minimum amount being $150,000. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants, $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Declares that the Secretary shall make in each fiscal year a grant to each health planning agency to enable the agency to establish an Area Health Planning Development Fund from which it may make grants and enter into contracts. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $125,000,000 for fiscal year 1976. Directs the Secretary to review and approve the annual budget of each health planning agency with which there is in effect a designation agreement. Directs the Secretary to enter into an agreement with the qualified agency designated by the Governor of each State as the State Health Commission. Lists the criteria of organization and operation of a "qualified agency". Enumerates the criteria for a State administrative program for the performance within the State by its State Health Commission of the regulatory functions prescribed by this Act. Lists the regulatory functions of each State Health Commission. Authorizes to be appropriated $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975 and 1976 for grants the Secretary may make to States to assist in meeting the costs of developing State Health Commissions. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1974, $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 for grants the Secretary may make to States for the operation of State Health Commissions. Permits the Secretary to make grants and loans to public and nonprofit private entities to assist in meeting the costs of construction projects for health facilities and to guarantee to non-Federal lenders payment of principal and interest on loans made by such lenders to non-profit private entities for such projects. Provides a maximum loan of 90 percent of the cost of such project. Directs the Secretary, with the consent of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, to obtain from the Department of Housing and Urban Development such assistance with respect to the administration of these grants and loans as will promote efficiency and economy. Makes general provisions relating to loans and loan guarantees. Establishes in the Treasury a loan guarantee and loan fund available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation. Authorizes to be appropriated to provide capital required for the fund $100,000,000 in the aggregate for fiscal years 1974-1976. Authorizes the Secretary to issue to the Secretary of the Treasury notes or other obligations to enable the Secretary to discharge his responsibilities.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Transfers the functions of the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Social and Rehabilitation Services Administration to the Office of Human Development.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1974
Requires, under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973, that the President provide for the mandatory allocation of plastic feedstocks produced in or imported into the United States. States that such allocation shall provide for: (1) preservation of a sound and competitive plastics industry; and (2) equitable distribution of plastic feedstocks at equitable prices. Defines the terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974
Provides loans under the Small Business Act to any small business concern seriously and adversely affected by a shortage of: (1) fuel; (2) electrical energy; (3) energy-producing resources; or (4) raw or processed materials resulting from such shortages. Requires that the Small Business Administration determine that a concern has suffered or is likely to suffer substantial economic injury prior to the making of such loans. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 636(6))
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974
Declares that the International Olympic Committee be advised that the Congress of the United States would welcome the holding of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid in the Town of North Elba, County of Essex and State of New York, the site so designated by the United States Olympic Committee. Expresses the hope of the Congress of the United States that the United States will be selected as the site for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, and pledges its cooperation and support in their successful fulfillment in the highest sense of the Olympic tradition.
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Extends through December 1974, the period during which benefits under the supplemental security income program on the basis of disability may be paid without interruption pending the required disability determination, in the case of individuals who received public assistance under State plans on the basis of disability for December 1973 but not for any month before July 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1974
Disaster Relief Act Amendments - Title I: Findings, Declarations, and Definitions - Declares the purposes of this Act and the intents of Congress, including to provide assistance by: (1) revising existing disaster relief programs, (2) encouraging development of State and local disaster relief plans and capabilities, (3) improving coordination and responsiveness of disaster relief programs, and (4) encouraging acquisition of insurance coverage. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title II: Disaster Preparedness Assistance - Empowers the President to establish and conduct disaster preparedness programs, using the services of all appropriate agencies, to accomplish specified disaster operations, coordination, and research. States that technical assistance may be provided the States by the President. Provides that grants to the States not in excess of $250,000 may be made by the President within one year after enactment for the preparation of comprehensive disaster plans and programs, and an annual 50 percent matching grant not in excess of $25,000 may be made for maintaining and updating disaster assistance plans. Empowers the President to use the civil defense or other Federal communications systems for threatened or imminent disasters. Title III: Disaster Assistance Administration - Provides that, based upon a Governor's request, the President is authorized to declare that a major disaster exists or to take other appropriate action including coordination of the activities of all Federal agencies and the prescribing of rules and regulations to carry out any provisions of this Act. Requires that all disaster assistance under this Act must be provided according to a Federal-State agreement unless specifically waived by the President. Directs the