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United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Labor to change the name of the Wholesale Price Index to the Basic Price Index. Sets limitations upon the use of the term "wholesale" in data published by the Department of Labor.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Opportunities for Adoption Act - Provides for adoption assistance programs under the provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Makes it the purpose of this Act, in order to promote the public health and welfare, to facilitate the elimination of obstacles to adoption, and to locate children in need of adoption and facilitate the placement in permanent adoptive homes of such children, particularly children with special needs, by: (1) promoting the establishment of uniform adoption regulations in the States and territories of the United States in order to eliminate jurisdictional and legal obstacles to adoption; (2) providing Federal financial assistance to States for the purpose of assisting certain public and private nonprofit agencies and adoptive and prospective adoptive parents in meeting certain costs of adoption in order to remove or alleviate the financial obstacles which present serious barriers to adoption by qualified persons; and (3) providing for the establishment of a National Office of Adoption Information and Services in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to (A) ensure quality standards for adoption services (including pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoption counseling and standards to protect the rights of children in need of adoption) and (B) provide for a national adoption information exchange system. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a Committee on Uniform Adoption Regulations to be composed of representatives of National, State, and local child welfare organizations and representatives of National, State, and local child welfare organizations and representatives of other groups interested in facilitating the objectives of adoption agencies, and the Chief of the Children's Bureau in the Office of Child Development, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, or his designee. Directs such Committee to: (1) review current conditions, practices, and laws relating to adoption, with special reference to their effect on facilitating or impeding the finding of suitable adoptive homes for children and the completion of suitable adoptions; (2) propose to the Secretary uniform adoption regulations which would facilitate adoption; and (3) report its proposals to the Congress and the President not later than eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that following receipt of the Committee's proposals, but not later than twenty-four months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish the proposed uniform adoption regulations in the Federal Register for comment and, after soliciting and giving due consideration to the comments of interested individuals, groups and organizations and consulting further with the Committee, he shall issue and publish final uniform adoption regulations which shall apply in the administration of the grant program. Directs the Secretary, in accordance with regulations which he shall prescribe, to make matching grants to States for allocation, by State agencies principally responsible for services to families and children, to public and private nonprofit adoption agencies which meet standards of quality prescribed pursuant to this Act for the purpose of assisting: (1) such agencies in meeting the cost involved in the adoptive placement of children with special needs (including identifying children in need of adoption, locating and counseling their parents, freeing appropriate children for adoption, locating suitable homes and providing pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoptive counseling to children in need of adoption and to prespective and actual adoptive parents); (2) such agencies in meeting the cost of providing prenatal and postpartum services to mothers, voluntarily planning to place their children for adoption, who are unable to assume such costs, in order to protect the health and welfare of both the mother and child; but only to the extent that assistance under other Federal or State programs in the community in question is not readily available to provide adequately for such services; (3) such agencies in meeting the cost of providing for professional counseling and other social services to children in need of adoption, and to prospective and actual adoptive parents and foster parents to assist them in providing a supportive and healthful family environment; (4) adoptive parents in locating and, where appropriate, defraying the cost of post-placement and post-adoption special services to children requiring such services as a result of conditions which existed prior to their placement, up to an amount not exceeding the amount which similar services would cost the State in question were it to provide or secure such services as the guardian of such children; and (5) prospective adoptive parents, who would consider adoption but for their financial inability to meet a child's needs, in defraying the post-placement and post-adoption cost of supporting children with special needs, in amounts of assistance determined by the Secretary to be adequate to enable such adoptive parents to assume responsibility for raising such children (including payment of legal fees and court costs). Provides for the establishment of a system in the States under which, with respect to a child who has been in foster care in a State for at least six months after such child is considered legally available for adoptive placement, the foster parents providing care to such child will be notified of the possibility of the financial assistance for adoptive placement authorized by this Act if it appears to be in the child's best interest. Directs the Secretary to take such steps as he deems necessary to encourage and facilitate the consideration of comprehensive adoption assistance legislation by those States which have not enacted such legislation. Establishes within the Children's Bureau of the Office of Child Development of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Office of Adoption Information and Services which shall be headed by a Director appointed by the Secretary upon the joint recommendation of the Director of the Office of Child Development and the Chief of the Children's Bureau. Provides that