United States · United States Congress · 25 November 1974
Reduces the annual rate of compensation for the President, Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, including the Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico and the Delegate from the District of Columbia, and all other Federal Government employees in the executive and legislative branches with salaries of $40,000 or more, by 10 percent effective January 1, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
National Employment Assistance Act - Expresses the findings of Congress and declares it to be the purpose of this Act to establish, in areas of aggravated unemployment, a temporary special unemployment assistance program and a temporary program of community improvement projects. Title I: Special Unemployment Assistance Program - Provides that each State which enters into an agreement with the Secretary of Labor, pursuant to which it makes payments of special unemployment assistance in accordance with the provisions of this title and the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor, shall be paid by the United States amounts to carry out the provisions of this title in the State. Provides that an individual shall be eligible to receive a payment of assistance or waiting period credit with respect to a week of unemployment occuring during and subsequent to a special unemployment assistance period in accordance with the provisions of this title if specified requirements are met, including that the individual has exhausted all rights to regular, additional, and extended compensation under all Federal and State unemployment compensation laws. Specifies the length for the special unemployment assistance period, the amount of the weekly benefit, the maximum benefit amount, and the termination date for assistance under this title. Title II: Community Improvement Program - Empowers the Secretary to make financial assistance available to eligible applicants within designated areas for the purposes of carrying out community improvement projects providing temporary employment assistance for unemployed persons in public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations providing community services. Provides for the allocation of funds among the designated areas. Prescribes the procedures for filing applications for financial assistance under this title, for the approval of such applications, and for the conditions required by all programs. Sets forth the criteria governing an individual's eligibility for employment in projects assisted under this title. States that funds appropriated to carry out this title shall be available for obligation as follows: (1) $500,000,000, when the Secretary first determines that the rate of national unemployment averages 6 percent or more for three consecutive calendar months; (2) an additional $750,000,000, when the rate averages 6.5 percent or more for three consecutive calendar months; and (3) an additional $1,000,000,000, when the rate averages 7 percent or more for three consecutive calendar months. Title III: General Provisions - Defines the terms used in this Act. Empowers the Secretary with specified legal authorities. Sets forth the conditions applicable to all programs. Imposes criminal penalties for the theft or embezzlement of manpower funds and improper inducement. Authorizes to be approrpiated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of title I of this Act. States that during the period beginning upon enactment and ending December 31, 1975, there are authorized to be appropriated $2,250,000,000 to carry out the provisions of title II of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Authorizes to be appropriated, under the Public Works and Economic Development Act, an additional $250,000,000 for each fiscal year, 1975 and 1976, for areas designated by the Secretary of Commerce as redevelopment areas. Expands the purposes for which the Secretary may make grants to eligible recipients to include short-term work projects to improve, beautify, or enhance the environment. Increases to $250,000,000 the sum authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year 1975 and 1976 to provide special programs to meet the needs arising from threatened or severe unemployment and economic dislocation under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Emergency Public Service Employment Act - Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal years 1975, 1976, and 1977 such sums as are necessary to carry out public service employment programs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. Makes $500,000,000 available for obligation by the Secretary of Labor when the average national rate of unemployment exceeds 4 1/2 percent for three consecutive months during any 12 month period; an additional $500,000,000 if such rate exceeds 5 percent for three consecutive months in any twelve month period; another $1,000,000,000 if such rate exceeds 5 1/2 percent under the same circumstances; and an additional $2,000,000,000 if such rate exceeds 6 percent. Provides for the allocation of funds under this Act to areas in proportion to the number of unemployed persons in such areas as compared to the number of all such persons in all areas under the jurisdiction of the applicant. Authorizes the Secretary to make such reallocations as he deems appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1974
Deepwater Port Act - Declares the purposes of this Act, including to authorize and regulate the location, ownership, construction, and operation of deepwater port in waters beyond the territorial limits of the United States. Defines the terms used in this Act. States that no person may engage in the ownership, construction or operation of a deepwater port except in accordance with a license issued pursuant to this Act. Sets forth: (1) the prerequisites for issuance of such licenses; (2) procedures for port evaluation; (3) the conditions of licenses; (4) the procedures for transfer, terms and renewal of licenses; and (5) the eligibility for licenses. Directs the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating to: (1) issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act; and (2) prescribe regulations for site evaluation and preconstruction testing at potential deepwater port locations which may adversely affect the environment, interfere with uses of the Outer Continental Shelf or pose a threat to human health and welfare. Sets forth the minimum data required on applications filed under this Act and requires publication of a description of each application area in the Federal Register. Requires the filing of environmental impact statements and public hearings prior to the issuance of a license under this Act. Lists the priorities to be considered by the Secretary in issuing such licenses. Calls for the establishment of environmental review criteria to be used in the evaluation of a deepwater port as proposed in an application. Provides for an antitrust review of licenses. States that a deepwater port shall be subject to regulation as a common carrier in accordance with the Interstate Commerce Act. Provides that the Secretary shall not issue a license without the approval of the Governor of each and any adjacent coastal State. Requires a coastal zone management program to be developed by such States prior to the issuance of a license. Provides for regulations and procedures for marine environmental protection and navigational safety. Empowers the Secretary of State to seek international action and cooperation in support of the policies of this Act. Provides procedures for the suspension and termination of licenses. Sets forth the recordkeeping and inspection requirements of each licensee, providing for public access to specified information. Imposes criminal and civil penalties for violations of this Act. Authorizes citizen civil actions in enumerated instances. States that the discharge of oil or natural gas into the marine environment from a vessel within any safety zone or from a deepwater port is prohibited. Imposes civil penalties for violation of this prohibition and liability for cleanup costs and damages. Establishes the Deepwater Port Liability Fund to be liable for all cleanup costs and damages in excess of the maximum liabilities of vessel owners and operators and licensees. Calls for a study of the methods for implementing a uniform law providing liability for cleanup costs and damages from oil spills from Outer Continental Shelf operations. Authorizes to be appropriated for the administration of this Act $1,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1975, 1976 and 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 25 September 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the well-being of the world and all of its people is gravely threatened by exorbitant or rigged foreign oil prices. States that it is further the sense of the Senate that Congress and the American people support President Ford and Secretary Kissinger in their call to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to lower the price of petroleum.
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1974
Veterans and Survivors Pension Adjustment Act - Increases disability and death pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation for veterans and their survivors. Increases the income limitations for such pension payments. Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to carry out a thorough study and investigation of the economic needs and problems of veterans and their widows seventy-two years of age or older.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1974
Provides for the establishment of the New River Gorge National Park, to consist of 34,000 acres, in the State of West Virginia. Authorizes appropriations necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 September 1974
Authorizes the printing of the report entitled "The Cost of Clean Air" as a Senate document. Provides that there shall be printed 1,000 additional copies of such document for the use of the Senate Committee on Public Works.