President, upon the declaration of a major disaster to appoint a Federal coordinating officer to operate in the disaster areas under the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. Prescribes the duties of such officer in administering relief assistance. Authorizes the President to: (1) form emergency support teams of Federal personnel to be deployed in disaster areas to assist the Federal coordinating officer; and (2) to provide, upon request of an affected State, emergency services to save lives and protect public health and safety because a disaster either threatens or is imminent. Directs Federal agencies in a disaster, to provide assistance in enumerated ways. States that the Federal government is not liable for any claim based on performance or failure to perform by any Federal agency or employee of any discretionary duty or function under this Act. Provides for: (1) the performance of services by States; (2) the use of local firms and individuals; (3) nondiscrimination; and (4) the use and coordination of relief organizations in rendering disaster assistance. Requires applicants for assistance under this Act to obtain insurance to protect against losses to property which is replaced, restored, repaired or reconstructed with that assistance. Provides that no person, business concern or other entity shall receive financial assistance from more than one source for the same damage or loss from a disaster. Imposes criminal and civil penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes the President to impose controls for the duration of the disaster period on maximum allowable wages, rents and prices for goods and services which in his judgment are necessary to assist in promoting economic recovery of the area. Title IV: Federal Disaster Assistance Programs - Empowers the President to authorize immediate repair or replacemnt of any disaster-damaged facility owned by the United States if he determines that such action is so urgent that it cannot be deferred until required legislation, appropriations, or Congressional committee approval is obtained. Enumerates additional Presidential powers, including to: (1) make grants to help repair, restore, reconstruct or replace the facilities damaged or destroyed by a major disaster; (2) clear debris and wreckage resulting from a disaster from publicly and privately owned lands and water; and (3) provide, for a period not to exceed one year, grants for mortgage or rental payments for individuals or families who, because of financial loss caused by a major disaster, have received an eviction or dispossession notice resulting from foreclosure of any mortgage or lien, cancellation of any contract of sale, or termination of any lease. Provides for the restoration of private homes to habitable conditions. Sets minimum standards for public and private structures financed by such assistance. Provides for unemployment assistance and disaster grants for needy persons. Empowers specified authorities to provide for (1) food commodities; (2) relocation assistance; (3) legal services; (4) crisis counseling assistance; (5) emergency communications; and (6) timber sale contracts. Title V: Economic Recovery for Disaster Areas - Provides that a Governor may designate a Recovery Planning Council to review existing development, land use or other plans, revise those plans, develop new plans, prepare a 5-year Recovery Investment Plan, and make recommendations to the Governor and to local governments for revising and implementing those plans. Authorizes the President to provide funds to Recovery Planning Councils for the implementation of Recovery Investment Plans in major disaster areas. States that loans may be made to help finance projects for the purchase or development of land and facilities for industrial and commercial usage. Provides that not to exceed $200 million is authorized to be appropriated for a disaster recovery revolving fund which is to be established in the Treasury and is to be replenished annually. Title VI: Miscellaneous - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Disaster Relief Act of 1970. Sets forth the effective date of this Act. Provides that funds necessary for the purposes of this Act are authorized to be appropriated.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Allied Services Act - Title I: Human Services Planning Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to State governors or agencies to plan, coordinate, and consolidate human services programs within the State. Defines human services as services provided to individuals or their families to help them achieve, maintain, or support the highest level of personal independence and economic self-sufficiency. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct evalutations, directly or by grant or contract, of programs for the coordinated provision of services and to provide such technical assistance as may be necessary to assist in the planning or operation of such programs. Sets forth the criteria for participation in the program established under this Act for States and for local agencies. Sets forth the criteria for local allied services plans to be approved and incorporated into the State allied services plan. Provides that in order for a State to be eligible to participate in the program established under this Act for any fiscal year, a State allied services plan must be submitted which describes the current status of the coordinated provision of services within the State and the steps planned for such year and thereafter. Sets forth the criteria for approval of such plan by the Secretary. Title II: Administrative Support Services - Allows the Secretary to make grants to States which have in effect State plans approved under this Act or through such States to local agencies which have local plans approved by such States, to assist in meeting the initial costs of allying or consolidating administrative support services and management functions necessary to facilitate the allied delivery of human services where funds to cover such costs cannot be obtained from other sources. Title III: Special Authorities - Sets forth regulations for the transfer of funds (provided by the Secretary) within the State. Provides that where funds are advanced for a single project or program pursuant to more than one statutory authority or by more than one Federal agency, any one Federal agency may be designated to act for all in administering the funds advanced. Provides that five years after the date of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall make a report to the Congress on the activities that have been carried out under this Act, including his evaluation of those activities and his recommendations with respect to appropriate legislation dealing with allied delivery of human services.