United States · United States Congress · 22 August 1974
Foreign Investment Review Act - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish procedures which require maintenance of records and submission of reports by foreign investors who acquire specified interests in domestic businesses and property. Sets forth what information must be kept and submitted by such investors, including country with which affiliated and extent of ownership in domestic businesses. Requires that such information shall be made public by the Secretary. Grants powers to the Secretary to enable him to collect such information. Establishes penalties for violations of this Act, including injunctive remedies. Establishes the Foreign Investment Review Administration in the Commerce Department to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of necessary sums to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
Administrative Records Act - Requires that subpenas pursuant to the disclosure of specified Government communications and records shall be issued only at the request of the chief legal officer, or a specially designated assistant legal officer which has lawful authority, and only if the court determines that the information sought is necessary for enforcement of laws under the jurisdiction of the applicant. Provides that in issuing, or in determining whether to issue, any such subpena the court shall require specified criteria, including: (1) that on the same day on which such subpena is issued the party whose communication or records are sought is served in person with, or there is mailed to, a copy of such subpena and that the subpena so certifies; and (2) compliance in not less than ten days after service, except in any case where the court determines in an ex parte proceeding that immediate disclosure is required to protect an individual against an immediate danger of bodily harm, to protect the Nation against actual or potential attack or other hostile acts of a foreign power, or to obtain foreign intelligence information deemed essential to the security of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 August 1974
States that in order to implement the seacoast status of the Great Lakes, as recognized in the Merchant Marine Act, there is established within the Maritime Administration a Great Lakes Region Office through which the Secretary of Commerce shall carry out the activities of the Administration with respect to programs relating to the Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence Seaway system. Authorizes to be appropriated such amounts as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Cost of Living Task Force Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to focus public attention on private and governmental actions which have an impact upon national price stability. Establishes an independent agency to be known as the Cost of Living Task Force. Specifies the membership composition of the Task Force. Enumerates the duties of the Task Force, including to monitor the economy and to develop and recommend to private parties, the President and the Congress, policies and procedures to achieve and maintain price stability in a growing economy, and to advise those parties, government agencies and the public at large of any action or anticipated action which would have a materially adverse impact on price stability. Directs the Task Force to collect data, evaluate the reasonableness of price and wage increases, make recommendations, and report within one year on the effectiveness of existing institutions within the Federal Government for dealing with inflation. Details the administrative powers of the Task Force. Provides for confidentiality of information obtained under this Act. Requires a semi-annual report by the Task Force. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums, not to exceed $10,000,000 in any fiscal year, as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1974
Community Services and Headstart Act - Permits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, upon application by an agency which is eligible for designation as a Headstart agency, to provide financial assistance to such agency for the planning, conduct, administration, and evaluation of a Headstart program focused upon children from low-income families who have not reached the age of compulsory school attendance which: (1) will provide such comprehensive health, nutritional, educational, social, and other services as the Secretary finds will aid the children to attain their full potential; and (2) will provide for direct participation of the parents of such children in the development, conduct, and overall program direction at the local level. Sets forth percentages for the allotment of funds and places limitations on assistance. Enumerates the requirements which a public or private nonprofit agency must meet in order to be designated a Headstart agency. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into any contract or agreement or from making any grant within a State without first submitting such contract, agreement, or grant to the Governor of the State for his approval. Sets forth administrative requirements and standards which must be observed by any Headstart agency. Permits the Secretary to provide technical assistance and training to communities in developing and administering Headstart programs. Provides that the Secretary may provide financial assistance for pilot or demonstration projects which are designed to test or assist in the development of new approaches that will aid in overcoming special problems of the program. Requires that any laborers or mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors in construction which work is federally assisted under this Act shall be paid at rates not less than those prevailing on similar contruction in the locality. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, or political affiliation under any program funded by this Act. Native American Economic Opportunity Programs Act - Provides financial assistance for Native American projects. Requires the Secretary to develop an overall plan to govern the approval of research and demonstration projects. Requires the evaluation of projects assisted under this Act. Establishes a program which is designed to stimulate a better focusing of local, State, private, and Federal resources upon the goal of enabling low-income families, and low-income individuals to obtain the skills and knowledge needed for them to secure the opportunities needed to become fully self-sufficient. Permits the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide financial assistance through grants or contracts for research, demonstration, and pilot programs the purpose of which is to secure the opportunities for self-sufficiency. States that the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity may provide financial assistance to community action agencies or public or private nonprofit agencies for incentive grants to match State and local funds. Establishes a Community Services Administration. States that the Administration shall be headed by a Director. Sets out the powers and duties of the Administration and the Director. Provides for the transfer of functions of the Office of Economic Opportunity to the Community Services Adminstration.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
