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United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Provides for the relief of Cruz Sanchez-Garcia, his wife, Maria Benilda Leal de Sanchez, and their child, Daniel Sanchez-Leal.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Provides that any individual who has 40 quarters of coverage, whenever acquired, will be insured for disability benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Repeals the Davis-Bacon Act and related provisions of law, relating to wages paid laborers working under Government contracts.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1975
Authorizes the President to issue annually a proclamation designating March of each year as "Youth Art Month."
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Securities Acts Amendments - Permits exchanges to be registered as national securities exchanges under the requirements of this Act by filing appropriate registration forms with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sets forth prerequisites to such registration, including the ability of an exchange to enforce compliance by its members with the provisions of this Act. Allows a national securities exchange to deny membership to any registered broker or dealer who is subject to an order of the Commission denying or suspending his broker or dealer's registration, or who does not meet standards of financial responsibility or standards of training and experience. Extends such standards to persons associated with members. Provides for a procedure of discipline for exchange members and their associates. Prohibits any national securities exchange from imposing any schedule or fixing rates of commissions or other charges for trading on such exchange, except pursuant to a rule of the exchange approved by the Commission. Prohibits exchange members from effecting any transaction for any account in which they have a financial interest, with specified exceptions. Directs the Commission to establish a national market system for securities qualified for trading in such a system. Requires such system to include a system for composite reporting of all transactions, a system for the composite display of quotations, equal regulation of markets for such securities and of the members, brokers and dealers effecting transactions in such securities. Prohibits use of the mails or of any means of interstate commerce by a securities information processor unless such person is registered in accordance with this Act. Prohibits national securities exchanges, members, registered securities associations, securities information processors, brokers, or dealers from using the mails or interstate commerce to collect, process, distribute, or publish information regarding transactions of securities in violation of rules and regulations of the Commission for the protection of investors. Authorizes the Commission to prohibit brokers and dealers from effecting transactions in specified securities except through a national securities exchange. Permits the Commission to suspend registration of or trading in securities the issuer of which has failed to comply with provisions of this Act; and, with the approval of the President, to suspend trading on an exchange. Lists items of information which institutional investment managers must submit to the Commission, and which the Commission must make public. Makes it unlawful for any broker or dealer to make use of a national securities exchange, the mails, or interstate commerce to effect any transaction unless they are registered in accordance with this Act. Sets forth procedures for such registration and for disciplining of brokers and dealers. Describes conditions which will necessitate disciplinary action, including fraudulent registration with the Commision and conviction of specified crimes. Provides for disciplining of persons associated with brokers and dealers. Requires brokers and dealers to meet standards of operational capability and of training and experience. Prohibits brokers and dealers from engaging in fraudulent, deceptive or manipulative practices and violations of Commission rules designed to protect investors and expedite the national market system. Permits an association of brokers and dealers to register as a national securities association pursuant to this Act. Prescribes conditions to be met before an association may register, including ability to enforce compliance by its members with the provisions of this Act, the eligibility of any registered broker or dealer to become a member, and the adoption of rules designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative practices. Stipulates those to whom an association may deny membership, including those under expulsion or suspension. Sets forth procedures for the disciplining of association members, including notification and hearing for the members. Sets forth the conditions of denial and suspension of membership. Makes it unlawful for any municipal securities dealer to use the mails or interstate commerce to effect any transcation unless such dealer is registered in accordance with this Act. Directs the Commission to establish a Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board to propose and adopt rules to accomplish the purposes of this Act regarding transactions in municipal securities. Requires the Board's rules to include specified minimum requirements, establish fair procedures for the nomination and election of members of the Board, be designed to prevent fraudulent and manipulative practices, and prescribe the records to be kept by municipal securities brokers and dealers. Permits the Commission to censure, limit, suspend from transacting, or revoke the registration of brokers and dealers in municipal securities. Sets forth procedures for such actions. Authorizes the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., and the appropriate regulatory agency (for nonmembers of an association) to conduct periodic examinations of municipal securities dealers. Prescribes specified recordkeeping of exchanges, brokers, dealers, members, association, information processors, clearing agencies, and transfer agents, including where the Commission is not the appropriate regulatory agency for such an entity. Allows the Commission to authorize self-regulatory agencies to examine members for compliance with this Act and to enforce this Act. Directs the Commission to establish a national system for the clearance and settlement of transactions in securities. Makes it unlawful to use the mails or interstate commerce to perform the functions of a clearing agency unless registered in accordance with this Act. Sets forth the conditions to be met by such agencies in order to be registered under this Act, including operational capabilities and ability to enforce complaince with this Act by participants. Details the procedures governing disciplining of clearing agency participants, including notification and a hearing. Sets forth the conditions under which a person may be registered as a transfer agent by registering with the appropriate regulatory agency. Requires clearing agencies and transfer agents to comply with rules and regulations of the Commission and of the appropriate regulatory agencies. Sets forth the requirements and procedures relating to approval by the Commission of rule changes by self-regulatory organizations, including standards to be enforced regarding approval or disapproval. Sets forth similar items relating to self-regulatory organizations for which the Commission is not the appropriate regulatory agency. Permits the Commission by rule, to abrogate, add to, or delete from the rules of self-regulatory organizations. Requires such organizations to file notice of final disciplinary action upon any members with the appropriate regulatory agency, which may review such action, and, after appropriate procedures, cancel or reduce such action. Empowers the appropriate regulatory agencies to suspend the registration of, to censure, or impose limitations on self-regulatory organizations. Sets forth additional disciplinary procedures which may be taken by such agencies toward self-regulatory organizations. Authorizes the Commission to make necessary investigations to determine whether any person has violated this Act. Empowers the Commission to bring appropriate actions in federal district court upon the discovery of past, present, or threatened violations of this Act. Requires the Commission to consider the effect upon competition of any rules or regulations promulgated under this Act. Provides for public inspection of records and documents arising pursuant to this Act. Allows judicial review of orders and rules of the Commission adverse to parties under this Act, provided the Commission has been petitioned first. Requires national securities exchanges to pay to the Commission by March 15 of each year a registration fee for the privilege of doing business. Establishes requirements regarding amounts or benefits accruing to investment advisers in connection with a sale of securities.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Prohibits the use of funds to furnish food stamps under the Food Stamp Act to persons over 18 years of age, enrolled in institutions of higher education, and who are claimed as dependents for income tax purposes by households not eligible for food stamps.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Provides that the tax on the amounts paid for communication services shall not apply to the amount of the State and local taxes paid for such services under the Internal Revenue Code.
