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United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1975
Revises the formula for determination of the amount of tax to be imposed on charitable foundations upon their failure to distribute income by changing the method of calculation of the minimum investment return for any private foundation for any taxable year.
United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1975
Provides that the inpatient hospital deductible under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act shall be increased from $40 to $92 in the case of any spell of illness beginning before 1977. Sets forth a formula for adjusting the impatient deductible for subsequent years, equal to $92 multiplied by the ratio of the current average per diem rate for inpatient hospital services for the preceding year to the current average per diem rate for such services for 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1975
Authorizes specified filling and construction in the Hackensack River, Hudson County, New Jersey.
United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1975
Establishes a twelve-member Commission on the United States Participation in International Organizations. Directs the Commission to evaluate the appropriate role of the United States in regional and international relationships. Provides that such evaluation shall include a review and appraisal of the organization, operation, detriments, benefits and potential value and hazards associated with United States participation in major regional and international organizations. Calls upon the Commission to make recommendations for changes in such organizations which shall best serve the interests of the United States and the promotion of peace, economy, efficiency and improved administration. Requires that the Commission submit a report to the President and Congress not later that January 1, 1978. Authorizes the Commission to take actions as specified to carry out the provisions of this resolution.
United States · United States Congress · 19 September 1975
Local Freight and Passenger Services Amendments - Redefines "interim light density lines" for purposes of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act as meaning all rail properties used or useful in providing local rail service in the region, except rail properties: (1) designated in the final system plan as profitable lines to be operated by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation or profitable railroads pursuant to this Act; (2) approved for abandonment prior to the effective date of the final system plan; or (3) which are out of service as of the effective date of the final system plan. Directs the Corporation to determine and publish criteria to assist States and local and regional transportation authorities in making determinations whether to provide rail service continuation subsidies to maintain in operation particular rail properties, and provide legal and technical assistance to such authorities. States that the Corporation must issue regulations containing standards for the computation of subsidies for rail passenger services. Permits discontinuance of freight service on any interim light density line if such line is not subject to an offer of or an agreement for purchase or subsidy, and notice of intent to discontinue freight service is sent to the Governor and local governments of the affected States. Authorizes discontinuance of rail passenger service after specified conditions have been met. Prohibits discontinuance or abandonment if a shipper, a State, the United States, a local or regional transportation authority, or any other responsible person offers: (1) a rail service continuation subsidy which covers the difference between the revenue attributable to such rail properties and the avoidable costs of providing service on such rail properties plus a reasonable return on the value of such rail properties; or (2) to purchase such rail properties in order to operate rail service. Sets forth procedures governing the rehabilitation of out of service and interim light density lines. Directs the U.S. Railway Association to issue a supplement to the final system plan which shall: (1) provide for the transfer of all interim light density lines to the Corporation; and (2) designate the value of all interim light density lines and the value of the securities and other benefits to be received for rail properties transferred to the Corporation. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to provide grants to States to help such States meet the cost of establishing and implementing State rail plans. Stipulates that such plans are not suitable unless such plan provides for prompt determination and evaluation of: (1) the amount of rail service continuation subsidies required for each interim light density line; (2) the total direct and indirect costs of abandonment of interim light density lines; and (3) the total direct and indirect costs of maintaining interim light density lines. Authorizes the appropriation of specified sums to carry out the purposes of this Act. Directs the Secretary to make supplementary grants to State, local, or regional transportation authorities for the purpose of assisting such entities in paying for additional costs of passenger service resulting from the implementation of the regulations promulgated by the Office pursuant to this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1975
Fair Financing for Local Government Act - Title I: Fair Finance Insurance Board - Establishes a Fair Finance Insurance Board with a Chairman and four members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the Board to secure directly from any executive department or agency information, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance for the purpose of carrying out its functions under this Act. Directs such executive department or agency to furnish the information, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance directly to the Board upon its request. Title II: Functions of the Board - Authorizes the Board to offer to any insurers, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, reinsurance against 75 percent of losses resulting from the failure of any unit of local government to pay all or any part of scheduled municipal bond principal and interest payments on insured municipal bonds as such payments become due and payable. Authorizes the Board to enter into any contract, agreement, or other arrangement with any insurer for reinsurance coverage, pursuant to this title, in consideration of payment to the Board by the insurer of a premium which shall be determined by the Board, but which shall not exceed 1 percent of the total amount of the interest and principal amounts insured. Authorizes the Board to offer to the local assistance agency of any State, subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, a guarantee of payment of 75 percent of the total amount of the interest and principle of bonds issued by such agency for the purpose of purchasing principle bonds issued by a unit of local government within such State. Title III: Special Study and Annual Reports - Directs the Board to conduct a study of the market for securities issued by local governmental units. Stipulates that such study shall include: (1) the availability, and present and potential sources of