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 · 21 August 1974
Extends coverage, under the supplementary medical insurance benefits program established by title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, for one routine physical checkup, including diagnostic tests, each year and for preventive and maintenance care for individuals insured under such program.
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Credit Allocation Incentive Act - Authorizes the Federal Reserve Board to require each member bank to hold additional reserves against nonpriority loans and investments, and grant a credit against these additional reserves for national priority loans and investments. Establishes the following as national priority loans and investments: (1) useful capital investments, particularly if capacity-adding, energy-conserving environment-enhancing, or productivity-increasing; (2) low- or middle-income housing; (3) State or local government facilities; and (4) small businesses and farms, permits the Board to establish other priority areas as the investment needs of the Nation change, provided it informs Congress at least 60 days in advance so that Congress may disapprove by concurrent resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1974
Veterans Housing Act - Authorizes increases in the amount limitations of the veterans home loan programs. Eliminates specific provisions of Federal law pertaining to the dormant farm and business loans available to veterans.
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 · 23 July 1974
Economic Opportunity and Community Partnership Act - Extends the authorization for appropriations of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, for an additional three year period through fiscal year 1977. Extends such Act for an additional three year period, through fiscal year 1978. Authorizes an aggregate of $1,548,000 for fiscal year 1975, $1,761,500 for fiscal year 1976, and $1,983,000 for fiscal year 1977. Provides for automatic extension of the authorizations beyond fiscal year 1977, unless the Congress passes or formally rejects extension of authorizations, or by concurrent resolution, provides that the automatic extension shall no longer apply. Establishes an independent "Community Services and Community Economic Development Administration," headed by an Administrator appointed by the President, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. States that "Community Services" would include continued direct funding for community action "local initiative" programs, "Community Partnership Agreements", and national emphasis anti-poverty activities such as Emergency Food and Medical Services, Senior Opportunities and Services, and other projects such as evaluation and demonstration activities. Provides for the continuation of the current legal services program. Stipulates that "local-initiative" programs would be continued under current authority. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes of $330,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, 330,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and such sums as may be necessary in succeeding fiscal years. States that the Federal share for such activities would be 80 percent. Provides that demonstration community partnership agreements would be funded by the Agency upon approval of an agreement entered into by a community action agency or similar public or private non-profit agency, and the public agency of a State or political subdivision of a State, or any combination, for local initiative type programs. Sets forth requirements concerning the use of funds. Stipulates that funds should not be used in substitution of local-initiative or other antipoverty programs. Establishes a National Intergovernmental Review Board on the Financing of Community Services to review community partnership agreements, as well as sources for funding of antipoverty efforts. States that the Board, appointed by the President, and subject to Senate confirmation, would consist of nine members, including three representives of State and local government, three of community action and similar agencies and the remainder from the private sector. Stipulates that community economic development programs would include "special impact" programs through community development corporations in rural and urban areas; special rural programs, including funding of rural cooperatives; developmental loans for community economic development programs including establishment of a model domestic development enterprise corporation; and training and technical assistance. Establishes an Interagency Community Economic Development Resource Committee to insure the maximum application of reasources of other agencies, such as the Small Business Administration, the Department of Houasing and Urban Development, and the Department of Commerce and the Economic Development Administration. Provides for a Joint Congressional study during the fiscal year ending June 30,1975, to provide for an appropriate administering agency to conduct the community economic development program in the future, including consideration of an independent community economic development agency.
United States · United States Congress · 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 · 18 July 1974
Emergency Health Professions Educational Assistance Act - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal year 1975 for Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of health professions education schools.
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 · 24 June 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Commerce to make a full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of determining a policy and role for the Federal Government on tourism in the United States which will most effectively enable the industry to realize fully its potential to contribute to the social well-being, the cultural understanding, and the economic prosperity of the United States. Provides that the chairman and ranking minority member of each of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agriculture and Forestry, Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works, Foreign Relations, Government Operations, Labor and Public Welfare, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Small Business, or a member of such committees designated by each such chairman or ranking minority member to serve in his place, shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee on Commerce for purposes of this study. Directs the Committee on Commerce to report its findings, together with its recommendations for such legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 June 1974
National Oil Recycling Act - Directs all Federal officials to act within their authority to encourage the use of recycled oil. States that this Act shall in no way preempt State regulation of recycled oil or used oil disposal whenever such regulation provides for stricter control of recycled oil or used oil than provided for by Federal law. States that the States should encourage the use of recycled oil in order to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Requires that in order to qualify for Federal grants under this Act, a State shall adopt laws, regulations, and administrative machinery which shall provide for, but not be limited to: (1) requiring that used oil collectors obtain a State permit prior to engaging in used oil collecting activities; (2) requiring that used oil recyclers obtain a State permit prior to engaging in recycling operations; (3) when recycled oil is available at prices competitive with new oil produced for the same purpose, using recycled oil for all automotive and industrial uses of the State government, and requiring all parties contracting with the State to use recycled oil in the performance of such contracts; (4) regulating the retail sales of automobile oil so as to encourage the recycling of used oil; (5) prohibiting the use of used oil as fuel oil or for the oiling of State roads, unless such oil has been processed to meet the minimum standards for such uses established by Federal and State pollution control laws; and (6) educating the public and private sectors of the State as to the merits of recycled oil, and the need for its use in order to reduce the drain on the Nation's oil reserves and minimize the disposal of used oil in ways harmful to the environment. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations with respect to the labeling of recycled oil in order to carry out the purpose of this Act. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations requiring all containers of automotive and industrial oil, both new and recycled, to bear labels relating to the proper disposal of such oils after use. Makes it unlawful for any person to enter into any contract or agreement where the intent of such contract or agreement is to discourage the recycling of used oil. Provides for a fine of $50,000 for a violation of such prohibition, or imprisonment for a term of one year or less, or both. Requires records to be kept by parties covered by the provisions of this Act. Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make annual reports to the Congress. Sets forth the contents of such reports. Provides that whenever the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency determines that: (1) in implementing the provisions of this Act, a United States patent right not otherwise available is necessary to enable any person to comply with this Act; (2) there are no reasonable alternative methods to accomplish this Act's purposes; and (3) the inavailability of such patent right may result in a substantial lessening of competition or a tendency to create a monopoly in any line of the Nation's commerce; the Administrator, through the Attorney General, may so certify to a district court of the United States, which may order the person owning the patent to license it on such reasonable terms as the court, after hearing, may determine. Provides that any person violating any provision of this Act which does not provide for specific penalties or punishment thereunder shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor which shall be punishable by a term of six months in prison for each violation, or a fine of not to exceed $25,000, or both. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974, and for each succeeding fiscal year, $25,000,000 for grants to the States to assist them in fulfilling the purposes and provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make allotments to the States, not to exceed 10 cents per capita for any State based on the latest national census, when he has determined that they are in compliance with this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974, and for each succeeding fiscal year through fiscal year 1977, $10,000,000 for the development of new processes and technology to be used in the economical and ecological recycling of used oil. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1974, and for each succeeding fiscal year, through fiscal year 1977, $5,000,000 for the development of standards and testing methods to facilitate the comparison of recycled oil with new oil. Imposes a tax of 6 cents per gallon on specified oils other than recycled oils sold in the United States by the manufacturer or producer.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1974