Land and Water Conservation Fund Amendments Act - Increases the authorization of appropriations for the Land and Water Conservation Fund from $200,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 for each fiscal year through 1989. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 460l - 4 to 11)
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
Land and Water Conservation Fund Amendment Act - Increases the authorization of appropriations for the Land and Water Conservation Fund from $200,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 for each fiscal year through 1989. Provides, under the financial assistance to States provisions of such fund, that payments to States shall not cover more than 50 percent of the cost of planning or development projects and not more than 75 percent of the cost of acquisition projects. (Amends 16 U.S.C. 460l-4 to 11)
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
National Nutrition Education Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to encourage the provision of nutrition education programs in the classroom and lunchrooms of elementary and secondary schools by establishing a system of grants for teacher training, pilot and demonstration projects, and the development of comprehensive nutrition education programs. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State educational agencies and institutions of higher education for teacher training with respect to the provision of nutrition education programs in schools. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $12,500,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $15,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 to carry out the provision of grants. Provides that the Commissioner may make grants to State and local educational agencies, institutions of higher education, and other public or private nonprofit education or research agencies, institutions, or organizations to pay the cost of pilot demonstration projects in elementary and secondary schools with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. States that the Commissioner may make grants to State education agencies to pay the Federal share of the cost of developing and carrying out nutrition education programs in elementary and secondary schools within each State. Sets forth criteria to be followed in applying for grants under this Act. Directs the Commissioner to render technical assistance to local education agencies, through qualified staff members having expertise in nutrition, health education, school food services, home economies, dietetics, and physical education, to public and private nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education for the development and implementation of education programs with respect to nutrition education and nutrition-related problems. Stipulates that in order to be eligible for assistance under this Act a State shall appoint a State coordinator for nutrition education. Directs the State coordinator for each State to develop, prepare, and furnish to the Commissioner a comprehensive plan for nutrition education within that State. Establishes in the office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a National Nutrition Education Resources Center. Sets forth the functions of the Center, including the following: (1) collect and create curriculum materials relevant to nutrition education, including, but not limited to, the integration of nutrition education materials into all subject matter at the elementary and secondary education levels; and (2) collect information and materials relating to nutrition education and maintain such information and materials in a library for the use of State coordinators and other interested persons. Authorizes appropriations of up to $2,000,000 per fiscal year to establish and maintain the Center.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
Adds the following labeling requirements under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for products represented to be for special dietary use: (1) the name and address of the manufacturer; (2) the common or usual names of each ingredient present in the product listed in descending order of predominance; (3) a declaration of the percentage of any ingredient of such product if the ingredient is an integral part of such product and is significant with respect to value, quality, nutrition, or acceptability of such product, or the ingredient is required to be so listed by the Secretary by regulation upon a finding that such information would be useful to consumers; and (4) a clear statement of applicable United States recommended daily allowances in the form established by the Secretary. States that a special dietary food shall be deemed to be misbranded if the Secretary finds, after giving due notice and an opportunity to interested parties for a public hearing, that a therapeutic or preventive claim made for such food product is not supported by substantial evidence; (1) unless advertising for the product is not false or misleading in any particular; (2) and unless all advertising for such product contains, if not printed (television, radio, or other), the name and address of the place of business, where the information required above can be obtained, provided that such information is presented in such terms as to render it likely to be read in the case of visual ads and heard in the case of ads with oral content, and understood by the ordinary individual; (3) and unless the label, labeling, or advertising contains no untrue nutritional, health, or other statement.
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the leadership of the Nation responsible for our economic wellbeing meet together immediately in a spirit of unity to design a set of policy actions to achieve the common goal of restoring stability and growth to the American economy and confidence and prosperity to the American people. Directs that this domestic summit be convened forthwith comprised of the President, the majority and minority leadership of both Houses of the Congress, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Appropriations Committees of both Houses, the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, together with leaders of labor and business, and such other participants as they may agree upon. Provides that they shall meet and devote such time as necessary until a plan of action is decided upon which, by its demonstration of renewed unity, direction, and purpose, will gain the public support and confidence necessary to be effective in overcoming these difficulties.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1974
Requires, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Office of the Budget to prepare fiscal notes for bills and joint resolutions. States that such fiscal note shall contain an estimate of the costs which would be incurred, or the savings which would be realized in carrying out such bill, resolution, or amendment in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in the four fiscal years following such fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1974