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Emergency Energy Conservation Economic Opportunities Amendments - Provides, under the Economic Opportunity Act, for the establishment of an Emergency Energy Conservation Services Program, designed to enable low-income individuals and families, including the elderly and the near poor, to participate in energy conservation programs designed to lessen the impact of the energy crisis on such individuals and families. States that such program shall provide financial and other assistance for enumerated activities, including winterization of old or substandard dwellings; emergency loans, grants, and revolving funds to deal with increased housing expenses relating to the energy crisis; special fuel voucher or stamp programs; and outreach efforts, including the establishment of energy crisis centers. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act for fiscal year 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Impoundment Prohibition Act - Provides that in apportioning any appropriation, reserves may be established solely to provide for contingencies, or to effect savings whenever savings are made possible by or through changes in requirements or greater efficiency of operations. States that reserves shall not be established for fiscal policy purposes or to achieve less than the full objectives and scope of programs enacted and funded by Congress. Authorizes the Comptroller General to bring a civil action in the United States Court for the District of Columbia to enforce the provisions of this Act. Provides that nothing contained in this Act shall be interpreted as constituting a ratification or approval of any reservation of budget authority by the President or any other Federal employee, in the past or in the future, unless done pursuant to statutory authority in effect at the time of such reservation. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 665)
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that it abhors and condemns the cruel and insensitive refusal of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with the provisions of those agreements to which they are signatories and which call for an accounting of the missing in action, and calls on those parties to respect and comply with those agreements. Expresses the sense of Congress that the United States should use every effort to bring about such reciprocal actions by the parties to the peace agreements, including the Government of the Republic of Vietnam and the Royal Lao Government, as will be most likely to bring an end to the abhorrent conduct of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam and the Lao Patriotic Front regarding the missing in action. Declares the Congresses staunch support to the families and loved ones of the Americans missing in action, who have suffered such deep human anguish for so long due to the undisclosed fate of the missing in action.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Biomedical Research Act - Establishes the President's Biomedical Research Panel to be composed of the Chairman of the President's Cancer Panel and two members appointed by the President. Requires the Panel to monitor the development and execution of the biomedical research programs of the National Institutes of Health and to report directly to the President. States that any delays or blockages in rapid execution of the biomedical research programs of the National Institutes of Health shall immediately be brought to the attention of the President and the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the House Committee on Appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1974
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Amendments - Title I: Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act - Increases, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the fine from $1,000 to $10,000 for initial violations of that Act and from $10,000 to $25,000 for subsequent violations. Provides that whenever any article that is a food, drug, device, or cosmetic is found, by any officer or employee duly designated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, upon any premises where it is manufactured, processed, packed, or held, for introduction into interstate commerce or after its introduction, or in any article being used to transport or hold the article in interstate commerce, and there is reason to believe that the article is adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of that Act, or is an article which may not be manufactured, introduced into interstate commerce, or sold or offered for sale by reason of any provision of that Act, the article may be detained by that officer or employee for a reasonable period but not to exceed twenty days, pending action under that Act or notification of any Federal, State, or other governmental authority having jurisdiction over the article, and shall not be moved by any person from the place at which it is located when so detained (except as the officer or employee may authorize) until released by the officer or employee. States that insofar as practicable and consistent with the protection of the public health, the officer or employee shall allow the owner or bailee of the detained article to employ reasonable measures to preserve the article from decomposition. Extends the factory inspection authority to records of establishments subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Provides for the payment of travel and per diem expenses in connection with the training of state officials utilized by the Secretary to enforce the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act. Declares that, in addition to any other requirement imposed by the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, every person who owns or operates any factory, warehouse, consulting laboratory, or establishment in which food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics are manufactured, processed, packed, or held, for introduction into interstate commerce or after such introduction, shall establish and maintain such records, make such reports, and provide such information as the Secretary may, by regulation, reasonably require for the purposes of implementing that Act, or to determine compliance with rules or orders prescribed under that Act. Provides for the issuance of a subpoena to ascertain violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Requires on nonprescription drug labels the stating of the quantity of the drug's active ingredients. Provides for the mandatory registration of foreign establishments exporting drugs to the United States. Prohibits the export of uncertified antibiotics. Title II: Repeal of Laws Regulating Filled Milk and Filled Cheese - Repeals the Filled Milk Act and the Filled Cheese Act. Title III: Effective Date - Provides for the effective dates of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1974
