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United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Provides for the designation of the first Saturday in April of each year as "National Brotherhood Day".
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to require that transportation facilities built and rolling stock purchased with Federal funds under the Urban Mass Transportation Act are designed and constructed to be accessible to the physically handicapped and the elderly. Provides that, with regard to buses only, a Governor or local public body may satisfy the requirements of this Act by providing alternative transportation service for physically handicapped persons and elderly persons with limited mobility in accordance with standards promulgated by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Government Data Bank Right to Privacy Act - Requires that any organization of Federal, State, or local government maintaining an information system that includes personal information shall: (1) collect, maintain, use, and disseminate only personal information necessary to accomplish a proper purpose of the organizationa; (2) collect information to the greatest extent possible from the data subject directly; (3) maintain information in the system with accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and pertinence as necessary to assure fairness in determinations relating to a data subject; (4) make no dissemination to another system without specifying requirements for security and the use of information exclusively for the purposes set forth in the notice required under this Act; (5) maintain for a reasonable time related to the purposes of the particular system a complete and accurate record, including identity and purpose, of every access to any personal information in a system; and (6) collect no personal information concerning the political or religious beliefs, affiliations, and activities of data subjects unless expressly authorized by statute. Prohibits any Federal agency from requiring any individual to disclose for statistical purposes any personal information unless such disclosure is required by a constitutional provision or Act of Congress, and the individual is so informed. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to: (1) give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board; (2) give public notice of the existence and character of each existing system each year, in the case of Federal organizations in the Federal Register, or in the case of other organizations in local or regional printed media likely to bring attention to the existence of the records to data subjects; (3) assure that such public notice specifies the categories of data maintained, and the categories of all information sources, a description of types of use made of information, and the procedures whereby an individual can gain access to such information and contest its accuracy and the necessity for its retention; and (4) prepare and publish a privacy impact statement describing the consequences to the individual, including his rights, privileges, benefits, detriments, and burdens, of the proposed data system, or in the case of an existing system, any proposed expansion. Requires any organization maintaining personal information to inform an individual asked to supply personal information whether he is legally required, or may refuse, to supply the information requested, and also of any specific consequences which are known to the organization, of providing or not providing such information. Requires data subjects which dispute information about them to have such disputed information disseminated when other information about him is disseminated. Requires, upon request, corrections in information to be sent to past recipients of information, Directs organizations maintaining information to inform, within two years and each year thereafter, individuals on whom data is stored of its content and where a copy of such data may be obtained. Allows the President to exempt organizations from requirements of this Act in the interest of national defense. Makes it unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number, for any purpose in connection with any business transaction, because such individual does not disclose or furnish such number unless the disclosure or furnishing of such number is specifically required by Federal law. Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the Government Accounting Office, whose five members shall be appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States. Directs the Board to: (1) publish an annual Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system covered by this Act; (2) make rules to assure compliance with this Act; (3) upon the determination of a violation of a provision of this Act or regulation promulgated under the Act, and after opportunity for a hearing, order the organization violating such provision to cease and desist such violation; and (4) conduct open, publc hearings on all petitions for exceptions or exemptions from provisions, application, or jurisdiction of this Act. States that any organization or responsible officer of an organization who willfully keeps an information system without having notified the Federal Privacy Board; or issues personal information in violation of this Act shall be fined not more than $10,000 in each instance or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. Provides that any person, system, or agency which violates the provisions of the Act, or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, shall be liable to any person aggrieved thereby.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Declares that Dr. Kissinger be commended on his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace and that deep gratitude to Dr. Kissinger for his services is hereby expressed by the Senate. Declares that the United States Senate holds in high regard Dr. Kissinger, and regards him as an outstanding member of this Administration, as a patriotic Amercian in whom it has complete confidence, and whose integrity, and veracity are above reproach, and that the U.S. Senate wishes for him success in his continuing efforts to achieve a permanent peace in the world.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1974
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 approach. 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: 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 the national standards. Provides that the new national licensure program would establish reciprocal licensure relationships between States which 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 · 5 June 1974
Nurse Training Act - Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants under the Public Health Service Act for construction of nursing schools through fiscal year 1979. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and other non-profit private schools of nursing and other public or non-profit private entities, and enter into contracts with any public or private entity, to meet the costs of special projects to: (1) develop training programs, and train, for new roles, types, or levels of nursing personnel, including programs for the training of pediatric nurse practitioners or other types of nurse practitioners; (2) increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged students; (3) provide continuing education for nurses; and (4) provide appropriate retraining opportunities for nurses who, after periods of professional inactivity, desire again to engage in nursing on an active basis. Provides for the extension of special project grants and contracts and financial distress grants authorizations under such Act. Provides for the extension of loan guarantees and interest subsidies authorizations for nursing school construction projects under such Act. Extends the student loan program authorization under such Act. Provides for the delegation by the Secretary of his authority to administer nurse training programs to the administrator of a central office or offices in his Department. States that such authority may not be further delegated to regional offices.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1974
Health Facilities Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to any public or private nonprofit entity to assist such entity in meeting up to 75 percent of the costs of any project for the (1) construction or modernization of a public or other nonprofit outpatient facilitiy or (2) modernization of a public or other nonprofit health facility which will serve a medically underserved population. Authorizes the Secretary to make loans and loan guarantees to assist public and other nonprofit entities in meeting the costs of projects for the above purposes. Directs the Secretary to establish a facilities account for each State and to credit, each fiscal year, to each such account an allotment from the sums appropriated for such year on the basis of the population, the financial need, and the extent of the need for construction and modernization of the facilities of the respective states. Stipulates that no grant, loan, or loan guarantee for any project may be made under this Act unless an application therefor has been submitted to the Secretary and approved by him. States that such application shall be in such form, submitted in such manner, and contain such information, as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe. Sets forth general and technical provisions relating to the granting of loans and loan guarantees. Establishes in the Treasury a loan guarantee and loan fund which shall be available to the Secretary without fiscal year limitation, in such amounts as may be specified from time to time in appropriations Acts: (1) to enable him to make loans under this Act; (2) to enable him to discharge his responsibilities under guarantees issued by him under this Act; (3) for payment of interest on the loans which are guaranteed under this Act; and (4) for repurchase by him of direct loans made under this Act which have been sold and guaranteed. Authorizes to be appropriated to the fund from time to time such amounts as may be necessary to provide capital required for the fund. Directs the Secretary to prescribe by regulation: (1) criteria for determining needs for health facilities for which assistance is available under this Act; (2) criteria for determining the extent to which existing facilities, for which assistance is available under this Act; are in need of modernization; (3) the general manner in which each local health planning agency shall determine the priority of projects within the area under its jurisdiction based upon the relative need of various populations and in various sub-areas within such area lacking adequate facilities of the several types for which assistance is available under this Act; (4) general standards of construction and equipment for facilities of various classes and in various types of locations, for which assistance is available under this Act; and (5) the means by which each entity which receives or has received financial assistance under this Act shall be required to demonstrate compliance with the assurances required to be made at the time such assistance was received. Authorizes appropriations of $210,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the succeeding two fiscal years. Authorizes such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the two succeeding fiscal years for direct loans and guarantee loans under the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1974
