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United States · United States Congress · 27 September 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate October 14, 1978, as "National Jogging Day."
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1978
Authorizes the United States Navy Memorial Foundation to erect a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs in commemoration of the men and women of the United States Navy who have served their country in war and peace.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1978
Small Business Nonprofit Patent Procedures Act - States that it is the objective of this Act to amend existing patent procedures to promote the marketing of inventions developed under federally supported research and development projects by nonprofit organizations and small business firms. Permits any such organization or firm to elect, within a reasonable amount of time, to retain title to such inventions. Authorizes Federal agencies which have supported such projects to retain title to inventions in specified circumstances. Requires any funding agreement between a Federal agency and a small business firm or nonprofit organization to contain provisions: (1) to insure the rights of the Federal Government under this Act; (2) to provide that the agency shall have a nonexclusive, nontransferable, irrevocable and paid-up license to use the invention; (3) to prohibit a nonprofit organization from assigning rights to the invention without the approval of the Federal agency; (4) to prohibit such an! organization from granting exclusive rights from the earlier of five years from the first commercial use of the invention or eight years from the date of invention; and (5) to require such organizations to use their royalties and earnings to support scientific research or education. Authorizes a Federal agency to transfer or assign its rights, acquired from an agency employee as coinventor, to an inventor electing to acquire title to an invention. Empowers any Federal agency to require inventors or their assigns to grant licenses in order to: (1) achieve practical application of the invention in its field of use; (2) alleviate health or safety needs; and (3) meet requirements for public use specified by Federal regulations. Entitles the government to collect up to 50 percent of all net income above specified amounts received by a patent holder until government research funds have been repaid. Restricts the assignment and licensing of rights by patent holders to foreign owned or controlled firms. Authorizes Federal agencies to exempt reports of inventions from disclosure pursuant to the Government in the Sunshine Act. Specifies the authority of Federal agencies with respect to obtaining patents, promoting licensing of inventions, granting licenses, conducting market surveys, transferring custody of patents, and receiving funds. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to coordinate a program for assisting Federal agencies in protecting and licensing federally-owned inventions. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to promulgate regulations specifying the terms upon which any federally-owned invention may be licensed. Directs that small business firms receive first priority in such licensing. Sets forth the procedure whereby Federal agencies may grant exclusive or partially exclusive licenses in any invention covered by a federally-owned domestic patent or patent application. Declares that this Act shall take precedence over any other Act in the disposition of inventions.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1978
Jobs Credit Extension Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend the existing tax credit for the employment of new employees through December 31, 1980. Revises the credit to permit a taxpayer election to offset against tax liability 35 percent of the excess of unemployment wages paid during a calendar year over the amount of such wages paid during the previous year. Eliminates the requirements that the credit not exceed 50 percent of the increase in unemployment wages during a calendar year over 105 percent of the wages paid in the previous year and that the credit apply to unemployment wages paid during the calendar year which exced 102 percent of the wages paid in the preceding year. Limits the amount of the tax credit to $25,000. Allows an additional ten percent credit for the employment of physically or mentally handicapped individuals. Extends eligibility for the credit to the maritime industry.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1978
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that all people pray for the successful outcome of the Middle East Summit Conference.
United States · United States Congress · 25 August 1978
Inflation Reduction and Jobs Protection Act - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to postpone: (1) the minimum wage of $2.90; and (2) modification of the formula for determining the amount of wages which an employer is deemed to have paid to a tipped employee from the year beginning January 1, 1979, to the year beginning January 1, 1980. Postpones a subsequent increase in the minimum wage and further modification of such formula by one year.
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1978
Congressional Award Program Act - Establishes the Congressional Award Program in the United States and its territories to recognize and promote youth leadership and excellence in the areas of expedition fitness, personal creative development, and public service. Creates a Congressional Award Board with a Director to supervise such program. Authorizes the appointment of State award directors under this Act. Creates three Congressional Award Medals to be awarded under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1978
Small Business Tax Relief Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain small businesses to compute taxable income under the cash method and without regard to inventories. Increases the corporate surtax exemption and reduces the corporate tax rates. Provides for limited recognition of the gain from the sale or exchange of a sole proprietorship prior to the age of 55, and, after age 55, the taxation of such gain as ordinary income in the manner provided by the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 for lump sum distributions from employee benefit plans. Allows the amortization over a 36-month period of expenses of a business for property acquired to put the business in compliance with Federal law and which does not have any economic usefulness to the business. Increases the additional first year depreciation allowance for small businesses. Increases the investment tax credit for investments in certain small manufacturing facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1978
Authorizes and requests the President to designate November 11 through 17, 1978, as "Vietnam Veterans Week."
