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Law· SS. 3548 (93rd)open

Harry S Truman Memorial Scholarship 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.

Bill· SS. 3513 (93rd)referred

A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Nueces River Project, Texas, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1974

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts to construct, operate and maintain the Nueces River project, Texas. Provides for the conservation and development of the fish and wildlife resources and the enhancement of recreation opportunities in connection with this project. Authorizes to be appropriated $50,000,000 for the purposes of this Act contingent on the advancement of $15,000,000 by a qualified local entity representing a non-Federal contribution toward the purposes of this Act.

Bill· SS. 3492 (93rd)referred

Equal Credit Opportunity Act

United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1974

Equal Credit Opportunity Act - States that it is the purpose of this Act to require that financial institutions and other firms engaged in the extension of credit make that credit equally available to all creditworthy customers without regard to sex or marital status. Makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant on the basis of sex or marital status. Defines the terms used in the Act. Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System to prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Makes changes in specified Acts of Congress in order to make those Acts comply with the purposes of this Act. Directs the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the requirements of this Act to the extent that they will not be enforced by another Government agency after enactment of this Act. Provides for the assessment by a United States District Court of actual and punitive damages in any action brought against a violator of this Act.

Bill· SS. 3460 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to certain charitable contributions.

United States · United States Congress · 8 May 1974

Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that the initial tax on failure to distribute income shall not apply to the undistributed income of a private foundation for any taxable year for which it is an organization operating long-term care facilities. Defines the term "organization operating long-term care facilities" as a private foundation: (1) whose principal purpose is the long-term care, comfort or maintenance of resident permanently and totally disabled persons, elderly persons, needy widows, or children; and (2) which normally makes qualifying distributions.

Bill· SS. 3423 (93rd)open

A bill to provide relief for retired military personnel.

United States · United States Congress · 1 May 1974

Provides that any member of a Regular or Reserve component of the Armed Forces who is retired and is receiving from the United States retired or retirement pay and other benefits incident to his retired status, and who is required by provisions of the Constitution or statutes of a State to resign his military commission, terminate his retired status, and forgo receipt of retired or retirement pay and other benefits incident to such retired status, in order to be eligible to accept elective or appointive civil office under the said State, shall with his consent, be reappointed by the service Secretary alone to the grade and position on the retired list which he held prior to his resignation, effective the day following termination of his State civil office, and as of such date be entitled to resume receipt of the retired or retirement pay and other benefits incident to his retired status to which he was entitled prior to his resignation. Provides that if such retired member is participating in the Survivor Benefit Plan at the time of his resignation, to accept a State civil office, he may, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, continue to participate in the plan as if he had never resigned by depositing in the Treasury each month thereafter the sum of money that otherwise would have been deducted from his retired pay for the month under the plan, and if the said retired member should die while holding State civil office his beneficiary or beneficiaries under the plan shall be paid the annuity authorized thereunder as if the said member had died while in retired status.

Bill· SS. 3330 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title 10 of the United States Code to provide severance pay for regular enlisted members of the U.S. Armed Services with 5 or more years of continuous active service, who are involuntarily released from active duty, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 9 April 1974

States that a regular enlisted member of the armed services who has served at least 5 continuous years, but less than 20 years of active duty, and who is involuntarily separated or denied immediate reenlistment in one of the services shall be entitled to not more than $10,000 serverance pay.

Bill· SS. 3314 (93rd)referred

A bill to provide for a study of the need for regulation of weather modification activities, the status of current technologies, the extent of coordination and the appropriate responsibility for operations in the field of weather modification.

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974

Establishes, under the Environmental Protection Agency, a National Weather Modification Commission. Directs the Commission to provide for a study of the need for regulation of weather modification activities, the status of current technologies, and the appropriate responsibilities for operations in the field of weather modification. Requires the Commission to report in two years after the first meeting to the President and the Congress on its findings and recommendations. Authorizes appropriation of sums as are necessary, not to exceed $400,000, for carrying out this Act. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its report.

Bill· SS. 3312 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to certain charitable contributions.

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974

Includes organizations which maintain facilities for long-term care, comfort, maintenance, or education of residents permanently and totally disabled persons, elderly persons, needy widows, or children within the category of institutions to which tax deductible charitable contributions may be made under the Internal Revenue Code.