Health Services Amendments - Title I: Comprehensive Public Health Services, and Health Services Development - Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, for: (1) the repeal of the mental health allocation; (2) the extension of State formula grants; and (3) the extension and modification of project grants. Repeals provisions of the Public Health Service Act establishing a National Advisory Council on Comprehensive Health Planning Programs and directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a National Advisory Council on Health Services. Outlines the membership composition and rates of compensation of such Council. Makes technical and conforming amendments. Title II: Extension of Alcoholism Formula Grants - Extends the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act through the next five fiscal years. Title III: Developmental Disabilities - Developmental Disabilities Amendments - Extends the appropriation authorizations under the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act. Sets forth a minimum allotment of $50,000 per fiscal year for territories under such Act. Eliminates specified requirements of Federal approval of each construction project under such Act. Provides that the Federal share under such Act shall be 70 percent for fiscal year 1975; 60 percent for fiscal year 1976; and 50 percent for fiscal year 1977. Provides for the inclusion of land acquisition costs and autism under such Act. Title IV: Effective Date - States that this Act is effective with respect to appropriations for fiscal years beginning after June 30, 1974, except that the National Advisory Council on Health Services provision is effective upon enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1974
Emergency Energy Employment Assistance Act - Provides for an emergency energy employment assistance program under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. States that in addition to the amounts authorized to be appropriated for carrying out such Act, there are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974, and the succeeding fiscal year, such sums, not to exceed $4,000,000,000 in the aggregate for such period, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Emergency Employment Assistance Fund. Provides that under specified circumstances amounts from such fund shall be obligated to provide unemployment and underemployed persons with transitional employment in jobs providing needed public services, and, wherever feasible, related training and manpower services to enable such persons to move into employment or training not supported under this Act. Requires the filing of a special report, within 21 days after enactment, on the implementation of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 8 February 1974
Health Services Research and Development, Health Statistics, and Medical Libraries Act - Title I: Health Services Research Development and Evaluation; Health Statistics - Health Services Research Development, and Evaluation and Health Statistics Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake, through the National Centers for Health Services Research and Health Statistics and such other units of the Department as he may select, to support health statistical activities and health services research, evaluation, and demonstration. Declares that the Secretary may do the following: (1) utilize physical resources of the Department, permit the utilization of physical resources of the Department, provide technical assistance and advice, make grants to public and nonprofit private entities and individuals, and enter into contracts for health services research, evaluation, and demonstrations and for health statistical activities; (2) admit and treat at hospitals and other facilities of the Service persons not otherwise eligible for admission and treatment at such facilities; (3) secure the assistance and advice of experts and consultants from the United States or abroad; and (4) acquire, construct, improve, repair, operate, and maintain laboratory, research, and other facilities and equipment, and such other real or personal property (including patents) as the Secretary deems necessary; and acquire buildings or parts of buildings in the District of Columbia or communities located adjacent to the District of Columbia. Establishes in the Department the National Center for Health Services Research and the National Center for Health Statistics. Declares that the Secretary, acting through Centers, may undertake and support research, evaluation, and demonstration projects in specified health services areas. Directs the Secretary to collect statistics in enumerated health areas. Provides that the Secretary shall assist nonprofit entities in meeting the costs of new centers, for multidisciplinary health services research, evaluations, and demonstrations. Sets forth the requirements to be met prior to the making of grants and contracts for such assistance. States that for the purpose of advancing the status of the health sciences in the United States, the Secretary may participate with other countries in cooperative endeavors in biomedical research and the health services, research and statistical activities authorized by this Act. Requires the Secretary to call annual conferences of the health authorities of the several States. Provides that not later than September 1 of each year, the Secretary shall make a report to Congress regarding the administration of this Act during the preceding fiscal year and the current state and progress of health services research and health statistics. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the provisions of this title. Title II: Revision and Extension of Medical Library Assistance Programs - Extends the authorization of appropriation for medical library assistance programs for fiscal years 1974, 1975, and 1976. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Public Health Service Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974
