United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1978
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the aggregate amount of Government expenditures in any fiscal year from exceeding the net amount of revenue received by the Government in that year. States that total outlays may exceed total receipts in the case of a national emergency.
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 · 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 · 9 May 1978
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain portions of the Saint Joe River in the vicinity of Saint Joe, Idaho, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to administer the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated up to $1,100,000 for the acquisition of lands or interests in lands for such river.
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
Uranium Mill Site Restoration Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to make grants to States, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming, to carry out abandoned uranium mill site restoration plans. Sets forth grant application requirements. Requires States submitting applications to acquire the land upon which the tailings and abandoned millsite are located prior to release of grant funds. Requires sale of the site within three years after restoration and payment or title transfer to the Secretary. Sets forth procedures for site restoration on Indian lands. Provides for direct restoration action by the Secretary upon a State's failure to act within three years or upon direct request. Makes the Secretary responsible, in such cases, for restoring background radiation levels, disposing of uranium mill tailings, and monitoring of site radiation levels. Requires the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish regulations assuring that the public health and the environment are not impaired by remedial actions taken pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct a pilot study of uranium mill site radiation in Salt Lake City, Utah,and report the findings to Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 27 April 1978
Establishes the President's Commission on the Victims of the Holocaust for the purpose of considering and developing plans for the design, construction, and location of a permanent memorial in the United States to the victims of the Holocaust. Terminates the Commission within one year after the submission of its final report. Requires that such report be submitted to the Congress and the President within 18 months after the effective date of this resolution. Authorizes appropriations of $750,000 to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1978
Sugar Stabilization Act - Sets forth the policy of the Congress with respect to foreign trade in sugar. Title I: International Sugar Agreement - Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation of sugar from any country not a member of the International Sugar Organization, and to otherwise regulate foreign trade in sugar to implement the International Sugar Agreement. Establishes civil penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires the President to submit to Congress an annual report on the Agreement. Title II: Domestic Sugar Program - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make an annual estimate of the sugar consumption needs of the United States. Establishes a formula for determining the price objectives of domestic sugar. Authorizes the Secretary to establish a quota for the importation of sugar, and to adjust such quota. Authorizes the Secretary to impose an import fee in order to attain the price objective for sugar. Prohibits the established quota from being filled by direct-consumption sugar, except in specified circumstances. Permits the Secretary to suspend such quota and fees under specified circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to impose a quota on the importation of "sugar-containing products. Prohibits the importation of sugar, liquid sugar, or "sugar-containing products" after the import quotas have been filled. Prohibits the importation of certain sugar or liquid sugar into the Virgin Islands in excess of 100 pounds annually. Prohibits the exportation of certain sugar from the United States. Regulates the exportation of sugar. Sets forth items to which the sugar quota shall not apply. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary to issue regulations to carry out this Act. Establishes penalties for the violation of such regulations. Requires certain information to be furnished to the Secretary by persons engaged in the manufacture, marketing, transport, or industrial use, of sugar. Prohibits officials engaged in the administration of this Act to invest in sugar. Establishes penalties for the violation of such prohibition. Authorizes the President to suspend the operation of Title II of this Act in a national emergency. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (1) to conduct surveys and investigations to carry out this Act, and (2) to announce a "daily spot price" for raw sugar in specified circumstances. Terminates the authority of the Secretary under this Act on December 31, 1982.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1978
Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to stipulate that nothing in such Act shall be construed to authorize any regulations designed to restrict hunting, sport fishing, or shooting sports or to establish safety or health standards for work performed in connection with hunting, sport fishing, or shooting sports in areas customarily used for such activities.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1978