funds for the purchase of such securities; (2) influences upon, and developments in, interest rates for such securities; (3) suggested reforms in the financial structures and functioning, and in present methods of financing the activities of, units of local government; and (4) Federal and State efforts to assist in the marketing of such securities. Directs the Board to submit such local securities market study to the President for transmission to the Congress no later than 180 days subsequent to the enactment of this Act. Title IV: Advisory Committees - Authorizes the Board to establish special advisory committees which shall consult with the Board during the planning and implementation of its functions and shall provide advice and information to the Board concerning all aspects of its activities. Requires the advisory committees to provide for the representation of the following interests and such other interests as the Board may deem necessary or desirable: (1) city, county and State governments; (2) the labor movement; and (3) the financial community. Title V: Fair Finance Insurance Fund - Establishes a Fair Finance Insurance Fund which shall be available, without fiscal year limitations: (1) to make such payments as may, from time to time, be required under reinsurance or guarantee agreements entered into under this Act; and (2) to pay such administrative expenses as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Stipulates that in the event there are insufficient moneys in the Fund to meet obligations of the Board, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Fund such sums as may be necessary to fulfill such obligations. Authorizes Secretary of the Treasury to use, for the purpose of making any such transfer, the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey specifically described lands at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, to the Airship Association as a site for an airship museum.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, in determining the cost of specified additional mileage of the Interstate Highway System, to reflect changes in construction costs which occurred between the date of the original estimate and which are generally applicable to the most recent cost estimate prepared for other interstate routes.
United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should, upon his visit to the People's Republic of China, request that the Chinese officials use their offices to obtain an accounting of members of the United States Armed Forces missing in action and confined as prisoners of war in Southeast Asia.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1975
Authorizes a clothing allowance of $175 a year in the case of qualified veterans with non-service-connected disabilities who wear prosthetic or orthopedic appliances which the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs determines tends to wear out or tear the clothing of such veterans. (Amends U.S.C. 362)
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Czechoslovakia, Poland or any nation allied or associated with the United States in World War I or World War II. Specifies eligibility requirements for such care. Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to seek reciprocal agreements with nations allied with the United States during the world wars.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1975
Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Act - States that the purpose of this Act is to revise the framework of collective bargaining in the construction industry. Creates, in the Department of Labor, the Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Committee comprised of ten management representatives, ten labor representatives, and up to three neutral members, appointed by the President. Provides that one of the neutral members shall be appointed Chairman. Requires that the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Secretary of Labor shall be ex officio members. Provides that the management, labor, and neutral members shall be appointed after consultation with the national organizations. Requires local labor organizations affiliated with the standard labor organizations in the industry to give 60 days notice to their national unions before the expiration or reopening of agreements, and contractors or associations engaged in collective bargaining with them are similarly required to notify either the national organizations with which they are affiliated, or the Committee directly if there is no national affiliation. Directs standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations engaged in collective bargaining to forward such notices to the Committee. Authorizes the Committee to take jurisdiction of the matter, in which case any strike or lockout is deferred for up to 30 days past the expiration or reopening date. Allows the Committee to decide to refer a matter to a national craft board or to the national machinery established by a branch of the industry, on which national unions and national contractor associations are represented, in an effort to assist the parties to reach agreement. Authorizes the Committee to elect to meet with the parties itself. Provides that the Committee may request the standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations whose members are directly involved to participate in the negotiations. Directs that in that event, any new or revised collective bargaining agreement shall be approved by the standard national construction labor organization with which the local labor organization, or other subordinate body, is affiliated in order for the agreement to be of any force or effect. Prescribes that in the event the standard national labor organization or national contractor association participates in such negotiation, it shall not suffer any criminal or civil liability arising out of such participation; nor shall the standard national labor organization be subject to any civil or criminal liability arising out of its approval, or failure to approve, a collective bargaining agreement. Specifies the standards which the Committee shall take into account in taking jurisdiction of a matter and requesting the participation of the standard national labor organizations and the national contractor associations. Authorizes the Committee to make studies of collective bargaining in the industry and to make general recommendations with regard to negotiating structures, improvement of productivity, stability of employment, differentials among branches of the industry, dispute settlement procedures, and other related matters. Provides that this Act shall run for a term of five years. Directs the Committee to submit annual reports to the Congress and, six months in advance of the five-year limit, the Committee shall make recommendations with regard to the extension of the legislation.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare should withdraw its proposed Consolidated Procedural Rules for Administration and Enforcement of the Department's statutory responsibilities. States that if additional positions are required for enforcement of Civil Rights laws such need should be brought to the attention of the Senate. Directs the Office of Civil Rights to continue to make efforts to detect systematic discrimination including those areas relating to discrimination based on sex and handicap.