Health Professions Educational Assistance Act - Title I: General Provisions - Renumbers, consolidates, and rearranges existing provisions in title VII of the Public Health Service Act which authorizes Federal assistance to schools of the health professions. Expands the membership of the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education to include representatives of all the health professions schools assisted under title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Sets forth a revised advanced funding provision. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Extends provisions of the Public Health Service Act authorizing grants, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies for the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and public health personnel. Authorizes $100 million for fiscal year 1975; $125 million for fiscal year 1976; and $150 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years for the construction grant program. Authorizes $2 million for fiscal year 1975; $2.5 million for fiscal year 1976; and $3 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years for loan guarantees and interest subsidies. Title III: Student Assistance ; National Health Service Corps - Revises the student assistance programs authorized under the Public Health Service Act. States that students pursuing a graduate degree in public health would become eligible to apply for health professions student loans under this Act. Repeals the advanced traineeship program for students of public health. Increases the maximum amount of a health professions student loan to equal a health professions student's tuition plus $2,500 per year. Provides that authorizations for the health professions student loan fund are $60 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Provides for the forgiveness or cancellation of professional educational expenses at the rate of 50 percent for the first year and 50 percent for the second year of service in a health manpower shortage area. Makes students pursuing graduate degrees in public health eligible for the loan forgiveness program. Obligates each individual who receives any student loan under title VII to serve at least 2 years in an area or institution designated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as having a shortage of health manpower. States that the individual could serve the obligated period in a shortage area as designated by the Secretary, or could serve as a member of the National Health Service Corps. Provides that individuals who fail to serve the obligated period would be required to pay damages equal to twice the original value of the student assistance received. Repeals the program of health professions student scholarships and the physician shortage area scholarship program, to be replaced by an amended Public Health and National Health Service Corps scholarship training program. Sets forth the features of such program. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Extends the existing programs of capitation and special project grants to health professions schools and the program of assistance to area health education centers. Provides that, schools of public health shall be eligible for capitation grants awarded on the basis of the number of students enrolled. States that each grant will equal one-third of the net educational costs of training a student multiplied by the number of full-time students enrolled in the school. Provides total authorizations for the capitation grant program of $292,273,250 for fiscal year 1975, $304,626,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $316,747,350 for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years. Prohibits the Secretary from making any capitation grant after June 30, 1974, unless the school assures the Secretary that each student accepted for enrollment agrees to serve in the National Health Service Corps or in a medically underserved area as a private practitioner. Authorizes grants for projects to assist schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry to plan, develop, and implement a nutrition education curriculum. Provides for authorizations for the special projects program of $100 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Extends the program of start-up assistance for new schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Authorizes $11 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Repeals the program of financial distress grants to health professions schools. Revises the program of assistance to area health education centers by requiring all new centers receiving assistance to: (1) encourage the establishment or maintenance of programs to alleviate shortages of health personnel through training or retraining; (2) provide training programs leading to more efficient utilization of health personnel; (3) initiate new types and patterns or improve existing patterns of training, retraining, continuing education, and advanced training of personnel; and (4) encourage new or more effective approaches to the organization and delivery of health services through the use of team approach. Authorizes appropriations for area health education centers of 75 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Title V: Assistance for Specialized Training - Extends provisions of the Public Health Service Act which authorize grants to hospitals to develop training programs in family medicine and to provide financial assistance to students and physicians who participate in family medicine programs. Authorizes, for the family medicine grant program, $40 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Repeals the programs for grants for computer technology health care demonstration programs and grants for training, traineeships, and fellowships for health professions teaching personnel. Authorizes grants to medical and osteopathic schools to train U.S. citizens who transfer from foreign medical schools to a U.S. medical school. Authorizes, for such program $5 million for fiscal year 1975; $10 million for fiscal year 1976; and $15 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years. Title VI: Allied Health Personnel - Defines the term "allied health personnel". Authorizes a program of allied health special project grants for States, schools and representatives of the allied health professions. Authorizes, for this allied health special projects grant program, $40 million for fiscal 1975; $45 million for fiscal year 1976; and $50 million for fiscal year 1977 and the next 2 fiscal years. Revises the advanced traineeship program for professional allied health personnel and authorizes appropriations of $7.5 million for fiscal year 1975; $9 million for fiscal year 1976; and $10.5 million for fiscal year 1977 and the next 2 fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations for the identification of and assistance to financially, culturally, or educationally deprived persons who have a potential to become allied health personnel. Requires the compilation and dissemination of statistics on allied health personnel and submission to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee and the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of an annual report on these statistics. Title VII: Postgraduate Physician Training - Authorizes a program to certify a limited number and an appropriate balance of postgraduate physician training programs. States that the program would be administered by the Secretary, according to the recommendations of the National Council on Postgraduate Physician Training and 10 regional councils on postgraduate physician training throughout the Nation. Directs the Secretary, according to the recommendations of the council, to set the total number of internship and residency positions to be certified nationwide in the following year. Provides that the total number could not exceed 110 percent of the total number of medical and osteopathic degrees granted in that year. Authorizes the Secretary to compensate institutions which are forced to decrease their number of postgraduate physician training positions because of the 110 percent limit. Requires the Secretary to make grants of up to $100,000 to develop new additional training positions in specialties, and in geographic areas, if the national and regional councils determines such additional positions are needed. Authorizes a study to determine the desired balance of physicians in the various medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. Title VIII: National Licensure of Physicians and Dentists - Requires the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate professional organizations, to develop and establish national standards for the licensure of all physicians and dentists who wish to practice in the United States. Directs the Secretary to prepare a national examination to initially license physicians and dentists and subsequent reexaminations to renew licenses which would be given at least every 6 years. States that, under the provisions of the national licensure program, individual States would be encouraged to establish their own licensure programs, which must be in accordance with the national standards. Provides that the new national licensure program would establish reciprocal licensure relationships between States which comply with the national standards for licensure of physicians and dentists. Prohibits States from establishing any requirement for the licensure of physicians and dentists which: (1) would be inconsistent with national standards; or (2) would require that the individual applying for the license reside in the State for a certain period of time. Prohibits a State from renewing the license of any physician or dentist who is obligated, under the provisions of this Act, to provide health service in a medically underserved area or as a member of the National Health Service Corps, unless that physician or dentist has fulfilled his obligation, as certified by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 5 June 1974