Urban Hospitals Emergency Assistance Act - Expresses the findings of Congress. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public general hospitals to assist such hospitals in meeting the costs of: (1) modernization of patient care facilities in urban areas, and (2) construction or modernization of outpatient facilities of such hospitals located apart from the hospital so that ambulatory care service may be decentralized. Enumerates the eligibility requirements to be met for receiving such grants and the priority of applicants. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out such grant provisions $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $250,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Empowers the Secretary to make grants to public and private nonprofit hospitals for special projects to demonstrate innovations in health care delivery construction which implement quality control or improve efficiency in the provision of health services by meeting identified needs, and reducing documented inefficiencies. Authorizes appropriation for fiscal years 1975 through 1977 for such grants. Provides that each public general hospital shall be entitled for each fiscal year to a grant equal to 75 percent of the annual net cost incurred by the hospital for patient care. Sets forth additional grant requirements. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, that each hospital having adopted uniform cost accounting and utilization and reporting systems procedures shall be entitled for each fiscal year to a grant to assist such hospital in meeting the costs of training residents, interns, except noncitizen graduates of foreign medical schools, and individuals preparing for careers in nursing or the allied health professions in programs approved by him after consultation with the appropriate professional accrediting agency or specialty board. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Defines the terms used in this Act, including "annual net cost of patients care," "low-income person," and "urban". Requires that each recipient of Federal assistance under this Act shall keep such records as the Secretary shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such assistance, the total cost of the project or undertaking in connection with which assistance is given or used, the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit. Provides that no funds other than those appropriated under the provisions of this Act may be used for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Senate that the Washington Energy Conference should consider: (1) conservation measures in major oil consuming countries which are necessary to reduce demand, and should be a major part of the policy adopted in concert by the oil consuming nations; (2) an effective plan for the emergency sharing of oil resources which could be acted on subject to the constitutional processes of each country; (3) guidelines for bilateral agreements between individual oil consuming and oil producing countries, which in the present situation of embargo and skyrocketing prices could prove very harmful to the interests of the major oil consuming nations, and could incur the danger of introducing excessive and sophisticated arms into the oil producing nations beyond their legitimate needs for their own security; (4) coordination of research efforts in developing conservation practices and alternative sources of energy; (5) the responsibility for and the means to help to alleviate the plight of the developing countries in the oil crisis; and (6) closer coordination of fiscal and monetary policies to prevent excessive strain on the international monetary systems and the currencies of oil importing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974
Provides for advancing to not later than February 15, 1974, the effective date of the final order of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Docket No. MC 43 (Sub-No.2), which requires carriers to reimburse their owner-operators for all increases in the price of fuel over the base period May 15, 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Provides, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, for coverage under medicare for routine Papanicolaou tests for the diagnosis of uterine cancer.
United States · United States Congress · 1 February 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the President direct the Secretary of State to bring to the immediate attention of the Soviet Government the deep and growing concern among citizens of the United States over the plight of Simas Kudirka and to urge his release from imprisonment and his return to his family. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President of the United States forward a copy of this resolution to the United States Representative to the United Nations for transmission to the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Requires the Armed Forces to provide special educational and health services to dependents of members serving on active duty who are deaf, hard of hearing, seriously emotionally disturbed, moderately or severely mentally retarded, crippled, or have a speech or health impairment or specific learning disability requiring special education and related services. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079 (d))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1974
Authorizes the Senate Select Committee on Small Business to examine, investigate, and make a complete study of the problems of American small and independent business and to make recommendations concerning those problems to the appropriate legislative committees of the Senate. Authorizes the committee, or any subcommittee thereof, from March 1, 1974, through February 28, 1975, in its discretion: (1) to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate, (2) to employ personnel, (3) with the prior consent of the Government department or agency concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel of any such department or agency, (4) to procure the temporary services (not in excess of one year) or intermittent services of individual consultants, or organizations thereof, and (5) to provide assistance for the members of its professional staff in obtaining specialized training. Limits the expenses of the committee under this resolution to $192,000. Requires the committee to report its findings, together with such recommendations for legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate at the earliest practicable date, but not later than February 28, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1974
National Cancer Act Amendments - Increases the authorization of appropriations under the Public Health Service Act for the basic cancer research and training program and the prevention and control program. Extends such act for three years with appropriations of $750,000,000, $830,000,000 and $985,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively. Authorizes the awarding of grants for the improvement of basic research laboratory facilities, including those related to biohazard control, as deemed necessary, for the national cancer program.