Child and Family Services Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that the purposes of this Act are to establish and expand children and family service programs, build upon the experience of Headstart, give special emphasis to preschool children and families with the greatest needs, and provide decision making with direct parent participation through a partnership of parents, State, local and Federal government. Authorizes to be appropriated $150 million for fiscal year 1975 and $200 million for fiscal year 1976 for training, planning, and technical assistance and $500 million in fiscal year 1976 and $1 billion in fiscal year 1977 for program operation. Title I: Child and Family Service Programs - Establishes the Office of Child and Family Services in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the principal agency for administration of this Act. Creates the Child and Family Services Coordinating Council with representatives from various federal agencies to assure coordination of federal programs in the field. Defines the purposes for which Federal funds can be used: (1) planning and developing programs, including pilot programs; (2) establishing programs, including child care in the home: after-school programs; family prenatal care; programs to meet special needs of minorities, Indians, migrants and bilingual children; food and nutrition services; and special activities for handicapped children within regular programs; (3) rental, renovation, acquisition or construction of facilities, including mobile facilities; (4) preservice and inservice training; (5) staff and administration expenses of councils and committees required by the Act; and (6) dissemination of information to families. Provides for the reservation of funds proportionately for handicapped children and for migrant and Indian children, and up to 5 percent for model programs. Allocates the remainder among the States and within the States, and within the States, 50 percent according to relative number of economically disadvantaged children, 25 percent according to relative number of children through age five, and 25 percent according to relative number of children of working mothers and single parents. Allows the use of up to 5 percent of a State's allocation for special State programs. Provides that a State, locality, or combination of localities may be designated by the Secretary as a prime sponsor for the purpose of entering into arrangements to carry out programs under this title. Establishes performance criteria for prime sponsors, including coordination of all services for children within the prime sponsorship area and establishment of a Child and Family Service Council to administer and coordinate programs. Empowers the Secretary to directly fund an Indian tribe to carry out programs on a reservation and public or private nonprofit agencies to operate migrant programs, model programs, or programs where no prime sponsor has been designated or where a designated prime sponsor is not meeting certain needs. Provides for the Governor to comment on prime sponsorship applications and provides appeal procedures for applicants who are disapproved. Sets forth the composition, method of selection, and functions of Child and Family Service Councils to be established by each prime sponsor. Requires that at least one-third of the total membership of the Child and Family Service Council shall be persons who are economically disadvantaged. States that financial assistance under this title may be provided by the Secretary for fiscal year 1975 and any subsequent fiscal year to a prime sponsor only pursuant to a child and family service plan which is approved by the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of this title. Sets forth the conditions for such approval, requiring that any such program shall: (1) provide that programs or services under this title shall be provided only for children whose parents request them; (2) identifies child and family service needs and goals within the area and describes the purposes for which the financial assistance will be used; and (3) meets the needs of children and families in the prime sponsorship area, with priority for services to children who have not attained six years of age, and other enumerated criteria. Allows Federal funding for construction or acquisition only where no alternatives are practicable. Provides that no more than 15 percent of a prime sponsor's funds may be used for construction, and that no more than half of that may be in the form of grants rather than loans. Requires that the Federal Government and prime sponsors make available for child and family service programs, facilities they own and lease, when they are not fully utilized for other purposes. Provides a 100 percent Federal share for planning in the first year, 90 percent Federal share for fiscal years 1976 and 1977, and 80 percent for subsequent fiscal years. Provides a 100 percent Federal share for programs for migrants and Indians, and allows waiver of part or all of the non-Federal share where necessary to meet needs of economically disadvantaged children. States that the non-Federal share may be in cash or in kind. Requires that revenues generated by fees may not be used as the non-Federal share but must be used as the non-Federal share but must be used by the prime sponsor to expand programs. Title II: Supportive Services and Special Activities - Requires a national committee on Federal standards, with one-half parent participation, to establish standards for all child care services programs funded by this or any other Federal act. Requires a committee to develop a uniform minimum code dealing with health and safety of children and applicable to all facilities funded by this Act. Requires the Secretary to make annual evaluations and report to Congress on Federal child family services activities. Title III: Research and Demonstrations - Authorizes child and family services research and requires that the Office of Child and Family Services coordinate research by Federal agencies. Title IV: General Provisions - Defines terms used in this Act. Requires that procedures be established to assure adequate nutrition services in programs under this Act, including use of the special food service programs of the School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act. Sets forth an anti-crimination provision, including separate provisions on sex discrimination. Requires that programs meet the minimum wage. Prohibits the use of funds for constructing, operating, or maintaining facilities for sectarian instruction or religious worship. Provides that no child may be the subject of research or experimentation without parental approval, and that no child may be forced to undergo examination or treatment if parents object. Requires approval of the Secretary for child development programs for very young children. Requires that all applications, plans, and written material pertaining thereto be made available to the public without charge.
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
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Extension Act - Provides for the extension of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 from February 28, 1975, to June 30, 1976.
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 · 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
National Fuel Economy Testing Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to determine and publish, on an annual basis, information with respect to the fuel economy of passenger motor vehicles.