United States · United States Congress · 17 January 1975
Establishes a National Commission on Social Security. States that it shall be the duty and function of the Commission to conduct a continuing study, investigation, and review of: (1) the Federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program established by title II of the Social Security Act; and (2) the health insurance programs established by title XVIII of such Act. Provides that such study, investigation, and review of such programs shall include, but not be limited to: (1) the fiscal status of the trust funds established for the financing of such programs and the adequacy of such trust funds to meet the immediate and long-range financing needs of such programs; (2) the scope of coverage, the adequacy of benefits, and the conditions of qualification for benefits provided by such programs; (3) the impact of such programs on, and their relation to, public assistance programs, nongovernmental pension and insurance programs, other governmental retirement and annuity programs, medical service delivery systems, and national employment practices; (4) the quality of the administration of such programs; and (5) any inequities which affect substantial numbers of individuals who are insured under such programs. Directs the Commission to submit an annual report of its study, investigation, and review of programs, together with its recommendations with respect to such programs, to the President and the Congress. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Authorizes the appointment of Alexander P. Butterfield to the retired list of the Regular Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Allows an income tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for 25 percent of the expenses incurred (1) in improving the thermal design of a taxpayer's principal residence; or (2) in purchasing specified energy conserving devices incident to the purchase of the taxpayer's principal residence. Permits the taxpayer to elect to deduct the above expenses in an amount not to exceed $4000.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Expresses the finding of Congress and makes it the policy of the United States to continue experimentation with satellite systems for the remote sensing of the Earth's resources, through January 1, 1980, unless a permanent operational system is established. Directs the President to: (1) take all practical steps to continue the availability of data on the satellite systems; (2) foster improvements in them; and (3) promote their widest possible use and understanding. Requires the President to transmit to Congress not later than April 15, 1975, a report containing recommendations for proposed actions to be taken to carry out the policy set forth in this Act and such revisions in the budget proposed by fiscal 1976 as the President deems necessary to do so. Requires the President to submit each year prior to 1980, as part of the Aeronautics and Space Report, a description of activities and evaluation of progress under this Act, and an evaluation of the desirability of establishing a permanent Earth resources satellite system.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Requires, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Office of the Budget to prepare fiscal notes for bills and joint resolutions. States that such fiscal notes shall contain an estimate of the costs which would be incurred, or the savings which would be realized in carrying out such bill, resolution, or amendment in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in the four fiscal years following such fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Adoption Opportunity Act - Allows, under the Internal Revenue Code, a deduction (up to $1,000 per child) from gross income for social agency, legal, and related expenses incurred in connection with the adoption of a child by a taxpayer. Defines, for the purposes of this Act, the term "adoption expense".
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating September 17 of each year as "Constitution Day."
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Criminal Justice Reform Act - Title I: Codification, Revision, and Reform of Title 18 Part I: General Provisions and Principles - Chapter I: General Provisions - Defines conditions of criminal liability. Defines terms used in this Act. Chapter 2: Jurisdiction - Defines the general, special, and extraterritorial jurisdiction of the United States in criminal matters, and declares that Federal jurisdiction does not in itself preclude State or local jurisdiction. Chapter 3: Culpable States of Mind - Defines "state of mind," as used in this title, including the terms "intentional," "knowing," "reckless," and "negligent." Sets forth the required proof of a state of mind. Chapter 4: Complicity - Lists conditions of criminal liability for the offense of another person, including liability as a coconspirator, as an agent for an organization, and as an organization for an agent. Chapter 5: Bars and Defenses - Bars prosecutions, with specified exceptions, when time limitations have run and when the subject is less than 16 years of age. Defines defenses based on lack of culpability, including mistake of fact or law, insanity, and intoxication. States, regarding the insanity defense, that it is a defense to a prosecution under any Federal statute that the defendent, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacked the state of mind required as an element of the offense charged. States further that mental disease or defect does not otherwise constitute a defense. Defines additional defenses, including duress, exercise of public authority, protection of persons, protection of property, unlawful entrapment, and official misstatement of law. Part II: Offenses - Describes Federal offenses, defenses for them, grading of them, and jurisdiction over them. Chapter 10: Offenses of General Application - Makes a person guilty of criminal attempt if, acting with the state of mind required for the commission of a crime, he intentionally engages in conduct that, in fact, amounts to more than mere preparation for, and indicates his intent to complete, the commission of the crime. Makes a person guilty of criminal solicitation if, with intent that another person engage in conduct constituting a crime, he commands, entreats, induces, or otherwise endeavors to persuade such other person to engage in such conduct. Makes a persons guilty of criminal conspiracy if he agrees with one or more persons to engage in conduct, the performance of which would constitute a crime or crimes, and he or one of such persons in fact engages in any conduct with intent to effect any objective of the agreement. Chapter 11: Offenses Involving National Defense - Defines treason and related offenses, including armed rebellion or insurrection, instigating overthrow or destruction of the government, and engaging in para-military activity. States, regarding the offense of instigating overthrow or destruction of the government, that a person is guilty of such offense if, with intent to bring about the forcible overthrow or destruction of the government of the United States or of any State as speedily as circumstances permit, he: (1) incites other persons to engage in conduct that then or at some future time would facilitate the forcible overthrow or destruction of such government; or (2) organizes, leads, recruits members for, or participates as an active member in an organization or group that has as a purpose the incitement described in paragraph (1). Defines sabotage and related offenses, including impairing military effectiveness; violating an emergency regulation; impairing military effectiveness by a false statement; evading military or alternative civilian service; obstructing military recruitment or induction; inciting or aiding mutiny, insubordination, or desertion; and aiding escape of a prisoner of war or an enemy alien. Defines espionage and related offenses, including disclosing national defense information, mishandling national defense information, disclosing classified information, unlawfully obtaining classified information, failing to register as a person trained in a foreign espionage system, and failing to register as or acting as a foreign agent. Defines atomic energy offenses. Chapter 12: Offenses Involving International Affairs - Sets forth offenses involving foreign relations, including attacking a foreign power, conspiracy against a foreign power, entering or recruiting for a foreign armed force, violating neutrality by causing departure of a vessel or aircraft, disclosing a foreign diplomatic code or correspondence, and engaging in an unlawful international transaction. Sets forth offenses involving immigration, naturalization, and passports, including unlawfully entering the United States as an alien, smuggling an alien into the United States, hindering discovery of an alien unlawfully in the United States, fraudulently acquiring or improperly using evidence of citizenship, and fraudulently acquiring or improperly using a passport. Chapter 13: Offenses Involving Government Process - Defines offenses involving general obstructions of government functions, including