Nurse Training Act - Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants under the Public Health Service Act for construction of nursing schools through fiscal year 1979. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and other non-profit private schools of nursing and other public or non-profit private entities, and enter into contracts with any public or private entity, to meet the costs of special projects to: (1) develop training programs, and train, for new roles, types, or levels of nursing personnel, including programs for the training of pediatric nurse practitioners or other types of nurse practitioners; (2) increase educational opportunities for disadvantaged students; (3) provide continuing education for nurses; and (4) provide appropriate retraining opportunities for nurses who, after periods of professional inactivity, desire again to engage in nursing on an active basis. Provides for the extension of special project grants and contracts and financial distress grants authorizations under such Act. Provides for the extension of loan guarantees and interest subsidies authorizations for nursing school construction projects under such Act. Extends the student loan program authorization under such Act. Provides for the delegation by the Secretary of his authority to administer nurse training programs to the administrator of a central office or offices in his Department. States that such authority may not be further delegated to regional offices.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1974
Congressional Youth Political Participation Act - Establishes the National Youth Political Participation Office to create and operate the national youth political participation program to provide assistance to young citizens in acquiring the experience and knowledge needed for full participation in government within the first five years following their eighteenth birthday. Establishes the National Youth Political Participation Advisory Commission to be composed of Congressional leaders, chairmen of the Republican and Democratic national committees, and the Director of the National Youth Participation Agency. States that the Advisory Commission shall develop and recommend, for the establishment of a national political participation program, criteria which shall provide for competition among eligible young people in political action activities on the local, State, and national levels; in political history and heritage research; and in analyses of the relationship between political activities, political history, and heritage research. Provides for a parallel State youth political participation program to encourage and recognize political participation by youth at specific levels of performance. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal years 1975 through 1979 the sums necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 May 1974
Solid Waste Utilization Act - Requires the Administrator of the Enviornmental Protection Agency to promulgate, within 180 days, solid waste disposal standards, which shall include prohibitions on all open burning and dumping and compliance with effluent requirements under the Clean Air and Federal Water Pollution Control Acts. Authorizes technical assistance to State and local governments for planning and implementation of resource recovery systems and the implementation and operation of conventional solid waste management systems. Requires the Administrator to publish guidelines for identifying solid waste management areas that are appropriate planning units for the establishment of regional solid waste management systems and resource recovery systems. Directs each State Governor, after such action by the Administrator, to identify each solid waste management area within each State that complies with such guidelines and to designate a planning organization for such area. Requires such organizations to have waste management and recovery systems in operation within a year. Requires the Governors to designate management agencies for such areas. Authorizes apporpriations through fiscal year 1977 for purposes of this Act. Authorizes loans to municipalities and agencies for financing projects related to resource or energy recovery systems. Authorizes loan guarantees to private borrowers for such projects. Requires Federal agencies to give preference in the purchase of materials or energy to such items manufactured from recovered resources. Requires manufacturers of materials from which containers are manufactured and container manufacturers to guarantee the purchase of all recovered resources from containers recovered from resource recovery systems constructed as a result of this Act, if requested by the Administrator to do so. Prohibits the adoption by entities receiving assistance under this Act of restrictions, fees, taxes, or deposits on the manufacture or sale of containers based on the disposal characteristics of such containers when such action would place an unreasonable burden on interstate commerce or substantially after the distribution system for containers or their contents. Limits the application of the preceding provision to jurisdictions where repurchase by manufacturers of recovered resources is enforced and where facilities exist for recovery of resources from containers. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act.
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 · 30 May 1974
Highway Energy Conservation and Safety Act - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold funding of Federal-aid highway projects from any State which has a maximum speed limit on any public highway of over 55 miles per hour.
United States · United States Congress · 9 May 1974
National Summer Youth Sports Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants or enter into contracts for the conduct of an annual National Summer Youth Sports Program concentrated in the summer months, with opportunity for continued activities throughout the year, designed to offer disadvantaged youth living in areas of concentrated poverty an opportunity to receive educational instruction, sports instruction, and health and nutritional services, and to participate in educational programs and sports competitions. Prohibits assistance under this Act unless 90 percent of the youths participating in a program are from families with incomes below the poverty level and that such youths will have maximum participation in program planning and operation. Provides that programs under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary, through grants or contracts with the National Collegiate Athletic Association or any other qualified national organization of colleges and universities. Provides that each such grant or contract shall contain provisions to assure that the program to be assisted will: (1) expand educational opportunities for disadvantaged youths, designed to provide an opportunity to engage in competitive sports and benefit from sports skills instruction; (2) help young people learn good health practices and become better citizens by utilizing the personnel and facilities of higher education; (3) enable the contractor and institutions of higher education located conveniently to areas of concentrated poverty and their personnel to participate more fully in community life and in the solution of community problems; (4) provide a combination of employment and on-the-job training in sports instruction and administration; and (5) serve major metropolitan centers of the United States as well as other areas, within the limits of program resources. Requires local projects under any such program to be conducted under approved contracts between the principal contractor or grantee and selected institutions of higher education qualified to carry out a program under this Act. Provides that, except where the Secretary determines that unusual circumstances make a larger percentage necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act, a contract under this Act with respect to any program may not provide for payment of more than 80 percent of the direct costs incurred in carrying out the total program. Provides that the non-Federal share may be cash or in-kind contributions. Permits such payments to be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions as the Secretary deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, June 30, 1976, and June 30, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 6 May 1974
Drug Utilization Improvement Act - Title I: National Center for Clinical Pharmacology - Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an office to be known as the National Center for Clinical Pharmacology. Empowers the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for (1) the teaching of clinical pharmacology to all health science students; (2) continuing education of health professionals in clinical pharmacology; and (3) the training of specialists in clinical pharmacology and clinical pharmacy. Sets forth general rules governing the making of such grants. Directs the Secretary to collect, analyze, and disseminate data relating to drug experience, including information concerning the reported and estimated incidence of adverse drug reactions, the causes of such reactions and the severity of such reactions. Prescribes the procedures for annual dissemination of such data. Provides that the Secretary shall conduct a comprehensive investigation to determine the extent of inappropriate prescribing of drugs and whether there exists a need to establish additional mechanisms to control such inappropriate prescribing. Directs that consideration be given to all appropriate mechanisms, including: (1) a national drug formulary, (2) an office through which drug information is made available at all times and without cost to practitioners licensed by law to prescribe and administer drugs, (3) a system or systems of review of drug prescribing and administering, and (4) a program of periodic detailing of drug information to practitioners through individuals who have no financial interest in the sale of any drug product. Calls for additional programs directed toward: (1) a study of the feasibility and effect of developing a system of controls over prescription drugs to see if some drugs should be restricted to hospital use or specialist use; (2) the development of a drug safety assurance plan to reduce improper prescribing to be updated annually; and (3) the mandating of drug utilization review for all health care delivery funded under this Act. Authorizes appropriations totaling $11,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $16,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the purposes of this title. Title II: Promotional Practices - Bans, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, gifts, products, premiums, prizes or other things of value to practitioners and pharmacists. Allows for educational material to be distributed to such persons. Bans samples, except upon written request of practitioners licensed to prescribe drugs. Requires the practitioner