Bill· SS. 3315 (93rd)referred

National Weather Modification Policy Act

United States · United States Congress · 4 April 1974

National Weather Modification Policy Act - Establishes, within the Environmental Protection Agency, an Office of National Weather Modification Policy. Provides that such Office shall develop and promulgate a national policy for all weather modification activities by departments and agencies of the Federal Government. Requires such Office to observe and require reports on such activities. Requires such Office to make such recommendations to the President and the Congress as are necessary to further implement such national policy. Authorizes the appropriation of such amounts as are necessary for the purposes of this Act.

Bill· SS. 3282 (93rd)referred

Export Administration Amendments

United States · United States Congress · 1 April 1974

Export Administration Amendments - Makes it the policy of the United States to use export controls to the extent appropriate to retaliate against a nation or group of nations which have unreasonably restricted United States access to their supply of a particular commodity. Makes it the policy of the United States to deal with world shortages of particular commodities, whenever feasible, through international cooperation with the major suppliers and consumers of such commodities. Allows the President, in curtailing the exportation of any article, to use whatever method of regulation he deems most appropriate, including, but not limited to, the imposition of an export fee or the auction of export licenses. Provides that any person who enters into a contract, or other written understanding, which contemplates or is likely to result in the exportation, by a United States person or one of its affiliates to a communist country or area, of United States origin technical data which is not generally available, shall report the details of the transaction to the Secretary of Commerce and provide him with copies of documents pertaining to such transaction within 15 days from entering into such contract, protocol, agreement, or other written understanding. Extends the termination date on export regulations from June 30, 1974 to June 30, 1977.

Resolution· SCONRESS.Con.Res. 79 (93rd)passed

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover.

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.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 301 (93rd)referred

Resolution relating to jurisdiction over the U.S. owned Canal Zone on the Isthmus of Panama.

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.

Law· SS. 3270 (93rd)open

Defense Production Act Amendments of 1974

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974

Extends for two years (until June 30, 1976) those provisions of the Defense Production Act of 1950, relating to the personnel of the Joint Commission on Defense Production.

Bill· SS. 3266 (93rd)referred

A bill to establish a Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers.

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974

Establishes the Commission on Electronic Fund Transfers to study and recommend administrative action and legislation necessary for establishing public or private electronic fund transfer systems. Requires such study to take into account: (1) preservation of competition among financial institutions; (2) user and consumer privacy; and (3) the impact on monetary and economic policy and on availability of credit. Authorizes an appropriation of $2,000,000 for the purposes of this Act.

Bill· SS. 3261 (93rd)referred

Federal Campaign Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 28 March 1974

Federal Campaign Reform Act - Establishes the Federal Election Commission. Empowers the Commission to require reports, issue subpenas, require attendance of witnesses, and require the keeping of recorrds. Directs the Commission to: (1) furnish report forms for statements required under this Act; (2) make such completed reports public to show contributions and expenditures of candidates; (3) audit such reports; and (4) serve as a national clearinghouse for information on administration of elections. Requires candidates to designate one political committee to receive contributions and one bank as a campaign depository. Allows such committees a petty cash fund from which expenditures of up to $50 may be made. Requires all contributions in excess of $10 to be reported in a prescribed manner. Sets forth the manner in which the committee treasurer shall keep account of contributions and expenditures. Provides for a method by which political committees shall register with the Commission and report their receipts and expenditures. Requires the disclosure of names of contributors contributing in excess of $100 and of persons to whom expenditures in excess of $50 have been made. Establishes similar reporting requirements for political action groups. Prohibits supervisors or union officials from serving as principal officers of political action groups. Prescribes methods of registering political action groups. Directs committees arranging national, State, or district conventions to report contributions and expenditures to the Commission. Prohibits the acceptance of contributions in excess of $10 by political committees and action groups unless an accompanying disclosure form is filed. Prohibits cash contributions exceeding $50. Prohibits contributions by persons other than individuals, political action groups, and national committees, or contributions in the name of other persons. Disallows the solicitation of contributions by supervisors and union officials. Limits contributions from an individual to a committee to $3000 for elections except that for President or Vice President, the limit shall be $15,000. Transfers unexpended contributions to the national committees or the Treasury. Prohibits expenditures for candidates by persons other than political committees. Requires reports from voter registration organizations. Prohibits acts which mislead voters, disrupt a candidate's campaign, or obstructs registration or elections. Establishes a $100,000 fine and/or 10-year imprisonment penalty for violations of this Act. Disallows primaries, conventions, or caucuses for selection of delegates to national Presidential conventions before May 1.