Provides for the relief of John Bruce Dobbs.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual educational scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award fifty-one scholarships in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, for undergraduate study for persons who plan to pursue a career in public service. States that each recipient shall be known as a Truman scholar. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the scholarship requirements; (2) the procedure for selection of Truman scholars; (3) stipends and institutional allowances; and (4) the scholarship conditions. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedure for expenditures from the fund. Directs that there shall be an Executive Secretary of the Foundation, appointed by the Board, who shall be the chief executive officer and shall carry out the functions of the Foundation subject to the supervision and direction of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 to the fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Grants Indian tribes, acting through their tribal councils, the choice of providing for the reacquisition of jurisdiction by the Indian tribes and by the United States over criminal offenses and civil matters in Indian country.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1974
States that any person seeking a license to site, manufacture, construct, or operate a utilization or production facility, as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, shall file an application for such license at least three years prior to the time construction of the facility is contemplated to begin. Provides that any such application shall include information sufficient to identify the site, size, and type of the proposed facility. Provides for a regulatory review process with respect to the granting of such a license in which any person who has an interest which may be adversely affected by the construction or operation of the facility may participate. Requires the applicant to file a request for authorization of at least one of nine specified actions within one year after the filing of the application, or the application will be dismissed without prejudice to a subsequent filing. States that an authorization for site selection and preparation shall not be granted unless there is sufficient information to permit an analysis of factors required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
United States · United States Congress · 29 May 1974
Bilingual Health Opportunities Act - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1974 and each of the three succeeding fiscal years of such sums as may be necessary to establish up to four bilingual health training clinical centers in communities where a substantial proportion of the residents is of limited English-speaking ability. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to arrange for the conduct of a study or studies to determine the effectiveness of health education institution admissions examinations in evaluating accurately the potential and ability of the student applicant of limited English-speaking ability to participate in and benefit from the educational program, taking into account the need to eliminate any cultural bias in the presentation of admissions examinations.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1974
Expresses the findings of Congress with regard to the national interest in the Nantucket Sound Islands in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Establishes the Nantucket Sound Island Trust to provide for the preservation of the unique values of the islands. Creates the Nantucket Trust Commission, the Martha's Vineyard Trust Commission, and the Elizabeth Islands Trust Commission, to be known collectively as the Nantucket Sound Island Trust Commissions. Enumerates the membership composition and responsibilities of each Commission. Designates the areas comprising the Trust. Classifies the trust lands into categories of: (1) open lands; (2) resource management lands; and (3) town lands. Prescribes the procedures for the assignment of the trust lands and waters into such classifications. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to sell lands and waters and interests therein at fair market value to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Defines the terms used in this Act. Directs the Commissions to cooperate in a study and formulate plans for beach and shoreline erosion control and restoration projects in those areas most immediately threatened. Calls for programs: (1) in dune and headland erosion control; and (2) against pollution of the waters in and around trust lands. Sets forth the rules governing nonvehicular rights of passage across trust land beaches. Directs the Commission to survey public and private water and air access to trust lands and make recommendations to appropriate bodies for legislative or administrative action. Provides for the suspension of the authority to acquire lands from specified private, nonprofit organizations. Sets forth compensable land use regulations and calls for new employment opportunities for residents of the trust area. Places a freeze date on the construction of any improvement on specified trust lands. Directs the Martha's Vineyard Commission to establish an orderly program for determining the extent of Indian Common Lands on Martha's Vineyard. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, within specified limitations.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the contribution by the United States to the growing economic and human crisis in the developing world should be primarily in the form of food and the means and technology to produce it; (2) the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture and their advisors should give the highest priority to the immediate expansion of American food assistance and take such additional steps as might be necessary to expedite the transfer of American food commodities on concessional and donation terms to those nations most severely affected; (3) the United States should increase its matching pledge to the World Food Program for 1975-1976 and encourage other nations to do so; (4) the President and the Secretary of State should negotiate with other major food exporting nations to seek to obtain their participation in this emergency effort proportionate to their share of world food exports, and should strongly encourage oil exporting nations to contribute a fair share to these efforts to assist the most severely affected nations; (5) the United States should announce its desire to work with the oil exporting and other nations in a major effort to increase world fertilizer production with the possibility of including the offer of American technology and capital; and (6) the President should encourage the American people to reduce the non-critical, non-food-producing uses of fertilizer which now total nearly three million tons of nutrient a year, to make available increased fertilizer supplies for raising food production at home and in the developing world. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States and the Secretaries of State and Agriculture should, and are hereby urged and requested to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward formulating an American response in a cooperative framework to the world food crisis and the needs of the most severely affected developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism; and that the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to call upon all governments to condemn inhuman acts of violence against innocent victims and to strongly urge the countries where these groups and individuals are found to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terroism and senseless violence.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
National Summer Youth Sports Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants or enter into contracts for the conduct of an annual National Summer Youth Sports Program concentrated in the summer months, with opportunity for continued activities throughout the year, designed to offer disadvantaged youth living in areas of concentrated poverty an opportunity to receive educational instruction, sports instruction, and health and nutritional services, and to participate in educational programs and sports competitions. Prohibits assistance under this Act unless 90 percent of the youths participating in a program are from families with incomes below the poverty level and that such youths will have maximum participation in program planning and operation. Provides that programs under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary, through grants or contracts with the National Collegiate Athletic Association or any other qualified national organization of colleges and universities. Provides that each such grant or contract shall contain provisions to assure that the program to be assisted will: (1) expand educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths, designed to provide an opportunity to engage in competitive sports and benefit from sports skills instruction; (2) help young people learn good health practices and become better citizens by utilizing the personnel and facilities of higher education; (3) enable the contractor and institutions of higher education located conveniently to areas of concentrated poverty and their personnel to participate more fully in community life and in the solution of community problems; (4) provide a combination of employment and on-the-job training in sports instruction and administration; and (5) serve major metropolitan centers of the United States as well as other areas, within the limits of program resources. Requires local projects under any such program to be conducted under approved contracts between the principal contractor or