to identify the reason for samples. Requires practitioners and companies to keep records of each sample. Places prohibitions on the conducting of prescription surveys. Requires the inclusion of price information in drug advertisements. Bans reminder advertisements with exceptions for catalogs, and price lists. States that if an article is alleged to be misbranded because the labeling or advertising relating to such article is misleading there shall be taken into account not only the representations made or suggested, but also the extent to which the labeling or advertising fails to reveal material facts. Requires the certification of training programs for manufacturers' representatives. Requires a card to be delivered to physicians on each encounter which summarizes indications, contraindications, side effects, warnings and cautions. Title III: Drug Quality - Directs the Secretary to establish requirements for proof of therapeutic equivalence to assure reasonably uniform therapeutic performance among chemically equivalent drug formulations for each drug or class of drugs subject to this Act. Gives the Secretary authority to require batch testing of any drug when necessary to protect the public health and safety. Expands the Secretary's authority to require recordkeeping and reporting for drugs. Title IV: National Drug Compendium - Directs the Secretary to publish and distribute a drug compendium, listing, by established name, specified drugs which are lawfully available in the United States, arranged by therapeutic classification and by such other classifications (diagnostic, prophylactic, or otherwise) as the Secretary may deem appropriate. Outlines the procedures for hearings by any person who is adversely affected by the Secretary's inclusion or failure to include information in the compendium. Establishes, for the purpose of advising the Secretary on matters pertaining to the compendium, an advisory committee consisting of persons, qualified in the pharmacology, safety, efficacy, and relative therapeutic value of drugs, appointed by the Secretary without regard to the civil service and classification laws, at least three of whom shall be practitioners licensed by law to prescribe and administer drugs. Gives the Secretary specified powers to collect information necessary for publication of the compendium. Title V: Consumer Drug Information - Requires that established (generic) names be on all labels. Establishes a uniform code or system of coding to identify manufacturer, identity of the drug, identity of final packager, dosage form and strength and number of units in the container. Requires pharmacies to post prescription drug prices as determined in regulations by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 2 May 1974
Eastern Wilderness Areas Act - Designates specified lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides for a study of specified additional lands in 18 States and Puerto Rico for such inclusion. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 24 April 1974
Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act - Title I: Assistance for the Developmentally Disabled - States that the purpose of this title is to improve the provisions of services to persons with developmental disabilities. Defines "developmental disability" as a disability: (1) attributable to mental retardation, or cerebral palsy, or epilepsy, or autism, or learning disability; or (2) attributable to any other condition of an individual found to be closely related to mental retardation as it refers to general intellectual functioning or impairment in adaptive behavior or to require treatment similar to that required for mentally retarded individuals, which disability originates before such individual attains age eighteen, has continued or can be expected to continue indefinitely, and constitutes a severe handicap to such individual's ability to function normally in society. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for the fiscal year June 30, 1975, and a like amount for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of assisting in the modernization and renovation of facilities which will aid in demonstrating provision of specialized services for the diagnosis and treatment, education, training or care of persons with developmental disabilities or in the interdisciplinary training of physicians and other specialized personnel needed for research, diagnosis and treatment, education, training or care of persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to States to cover costs of administering and operating demonstration facilities and interdisciplinary training programs for personnel needed to render specialized services to persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and each of the next four succeeding fiscal years to cover the costs of the grants. Sets forth requirements pertaining to the application for and payment of grants to States. Provides for grants to States for planning, provision of services, and construction and operation of facilities for persons with developmental disabilities. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, $55,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $70,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, $85,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 and such sums as may be necessary for succeeding fiscal years for the purpose of making such grants. Establishes in the office of the Secretary a National Council on Services and Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled. States that it shall be the duty and function of the Council to: (1) advise the Secretary with respect to any regulations promulgated or proposed to be promulgated by him in the implementation of this title, (2) study programs authorized by this title to determine their effectiveness in carrying out the purposes for which they were established, (3) monitor the development and execution of this title and report directly to the Secretary on any delay in the rapid execution of this title, and (4) submit directly to the Congress annually an evaluation of the administration of this title. Requires States desiring to apply for grants to submit specific goal oriented plans for approval by the Secretary. Sets forth specific requirements to be met in order for State plans to be approved by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to prescribe general regulations applicable to all the States to carry out the purposes of this Act and to develop an evaluation system and action plan for implementation of such system and report to the appropriate committees of Congress within eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and enter into contracts to conduct feasibility studies with regard to developing an evaluation system for developmental disabilities services. Authorizes appropriations of $1,000,000 for this purpose for fiscal year 1975 and for each succeeding fiscal year thereafter. Authorizes appropriations for grants for special projects for services to persons with developmental disabilities of $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, $17,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977, $22,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1978, and $25,000,000 for the year ending June 30, 1979. Title II: Bill Of Rights For The Mentally Retarded And Other Individuals With Developmental Disabilities - States that the purpose of this title is to establish standards which assure humane care, treatment, habilitation, and protection of the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities in residential facilities and minimize inappropriate admissions to such residential facilities. Sets forth standards for residential facilities for the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities. States that the ultimate aim of the facility shall be to foster those behaviors that maximize the human qualities of the resident, increase the complexity of his behavior, and enhance his ability to cope with his environment. Prescribes the provisions governing (1) staff-resident relationships and activities, (2) food services, (3) residents' clothing, (4) health, hygiene, and grooming, (5) grouping and organization of living units, (6) resident-living staff, and (7) design and equipage of living units. Directs that residents be provided with professional and special programs and services in accordance with their needs for such programs and services. States that all professional services to the mentally retarded and other individuals with developmental disabilities should be rendered in the community, whenever possible, rather than in a residential facility, and where rendered in a residential facility, such services must be at least comparable to those provided the nonretarded in the community. Sets forth specifications governing the provision of the following services to residents: (1) dental services, (2) educational services, (3) food and nutrition services, (4) library services, (5) medical services, (6) nursing services, (7) pharmacy services, (8) physical and occupational therapy services, (9) psycological services, (10) recreation services, (11) religious services, (12) social services, (13) speech pathology and audiology services, (14) vocational rehabilitation services, and (15) volunteer services. States that a record shall be maintained for each resident that is adequate for: (1) plannning and continuous evaluating of the resident's habilitation program, (2) providing a means of communication among all persons contributing to the resident's habilitation program; (3) furnishing documentary evidence of the resident's progress and of his response to the habilitation program; (4) serving as a basis for review, study, and evaluation of the overall programs provided by the facility for its residents; (5) protecting the legal rights of the residents, facility, and staff; and (6) providing data for use in research and education. Stipulates that all information contained in a resident's record, including information contained in an automated data bank, shall be considered privileged and confidential. Provides that opportunities and resources should be made available to members of the staff who are equipped by interest and training to conduct applied and/or basic research. States that resources and/or necessary research assistance should be made available to all staff members who have identified researchable problems related to the programs for which they are responsible. Sets forth requirements pertaining to safety and sanitation in the resident facilities. Details provisions regarding the (1) provision of administrative support services, (2) fiscal affairs, (3) purchase, supply, and property control, (4) communications, (5) engineering and maintenance, (6) housekeeping services, and (7) laundry services.