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1975
Title I: Rice Allotments and Price Support - Rice Production Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, to establish for each of the 1976 and 1977 rice crops a national acreage allotment of 1,800,000 acres. States that the national acreage allotment shall be apportioned, for each crop of rice, by the Secretary to farms and producers on the basis of allotments established for the 1975 crop. Provides for reserving a portion of the rice allotment for apportionment to new rice farms and new rice producers. Sets forth criteria for reducing or withdrawing entirely the rice allotment of a farm or producer which plants to rice less than the total acreage allotted to it for that crop. Defines exceptions to such criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer for any year because of natural disaster all or a part of such rice acreage for any farm in the county or in any other nearby county on which one or more producers on the farm from which the transfer is to be made will be engaged in the production of rice and will share in the proceeds in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. Directs the Secretary to permit the owner and operator of any farm for which a farm acreage allotment has been established to sell or lease all or any part to any other owner or operator of a farm in the same administrative area, or to transfer all or any part of such allotment to any other farm owned or controlled by him in the same administrative area. Provides for the apportionment among the heirs of a rice producer of the farm rice acreage allotment of such producer in States in which the allotment is based on past production of rice. Provides for apportionment of acreage upon dissolution of a partnership in such States. Provides for the voluntary surrender to the county committee of a portion of a farm's rice acreage allotment. States that any acreage planted to rice in excess of the farm or producer acreage allotment in the crop years 1975 and 1977 shall not be taken into account in establishing farm or producer acreage allotments in any year following such period. Establishes, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, the price to be used in making payments on rice under the price support program. Sets the price for the 1976 crop at $8 per hundredweight, adjusted for economic and agricultural factors designated in this Act. Bases the 1977 price on the price paid in 1976 as adjusted. Directs the Secretary to make loans and purchases on the 1976 rice crop available to producers who are in cooperation with the rice acreage allotment at a rate of $6 per hundredweight as adjusted for economic and agricultural factors. Bases 1977 loans and purchases on the price paid in 1976 as adjusted. Directs the Secretary to make payments available to cooperators for each of the 1976 and 1977 rice crops. Sets forth criteria for determining the rate of such payments and the total amount of such payments to a cooperator. Directs the Secretary to provide for a set-aside of cropland for a rice crop if an excessive supply of rice for the marketing year under consideration is predicted. Declares that, if set-aside conditions are in effect, cooperators, as a condition of eligibility for payments, loans, and purchases must set aside and devote to conservation uses an acreage of cropland specified in this Act. Authorizes the raising of specified crops other than rice on set-aside acreage. Limits to $55,000 the total amount of payments which a person shall be entitled to receive during a crop year under this rice program. Makes inapplicable to the 1976 and 1977 crops of rice those sections of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which regulate the apportionment of the national acreage allotment and marketing quotas with respect to rice. Title II: Rice Research - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out regional and national research programs with respect to rice for specified purposes, including: (1) to reduce fertilizer and herbicide usage in excess of production needs; (2) to develop varieties of rice more susceptible to complete fertilizer utilization; and (3) to improve the resistance of rice plants to disease and to enhance their conservation and environmental qualities. Authorizes the appropriation of up to $1,000,000 in any fiscal year to carry out such research. Title III: Miscellaneous - Provides, under the Agricultural Act of 1949, that for the 1975 through 1977 crops of rice, a cooperator shall be a person who has a rice acreage allotment, and, if a set-aside is in effect, who has set aside the acreage required.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1975
Directs the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year, 1975, to organize and convene a national conference to be known as the National Women's Conference. Sets forth the composition and goals of the Conference. Grants the Commission powers necessary to carry out this Act. Requires that the Commission submit a report to the President and each House of Congress not later than 120 days after the conclusion of the Conference. States that such report shall include findings and recommendations of the Conference. Authorizes the appropriation of not more than $10,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Energy Administration to prescribe regulations to require State agencies regulating the price of electricity to the ultimate consumer to prohibit or restrict the use of bulk or master electricity meters in: (1) apartment buildings constructed after the earliest possible date; and (2) in apartment buildings constructed prior to such date to the extent practicable.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1975