Law· SS. 3234 (93rd)open

Solar Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1974

United States · United States Congress · 26 March 1974

Solar Energy Research Act - Declares that it is the policy of the Federal Government to pursue a vigorous and viable program of research and development into the utilization of solar energy as a major source for our national energy needs. Provides that, within sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation creating any permanent Federal organization or agency having jurisdiction over the energy research and development functions of the United States Government, the Office of Solar Energy Research shall be established within that agency. Provides that if, within sixty days from the date of enactment of this Act, no agency with jurisdiction over Federal energy research and development has been established, the Office of Solar Energy Research authorized under this Act shall be established, on an interim basis, within the Atomic Energy Commission, until sixty days from the date of enactment of legislation authorizing the new Federal office of energy research and development. Authorizes the Chairman or Administrator to conduct appropriate research and technical development work: (1) to determine, by laboratory and pilot testing, the usable results of scientific research, (2) to develop and fabricate solar energy transformation processes, equipment designs, and components to the point where they can be demonstrated, certified, produced, and operated on a commercially practical scale; (3) to recommend to the Congress, as deemed appropriate, authorizations for the construction and operation or for participation in the construction and operation, of solar energy conversion facilities, and (4) to undertake, through research grants and contracts, studies of possible economic, social, and environmental effects which will result from the use of solar energy. Establishes a Solar Energy Research Council to be chaired by the Chairman or Administrator to coordinate policy and programs in solar energy research. Specifies the composition of the Council. Directs the development of a program to expedite the increased utilization of solar energy technology by the public and private sectors. Establishes a solar energy incentives task force to carry out the following functions: (1) report to the President and the Congress within one hundred and twenty days following enactment, and at least annually thereafter, recommendations for a viable program, of specified, time limited, incentives or modifications to existing and/or proposed incentives programs to accelerate the commercial application of solar energy technology; and (2) carry out a program of research and investigation into the barriers to innovation in the field of solar energy, the barriers to the acceleration of the commercial application of solar energy technology, and the programs needed to remove such barriers. Authorizes the compilation on a semi-annual basis of a listing of all solar energy conversion components, facilities, and equipment, commercially available in the Nation for private or public use. States that utilization of solar energy shall include such applications of solar energy as, but not limited to, the solar heating and cooling of buildings, solar crop drying and other agricultural applications of solar energy, solar thermal and photovoltaic power generation for terrestrial applications, whether situated on the ground or in space, wind energy conversion, ocean thermal gradient conversion, solar stimulated bioconversion, and solar production of synthetic gases and hydrogen. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act the following amounts: (1) for fiscal year 1975, $56,000,000; (2) for fiscal year 1976, $94,000,000; (3) for fiscal year 1977, $150,000,000; (4) for fiscal year 1978, $150,000,000; and (5) for fiscal year 1979, $150,000,000.

Law· SS. 3228 (93rd)open

Funeral Transportation and Living Expense Benefits Act of 1974

United States · United States Congress · 22 March 1974

Funeral Transportation and Living Expense Benefits Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide funeral transportation and living expense benefits to the families of deceased prisoners of war who died while classified as prisoners of war or as missing in action during the Vietnam Conflict and whose remains shall have been returned to the United States after January 27, 1973. Lists those classes of relations who shall qualify as eligible family members under this Act.