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.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Makes appropriations of $600,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 for reimbursement of costs to the States of construction of waste treatment works pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Provides up to $300,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 under the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. Authorizes up to $30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 for grants for operation of any health or educational project under such Act. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to designate as redevelopment areas under the Act those areas determined by the Secretary of Labor to be areas of substantial unemployment during the preceding calendar year. Extends the authorizations for loans and loan guarantees under the Act for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977. Provides for the guaranteeing of rental payments of leases up to 90 percent of the remaining rental payments required by the lease. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make direct grants to cities or other political subdivisions to pay up to 100 percent of the cost of economic development planning under the Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to the States to provide special economic development and adjustment assistance programs to help State and local areas meet special needs arising from actual or threatened severe unemployment arising from economic dislocation, including unemployment arising from actions of the Federal Government and from compliance with environmental requirements that remove economic activities from a locality. Authorizes up to $100,000,000 per fiscal year for the fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1974
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Establishes, under the Social Security Act, a procedure for the prompt payment of social security benefits to individuals whose social security checks have been lost, stolen, or otherwise delayed. Provides for expedited hearings and determinations respecting claims for benefits under titles II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) and Title XVIII (Medicare) of the Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Declares that Dr. Kissinger be commended on his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace and that deep gratitude to Dr. Kissinger for his services is hereby expressed by the Senate. Declares that the United States Senate holds in high regard Dr. Kissinger, and regards him as an outstanding member of this Administration, as a patriotic Amercian in whom it has complete confidence, and whose integrity, and veracity are above reproach, and that the U.S. Senate wishes for him success in his continuing efforts to achieve a permanent peace in the world.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1974
Declares that an emergency situation exists with respect to the problems of inflation, unemployment and the danger of recession, and resolves to attempt to reform existing policies and establish new policies that will reduce inflation, unemployment and recession, as well as other economic ills, or ease the effects thereof. Charges the Joint Economic Committee ("JEC"), with the assistance of the Advisory Board described herein with the duties of: (1) assessing the state of the economy and determining the principal causes of the current inflation, unemployment and recession; (2) to the maximum extent possible, drafting legislative recommendations and other recommendations to reduce inflation, unemployment and recession, both now and in the future, and reporting such recommendations to the Majority and Minority leaders of both Houses of Congress; (3) determining what long-range studies are necessary to improve Congress' understanding of and ability to deal with the problems of inflation, unemployment and recession and other major economic ills; and (4) reviewing and making recommendations with respect to the process by which both Congress and the executive formulate and execute economic policy. Directs the JEC to appoint an Advisory Board composed of not less than 20 nor more than 30 economists, businessmen and other experts in such areas, as fiscal policy, monetary policy, taxation, labor and manpower, foreign trade, military spending, trade regulation, protection of competition, and allocation and conservation of food, energy and other critical resources. Charges the Majority and Minority leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives with the duties of: (1) receiving legislative recommendations made by the JEC pursuant to this Concurrent Resolution, and (2) attempting to establish procedures which would ensure that such legislative recommendations are referred for committee consideration in a manner which would expedite, to the greatest extent possible, such committee consideration and reporting of such proposed legislation to the Senate and House of Representatives, and permit, to the greatest extent possible, participation in such committee consideration of Senators and Congressmen familiar with legislation in the areas of fiscal policy, monetary policy, taxation, labor and manpower, foreign trade, military spending, trade regulation, protection of competition, and allocation and conservation of critical resources.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
National Transportation Finance Emergency Act - Allows the use of 50 percent of funds available under specified provisions of law from the Highway Trust Fund to alleviate the financial hardship to States due to the impoundment of such Highway Trust Fund moneys, inflation, and reduced motor gasoline tax revenues to pay the costs of eligible highway and transportation construction projects.
United States · United States Congress · 30 May 1974
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares that it is especially appropriate to honor former President Harry S. Truman through the creation of a perpetual educational scholarship program to develop increased opportunities for young Americans to prepare and pursue careers in public service. Establishes, as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States Government, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, to be subject to the supervision and direction of the Board of Trustees. Authorizes the Foundation to award fifty-one scholarships in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1973, for undergraduate study for persons who plan to pursue a career in public service. States that each recipient shall be known as a Truman scholar. Sets forth provisions governing: (1) the scholarship requirements; (2) the procedure for selection of Truman scholars; (3) stipends and institutional allowances; and (4) the scholarship conditions. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund. Prescribes the procedure for expenditures from the fund. Directs that there shall be an Executive Secretary of the Foundation, appointed by the Board, who shall be the chief executive officer and shall carry out the functions of the Foundation subject to the supervision and direction of the Board. Authorizes to be appropriated $30,000,000 to the fund. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for administrative expenses incident to carrying out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the contribution by the United States to the growing economic and human crisis in the developing world should be primarily in the form of food and the means and technology to produce it; (2) the President, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Agriculture and their advisors should give the highest priority to the immediate expansion of American food assistance and take such additional steps as might be necessary to expedite the transfer of American food commodities on concessional and donation terms to those nations most severely affected; (3) the United States should increase its matching pledge to the World Food Program for 1975-1976 and encourage other nations to do so; (4) the President and the Secretary of State should negotiate with other major food exporting nations to seek to obtain their participation in this emergency effort proportionate to their share of world food exports, and should strongly encourage oil exporting nations to contribute a fair share to these efforts to assist the most severely affected nations; (5) the United States should announce its desire to work with the oil exporting and other nations in a major effort to increase world fertilizer production with the possibility of including the offer of American technology and capital; and (6) the President should encourage the American people to reduce the non-critical, non-food-producing uses of fertilizer which now total nearly three million tons of nutrient a year, to make available increased fertilizer supplies for raising food production at home and in the developing world. Declares the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States and the Secretaries of State and Agriculture should, and are hereby urged and requested to: (1) maintain regular and full consultation with the appropriate committees of the Congress and (2) report to the Congress and the Nation at regular intervals on the progress toward formulating an American response in a cooperative framework to the world food crisis and the needs of the most severely affected developing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 15 May 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that it most strongly condemns all acts of terrorism; and that the President and the Secretary of State should and are hereby urged and requested to call upon all governments to condemn inhuman acts of violence against innocent victims and to strongly urge the countries where these groups and individuals are found to take appropriate action to rid their countries of those who subvert the peace through terroism and senseless violence.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Tax Reform Act - Revises the Internal Revenue Code by replacing the present $750 personal exemption with a $205 tax credit. Repeals the percentage depletion allowance on oil and gas. Imposes for each taxable year, with respect to the income of every person, a tax equal to 10 percent of the amount by which the sum of the items of tax preference exceeds $10,000. Reduces the foreign tax credit in the case of foreign losses. Provides a separate foreign tax credit limitation on foreign taxes paid with respect to income derived from foreign mineral production where the foreign government to which the taxes are paid also holds the rights to, or receives royalties relating to, the minerals with respect to which the income is derived, or where the foreign country imposes a higher effective tax rate on mineral income than on other types of income. Repeals the deduction allowed for intangible drilling costs for foreign exploration. Requires every person who is a United States shareholder of a controlled foreign corporation to include in his gross income his pro rata share of the corporation's earnings and profits for a taxable year. Repeals the tax exemption for a Domestic International Sales Corporation. Repeals the special deduction for Western Hemisphere Trade Corporations. Repeals the Asset Depreciation Range System.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
National Fuel Economy Testing Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to determine and publish the fuel economy of any new motor vehicle or engine that has been submitted by a manufacturer to determine whether the engine conforms with the auto emission limitations established by the Clean Air Act. (Amends 42 U.S.C. 1357f-5(a)(1))
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Federal Employees Political Activities Act - Provides that an employee of an executive or Federal agency, or of the District of Columbia, may not use his official authority to affect the result of any election or process defined in this Act. Defines such employee's right to express his opinion on political subjects and candidates, and to take an active part in any partisan or non-partisan political activity. Prohibits Presidential appointees, employees of Congress, or members of the uniformed service from requesting or inviting political contributions from other such employees. Provides for enforcement of this provision by the Civil Service Commission.