grantee and selected institutions of higher education qualified to carry out a program under this Act. Provides that, except where the Secretary determines that unusual circumstances make a larger percentage necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, a contract under this Act with respect to any program may not provide for payment of more than 80 percent of the direct costs incurred in carrying out the total program. Provides that the non-Federal share may be cash or in-kind contributions. Permits such payments to be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, June 30, 1976, and June 30, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use funds available for the direct distribution of food to needy children and low income persons for donation to maintain the traditional level of assistance for food assistance programs as are authorized by law, including but not limited to school lunch, institutions, supplemental feeding, disaster relief, and, until July 1, 1976, the family commodity distribution program on Indian reservations not requesting the food stamp program. Provides that the Secretary may, if stocks of the Commodity Credit Corporation are not available, use the funds of the Corporation to purchase agricultural commodities and the products thereof of the types customarily available under the program of commodity distribution to prevent waste. Provides, under the Food Stamp Act, that upon request to the Secretary by the appropriate officials of any Indian tribe, such tribe is authorized to administer a food stamp program under this Act on behalf of the eligible households of such tribe living on an Indian reservation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior or any State to administer a food stamp program on behalf of any tribe residing on an Indian reservation. Authorizes the Secretary under such Act to pay to each State agency an amount equal to 62.5 percent of all administrative costs, including, but not limited to, the cost of (1) the certification of households; (2) the acceptance, storage, and protection of coupons after their delivery to receiving points within the States; (3) the issuance of such coupons to eligible households; (4) the outreach and fair hearing requirements of this Act; and (5) the control and accounting of coupons. Authorizes the appropriation of necessary sums to encourage milk consumption in schools. Provides that, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for subsequent fiscal years, the minimum rate of reimbursement for a half-pint of milk served in schools and other eligible institutions shall not be less than 5 cents per half-pint served to eligible children, and such minimum rate of reimbursement shall be adjusted on an annual basis each fiscal year thereafter, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, to reflect changes in the series of food away from home of the Consumer Price Index.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974
National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act Amendments - Provides that for the fiscal year 1975, and subsequent fiscal years, the national average value of donated foods, or cash payments in lieu thereof under the National School Lunch Act, shall not be less than 10 percent per lunch. Provides that that amount shall be adjusted on an annual basis each fiscal year after June 30, 1975, to reflect changes in the series for food away from home of the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor. Provides that such adjustment shall be computed to the nearest one-fourth cent. Provides that among those commodities delivered under this Act the Secretary of Agriculture shall give special emphasis to high protein foods, meat, and meat alternates. Increases the authorized appropriations under such Act for nonfood assistance. Increases the authorized appropriations under such Act for the special supplemental food program.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Drug Utilization Improvement Act - Title I: National Center for Clinical Pharmacology - Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an office to be known as the National Center for Clinical Pharmacology. Empowers the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for (1) the teaching of clinical pharmacology to all health science students; (2) continuing education of health professionals in clinical pharmacology; and (3) the training of specialists in clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy. Sets forth general rules governing the making of such grants. Directs the Secretary to collect, analyze, and disseminate data relating to drug experience, including information concerning the reported and estimated incidence of adverse drug reactions, the causes of such reactions and the severity of such reactions. Prescribes the procedures for annual dissemination of such data. Provides that the Secretary shall conduct a comprehensive investigation to determine the extent of inappropriate prescribing of drugs and whether there exists a need to establish additional mechanisms to control such inappropriate prescribing. Directs that consideration be given to all appropriate mechanisms, including: (1) a national drug formulary, (2) an office through which drug information is made available at all times and without cost to practitioners licensed by law to prescribe and administer drugs, (3) a system or systems of review of drug prescribing and administering, and (4) a program of periodic detailing of drug information to practitioners through individuals who have no financial interest in the sale of any drug product. Calls for additional programs directed toward: (1) a study of the feasibility and effect of developing a system of controls over prescription drugs to see if some drugs should be restricted to hospital use or specialist use; (2) the development of a drug safety assurance plan to reduce improper prescribing to be updated annually; and (3) the mandating of drug utilization review for all health care delivery funded under this Act. Authorizes appropriations totaling $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the purposes of this title. Title II: Promotional Practices - Bans, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, gifts, products, premiums, prizes or other things of value to practitioners and pharmacists. Allows for educational material to be distributed to such persons. Bans samples, except upon written request of practitioners licensed to prescribe drugs. Requires the practitioner to identify the reason for samples. Requires practitioners and companies to keep records of each sample. Places prohibitions on the conducting of prescription surveys. Requires the inclusion of price information in drug advertisements. Bans reminder advertisements with exceptions for catalogs, and price lists. States that if an article is alleged to be misbranded because the labeling or advertising relating to such article is misleading there shall be taken into account not only the representations made or suggested, but also the extent to which the labeling or advertising fails to reveal material facts. Requires the certification of training programs for manufacturers' representatives. Requires a card to be delivered to physicians on each encounter which summarizes indications, contraindications, side effects, warnings and cautions. Title III: Drug Quality - Directs 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. Gives the Secretary authority to require batch testing of any drug when necessary to protect the public health and safety. Expands the Secretary's authority to require recordkeeping and reporting for drugs. Title IV: National Drug Compendium - Directs the Secretary to publish and distribute a drug compendium, listing, by established name, specified drugs which are lawfully available in the United States, arranged by therapeutic classification and by such other classifications (diagnostic, prophylactic, or otherwise) as the Secretary may deem appropriate. Outlines the procedures for hearings by any person who is adversely affected by the Secretary's inclusion or failure to include information in the compendium. Establishes, for the purpose of advising the Secretary on matters pertaining to the compendium, an advisory committee consisting of persons, qualified in the pharmacology, safety, efficacy, and relative therapeutic value of drugs, appointed by the Secretary without regard to the civil service and classification laws, at least three of whom shall be practitioners licensed by law to prescribe and administer drugs. Gives the Secretary specified powers to collect information necessary for publication of the compendium. Title V: Consumer Drug Information - Requires that established (generic) names be on all labels. Establishes a uniform code or system of coding to identify manufacturer, identity of the drug, identity of final packager, dosage form and strength and number of units in the container. Requires pharmacies to post prescription drug prices as determined in regulations by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Petroleum Moratorium Act - States that no person directly or indirectly engaged in the production of crude petroleum who possesses a major market share shall (1) control either directly or indirectly any pipeline or refinery which, on the effective date of this Act is controlled by any person who does not possess a major market share; or (2) operate either directly or indirectly any out- let which, on the effective date of this Act, is not operated by such person, or any subsidiary corporation or salaried employee of such person. States that a knowing violation of this provision shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100,000 or by imprisonment for not exceeding ten years, or both. Directs the Federal Trade Commission, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Director of the Federal Energy Office (or any successor office), the Secretary of Commerce, the Comptroller General, and the Director of the Office of Consumer Affairs to each undertake a study of the actions which may be required to preserve and enhance competition in the production, refining, transportation, and marketing of petroleum and petroleum products in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Provides that the committe print of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary entitled "Freedom of Information Act Source Book: Legislative Materials, Cases, Articles" be printed as a Senate document; and that there be printed for the use of that committee 1,300 additional copies of such document.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating May 12 through 18, 1974, as "National Migrant Education Week".