National Historic Trails Act - Title I: Findings and Purposes - Declares congressional findings and states the purposes of this Act, including to establish national historic trails. Title II: Establishment of a National Historic Trails Category within the National Trails System - Amends the National Trails System Act to include historic trails, in addition to recreation and scenic trails, within the National Trails System. Defines historic trails as those trails which follow as closely as possible and practicable the original trails or routes of travel of national historical significance. Sets qualifications for designation as a National Historic Trail, including, establishment through historic use, national significance with respect to any of several broad facets of American history, and potential for public recreational use related to historic appreciation. Requires the Secretary charged with the administration of each trail to establish an advisory council for each such trail within one year of the date of addition of any national scenic or historic trail to the System. Requires, within two years, submission to Congress of a comprehensive acquisition, management, and development plan for each such trail. Title III: Designation of Certain Routes as National Historic Trails - Designates Oregon Trail, the Mormon Pioneer Trail, the Lewis and Clark Trail, and the Iditarod Trail, Alaska, as National Historic Trails. Title IV: Miscellaneous Provisions - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1978
Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare, for distribution to taxpayers, brief but comprehensive pamphlets which set forth in nontechnical terms: (1) the rights and obligations of taxpayers during an audit; (2) the procedures which the Internal Revenue Service may use in enforcing revenue laws; and (3) the procedures by which a taxpayer may appeal adverse decisions, prosecute refund claims, and file taxpayer complaints. Requires a copy of such pamphlet to accompany the first communication from the Service to any taxpayer regarding tax liability. Establishes within the Internal Revenue Service an Office of Taxpayer Services, directed by an Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, whose primary responsibilities shall include: (1) assisting taxpayers with information about tax returns, audits corrections, appeals procedures, and payment or document location; and (2) receiving and evaluating complaints of improper, abusive, or inefficient service by Internal Revenue Service personnel. Authorizes the Assistant Commissioner for Taxpayer Services to issue a Taxpayer Assistance Order prohibiting the Secretary, for up to 60 days after such issuance, from taking any assessment, collection, or other action adverse to a taxpayer if the Assistant Commissioner determines that such taxpayer is suffering from an unusual, unnecessary, or irreparable loss as a result of such action. Prescribes criminal penalties for: (1) any investigation by employees of the United States in connection with Federal tax laws which inquires into the beliefs, associations, or activities of any individual which are not directly related to such tax laws; or (2) the maintenance of any records containing information derived from such an investigation. Creates a civil cause of action for any taxpayer aggrieved by a prohibited investigation, or by the deprivation of any civil rights. Permits the award of a judgment of costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, to a prevailing taxpayer in any proceeding before the Tax Court. Requires the Internal Revenue Service, upon a taxpayer's request, to conduct any interview regarding a deficiency assessment in the taxpayer's residence or place of business, at a reasonable time convenient to the taxpayer. Requires the officer or employee conducting such interview to warn the taxpayer that: (1) he has a right to remain silent; (2) any statement he makes may be used against him; and (3) he has the right to the presence of an attorney. Exempts certain income producing property from levy for nonpayment of taxes. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to establish, and to report annually to Congress on, a program to provide for a continuing audit and investigation of the efficiency, uniformity, and equity of the administration of the internal revenue laws of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 17 April 1978
Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to include specified textiles and textile products in the articles reserved from tariff reduction or elimination negotiations by the President.
United States · United States Congress · 13 April 1978
Declares that certain proposed regulations of the Department of the Treasury regarding centralized firearms sales recordkeeping and other firearms control measures exceed the Department's authority, and directs that the regulations be withdrawn.
United States · United States Congress · 12 April 1978
Beef Import Act - Subjects specified kinds of preserved beef and veal products to the policy of Congress related to the restriction of beef imports. Revises the formula for the determination of beef and veal import quotas. Directs the President to limit beef imports at any one port of entry in order to insure the geographical distribution of such imports. Revises the criteria under which the President may suspend a proclamation limiting beef and veal imports to permit such suspension only during a national emergency or when the supply of such products are inadequate to meet domestic supply at reasonable prices.