United States · United States Congress · 5 April 1974
Free Enterprise in Petroleum Act - Recites findings by Congress concerning the applicability of the Interstate Commerce Act to the petroleum industry. Finds that it is essential to reorganize the petroleum industry in such a manner as to make possible effective policy decisions while at the same time protecting the interests of investors. Defines the terms used in this Act, including "refinery", "affiliate", and "independent refiner". Prohibits, under the Interstate Commerce Act, any common carrier pipeline from transporting crude oil, other liquid hydrocarbons, or finished products, if the commodity transported is owned by the pipeline or any affiliate. Prohibits any company operating a refinery, other than an independent refiner, from owning or controlling any interest in exploration for, development of or production of crude oil or other liquid hydrocarbons, including synthetics. Forbids any company operating a refinery, other than an independent refiner, from owning, controlling or operating facilities for the sale of finished products, other than those facilities necessary for the sale of products directly from the the refinery. Empowers the Securities and Exchange Commission to receive and consider divestment plans filed by integrated companies and to approve the plan and direct its implementation. Permits companies otherwise subject to the prohibitions of this Act to continue operations for one year prior to the filing of an appropriate divestment plan with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and thereafter during the period required for the consideration, approval and implementation of such a plan by the Commission. Imposes penalties for the violation of this Act to consist of a forfeiture of $5,000 for each day a company is in violation.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Provides for displaying for public viewing at the Arlington National Cemetery the names of veterans who died after February 17, 1967. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974
Solar Energy Research Act - Declares that it is the policy of the Federal Government to pursue a vigorous and viable program of research and development into the utilization of solar energy as a major source for our national energy needs. Provides that, within sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation creating any permanent Federal organization or agency having jurisdiction over the energy research and development functions of the United States Government, the Office of Solar Energy Research shall be established within that agency. Provides that if, within sixty days from the date of enactment of this Act, no agency with jurisdiction over Federal energy research and development has been established, the Office of Solar Energy Research authorized under this Act shall be established, on an interim basis, within the Atomic Energy Commission, until sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation authorizing the new Federal office of energy research and development. Authorizes the Chairman or Administrator to conduct appropriate research and technical development work: (1) to determine, by laboratory and pilot testing, the usable results of scientific research, (2) to develop and fabricate solar energy transformation processes, equipment designs, and components to the point where they can be demonstrated, certified, produced, and operated on a commercially practical scale; (3) to recommend to the Congress, as deemed appropriate, authorizations for the construction and operation or for participation in the construction and operation, of solar energy conversion facilities, and (4) to undertake, through research grants and contracts, studies of possible economic, social, and environmental effects which will result from the use of solar energy. Establishes a Solar Energy Research Council to be chaired by the Chairman or Administrator to coordinate policy and programs in solar energy research. Specifies the composition of the Council. Directs the development of a program to expedite the increased utilization of solar energy technology by the public and private sectors. Establishes a solar energy incentives task force to carry out the following functions: (1) report to the President and the Congress within one hundred and twenty days following enactment, and at least annually thereafter, recommendations for a viable program, of specified, time limited, incentives or modifications to existing and/or proposed incentives programs to accelerate the commercial application of solar energy technology; and (2) carry out a program of research and investigation into the barriers to innovation in the field of solar energy, the barriers to the acceleration of the commercial application of solar energy technology, and the programs needed to remove such barriers. Authorizes the compilation on a semi-annual basis of a listing of all solar energy conversion components, facilities, and equipment, commercially available in the Nation for private or public use. States that utilization of solar energy shall include such applications of solar energy as, but not limited to, the solar heating and cooling of buildings, solar crop drying and other agricultural applications of solar energy, solar thermal and photovoltaic power generation for terrestrial applications, whether situated on the ground or in space, wind energy conversion, ocean thermal gradient conversion, solar stimulated bioconversion, and solar production of synthetic gases and hydrogen. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act the following amounts: (1) for fiscal year 1975, $56,000,000; (2) for fiscal year 1976, $94,000,000; (3) for fiscal year 1977, $150,000,000; (4) for fiscal year 1978, $150,000,000; and (5) for fiscal year 1979, $150,000,000.