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Title I: Federal Privacy Board - Establishes the Federal Privacy Board in the executive branch of the Government and specifies the composition of the Board. Enumerates the functions of the Board, including to publish a Data Base Directory of the United States containing the name and characteristics of each personal information system. Specifies the powers of the Board, including the power to conduct inspections of information systems at reasonable times, and to order an organization to desist from acts in violation of rules or orders promulgated under this Act. Title II: Standards and Management Systems For Handling Information Related To Individuals - Establishes requirements for the collection, maintenance, use and dissemination by Federal agencies, or State or local governments, or any other organization maintaining an information system, of personal information collected for administrative, statistical-reporting, and research purposes. Requires any organization maintaining or proposing to establish an information system for personal information to give notice of the existence and character of each existing system once a year to the Federal Privacy Board. Specifies the elements of public notice required under this Act to be contained in such notice. States that organizations maintaining personal information shall inform individuals asked to supply personal information of consequences of providing or not providing such information, shall request permission of a data subject to disseminate such information, and grant such individual the right to inspect and to know all personal information about the individual, the nature and sources of the information, and the recipients of personal information about such individual. Provides methods for the challenging, correction, and explanation of personal information by the subject of such information. Requires each such organization maintaining a personal information system to inform all data subjects of the fact within two years of enactment of this Act by notice containing specified elements. Exempts information determined to be vital to the national defense, contained in active criminal investigatory files compiled by Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, and that maintained by the news media (except information relating to the employees of such organizations) from the provisions of this Act. States that it shall be unlawful for any organization to require an individual to disclose or furnish his social security account number for any activity, unless the disclosure is required by law. Title III: Miscellaneous - Defines the terms used in this Act. States that any revelation of trade secrets required under this Act shall be treated as confidential by those to whom they are made. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974
Authorizes an annual appropriation through fiscal year 1989 to the land and water conservation fund of sums necessary to make the income of the fund $500,000,000 annually (now $300,000,000). (Amends 16 U.S.C. 4601-5(c))
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1974
Provides a ten-year delimiting period for the pursuit of educational programs by veterans, and their wives, and widows. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1974
Special Supplemental Food Program Amendment - Increases the amount of annual Federal financial assistance to the special supplemental food program authorized pursuant to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to $131,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Assistance for the Developmentally Disabled - States that the purpose of this title is to improve the provisions of services to persons with developmental disabilities. Defines "developmental disability" as a disability: (1) attributable to mental retardation, or cerebral palsy, or epilepsy, or autism, or learning disability; or (2) attributable to any other condition of an individual found to be closely related to mental retardation as it refers to general intellectual functioning or impairment in adaptive behavior or to require treatment similar to that required for mentally retarded individuals, which disability originates before such individual attains age eighteen, has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely, and constitutes a severe handicap to such individual's ability to function normally in society. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for the fiscal year June 30, 1975, and a like amount for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of assisting in the modernization and renovation of facilities which will aid in demonstrating provision of specialized services for the diagnosis and treatment, education, training or care of persons with developmental disabilities or in the interdisciplinary training of physicians and other specialized personnel needed for research, diagnosis and treatment, education, training or care of persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to cover costs of administering and operating demonstration facilities and interdisciplinary training programs for personnel needed to render specialized services to persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and each of the next four succeeding fiscal years to cover the costs of the grants. Sets forth requirements pertaining to the application for and payment of grants to States. Provides for grants to States for planning, provision of services, and construction and operation of facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $70,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $85,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 and such sums as may be necessary for succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making such grants. Establishes in the office of the Secretary a National Council on Services and Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled. States that it shall be the duty and function of the Council to: (1) advise the Secretary with respect to any regulations promulgated or proposed to be promulgated by him in the implementation of this title, (2) study programs authorized by this title to determine their effectiveness in carrying out the purposes for which they were established, (3) monitor the development and execution of this title and report directly to the Secretary on any delay in the rapid execution of this title, and (4) submit directly to the Congress annually an evaluation of the administration of this title. Requires States desiring to apply for grants to submit specific goal oriented plans for approval by the Secretary. Sets forth specific requirements to be met in order for State plans to be approved by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to prescribe general regulations applicable to all the States to carry out the purposes of this Act and to develop an evaluation system and action plan for implementation of such system and report to the appropriate committees of Congress within eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts to conduct feasibility studies with regard to developing an evaluation system for developmental disabilities services. Authorizes appropriations of $1,000,000 for this purpose for fiscal year 1975 and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for grants for special projects for services to persons with developmental disabilities of $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, $17,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977, $22,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1978, and $25,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1979. Title II: Bill Of Rights For The Mentally Retarded And Other Individuals With Developmental Disabilities - States that the purpose of this title is to establish standards which assure humane care, treatment, habilitation, and protection of the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities in residential facilities and minimize inappropriate admissions to such residential facilities. Sets forth standards for residential facilities for the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities. States that the ultimate aim of the facility shall be to foster those behaviors that maximize the human qualities of the resident, increase the complexity of his behavior, and enhance his ability to cope with his environment. Prescribes the provisions governing (1) staff-resident relationships and activities, (2) food services, (3) residents' clothing, (4) health, hygiene, and grooming, (5) grouping and organization of living units, (6) resident-living staff, and (7) design and equipage of living units. Directs that residents be provided with professional and special programs and services in accordance with their needs for such programs and services. States that all professional services to the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities should be rendered in the community, whenever possible, rather than in a residential facility, and where rendered in a residential facility, such services must be at least comparable to those provided the nonretarded in the community. Sets forth specifications governing the provision of the following services to residents: (1) dental services, (2) educational services, (3) food and nutrition services, (4) library services, (5) medical services, (6) nursing services, (7) pharmacy services, (8) physical and occupational therapy services, (9) psycological services, (10) recreation services, (11) religious services, (12) social services, (13) speech pathology and audiology services, (14) vocational rehabilitation services, and (15) volunteer services. States that a record shall be maintained for each resident that is adequate for: (1) plannning and continuous evaluating of the resident's habilitation program, (2) providing a means of communication among all persons contributing to the resident's habilitation program; (3) furnishing documentary evidence of the resident's progress and of his response to the habilitation program; (4) serving as a basis for review, study, and evaluation of the overall programs provided by the facility for its residents; (5) protecting the legal rights of the residents, facility, and staff; and (6) providing data for use in research and education. Stipulates that all information contained in a resident's record, including information contained in an automated data bank, shall be considered privileged and confidential. Provides that opportunities and resources should be made available to members of the staff who are equipped by interest and training to conduct applied and/or basic research. States that resources and/or necessary research assistance should be made available to all staff members who have identified researchable problems related to the programs for which they are responsible. Sets forth requirements pertaining to safety and sanitation in the resident facilities. Details provisions regarding the (1) provision of administrative support services, (2) fiscal affairs, (3) purchase, supply, and property control, (4) communications, (5) engineering and maintenance, (6) housekeeping services, and (7) laundry services.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Cost of Living Act - Specifies the techniques and methods to be used by the President to monitor public and private economic activity in order to constrain domestic inflation. States that the President may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, require the keeping of records, the making of reports and inspections, and the taking of sworn testimony as may be necessary or appropriate to obtain information crucial to achieving the purposes of this Act. Specifies information which the President shall not be entitled to request. Provides that the President may establish a board or commission of specified composition, along with advisory committees, to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that experts and consultants may be employed for the performance of functions under this Act. Requires the President, in carrying out his authority under this Act, to study and evaluate the relationship between excess profits, the stabilization of the economy, and the creation of new jobs. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to carry out the provisions of this Act. States that this Act shall become effective on May 1, 1974, and expire on April 30, 1975. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1974
National Science Foundation Authorization Act - Authorizes specific appropriations for specified activities of the National Science Foundation, and establishes minimum amounts to be expended on enumerated projects and programs.