Bill· SS. 3215 (93rd)referred

Professional and Technical Assistance to Exporting Act

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 1974

Professional and Technical Assistance to Exporting Act - Declares the finding of the Congress that the expansion of this Nation's exports is urgently needed to enable the United States to carry out its international responsibilities, to finance imports, to stimulate domestic employment, and to permit the pursuit of policies fostering beneficial interantional trade. Defines the terms used in this Act. Defines the term "international trade specialist" as meaning an individual who has academic training and private professional experience in international trade either in the broad disciplines of trade administration or experience with individual industries and who is employed pursuant to this Act. Establishes within the Department of Commerce and in its field offices an International Trade Specialist Program. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to recruit, train, and assign such personnel to the program as may be necessary to implement the purposes of this Act, except that the number of such personnel shall not exceed three in each field office, and shall not exceed one hundred for the entire program. Provides that each international trade specialist appointed under this Act shall have had at least five years of executive level experience in private industry directly related to exporting products from the United States. Provides that any individual who is or who has been a career employee of the United States shall be ineligible for an appointment under this Act for a period of five years following the date of his separation from employment by the United States. Directs the Secretary to conduct an evaluation of the program carried out under this Act and transmit a report to the Congress not later than three years after the date of enactment of this Act. Requires that such report shall include information on the recruitment, training, and placement of personnel, the export expansion programs under which such personnel operated, data on increased exports in terms of dollar amounts and quantity of shipments, and recommendations with respect to the program's continuation. Authorizes, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act related to such program, the appropriation of an amount not to exceed $3,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and not to exceed $3,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976. Requires the Secretary to establish and implement a procedure within the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce to insure that each shipper's export declaration contains the address (including the State) of the exporter. Requires total exports for each State to be compiled in a monthly report for each of the field office areas established under this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $175,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975, and June 30, 1976, for the purpose of a pilot project encompassing the exports of not less than 8 States for not less than 6 months. Requires an evaluation of the measurement program established under this Act to be carried out by the Office of Field Operations, Department of Commerce, in cooperation with its field offices. Requires that, not later than eighteen months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall transmit a report on such evaluation to the Congress including therein information on the implementation of such procedures, an analysis of results, and recommendations as to improvements, or discontinuation of the program. Provides that in order to carry out the purposes of this Act related to such evaluation, there are authorized to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976.

Bill· SS. 3182 (93rd)referred

A bill to prohibit the banning of lead shot for hunting.

United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974

States that the Secretary of the Interior is prohibited from publishing any orders with respect to any prohibition of the use of lead shot for the hunting of waterfowl, until the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs holds public hearings and issues legislative findings.

Bill· SS. 3170 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that any individual who has 40 quarters of coverage, whenever acquired, will be insured for disability benefits thereunder.

United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974

Provides under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) that an individual may qualify for disability insurance benefits if he has 40 quarters of coverage, regardless of when such quarters were earned.

Bill· SS. 3169 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that an insured individual otherwise qualified may retire and receive full old-age insurance benefits, at any time after attaining age 60, if he has been forced to retire at that age by a Federal law, regulation or order.

United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974

Provides, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) that an insured individual otherwise qualified may retire and receive full old-age insurance benefits at any time after attaining age 60, if he has been required by his employer (after having been employed by such employer for 5 or more years) to retire at such age in compliance with (1) an Executive order of the President; (2) a regulation or order issued by a Federal department or agency and published in the Federal Register; or (3) a Federal law. Prescribes special rules for determining eligibility for benefits in the case of dependents and survivors.

Bill· SS. 3167 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the special dependency requirements for entitlement to husband's and widower's insurance benefits, so that benefits for husbands and widowers will be payable on the same basis as benefits for wives and widows.

United States · United States Congress · 13 March 1974

Eliminates, under title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) the dependency requirements for entitlement to husband's and widower's insurance benefits, so that benefits for husbands and widowers will be payable on the same basis as benefits for wives and widows. (Under present law, a widower must be able to show that half of his support was derived from his wife's earnings in order to qualify for survivors benefits; whereas no such proof is required by a widow receiving half her support from her husband's earnings.)

Bill· SS. 3157 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to developing institutions.

United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974

Reduces from five to three years, the operating requirement for developing institutions to be eligible for assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Authorizes the Commissioner of Education to waive this requirement in the case of applications for grants by institutions in or near communities with large numbers of Spanish-speaking people if the Commissioner determines that such action will increase higher education for Spanish-speaking people.

Bill· SS. 3156 (93rd)referred

Bilingual Vocational Training Act

United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1974

Bilingual Vocational Training Act - Requires the Commissioner of Education and the Secretary of Labor to: (1) develop and disseminate accurate information on the status of bilingual vocational training in all parts of the United States; (2) evaluate the impact of such bilingual vocational training on the shortages of well-trained personnel and the unemployment or underemployment of persons with limited English-speaking ability. Authorizes appropriations of $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975; $60,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976; and $80,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977, to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the Commissioner to make grants to and enter into contracts with: (1) appropriate State agencies, local educational agencies, postsecondary educational institutions, private nonprofit community-based organizations in supplying training and employment in recognized occupations and new and emerging occupations; (2) States, or educational institutions, either public or private, to assist them in conducting training for instructors of bilingual vocational training programs; and (3) States, public and private educational institutions, and to other appropriate nonprofit organizations, and to enter into contracts with private for-profit individuals and organizations, to assist them in developing instructional material, methods, or techniques for bilingual vocational training. Requires such grants or contracts for assistance under this part to be made only upon application to the Secretary, at such time, in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information as the Secretary deems necessary.