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
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
Water Resources Research Act - Amends the Water Resources Research Act of 1964 to establish water resources research centers and to promote a national program of water research. Title I: State Water Resources Research Institutes - Authorizes funds to allow the Secretary of the Interior to assist participating States in the establishment of water resources research institutes. Permits the governor of each State to designate one college or university to be the site of such research center, or to cooperate with other States in the establishment of regional research centers. Authorizes sums to be annually awarded by the Secretary for the support of approved research centers. Directs such approved centers to coordinate water resources research within their respective areas and to act as clearinghouses for research data. Provides a specified amount of matching funds to institutes for high priority projects. Directs the Secretary to designate such projects and provides criteria for such determination. Permits moneys authorized by this Act to be used for printing and publishing of research results and for other administrative costs. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to administer this Act. Requires the Secretary to make an annual determination of each participating State's eligibility for the purpose of making the annual grants authorized by this Act. Title II: Additional Water Resources Research Programs - Authorizes a specified amount to be administered by the Secretary. Permits such funds to be used for grants for water research projects. Permits the Secretary to determine eligibility for such grants. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Directs the Secretary to seek the continuing advice of Federal, State, and local governments to assure the best use of the funds available. Limits the Secretary's authority to programs authorized by this Act. Permits advance payments for initial expenses. Requires that as a condition of funding, all results of research be made available to the general public, except for specified national defense purposes. Authorizes the establishment of a center to catalog current and projected research in all fields of water research. Directs the President to assign such center to an agency of the Executive Branch. Directs the President to clarify agency responsibilities for water resource research as he deems appropriate. Directs the Secretary to annually report on the contributions made by the participating institutions and problems to be addressed in the future.
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 · 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 · 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
Amends the National Trails System Act to establish national historic trails as a new category of trails within the National Trails System. Sets criteria for the designation of a trail as a National Historic Trail. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to encourage the States to consider establishing historic trails as part of their comprehensive historic preservation plans. Designates the Mormon Pioneer Trail, which runs from Illinois to Utah, as a national historic trail. Includes in the initial designation those elements located on Federal lands. Makes provisions for the inclusion of State, local and privately held lands. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to implement the provisions of this Act.
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 · 2 March 1978
Amends the Clean Air Act to allow the use of industrial hydrocarbons and alcohol in fuels subject to regulation by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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 · 28 February 1978
Reclamation Reform Act - Replaces the existing maximum Federal reclamation law acreage limitation of 160 acres of reclaimed land per individual with a maximum farm size limit of 1,280 acres, owned or leased by any combination of persons. Restricts the number of persons who may join in such combination to 25 or fewer. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to limit the number of landholdings that any person, firm, or business may manage for the benefit of a qualified recipient. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to designate by rule appropriate increases in the acreage limitation for lands of lesser productive potential. Abolishes the requirement that a qualified recipient must be resident on or near a landholding in order for such landholding to be eligible to receive water. Prohibits any qualified recipient from leasing a landholding acquired after January 1, 1978, unless he or she has derived nonrental income from such landholding for agricultural production for a period of not less than ten years. Provides for the removal of acreage limitations upon repayment of construction charges of the reclamation project required under contracts with the Secretary relating to the delivery of water supplies to such landholding for agricultural use. Prohibits the delivery of water to landholders whose lands do not comply with the federal reclamation law acreage limitation one year after the passage of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Comprehensive Water Management Act - Title I: Office of Water Resources - Creates the Office of Water Resources within the Executive Office of the President. Requires such Office to advise the President concerning present and future State and Federal water management programs. Directs the Office to coodinate research-related programs with the Director of the Office of Water Research and