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1974
Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the positions of Deputy Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and an additional Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in lieu of the Under Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Administration. Makes conforming amendments to the pay rates of the Executive Schedule.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Older Americans Tax Counseling Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into agreements with private or public nonprofit agencies or organizations for the purpose of providing training and technical assistance to prepare volunteers to provide tax counseling assistance for elderly individuals in the preparation of their Federal income tax returns. Directs the Secretary to utilize the services of volunteers and to establish the qualifications required and the terms and conditions of service as a volunteer. States that service as a volunteer under this Act shall not be considered service as an employee of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to direct the attention of elderly individuals to pertinent provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress: (1) that new efforts should be made by the Government of the United States through appropriate diplomatic and international channels to persuade the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam, and the Lao Patriotic Front to comply with their obligations with respect to personnel captured or killed during the Vietnam conflict and with respect to personnel still in a missing status; (2) that every effort should be made to obtain the cooperation of the various Cambodian authorities in providing information with respect to personnel missing in Cambodia; and (3) that further efforts should be made to obtain necessary cooperation for search teams to inspect crash sites and other locations where personnel may have been lost.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
National Arthritis Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to expand the authority of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Disgestive Diseases in order to advance a national attack on arthritis. Establishes a National Task Force on Arthritis to formulate a long-range plan to combat arthritis and related musculoskeletal and other related diseases. Provides that the Arthritis Plan shall include recommendations for the utilization and organizations of national resources for the campaign against arthritis, and a program for the National Institute of Arthritis Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases as a major participant in the campaign against arthritis specifies the composition of the Task Force membership. Authorizes to be appropriated $500,000 for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 to carry out the purposes of the national arthritis program. Establishes within the Institute the position of Associate Director for Arthritis, responsible for programs regarding arthritis within such Institute. Provides that the Director of the National Institutes of Health shall establish an Inter-Institute Arthritis Coordinating Committee to be composed of representatives who can make policy commitments for each of the Institutes and divisions involved in arthritis-related research. Creates within the Federal Government an Interagency Technical Committee on Arthritis which shall be responsible for promoting the coordination of those aspects of all Federal health programs and activities relating to arthritis to assure the adequacy and technical soundness of such programs and activities and to provide for the full communication and exchange of information necessary to maintain adequate coordination of such programs and activities. States that the Director of the Institute shall establish programs for cooperation with other health agencies in the screening, detection, prevention, and control of arthritis which emphasize the development of new diagnostic and treatment methods for arthritis, and the dissemination of the knowledge about these methods to the health professions. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides that the Director of the Institute, shall provide for the development of centers for basic and clinical research into, training, in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic, prevention, control, and treatment methods for arthritis. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out these provisions $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Requires the Director of the Institute after the end of each calendar year, to submit to the President and Congress a report including: (1) a proposal for the Institute's activities during the next five years; and (2) a program evaluation section.