obstructing a government function by fraud, by physical interference, and by impersonating an official. Defines offenses involving obstructions of law enforcement, including hindering law enforcement, bail jumping, escape, providing or possessing contraband in prison, and flight to avoid prosecution or appearance as a witness. Defines offenses involving obstruction of justice, including witness bribery, corrupting a witness or an informant, tampering with a witness or an informant, retaliating against a witness or an informant, tampering with physical evidence, improperly influencing a juror, monitoring jury deliberations, and demonstrating to influence a judicial proceeding. Makes a person guilty of the offense of tampering with a witness or an informant if he uses force, threat, intimidation, or deception with intent to: (1) influence the testimony of another person in an official proceeding; or (2) cause or induce another person to: (A) withhold testimony, or withhold a record, document, or other object, from an official proceeding; (B) evade legal process summoning him to appear as a witness, or to produce a record, document, or other object in an official proceeding; or (C) absent himself from an official proceeding to which he has been summoned by legal process; or (3) hinder, delay, or prevent the communication to a law enforcement officer of information relating to an offense or a possible offense. Defines contempt offenses, including criminal contempt, failing to appear as a witness, refusing to testify or to produce information, obstructing a proceeding by disorderly conduct, and disobeying a judicial order. Makes a person guilty of criminal contempt if he: (1) misbehaves in the presence of a court or so near to it as to obstruct the administration of justice; (2) disobeys or resists a writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command of a court; or (3) as an officer of a court, misbehaves in an official transaction. Defines perjury, false swearing, making a false statement, and tampering with a government record. Defines offenses involving official corruption and intimidation, including bribery, graft, trading in government assistance, trading in special influence, trading in public office, speculating on official action or information, tampering with a public servant, and retaliating against a public servant. Makes a person guilty of the offense of trading in special influence if he: (1) offers, gives, or agrees to give to another person; or (2) solicits, demands, accepts, or agrees to accept from another person anything of pecuniary value intended as consideration for exerting, or causing another person to exert, special influence upon a public servant with respect to his taking an official action or his performing a legal duty as a public servant. Chapter 14: Offenses Involving Taxation - Defines internal revenue offenses, including tax evasion, disregarding a tax obligation, and alcohol and tobacco tax offenses. States, regarding the offense of tax evasion, that a person is guilty of an offense if, with intent to evade liability for a tax or the payment of a tax, he: (1) files a tax return that understates the tax; (2) removes or conceals assets, knowing that the tax is due or may become due; (3) fails to account for, or to pay over when due, taxes previously collected or withheld, or payment received from or on behalf of another person with the understanding that it would be turned over to the United States for tax purposes; (4) alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, or removes any property under the care, custody, or control of the United States; (5) otherwise acts in any manner to evade liability for, or payment of, the tax. Defines customs offenses, including smuggling, trafficking in smuggled property, and receiving smuggled property. Chapter 15: Offenses Involving Individual Rights - Sets forth offenses involving civil rights, including interfering with civil rights, interfering with civil rights under color of law, interfering with a Federal benefit, and unlawful discrimination, and interfering with speech or assembly related to civil rights activities. Makes it an offense if a person intentionally: (1) deprives another person of; or (2) injures, oppresses, threatens, or intimidates another person: (A) in the free exercise or enjoyment of; or (B) because of his having exercised a right, privilege, or immunity in fact secured to such other person by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Makes a person guilty of an offense if, by force or threat of force, he intentionally injures, intimidates, or interferes with another person because of such other person's race, color, sex, religion, or national origin and because such other person is or has been, or in order to intimidate any person from: (1) applying for, participating in, or enjoying, a benefit, privilege, service, program, facility, or activity provided or administered by a State or locality; (2) applying for or enjoying employment, or a perquisite thereof, by a State or local government agency; (3) serving as a grand or petit juror in a State or locality or attending court in connection with possible service as such a grand or petit juror; (4) enrolling in or attending a public school or public college; (5) applying for or enjoying the goods, services, privileges, or facilities of specified public accommodations; (6) applying for or enjoying the services, privileges, facilities, or accommodations of a common carrier utilizing any kind of vehicle; (7) traveling in or using a facility of interstate commerce; (8) applying for or enjoying employment, or a perquisite thereof, by a private employer or joining or using the services or advantages of a labor organization, hiring hall, or employment agency; or (9) selling, purchasing, renting, financing, or occupying a dwelling; contracting or negotiating for the sale, purchase, rental, financing or occupation of a dwelling; or applying for or participating in a service, organization, or facility relating to the business of selling or renting dwellings. Sets forth offenses involving political rights, including obstructing an election, registration, or political campaign; interfering with a Federal benefit for a political purpose; misusing authority over personnel for a political purpose; soliciting a political contribution as a federal public servant or in a Federal building; or making a political contribution as a foreign national. States, regarding the offense of obstructing a political campaign, that a person is guilty of an offense if, during a campaign preceding a primary, general, or special election to nominate or elect a candidate for a Federal office, and with intent to influence the outcome of such election, he: (1) engages in conduct constituting a crime under any section of this title; (2) engages in conduct constituting a felony under the law of the State in which the conduct occurs; or (3) publishes or distributes a statement concerning a candidate for Federal office that does not contain, or that misrepresents the name of the person or organization responsible for the publication or distribution. Defines offenses involving privacy, including eavesdropping, trafficking in an eavesdropping device, intercepting correspondence, and revealing private information submitted for a government purpose. States, regarding the offense of eavesdropping, that a person is guilty of an offense if he intentionally: (1) intercepts a private oral communication by means of an eavesdropping device without the prior consent of a party to the communication; or (2) discloses to another person, or uses, the contents of a private oral communication, knowing that such contents were obtained by conduct described in paragraph (1). Chapter 16: Offenses Involving the Person - Sets forth definitions of homicide offenses, including murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. Makes a person guilty of murder if: (1) he engages in conduct that knowingly causes the death of another person; (2) he engages in conduct that causes the death of another person under circumstances in fact manifesting extreme indifference to human life; or (3) in fact during the commission of an offense described in this title as treason, armed rebellion or insurrection, sabotage, espionage, escape, murder, maiming, kidnapping, aggravated restraint, aircraft hijacking, rape, arson, burglary, or robbery that he commits either alone or with one or more other participants, he or another person engages in conduct that in fact causes the death of a person other than one of the participants in such underlying offense. Makes a person guilty of the offense of manslaughter if: (1) he engages in conduct that causes the death of another person; or (2) he engages in conduct that knowingly causes the death of another person under circumstances that would constitute murder except for the existence of circumstances in fact constituting an affirmative defense as specified under the provisions of this title regarding murder. Makes a person guilty of negligent homicide if he engages in conduct that negligently causes the death of another person. Defines assault offenses, including maiming, aggravated