United States · United States Congress · 18 December 1974
Criminal Justice Information Control and Protection of Privacy Act - Title I: Findings and Declaration of Policy; Definitions; Applicability - Declares that in order to insure the security of criminal justice information systems, and to protect the privacy of individuals named in such systems, it is necessary and proper for the Congress to regulate the exchange of such information. Sets forth the definitions of terms used in this Act. Describes the information systems to which this Act applies, including those operated by the Federal Government, and to which it does not apply, including original books of entry or police blotters. Title II: Collection and Dissemination of Criminal Justice Information, Criminal Justice Investigations Information and Criminal Justice Intelligence Information - Prescribes the procedures for: (1) dissemination, access, and use of criminal justice information by criminal justice agencies; (2) dissemination of identification record and wanted persons record information; (3) dissemination, access, and use of criminal justice information by noncriminal justice agencies; and (4) dissemination, access, and use of criminal justice information with respect to appointments and employment investigations. Prohibits agencies having access to criminal justice information from disseminating it to others not authorized to have it or from using it for a purpose not authorized by this Act, with limited exceptions with regard to rehabilitation officials. Places limitations on access to criminal justice information via categories other than name. Requires every agency information system covered by this Act to promulgate regulations on security, accuracy, updating and purging. Sets out what such regulations must provide. Requires every agency or information system to establish a process for access and challenge of incorrect or inaccurate information. Details what such regulations must provide. Places limitations on the collection and dissemination of intelligence information. States that such information may not be maintained in automated systems and must be kept separate and apart from all other criminal justice files. Enumerates the conditions under which criminal justice investigative information may be disclosed. Title III: Administrative Provisions; Regulations; Civil Remedies; Criminal Penalties - Creates a Criminal Justice Information Systems Board to have responsibility for the administration and enforcement of this Act. Requires each State to establish a central administrative agency, separate and apart from existing criminal justice agencies, with authority to oversee operation of criminal justice information systems in that State. Requires every information system or agency to give public notice, once annually, of the type of information it collects and disseminates, its sources, purpose, administrative director and other pertinent information. Requires audits of systems and agencies which collect and disseminate information. States that such audits are to be conducted by the Board, by the State agency, and by each criminal justice system. Permits the Federal Government to operate an interstate criminal justice information system under the policy control of the Board. Limits information contained in such system. Lists administrative actions that may be taken by the Board in the event that a criminal justice information system is found to have violated any provision of this Act. Provides the judicial machinery for the exercise of the right granted in this Act. Provides that aggrieved individuals may obtain both injunctive relief and damages, $100 recovery for each violation, actual and general damages, and attorney's fees. Provides criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Provides that any State regulation which imposes stricter privacy requirements on the operation of criminal justice information systems or upon the exchange of criminal justice information takes precedence over this Act or any regulations issued pursuant to this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such funds as the Congress deems necessary for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 December 1974
Expresses the Senate disapproval of the proposed deferral of budget authority to carry out the comprehensive planning grants program under section 701 of the Housing Act of 1954 (numbered D75-107), set forth in the special message transmitted by the President to the Congress on November 26, 1974, under section 1013 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1974
Prohibits the breeding, training, and interstate shipment of dogs intended to be used in dogfights for the purposes of sport, wagering or entertainment. Prohibits the manufacture, sale or movement of equipment to be used in shows involving dogfights, and the providing of facilities for such shows. Forbids the use of the Postal Service, telephone, telegraph, radio, and television for the purpose of promoting such shows. Provides a fine of not more than $25,000, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, and forfeiture of dogs and equipment involved, for violation of this Act. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 48).