Directs the Department of Labor, in cooperation with the Department of Commerce, to study the feasibility and cost of developing and publishing monthly a nationwide unemployment rate among Americans of Spanish origin or descent. Directs such departments and the Department of Agriculture to each collect, and regularly publish, statistics which indicate the social and economic condition of Americans of Spanish origin or descent. Requires the Department of Commerce to provide for the use of bilingual questionnaires in the collection of data required by this Act. Requires such department to implement an aggressive affirmative action program within the Census Bureau for the employment of personnel of Spanish origin or descent.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1975
Provides, under title XX (Grants to States for Services) of the Social Security Act, that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided thereunder to groups of low-income individuals aged sixty or older.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Indochina Refugee Children Assistance Act - Defines terms used in this Act. Directs the Commissioner of Education to make grants to State and territorial educational agencies for the public education of Vietnamese and Cambodian refugee children. Sets forth a formula for determining the amount of such grants. States that no such grants may be made unless the State submits an application to the Commissioner containing specified information and assurances that such payments will be distributed among local educational agencies within that State in direct proportion to the number of Indochinese refugee children served by each such local educational agency. Authorizes supplementary assistance grants of $300 per child to any State educational agency which provides for the unique educational needs of Indochinese refugee children who are aged five to seventeen, inclusive. Authorizes appropriations for basic entitlement grants of $57,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $14,500,000 for the period beginning January 1, 1976 and ending September 30, 1976, and $29,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Authorizes specified appropriations for supplementary assistance grants.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1975
Title I: - Provides that benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act shall be payable in an amount equal to 60 percent of the daily rate of compensation (but not less than $12.70 per day nor more than $24.00 per day) to any qualified employee for each day of unemployment or sickness in excess of four during any registration period. Provides for enlargement of the extended benefit period for railroad employees leaving work involuntarily and with less than 10 years of service by up to 65 days otherwise compensable but for the fact that benefits have been exhausted for that benefit year. Sets forth a method for determining the beginning date of an extended benefit period. Increases the rate of employers' contributions to the railroad unemployment insurance account when the amount in such account drops below $300,000,000 on September 30 of any year. Decreases the qualifying period for first-year employees for railroad unemployment benefits from 7 to 5 months of railroad employment during such year. Title II: Amendments to the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 and the Railroad Retirement Tax Act - Authorizes to be appropriated from time to time such sums as may be necessary to provide for the expenses of the Board in administering the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Revises the authority of the States to impose stock transfer taxes under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934.
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1975
Expresses the disapproval of the United States Senate of attempts to expel Israel for the United Nations. States that if Israel is expelled the Senate will review United States commitments to the Third World nations involved in the expulsion and will consider the implication of continued membership in the United Nations.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1975
Permits eligible veterans to use their veteran's educational benefits for a program of flight training at an educational institution outside the United States. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1676)
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1975
Directs that during fiscal year 1976 not less than 70 percent of the value of government-to-government commodity grants and of funds expended under title I of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 shall be allotted to countries designated by the United Nations as "Most Seriously Affected". Establishes priorities for such distribution. Establishes procedures whereby the President may, subject to congressional approval, provide commodity assistance in excess of the limitations specified in this resolution if such assistance is for humanitarian purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1975
Extends an invitation to Alexandr Solzhenitsyn to address a joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives.
