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United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1978
Extends the commendations of the Senate to the new basketball champions of the world, the Washington Bullets.
United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1978
Declares a certain individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 May 1978
Expresses the disapproval of the Senate of the Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 transmitted to the Congress by the President on May 23, 1978.
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 · 18 May 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that, in conformity with the Helsinki Final Act, the Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and basic standards of justice, the unjustly imprisoned members and affiliates of the Soviet Helsinki Group should be granted their freedom and allowed to pursue their lawful activities in behalf of basic human rights. Urges the President, the Secretary of State, and other appropriate executive branch officials to continue to express at every suitable opportunity and in the strongest terms the opposition of the United States to the imprisonment of the Helsinki Group members.
United States · United States Congress · 17 May 1978
Extends to 14 years the deadline for ratification of the equal rights amendment.
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 · 11 May 1978
Civil Rights Commission Act - Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Amends such Act with respect to: (1) the compensation of Civil Rights Commission members; (2) the deadline for a report by the Commission to the Congress on violations of civil rights; (3) establishment of advisory committees to the Commission; and (4) vacancies on the Commission. Amends such Act to require the Commission: (1) to study age and handicap discrimination; (2) to review related Federal law policies; and (3) to serve as a clearinghouse for information regarding such discrimination; (4) to establish a civil rights advisory commission in each State; and (5) to investigate allegations of age or handicap discrimination.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
Declares a certain individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 May 1978
National Workers' Compensation Standards Act - Establishes minimum standards for State workers' compensation laws. Provides that the employers in any State in which the laws do not meet the minimum standards shall be required to pay to any employee the difference between the State payments and the payments the Federal standards would require. Authorizes grants to States to assist them in achieving compliance with the minimum standards set forth in this Act. Vests administrative responsibility for these provisions in the Department of Labor. Establishes a National Workers' Compensation Advisory Commission to monitor the progress of the States in meeting the standards established by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish, by rule making proceedings, standards for determining whether diseases arise out of the course of employment and cause death or disability. Requires any such standard to be a minimum standard for State workers' compensation laws for that disease.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1978
Expresses the sorrow of the Senate for the death of Aldo Moro. Condemns the Red Brigade for this murder. Declares it the sense of the Senate that Italy deserves the praise of the United States for its efforts to prevent this murder. Declares it the sense of the Senate that the President should instruct the Ambassador to the United Nations to press for consideration of proposals to end terrorism.
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 (1) the President recognize the severity of the international monetary crisis; (2) the President undertake discussions with the other industrialized countries to develop a common approach to this crisis; and (3) the approach should focus on a long-term solution to the crisis caused by exclusive reliance on the dollar as the key international monetary reserve asset.
United States · United States Congress · 26 April 1978
Declares it the sense of the Senate that the President undertake discussions with the other industrialized countries with a view toward establishing, in cooperation with the member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) which are in current account surplus, a major capital pool for productive investment in the developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1978
Designates John Philip Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" as the national march of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Requires the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned, prior to the closure, realignment, establishment, or expansion of a military base, to inform local government officials in any area which would be directly affected by such action. Lengthens the period after notification to Congress before such action may take place.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Economic Growth Management Assistance Act - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President an Economic Growth Policy and Management Assistance Council (the Council) to be presided over by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and an Office of Economic Growth Policy and Management Assistance to provide staff support for the Council. Requires the Council to evaluate the economic effects of Federal activities such as spending and facility relocations and to identify those geographic areas which are economically affected in a substantial way by such activities. Directs the Council to prepare an economic impact statement for each such activity and makes such statement available to Congress and the public. Requires Federal agencies to make such changes in such activities as are necessary to avoid intensifying any negative economic trends in those communities identified by the Council as substantially affected economically. Directs the Secretary of Labor to make employment training programs available to persons in such substantially affected areas. Directs the Secretaries of Commerce and Defense to make technical and economic adjustment assistance available to such areas.