United States · United States Congress · 21 December 1973
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Education Act Amendments - Provides that it is the purpose of this Act to provide leadership to schools and other institutions in the community by supporting projects to identify, evaluate, demonstrate and disseminate effective drug and alcohol abuse prevention and early intervention strategies and to provide training and technical assistance to schools and other segments of the community in adapting such strategies to identified local needs. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a program of making grants to support and evaluate demonstration projects and to disseminate these nationally, to train educational and community personnel that have or should have an important influence on the behavior of young people and to provide technical assistance in program development. Provides that funds appropriated for grants and contracts under this Act shall be available for enumerated purposes, including: (1) comprehensive demonstration programs in school-communities which focus on the causes and affects of drug and alcohol abuse rather than the symptoms; (2) creative primary prevention and early intervention programs in schools; (3) community education programs on drug and alcohol abuse, especially for parents and others in the community; and (4) programs to recruit and train persons, including former drug and alcohol abusers, to organize programs of public education in drug and alcohol abuse. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act $26,000,000 for fiscal year 1974; $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1975; and $34,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1973
Chlorine Allocation Act - Makes it the policy of the Congress to require priority dispersal of chlorine for the treatment of safe drinking water and waste water and to encourage priority dispersal of other chemicals and substances necessary for the treatment of safe drinking water and waste water. Provides that, within 30 days after enactment, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall promulgate regulations providing for mandatory allocation of chlorine from the processing of chlorine to its final use in amounts specified in such regulations to the extent necessary to protect the public health and environment. Authorizes the Administrator to promulgate regulations providing for mandatory allocation of other chemicals and substances used in the treatment of drinking water or waste water. Provides that an imminent hazard shall be considered to exist when the evidence is sufficient to show that shortages of chlorine, chemicals, or substances for treating drinking water or waste water will result in any unreasonable threat to human health or the environment prior to the completion of an administrative hearing or other formal proceeding held pursuant to this Act. Provides that, within 30 days after the enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, shall promulgate regulations delineating which functions under this Act shall be performed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Preparedness of the General Services Administration, the Department of Commerce, or the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Prescribes criminal and civil penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes any person to commence a civil action for injunctive relief for violations under this Act. Directs the Administrator to establish such advisory committees as he determines are necessary. Requires the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission to have adequate advance notice of any meeting of such committees and may have an official representative attend and participate in any such meeting. Provides that, within 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator, subject to the approval of the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission, shall promulgate, by rule, standards and procedures by which persons engaged in the business of processing, distributing, importing or repackaging of chlorine or other chemical or substance may develop and implement voluntary agreements and plans of action to carry out such agreements which the Administrator determines are necessary to accomplish the objectives. Authorizes the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General to each prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out their responsibilities under this Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall terminate on June 30, 1975. Authorizes to be appropriated such funds as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1973
National Diabetes Research and Education Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to expand the authority of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases in order to advance the national attack on diabetes mellitus. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a National Task Force on Diabetes to formulate a long-range plan to combat diabetes mellitus. Specifies the content of such plan. Provides that the task force shall also develop a program to expand, intensify, and coordinate the activities of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases respecting diabetes mellitus and related endocrine and metabolic diseases. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this part $500,000 for fiscal year 1974. Provides that the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases, shall establish programs in the epidemiology, prevention, control, and evaluation of diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, appropriately emphasizing the prevention, control, diagnosis, and treatment of such diseases in children. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out such purposes $2,500,000 for fiscal 1975; $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides for the establishment of national diabetes research and training centers. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000, $15,000,000, and $20,000,000 for fiscal years 1975 through 1977, respectively. Instructs the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish an Inter-Institute Diabetes Mellitus Coordinating Committee. Directs the Secretary to establish an Interagency Technical Committee on Diabetes Mellitus, responsible for coordinating Federal health programs and activities relating to diabetes mellitus.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1973
Drug Identification Act - Allows the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, by regulation, to establish a uniform code or system of coding applicable to prescription drugs consisting of symbols representing: (1) the identity of the manufacturer of each drug; (2) the identity of the drug; (3) the identity of the final packager (if different from the manufacturer) of the drug; (4) the dosage form and strength of the drug; and (5) the number of drug units in the immediate container of the drug. Provides that, if it is a prescription drug, the immediate and outside containers thereof shall bear a label which has prominently placed thereon the symbol or symbols in the code as listed above.
United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that real property which is farmland, woodland, or open scenic land and forms part of an estate be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value as farmland, woodland, or open scenic land (rather than at its fair market value) if it continues to be used as such for at least 5 years after the date on which the estate tax returned is filed. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 2031)
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1973
Requires, under the Federal Aid Highway Act the use of not less than 5 per cent of funds to be appropriated for the Federal-aid safer roads demonstration program for elimination of hazards at railroad-highway grade crossings.
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