United States · United States Congress · 8 July 1975
Provides under the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 that the gross income of an employee does not include amounts received as payment or reimbursement for legal services furnished to the employee under a group legal service plan, the value of legal services rendered to the employee under such plans, or amounts contributed by the employee's employer to such plan.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Extends the life of the Drug Abuse Office and the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention an additional six months, through January 1, 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Director of the Drug Abuse Office. Prohibits any private or public general hospital which receives Federal support from discriminating against drug abusers solely because of their drug dependence or abuse. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1978 for State drug abuse prevention programs. Revises State plan requirements. Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1978 for special drug abuse prevention project grants and contracts. Grants high priority in the implementation of such grants and contracts to primary prevention projects.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
National Workers' Compensation Act - Declares the findings of Congress that existing State workers' compensation laws are inadequate and that basic, national minimum requirements for State workers' compensation laws must be mandated and enforced by Congress for the protection of workers who are injured, or killed, or who contract diseases in the course of their employment. States that it is the purpose of this Act: (1) to establish minimum workers' compensation laws; (2) to establish procedures for their enforcement; and (3) to assist the States in improving existing workers' compensation systems in order to provide a uniform system of compensation, and to restore disabled workers to the fullest possible physical, mental, and economic usefulness through medical and vocational rehabilitation services. Defines the terms used in this Act. States that this Act applies to all employers and all employees. Enumerates the States in which an injured employee or the survivors of a deceased employee may claim benefits when injury or death occurred during the work-related travel of the employee. Enumerates workers' compensation benefits for any employee who becomes disabled or the survivor of any employee who dies due to any injury arising out of and in the course of employment. Sets forth the time limits for filing claims under this Act. Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to undertake a study of diseases related to employment, and recommend standards for determining: (1) whether such disease arose out of employment; and (2) whether death or disease was due to such employment. Sets forth administrative requirements for State workers' compensation agencies. Includes requirements: (1) that a single State agency be designated for administering workers' compensation law throughout the State; (2) that such agency maintain a rehabilitation services unit; and (3) that the hiring of qualified handicapped workers be encouraged. Provides for adjudication of disputed compensation cases in Federal district courts when the amount in controversy exceeds $10,000. Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to enforce the provisions of this Act through action in the Federal district courts. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States to assist them in carrying out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated through fiscal year 1978 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program of grants. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop and maintain a program of collection and analyses of workers' compensation statistics. Grants access to books, documents, papers and records of any grantee under this Act to the Secretary of Labor and the Comptroller General. Directs the Secretary to submit an annual report to the Congress on the subject matter of this Act. Establishes the National Workers' Compensation Advisory Commission. Defines the composition of the group. Directs the Commission to monitor the progress of the States in implementing the provisions of the Act and to advise the Secretary of compliance or noncompliance by the States, and to make recommendations for improving workers' compensation programs including recommendations for determining the compensation payable for permanent partial disability. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Full Benefits Pass-Along Act - Provides, under the Social Security Act, that recipients of aid or assistance under the various Federal-State public assistance and medicaid programs (and recipients of assistance under the veterans' pension and compensation programs or any other Federal or federally assisted program) will not have the amount of such aid or assistance reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Authorizes payment under the supplementary medical insurance program of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Secuirty Act for optometric and medical vision care.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Urges the President to seek an immediate international suspension of the transfer to nonnuclear weapons countries of nuclear enrichment and reprocessing facilities and technology to permit time for the negotiation of additional safeguards to reduce the risk of diversion or theft of plutonium and other nuclear materials to military or other uses that would jeopardize world peace and security.
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1975
Extends, under rule 33 of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the privilege of the Senate floor to the Parliamentarian Emeritus of the Senate.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Emergency Mortgage Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to make emergency mortgage relief payments to mortgagees on behalf of distressed homeowners. Sets forth as conditions for making such payments: (1) the holder of the mortgage has indicated an intention to foreclose; (2) mortgage payments have been delinquent for at least two months; (3) the mortgagor has incurred a substantial reduction in income as result of involuntary unemployment or underemployment due to adverse economic conditions and is financially unable to make the full payments; (4) there is a reasonable prospect that the mortgager will be able to make the adjustments necessary for a full resumption of mortgage payments; and (5) the mortgaged property is the principal residence of the mortgagor. States that mortgage relief payments may be made in amounts up to $250 per month for up to twelve months with an extension of up to an additional twelve months. States that the payments shall be repayable with an annual interest rate not exceeding eight percent. Directs the Secretary and the Federal supervisory agencies with respect to financial institutions to take steps to encourage forebearance in residential mortgage loan foreclosures, and to request all mortgagees to give such agencies at least 30 days notice prior to instituting foreclosure proceedings. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of this Act not to exceed $500,000,000. States that mortgage relief payments shall not be made after July 1, 1976. Directs the Secretary to report to Congress within sixty days after enactment and at sixty-day intervals thereafter on the actions taken under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Provides that specified publications of institutions of higher education shall continue to qualify as second-class mail. (Amends 39 U.S.C. 3626)
United States · United States Congress · 25 June 1975
Commends the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for contributions to the well-being of all peoples on its seventy-fifth anniversary.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1975
Directs the heads of each executive agency to submit to the President inventories of the following relationships between the United States and each country from which the United States imports crude oil, natural gas, or petroleum products: (1) exports from the United States; (2) arrangements for the performance of research and development projects; (3) arrangements for the provision of educational or training programs for such a country by the United States; (4) investments held by such country in the United States, and by the United States in such other countries; and (5) arrangements for the United States to furnish military supplies to such countries. States that such information may be used for, but is not limited to, assisting in negotiations between the United States and oil producing countries.