the Office shall be the principal agency for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Directs the Director, in accordance with regulations which he shall presecribe, to: (1) conduct a continuous educational program on adoption and to prepare, publish, and disseminate to all interested parties, private and public agencies and organizations, and governmental bodies educational materials regarding adoption and adoption assistance programs; (2) measure and evaluate the impact of the programs authorized by this Act and, not later than ninety days after June 30 of each year, prepare and submit to the Secretary for transmittal to the President and the Congress a report on such evaluation, which shall include, but not be limited to (A) the number of children placed in adoptive homes under adoption assistance agreements during the year preceding the annual report and the major characteristics of such children; and (B) the number of children currently in foster care for six months or more, and the legal status of such children; (3) insure that adoption agencies receiving assistance authorized under this Act subscribe to standards of quality, which he shall prescribe, for adoption services (including pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoption counseling and standards to protect the rights of children in need of adoption) and comply with the requirements of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and (4) notwithstanding any other provision of law, provide for the operation of a national adoption information system, utilizing computers and modern data processing methods, to assist in the location of children in need of adoption and in the placement in adoptive homes of children awaiting adoption, and for the promotion of cooperative efforts with any similar programs; and (5) coordinate and consult with other appropriate Federal agencies, and coordinate all other programs within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Authorizes the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and the succeeding three fiscal years, of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 April 1975
Provides a five-year moratorium on application of the penalty imposed (through a reduction in the credit allowed employers against the Federal unemployment tax) by the Internal Revenue Code on States which have failed to make timely repayment of advances made to the State's unemployment account.
United States · United States Congress · 21 April 1975
Authorizes expanded home health services under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Authorizes appropriations from general revenues to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust and to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund for fiscal years beginning with 1976 of amounts necessary to reimburse such trust funds with 100 percent of the expenditures required to expand the program authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 April 1975
Authorizes appropriations for programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965 for fiscal years 1976 and 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1975
Condemns violations of the Paris agreement by the Communists in Vietnam. Calls upons all governments to join in this condemnation. Notifies the governments of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China that their actions in Vietnam shall be considered a test of good faith in efforts toward detente. Calls upon individual nations and the United Nations to take action to assure the right to asylum to Vietnamese refugees.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1975
Right to Financial Privacy Act - States that the purposes of this Act are to protect and preserve the confidential relationship between financial institutions and their customers and the constitutional rights of those customers, and promote commerce by prescribing policies and procedures to insure that customers have the same right to protection against unwarranted disclosure of customer records as if the records were in their possession. Prohibits any Federal agency or employee, or any State or local government from obtaining copies of, access to, or the information contained in, the financial records of any customer from a financial institution unless the financial records are described with particularity and: (1) such customer has authorized such disclosure in accordance with this Act; (2) such financial records are disclosed in response to an administrative subpena or summons; (3) such financial records are disclosed in response to a court order; or (4) such financial records are disclosed in response to a judicial subpena. States that no financial institution may provide a Federal agency or employee, or any State or local government, copies of or the information contained in the financial records of any customer except in accordance with the requirements of this Act. Sets forth provisions governing customer authorization, administrative subpenas and summons and judicial subpenas. Provides that the Secretary of the Treasury may not require an institution to maintain any financial records or to transmit any reports relating to customers unless: (1) such records are required for use by a supervisory agency in the supervision of that institution; or (2) such records are required to be maintained by the Internal Revenue Code. Prescribes civil and criminal penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Small Business Emergency Relief Act - Authorizes the head of any executive agency to terminate for the convenience of the Government any fixed-price contract between that agency and a small business concern encountering significant and unavoidable difficulties during performance because of the energy crisis or rapid and unexpected escalations of contract costs. Specifies the documentation and certification required of a small business concern to support such a request for relief. Gives to the term "small business concern" the same meaning for the purpose of this Act as such term has for purposes of the Small Business Act. States that the authority conferred by this Act shall terminate December 31, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1975
Revises the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 by authorizing the Administrator of General Services to enter into multiyear contracts through use of the automatic data processing fund and to incur or authorize obligations in excess of the amount available in the fund, with specified exceptions.