Technology. Creates within the Office of Water Resources a Federal Water Advisory Council and a State water advisory council to advise and assist the Director of the Office of Water Resources in the carrying out of duties. Requires the President to submit to the Congress an annual water resources report. Directs that such report shall evaluate existing and potential programs of Federal, State, and local governments. Title II: State Comprehensive Water Management program - Authorizes the appropriation of funds to the Office of Water Resources to be be used for grants to the States to help fund their participation in the development of a comprehensive water management program. Directs the Office to establish procedures for the providing of assistance to the States. Requires participating States to provide the Office with a summary of programs and policies, current and anticipated problems, needs and priorities, and other specified information. Directs the Office to review the State summaries and to comment on such matters as conflicts between State and Federal programs, the consistency of Federal and State goals and priorities, and areas of national interest and their relationship to State programs. Requires the Office to give approval to State programs that include a flexible approach to comprehensive water and related land management and which include: (1) provisions for public involvement and for cooperation between the State and the Federal Government and affected States; (2) provide for comprehensive management of intrastate and interstate water resources; (3) set forth the administrative procedures of and designate a State entity to administer the program; (4) require the State entity to annually assess the progress of its program and report such findings to the Office of Water Resources; and other specified requirements. Requires reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to a State agency deemed by the Office to be administering a program which substantially fails to comply with a requirement for an approved program. Requires the Office to suspend grants upon a finding that a State program fails to substantially comply with the requirements of this Act. Title III: Interstate Coordinating Commissions - Sets forth the procedure necessary for the establishment of an Interstate Water Coordinating Commission to coordinate activities among participating States and relevant Federal agencies. Title IV: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes the appropriation to the Office of Water Resources such of sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend to all residents of the United States the same general exclusion of income earned abroad which is presently limited to citizens. Repeals the disallowance of an income tax credit for foreign taxes paid on income items that are excluded as foreign earned income. Increases the limitations on this exclusion, with provisions for annual adjustments by the Secretary of the Treasury to correspond to rate increases paid to GS-12, step one government employees. Allows a new income tax deduction for the sum of foreign source income related expenses falling in the following categories: the cost-of- living differential (i.e., the excess cost) of maintaining a family in a foreign country rather than the United States (to be governed by tables published by the Secretary of the Treasury, guided by the State Department's index of foreign living costs); a portion of the excess housing costs experienced abroad; the elementary and secondary education expenses of the taxpayer's dependents, including room, board and travel if no adequate "United States-type" schools are available; travel expenses of one annual trip home; and reasonable transportation expenses for the taxpayer and his family for travel between remote or adverse posts and any other location approved by the employer. Allows taxpayers to use this deduction for determining adjusted gross income, thereby extending it to individuals not itemizing their deductions. Limits deducting any expense item to one of the specified categories of this deduction, thereby avoiding multiple deductions of single expenses. Includes in gross income any reimbursement by an employer for expenses qualifying for this deduction. Increases the time and amount limitations for moving expense deductions in the cases of all international moves resulting from death of the taxpayer, retirement, or a new principal place of work. Includes the storage fees incurred for the duration of a foreign assignment within the expenses qualifying for this deduction. Excludes from gross income all meals and lodging furnished the taxpayer and his dependents by his employer outside the United States in a "camp-style" or communal setting. Provides taxpayers working abroad the same extended repurchase time limitations as are presently provided servicemen stationed overseas for the nonrecognition of gain on the sale or exchange of a principal residence.
United States · United States Congress · 23 February 1978
Declares that it is the sense of the Senate that the Food and Drug Administration should not promulgate any rules or restrictions on the use and distributions of penicillin and tetracycline products in animal feeds at low levels until a well-designed epidemiological study and a thorough benefit-risk determination are made concerning the safety of such products.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1978
Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior coordinate development of the National Wilderness Preservation System; (2) interested persons participate in the present roadless area reviews; and (3) future uses of roadless lands be decided as rapidly as possible.
