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United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Secuirty Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Urges the President to seek an immediate international suspension of the transfer to nonnuclear weapons countries of nuclear enrichment and reprocessing facilities and technology to permit time for the negotiation of additional safeguards to reduce the risk of diversion or theft of plutonium and other nuclear materials to military or other uses that would jeopardize world peace and security.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Emergency Mortgage Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make emergency mortgage relief payments to mortgagees on behalf of distressed homeowners. Sets forth as conditions for making such payments: (1) the holder of the mortgage has indicated an intention to foreclose; (2) mortgage payments have been delinquent for at least two months; (3) the mortgagor has incurred a substantial reduction in income as result of involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to adverse economic conditions and is financially unable to make the full payments; (4) there is a reasonable prospect that the mortgager will be able to make the adjustments necessary for a full resumption of mortgage payments; and (5) the mortgaged property is the principal residence of the mortgagor. States that mortgage relief payments may be made in amounts up to $250 per month for up to twelve months with an extension of up to an additional twelve months. States that the payments shall be repayable with an annual interest rate not exceeding eight percent. Directs the Secretary and the Federal supervisory agencies with respect to financial institutions to take steps to encourage forebearance in residential mortgage loan foreclosures, and to request all mortgagees to give such agencies at least 30 days notice prior to instituting foreclosure proceedings. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of this Act not to exceed $500,000,000. States that mortgage relief payments shall not be made after July 1, 1976. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within sixty days after enactment and at sixty-day intervals thereafter on the actions taken under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Provides that specified publications of institutions of higher education shall continue to qualify as second-class mail. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3626)
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1975
Abandonment Disaster Demonstration Relief Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a Neighborhood Protection Corporation which will have the authority, on a demonstration basis, to enter and take possession of abandoned residential properties in order to prevent the continued deterioration and destruction of neighborhoods and communities and to hold and assemble parcels of land for the development and redevelopment of neighborhoods and communities. Establishes a corporation to be known as the Neighborhood Protection Corporation, which shall be an independent agency of the United States. Prohibits the Corporation or any of its functions, powers, or duties, from being transferred to or consolidated with any other department, agency, or establishment of the Federal Government. Requires the demonstration program to be conducted in three metropolitan housing areas. States that in the case of abandoned residential property subject to a mortgage which is insured or guaranteed by an agency of the United States, the Corporation may file in the United States district court wherein the property is located an action for forfeiture of such property to the United States, and an application for an order to seize and take possession of such property as the receiver of the court. Provides that, not later than 30 days after the issuance of an order, the court shall hold a hearing on the merits to determine whether forfeiture should be ordered. Directs the Corporation to acquire, in exchange for obligations issued by it, residential properties to which title is held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs at the fair market value of the property as of the date the title is passed to the Corporation. Allows the Corporation to acquire real or residential properties by condemnation for the purpose of redeveloping a community or neighborhood. Permits the Corporation to construct, erect, remodel, repair, and rehabilitate structures on residential property, or rent, lease, insure, maintain, exchange, convey, sell for cash or credit, or otherwise dispose of real or residential property, improvements or interests therein. States that the Corporation may acquire in exchange for obligations issued by it, real properties, residential properties, mortgages on residential properties, and other obligations and liens secured by residential properties. Directs the Corporation to provide directly or by contract counseling on household management, property management, budgeting, and related counseling services which would assist low-and moderate-income families who purchase homes from the Corporation. Provides that the Corporation, when it sells property improved by dwellings for occupancy by fewer than five families to a purchaser, may originate and service the mortgage covering such property. Requires the Board of Directors of the Corporation to determine the minimum amount of capital stock in the Corporation and to increase such capital stock from time to time in such amount as may be necessary, but not to exceed in the aggregate $35,000,000. Directs that, in its fourth annual report, the Corporation shall include its recommendations with respect to whether the demonstration authorized under this Act should be continued, expanded, or terminated.