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, retroactively to August 15, 1971, the investment tax credit for the construction of agricultural structures used for single purpose food production.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a deduction from the gross income of an employee who is a participant in a pension plan for cash contributions made by the employee to: (1) a qualified pension, profit sharing, or stock bonus plan; (2) a qualified annuity plan; (3) a qualified bond purchase plan; (4) an individual retirement plan; or (5) a group retirement trust maintained by a labor organization. Limits such deduction to ten percent of the employee's compensation for the taxable year or $1,000, whichever is less.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1978
Declares it the sense of the Senate that specified steps should be taken to insure that more efficient use is made of the existing stock of railroad freight cars and power equipment and to encourage the acquisition of new cars and equipment in order to meet the needs of American agriculture.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1978
Expresses the sense of the Congress that (1) the trials of Antoly Shcharansky, Viktoras Petkus, and Aleksandr Ilyich Ginzburg are matters of deep concern to the American people that adversely affect Soviet-American relations; and (2) the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet should seek a humanitarian resolution to these cases and work toward improving such relations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1978
New York City Financial Assistance Act - Title I: Emergency Assistance - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to guarantee, under stated conditions, obligations of the City of New York or of its financing agent. Limits the total amount of guarantees that may be outstanding at any time to $1,500,000,000. Limits the amount of such guarantees issued in fiscal year 1979 to $500,000,000. Establishes an identical $500,000,000 limitation for fiscal year 1980, unless one house of Congress agrees to a resolution disapproving such guarantees in 1980. Conditions additional guarantees, limited to $500,000,000 per year, for any fiscal year prior to the beginning of fiscal year 1983, on the presentation to the Secretary of a balanced budget for that year. Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 - Makes interest income received on any obligation guaranteed under Title I of this Act after the date of the enactment of this title taxable under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1978
ERISA Paperwork Reduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require an employee benefit plan which seeks to qualify for special tax treatment under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to obtain a determination letter from the Secretary of the Treasury granting qualification. Amends ERISA to direct the Secretaries of Labor and the Treasury to jointly prescribe a single form for qualification of employee benefit plans with both the Department of Labor and the Department of the Treasury. Revises the reporting requirements imposed on employee benefit plans to allow a simplified annual report to be filed four out of every five years. Directs the Secretaries of the Treasury and Labor to publish a booklet to assist plan sponsors (particularly small businessmen) in developing or revising recordkeeping systems in order to simplify compliance with ERISA.
United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1978
States that the President should, pending removal of Cuban military forces from Africa, (1) recall the United States Interests Section from Cuba and expel the Cuban Interests Section from the United States, (2) deny any license for commercial trade with or export to Cuba under the Export Administration Act of 1969, (3) reverse any other action toward the normalization of relations with Cuba, and (4) defer any further official actions toward normalization of United States relations with Cuba.
United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1978
Expresses the sense of the Senate that neither the exchange of the Panama Canal Treaty instruments of ratification nor the incurring of any international obligation to exchange such documents should take place earlier than March 31, 1979, unless implementing legislation has been enacted prior to such date.
United States · United States Congress · 19 May 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that an individual's allowable charitable contributions shall be deducted when determining the individual's adjusted gross income, thereby allowing the deduction to individuals who do not itemize.
United States · United States Congress · 18 May 1978
Designates the weekend of or preceding April 29 of each year as "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust."