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1978
Amends the policy of Congress to restrict the annual aggregate importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen beef, goat, or sheep meat after December 31, 1974. Prescribes a formula for adjustment of such quota. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allocate such quota among supplying countries according to certain criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1978
Flexible Parity Act - Title I: Wheat - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for the 1978 crop of wheat a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from $3.00 per bushel for a 20 percent set-aside up to $5.04 per bushel for a 50 percent set-aside. Title II: Feed Grains - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for the 1978 crop of feed grains a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from $2.10 for a ten percent set-aside up to $3.45 for a 50 percent set-aside. Title III: Upland Cotton - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide for the 1978 crop of upland cotton a sliding-scale of established prices, keyed to voluntary five percent increments above the required acreage set-aside level, ranging from 54 cents per pound for a 20 percent set-aside up to 84 cents per point for a 50 percent set-aside. Title IV: Grain Release Prices - Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949: (1) to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture from providing for the redemption of stored wheat and feed grains loans unless the market price for such commodities is not less than parity; (2) to prohibit the Secretary from calling such loans until the market price for wheat and feed grains is at least 105 percent of parity; and (3) to prohibit the Commodity Credit Corporation from selling its stocks of wheat and feed grains for less than the parity price of such commodities.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1978
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 to the Secretary of the Army to develop and implement a national dam safety program. Stipulates the formula for allocation of such appropriations. Directs the Secretary to furnish financial and training assistance to any State which establishes a dam safety program which meets specified criteria. Directs the Secretary to guarantee any dam failure liability insurance of a dam owner. Establishes a Federal Dam Safety Review Board: (1) to review the procedures and standards in dam design and safety analysis; and (2) to monitor State implementation of this Act. Directs the Secretary to study techniques of dam inspection.
United States · United States Congress · 15 December 1977
Equal Access to Courts Act - Entitles a party which: (1) prevails in any civil action, including an action for judicial review of agency actions; and (2) is a small business as defined by the Small Business Act or an individual or entity having assets or income below specified amounts to a judgment for costs and an award for attorney fees, witness fees, and necessary studies and reports. Directs an agency to pay costs and fees to a party meeting the criteria of (2) above if such a party: (1) successfully defends the imposition of an agency sanction; (2) successfully opposes the issuance or amendments of certain agency orders; or (3) successfully appeals agency action or is subject to agency action which is appealed or reviewed. Entitles a party partially prevailing against the United States to costs and fees to the extent to which it prevailed. Authorizes, where in the interest of justice, an award of cost and fees to a party which fails to prevail in a civil action instituted by or against the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1977
Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to the House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry quarterly reports evidencing that all foreign plants exporting meat have been inspected by inspectors appointed by the Secretary and are in compliance with such Act and the regulations issued thereunder.
United States · United States Congress · 6 December 1977
Authorizes and requests the President to annually designate the Sunday following Fire Service Recognition Day as "Memorial Sunday" for firefighters disabled or killed in the line of duty during the preceeding year.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1977
Amends the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 to increase from four to 25 the number of pilot projects mandated for the production of industrial hydrocarbons and alcohols from agricultural commodities and forest products.
United States · United States Congress · 8 November 1977
Kennedy Center Performing Arts Fund Act - Authorizes the refinancing of revenue bonds issued under the John F. Kennedy Center Act. Establishes in the United States Treasury the Kennedy Center Bond Amortization Account. Directs the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts to establish the Kennedy Center Performing Arts Fund to be used solely for the making of Kennedy Center Fund Grants to support productions of the John F. Kennedy Center and in communities which would not otherwise have access to such production.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act to prohibit the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior from increasing the grazing fee for the 1978 grazing year in order to allow Congress sufficient time to analyze the Secretaries' report and recommendations with respect to the value of grazing on public lands and the fee to be charged for domestic livestock grazing on such lands.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Requires the Attorney General to adjust the status of two individuals under the Immigration and Nationality Act to that of alien lawfully admitted to permanent residence, upon the fulfillment by such individuals of specified conditions.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen Protection Act - Requires that the Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen and other relics of Hungarian royality be kept in the United States, unless Congress specifically provides otherwise.
United States · United States Congress · 4 November 1977
Declares the Senate denunciation of the disregard of human rights by the Government of Democratic Kampuchean (Cambodia). Calls upon the President to express the concern of the American people, and to initiate efforts to end these violations.
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