battery, battery, menacing, terrorizing, communicating a threat, and reckless endangerment. Defines kidnapping and related offenses, including aggravated criminal restraint, and criminal restraint. Defines the offenses of hijacking and commandeering a vessel. Defines sex offenses, including, rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse of a minor, sexual abuse of a ward, and unlawful sexual contact. States, regarding the offense of rape, that a person is guilty of an offense if he engages in a sexual act with another person who is not his spouse, and (1) compels the other person to participate in such act by force or by threatening or placing the other person in fear that any person will imminently be subjected to death, serious bodily injury, or kidnapping; (2) has substantially impaired the ability of the other person to appraise or control conduct by administering or employing a drug or intoxicant, or by other means, without the knowledge or against the will of such other person; or (3) the other person is, in fact, less than twelve years old. Chapter 17: Offenses Involving Property - Defines: (1) arson and other property destruction offenses; (2) burglary and other criminal intrusion offenses; (3) robbery, extortion, and blackmail; (4) theft and related offenses; (5) counterfeiting, forgery, and related offenses; (6) commercial bribery and related offenses; and (7) investment, monetary, and antitrust offenses. Chapter 18: Offenses Involving Public Order, Safety, Health, and Welfare - Defines offenses involving organized crime, drugs, explosives and firearms, riots, gambling, obscenity, prostitution, and public health. States that the offense of operating a racketeering syndicate consists of organizing, owning, controlling, managing, directing, financing, or otherwise participating in a supervisory capacity in a racketeering syndicate. States, regarding the offense of disseminating obscene material, that a person is guilty of an offense if he: (1) disseminates obscene material: (A) to a minor; or (B) to any person in a manner affording no immediately effective opportunity to avoid exposure to such material; or (2) commercially disseminates obscene material to any person. Makes a person guilty of an offense if, with intent to alarm, harass, or annoy another person or in reckless disregard of the fact that another person is thereby alarmed, harassed, or annoyed, he: (1) engages in violent, tumultuous, or threatening conduct; (2) makes or causes unreasonable noise; (3) uses abusive or obscene language, or engages in obscene conduct, in a public place; (4) obstructs vehicular or pedestrian traffic, or the use of a public facility; (5) persistently follows a person in or about a public place or places; (6) solicits a sexual act, as defined in this Act, in a public place; or (7) engages for no legitimate purpose in any other conduct that creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition. Part III: Sentences - Chapter 20: General Provisions - Provides that an individual found guilty of an offense shall be sentenced to probation, a fine, a term of imprisonment, or death, or a fine in addition to any other sentence. Requires probation officers to make presentence investigations and report the results to courts before imposition of sentences. Permits the courts to request additional presentence investigations by the Bureau of Prisons and by psychiatrists. Permits the courts to require those convicted of offenses involving fraud or other deceptive practices to notify the class of persons affected by the conviction. Chapter 21: Probation - Sets forth factors of eligibility for probation, possible conditions to be met by the convicted, and revocation considerations. Chapter 22: Fines - Prescribes limitations on fine amounts and factors to be considered in imposing fines. Chapter 23: Imprisonment - Sets forth authorized terms of imprisonment for classes of offenses and factors to be considered in imposing terms. Provides that multiple sentences shall run concurrently unless the court specifies consecutive running, based upon a list of considerations. Chapter 24: Death Sentence - Allows, under qualified circumstances, imposition of the death penalty for the offenses of treason, sabotage, espionage, and for murder committed during an offense of treason, sabotage, espionage, kidnapping, or aircraft hijacking. Lists conditions where the death penalty, otherwise applicable, shall be precluded. Requires the courts to conduct separate hearings to determine the existence of factors requiring imposition of the death sentence. Requires disclosure to the defendant at such hearings, all information contained in presentence reports. Part IV: Criminal Justice Administration and Procedure - Chapter 30: Investigative and Law Enforcement Authority - Sets forth the responsibilities among various agencies for detecting and investigating the commission of offenses described in this title. Reposes such responsibility in the Federal Bureau of Investigation if no other agency is specifically assigned such responsibility. Delineates the varying authority of employees and officials of: the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of the Treasury, Postal Service, United States Marshals, Federal Probation Service, Bureau of Prisons, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the National Park Service to carry a firearm; execute orders, warrants, subpeonas and other process; make arrests without warrants; and offer and pay reward for services or information. Chapter 31: Ancillary Investigative Authority - Allows the interception of a private oral communication when authorized or approved by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, pursuant to this title if: (1) the filing of an application for such an order is authorized by: (A) the Attorney General; or (B) an Assistant Attorney General specifically designated by the Attorney General; (2) the application is filed, pursuant to this title, by a law enforcement officer of a government agency having responsibility for the investigation of the offense concerning which the application is made; and (3) the interception may provide or has provided evidence of the commission of an offense described in specified sections of this title. Requires an application for an order, or an extension of an order, authorizing or approving the interception of a private oral communication to be made in writing under oath or equivalent affirmation to a court of competent jurisdiction and to include, among other items, the following information: (1) the identity of the law enforcement officer making the application and of the officer authorizing the application; (2) the authority of the applicant to make the application; and (3) a complete statement of the facts relied upon by the applicant to justify his belief that an order should be issued. Permits, upon an application made pursuant to this title, the court to issue an ex parte order, as requested in the application or as found warranted by the court, authorizing or approving interception of a private oral communication within the geographic jurisdiction of such court if the court determines on the basis of the facts submitted by the applicant that specified conditions exist. Prescribes what such an order shall contain. Provides that such an order may authorize or approve the interception of a private oral communication for the period necessary to achieve the purposes of the authorization, or for thirty days, whichever is less, subject to extensions under specified conditions. Allows such interception without such an order in emergency situations, subject to qualified conditions, where application for an order is made within a stated period thereafter. Provides for protection of tapes of such interceptions from editing or alteration. Requires that intercepted parties be notified within a stated period. Sets forth permissible uses of such intercepted communications, including their use at trial. Bans use as evidence of unlawful interceptions. Requires an annual report by the Attorney General or State or local prosecuting officers of interception activities within their jurisdictions. Details the inclusions to be made in such reports. Disavows any limitation on the President in national security matters. Provides that if a person refuses, on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or to produce a record, document, or other object in an official proceeding conducted under the authority of: (1) a court of grand jury of the United States; (2) an agency of the United States; or (3) Congress or either House of Congress and the presiding officer informs the person of an order issued under this title, the person may not refuse to comply with the order on the basis of his privilege against self-incrimination. Excludes the testimony or production that is compelled under the order, and any information directly or indirectly derived from the testimony or production, from use against the person in a criminal case, with limited exceptions. Permits the Attorney General to provide for the security of government witnesses, potential government witnesses, and their immediate families, in official proceedings instituted against