United States · United States Congress · 13 December 1974
International Disaster Relief Act - Expresses the policy of Congress that prompt United States assistance to alleviate human suffering caused by natural and man-made disasters abroad is an important expression of the humanitarian concern and tradition of the American people, and affirms the willingness of the United States to provide assistance for the humanitarian relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of peoples and countries affected by such disasters. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance for disaster relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in the case of disasters that require large-scale relief and rehabilitation efforts which cannot be met adequately with the funds available for obligation for disaster relief under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. States that assistance made available under this Act shall be distributed to the maximum extent practicable under the auspices and direction of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, other international organizations or arrangements, multilateral institutions, or private voluntary agencies. Authorizes appropriations to the President, in addition to funds which may otherwise be available for such purposes, for fiscal year 1975 not to exceed $100,000,000 to assist in meeting the international relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction needs caused by the massive flooding and food shortages in the People's Republic of Bangladesh, the civil and international strife in the Republic of Cyprus, the drought and famine conditions in the nations of Africa, the hurricane damage in Honduras, and for such other international disasters that require large-scale humanitarian assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 12 December 1974
States that the Senate of the United States: (1) expresses its support for the broad purposes of the agreement in principle reached at Vladivostok on November 24, 1974, as a step forward both in furthering arms control and improving the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union; and (2) expresses its firm belief that this agreement in principle must lead to further arms limitations and reductions and that both the United States and the Soviet Union should make every effort to halt the continuing competition in strategic arms by excercising restraint in the deployment of additional nuclear weapons systems beyond current levels. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should make every possible effort to negotiate further nuclear arms limitation and reduction measures as part of the final accord carrying out the Vladivostok agreement. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the specific accord concluded on the basis of the Vladivostok agreement between the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics should be in the form of a treaty and submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1974
National Center for Productivity and Economic Competition Act - Title I: General Provisions - States that it is the purpose of this Act to consolidate in one governmental unit the responsibility to: (1) establish a national policy for short-term and long-term productivity growth and work quality in the United States; (2) correct those public and private structural imbalances which impede productivity, growth, improved work quality, and the effective performance of society and the economy; (3) identify ways and means for more effective collaborative joint efforts by labor and industry to effect growth in productivity and improved work quality; (4) identify, encourage, and support development and implementation of all useful technologies, systems, incentives, methods, and techniques for enhancing growth of productivity and improving work quality in the public and private sectors of the United States; (5) maximize the contributions of the Federal Government to productivity growth and improved work quality in both the private and public sector, including the Federal Establishment; and (6) increase public understanding of productivity and work quality, the ways in which productivity and work quality can be improved, and the urgency of such improvement in all sectors of the economy. Title II: National Center for Productivity and Economic Competition - Establishes as an independent establishment of the executive branch the National Center for Productivity and Work Quality to be under the general direction of a board of directors of specified membership. Specifies the functions of the Center consonant with the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Executive Director of the Center to enter into contracts, without regard to Federal procurement statutes, for research and demonstration programs or projects to effectuate the achievement of the purposes of this Act. Specifies limitations to be placed on the authority to make grants and contracts under this Act. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides that the duties, functions, and personnel of the National Commission on Productivity and Work Quality are transferred to the Center, and the Commission is abolished. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the purposes of this Act specified sums for fiscal years 1975 through 1979.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1974
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act - Provides that, for the purposes of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970, there is a State "emergency on" indicator for a week if there is a State or National "emergency on" indicator for such a week. Provides, for the same purposes, that there is a State "emergency off" indicator for a week if there is both a State and National "emergency off" indicator for such week. States that, with respect to the period which begins January 1, 1975, no emergency compensation shall be payable after a specified time pursuant to the provisions of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 relating to the payment of extended compensation. Changes the rate of insured unemployment definitive of a national "on" indicator from 4.5 to 4 percent for all States. Provides that there shall be paid to the States 100 percent of the sharable extended compensation and sharable regular compensation paid to individuals under State law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1974
Congressional Election Financing Act - Adds to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 a Title V: Public Financing of Congressional Elections. Sets forth the definitions of terms to be used in this Act. States that to be eligible to receive payments under this title, a candidate for election to Federal Office shall agree: (1) to obtain and to furnish to the Commission any evidence it may request about his campaign expenditures and contributions; (2) to keep and to furnish to the Commission information it may request; (3) to permit an audit and examination by the Commission and to pay any amounts required; and (4) to furnish statements of campaign expenditures and proposed campaign expenditures. Enumerates the eligibility certification requirements to be met by every candidate prior to receiving payments under this Act. Provides that every eligible candidate is entitled to payments in connection with his primary election campaign in an amount which is equal to the amount of contributions he accepts for that campaign. Describes the amounts which major party and minor party candidates are entitled to receive. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund a separate account to be known as the Congressional Election Account. Directs the Secretary to deposit in the Account the amount available after payments for Presidential elections and nominating conventions have been set aside plus such additional amounts as may be authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title. Directs the Secretary to pay to candidates from this Account the amounts certified by the Federal Elections Commission. Requires that, after each congressional election, the Commission shall conduct a thorough examination and audit of the campaign expenditures of all candidates who received payments under this title. Provides for repayment of funds to the Account in the case of excess payments, the failure to make expenditures of any portion of the payments received, or the expenditure of such payments for purposes other than campaign expenses. Directs every candidate to furnish a detailed statement of expenditures and proposed expenditures whenever the Commission so requires, and directs the Commission to make available for public inspection summaries of all such statements. Requires the Commission to submit an annual report to Congress setting forth the expenditures of each candidate who received payments, the amounts certified for payment to each, and any amount required to be returned by a candidate. States that each such report submitted shall be printed as a Senate document. Imposes for violation of this title a fine of not more than $50,000, or not more than five years imprisonment, or both. Raises from $1 to $2 the amount which each individual may designate to be paid from his federal income taxes to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 11 October 1974
Extends to forty-five months (presently thirty-six) the maximum number of school months covered by veterans' educational benefits for eligible veterans and for specified dependents. ( Amends 38 U.S.C. 1661 )
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Provides for the establishment of the Eutaw Springs National Battlefield Park in the State of South Carolina. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Provides for the striking of medals in commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland.