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Urges the President to seek an immediate international moratorium on the transfer to nonnuclear weapons countries of nuclear enrichment and reprocessing equipment and technology to permit time for the negotiation of more effective safeguards against the proliferation of nuclear weapons capability.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Prohibits carriers of Federal employee insurance from reducing or excluding health benefits without such proposed changes being published in the Federal Register and without hearings by the Civil Service Commission on such proposed changes.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1975
Requires the extension of crop insurance under the Federal Corp Insurance Act to all counties and all agricultural commodities. Directs the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to pay 50 percent of the premium costs of the crop insurance issued to any farmer under the provisions of such Act. Repeals the $12,000,000 limitation on the authorized administrative costs of the corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1975
Health Maintenance Organization Amendments - Makes the offering of supplemental health services, as defined by the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, optional by health maintenance organizations. Eliminates the requirement imposed by such Act that health maintenance organizations offer annual open enrollment for individual membership. Redesignates medical treatment and referral services for drug or alcohol abuse or addiction and home health services as supplemental health services for purposes of such Act. Enables private entities to obtain federally guaranteed loans for the planning, initial development, and operation of a health maintenance organization to serve populations in addition to medically underserved populations. Includes State and local governmental employers as among those employers which must offer employees the option of membership in a health maintenance organization. Sets forth new procedures, penalties, and other requirements to be applied by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare where health maintenance organizations are alleged to be in noncompliance with such Act. Extends the authorization of appropriations for programs under such Act an additional two years.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1975
Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide employment for unemployed rural residents through rural conservation employment projects within rural areas of substantial unemployment. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to employ rural residents over eighteen who have been unemployed for at least thirty consecutive days to carry out rural conservation projects within the National Forest System and other lands under the Secretary's jurisdiction, and in conjunction with cooperative projects on non-Federal lands. Directs the Secretary to determine rates of pay, hours, and other conditions of employment. Places a maximum wage limitation of $10,000 per year. Authorizes specified appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Requires the continued application of the minimum nursing salary cost differential of 8 1/2 percent which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient nursing care for purposes of reimbursement to providers under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Conversion of Abandoned Railroad Rights-of-Way Act - Declares the purpose of this Act is to modify the Interstate Commerce Act to direct the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program for development of railroad rights-of-way for use of transportation by bicycle. Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with Federal, State and local authorities, to identify those railroad rights- of-way, on which rail service has been permanently terminated, is scheduled for termination, or is likely of termination and which are potentially suitable for public recreational use. Describes recreational use to include: (1) inclusion in the National Trails System; (2) utilization by a State, regional, or local entity for use as a State administered bikeway, walkway, or similar facility. Authorizes the Secretary to provide technical and financial assistance for the conversion of such railroad rights-of-ways to such recreational uses. Authorizes $25,000,000 to be appropriated for fiscal year 1976 and the next two fiscal years to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1975
Authorizes the President of the United States to designate the week beginning on the first Saturday after the first Tuesday in January as "National Ski Week".