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
Investment Incentive Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to restore part of the pre-1969 tax treatment of capital gains by repealing the capital gains item of tax preference for the minimum tax; lowering the corporate alternative tax to 25 percent of net capital gain; and lowering the alternative individual tax to 25 percent of net capital gain.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1978
Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin Act - Amends the Coinage Act of 1965 to change the size and weight of the one-dollar coin and to require that the obverse side of such coin bear the likeness of Susan B. Anthony.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1978
Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to consolidate existing programs and to provide financial, technical, and other assistance to State foresters or equivalent State officials for: (1) the rural forestry assistance program; (2) the forestry incentive program; (3) insect and disease control; (4) urban and community forestry assistance programs; (5) fire prevention and control in rural communities and areas; (6) fire prevention and control on non-Federal forest and rural lands; (7) forest resources management and planning assistance programs; and (8) cooperative technology implementation programs. Permits the Secretary to make consolidated payments to a State in lieu of functional cost-sharing mechanisms, formulas, or agreements. Establishes within the Treasury of the United States a special rural fire disaster fund. Requires annual reports to Congress on these programs.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1978
Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act - Establishes a program of investigations, experiments, tests, and other activities necessary to obtain, analyze, demonstrate, and disseminate scientific information about protecting, managing, and utilizing forest and rangeland renewable resources in rural, suburban, and urban areas. Specifies the content of renewable resource management, environmental, protection, utilization, and assessment research fields. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish forest and rangeland research facilities and to make competitive grants to public and private institutions and agencies and to individuals to further such research activities. Directs the Secretary to make and keep current a comprehensive survey and analysis of the present and prospective conditions of and requirements for the renewable resources of the forests and rangelands of the United States and of the supplies of such renewable resources. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary. Repeals the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928.
United States · United States Congress · 3 May 1978
Renewable Resources Extension Act - Provides for a nationally coordinated program to insure the most efficient utilization of forest and range land renewable resources. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a Renewable Resources Extension Program in cooperation with State directors of cooperative extension service programs and eligible colleges and universities. Requires the Secretary and relevant State officials to cooperate in the identification and study of needed areas of research, and in the dissemination of the results of such research. Requires the Secretary to coordinate the establishment of ongoing training programs for landowners, processors and other interested parties. Directs the Secretary to prepare a five-year Renewable Resources Extension Program to provide national guidance for State programs. Requires annual reporting to Congress on implementation of the plan.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to accept a donation from the National Council for the Encouragement of Patriotism of the property known as the Highway of Flags Servicemen's Memorial in Lake County, Indiana. Directs the Secretary to designate such property as the Highway of Flags National Servicemen's Memorial and to administer it as a national monument.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Directs the Internal Revenue Service not to adopt a position which is inconsistent with previous general audit procedure or regulations in determining whether an individual is an employee for purposes of social security taxation, unemployment taxation, and income tax withholding until a law amending the definition of "employee" is enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Commends Lee Williams for his long, faithful, and exemplary service to the United States Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Declares it the sense of the Senate that the President instruct the Permanent United States Representative to the United Nations to call the Security Council in session to propose a resolution condemning the actions of the Soviet Union with regard to Korean Airlines flight 902.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1978
Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make grants for the following: (1) administrative costs of State and local governments incurred in carrying out urban homesteading programs and (2) facilitation of homesteading of properties acquired by communities as a result of abandonment or tax foreclosure. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire from the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs title to any property which is suitable for inclusion in the urban homesteading program. Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to coordinate the urban homesteading program and the rehabilitation loan program.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a surviving spouse to treat as furnished consideration, for estate tax purposes, up to a 50 percent share of any joint farm or small business property which was unpaid for at the time of marriage, determined at the rate of two percent a year if such spouse actually participates in the operation of such farm or small business.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Gold Medallion Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to offer gold for sale to the public in the form of gold medallions. Provides for the Statue of Freedom and the words "Human Rights" to be on such medallions. Provides for the issuance of such medallions. States that arrangements for the sale of medallions shall be made so as to encourage broad public participation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1978
Designates the month of April as "Fair Housing Month."
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1978
Declares it the sense of Congress that the President should not impose an import fee on oil as a means of reducing crude oil imports.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce corporation tax rates by establishing a graduated scale ranging from a minimum of 18 percent for taxable income under $25,000 up to $64,500 plus 46 percent (diminished over five years to 42 percent) for income over $200,000.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from 20 percent to 40 percent the permissable variance from the useful life of property established by the Secretary of the Treasury for depreciation purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the personal exemption, the zero bracket amount, the general tax credit, and the earned income credit. Sets forth new tax tables with lower rates.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the investment credit from 10 to 12 percent (and from 11 to 13 percent for the additional credit), to remove the January 1, 1981, termination date, and to make such credit permanent. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay each State, political subdivision thereof, and each tax-exempt organization investing in certain depreciable property a sum equal to 25 percent of the amount of the investment credit such tax-exempt entity would be allowed if liable for tax. Allows for years between December 31, 1978, and January 1, 1984, an investment credit for certain depreciable property including buildings and their structural components if such property is placed in service in a high-unemployment area.