United States · United States Congress · 17 March 1975
Interstate Compact - Grants the consent and approval of Congress to the California-Nevada Interstate Compact relating to the apportionment of water between the two States. Establishes the California-Nevada Compact Commission to administer the provisions of the compact.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Truth In Contributions Act - Imposes a 15 percent tax on the undistributed revenue of a public charity remaining undistributed at the beginning of the second taxable year after such revenue was received. Provides that any revenue remaining undistributed 90 days after notice of deficiency with respect to the 15 percent tax imposed under this Act shall be taxable at a rate of 100 percent (this tax to be effective for taxable years 1980 and thereafter). States that public charities shall be exempt from such taxation for the first four taxable years of the charity. Imposes additional information - reporting requirements on public charities, including statements of the gross revenue, total expenses, and accounting principles employed, a balance sheet, and a breakdown of expenses reported. Requires an annual report to be filed by the chief executive officer of every public charity to include a listing of the 10 most highly compensated officers or employees and each employee or consultant who received more than $20,000 in compensation from the public charity for the taxable year. Requires a disclosure statement, containing the itemization of revenues and expenses required by this Act, to be furnished by the public charity to its potential contributors at the time of solicitation of contributions. Assesses a penalty of $1,000 for each willful failure of a private foundation or public charity to comply with the requirements of this Act. Provides, in the case of a decision to consider the termination of the tax-exempt status of a public charity by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, that the Attorney General shall take action to preserve the assets consisting of, or derived from, contributions solicited from the public. Provides that any officer or employee of a public charity who knowingly commits any act or series of acts resulting in termination of public charity status shall be fined up to $5,000, imprisoned for up to one year, or both. Provides that no organization registered with the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid may state that it is registered with that committee in material distributed to the public in connection with the solicitation of contributions to that organization. States that any organization violating these provisions shall be fined not more than $1,000. Provides that any officer or director of any organization who causes the organization to violate these provisions, or who consents to any such violation, shall be fined not more that $1,000, imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that, on or before the fifteenth day after the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, the President shall transmit to the Congress a budget which shall set forth separately: (1) his estimate of the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during the ensuing fiscal year under the laws then existing; (2) his recommendations with respect to outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such ensuing fiscal year; and (3) if such recommendations exceed such estimate, a surtax rate which the President determines to be necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers to those portions of taxable years of the taxpayers occurring during such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives during the first quarter of each fiscal year, and during the third quarter of each fiscal year to: (1) estimate the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, during such fiscal year; (2) estimate outlays to be made from funds other than trust funds during such fiscal year; and (3) (A) if such estimate of outlays exceeds such estimate of receipts, determine a surtax rate which the Speaker considers necessary to be applied, with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, to those portions of taxable years of taxpayers remaining in such fiscal year, so that such receipts will equal such outlays; or (B) if such estimate of outlays equals such estimate of receipts, determine that no surtax rate is necessary to be applied. Directs the President during the last month of each fiscal year to review whether the receipts of the Government, other than trust funds, for such year will be less than the outlays other than trust funds for that fiscal year. Provides that if he finds that such receipts are going to be less than such outlays, he shall determine a surtax rate which he consideres necessary to be applied with respect to the income tax of taxpayers, so that taxes received by the Government from such surtax, when added to other receipts of the Government, will equal such outlays. Authorizes the suspension of the provisions of this Article in the case of a grave national emergency declared by Congress (including a state of war formally declared by Congress) by a concurrent resolution agreed to by a rollcall vote of three-fourths of all the Members of each House of Congress, with each such resolution providing the period of time (not exceeding one year) during which those provisions are to be suspended.