a person alleged to have engaged in racketeering activity or other offenses similar in nature. Permits the Attorney General to offer and pay an amount not to exceed $100,000 as a reward for the capture of, or for information leading to the arrest or conviction of, a person charged with the commission of a Federal or State offense. Chapter 32: Rendition and Extradition - Sets forth the Interstate Agreement on Detainers. Declares that the United States and the District of Columbia are parties to it, as are all jurisdictions joining it in substantially the same form. Requires that demand of the executive authority of one State to that of another for the return of a fugitive from justice be accompanied by an indictment returned or affidavit made, before a judge of the demanding State, charging such person with the commission of a State or local crime. States that extradition may be granted only pursuant to the provisions of an applicable treaty or other international agreement and of this title. Prescribes extradition procedures for arrests with and without documentation. Requires an extradition hearing, unless properly waived. Specifies prerequisites, which must be proved, and their method of proof, before an individual is extraditable. Requires a warrant of surrender, issued by the Secretary of State, for agents of the demanding government. Chapter 33: Jurisdiction and Venue - Grants the United States District Courts original jurisdiction, exclusive of the courts of the States overall offenses committed within the general, special or extraterritorial jurisdiction of the United States. Delineates the jurisdiction of magistrates over misdemeanors and infractions. Permits an accused subject to magistrates, to elect trial before a district court judge. Permits arrest anywhere within the United States by order of a Federal judge or State judicial officer of persons accused of an offense. Allows an offense begun in one judicial district and completed in another, or committed in more than one district, to be prosecuted in any district in which the offense was begun, continued, or completed. Chapter 34: Appointment of Counsel for Indigent Defendants - Requires each district court to effectuate a plan for furnishing representation for any person as specified financially unable to obtain adequate representation. Requires such representation to include counsel, investigative, expert, and other services necessary to an adequate defense. Makes rules for appointment of counsel and for their compensation, which is not to exceed $1,000 for each attorney in a felony case. Provides for establishment of Federal Public Defender Organizations in the judicial districts, to consist of salaried attorneys; and for establishment of Community Defender Organizations, to consist of nonprofit defense counsels. Chapter 35: Release and Confinement Pending Judicial Proceeding - Requires release of persons charged with non-capital offenses. Provides that persons charged with non-capital offenses shall be released on their own recognizance at the time of their appearance before a judge, unless the judge determines that other measures are required to assure their subsequent appearance. Sets forth such other measures to be employed in order of increasing severity, the last of which is execution of a bail bond. Allows appeal from a denial of release. Chapter 36: Disposition of Juvenile or Incompetent Offenders - Requires that juveniles arrested for acts of juvenile delinquency be immediately advised of their legal rights, and that parents be notified of such arrest. Requires release of juveniles pending trial, unless their safety or that of other persons is in question. Provides that a juvenile may be proceeded against only by information, and that no criminal prosecution may be instituted for the offense charged. States that if the court finds a juvenile to be a juvenile delinquent, it may, after a hearing, place him on probation or commit him to official detention. Sets limits on terms of detention. Requires that, if possible, the Bureau of Prisons shall detain a juvenile in a public or private agency or foster home located in or near his home community, but that in no case shall a juvenile be detained in adult facilities. Requires the courts to safeguard records of juvenile proceedings against disclosure. Provides that subsequent to the commencement of a prosecution and prior to the imposition of sentence, a motion may be filed for a hearing to determine mental competency of the defendant. Directs the court to order a hearing on the motion if there is reasonable cause to believe that the defendant may presently be suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him mentally incompetent to the extent that he is unable to understand the nature of the proceedings against him or to assist properly in his defense. Sets forth procedures and instructions for psychiatric examination, reports and hearings thereon, hospitalization, and for standards of release from hospitalization, relating to persons acquitted by reason of insanity and of persons convicted who suffer from mental disease or defect. Disallows admission at trial of defendant's statements at psychiatric examinations, where such statements are offered on the issue of whether the defendant engaged in conduct constituting the offense. Chapter 37: Pretrial and Trial Procedure, Evidence, and Appellate Review - Permits the Supreme Court to prescribe amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Permits it to prescribe amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence, subject to specified deferral or disapproval by the Congress. Makes voluntary confessions admissible in criminal cases in district and magistrate courts. Details factors in determining voluntariness. Permits the Supreme Court to prescribe amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure. Describes decisions, judgments, and orders from which the government may appeal. Sets forth standards and procedures for review of sentences, including the death sentence. Chapter 38: Post-Sentence Administration - Sets forth procedures for appointment of probation officers by district courts. Describes their duties. Provides that persons found guilty of drug offenses, with no prior drug convictions, may be placed on probation for one year without the entering of a judgment of conviction. Directs that fines shall be credited to the Criminal Victim Compensation Fund. States that fines are liens in favor of the United States upon all property belonging to the person fined. Prescribes procedures for the Bureau of Prisons in commiting a person to prison. Lists conditions, including reestablishing of family ties and specified employment situations, under which a prisoner can obtain temporary releases. Lists conditions of eligibility for and criteria for parole. Provides for preparole reports, access thereto by the prisoner, and for a parole interview and a record thereof. Directs the Parole Commission to set the terms and conditions of parole. Provides for a preliminary hearing and revocation hearing if revocation of parole is under consideration. Allows counsel to the prisoner at the parole interview and at the revocation hearing. Allows appeal from Parole Commission decisions to the National Appeals Board. Part V: Ancillary Civil Proceedings - Chapter 40: Ancillary Public Civil Proceedings - Allows initiation by the Attorney General of in rem civil proceedings to have seized and forfeited to the United States any property used, intended for use, or possessed in the course of an offense described in designated provisions of this title. Allows for, and defines the procedure for, the civil restraint and prevention of racketeering offenses. Allows for, and defines the procedure for, service of a civil investigative demand requiring production of relevant documentary materials for use in such a civil restraint of racketeering. Chapter 41: Ancillary Private Civil Remedies - Provides that a person injured in his business or property by reason of a racketeering offense shall have a civil cause of action in district court to recover three times the damages sustained and litigation costs. Provides for civil remedies for persons whose oral communication are illegally intercepted. Establishes the Criminal Victim Compensation Fund in the Treasury. Permits victims of offenses involving the person, and surviving dependents of such victims, to file claims with the United States Victim Compensation Board for up to $50,000 in compensation for actual pecuniary loss, loss of anticipated earnings, and loss of anticipated support to the victim's surviving dependent. Sets other conditions for receipt of compensation. Allows the Attorney General to subrogate against the convicted for such compensation. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure for the United District Courts - I. Scope, Purpose, and Construction - States that these rules shall be construed to secure simplicity in procedure, fairness in administration, and elimination of unjustifiable expense and delay. II. Preliminary Proceedings - Prescribes the conditions of, procedure for, and form of arrest warrants and of summonses. States that probable cause may be based upon hearsay evidence in whole or in part. Allows a magistrate to require the appearance and examination under oath of complainants. Requires that arrested persons be brought without unnecessary delay before the nearest Federal magistrate. Sets forth what shall take place at and of what rights the arrested shall be apprised at this appearance. States the conditions under which a preliminary examination shall be held for the finding of probable cause. III. Indictment and Information - Requires district courts to order one or more grand juries to be summoned at such times as the public interest requires. States that disclosure of the matters occurring before the grand jury other than its deliberations and the vote of any juror may be made to the attorneys for the government for use in the performance of their duties. Prohibits other disclosure except by direction of the court. Allows for appointment of special grand juries in qualified circumstances to inquire into offenses to have been committed within the district. Allows submission of reports to the court by such special grand juries, and for temporary sealing of reports concerning noncriminal misconduct by public servants. Permits such public servants to file answers with the clerk of the court. Prescribes the use of indictments and information, including their contents and forms. Describes the conditions under which joinder of offenses and defendants will be permitted. IV. Arraignment and Preparation for Trial - Prescribes that arraignment shall consist of reading the indictment or information to the defendant, or stating the substance of the charge, and asking him to plead thereto. Requires that specified advice be given the defendant before a plea of guilty or nolo contendere is accepted. Allows plea bargaining, if the court does not participate in it, and if any plea agreements are disclosed in court at the time the plea is offered. Permits withdrawal of the plea if the court rejects the plea agreement. States that any defense, objection, or request which is capable of determination without the trial of the general issue may be raised before trial by motion. Sets forth rules and procedures pertaining to the disclosure by the prosecution and the defense as to specified types of evidence, including witnesses, they expect to use. Imposes a continuing duty of disclosure of such. Lists evidence which is not subject to disclosure. Prescribes rules for the taking and use of depositions. Establishes rules for the issuance and service of subpoenas. V. Venue - States that, in general, the prosecution shall be had in a district in which the offense was committed, and at a place convenient to the defendant and the witnesses. Allows transfer to another district where prejudice prevents a fair trial. VI. Trial - Directs that cases required to be tried by jury shall be so tried unless the defendant waives a jury trial in writing with the approval of the court and the consent of the government. Allows for juries of less than 12 upon stipulation by the parties. Prescribes procedures for jury examination and challenges. Allocates the burdens of proof or offenses, defenses, affirmative defenses, and of jurisdiction. Abolishes motions for directed verdict and places motions for judgment of acquittal in their place. Makes rules for closing arguments, instructions, and verdicts. VII. Judgment - Requires imposition of sentence without unreasonable delay, notice of right to appeal and of petition for review. Provides that a judgment of conviction shall set forth the pleas, the verdict or findings, and the adjudication and sentence. Provides for a presentence report, its contents, and disclosure to the defendant. Sets forth conditions allowing a new trial. VIII. Appeal - Permits a stay of the death sentence, imprisonment, and a fine, where an appeal or petition for review is taken. IX. Supplementary and Special Proceedings - Sets forth conditions and procedure for removal to another district. States, regarding search and seizure warrants, who may issue them, property which may be seized thereunder, their contents, their execution (including when force is permitted), and for a return. Prescribes rules for disposition of criminal contempt. X. General Provisions - Sets forth general rules relating to presence of the defendant, right to and assignment of counsel, time, release from custody, motions, dismissal, service and filing of papers, calendars, exceptions, harmless error and plain error, regulation of conduct in the courtroom, application and exception, courts and clerks, rules of court, forms, and title. Rules of Procedure for the Trial of Minor Offenses Before United States Magistrates - States that these rules govern the procedure and practice for the trial of minor offenses before United States magistrates and for appeals in such cases to judges of the district courts. Provides that to the extent that pretrial and trial procedure and practice are not specifically covered by these rules, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure apply as to minor offenses other than petty offenses. Governs all other proceedings in criminal matters, other than petty offenses, before United States magistrates by the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. Sets forth such rules covering scope, minor offenses other than petty offenses, petty offenses, warrant or summons, orders subject to rehearing by district judges, transfer of cases, new trial, appeal, payment of fixed sum in lieu of appearance, records, and rules of court. Title II: Technical and Conforming Amendment - Makes necessary conforming changes in the following titles of the United States Code to meet the provisions of this Act: Congress - title 2; President - title 3; Flag and Seal - title 4; Government Organization and Employees - title 5; Agriculture - title 7; Aliens and Nationality - title 8; Armed Forces - title 10; Bankruptcy - title 11; Banks and Banking - title 12; Census - title 13; Coast Guard - title 14; Commerce and Trade - title 15; Conservation - title 16; Copyrights - title 17; Customs Duties - title 19; Education - title 20; Food and Drugs - title 21; Foreign Relations and Intercourse - title 22; Hospitals, Asylums, and Cemeteries - title 24; Indians - title 25; Internal Revenue Code - title 26; Intoxicating Liquors - title 27; Judiciary and Judicial Procedure - title 28; Labor - title 29; Mineral Lands and Leasing - title 30; Money and Finance - title 31; Navigation and Navigable Waters - title 33; Patents - title 35; Patriotic Societies and Observances - title 36; Veteran's Benefits - title 38; Postal Service - title 39; Public Buildings, Property, and Works - title 40; Public Contracts - title 41; Public Health and Welfare - title 42; Public Lands - title 43; Public Printing and Documents - title 44; Railroads - title 45; Shipping - title 46; Telegraphs, Telephones, and Radiotelegraphs - title 47; Territories and Insular Possessions - title 48; Transportation - title 49; War and National Defense - title 50. Title III: General Provisions - Authorizes necessary sums to carry out this Act. Provides that this Act shall take effect on the first day of the first calendar month beginning 12 months after its enactment.
United States · United States Congress · 20 December 1974
Expresses the sense of Congress, including that: (1) because of the critical economic role that energy plays, a comprehensive domestic and international approach to meeting energy problems in a realistic manner is immediately needed; (2) such a comprehensive energy policy neccessitates a dramatic increase in domestic energy production coupled with a reasoned attack on wasteful energy consumption; (3) vital national actions to increase domestic energy production require that the United States - (a) rapidly expand Outer Continental Shelf exploration and development with approriate environmental safequards; (b) lift price constraints on exploration and production of natural gas and other fossil fuels; (c) adopt policies which will encourage the most rapid development of alternative energy sources; and (d) adopt policies which insure adequate opportunity to provide for the massive capital formation required to attain timely domestic energy self-sufficiency; and (4) the reasoned nationwide attack on wasteful energy consumption requires - (a) enactment of energy conservation authority capable of significantly reducing consumption; (b) expanded Federal programs related to increasing the efficiency of energy uses; and (c) a mandatory impact study on energy consumption of planned Federal programs prior to program implementations.
United States · United States Congress · 19 December 1974
Authorizes the appointment of Alexander P. Butterfield to the retired list of the Regular Air Force.
United States · United States Congress · 11 December 1974
Equal Credit Opportunity Act Amendments - Prohibits discrimination on the basis of age in the granting of credit.
United States · United States Congress · 5 December 1974
Authorizes the Government National Mortgage Association, under the emergency program authorized by the Emergency Home Purchase Assistance Act, to purchase qualified mortgages covering multifamily rental, cooperative, or condominium housing.