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Energy Information Act - Sets forth Congressional findings and purposes and defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: National Energy Information Administration - Creates as an independent agency of the Federal Government the National Energy Information Administration, to be headed by an Administrator. Provides that the function of the Administration shall be the collection, tabulation, comparison, analysis, standardization, and dissemination of energy information pursuant to this Act. Directs the Administrator to coordinate exisitng energy information collection activities of all Federal agencies. Requires the Administrator to submit to Congress and the President a plan for the consolidation of the energy information activities of the Federal Government. Provides for the imposition of criminal penalties for the unauthorized disclosure of, or theft of, non-public energy information. Title II: National Energy Information System - Directs the Administrator to establish a National Energy Information system which shall be operated and maintained by the Administration. Provides that such System shall contain such information as is required (1) to provide a description of and facilitate analysis of energy supply and consumption within and affecting the United States on the basis of such geographic areas and economic sectors as may be appropriate and (2) to meet adequately the needs of the Congress and of those Federal agencies which are responsible for energy policy analysis and formulation and for energy regulation. Requires major energy producing companies to file annual financial reports with the Administrator. Requires major energy consuming companies to file annual energy consumption reports, including the amounts and types of energy used, with the Administrator. Provides that the information collected pursuant to this Act shall be made public except where such information: (1) constitutes a trade secret; (2) would substantially harm the company that supplied it if disclosed; (3) was obtained from a Federal, State or local agency on a confidential basis; and (4) was classified for national security on foreign policy reasons. Authorizes the Administrator to delay the disclosure of geological information. Provides that only Federal employees having official use for such information shall have access to the information in the non-public catergories listed above. Title III: Energy Resources Surveys and Inspections by the Department of the Interior - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to compile, maintain, and keep current on not less than an annual basis a survey of all mineral fuel resources and nonmineral energy resources in the public lands of the United States. Stipulates that such survey program shall be designed to provide information about the location, extent, value, and characteristics of such resources. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Directs the Comptroller General to continuously monitor and evaluate the activities and operations of the Administration. Authorizes to be appropriated to the National Energy Information Administration and the Department of the Interior such amounts as may be requisite to full and efficient performance of the duties imposed upon such agencies by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Valley Forge National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Stipulates that such park is not to exceed 3,500 acres. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Volunteer End-of-Service Allowance Increase Act - Increases VISTA Volunteer stipends and Peace Corps Volunteer readjustment allowances. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to provide for such increases.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Communicative Health Care Amendments - Declares the purposes of this Act, including to consolidate and clarify the health care coverage of present services. Specifies the services to be covered relative to the health care for persons with communicative disorders under the health insurance program (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, including preventive, diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitative functions. Provides that payments presently made to hospitals under the Medicare program based on services provided by an outside resource shall be payable directly to such outside resource provider.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Provides for coverage of comprehensive hearing health care services under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act, including provision for hearing amplification devices financed in part by the Federal Government.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States (1) should propose an immediate suspension on underground nuclear testing to remain in effect so long as the Soviet Union abstains from underground testing, and (2) should set forth promptly a new proposal to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other nations for a permanent treaty to ban all nuclear tests.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1975
Congressional Campaign Financing Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund a separate account to be known as the congressional election payment account. Authorizes the Secretary to make disbursements to eligible candidates upon certification of the candidate's elgibility by the Federal Election Commission. Provides, to be eligible to receive any payments under this Act for use in connection with his primary election campaign, a candidate must certify to the Commission that: (1) he is seeking nomination by a political party for election as a Representative and he and his authorized committees have received contributions in connection with that campaign from residents of the State in which such election is held which, in the aggregate, exceed $10,000; or (2) he is seeking nomination by a political party for election to the Senate and he and his authorized committees have received contributions in connection with that campaign from residents of the State in which such election is held which, in the aggregate, exceed the greater of (I) $10,000, or (II) 2 cents multiplied by the voting age population of the State in which the election for such nomination is held. Provides, that be eligible to receive any payments under this Act in connection with his general election campaign, a candidate must certify to the Commission that: (1) he is seeking election as a Representative and he and his authorized committees have received contributions in connection with that campaign from residents of the State in which such election is held which, in the aggregate, exceed $10,000; or (2) he is seeking election to the Senate and he and his authorized committees have received contributions in connection with that campaign from residents of the State in which such election is held which, in the aggregate, exceed the greater of (I) $10,000, or (II) 2 cents multiplied by the voting age population of the State in which such election is held. Provides that any agency action by the Commission made under the provisions fo this Act shall be subject to review by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Provides criminal penalties for a candidate or committee member who knowingly incurs qualified campaign expenses in excess of the expenditure limitation or who makes unlawful use of the payments authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act - Requires the licensing of all clinical laboratories, as defined by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue such licenses. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate licensing authority to the States, providing the Secretary determines that State standards meet or exceed Federal standards. Sets forth the standards that must be met by clinical laboratories in order to receive and maintain the license required by this Act. Provides that such standards shall be designed to assure consistently accurate laboratory procedures and service. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Clinical Laboratories. Declares that the purpose of such Office shall be to centralize the laboratory regulatory functions authorized by this Act and to assume responsibility for the laboratory component of other health programs administered and enforced by the Secretary. Creates an advisory council to advise the Office with respect to guidelines for laboratory licensing, personnel, and performance standards. Provides that no grant or reimbursement which the Secretary is authorized to make, or contract which he is authorized to award, whether to or for any health care facility, including but not limited to health maintenance organizations, hospitals, skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities, or in connection with the procurement and reimbursement for clinical laboratory services shall be entered into unless the laboratory meets the standards established by the Secretary. Provides for grants and technical assistance to those States which desire to establish State licensing procedures and regulations for development, administration, and enforcement purposes. Provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Defense Economic Adjustment Act - Title I: Defense Economic Adjustment Council - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Defense Economic Adjustment Council to be composed of specified Cabinet members and Directors of government agencies. Specifies the duties of the Council, including the duty to assist communities, industries, and employees which may be substantially and seriously affected to make adjustment to closure and reduction of bases or cancellation or reduction of defense contracts. Title II: Community Economic Adjustment Planning - Authorizes the Council to allocate economic development funds appropriated to Federal agencies to communities which would be substantially and seriously affected by reduction or elimination of Government military contracts. Title III: Industrial Economic Adjustment - Requires defense contractors to undertake planning and preparation for the employment of the personnel and utilization of the facilities employed on a contract after its completion. Authorizes the Chairman of the Council to provide assistance to defense and nonprofit contractors on conversion to nondefense industry, and appropriates $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for such purpose. Specifies the criteria for assigning priorities among economic projects applying for support under this Act. Title IV: Economic Adjustment Fund - Requires payment to the Council of one-half of one percent of the amount of any defense contract for funding of the Workers Economic Adjustment Reserve Trust Fund to be established in the Treasury. Provides for the return of unexpended moneys of a contractor in the fund if all of his obligations under this Act have been discharged and he has not contracted with the Federal government to furnish defense materials within 24 months. Title V: Economic Adjustment Assistance For Workers - Provides for the payment of economic adjustment benefits to workers or nonprofit contractors who have been displaced from private defense facilities for 2 years following such displacement. Provides that such assistance shall include up to 80 percent of weekly wages, maintenance of insurance coverages, vested pension credit, and retraining. Conditions the eligibility of workers for such benefits upon maintenance of registration with the Secretary of Labor and an agreement to accept employment determined by the Secretary of Labor to be suitable.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Establishes the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma and outlines the boundaries for such area. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands within the boundaries of the recreation area by donation, purchase or exchange. Permits the Secretary to specify the type of activity to occur on such lands. Authorizes necessary appropriations to carry out the provisions fo this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Renames the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation the Federal Commodity Insurance Corporation. Transfers the functions and duties of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and the Secretary of Agriculture under the Federal Crop Insurance Act to the Federal Commodity Insurance Corporation. States that the Corporation shall be managed by a Board of Directors. Sets forth procedures for the appointment of the Board. Extends the existing crop insurance program from coverage of 7 agricultural commodities to coverage of 25 commodities. Authorizes the Corporation to extend insurance to other commodities on the basis of demand for such coverage and the anticipated risk of loss to the Corporation. Directs the Corporation to offer its insurance program in additional counties according to a specified plan. Specifies the percentage of loss of each crop that the Corporation shall offer insurance against. Stipulates that insurance offered by the Corporation shall not cover losses due to the neglect or malfeasance of the producer or the failure of the producer to follow established good production practices. Requires the Corporation to report annually to Congress the results of its operations and to include in such report, a list of all agricultural commodities for which insurance has been requested but which are not insured by the Corporation, and a list of all counties for which insurance has been requested but which are not covered by the Corporation. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1976, and each fiscal year thereafter, a sum not to exceed $20,000,000 or an amount equal to 2.3 percent of the total insurance liability assumed by the Corporation in the immediately preceding fiscal year, whichever amount is greater, as may be necessary to cover the operating and administrative costs of the Corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Provides for the relief of Jonathan Aoloc Majak.