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Authorizes the Administrator of General Services, under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, to sell or lease at 50 percent of fair market value specified surplus real property to any State or political subdivision of a State which requires such property to conduct an economic development program. Gives the United States the right to reclaim such property in the event it is no longer used for economic development purposes. Restricts the property available under this Act to real property which has become available due to the closing or reducing of activities at a Federal facility where such action is causing or is likely to cause serious economic or social disruption within the vicinity of such facility.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Urban Investment Tax Credit Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from ten percent to 12 percent the tax credit for investment in certain depreciable property if the investment is in cities with a population of 100,000 or more, and an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent or more for any three out of the 12 months prior to the enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, under specified conditions, to issue certificates of eligibility for such tax benefits to persons engaged in, or desiring to engage in, a qualified enterprise. Limits qualified enterprises to: (1) retail manufacturing and processing; (2) distribution of personal property; (3) sale of retail goods and services; (4) basic and applied research; and (5) building construction. Makes investments for rehabilitation and modernization, as well as for new construction eligible for such tax credit.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Safe Schools Act - Directs the Commissioner of Education to provide financial assistance to State educational agencies for fiscal years 1979-1983 in order to provide services and activities designed to rehabilitate chronically maladjusted students. Stipulates that the Federal share of such programs shall be 50 percent for each fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction equal to 25 percent of the wages paid or incurred to new employees, formerly unemployed for 30 days or more in the previous six months. Limits such deduction to qualified businesses in cities having a population of 100,000 or more, and an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent. Defines a qualified business as one engaged in: (1) retail manufacturing and processing; (2) distribution of personal property; (3) the sale of retail goods and services; (4) basic and applied research; or (5) building construction.
United States · United States Congress · 20 April 1978
Economically Distressed Cities Revenue Bond Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase from $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 the investment ceiling on tax-exempt industrial development bonds for any city whose population exceeds 100,000, if such city has had an unemployment rate of 6.5 percent or greater for any three of the preceeding 12 months.
United States · United States Congress · 19 April 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a married individual to file a separate income tax return calculated according to the same tax rate as an unmarried individual. Permits a married individual making this election to take advantage of the child care credit and other credits for employment-related expenses, in the same way as a single taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 18 April 1978
Amends the Speedy Trial Act of 1974 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1979 for experimental pretrial services agencies.
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 · 12 April 1978
Establishes the Institute for Human Rights and Freedom as a United States corporation to furnish technical and financial assistance to nongovernmental organizations that promote human rights in foreign countries, including support for victim support. Requires the Secretary of State to inform the Institute of United States foreign policy related to the Institute. Requires the Institute to consider the foreign policy of the United States in making aid determinations, but declares such determinations shall not be subject to the direction of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Establishes a Potomac River Shoreline Area Advisory Commission to develop a plan for the management of specified areas of the Potomac River located in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Specifies the elements to be included in such plan. Directs the Commission to submit the plan to the relevant State, local, and District of Columbia authorities for comments within 24 months following the funding of the Commission. Directs the Commission to adjust the plan as necessary and to submit it to Congress within 60 days after initial submission to State and local authorities. Provides for such plan to take effect only at such time and in such manner as Congress directs. Directs the Commission to terminate within 30 days after the enactment of the plan by Congress, or within 36 months after the submission of the plan to Congress, whichever occurs first.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1978
Removes residency requirements and acreage limitations applicable to lands subject to reclamation laws.