United States · United States Congress · 9 October 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of the Interior shall offer oil and gas leases pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act only in accordance with the following specified criteria, including: (1) the Council on Environmental Quality, with the concurrence of the Review Panel of the National Academy of Sciences, has specified and evaluated all necessary environmental research for any areas to be leased; and (2) the adjacent coastal States have established or are establishing coastal zone management programs to prevent or ameliorate environmental and socioeconomic impacts from activities resulting from leasing.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1974
Establishes a select committee of the Senate to be known as the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities. States that it shall be the function of the select committee to conduct a study and investigation with respect to all matters relating to: (1) the operations of the United States Government with respect to domestic and foreign intelligence activities; and (2) the past effect and future role of such activities of agencies of the United States Government within the United States and overseas. Directs the Committee to make a final report of its findings, together with such recommendations for legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate at the earliest practicable date, but not later than two years after the date this resolution is agreed to. Stipulates that from the date this resolution is agreed to, through February 28, 1975, the expenses of the special committee under this resolution shall not exceed $325,000, of which amount not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for the procurement of the services of individual consultants, or organizations thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 3 October 1974
Social Services Amendments - Authorizes necessary appropriations each fiscal year for payments to States for provision of social services directed toward the goal of: (1) achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency; (2) preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families; (3) preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing for community-based care, home-based, or other forms of less intensive care, or; (4) securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate. Requires that 50 percent of such payments to States be for provision of services to individuals who are receiving (or are eligible to receive) aid under the Aid to Needy Families with Children, Supplemental Security Income, and Medicaid programs of the Social Security Act. Prohibits payments to States for aid to individuals with incomes above specified levels. Requires that expenditure by States under this Act for child day care services be for day care services which meet the Federal interagency day care requirements as approved by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, State expenditures under this Act for services to individuals living in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, prisons, or foster homes. Prohibits such expenditures for services to individuals eligible for Medicare aid. Requires that States participating in the programs established under this Act report annually on the results of specified evaluations and audits of their participation. Allows suspension of payments to States failing to meet requirements under this Act. Requires States to provide hearings for individuals whose claims to services under this Act are denied, to restrict disclosure of information obtained on individuals pursuant to this Act, and to refrain from imposing durational residency or citizenship requirements upon individuals as a condition to participation in programs under this Act. States that comprehensive plans must be published by States setting forth their programs under this Act which will be pursued in the ensuing year. Requires that such plan include descriptions of objectives, individuals and geographic areas to be served, descriptions of implementation procedures, estimated expenditures, and services to be rendered. Requires annual evaluations of the programs under this Act by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1974
Freedom From Surveillance Act - States that the President may, in writing, authorize an application to a judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia designated pursuant to specified procedures under this Act, and such judge may grant an order authorizing or approving the interception of wire or oral communications of a foreign power or a foreign agent by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, when such interception will not be inconsistent with the international obligations of the United States and when there is probable cause to believe that such interception is necessary to obtain information which is: (1) necessary to protect the Nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power; (2) foreign intelligence information that is essential to the military security or national defense of the United States; or (3) necessary to protect military security or national defense information against foreign intelligence activities. Provides that such authorization of an application to a judge provided for under this Act shall be made by the President personally and shall not be delegated. Specifies the procedures in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for the designation of judges to hear applications for interception of communications relating to military security or national defense, the form of such applications, the reasons and supporting evidence required for approval of the application, and the form of each court order approving interception of communications. States that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, if the President determines that: (1) an emergency situation exists with respect to activities of a foreign power or a foreign agent which poses a substantial threat to the military security or national defense of the United States and that requires a wire or oral communication to be intercepted before an order authorizing such interception can with due diligence be obtained, and (2) there are grounds upon which an order could reasonably be entered under this Act to authorize such interception the President may in advance and in writing authorize the interception of such wire or oral communication by the Federal Bureau of Investigation if an application for an order approving the interception is made in accordance with the provisions of this Act as soon as possible and in any event within forty-eight hours after the interception begins to occur. Provides that any such authorization to intercept shall be made by the President personally and shall not be delegated. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, within a reasonable time but not later than ninety days after the filing of an application for an order of approval which is denied or the termination of the period of an order entered under this section or extensions thereof, the issuing or denying judge shall cause to be served, on the persons named in the order or application and on all reasonably identifiable persons whose communications were intercepted, inventory which shall include notice of: (1) the fact of the entry of the order or the application; (2) the date of the entry and the period of authorized, approved or disapproved interception, or the denial of the application; and (3) the fact that during the period wire or oral communications of such person were or were not intercepted. States that the judge, upon the filing of a motion, shall make available to such person or his counsel for inspection a copy of each court order, extension, and application under which such interception was authorized or approved, and a complete and accurate record of the intercepted communications of such person and other parties to such communications, provided that, upon application of the President, the judge may postpone the disclosure of the interception for ninety days if the judge finds that there is probable cause to believe that such disclosure will endanger the military security or national defense of the United States. Provides that any aggrieved person in any proceeding in or before any authority of the United States, a State, or a political subdivision thereof, may move to suppress the contents of any intercepted wire or oral communication, or evidence derived therefrom, on the grounds that: (1) the communication was unlawfully intercepted; (2) the order of authorization or approval under which it was intercepted is insufficient on its face; (3) the interception was not made in conformity with the order of authorization or approval; or (4) such suppression is required under Federal law.
United States · United States Congress · 26 September 1974
Condominium Act - States that it shall be unlawful for any developer or agent, directly or indirectly, to make use of any means or instrument of transportation or communication in interstate commerce, or of the mails, to sell any condominium in any project unless the project is registered and a statement of record with respect to such condominium is in effect in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and a printed public offering statement, meeting the requirements of this Act, is furnished to the purchaser in advance of the signing of any contract or agreement for sale by the purchaser. States that any contract or agreement for the purchase of a condominium in a project covered by this Act, where the public offering statement has not been given to the purchaser in advance or at the time of his signing, shall be voidable at the option of the purchaser. Provides that a purchaser may revoke such contract agreement within ten days, where he has received the public offering statement less than forty-eight hours before he signed the contract or agreement, and the contract or agreement shall so provide. Specifies the contents of a statement of record and of the public offering statement. Provides that in any case where the project involved is a leased-unit structure which is to be converted to a condominium project, the information described in the statement of record shall also include satisfactory assurances that: (1) existing tenants will have first priority to purchase dwelling units in the project; (2) all of the tenants of the structure or structures involved will have been given at least six months, after notification of the proposed conversion, to decide whether or not to purchase their dwelling units; (3) no tenant will be required to move from the project upon its conversion without ninety days' writen notice; and (4) no lease agreement outstanding at the time of conversion (and covering a dwelling unit in the project) will be abridged without the consent of both the lessee and the developer. Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to conduct investigations to determine the extent of compliance with the provisions of this Act and to bring suit in any district court of the United States against alleged violators of the provisions of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to conduct a full and complete study of the state of the rental housing market in representative metropolitan areas experiencing significant increases in construction and condominium conversions. Requires the Secretary to make his recommendations to Congress within one year following the date of enactment of this Act for handling tenant relocation problems involved in condominium conversions. Provides for review of orders issued by the Secretary after a hearing in the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit wherein the aggrieved party resides or has his principal place of business. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the well-being of the world and all of its people is gravely threatened by exorbitant or rigged foreign oil prices. States that it is further the sense of the Senate that Congress and the American people support President Ford and Secretary Kissinger in their call to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower the price of petroleum.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1974
Veterans and Survivors Pension Adjustment Act - Increases disability and death pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation for veterans and their survivors. Increases the income limitations for such pension payments. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out a thorough study and investigation of the economic needs and problems of veterans and their widows seventy-two years of age or older.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Provides that tax returns are confidential, and, therefore, are not open to inspection, and that information contained in them shall not be disclosed. Permits, under regulations established by the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the inspection of tax returns by the taxpayer, the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department, State tax authorities, the President, and the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Requires a report to the Joint Committee of returns inspected and by whom inspected. Establishes criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure or receipt of tax return information.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Prohibits the interstate shipment of dogs trained for or intended to be used in dogfights for purposes of sport, wagering, or entertainment. Specifies punishments for persons involved in such commerce and for promoters of and participants in activities which include such dogfights if any one of the dogs involved had been moved in such commerce. (Adds 18 U.S.C. 48)