United States · United States Congress · 13 May 1975
Rural Development Act Amendments - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes, and defines the terms used in this Act. Establishes a National Rural Development Bank to serve as a source of financial assistance to institutions that have purchased, refinanced, discounted, or rediscounted nonfarm rural development loans made by local rural banks and other financial institutions. Declares it to be the policy of Congress that the Bank provide equity-participation investment funds to sponsors of rural development projects and financial assistance to local lenders. Establishes a National Rural Development Bank Board, to consist of individuals appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and individuals elected by the shareholders of such Bank. Makes it the duty of the Board to establish general policy for the Bank, consistent with congressional policy and purposes. Enumerates the general corporate powers of the Bank and authorizes the Bank to make studies of rural lending and investment needs, and credit requirements of rural industrial and commercial enterprises. Directs the Farm Credit Administration to audit the Bank and participating joint-venture cosponsors not less than once a year. Directs the Bank to issue stock. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase stock to help the Bank inaugurate financial assistance operations. Provides that voting stock of the Bank shall be held only by those local rural banks and financial institutions that obtain financial assistance from the Bank or joint-venture cosponsors. Sets forth an earnings distribution formula. Declares that the Bank shall have the power to issue its own notes, bonds, debentures, and other similar obligations. Authorizes the Bank to make investments in rural development projects proposed or established by joint-venture cosponsors, as defined by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury not to exceed $200,000,000 annually for not to exceed 10 years for the purchase of capital stock of the Bank.
United States · United States Congress · 12 May 1975
National Genetic Diseases Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to establish a national program to provide for basic and applied research, research training, testing, counseling, information, and education programs with respect to genetic diseases, including, but not limited to, sickle cell anemia, Cooley's anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, cystic fibrosis, dysautonomia, hemophilia, retinitis pigmentosa, Huntington's chorea, and muscular dystrophy. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and private nonprofit entities for the establishment and operation of: (1) genetic counseling and testing programs; (2) a genetic disease information and education program; and (3) a genetic disease research, development and diagnosis and treatment demonstration program. Authorizes appropriations in specified amounts for fiscal years 1976, 1977, and 1978 for such programs. Sets forth grant application requirements and procedures. Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Genetic Diseases. Makes it the duty of the Commission to undertake a comprehensive investigation and study of the ethical, social, and legal implications of genetics research.
United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1975
Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Amendments - Authorizes funds for the provision of emergency jobs under the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act for fiscal years 1976 and 1977, the amount of such funds to be reduced as the national rate of unemployment falls below specified levels for three consecutive months.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1975
School Teachers' Unemployment Insurance Act - Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that school teachers shall be eligible for unemployment insurance under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 May 1975
Provides for the designation of specified lands in the Isle Royale National Park in Michigan as wilderness.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1975
Constitutional Amendment - Provides that the people of the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall elect two Senators and the number of Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State. States that each Senator or Representative so elected shall be an inhabitant of the District and shall possess the same qualifications as to age and citizenship and have the same rights, privileges, and obligations as a Senator or Representative from a State.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1975
Changes the Immigration and Nationaltiy Act to eliminate the legal custody requirement of residence and physical presence in the United States for the naturalization of children adopted by United States citizens.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1975
Repeals, under Immigration and Nationality Act procedures for granting immigrant status, the limitation restricting adoption to no more than two children.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1975
Provides for the relief of Edwin J. Anglesey.