United States · United States Congress · 11 April 1974
Cost of Living Act - Specifies the techniques and methods to be used by the President to monitor public and private economic activity in order to constrain domestic inflation. States that the President may, for the purpose of carrying out this Act, require the keeping of records, the making of reports and inspections, and the taking of sworn testimony as may be necessary or appropriate to obtain information crucial to achieving the purposes of this Act. Specifies information which the President shall not be entitled to request. Provides that the President may establish a board or commission of specified composition, along with advisory committees, to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that experts and consultants may be employed for the performance of functions under this Act. Requires the President, in carrying out his authority under this Act, to study and evaluate the relationship between excess profits, the stabilization of the economy, and the creation of new jobs. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to carry out the provisions of this Act. States that this Act shall become effective on May 1, 1974, and expire on April 30, 1975. Stipulates that nothing in this Act shall be construed to alter the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 April 1974
Designates the premises occupied by the Chief of Naval Operations as the official residence of the Vice President, effective upon the termination of service of the incumbent Chief of Naval Operations. Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide for the care, maintenance, repair, improvement, alteration, and furnishing of the official residence and grounds. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary from time to time to carry out the foregoing purposes. Expresses the sense of Congress that living accommodations, generally equivalent to those available to the highest ranking officer on active duty in each of the other military services, should be provided for the Chief of Naval Operations. Repeals the Federal law authorizing the planning, design, construction, furnihsing, and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 2 April 1974
Comprehensive National Health Insurance Act - Title I: National Health Insurance Program - National Health Insurance Program - Provides that this Act shall not interfere with the freedom of every physician and every patient to choose where and how they will give or receive health care. States that the national health insurance program established by this title shall be administered by the Board of the Social Security Administration established by this Act. Provides the following benefits under the National Health Insurance Program: (1) inpatient hospital services with no day or dollar limitation; (2) physicians' services, in home, office, or elsewhere, with no dollar limitation; (3) medical and other health services (as defined under medicare); (4) home health services-100 visits per year; (5) post-hospital extended care services-100 days per year; (6) mental health services-inpatient, 30 full days in a psychiatric hospital or 60 partial days; outpatient services in a comprehensive community care center equivalent to the costs of 30 visits to a private practitioner or outpatient services of a private practitioner equal to half the costs of 30 visits; (7) outpatient prescription drugs and biologicals for specified chronic conditions; (8) preventive care services, including (a) routine dental services for children under age 13; (b) developmental vision care services, routine eye and vision exams, and lenses or eyeglasses for children under age 13; (c) hearing aids and exams for children under age 13; (d) well-child care to age 6; (e) prenatal care; and (f) family planning services. Makes services, except those listed under preventive care, subject to a combined annual per person deductible of $150 except that no family would have to meet more than 2 deductibles. States that all services, except drugs, would be subject to a 25-percent coinsurance. Provides that patient drugs would be subject to a separate copayment of $1 per prescription drug. Makes all residents who are not eligible for Medicare eligible for the program through their contributions to the Social Security System, contributions being made by all Americans who have earned or unearned income of any kind, including governmental benefits. Makes each person who is fully or currently insured, as defined under the present social security law, and his dependents eligible. Provides immediate coverage under the plan for the individuals who are not fully or currently insured. Provides that coverage be extended to an employee during the first week during which he worked 25 hours or more, coverage not ending until after there were three consecutive weeks in each of which he did not work 25 hours or more. Provides that people beginning self-employment, or starting to receive unearned income, would be eligible beginning with the first day of the first year in which they have such income. Makes all social security and railroad retirement cash beneficiaries (including widows and widowers under age 65) who are not eligible for coverage under Medicare, eligible for the program. Directs the Social Security Administration to establish for each eligible individual an account against which such individual may charge the cost of obtaining any items and services furnished him under this title, without regard to any deductible or coinsurance requirement which may be applicable. Requires that payment for items and services furnished an eligible individual be made by the Social Security Administration to the providers of services on the basis of charges against such individual's account. States that the Administration shall have full responsibility for the collection of any deductible and coinsurance amounts due from an individual. Provides for a special waiver of or limitation on deductibles and coinsurance for lower income families. Enumerates the conditions of and limitations on payment for the following: (1) requirement of requests and certifications, (2) no payments to Federal providers of services, (3) payment for emergency hospital services, (4) payment for inpatient hospital services prior to notification of noneligibility, (5) payment for posthospital extended care services, (6) payment for home health services, (7) limitation on payment for outpatient drugs and biologicals, (8) limitations on payment for surgery and other specialized services, (9) limitation on payment for practitioner services furnished in nonparticipating hospitals, (10) limitation on payment for certain prosthetic devices, (11) payment for certain outpatient services furnished by nonparticipating hospitals, and (12) collection by hospitals of customary charges for certain outpatient services. Makes provisions for payment to the providers of services and for prospective determination of payment to providers of services. Directs the Administration to award on an annual basis quality management payments to any provider of services under this title whenever either the percentage amount or the dollar amount of increase in such provider's prospective rate for a fiscal year is less than the average annual increase in such rate for the three previous fiscal years for all providers in the same class, such payment to be equal to 50 percent of the difference between such provider's total costs to the program and what its costs to the program would have been had they increased at the class average rate. Lists the agreements a provider of services must file with the Administration in order to qualify to participate and to be eligible for payments under this title. Authorizes the Administration to use public agencies or private organizations to facilitate payment to providers of services. Authorizes the Administation to use carriers, as defined in this Act, for the administration of noninstitutional benefits. Requires that payment for services rendered by a physician be made in accordance with a single fee schedule applicable throughout that area. Provides a method to determine the fee schedule. Allows all physicians to elect whether to participate or not to participate. States that each fee schedule in effect and the names and addresses of all participating physicians shall be made available to the public throughout the State involved, in such manner and at such times as the Administration may consider appropriate, by the Administration or by the appropriate State agency with the approval of the Administration. Establishes, within the Social Security Administration, a National Health Insurance Formulary Committee, a majority of whose members shall be physicians and which shall consist of the Commissioner of Food and Drugs and of four individuals (not otherwise in the employ of the Federal Government) who do not have a direct or indirect financial interest in the compensation of the Formularly established under this Act and who are of recognized professional standing and distinction in the fields of medicine, pharmacology, or pharmacy, to be appointed by the Administration without regard to the statutory provisions governing appointments in the competitive service. Provides that the Chairman of the Committee shall be elected annually from the appointed members, by majority vote of the members of the Committee. Requires the Formulary to compile, publish, and make available a National Health Insurance Formulary, containing an alphabetically arranged listing, by established name, of those drug entities within specified therapeutic categories which the Committee decides are necessary for individuals using such drugs. States that a fee, charge, or billing allowance shall not be payable under this title with respect to any drug entity that is furnished as an incident to a physician's professional service, and is of a kind commonly furnished in physicians' offices and commonly either rendered without charge or included in the physicians' bills. Provides a reasonable allowance for outpatient drugs and biologicals. Makes special provisions for physicians dispensing outpatient drugs and biologicals where the Administration determines that no participating licensed pharmacies exist in a community. Creates on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the National Health Insurance Trust Fund and a body to be known as the Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, the Chairman of the Board of the Social Security Administration, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Directs the Administration to consult with State agencies and other organizations to develop conditions of participation for providers of services. Provides for the use of State agencies to determine compliance by providers of services with the conditions of participation. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this title, and the determination of the amount of such benefits, shall be made by the Administration in accordance with regulations prescribed by it. Provides that where overpayments on behalf of individuals occur, proper adjustment shall be made under regulations prescribed by the Administration, by decreasing subsequent payments. Provides for the settlement of claims for benefits on behalf of deceased individuals. Provides criminal penalties for violation of this Act. Creates a National Health Insurance Benefits Advisory Council consisting of 19 persons, not otherwise in the employ of the United States, appointed by the Board without regard to statutory provisions governing appointments in the competitive service. Lists criteria for serving on the Council. Declares that it shall be the function of the Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations for the consideration of the Administration on matters of general policy with respect to this title. Imposes the following taxes for each taxable year for health insurance purposes: two and one half percent of the amount of an individual's self-employment income (and unearned income); on the income of every individual, one percent of the person's wages; and on every employer, an excise tax equal to three percent of the wages paid by him with respect to employment. Provides special coverage provisions, under the Social Security Act, for purposes of National Health Insurance Taxes. Title II: Changes in Medicare Program - Establishes, under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (Medicare), a voluntary program to provide long-term care benefits for aged and disabled individuals who elect to enroll under such program, financed from permium payments by enrollees together with contributions from funds appropriated by the Federal Government and contributions by the States. Lists criteria for eligibility for long-term care service benefits. Provides that the benefits provided to an individual by the program established by this Act shall consist of (1) home health services, (2) homemaker services, (3) nutrition services, (4) long-term institutional care services, (5) day care and foster home services, and (6) community mental health center outpatient services. Enumerates the requirements for a State long-term care agency. Provides for the payment of premiums for benefits received under this Act. Establishes on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trund fund to be known as the Federal Long-Term Care Trust Fund. Creates a body to known as the Board of Trustees, composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Labor, the Chariman of the Board of the Social Security Administration, and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. States that the Secretary of the Treasury shall be the Managing Trustee of the Board of Trustees and that the Executive Director of the Social Security Administration shall serve as the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. Provides that the Board of Trustees shall meet not less frequently than once each calendar year. Enumerates the duties of the Board of Trustees. Declares that a community long-term care center shall: (1) provide the items and services listed in this Act to each individual (i) who is eligible for benefits under this part, (ii) who resides in the area served by such center, and (iii) who is certified as requiring such services; (2) evaluate and certify the long-term care needs of an individual for whom such care may be required in order to maintain such individual in an independent living arrangement which is reasonable given such individual's state of health and other circumstances (but not including such individual's economic circumstances); (3) maintain a continuous relationship with (and periodically evaluate not less that annually) each individual who is receiving any of the items and services listed in this Act; (4) provide full opportunity for such individual and his family to participate in the determinations and functions under this Act; (5) provide an organized system for making its existence and location known to all individuals in its service area who are eligible for benefits under this part, and for making known to such individuals the method or methods by which they may most efficiently obtain and use the services which it makes available; and (6) performs such other functions as the Administration may by regulation prescribe in order to have such center most effective carry out the purposes of this Act. Provides a formula for payments to States for the reimbursement of community long-term care centers. Directs the Administration, after consultation with organizations representing the chief executives of the various States, and other interested parties, to develop and make available to community long-term care centers one or more methods of obtaining payment for the benefits covered under this Act on a prospective basis. States that once a community long-term care center elects a particular prospective method, it may not alter its election without the prior approval of the Administration. Provides that whenever the Administration finds that the number of community long-term care centers electing a particular prospective payment method promulgated in accordance with this Act is not sufficient to provide an adequate basis for either the operation or evaluation of that method, the Administration shall withdraw that method and allow the community long-term care centers which have elected such method to select another method within 30 days of notice of such withdrawal. Permits a Governor of a State to certify to the Administration a method of prospective payment other than those promulgated under this Act. States that the determination of whether an individual is entitled to benefits under this Act shall be made by the Administration in accordance with regulations it prescribes. Provides coverage for prescription drugs. Declares that no further deductible or coinsurance requirement shall be imposed under this Act with respect to items or services furnished to or for any individual in any calendar year after the total of the deductibles and coinsurance paid by or on behalf of such individual and the other members of his family in that year equals $1,000. Eliminates the posthospital requirement for home health services under Medicare and the durational limits on inpatient hospital services. Title III: Independent Social Security Administration - Establishes, as an independent agency of the executive branch of the Government, a Social Security Administration to be headed by a Board, consisting of three members 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 specified programs 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 the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. Abolishes the position of Commissioner of Social Security. Title IV: Amendment to Public Health Service Act - Establishes in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the Health Resources Development Board which shall be composed of three members to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides for an Executive Director and for the recruitment of qualified persons experienced in the administration or operation of private health insurance and health prepayment plans, or experienced in other fields pertinent to the national health insurance program. Requires the Board to make an annual report to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the United States House of Representatives and to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the United States Senate. Enumerates the functions of the Board including: studies and evaluations, system development, tests and demonstrations, research, and planning. Establishes a National Health Insurance Resources Advisory Council, consisting of the Chairman of the Board, the Chairman of the Social Security Board, and twenty members, not otherwise in the employ of the United States, appointed by the Secretary on recommendation of the Board, without regard to the statutory provisions governing appointments in the competitive service. Provides criteria for membership on the Council. Enumerates the functions of the Council. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out this title: $400,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975; and $600,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - Provides for the Administration's certfication of Supplemental Private Health Insurance Policies. Sets standards with respect to supplemental health insurance policies. Leaves existing employer-employee health benefit plans unaffected. Provides regulations for planning by health care providers and the conditions for payment.