United States · United States Congress · 10 April 1978
Product and Professional Liability Insurance Tax Equity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to qualify trusts established for the payment of product and professional liability claims as tax exempt organizations. Allows taxpayers a business income tax deduction for contributions to such trusts only to the extent they do not exceed the reasonable costs of product and professional liability insurance for the deducting taxpayer.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1978
Grants a Federal charter to the United States Capitol Historical Society.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1978
Quitclaims certain property in the city of Washington, DC to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
United States · United States Congress · 7 April 1978
Lee Metcalf Fair Employment Relations Resolution - Title I: Fair Employment Relations Board - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Board to (1) establish and publish policies and guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of rule L of the Standing Rules of the Senate, (2) supervise the actions of the Director and the operations of the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office, and (3) hear and determine complaints. Title II: Senate Fair Employment Relations Office - Establishes as an office of the Senate, the Senate Fair Employment Relations Office which shall develop procedures to implement the policies of the Board, gather information relating to Senate employment practices, and review procedures for the hearing and settling of complaints. Title III: Complaints of Violations of Equal Employment Opportunity - Provides for counseling and assistance through the office, to any individual who believes that he or she has been discriminated against in violation of rule L. Sets forth the procedure for filing informal complaints based on employment discrimination, and for the informal settlement of such claims. Sets forth the procedure for filing formal complaints, and for conducting hearings on such claims. Provides for an appeal to the Senate Select Committee on Ethics from an adverse decision or order of the Board. Sets forth remedies available to individuals who have been discriminated against in violation of rule L.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Extends for one year the special pay provisions for medical officers in the uniformed services. Increases such special pay for optometrists and veterinarians.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to direct the Administrator of General Services, in conjuction with the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Chairmen of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endownment for the Humanities, to develop plans and a budget for the restoration of the Pension Building in the District of Columbia. Requires the Administrator to insure that such plans are consistent with the proposal prepared by the Committee for a National Museum of Building Arts, incorporated. Directs the Administrator to lease or assign the Pension Building to the Museum of the Building Arts within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Title II: The Museum of the Building Arts - Sets forth the duties and responsibilities of the Museum, including the development of educational programs, the financial support of research and documentation programs, the presentation of exhibitions, and the establishment of an information center and a Document Center. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 6 April 1978
Amends the Veterans' Administration Physician and Dentist Pay Comparability Act of 1975 to extend to fiscal year 1979 the authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to enter into special pay agreements with physicians and dentists employed by the Veterans' Administration Department of Medicine and Surgery.
United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1978
Designates the month of April as "Fair Housing Month."
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1978
Amends the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to require the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and effectuate comprehensive noise abatement plans for airports operated by the Administration. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an aircraft noise monitoring program for each such airport.
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
Declares a certain individual lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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 · 14 March 1978
Federal Buildings Artistic Enhancement Act - Amends the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to direct the Administrator of General Services to acquire works of art by living American artists and to circulate such works among public buildings throughout the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 14 March 1978
Small Business Simplification Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit a taxpayer, in calculating depreciation allowances of property, to apply a 36-month useful life computed under the straight-line method for up to $100,000 of basis of property.
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1978
Housing Conservation Act - Amends the Housing Act of 1964 to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1979 and to set aside specified amounts for multifamily rehabilitation loans and for urban homesteading including under certain circumstances, local programs for homesteading locally held or acquired tax foreclosed land or vacant single family and multifamily properties. Lists conditions to be placed on the authorization of rehabilitation loans.
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 · 7 March 1978
Repeals the requirement, under the Social Security Amendments of 1977, that the amount of monthly benefits payable to a spouse or surviving spouse under Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act be reduced by the amount such spouse or surviving spouse receives in monthly payments from a Federal or State pension fund.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1978
Small Business Reduction and Stimulation Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide graduated income tax rates for corporations with a maximum rate of 46 percent on income in excess of $150,000 and a minimum rate of 15 percent on income not in excess of $25,000.
United States · United States Congress · 3 March 1978
National Art Bank Act - Establishes, within the National Endowment for the Arts, an Art Bank to be headed by a Director. Authorizes the Director to purchase visual works of art for the Art Bank, to make such works available on loan to certain private and governmental entities for public display, to sponser exhibitions, and to assist State and local governments and nonprofit institutions in establishing Art Banks, of funds which may be expended for the work of any one artist during any one fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 2 March 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations corresponding to the principles set forth in a certain private letter ruling relating to the exclusion from gross income of amounts deferred by participants in public deferred compensation plans.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1978
Vests in the United States the title and interest to specified lands constituting a part of the Potomac River shoreline within the District of Columbia. Designates the Secretary of the Interior to administer such lands so as to insure the preservation and protection of the shoreline and for recreational and related purposes. Sets forth procedures for the just compensation for lands taken.