United States · United States Congress · 5 May 1975
Requires that food stamps be allotted in an amount equal to 90 percent of the cost of the low cost diet plan as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. Provides that housing representing payment of income in kind shall be counted as income of up to $25 per month. Makes any household having an individual 18 years of age or older and claimed as a dependent by an individual outside of the household ineligible to receive food stamps. Authorizes elderly and disabled individuals to use food stamps to purchase meals prepared and delivered by a political subdivision or private nonprofit organization exempt from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code. Revises procedures for certification and informing potential recipients. Provides for the creation of a Food Stamp Advisory Board to be consulted prior to regulation changes.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Permits the Secretary of the Treasury under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act to withhold a percentage of the total entitlement payment for any period to insure sufficient funds for final allocation of funds among the State and local units of government. Appropriates to the State and Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund: (1) $1,625,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; (2) $6,687,500,000 for fiscal year 1977; (3) $6,837,500,000 for fiscal year 1978; (4) $6,987,500,000 for fiscal year 1979; (5) $7,137,500,000 for fiscal year 1980; and (6) $7,287,500,000 for fiscal year 1981. Appropriates to the Fund as noncontiguous States adjustment: (1) $1,195,000 for fiscal year 1976; and (2) $4,780,000 for each of the fiscal years 1976 through 1981. Exempts amounts appropriated to the Fund from the provisions of the Congressional Budget Act. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to submit a report with appropriate recommendations to the Congress no later than September 30, 1980, concerning the extension of such Act. Declares that if the entitlement of any Indian tribe or Alaskan native village is waived for any entitlement period, then the amount of such entitlement shall become part of the entitlement of the county government of the county in which such unit is located. Directs each State and local unit of government which receives funds under such Act to submit a report to the Secretary after the close of each entitlement period on the use of the funds received. Directs each unit of local government which expects to receive funds to submit a report to the Secretary on how it plans to use the funds it expects to receive. Empowers the Secretary whenever he determines that a unit of government has failed to comply with an applicable regulation to withhold all or a portion of the entitlement funds due such unit of government, to terminate the eligibility of such unit of government, and to require repayment of the entitlement funds expended. Requires units of government to provide an opportunity for citizens to give recommendations and views on the proposed expenditures of all funds distributed under such Act within such unit.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
American Folklife Preservation Act - Creates an American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Provides that the center shall be subject to the supervision and direction of a board of trustees. Specifies the composition of the board, including: four members appointed by the President, and seven members appointed by the Librarian of Congress. Directs the Librarian to appoint a Director of the Center. Authorizes the Center to establish and implement a program of contracts, grants, loans and scholarships to promote and support American folklife traditions and arts. Provides that no payment shall be made pursuant to this Act to carry out any research or training over a period in excess of two years, with specified exceptions. Provides that no former employee of the Federal government shall be eligible to receive any grant or other assistance under this Act in the two year period following the termination of such employment. Requires the Center to submit to the Librarian of Congress, for inclusion in his annual report to the Congress, an annual report of its operations under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated to the Center to carry out the provisions of this Act $167,750 for fiscal year 1976, $710,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $1,716,000 for fiscal year 1978.
United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1975
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Labor to change the name of the Wholesale Price Index to the Basic Price Index. Sets limitations upon the use of the term "wholesale" in data published by the Department of Labor.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Authorizes and directs Federal agencies to provide for the employment of reading assistants for blind employees and interpreters for deaf employees. Sets minimum staff levels for such employee positions for specified years following the enactment of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the seven calendar days commencing on April 30 of each year as "National Beta Sigma Phi Week".