United States · United States Congress · 4 December 1974
Foreign Bank Act - Redefines "bank" to include branches and agencies of foreign banks established or operating under the laws of the United States, any State, or the District of Columbia. Adds definitions of other terms to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956. Requires foreign banks with worldwide assets in excess of $500,000,000 to become members of the Federal Reserve System. Prescribes regulations for the acquisition and establishment of additional branches and agencies by bank holding companies and foreign banks. Requires divestiture within 2 years of the date of enactment by bank holding companies, foreign bank holding companies, and their subsidiaries, of any branch or agency outside the State in which the operations of the company's banking subsidiaries are principally conducted, which was acquired after December 3, 1974. Requires divestiture within 10 years of non-banking interests acquired after December 3, 1974 by foreign bank companies. Allows the retention of banking facilities in the State in which the foreign bank's operations are principally conducted and expansion in that State in any form permitted by State law. Allows expansion outside the principal State in the same form as that in which the bank company's operations are presently conducted in the non-principal State. Redefines, and adds, terms to the Federal Reserve Act. Provides that any branch of a foreign bank operating under this Act which fails to become a member of the Federal Reserve System within one year of passage of this Act shall forfeit all of its rights, privileges, and franchises. Allows the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to waive the requirements of the Federal Reserve Act that a majority of the shares of a corporation doing foreign banking be owned or controlled by United States citizens and that all of the directors of such a corporation be United States citizens. Permits a national banking association to be formed under the National Bank Act by or on behalf of a foreign bank. Allows the Comptroller of the Currency to permit one-half of the directors of a national bank to be non-citizens of the United States. Directs the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to submit to the Congress within ninety days of enactment a proposal for extending insurance coverage to deposits in branches and agencies of foreign banks. Allows a foreign bank to establish and operate branches in any State upon receipt of a certificate of authority from the Comptroller, notwithstanding the laws of the State. Allows a foreign bank to convert branches or agencies operating under State law to federally-certified branches to be operated under this Act. Directs the Comptroller to consider the views of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Board of Governors, and the bank supervisory authorities of the States in deciding whether to issue certificates of authority to foreign banks to operate branches under this Act. Prohibits the Comptroller from issuing such certificate if the establishment of the branch would adversely affect the domestic or foreign commerce, or otherwise would not be in the interest of the United States. Provides that upon the issuance of a certificate of authority the foreign bank may conduct its business with the same rights, privileges, duties and restrictions as a national bank. Requires annual examinations by the Comptroller of branches operating under this Act, reports by the banks in accordance with the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and such additional reports as the Comptroller may prescribe. Prescribes penalties for failure to make such reports. Sets forth the assets which foreign banks are required to keep on deposit in the appropriate national bank. Provides for the appointment of a receiver by the Comptroller whenever he has revoked the certificate of authority of a foreign bank, with the same powers in the receiver as are now exercised by receivers of national banks. Requires the appointment of an agent for service of process by each bank holding on certificate of authority in each State where it has established a branch under this Act, and allows service upon the Comptroller in the absence of such an agent. Provides civil and criminal penalties for the violation of this Act by a foreign bank holding a certificate of authority. Grants Federal district courts original jurisdiction in any civil action commenced by the United States against a foreign bank and in any action by a foreign bank to enjoin the Comptroller or a receiver acting under his direction. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the United States criminal code, the Bank Protection Act, the Truth-in-Lending Act, and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Authorizes the Board of Governors, the Comptroller and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to enter into agreements with foreign bank supervisory authorities for the exchange of information on banking institutions. Requires a Federal banking license for any foreign bank controlling, establishing, or operating a bank in the United States which has not received a certificate of authority, except that those banks existing at the date of enactment need only register with the Comptroller. Empowers the Secretary of the Treasury to approve such licenses after consulting with the Secretary of State and the Board of Governors. Directs the Comptroller not to issue such license if the Secretary of the Treasury determines that issuance would adversely affect the domestic or foreign commerce of the United States or would otherwise not be in the interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller to issue rules and regulations deemed necessary to enforce compliance with this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1974
Authorizes Joyce P. Baker, professional staff member, Senate Republican Policy Committee, an employee of the United States Senate, to appear as a witness in the case of Common Cause, et. al. against E. T. Klassen, et. al.
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Exempts from the sex discrimination guidelines of the Education Amendments of 1972 fraternities, sororities and similar tax-exempt organizations whose active membership consists primarily of students at institutions of higher education. (Amends 20 U.S.C. 1681)
United States · United States Congress · 18 November 1974
Exempts from the sex discrimination guidelines of the Education Amendments of 1972 fraternities, sororities and similar tax-exempt organizations whose active membership consists primarily of students at institutions of higher education. (Amends 20 U.S.C. 1681)
United States · United States Congress · 10 October 1974
Provides for an extension of the expiration date of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, from October 15 to November 30, 1974. Provides that the Bank shall not authorize any financial assistance to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the life of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1974
Provides that not less than 15 percent of the total value of food stamps issued pursuant to the Food Stamp Act to an eligible household during each month or other time period shall be coded as to be usable only for the purchase of beef, pork, or poultry unless the State agency finds that such coding is impracticable with regard to a specific household. (Amends 7 U.S.C. 2013(a))
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1974
Exempts the Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council from the provision of the Federal Advisory Committee Act effecting the termination of all advisory committees in existence on the date of enactment of such Act in January of 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 21 August 1974
Precludes a military member from receiving less retired pay by his continued active service. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1401(a))
United States · United States Congress · 16 August 1974
Authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the week of September 15-21, 1974, as "United States Armed Forces ROTC Week".
United States · United States Congress · 13 August 1974
Extends the authorization of appropriations for the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 for seven years (through fiscal year 1983).