United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Amendments - Redefines the terms "farm labor contractor" and "agricultural employment" for purposes of the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act of 1963. Requires farm labor contractors, in order to receive registration certificates, to carry insurance on vehicles for transportation of migrant workers of $25,000 for injury or death of one person and $100,000 for injury or death of all persons in any one accident. States that the Secretary of Labor may refuse to issue or may revoke a certificate of registration if the contractor is merely a front for one who has previously had a certificate refused or revoked. Requires a written contract of employment between contractors and workers, stating, among other matters, the terms and conditions of any strike or slowdown. Removes the word "interstate" from the description of agricultural employment requiring payroll records. Requires the Secretary to respect the confidentiality of employees filing a complaint where the Secretary has begun an investigation of a contractor. Adds a one-year prison term and penalties for second violations to the penalty provisions of the Act. Makes it unlawful for a contractor to fire, demote or threaten a worker in retaliation for such worker's exercise of rights under this Act or any other provision of Federal law. Allows any person claiming to be aggrieved by violation of this Act to bring an action in any district court. Voids any agreement by an employee purporting to modify his rights under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000 for carrying out this Act in fiscal year 1975 and for each fiscal year thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1974
Establishes National Historic Trails as a new category of trails within the National Trails System.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974
National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,00 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30l 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to ddisseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1085, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment. National Huntington's Disease Control Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of, and research in, Huntington's disease. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for projects for the establishment and operation of Huntington's disease screeening, treatment, and counseling programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years for such grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for research in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Huntington's disease. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975 and for each of the next two fiscal years for use for such grants. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to Huntington's disease and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care and to the public in general. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year ednding June 30, 1975, and for each of the next two fiscal years to carry out this information program. Sets forth the requirements for applications for grants under this Act and the administration of such grants. Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Huntington's disease screening, counseling, and treatment.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1974
Comprehensive National Health Insurance Act - Title I: National Health Insurance Program - National Health Insurance Program - Provides that this Act shall not interfere with the freedom of every physician and every patient to choose where and how they will give or receive health care. States that the national health insurance program established by this title shall be administered by the Board of the Social Security Administration established by this Act. Provides the following benefits under the National Health Insurance Program: (1) inpatient hospital services with no day or dollar limitation; (2) physicians' services, in home, office, or elsewhere, with no dollar limitation; (3) medical and other health services (as defined under medicare); (4) home health services-100 visits per year; (5) post-hospital extended care services-100 days per year; (6) mental health services-inpatient, 30 full days in a psychiatric hospital or 60 partial days; outpatient services in a comprehensive community care center equivalent to the costs of 30 visits to a private practitioner or outpatient services of a private practitioner equal to half the costs of 30 visits; (7) outpatient prescription drugs and biologicals for specified chronic conditions; (8) preventive care services, including (a) routine dental services for children under age 13; (b) developmental vision care services, routine eye and vision exams, and lenses or eyeglasses for children under age 13; (c) hearing aids and exams for children under age 13; (d) well-child care to age 6; (e) prenatal care; and (f) family planning services. Makes services, except those listed under preventive care, subject to a combined annual per person deductible of $150 except that no family would have to meet more than 2 deductibles. States that all services, except drugs, would be subject to a 25-percent coinsurance. Provides that patient drugs would be subject to a separate copayment of $1 per prescription drug. Makes all residents who are not eligible for Medicare eligible for the program through their contributions to the Social Security System, contributions being made by all Americans who have earned or unearned income of any kind, including governmental benefits. Makes each person who is fully or currently insured, as defined under the present social security law, and his dependents eligible. Provides immediate coverage under the plan for the individuals who are not fully or currently insured. Provides that coverage be extended to an employee during the first week during which he worked 25 hours or more, coverage not ending until after there were three consecutive weeks in each of which he did not work 25 hours or more. Provides that people beginning self-employment, or starting to receive unearned income, would be eligible beginning with the first day of the first year in which they have such income. Makes all social security and railroad retirement cash beneficiaries (including widows and widowers under age 65) who are not eligible for coverage under Medicare, eligible for the program. Directs the Social Security Administration to establish for each eligible individual an account against which such individual may charge the cost of obtaining any items and services furnished him under this title, without regard to any deductible or coinsurance requirement which may be applicable. Requires that payment for items and services furnished an eligible individual be made by the Social Security Administration to the providers of services on the basis of charges against such individual's account. States that the Administration shall have full responsibility for the collection of any deductible and coinsurance amounts due from an individual. Provides for a special waiver of or limitation on deductibles and coinsurance for lower income families. Enumerates the conditions of and limitations on payment for the following: (1) requirement of requests and certifications, (2) no payments to Federal providers of services, (3) payment for emergency hospital services, (4) payment for inpatient hospital services prior to notification of noneligibility, (5) payment for posthospital extended care services, (6) payment for home health services, (7) limitation on payment for outpatient drugs and biologicals, (8) limitations on payment for surgery and other specialized services, (9) limitation on payment for practitioner services furnished in nonparticipating hospitals, (10) limitation on payment for certain prosthetic devices, (11) payment for certain outpatient services furnished by nonparticipating hospitals, and (12) collection by hospitals of customary charges for certain outpatient services. Makes provisions for payment to the providers of services and for prospective determination of payment to providers of services. Directs the Administration to award on an annual basis quality management payments to any provider of services under this title whenever either the percentage amount or the dollar amount of increase in such provider's prospective rate for a fiscal year is less than the average annual increase in such rate for the three previous fiscal years for all providers in the same class, such payment to be equal to 50 percent of the difference between such provider's total costs to the program and what its costs to the program would have been had they increased at the class average rate. Lists the agreements a provider of services must file with the Administration in order to qualify to participate and to be eligible for payments under this title. Authorizes the Administration to use public agencies or private organizations to facilitate payment to providers of services. Authorizes the Administation to use carriers, as defined in this Act, for the administration of noninstitutional benefits. Requires that payment for services rendered by a physician be made in accordance with a single fee schedule applicable throughout that area. Provides a method to determine the fee schedule. Allows all physicians to elect whether to participate or not to participate. States that each fee schedule in effect and the names and addresses of all participating physicians shall be made available to the public throughout the State involved, in such manner and at such times as the Administration may consider