United States · United States Congress · 30 April 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Amateur Athletic Union restore to the late Jim Thorpe the status of amateur athlete and that the International Olympic Committee should officially recognize Jim Thorpe's achievements during the 1912 Olympic Games.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Opportunities for Adoption Act - Provides for adoption assistance programs under the provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Makes it the purpose of this Act, in order to promote the public health and welfare, to facilitate the elimination of obstacles to adoption, and to locate children in need of adoption and facilitate the placement in permanent adoptive homes of such children, particularly children with special needs, by: (1) promoting the establishment of uniform adoption regulations in the States and territories of the United States in order to eliminate jurisdictional and legal obstacles to adoption; (2) providing Federal financial assistance to States for the purpose of assisting certain public and private nonprofit agencies and adoptive and prospective adoptive parents in meeting certain costs of adoption in order to remove or alleviate the financial obstacles which present serious barriers to adoption by qualified persons; and (3) providing for the establishment of a National Office of Adoption Information and Services in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to (A) ensure quality standards for adoption services (including pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoption counseling and standards to protect the rights of children in need of adoption) and (B) provide for a national adoption information exchange system. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to appoint a Committee on Uniform Adoption Regulations to be composed of representatives of National, State, and local child welfare organizations and representatives of National, State, and local child welfare organizations and representatives of other groups interested in facilitating the objectives of adoption agencies, and the Chief of the Children's Bureau in the Office of Child Development, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, or his designee. Directs such Committee to: (1) review current conditions, practices, and laws relating to adoption, with special reference to their effect on facilitating or impeding the finding of suitable adoptive homes for children and the completion of suitable adoptions; (2) propose to the Secretary uniform adoption regulations which would facilitate adoption; and (3) report its proposals to the Congress and the President not later than eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act. Provides that following receipt of the Committee's proposals, but not later than twenty-four months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall publish the proposed uniform adoption regulations in the Federal Register for comment and, after soliciting and giving due consideration to the comments of interested individuals, groups and organizations and consulting further with the Committee, he shall issue and publish final uniform adoption regulations which shall apply in the administration of the grant program. Directs the Secretary, in accordance with regulations which he shall prescribe, to make matching grants to States for allocation, by State agencies principally responsible for services to families and children, to public and private nonprofit adoption agencies which meet standards of quality prescribed pursuant to this Act for the purpose of assisting: (1) such agencies in meeting the cost involved in the adoptive placement of children with special needs (including identifying children in need of adoption, locating and counseling their parents, freeing appropriate children for adoption, locating suitable homes and providing pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoptive counseling to children in need of adoption and to prespective and actual adoptive parents); (2) such agencies in meeting the cost of providing prenatal and postpartum services to mothers, voluntarily planning to place their children for adoption, who are unable to assume such costs, in order to protect the health and welfare of both the mother and child; but only to the extent that assistance under other Federal or State programs in the community in question is not readily available to provide adequately for such services; (3) such agencies in meeting the cost of providing for professional counseling and other social services to children in need of adoption, and to prospective and actual adoptive parents and foster parents to assist them in providing a supportive and healthful family environment; (4) adoptive parents in locating and, where appropriate, defraying the cost of post-placement and post-adoption special services to children requiring such services as a result of conditions which existed prior to their placement, up to an amount not exceeding the amount which similar services would cost the State in question were it to provide or secure such services as the guardian of such children; and (5) prospective adoptive parents, who would consider adoption but for their financial inability to meet a child's needs, in defraying the post-placement and post-adoption cost of supporting children with special needs, in amounts of assistance determined by the Secretary to be adequate to enable such adoptive parents to assume responsibility for raising such children (including payment of legal fees and court costs). Provides for the establishment of a system in the States under which, with respect to a child who has been in foster care in a State for at least six months after such child is considered legally available for adoptive placement, the foster parents providing care to such child will be notified of the possibility of the financial assistance for adoptive placement authorized by this Act if it appears to be in the child's best interest. Directs the Secretary to take such steps as he deems necessary to