Bill· SS. 3132 (93rd)referred

Federal Stock Savings and Loan Association Act

United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1974

Federal Stock Savings and Loan Association Act - Authorizes the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter stock Federal savings and loan associations having the same powers as the mutual Federal savings and loan association. Empowers the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to charter Federal stock thrift associations having the same powers as mutual associations chartered by the Board. Provides that institutions of either type may be denominated as "Federal Savings and Loan Associations" or "Federal Savings Associations." Authorizes State chartered mutual institutions and credit unions to convert to a Federal thrift association mutual or stock charter. Redesignates the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation as the Federal Savings Insurance Corporation. Adds Federal Savings Association accounts to the accounts eligible for insurance under the National Housing Act. Authorizes Federal thrift associations to issue capital stock. Permits State mutual to Federal mutual and State stock to Federal stock conversions and vice versa. Authorizes a mutual credit union desiring to expand its powers to convert to a Federal mutual association. Provides for conversions involving a Federal association and a change in capital structure. Restricts for at least 3 years the Board's authority to charter Federal stock associations to States in which State stock associations exist. Provides that prior to final Board action on a conversion no legal action of any nature respecting the plan of conversion may be brought against the Board or any Federal Home Loan Bank. Vests in the Federal Home Loan Bank Board the authority over thrift institution securities that the Federal Reserve Board, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have over bank securities under the Securities Exchange Act. Authorizes the Corporation to withhold its approval of an application for conversion on the basis of national or regional totals, upon a finding that such action is necessary or appropriate in the public interest. Eliminates the difference between a multiple and unitary savings and loan holding company by deleting definition of a multiple savings and loan holding company and all references to a multiple savings and loan holding company from the National Housing Act. Limits the activities which a savings and loan holding company may perform to management services for an insured institution, operation of an insurance or escrow business, liquidating assets, managing property of an insured institution, acting as a trustee, or an activity which is a proper incident to the operation of a savings and loan business. Provides that every company which becomes a savings and loan holding company must divest itself of all activities except those specifically allowed in this Act within six months unless the Corporation, upon a showing of good cause, grants an extension of time which in no case may exceed three years. Requires that the Corporation request from the Attorney General a report on the anti-competitive effects in cases of acquisition of a second or third insured institution or of more than one insured institution. Authorizes savings and loan holding companies to deposit funds in savings accounts having voting rights in savings and loan associations. Makes provisions for holding company acquisitions.

Bill· SS. 3096 (93rd)passed

A bill to amend the Small Business Act to provide for loans to small business concerns affected by the energy shortage.

United States · United States Congress · 1 March 1974

Provides loans under the Small Business Act to any small business concern seriously and adversely affected by a shortage of: (1) fuel; (2) electrical energy; (3) energy-producing resources; or (4) raw or processed materials resulting from such shortages. Requires that the Small Business Administration determine that a concern has suffered or is likely to suffer substantial economic injury prior to the making of such loans. (Amends 15 U.S.C. 636(6))

Bill· SS. 3070 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to achieve its aims and objectives.

United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974

Provides, under the National Labor Relations Act, that representation and decertification petitions before the National Labor Relations Board shall not be dismissed or delayed in processing solely because an unfair labor practice charge has been filed.

Bill· SS. 3068 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974

Extends the use of tax-free industrial bonds under the Internal Revenue Code, without limit, to be used in the conversion from gas burning to oil burning equipment or oil burning equipment to other energy burning materials. Raises the limit of general industrial revenue bonds intended for small business.

Bill· SS. 3071 (93rd)referred

A bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act to prohibit secondary picketing.

United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1974

Prohibits, under the National Labor Relations Act, picketing at a secondary site not controlled by the employer with which the primary labor dispute exists and aimed at encouraging consumers to refuse to purchase products of the primary employers.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 290 (93rd)referred

Resolves that the Senate disapproved the recommendations of the President with respect to rates of pay for legislative and executive salaries that were transmitted to the Congress during February 1974, pursuant to Section 225(h) of the Federal Salary Act of 1967.

United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1974

Declares that the Senate disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to rates of pay for legislative and executive salaries that were transmitted to the Congress during February 1974, pursuant to the Salary Act of 1967.