United States · United States Congress · 23 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an individual a credit against the individual income tax equal to ten percent of any social security taxes paid by that individual during the taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Renegotiation Abeyance Act - Amends the Renegotiation Act of 1951 to suspend the provisions of such Act after the Renegotiation Board has completed all matters pending before it.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Renegotiation Exemption Act - Amends the Renegotiation Act of 1951 to provide that contractors and subcontractors whose aggregate renegotiable sales do not exceed $5,000,000 (presently $1,000,000) are exempt from renegotiation. Makes such exemption applicable to agents for sales not exceeding $50,000 (presently $25,000).
United States · United States Congress · 16 March 1978
Condemns recent terrorism in Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. Extends Congressional condolences to victims of these attacks. Declares that the President should (1) intensify efforts of the executive branch to counter international terrorism, (2) report to Congress on the implementation of laws regarding terrorism; (3) report to Congress on the activities of the Palestine Liberation Organization office in New York; and (4) report to specified Congressional committees the names of nations which furnish assistance to such Organization.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Amends the Small Business Act to provide "energy independence loan," under specified conditions to individuals or firms that provide energy conservation or solar energy related services or that manfacture, distribute, retail, or install energy conservation or solar energy products or measures.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Tax Indexation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to subject zero bracket amounts, personal exemptions, the corporate surtax exemption, limitations on individual retirement accounts and Keough contributions, the gift exclusion, the unified estate and gift tax credits, and the basis of assets to an annual cost-of- living adjustment, whereby each currently listed dollar amount shall be increased by an amount equal to such dollar amount multiplied by two-thirds of the increase in the Consumer Price Index over the two preceding years. Grants the President power to suspend such adjustments, subject to veto by either House of Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1978
Directs the Architect of the Capitol to study the feasibility of using solar energy for heating the hot water in the Phillip A. Hart Office Building now under construction. Directs the Architect to make cost comparisons between solar and conventional energy systems over specified periods of time and report such findings to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1978
Amends certain provisions of law regarding fair housing to allow private educational institutions to separate student and staff facilities and housing according to sex.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Federal Disclosure and Accountability Act - Prohibits any Federal employee from coercing any individual for the purpose of interfering with the right of such individual to disclose any illegal or otherwise improper Government Action to the Review Board on Improper Government Actions established by this Act, and from taking any adverse personnel action against such individual who is a Federal employee in retaliation for such disclosure. Requires the Board to investigate any such disclosure and, in the event further investigation or action is warranted, to notify the person, the head of the agency in which such person is employed, and, if appropriate, the Attorney General and/or the Comptroller General.
United States · United States Congress · 9 March 1978
Expresses the appreciation of the Congress to Doctor Arthur F. Burns for his service to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Congregate Housing Services Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to enter into contracts with public housing agencies for the establishment of congregate housing projects which are supplemented by supportive services for frail and physically impaired residents. Requires assisted public housing authorities to maintain any financial effort they were making in furtherance of congregate services prior to contract authority approval, unless the Secretary waives such requirement. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit the provision of congregate services in existing public housing. Makes provisions for the administration of services and requires assisted public housing agencies to employ elderly and physically disabled residents to the maximum extent practicable. Sets forth application procedures, requirements for eligibility for services, and rules for the setting of fees for congregate services. Directs assisted public housing agencies to review this program with eligible residents and with the professional assessment committee within the 12 month period prior to the submission of an application for renewed funding.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow farmers to include crop deficiency payments in gross income either in the year of receipt or, if the year of receipt is the crop year, in the next following year, or, if not received in the crop year, in the taxable income for the previous year.
United States · United States Congress · 8 March 1978
Integrated Pest Management Encouragement and Youth Employment Act - Adds integrated pest control management services, including services for producers of agricultural commodities, to the types of projects to be performed by the Young Adult Conservation Corps under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 (CETA). Includes integrated pest management services among the projects for which the Secretary of Labor is authorized to provide financial assistance under (CETA) youth employment and training provisions.