United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974
Declares that the Congress hereby calls upon the Secretary of the Interior and the Administrator of General Services to cause to be conducted on or about August 10, 1974, appropriate ceremonies in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, in the town of West Branch, Iowa.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Energy and Resources Recovery Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish within the Agency an Office of Energy and Resources Recovery to achieve the purposes and administer the provisions of this Act. Directs the Administrator, within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, after consultation with appropriate Federal, State interstate, regional, and local agencies and after opportunity for public hearings, to promulgate standards for collection, handling, disposal, and recovery of all hazardous and other solid waste which may, if improperly disposed of, cause air or water pollution or other environmental damage. States that the Administrator, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, may require the operator of any disposal system for hazardous or other solid waste to: (1) establish and maintain such records; (2) make such reports; and (3) install, use, and maintain such monitoring equipment or methods as he may require. Establishes a $25,000 per day fine for violations of this Act. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section and each year thereafter, to publish guidelines specifying the percentages of energy and resources that can be recovered from solid waste by use of the best recovery management practices and technology that are reasonably available. Provides that as a part of such guidelines, the Administrator shall publish thorough descriptions of existing technology and practices which can be implemented by agricultural producers, industries, municipalities, consumers, and others to achieve the percentages of energy or resource recovery from each category of solid waste that the Administrator finds reasonable. Requires the Administrator, within one year following enactment of this section to make a complete assessment of the use of natural resources and recycled materials in product packaging; and establish guidelines for the packaging of products to encourage efficient use of such resources and materials with a consequential reduction in solid waste. Directs the Administrator to grant to each State 80 percent of the cost of a comprehensive solid waste management and energy and resource recovery program. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 to carry out this Act for fiscal years 1975-1977. Authorizes grants to States to establish an energy and resources recovery research institute at one college in each State. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977 for additional purposes of this Act. Empowers the Administration to make loans (either directly or in cooperation with banks or other lenders) to assist any small business concern in affecting additions to or alterations in the equipment, facilities, or methods of operation of such concern to recover energy and resources from solid waste.
United States · United States Congress · 29 March 1974
Declares it to be the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Government of the United States should maintain and protect its sovereign rights and jurisdiction over the canal zone, and should in no way cede, dilute, forfeit, negotiate, or transfer any of these sovereign rights, power, authority, jurisdiction, territory, or property that are indispensably necessary for the protection and security of the United States and the entire Western Hemisphere; (2) there be no relinquishment or surrender of any presently vested United States soverign right, power, or authority or property, tangible or intangible,except by treaty authorized by the Congress and duly ratified by the United States; and (3) there be no cession to Panama, or other divestiture of any United States-owned property, tangible or tangible, without prior authorization by the Congress (House and Senate), as provided in article IV, section 3, clause 2 of the United States Consitituion.
United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974
Standby Energy Emergency Authorities Act - Title I: Standby Energy Emergency Authorities - Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to grant specific, temporary standby authority to impose end-use rationing and to reduce demand by regulating public and private consumption of energy, subject to congressional review and approval, and to authorize other specific, temporary emergency actions. Defines the terms used in this Act. Empowers the President to establish a program for the rationing and ordering of priorities among classes of end-users of crude oil, residual fuel oil, or any refined petroleum product. Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to promulgate energy conservation plans to result in reduction of energy consumption. Prescribes the procedures for making amendments to an energy conservation plan. Directs the Administrator to prohibit the burning of natural gas or petroleum products by any major fuel-burning installation which has the capability to burn coal. Empowers the Administrator to prescribe a system of coal allocation for such purposes. Authorizes the Administrator, after making required findings, to require the allocation of, or the performance under contracts or orders relating to, supplies of materials and equipment in the marketplace. Provides for Federal actions to increase available domestic petroleum supplies, including the production of existing oil fields at rates in excess of their currently assigned maximum efficient rates. Provides for the protection of franchised dealers by setting up franchise-termination notification requirements. Prescribes prohibitions on unreasonable actions taken under authority of this Act. Directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to adopt rules to eliminate restrictions on motor common carriers which require excessive travel. States that, with specified exceptions, no provision of this Act shall be deemed to convey any immunity under the antitrust laws. Empowers the Administrator to establish advisory committees to achieve the purposes of this Act. Provides for the making of voluntary agreements by persons in the oil and refined petroleum products business to carry out the objectives of the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. Authorizes the Administrator to restrict exports of coal, natural gas, petroleum products, and petrochemical feedstocks and supplies which he determines are necessary within the United States. Provides for unemployment assistance necessitated by the adverse impact of actions taken pursuant to this Act. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to encourage the use of carpools and to establish an Office of Carpool Promotion. Enumerates the responsibilities of such Office. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the conduct of programs to achieve the carpooling objectives. Sets forth the procedures for administrative and judicial review of rules and orders promulgated under this title. Imposes civil and criminal penalties for violations of this title. Directs the Small Business Administration to provide small business enterprises with information concerning the programs provided for in this Act. States that the Administrator may delegate any of his functions under the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act or this Act to any officer or agency employee as he deems appropriate. Sets forth the effect of this Act on State laws or programs. Empowers the Administrator to collect energy information necessary to assist in the formulation of energy policy or to carry out the purposes of this Act. States that the authority under this title to prescribe rules, take other action, and enforce rules shall expire June 30, 1975. Authorizes appropriations for carrying out the purposes of this Act. Provides for the development of contingency plans, in the nature of descriptive analyses, to fully inform Congress and the public of the exercise of authorities under this Act. Directs the President, within 30 days, to specify ceiling prices for all first sales or exchanges of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and condensate produced or imported into the United States. Title II: Coordination with Environmental Protection Requirements - Empowers the Administrator, under the Clean Air Act, to temporarily suspend, until November 1, 1974, any stationary source fuel or emission as it applies to any person, if he finds that such person will be unable to comply with such limitation because of unavailability of types or amounts of fuels. Prescribes the procedures for the making of such suspensions and defines the terms used. States that the Administrator may establish priorities under which manufacturers of continuous emission reduction systems shall provide such systems to users. Requires the Administrator to report to Congress within six months on the results of the programs promulgated under this title. Provides for implementation of plan revisions under the Clean Air Act. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study on the necessity of parking surcharges, management of parking supplies, and preferential bus/carpool lanes to achieve national primary ambient air quality standards. Extends the period for application of motor vehicle emission standards from 1975 to 1977. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Clean Air Act. Provides that any allocation provided for in title I of this Act or in the Emergency Petroleum Act of 1973 shall include measures to assure that available low sulfur fuel will be distributed on a priority basis to those areas designated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency as requiring low sulfur to avoid or minimize adverse impact on public health. Sets forth additional provisions providing for the protection of public health and the environment. Directs the Administrator to conduct a study on potential methods of energy conservation and submit a report to Congress. Details the contents of such report. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study on high-speed ground transportation systems between California, Mexico, and Canada. Calls for the filing of a report on the practicability of establishing a fuel economy improvement standard of 20 percent for new motor vehicles manufactured from 1980 onward. Title III: Studies and Reports - Requires the conduct and submission to the Congress of reports in specified energy areas, including the production of energy supplies, conservation programs, price-elasticity of gasoline demands, and public transportation.
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