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
United States Science and Technology Board Act - Establishes as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government, the United States Science and Technology Board. States that the purpose of the Board is to consolidate in one governmental unit responsibility for: (1) determining the most critical long-range problems facing the Nation, including but not limited to, the social, economic, environmental and resources areas; (2) evaluating the potential contributions of science and technology to the solution of such long-range problems; (3) measuring the probable scope, intensity, and duration of such problems and establishing time scales and priorities for coping with them; (4) establishing optimum levels of funding of all federally financed nondefense research and development programs in the context of the time scales and priorities established; (5) reviewing and authorizing all federally financed nondefense research and development programs; and (6) insuring the coordination of scientific and technological efforts in the United States and with the scientific and technological efforts of other nations. Sets forth the functions of the Board, including the following: (1) to determine by measurement and analysis the major problems likely to confront the United States, including, but not limited to, the social, economic, environmental, and resources areas, in the year of enactment of this Act and the twenty-five years thereafter, and to establish priorities for the solution of such problems; (2) to review and update annually the analysis of each such problem; (3) based on the analysis of such problems, to determine whether, and to what degree, such problems are susceptible to solution or amelioration through the application of science and technology; and (4) to ascertain which federally funded programs already in existence contribute to the solution of such problems. Stipulates that, within six months after the designation of long-term problems facing the United States and the establishment of priorities for dealing with such problems by the Board under this Act, the head of each department, agency, and independent instrumentality of the United States having authority to support research and development activities shall submit to the Board for its review and approval all federally financed nondefense research and development programs. States that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, no such program shall be included by any such authority in its allocation of funds or its budget requests after such date unless the Board has reviewed each program and made a determination thereon. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Declares that President Ford shall take all steps necessary to assure full public access to all facts connected with and relating to Watergate matters and the fruits of all investigations conducted pursuant thereto. Declares that, except in cases clearly vital to the national security interests of the United States, President Ford shall afford the American public full access to all such papers, documents, memoranda, tapes and transcripts originating at anytime during the period January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974 at the earliest practicable time and in an adequate and effective manner.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Presidential pardons not be granted to individuals accused of committing criminal offenses in connection with the Presidential campaign and election of 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 11 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that executive pardons with respect to Watergate and related offenses should not be considered until the judicial process has run its full course with respect to such matters.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1974
Home Purchase Assistance Act - Requires that whenever the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development determines that a substantial number of families are unable to obtain mortgage credit at reasonable rates due to high interest rates or reduced availability of mortgage credit and that the inability to obtain such credit is causing or threatening to cause a significant reduction in the volume of home construction or acquisition and thereby adversely affect the economy and delay the orderly achievement of the national housing goals contained in title XVI of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, the Secretary shall direct the Government National Mortgage Association to begin making commitments to purchase mortgages in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Establishes within the Association a housing trust fund which shall be used to carry out such purposes. Provides that mortgages may be purchased under this Act only if: (1) such mortgage was executed to finance the acquisition of the principal residence of the mortgagor; and (2) such mortgage involves the acquisition or construction of a residential dwelling at a cost which does not exceed $30,000 (or such greater amount, but not to exceed $45,000 as may be necessary to meet the need for mortgage credit in high cost areas). States that the Association shall not permit the aggregate outstanding amount of mortgages held by the fund under this section to increase by more than $10,000,000,000 in any single fiscal year. Requires that 50 percent of the aggregate principal amount of home mortgages purchased under this Act in any fiscal year shall involve residences upon which construction has been completed within 12 months preceding the date of purchase.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