encourage and facilitate the consideration of comprehensive adoption assistance legislation by those States which have not enacted such legislation. Establishes within the Children's Bureau of the Office of Child Development of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Office of Adoption Information and Services which shall be headed by a Director appointed by the Secretary upon the joint recommendation of the Director of the Office of Child Development and the Chief of the Children's Bureau. Provides that the Office shall be the principal agency for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Directs the Director, in accordance with regulations which he shall presecribe, to: (1) conduct a continuous educational program on adoption and to prepare, publish, and disseminate to all interested parties, private and public agencies and organizations, and governmental bodies educational materials regarding adoption and adoption assistance programs; (2) measure and evaluate the impact of the programs authorized by this Act and, not later than ninety days after June 30 of each year, prepare and submit to the Secretary for transmittal to the President and the Congress a report on such evaluation, which shall include, but not be limited to (A) the number of children placed in adoptive homes under adoption assistance agreements during the year preceding the annual report and the major characteristics of such children; and (B) the number of children currently in foster care for six months or more, and the legal status of such children; (3) insure that adoption agencies receiving assistance authorized under this Act subscribe to standards of quality, which he shall prescribe, for adoption services (including pre-placement and post-placement and post-adoption counseling and standards to protect the rights of children in need of adoption) and comply with the requirements of title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; and (4) notwithstanding any other provision of law, provide for the operation of a national adoption information system, utilizing computers and modern data processing methods, to assist in the location of children in need of adoption and in the placement in adoptive homes of children awaiting adoption, and for the promotion of cooperative efforts with any similar programs; and (5) coordinate and consult with other appropriate Federal agencies, and coordinate all other programs within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Authorizes the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and the succeeding three fiscal years, of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Provides for the appropriation from the Treasury and transfer to the treasuries of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of the amount of all import license fees collected pursuant to the Presidential proclamation) by the Federal Energy Administrator for imports of crude oil, unfinished oil and finished products into Puerto Rico and into the Customs Territory of the U.S. from the United States Virgin Islands between May 1, 1973 and January 31, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 29 April 1975
Authorizes, for purposes of implementing the Water Resources Planning Act, the Water Resources Council to procure the services of consultants at rates not to exceed the daily equivalent of the rate for grade GS-18. Permits any river basin commission established pursuant to this Act to employ and compensate such personnel as it deems advisable at rates not to exceed the daily equivalent of the rate for grade GS-18. Empowers the Council to transfer funds authorized by the Act to river basin commissions and to Federal and State agencies. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 April 1975
National Science Foundation Authorization Act - Makes appropriations for fiscal year 1976 for the National Science Foundation. Directs the Foundation to establish a "Science for Citizens" program to improve public understanding of public policy issues involving science and technology. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for the program.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Authorizes making additional funds available for purposes of land and water conservation in northern Minnesota. Authorizes the use of such funds for the payment of court judgements in condemnation action, brought under authority of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1975
Provides for the issuance of a special postage stamp in 1975 in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the sloop "Restaurationen" which marked the beginning of the Norweigian immigration to the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Consumer Fuel Disclosure Act - Prohibits the shipment, transportation, or sale of gasoline in interstate commerce unless the octane rating is certified (1) to the resaler or distributor by the transferor; and (2) to the consumer by the resaler or distributor. Requires automobile manufacturers to disclose the octane or octanes of gasoline appropriate for use in the automobile to the purchaser. Imposes fines for violations of the provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration (1) to establish standard methods to measure octane and the purity of gasoline; (2) to conduct studies to determine the impact of various brands on deterioration of the automobile; and (3) to conduct spot tests to enforce the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Pyramid Sales Act - Provides criminal penalties for a person who uses the mails, knowingly sells, or offers to sell goods, services, or other property by utilization of a pyramid sales scheme. Defines "pyramid sales scheme" as a plan which includes a means of increasing participation in the plan by which a person pays value for the opportunity to receive value for (1) introducing any other person into participation or (2) a person being introduced by the person introduced by the participant.
United States · United States Congress · 23 April 1975
Designates October 9, 1975, as "Norwegian-American Day".