United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1974
Small Business Assistance Act - Empowers the Small Business Administration to make such loans (either directly or in cooperation with banks or other lending institutions) as the Administration may determine to be necessary or appropriate to assist, or refinance the existing indebtedness of any small business concern to permit such concern to adjust to adverse economic effects that are determined by the Administration to be the direct or indirect result of national or regional shortages of energy, energy-related raw materials, or other raw materials or resources, if the Administration determines that such concern has experienced or is likely to experience substantial economic injury in the absence of such assistance. States that for purposes of this subsection, the Administration shall give special consideration to concerns doing a majority of their business or intending to locate or relocate in areas in which the level of unemployment meets the definition of "persistent unemployment" promulgated by the Secretaty of Labor; or in which a shortage in any specific type of energy, material, or resource is substantially greater than in the country as a whole. States that the interest rate on the Administration's share of any loan made under this Act shall not exceed 3 percent per year. Authorizes an appropriation to the disaster loan fund established pursuant to the Small Business Act of $100,000,000 solely for the purpose of carrying out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1974
Natural Resource Information Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares the purposes of this Act, including to provide: (1) for improved resource information within a National Resource Information System, (2) for inventories of natural resources in the public lands, (3) for regular reporting of information by significant corporations in natural resource industries, and (4) information that will aid in improved policy making, conservation, science, environmental protection, competition and regulation. Defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: Bureau of Natural Resource Information - Establishes a Bureau of Resource Information within the Department of Commerce, headed by a Director of Resource Information appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides that the Bureau is to (1) build, operate, maintain and improve the National Resource Information System; (2) establish consultation, coordination and exchange arrangements with other departments and agencies of government, and private institutions, which have libraries of natural resource information; and (3) conduct studies of the state of information on such subjects as the institutional structure of the resource supply system, consumption patterns, statistical and accounting methods and problems in natural resource information, price and cost factors affecting energy, technological and environmental factors, and capital requirements of public and private institutions responsible for natural resources. Directs the Bureau to report monthly, quarterly and annually on specified classes of natural resource information. Title II: National Resource Information System - Establishes a National Resource Information System to be operated and maintained by the Bureau. Establishes in the System three components: a public library, a confidential library, and a secret library. Provides that the System shall use other available libraries of resource information; use modern, including microform and electronic, methods; have its information on natural resource industries organized by establishments, companies, Standard Industrial Classifications, geographical locations and other referents; and have the capacity to receive and answer questions of fact concerning, and compare sources of, natural resource information. Provides for public use of the public library of the System, at fees sufficient to cover costs of such use. Provides for waiver or reduction of fees in cases of public-interest use. Provides for access to the confidential library by Federal Government officials for official use only. Establishes the secret library as the repository for information that may be used only for statistical purposes in anonymous aggregates. Establishes priorities for entry of information into the System. Defines and limits national security and reasonable competitive equities as reasons for placement of information in the confidential or secret library. Provides for removal of information more than 25 years old from the confidential or secret library to the public library. Provides for hearings in cases of dispute on placement of information in a particular library of the System, and for placement of information in question in the secret library pending resolution of the dispute. Provides penalties for unauthorized disclosures and thefts of information from the System, and for failure to provide required information for the System. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce or the Director to obtain from an affiliate of a company, or an organization of which it is a member, any information which they are empowered by this Act to obtain directly from the company, provided the company is notified. Gives the Secretary of Commerce and the Director power to inspect records and subpoena documents in certain cases. Confers jurisdiction on U.S. District Courts to enforce such subpoenas. Title III: Natural Resources Inventories and Inspections by the Department of the Interior - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to compile and maintain, on an annual basis, an inventory of natural resources in public lands of the United States including the Outer Continental Shelf. Provides that the inventories may be based on estimates, supplemented as feasible by onsite geological and engineering inspections by departmental personnel. Provides that the first inventory is to be completed within 18 months and reported to Congress within 20 months of the effective date of this title. Provides that copies of all such annual reports and inventories shall be given to the Director for the System's public library. Provides that, on request of the Director, the Secretary of the Interior shall make onsite physical inspections of mineral reserves and resources reported in private lands. Contains directions for the contents of reports by the Secretary of the Interior. Title IV: Information on Natural Resources - Provides that substantial natural resource companies are to file verified annual reports with the Director on the mineral reserves and natural resources they control. Contains directions on the contents of such reports. Provides for the promulgation by the Director of forms for the making of such reports. Provides that such forms shall be mailed by the Director to reporting companies within 11 months of the effective date of this title and be returned by companies to the Director within 60 days after receipt. Provides that information obtained by Director on report forms required by this title and title V shall be placed in the public confidential, or secret library of the System, as provided by this Act. Title V: Information on Natural Resource Industries - Requires major companies in commerce to file verified annual reports, on an establishment basis, on their operations worldwide. Provides for the making of such reports in two parts, one being for the public library of the System and the other for the confidential or secret library. Contains directions for the contents of such reports, including information on shipments by Standard Industrial Classification, total business receipts, and in specified cases profit information. Authorizes the Director to require such reports more often than annually in specified cases, and to require from major natural resource companies lists describing all mandatory and voluntary reports they file elsewhere, containing natural resource information. Title VI: General Accounting Office Oversight - Provides that the Comptroller General of the United States, upon his own initiative or by direction of Congress, shall review and evaluate procedures of the Bureau. Directs the Comptroller General to report to Congress at least annually on such reviews of the Bureau. Provides that such report may be by endorsement of or addendum to the Bureau's own annual report. Title VII: Conformance of and With Other Statutes - Provides that the Director may excuse a company from providing natural resources information required by this Act, if the company waives confidential status of the same information as previously provided by it to the Census Bureau and protected by the Census Code. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Establishes the effective date as the date of enactment, except titles IV and V, which are effective on the first day of the third full calendar month after date of enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 20 March 1974
Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act Amendments - Extends the coverage of the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act. Increases the amount of insurance coverage required of a farm labor contractor who engages in the transportation of migrant workers. Provides sanctions for failure or refusal of a farm labor contractor, when acting in that capacity, to present his certificate of registration. Requires one engaging the services of farm laborers under this Act to refrain from recruiting persons he knows or should know to be in violation of the immigration laws of the United States. Prohibits such recruitment for employment which is the subject of a strike or slowdown. Gives the Secretary of Agriculture the power to suspend the registration of farm labor contractors upon evidence of possible violations of this Act. Increases penalties for violations of this Act to not more than $10,000 fine, imprisonment for three years, or both. Provides a course of legal action and penalties for violations against farm workers under this Act. Provides for civil actions by private parties under this Act. Provides that any person aggrieved by the violation of any provision of this Act may file suit in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties without respect to the amount in controversy or without regard to the citizenship of the parties. Provides for the awarding of damages up to and including $500 for each and every such violation. Authorizes the appropriation of $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and a like amount for each fiscal year thereafter to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1974
Social Security Administration Act - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to strengthen the fiscal and administrative structure of the contributory social security programs. Title I: Social Security Administration - Establishes, as an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration, headed by a Board appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Declares that it shall be the duty of the Administration to administer the programs established by titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act, and to discharge the duties and responsibilities imposed on the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in connection with the administration of the program established by title IV of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. States that the Administration shall also have the duty of studying and making recommendations as to the most effective methods of providing economic security through social insurance, and as to legislation and matters of administrative policy. Provides for the appointment of an Executive Director and a General Counsel of the Administration. Makes the Administration responsible for administering the old age, survivors, and disability insurance program, medicare, supplemental security income, and the black lung benefit program under the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Prohibits the mailing of announcements with Social Security and SSI checks which make reference by name, title, or signature to any officer of the United States. Transfers to the Social Security Administration: (1) all functions carried out by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, with respect to the administration of programs and activities the administration of which is vested in such Administration, by reason of this Act; and (2) all personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, and records, which the Director of the Office of Management and Budget determines to be employed, held, or used by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare primarily in connection with the functions, activities, and programs which, by reason of this Act are vested in or become the responsibility of the Administration. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security. Title II: Miscellaneous and Conforming Amendments - Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Social Security Act, the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, the Budget and Accounting Act, and the Executive Schedules of the United States Code.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1974
Transfers the functions of the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the Social and Rehabilitation Services Administration to the Office of Human Development.
United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974
Provides loans under the Small Business Act to any small business concern seriously and adversely affected by a shortage of: (1) fuel; (2) electrical energy; (3) energy-producing resources; or (4) raw or processed materials resulting from such shortages. Requires that the Small Business Administration determine that a concern has suffered or is likely to suffer substantial economic injury prior to the making of such loans. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 636(6))
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974
Extends through December 1974, the period during which benefits under the supplemental security income program on the basis of disability may be paid without interruption pending the required disability determination, in the case of individuals who received public assistance under State plans on the basis of disability for December 1973 but not for any month before July 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974
Emergency Energy Conservation Economic Opportunities Amendments - Provides, under the Economic Opportunity Act, for the establishment of an Emergency Energy Conservation Services Program, designed to enable low-income individuals and families, including the elderly and the near poor, to participate in energy conservation programs designed to lessen the impact of the energy crisis on such individuals and families. States that such program shall provide financial and other assistance for enumerated activities, including winterization of old or substandard dwellings; emergency loans, grants, and revolving funds to deal with increased housing expenses relating to the energy crisis; special fuel voucher or stamp programs; and outreach efforts, including the establishment of energy crisis centers. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act for fiscal year 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Full Disclosure Act - Requires, under the Federal Election Campaign Act, that each candidate for nomination for election to Federal office (other than a candidate who holds the office of President, Vice President, or Member of Congress) shall file with the Comptroller General a financial disclosure report for the calendar year immediately preceding the year of that individual's candidacy. Requires each individual who has served at any time during any calendar year as President, Vice President, or Member of Congress to file with the Comptroller General a financial disclosure report for that year. Prescribes the deadline dates for such filings. Provides that each such report shall contain a full and complete statement of: (1) the amount and sources of all income, other than reimbursements for expenditures actually incurred, and each gift or aggregate of gifts from one source of a value of more than $100 (other than gifts received from any relative or his spouse) received by him or by him and his spouse jointly or by his spouse or by his children during the preceding calendar year, including any fee or other honorarium received; (2) the value of all assets held by him, and of each liability owed by him, or by him and his spouse jointly; (3) all dealings in securities or commodities by him, or by him and his spouse jointly, or by any person acting on his behalf; (4) all purchases and sales of real property or any interest therein; (5) the amount of each tax paid by the candidate during the preceding calendar year. States that all reports filed under this Act shall be maintained by the Comptroller General as public records, and shall be available, under such regulations as the Comptroller General may prescribe, for inspection by the public.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Foreign Dairy Quality Act - Provides that no dairy product shall be imported into the United States unless it has been inspected and found to be wholesome and unless the foreign farms and plants in which such products were produced, manufactured, or processed comply with all the inspection, grading, and other standards prescribed by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Requires that such foreign standards shall be comparable to those standards prescribed by the Secretary for the kind of dairy product in the United States. States that the labeling of imported dairy products shall comply with the requirements of the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act and shall be otherwise marked as the Secretary may require. Directs the Secretary to cause to be inspected all dairy products imported into the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act, and rules and regulations for the destruction of dairy products refused admission into the United States. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the administration and supervision of the provisions of this Act. Imposes criminal penalties for violations of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974
Federal Citizens Appeal Act - Title I: - Declares that it is the policy of the United States to guarantee citizen access to the operation of the Federal government, and to provide assistance to citizens who have complaints for agency actions which they feel are arbitrary, capricious, contrary to law, in excess of authority, or harmful to person or livelihood. Title II: Right of Citizen Appeal - States that this chapter applies, according to the provisions thereof, except to the extent that: (1) statutes preclude citizen appeal; and (2) agency action is committed to agency discretion by law. Defines the terms used in this Act. Declares that a person suffering legal wrong because of agency action, or adversely affected, or aggrieved by agency action within the meaning of a relevant statute, is entitled to citizen review. States which actions shall be reviewable, the relief available pending review, and the scope of citizen review. Title III: Establishment of Federal Citizens Appeal Board - Establishes, in each of ten Federal districts as independent establishments of the executive branch of the Government of the United States, a board to be known as the Federal Citizens Appeal Board. Specifies the membership composition of such Boards. Enumerates the powers of such Boards. Imposes civil penalties for violations of this title. Prescribes the staes which shall comprise the Federal districts for which a Federal Citizens Review Board shall be established. Title IV: Advisory Council on Citizen Appeal - Establishes an Advisory Council on Citizen Appeal, to be composed of twenty members, two of which who shall be appointed by each of the ten Federal Citizen Appeal Boards. Directs the Council to, at the close of each fiscal year, report to the Congress and to the President concerning the actions it and each of the Regional Federal Citizens Appeal Boards have taken. States that the Council shall be responsible for establishing regulations regarding the procedures of each Federal Citizen Review Board, including, although not limited to, procedures for: (1) filing requests for citizen review, (2) conducting preliminary and prehearing investigations; (3) conducting hearings to determine facts and to mediate disputes, and (4) all other activities of the Boards. Title V: Procedures for Citizen Review - Provides that upon receipt of a request for citizen review as determined under this Act, the Board shall conduct a preliminary investigation. Details the procedures for such investigations. States that prior to the calling of a hearing, the Board shall conduct an investigation to compile all available information regarding the request for citizen review. Requires investigations to be completed no later than twenty days following the initiation. Empowers the Board to issue emergency rulings compelling or setting aside agency action. Title VI: Hearing Procedures - States that the transcript of testimony and exhibits, together with all papers and requests filed in the proceeding, constitutes the exclusive record for decision and shall be made available without charge to the parties. Provides that the record shall show the ruling on each finding, conclusion, or exception presented. Provides that if the Board determines that any employee or officer of any agency has been guilty of a breach of duty or misconduct, the Board shall make note of such breach of duty or misconduct in the official record, and copies of the record shall be made available to the appropriate agency, the Department of Justice, and the Civil Service Commission. Empowers the Board to file motions in Federal district court and to represent a complainant in action brought against a Federal agency which fails to comply with a Board ruling and to provide adequate representation, without cost, to complainants in a court proceeding initiated by a Federal agency appealing a ruling of the Board. States that all rulings of the Board shall be subject to judicial review. Title VII: Grants for Citizens Appeals Board - Authorizes the Advisory Council on Citizen Appeal to make grants to any State or political subdivision for the purpose of establishing citizens appeal boards, to ease conflicts between the citizens and the various agencies of government. Provides that such a grant may be up to 50 per cent of the fair and reasonable cost of establishing and carrying out such a program. Authorizes, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this title, to be appropriated, for fiscal year 1975, and for the two succeeding fiscal years, the sum of $5,000,000 each year. States that for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Titles II, III, IV, V, and VI, there is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1975, and for the two succeeding fiscal years, the sum of $15,000,000 each year.
United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974
Increases to $19,000,000 the maximum allowable appropriations for the acquisition and development of land and interests in land within the 27-mile segment of the Lower Saint Croix River, in Wisconsin and Minnesota, to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior.
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