Bill· SS. 3032 (93rd)referred

Economic Stabilization Act Amendments

United States · United States Congress · 21 February 1974

Economic Stabilization Act Amendments - Expresses the findings of Congress, including findings relating to the need to control inflation in the health care industry. Provides for mandatory controls with respect to the health care sector of the economy after April 30, 1974. Makes technical amendments to the requirements and objectives of the Economic Stabilization Program. Authorizes the enforcement after April 30, 1974, of the Cost of Living Council orders issued on or before that date that limit price or wage behavior for specified periods of time. Authorizes the continuation of controls over wages and salaries paid to executives for the remainder of the control period. Empowers the President to prescribe regulations to provide for the disposition after April 30, 1974, of any price or wage matters relating to periods prior to May 1, 1974. Authorizes the President to collect through reports, audits, recordkeeping requirements and hearings, as well as from existing government sources, such business and economic information as may be necessary. Authorizes the delegation of authority under the Act to State officials as well as to Federal officials. Eliminates the provisions exempting the members of the Pay Board and Price Commission from the requirement of Senate confirmation while retaining that exemption for the appointed members of the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee. Eliminates "rents, interest rates, corporate dividends or similar transactions" from the list of matters for which public hearings are to be held when changes are likely to have a significantly large impact upon the national economy. Changes, under the Economic Stabilization Act, the five Executive Level positions authorized under the Act from three level III's and two level V's to one level II, who is to be subject to Senate confirmation, one level III and three level V's. Provides for economic impact review of Federal programs and activities by the head of an existing agency for the purpose of determining the extent to which those programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of the policy set forth in the Economic Stabilization Act. Extends the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970 to the end of 1975. Provides continued authorization for the National Commission on Productivity through the end of 1975. Reduces the Commission's authorized funding from $10,000,000 to $5,000,000 under the Economic Stabilization Act.

Bill· SS. 3016 (93rd)referred

A bill to provide that an individual, who for December 1973, was entitled to disability benefits under a State program approved under title XIV or XVI of the Social Security Act may be presumed, for purposes of the supplemental security income program, to be disabled during the first 6 months of 1974.

United States · United States Congress · 19 February 1974

Provides that an individual, who for December 1973 was entitled to disability benefits under a State program approved under title XIV or XVI of the Social Security Act may be presumed, for purposes of the supplemental security income program, to be disabled during the first six months of 1974.

Bill· SS. 2981 (93rd)referred

A bill to postpone certain regulations relating to utilization review requirements under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1974

Provides that no regulation and no modification of any regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare after January 1, 1973, shall be effective for any period which begins prior to January 1, 1976, if such regulation or modification pertains to the provisions of law as relate to the use, under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, of utilization review committees and procedures for review of inpatient hospital services and skilled nursing services established under title XVIII (Medicare) of such Act and certification and recertification of patient need for institutional services under such Act.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 276 (93rd)open

A resolution to disapprove pay recommendations of the President.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974

Declares that the Senate disapproves the recommendations of the President with respect to rates of pay transmitted to the Congress during February, 1974 pursuant to the Federal Salary Act of 1967.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 275 (93rd)referred

Resolves that it is the sense of the Senate that any committee that periodically reports to the Senate any measure authorizing the appropriation of funds shall report such measure to the Senate.

United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1974

Makes it the sense of the Senate that any committee that periodically reports to the Senate any measure authorizing the appropriation of funds shall report such measure to the Senate not later than the last day of the next to last month of the fiscal year: (1) preceding the fiscal year for which such measure authorizes the appropriation of funds, in the case of a measure authorizing appropriations for one year; or (2) preceding the first fiscal year for which such measure authorizes the appropriation of funds in the case of a measure authoriizing appropriations for more than one year. Declares that in the event that any such committtee finds itself unable to report an authorization measure by the day prescribed in paragraph 1, it may request an extension to a date certain from the Senate, which shall be granted if a majority of the Senators present and voting concur by rollcall vote. Declares that after the day prescribed in paragraph 1, or after the expiration of an extension of time granted by the Senate as provided in paragraph 2, as the case may be, for a measure making appropriations for a fiscal year, it shall be in order for the Senate to act upon any general appropriation measure making appropriations for that fiscal year. Provides that the provisions of this rule shall not apply to a measure making continuing appropriations.