appropriate, by the Administration or by the appropriate State agency with the approval of the Administration. Establishes, within the Social Security Administration, a National Health Insurance Formulary Committee, a majority of whose members shall be physicians and which shall consist of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs and of four individuals (not otherwise in the employ of the Federal Government) who do not have a direct or indirect financial interest in the compensation of the Formularly established under this Act and who are of recognized professional standing and distinction in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, or pharmacy, to be appointed by the Administration without regard to the statutory provisions governing appointments in the competitive service. Provides that the Chairman of the Committee shall be elected annually from the appointed members, by majority vote of the members of the Committee. Requires the Formulary to compile, publish, and make available a National Health Insurance Formulary, containing an alphabetically arranged listing, by established name, of those drug entities within specified therapeutic categories which the Committee decides are necessary for individuals using such drugs. States that a fee, charge, or billing allowance shall not be payable under this title with respect to any drug entity that is furnished as an incident to a physician's professional service, and is of a kind commonly furnished in physicians' offices and commonly either rendered without charge or included in the physicians' bills. Provides a reasonable allowance for outpatient drugs and biologicals. Makes special provisions for physicians dispensing outpatient drugs and biologicals where the Administration determines that no participating licensed pharmacies exist in a community. Creates on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the National Health Insurance Trust Fund and a body to be known as the Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, the Chairman of the Board of the Social Security Administration, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Directs the Administration to consult with State agencies and other organizations to develop conditions of participation for providers of services. Provides for the use of State agencies to determine compliance by providers of services with the conditions of participation. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this title, and the determination of the amount of such benefits, shall be made by the Administration in accordance with regulations prescribed by it. Provides that where overpayments on behalf of individuals occur, proper adjustment shall be made under regulations prescribed by the Administration, by decreasing subsequent payments. Provides for the settlement of claims for benefits on behalf of deceased individuals. Provides criminal penalties for violation of this Act. Creates a National Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council consisting of 19 persons, not otherwise in the employ of the United States, appointed by the Board without regard to statutory provisions governing appointments in the competitive service. Lists criteria for serving on the Council. Declares that it shall be the function of the Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations for the consideration of the Administration on matters of general policy with respect to this title. Imposes the following taxes for each taxable year for health insurance purposes: two and one half percent of the amount of an individual's self-employment income (and unearned income); on the income of every individual, one percent of the person's wages; and on every employer, an excise tax equal to three percent of the wages paid by him with respect to employment. Provides special coverage provisions, under the Social Security Act, for purposes of National Health Insurance Taxes. Title II: Changes in Medicare Program - Establishes, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare), a voluntary program to provide long-term care benefits for aged and disabled individuals who elect to enroll under such program, financed from permium payments by enrollees together with contributions from funds appropriated by the Federal Government and contributions by the States. Lists criteria for eligibility for long-term care service benefits. Provides that the benefits provided to an individual by the program established by this Act shall consist of (1) home health services, (2) homemaker services, (3) nutrition services, (4) long-term institutional care services, (5) day care and foster home services, and (6) community mental health center outpatient services. Enumerates the requirements for a State long-term care agency. Provides for the payment of premiums for benefits received under this Act. Establishes on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trund fund to be known as the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund. Creates a body to known as the Board of Trustees, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, the Chariman of the Board of the Social Security Administration, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees and that the Executive Director of the Social Security Administration shall serve as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Provides that the Board of Trustees shall meet not less frequently than once each calendar year. Enumerates the duties of the Board of Trustees. Declares that a community long-term care center shall: (1) provide the items and services listed in this Act to each individual (i) who is eligible for benefits under this part, (ii) who resides in the area served by such center, and (iii) who is certified as requiring such services; (2) evaluate and certify the long-term care needs of an individual for whom such care may be required in order to maintain such individual in an independent living arrangement which is reasonable given such individual's state of health and other circumstances (but not including such individual's economic circumstances); (3) maintain a continuous relationship with (and periodically evaluate not less that annually) each individual who is receiving any of the items and services listed in this Act; (4) provide full opportunity for such individual and his family to participate in the determinations and functions under this Act; (5) provide an organized system for making its existence and location known to all individuals in its service area who are eligible for benefits under this part, and for making known to such individuals the method or methods by which they may most efficiently obtain and use the services which it makes available; and (6) performs such other functions as the Administration may by regulation prescribe in order to have such center most effective carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides a formula for payments to States for the reimbursement of community long-term care centers. Directs the Administration, after consultation with organizations representing the chief executives of the various States, and other interested parties, to develop and make available to community long-term care centers one or more methods of obtaining payment for the benefits covered under this Act on a prospective basis. States that once a community long-term care center elects a particular prospective method, it may not alter its election without the prior approval of the Administration. Provides that whenever the Administration finds that the number of community long-term care centers electing a particular prospective payment method promulgated in accordance with this Act is not sufficient to provide an adequate basis for either the operation or evaluation of that method, the Administration shall withdraw that method and allow the community long-term care centers which have elected such method to select another method within 30 days of notice of such withdrawal. Permits a Governor of a State to certify to the Administration a method of prospective payment other than those promulgated under this Act. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this Act shall be made by the Administration in accordance with regulations it prescribes. Provides coverage for prescription drugs. Declares that no further deductible or coinsurance requirement shall be imposed under this Act with respect to items or services furnished to or for any individual in any calendar year after the total of the deductibles and coinsurance paid by or on behalf of such individual and the other members of his family in that year equals $1,000. Eliminates the posthospital requirement for home health services under Medicare and the durational limits on inpatient hospital services. Title III: Independent Social Security Administration - Establishes, as an independent agency of the executive branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration to be headed by a Board, consisting of three members 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 specified programs 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 the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security. Title IV: Amendment to Public Health Service Act - Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the Health Resources Development Board which shall be composed of three members to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides for an Executive Director and for the recruitment of qualified persons experienced in the administration or operation of private health insurance and health prepayment plans, or experienced in other fields pertinent to the national health insurance program. Requires the Board to make an annual report to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the United States House of Representatives and to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the United States Senate. Enumerates the functions of the Board including: studies and evaluations, system development, tests and demonstrations, research, and planning. Establishes a National Health Insurance Resources Advisory Council, consisting of the Chairman of the Board, the Chairman of the Social Security Board, and twenty members, not otherwise in the employ of the United States, appointed by the Secretary on recommendation of the Board, without regard to the statutory provisions governing appointments in the competitive service. Provides criteria for membership on the Council. Enumerates the functions of the Council. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out this title: $400,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975; and $600,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for the Administration's certfication of Supplemental Private Health Insurance Policies. Sets standards with respect to supplemental health insurance policies. Leaves existing employer-employee health benefit plans unaffected. Provides regulations for planning by health care providers and the conditions for payment.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Health Services Act - Title I: Community Health Centers, Migrant Health Centers, and Community Mental Health Centers - Sets forth congressional findings regarding the need for the provision of high quality essential health services and comprehensive mental health services in all American communities. States that the essential health services which shall be provided by a community health center are: (1) physician services (including consultant and referral services by a physician) and, where feasible, services of physicians' assistants and nurse clinicians; (2) emergency medical services; (3) diagnostic laboratory and radiologic services; (4) preventive health services; (5) transportation services necessary to overcome special difficulty of access to services provided by the community health center; and (6) services which promote and facilitate optimal use of available health services. Specifies that a community health center shall provide services in the following manner: (1) directly through its own professional staff and supporting resources; and (2) indirectly under agreements with providers designed to assure to the patient maximum accessibility to efficient, economical, and high-quality services. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make planning grants to any public or private nonprofit agency, organization, or institution which has demonstrated the capacity to prepare a satisfactory plan for providing essential health services through a community health center. Provides that the Secretary may make development grants to any public or private nonprofit agency, organization, or institution which has a plan satisfactory to the Secretary for providing essential health services through a community health center. States that grants for development shall be made to assist in meeting the costs of: (1) development of essential and supplemental health services, including the addition of new services to those already offered, to the extent that such costs are not ordinary costs of operation, as defined in regulations of the Secretary; (2) development of the resources and techniques to achieve compliance with specified conditions; and (3) acquisition and construction of new facilities, expansion and remodeling of existing facilities, leasing of facilities, and initial equipment of facilities acquired, constructed, expanded, remodeled, or leased with financial assistance provided for grants under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make operating grants to any: (1) community health center; or (2) public or private nonprofit agency, organization, or institution which is providing services or meets the definition of a community health center except that it is not providing all of the essential health services described in this Act. Sets forth conditions to be met for approval of grant applications. Directs the Secretary to appoint and organize a National Advisory Council on Community Health Centers which shall advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary on matters concerning the organization, operation, and funding of community health centers and other grantees. Authorizes appropriations of $500,000 for each fiscal year 1975-1979 for planning grants. Authorizes appropriations of $30,000,000 for each fiscal year 1975-1979 for development grants. Authorizes necessary appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the succeeding four fiscal years to make operating grants. Directs the Secretary to make available planning, development, and operating grants for the establishment and maintenance of migrant health centers. Sets forth conditions for the approval of migrant health center grants. Directs the Secretary to appoint and organize a National Advisory Council on Migrant Health Centers which shall advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary on matters concerning the organization, operation, and funding of migrant health centers and other grantees under this part. Authorizes appropriations for migrant health center grants for the fiscal years 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. Directs the Secretary to make available planning, development, and operating grants for the establishment and maintenance of community mental health centers. Sets forth conditions for the approval of mental health center grants. Authorizes the Secretary to provide all necessary technical and other nonfinancial assistance (including fiscal and program management and training in fiscal and program management) to any public or private, nonprofit agency, organization, or institution which is eligible to receive grants under this Act to assist such agency, organization, or institution in developing plans for and in becoming a community health center. Authorizes appropriations for community mental health center grants for the fiscal years 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. Title II: Health Revenue Sharing - Authorizes appropriations of $90,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for grants to States for comprehensive public health resources.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Authorizes the use of rail passenger equipment by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, either by voluntary agreement between the Corporation and the railroads or by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission if an urgent need is established. (Amends 45 U.S.C. 562)
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Solar Energy Research Act - Declares that it is the policy of the Federal Government to pursue a vigorous and viable program of research and development into the utilization of solar energy as a major source for our national energy needs. Provides that, within sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation creating any permanent Federal organization or agency having jurisdiction over the energy research and development functions of the United States Government, the Office of Solar Energy Research shall be established within that agency. Provides that if, within sixty days from the date of enactment of this Act, no agency with jurisdiction over Federal energy research and development has been established, the Office of Solar Energy Research authorized under this Act shall be established, on an interim basis, within the Atomic Energy Commission, until sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation authorizing the new Federal office of energy research and development. Authorizes the Chairman or Administrator to conduct appropriate research and technical development work: (1) to determine, by laboratory and pilot testing, the usable results of scientific research, (2) to develop and fabricate solar energy transformation processes, equipment designs, and components to the point where they can be demonstrated, certified, produced, and operated on a commercially practical scale; (3) to recommend to the Congress, as deemed appropriate, authorizations for the construction and operation or for participation in the construction and operation, of solar energy conversion facilities, and (4) to undertake, through research grants and contracts, studies of possible economic, social, and environmental effects which will result from the use of solar energy. Establishes a Solar Energy Research Council to be chaired by the Chairman or Administrator to coordinate policy and programs in solar energy research. Specifies the composition of the Council. Directs the development of a program to expedite the increased utilization of solar energy technology by the public and private sectors. Establishes a solar energy incentives task force to carry out the following functions: (1) report to the President and the Congress within one hundred and twenty days following enactment, and at least annually thereafter, recommendations for a viable program, of specified, time limited, incentives or modifications to existing and/or proposed incentives programs to accelerate the commercial application of solar energy technology; and (2) carry out a program of research and investigation into the barriers to innovation in the field of solar energy, the barriers to the acceleration of the commercial application of solar energy technology, and the programs needed to remove such barriers. Authorizes the compilation on a semi-annual basis of a listing of all solar energy conversion components, facilities, and equipment, commercially available in the Nation for private or public use. States that utilization of solar energy shall include such applications of solar energy as, but not limited to, the solar heating and cooling of buildings, solar crop drying and other agricultural applications of solar energy, solar thermal and photovoltaic power generation for terrestrial applications, whether situated on the ground or in space, wind energy conversion, ocean thermal gradient conversion, solar stimulated bioconversion, and solar production of synthetic gases and hydrogen. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act the following amounts: (1) for fiscal year 1975, $56,000,000; (2) for fiscal year 1976, $94,000,000; (3) for fiscal year 1977, $150,000,000; (4) for fiscal year 1978, $150,000,000; and (5) for fiscal year 1979, $150,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1974