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Establishes a temporary select committee of the Senate comprised of 12 members to conduct a thorough study of the Senate committee system. Provides the committee with the powers necessary to carry out the study. Authorizes the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $900,000. Requests the select committee to submit interim reports and a final report with recommendations by February 28, 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Small Business Emergency Tax Reduction Act - Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, for an increase from $10,000 to $15,000 in the dollar limitation on property eligible for an additional first-year depreciation allowance for small business. States that in the case of a husband and wife who file a joint return, the limitation shall be increased from $20,000 to $30,000. Removes the requirement that such eligible property have a useful life of six years or more. States that in the case of corporations, the normal tax on a corporation's taxable income shall be equal to 22 percent of the amount by which the taxable income exceeds the normal tax exemption for the taxable year. Provides that the normal tax exemption for any taxable year beginning after December 31, 1974, shall be $5,000, with specified exceptions. Increases the corporate surtax exemption from $25,000 to $100,000. Provides, in the case of a corporation other than a mere holding or investment company, for an increase in the minimum accumulated earnings credit from $100,000 to $150,000. States that in computing the taxable income of a partnership, there shall be allowed a deduction to the partnership for organizational expenses. Defines "organizational expenses" as any expense of a character which, if expended incident to the creation of a corporation having a limited life, would be amortizable over such life. Provides for an increase in the investment credit to 12 percent of so much of the qualified investment as does not exceed $20,000, plus 10 percent of so much of the qualified investment as exceeds $20,000 but does not exceed $50,000, plus eight percent of so much of the qualified investment as exceeds $50,000.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Transfers legislative authority for the Small Business Administration to the Senate Select Committee on Small Business.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Prohibits the Consumer Product Safety Commission from restricting the sale or manufacture of firearms or firearm ammunition.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Exempts range sheep industry mobile housing from regulations affecting permanent housing for agricultural workers.
United States · United States Congress · 4 March 1975
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal and zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) that there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible, except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) that there be no recession to Panama, or other divestitute of any United States owned peroperty, tangible or intangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1975
Antitrust Law Labor Amendments - Removes statutory limitations upon the application of the Sherman Act to labor organizations and their activities. States that every contract or agreement between any labor organization and any employer whereby such employer undertakes to cease or to refrain from using, selling, handling, transporting, or otherwise dealing in any of the products of any producer, processor, or manufacturer which are distributed in trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared illegal. Provides that every person who enters into, attempts to enter into, or conspires with any other person to enter into any such contract or agreement shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $1,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $100,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding three years or both.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making grants to States for establishing, expanding or improving veterans' cemeteries. Requires the States to provide at least 35 percent of the costs of cemetery acquisition or improvement. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to annually pay to each State up to 65 percent of the annual costs of maintaining veterans' cemeteries within such State.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Stipulates that in conducting the decennial census the Secretary of Commerce shall require information to be furnished only with respect to the following items: (1) name and address; (2) relationship to head of household; (3) sex; (4) date of birth; (5) race or color; and (6) visitors in the home at the time of the census. (Adds 13 U.S.C. 141 (c)) Provides that refusal or neglect to furnish information not within such categories shall not be an offense. (Amends (3 U.S.C. 22 (a))
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Authorizes, under the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, each Senator to have one or more mobile offices in the State he represents. Specifies the formula for determining the maximum rental amount to be paid for such offices.
United States · United States Congress · 17 February 1975
Extends for five years, under the Clean Air Act, the dates for compliance with the present Federal emission standards for carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and hydrocarbons from light duty vehicles and engines.