National Emergencies Act - Title I: Terminating Existing Declared Emergencies - States that all powers and authorities conferred by law upon the President, any other officer or employee of the Federal Government, or upon any department, agency, independent establishment, or any other body of the Federal Government, and all powers and authorities conferred by any Executive Order pursuant to law as a result of the existence of any national emergency in effect immediately prior to the two hundred and seventy-first day after the date of enactment of this Act, are terminated on such two hundred and seventy-first day. Title II: Future National Emergencies - Provides that in the event the President finds that the proclamation of a national emergency is essential to the preservation, protection, and defense of the Constitution, and is essential to the common defense, safety, or well-being of the territory and people of the United States, the President is authorized to proclaim the existence of a national emergency. Title III: Declarations of War by Congress - Stipulates that whenever Congress declares war, any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be exercised during time of war or a national emergency shall be effective from the date of such declaration and remain in effect only in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Title IV: Future National Emergencies - Provides that when the President declares a national emergency, or Congress declares war, any provisions of law conferring powers and authorities to be exercised during such a national emergency or during a war declared by the Congress shall be effective and remain in effect with respect to such emergency or war only in accordance with this Act. States that when the President declares a national emergency, no powers made available by statute for use in the event of an emergency shall become operative unless and until the President specifies by Executive Order the specific provisions of law under which he proposed that he, or other officers of the executive branch, will act. Provides that any national emergency declared by the President in accordance with this title shall terminate 180 days after the date the national emergency was declared unless Congress, by concurrent resolution, provides otherwise. Title V: Miscellaneous - Provides that when the President declares a national emergency, or Congress declares war, the President shall be responsible for maintaining a file, and an index thereof, of all Executive Orders issued by the President. Directs the President to transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate and to the appropriate committees of the Congress the texts of each order, rule, or regulation, by whatever name called, promulgated by any executive department, administration, independent establishment, board, commission, official, group of officials, or other rulemaking authority. Title VI: Repeal of Certain Emergency Power Statutes - Provides for the repeal of specified provisions of law dealing with emergency powers.
United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Title I: Replacement of Lost, Stolen, or Delayed Checks - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish procedures for expedited payment of monthly benefits. Requires the Secretary, within one day after the date an individual files for late payment of benefits, to cause such monthly insurance benefits to be paid. Title II: Expediting of Hearings and Determination - States that in the administration of the programs established by titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, the Secretary shall establish procedures designed to assure that: (1) any duly requested hearing to which an individual is entitled thereunder will be held within a reasonable period of time after such hearing is so requested, if such hearing is requested with respect to a determination of entitlement to benefits; and (2) not later than ninety days after such a hearing is requested, the Secretary shall render a final determination on the issues which were the subject of such hearing, or if no final determination of the Secretary has been made at that time, the Secretary shall make payments of benefits to such individual in like manner as if a final determination has been made fully in favor of such individual.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to purchase lands in order to provide for the expansion of the Antietam National Battlefield Site, so as to include the historic field hospital site where Clara Barton served, in the State of Maryland.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1974
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that a married individual who files a separate return shall be taxed on his or her earned income at the same rate as an unmarried individual.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Economic Opportunity and Community Partnership Act - Extends the authorization for appropriations of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, for an additional three year period through fiscal year 1977. Extends such Act for an additional three year period, through fiscal year 1978. Authorizes an aggregate of $1,548,000 for fiscal year 1975, $1,761,500 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,983,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides for automatic extension of the authorizations beyond fiscal year 1977, unless the Congress passes or formally rejects extension of authorizations, or by concurrent resolution, provides that the automatic extension shall no longer apply. Establishes an independent "Community Services and Community Economic Development Administration," headed by an Administrator appointed by the President, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. States that "Community Services" would include continued direct funding for community action "local initiative" programs, "Community Partnership Agreements", and national emphasis anti-poverty activities such as Emergency Food and Medical Services, Senior Opportunities and Services, and other projects such as evaluation and demonstration activities. Provides for the continuation of the current legal services program. Stipulates that "local-initiative" programs would be continued under current authority. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes of $330,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, 330,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and such sums as may be necessary in succeeding fiscal years. States that the Federal share for such activities would be 80 percent. Provides that demonstration community partnership agreements would be funded by the Agency upon approval of an agreement entered into by a community action agency or similar public or private non-profit agency, and the public agency of a State or political subdivision of a State, or any combination, for local initiative type programs. Sets forth requirements concerning the use of funds. Stipulates that funds should not be used in substitution of local-initiative or other antipoverty programs. Establishes a National Intergovernmental Review Board on the Financing of Community Services to review community partnership agreements, as well as sources for funding of antipoverty efforts. States that the Board, appointed by the President, and subject to Senate confirmation, would consist of nine members, including three representives of State and local government, three of community action and similar agencies and the remainder from the private sector. Stipulates that community economic development programs would include "special impact" programs through community development corporations in rural and urban areas; special rural programs, including funding of rural cooperatives; developmental loans for community economic development programs including establishment of a model domestic development enterprise corporation; and training and technical assistance. Establishes an Interagency Community Economic Development Resource Committee to insure the maximum application of reasources of other agencies, such as the Small Business Administration, the Department of Houasing and Urban Development, and the Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Administration. Provides for a Joint Congressional study during the fiscal year ending June 30,1975, to provide for an appropriate administering agency to conduct the community economic development program in the future, including consideration of an independent community economic development agency.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1974
Increases, under the Internal Revenue Code, from $20,000 to $30,000, the exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of a residence by an individual who is sixty-five years old or older.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974
Authorizes, under the Funeral Transportation and Lving Expense Benefits Act of 1974, memorial transportation and living expense benefits to the families of deceased servicemen classified as prisoners of war or as missing in action.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1974
Declares that the Senate commends the CBS television network for commemorating the birth of our Nation, and for providing a focus for Americans to foster a sense of deepened pride in their heritage.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Provides for the establishment of the Clara Barton House National Historic Site in the State of Maryland. Authorizes to be appropriated the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Provides that income from entertainment activities held in conjunction with a public fair conducted by a tax exempt organization shall not be unrelated trade or business income and shall not affect the tax exemption of the organization under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1974
Provides for grade retention benefits for career or career-conditional Federal employees whose positions are reduced in grade, so long as such employee: (1) continues in the same agency, including an agency to which he is transferred in a transfer of function, without a break in service of one workday or more; (2) is not reassigned or promoted; and (3) is not demoted (A) for personal cause, (B) at his request, or (C) in a reduction in force.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Commerce to make a full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of determining a policy and role for the Federal Government on tourism in the United States which will most effectively enable the industry to realize fully its potential to contribute to the social well-being, the cultural understanding, and the economic prosperity of the United States. Provides that the chairman and ranking minority member of each of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agriculture and Forestry, Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works, Foreign Relations, Government Operations, Labor and Public Welfare, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Small Business, or a member of such committees designated by each such chairman or ranking minority member to serve in his place, shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee on Commerce for purposes of this study. Directs the Committee on Commerce to report its findings, together with its recommendations for such legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 19 June 1974
Authorizes and directs the Joint Committee on the Library to procure a bronze bust or statue of Martin Luther King, Junior, and to cause such sculpture to be placed in a suitable location in the Capitol as determined by the Joint Committee on the Library. Provides that expenses incurred by the Joint Committee on the Library in carrying out this concurrent resolution, which shall not exceed $2,500, shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate on vouchers approved by the chairman of the joint committee.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1974
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, an exclusion from income taxation for income of condominium housing associations, homeowner associations, and cooperative housing corporations operated for the management, maintenance, landscaping, and repair of common areas and dwellings.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Requires, under the Export - Import Bank Act, that the prohibition on purchase or lease of products by a Communist country or for use in a communist country may be wavied by the President in the national interest if he reports each transaction to Congress at least 30 days prior to final approval of the transaction. Provides that no loan, guarantee, or insurance, or combination thereof, in an amount which equals or exceeds $50,000,000 shall be finally approved by the Board of Directors of the Bank unless the Bank has submitted to the Congress with respect to such loan, guarantee, or insurance a detailed statement describing the transaction; and the President has transmitted to the Congress a detailed statement of the impact of the proposed loan, guarantee, or insurance on the national security and economy of the United States. Requires the Bank to submit to the Congress, upon request, all such data, documents, and reports. Sets forth rules and procedures to be followed in Congress for consideration of transactions of the Bank. Provides that, after the date of enactment of this Act, the Bank shall not approve loans, guarantees, and insurance in connection with exports to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in an aggregate amount in excess of $300,000,000. Provides that after June 30, 1975, the Bank shall issue no loan, guarantee, or insurance in connection with the purchase of any goods or services by a communist country, excluding Romania and Yugoslavia, or any agency or national thereof.
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