Energy Crisis Unemployed Compensation Act - Title I: Findings and Declarations - Expresses the findings of Congress and the purposes of this Act, including to provide substantial assistance whereby: (1) additional unemployment compensation benefits will be available to the unemployed for whom existing provisions are inadequate; and (2) such benefits will be logically related to, and administered through, the existing structure of State agencies. Title II: Federal - State Agreements - Provides that any State, the State unemployment compensation law of which is approved by the Secretary of Labor under the Internal Revenue Code which desired to do so, may enter into an agreement for the payment of Energy Crisis Unemployment Compensation. Sets forth the requirements of any such agreement, including that it shall provide that the unemployment compensation agency of the State will make payments of Energy Crisis Unemployment Compensation to specified individuals. States that for purposes of this Act, the "Energy Crisis benefit period" shall begin on February 1, 1974, and end on June 30, 1976. Defines additional terms used in this Act. Provides that for purposes of any agreement under this title, the amount of the Energy Crisis unemployment compensation which shall be payable to any individual for any week of total or partial unemployment shall be computed under the same provisions applicable to regular unemployment compensation under the State law. Requires that any agreement under this title shall provide that the State will establish, for each individual who files an application, a separate compensation account. Title III: Payments to States Having Agreements for the Payment of Energy Crisis Unemployment Compensation - Directs that there shall be paid to each State which has entered into an agreement under this title an amount equal to 100 percent of the Energy Crisis unemployment compensation paid to individuals by the State pursuant to such agreement. Provides for payments of additional sums to States under specified circumstances. Title IV: Financing Provisions - States that for the purpose of carrying out this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary for fiscal year 1974, and for each year thereafter. Directs the Secretary to certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State the sums payable to each State under this title. Title V: Definitions - Defines the terms used in this Act, including the formula for computing the excess cost factor. Title VI: Report by Secretary of Labor - Requires the Secretary of Labor to conduct a comprehensive study and review of the program established by this Act, to be conducted with particular regard to (1) the benefit payable made; (2) projections of benefit payments which will be payable after the period covered by the report; (3) the desirability of continuing such program; and (4) the funding of the benefits payable. Directs the submission of such report to the Congress by November 1, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1974
Provides, under the Sugar Act of 1948, for the termination of the sugar importation quota from South Africa.
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 · 20 March 1974
Homeowners' Loan Act - Establishes the Homeowners' Loan Corporation. Requires the Board of Directors of the Corporation to determine the minimum amount of capital stock of the Corporation and to increase such capital stock from time to time in such amounts as may be necessary. Authorizes the Corporation to issue bonds in an aggregate amount not to exceed $10,000,000,000 which may be sold by the Corporation to obtain funds for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Corporation for a period of three years after the date of enactment of this Act, but only during any calendar quarter in which the Federal Home Loan Bank Board determines that the foreclosure rate exceeds one-half of 1 percent, to acquire home mortgages and other obligations and liens secured by real estate. States that each home mortgage or other obligation or lien so acquired shall be carried as a first lien or refinanced as a home mortgage by the Corporation on the basis of the price paid therefore by the Corporation, and shall be amortized by means of monthly payments sufficient to retire the interest and principal within a period of not to exceed thirty years. Directs the Board to issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary, including rules and regulations providng for the appraisal of the property on which loans are made under this section so as to accomplish the purposes of this Act. States that whoever makes any statement, knowing it to be false, or whoever willfully overvalues any security, for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the Homeowners' Loan Corporation of the Board upon any application, advance, discount, purchase, or repurchase agreement, or loan under this Act, or any extension thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Authorizes the President to designate April 21 through April 28 as "Earth Week, 1974".
United States · United States Congress · 19 March 1974
Makes it the sense of Congress that: (1) the President of the United States should seek direct negotiations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, designed to achieve agreements on limiting deployment of their respective naval and other military forces in the Indian Ocean and littoral states; (2) these negotiations should be convened, as rapidly as possible, either in a bilateral forum, or within the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean, augmented to include the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; (3) these negotiations should consider, among other topics, agreed limitations by the two Powers on establishment or use of naval and other military facilities in the Indian Ocean and littoral states, numbers of war-ships (or ship-days) deployed in the Indian Ocean basin, and the size and characteristics of warships and other military forces deployed there; (4) during these negotiations, the President should reaffirm the principal of Freedom of the Seas, in regard to the Indian Ocean, and bear in mind the deliberations of the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean regarding relevant issues; and (5) the President should report to the Congress at regular intervals, not less frequently than every six months, on progress made pursuant to this concurrent resolution.
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 · 13 March 1974
Requires, under the General Education Provisions Act, that the President shall include in the budget transmitted to the Congress proposed appropriations for carrying out provisions of such Act relating to advance funding of educational programs.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974
Makes it the sense of the Congress that the provisions of the General Education Provisions Act relating to advance funding for education programs should be immediately and continually implemented so as to afford responsible State, local, and Federal officers adequate notice of available Federal financial assistance for education.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Removes the restriction on the use of private non-profit institutions under the dependents' medical care program for members of the armed forces. Provides that when a member dies while he is eligible for the receipt of hostile fire payments, and it is determined that his wife is pregnant, she may be provided care for that pregnancy on the same basis prescribed for the dependents of members who are on active duty. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079(d); Adds 10 U.S.C. 1089)
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 · 28 February 1974
Makes the Special Committee on Aging, a permanent, special committee of the Senate consisting of twenty-two members appointed by the President of the Senate, thirteen of whom shall be appointed from the majority party and nine of whom shall be appointed from the minority party. Requires the committee to make a continuing study and investigation of any and all matters pertaining to problems and opportunities of older people, including but not limited to, problems and opportunities of maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary, or obtaining care or assistance. Provides that no proposed legislation shall be referred to the committee, and the committee shall not have power to report by bill, or otherwise have legislative jurisdiction. Provides that the minority shall receive fair consideration in the appointment of staff personnel pursuant to this resolution.
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 · 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.