United States · United States Congress · 13 February 1975
National Transportation Finance Emergency Act - Allows the use of 50 percent of funds available under specified provisions of law from the Highway Trust Fund to alleviate the financial hardship to States due to the impoundment of such Highway Trust Fund moneys, inflation, and reduced motor gasoline tax revenues to pay the costs of eligible highway and transportation construction projects.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Calls for a joint session of Congress to assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on February 20, 1975, at 1 o'clock postmeridian for the purpose of receiving a message on the state of the States from the chairman of the National Governor's Conference.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Revises the Internal Revenue Code to increase the time period to 18 months (now 12 months) during which a taxpayer must purchase a new residence in order to defer any gain on the sale of his old residence.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Directs each department and agency of the United States to undertake an immediate review of its existing statutory authority, regulations, policies, and procedures for the purpose of determining whether there are any deficiencies or inconsistencies therein which prohibit full compliance with the purposes and provisions of this Act and the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970. Requires that on or before July 31, 1974, and not less than annually thereafter, the President of the United States shall transmit to the Congress a report on the domestic mining, minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation industries, including a statement of the trend in utilization and depletion of these resources, together with such recommendations for legislative action as may be necessary to implement the policy of the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970. Establishes in the Executive Office of the President a Council on Mineral Resources. Sets forth the duties and functions of the Council, including: (1) to develop and recommend to the President national policies to foster and promote the improvement of domestic mining, minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation industries goals of the Nation; (2) to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and analyses relating to domestic mining and mineral resources; and (3) to document and define changes or trends on the state of domestic mining, minerals, and metal and mineral reclamation and to interpret the underlying causes. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act not to exceed $300,000 for fiscal year 1975, $700,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes each Senator serving on a committee to hire staff to assist him in his duties as a member of each committee on which such Senator serves. Allows each Senator serving as chairman of any subcommittee or ranking minority member of any subcommittee to hire staff to assist him in his duties. States that individuals so appointed shall be in addition to employees otherwise authorized.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Requests the President to proclaim the period from February 16 to March 15, 1975, as "Energy Conservation Month". Directs the President to publicize the need for energy conservation. Requests the President to report to Congress by March 31, 1975, steps taken to promote energy conservation and recommendations for a continuing program. Directs the President to report monthly to the American people and Congress the state of energy resources.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Provides that no change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of his performance of service of Southeast Asia may be made unless and until the following two provisions have been complied with: (1) the President of the United States has determined, and notified the Congress in writing, that all reasonable actions have been made to enforce the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973; and (2) the Secretary concerned notifies the next of kin in writing of the proposed change in status, and next of kin has not filed within 60 days of such notification, and objection to such a proposed change.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Equal Credit Opportunity Act Amendments - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of age in the granting of credit.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1975
Expresses the sense of the Congress that in the event that economic controls are imposed, business concerns who, on or after January 1, 1975, lowered prices shall not be penalized in the establishment of any base price pursuant to those controls.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1975
Occupational Safety and Health Act Amendments - Provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall not propose any rule promulgating a new occupational health or safety standard before (1) he has as part of each such proposal reviewed and published in the Federal Register the financial impact of such proposed standard and (2) has determined with due regard for that impact that the benefit to be derived from such standard justified such proposal. Directs the Secretary to provide for an emergency standard to take effect immediately after publication in the Federal Register if he determines (1) that there is clear and recognized evidence of employees being exposed to serious danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards, and (2) that such emergency standard is necessary to protect employees from such danger. Requires the Secretary to provide at least twenty-four hours advance notice to the employer to be inspected that an inspection will be made where (1) such notice would afford the employer an opportunity to have qualified management personnel or consultants present during the inspection and (2) where the Secretary has determined that such notice would not unreasonably hamper or defeat the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Directs the Secretary to visit the workplace of employers for the purposes of affording consultation and advice to such employers, upon the request of the employers.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Foreign Investment Act - Requires notification under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by foreign investors of proposed acquisitions of more than 5 percent of the equity securities of United States companies and, if the assets of such company exceed $1,000,000, requires that such notification be given at least 30 days before acquisition. Authorizes the President to prohibit any such acquisition as appropriate for the national security, to further the foreign policy, or to protect the domestic economy of the United States. Requires issuers of registered securities to maintain and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission a list of the names and nationalities of the beneficial owners of their equity securities. Confers on Federal district courts the jurisdiction to enjoin foreign investors, or to enforce compliance by such investors, with respect to the notification provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Suspends, until July 1, 1980, the requirement on pre-patented, located mining claims that not less than $100 worth of labor be performed or improvements be made each year. Expresses the finding of Congress that a significant fuel savings could be realized by suspending such nominal improvement requirement. Prescribes the filing requirements for claimants to benefit from this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Authorizes the Director of the Bureau of Mines to extend assistance, financially or otherwise, to small, independent, individual operators engaged in mineral exploration and development. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Federal Lands for Parks and Recreation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make Federal lands available to State and local governments for park and recreation purposes. Specifies the criteria which such lands must meet before being so transferred.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Declares that all right, title, and interest of the United States in approximately 2,640 acres of land in the State of Nevada are hereby held by the United States in trust for the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Indian Reservation, Nevada.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Eliminates the earnings limitation under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act for all workers age sixty-five and over (presently age 72).