United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1974
Cost of Living Task Force Act - Authorizes the President to establish, within the Executive Office of the President, a Cost of Living Task Force to: (1) review and analyze industrial capacity, demand and supply in various sectors of the economy, working with the industrial groups concerned and appropriate governmental agencies to encourage price restraint; (2) work with labor and management in the various sectors of the economy having special economic problems, as well as with appropriate government agencies, to improve the structure of collective bargaining and the performance of those sectors in restraining prices; (3) improve wage and price data bases for the various sectors of the economy to improve collective bargaining and encourage price restraint; (4) conduct public hearings necessary to provide for public scrutiny of inflationary problems in various sectors of the economy; (5) focus attention on the need to increase productivity in both the public and private sectors of the economy; and (6) monitor the economy as a whole by acquiring, as appropriate, reports on wages, costs, productivity, prices, sales, profits, imports, and exports. Authorizes to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 August 1974
Provides that the following shall constitute the Minority Party's membership on the Committee on the Budget of the Senate for the remainder of the 93rd Congress: Peter H. Dominick of Colorado, Milton R. Young of North Dakota, Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska, Jacob K. Javits of New York, Paul J. Fannin of Arizona, Robert Dole of Kansas.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1974
Authorizes the release of the city of Aransas Pass, Texas, and the Urban Renewal Agency of the city of Aransas Pass, Texas, from obligations entered into with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1974
Prohibits any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973, have been fully complied with by North Vietnam or the President has determined and reported to Congress that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1974
Small Business Tax Reform Act - Title I: Tax Simplification Relating to Small Business - Provides for a study by the Treasury Department and a report to Congress on the desirability of providing special depreciation rules for small business and for changes in the Tax Code to equate the treatment of fringe benefits as between incorporated and unincorporated small businesses. Revises the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to the payment by small taxpayers of specified employment and excise taxes. Title II: Increase of Corporate Surtax Exception - Increases the corporate surtax exemption from $25,000 to $100,000. Title III: Special Provisions to Encourage Establishment of New Small Business Enterprises - Extends to partnerships the option now afforded corporations to amortize their organization expenses over 60 months. Extends the bad debt deduction provisions of the Code to lenders, or guarantors of small business obligations, whether the businesses are incorporated or not. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the amount of allowable losses resulting from the purchase of specified small business stock. Title IV: Provisions to Assist Small Business Growth - Increases the additional first-year depreciation for small businesses from $10,000 to $20,000 to reflect increases in the cost of living and doing business. Extends the period of the loss carryover provision for small business by allowing existing corporations to carry losses forward up to 10 years at their option. Increases from $100,000 to $200,000 the minimum accumulated earnings credit for all corporations. Reduces the accumulated tax rate on improperly accumulated earnings to 22 percent from 27 1/2 percent on the first $100,000 and 38 1/2 percent on amounts in excess of $100,000. Allows research and development expenses of small businesses to be amortized beginning at the time they are made rather than waiting until the taxpayer "first realizes benefits" from these expenditures. Title V: Provisions Relating to Subchapter S Corporations - Allows the enlargement of the Subchapter S tax-option small business corporations' shareholders. Expands the classes of shareholders to include: (1) trusts where stock passes pursuant to a will, and where the trust is used merely to convey the stock to a long-term eligible holder within 60 days; (2) trusts where the entire income is taxable to the grantor; and (3) small business investment companies, subject to the elimination of the dividends payed credit on such income.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1974
Requires, under the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Office of the Budget to prepare fiscal notes for bills and joint resolutions. States that such fiscal note shall contain an estimate of the costs which would be incurred, or the savings which would be realized in carrying out such bill, resolution, or amendment in the fiscal year in which it is to become effective and in the four fiscal years following such fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1974
Designates the San Angelo Dam and Reservoir on the North Concho River, Texas, as the "O. C. Fisher Dam and Lake".
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1974
Provides for a thirty-day extension of the expiration date of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, from June 30 to July 30.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
States that, under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, no part of any application for a grant or loan under such Act may be made available to any person (other than an individual who is an officer or employee of the United States) after its submission to the Secretary of Agriculture unless: (1) in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, public comment is solicited with respect to that application or part thereof; or (2) the name of such person was furnished by the applicant as a source of information concerning the applicant or the application.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Provides payment under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for care and treatment furnished at a central radiation therapy treatment facility. Provides full payment under the supplementary medical insurance program for radiation therapy services furnished by physicians to inpatients or outpatients of any hospital or any such facility. Defines radiation therapy services to mean radiation therapy and minor surgery, chemotherapy, nuclear medicine, bed and board, and other services to the extent they are incidental to or required for such radiation therapy furnished on an impatient or outpatient basis by a central radiation treatment facility.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Provides for the continuation of collective bargaining rights of employees of urban mass transportation systems, that are consistent with existing State laws including the recognition of bargaining representatives on behalf of public employees. Provides that arrangements with respect to collective bargaining shall include provisions protecting individual employees against a worsening of their positions with respect to their employment. Provides an opportunity for comment on such protective arrangements by any interested individual or organization.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1974
Federal Grant Disclosure Act - States that, except as otherwise provided by law, no application or part of any application for Federal assistance under any Federal law may be made available to any person (other than an individual who is an officer or employee of the United States) after its submission to a Federal agency unless: (1) the name of such person was furnished by the applicant as a source of information concerning the applicant or the application; or (2) in accordance with regulations prescribed by the head of the agency, public comment is solicited with respect to that application or part thereof.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1974
Authorizes the Senate Committee on Commerce to make a full and complete investigation and study for the purpose of determining a policy and role for the Federal Government on tourism in the United States which will most effectively enable the industry to realize fully its potential to contribute to the social well-being, the cultural understanding, and the economic prosperity of the United States. Provides that the chairman and ranking minority member of each of the Senate Committees on Appropriations, Agriculture and Forestry, Interior and Insular Affairs, Public Works, Foreign Relations, Government Operations, Labor and Public Welfare, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Small Business, or a member of such committees designated by each such chairman or ranking minority member to serve in his place, shall serve as ex officio members of the Committee on Commerce for purposes of this study. Directs the Committee on Commerce to report its findings, together with its recommendations for such legislation as it deems advisable, to the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1974
Provides, under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code relating to scholarship and fellowship grants, that no amount shall be included in gross income by reason of the discharge of the indebtedness of an individual under a student loan if such discharge was pursuant to a provision of the loan under which the indebtedness would be discharged if the individual worked for a certain period of time in certain professions or certain geographical areas or for certain classes of employers. Defines "student loan" for purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 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 · 19 June 1974
Permits employees of contractors engaged in the performance of public contracts pursuant to the Walsh-Healey Act to work a ten-hour day in the case of a four-day week. Provides that the overtime compensation provisions of the Contract Work Hours Standards Act shall apply only to hours worked in excess of ten hours in any calendar day or in excess of forty hours per workweek.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Restricts the recovery of Federal funds expended for the construction of public health centers, nonprofit hospitals, outpatient facilities for long term care, or rehabilitation facilities pursuant to the Public Health Service Act where such funds shall be applied to approved projects within the same State.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1974
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should immediately terminate the suspension of any Presidential proclamation limiting the total quantity of imports, or withdrawals from warehouses for consumption, of fresh, chilled, or frozen cattle, sheep and other specified meat.
United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1974
Declares that Dr. Kissinger be commended on his outstanding contributions to the cause of world peace and that deep gratitude to Dr. Kissinger for his services is hereby expressed by the Senate. Declares that the United States Senate holds in high regard Dr. Kissinger, and regards him as an outstanding member of this Administration, as a patriotic Amercian in whom it has complete confidence, and whose integrity, and veracity are above reproach, and that the U.S. Senate wishes for him success in his continuing efforts to achieve a permanent peace in the world.
United States · United States Congress · 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 · 6 June 1974
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to finance livestock producers where the applicant's usual credit source is unable or unwilling to provide additional credit without the guarantee provided by this Act. States that a borrower's total principal indebtedness may not exceed $250,000 under this Act.