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Provides for the establishment of a national cemetery in the State of Nevada by the Veterans' Administration. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Declares that all right, title, and interest of the United States in approximately 90 acres of specified lands in Nevada is to be held in trust for the Ely Indian Colony.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide for the construction of a Veterans' Administration hospital in southern Nevada. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1975
Authorizes the use of facilities at the Owyhee Indian Hospital of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in Nevada to provide non-emergency medical care on a fee-for-service basis to non-Indians.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Youth Camp Safety Act - Makes it the purpose of this Act to protect and safeguard the health and well-being of youth attending day and resident camps by providing for the development of standards for the safe operation of such camps. Confers upon the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare the primary responsibility for the promulgation and enforcement of Federal and State youth camp safety regulations. Requires the development and modification of youth camp safety standards. Directs that such standards shall relate to personnel qualifications for directors and staff, ratio of staff to campers, medical services, and water safety. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical assistance to any State desiring to develop a youth camp safety program. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Advisory Council on Youth Camp Safety and to submit to Congress at least once in each fiscal year a comprehensive and detailed report on the administration under this Act. Prescribes penalties of up to $1,000 for each violation by youth camp advertising regulations. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975 and 1976 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
States that all tax returns made with respect to taxes imposed by the Internal Revenue Code are confidential records, and that, except where provided otherwise, no return shall be open to inspection nor shall information contained therein be disclosed. Authorizes inspections of returns by the following persons: (1) the taxpayer or his representative; (2) officers and employees of the Departments of Justice, the Treasury, State agencies entrusted with carrying out the income tax laws, and the Internal Revenue Service solely for administration and enforcement of the income tax laws; and (3) the President of the United States. Authorizes the disclosure of statistical information to State and Federal agencies and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
States that the Senate of the United States: (1) commends the agreement in principle reached at Vladivostok on November 24, 1974; (2) expresses its firm belief that this agreement in principle must lead to further mutual arms limitations and reductions; and (3) expresses its understanding that the Vladivostok agreement establishes limits within which the United States and the Soviet Union may deploy strategic forces, but than any deployment of United States strategic nuclear weapons, up to the limits established by the Vladivostok agreement, should be based solely upon the actual needs of United States security. Expresses the advice of the Senate that the President should make every possible effort: (1) to complete the negotiations resulting from the Vladivostok agreement in principle; and (2) in addition, to reach further specified agreements regarding nuclear arms limitations. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Vladivostok agreement be submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent in accordance with the treaty provisions of the U.S. Constitution.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for 25 percent of the expenses incurred (1) in improving the thermal design of a taxpayer's principal residence; or (2) in purchasing specified energy conserving devices incident to the purchase of the taxpayer's principal residence. Permits the taxpayer to elect to deduct the above expenses in an amount not to exceed $4000.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Requires judicial confirmation of the need for a jeopardy assessment (an immediate assessment made by the Secretary of the Treasury on the belief that the assessment or collection of a deficiency will be jeopardized by delay) by requiring the Secretary to file a petition for approval of such jeopardy assessment within 5 days after it is made.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Revises the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 relating to property exempt from seizure for collection of taxes to provide an exemption from levy for a specific amount of income based on the number of the taxpayer's dependents. Provides for an annual cost of living increase in such exemption.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
States that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall serve for a term of five years, and that no individual may hold such office for more than one term. Prescribes the conditions of filling vacancies in, and removal from, the Office of Commissioner.