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1975
Social Security Cost-of-Living Improvement Act - Provides for a second annual cost-of-living increase in Federal old-age, survivors, and disability benefits under the Social Security Act. Defines the base periods from which the need for such increases shall be determined. Directs the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop a special Consumer Price Index for the elderly.
United States · United States Congress · 18 June 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is 60 years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of a permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949, and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 13 June 1975
Provides, under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, for the restoration of unemployment benefits to unemployed railroad workers to 55 percent of the average daily railroad wage. Extends eligibility for railroad unemployment sickness benefits to additional persons. Reduces the waiting period for eligibility for such benefits. Revises the formula for determining employer contribution to the unemployment account. Increases the maximum period for which benefits can be paid from 26 weeks to 39 weeks.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1975
Requires the continued application of the minimum nursing salary cost differential of 8 1/2 percent which is presently allowed in determining the reasonable cost of inpatient nursing care for purposes of reimbursement to providers under the Medicare program of the Social Security Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Provides for the relief of Lt. Frederick R. Marlin, Jr., U.S. Navy.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
States that it is the policy of the Congress, under the Defense Production Act of 1950, to protect the economic security of the United States and to avoid or mitigate the effects on the economy of the United States of future embargoes imposed by foreign sources of economically important materials by establishing national stockpiles of such materials.
United States · United States Congress · 4 June 1975
Energy Information Act - Sets forth Congressional findings and purposes and defines the terms used in this Act. Title I: National Energy Information Administration - Creates as an independent agency of the Federal Government the National Energy Information Administration, to be headed by an Administrator. Provides that the function of the Administration shall be the collection, tabulation, comparison, analysis, standardization, and dissemination of energy information pursuant to this Act. Directs the Administrator to coordinate exisitng energy information collection activities of all Federal agencies. Requires the Administrator to submit to Congress and the President a plan for the consolidation of the energy information activities of the Federal Government. Provides for the imposition of criminal penalties for the unauthorized disclosure of, or theft of, non-public energy information. Title II: National Energy Information System - Directs the Administrator to establish a National Energy Information system which shall be operated and maintained by the Administration. Provides that such System shall contain such information as is required (1) to provide a description of and facilitate analysis of energy supply and consumption within and affecting the United States on the basis of such geographic areas and economic sectors as may be appropriate and (2) to meet adequately the needs of the Congress and of those Federal agencies which are responsible for energy policy analysis and formulation and for energy regulation. Requires major energy producing companies to file annual financial reports with the Administrator. Requires major energy consuming companies to file annual energy consumption reports, including the amounts and types of energy used, with the Administrator. Provides that the information collected pursuant to this Act shall be made public except where such information: (1) constitutes a trade secret; (2) would substantially harm the company that supplied it if disclosed; (3) was obtained from a Federal, State or local agency on a confidential basis; and (4) was classified for national security on foreign policy reasons. Authorizes the Administrator to delay the disclosure of geological information. Provides that only Federal employees having official use for such information shall have access to the information in the non-public catergories listed above. Title III: Energy Resources Surveys and Inspections by the Department of the Interior - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to compile, maintain, and keep current on not less than an annual basis a survey of all mineral fuel resources and nonmineral energy resources in the public lands of the United States. Stipulates that such survey program shall be designed to provide information about the location, extent, value, and characteristics of such resources. Title IV: Miscellaneous - Directs the Comptroller General to continuously monitor and evaluate the activities and operations of the Administration. Authorizes to be appropriated to the National Energy Information Administration and the Department of the Interior such amounts as may be requisite to full and efficient performance of the duties imposed upon such agencies by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to guarantee any financing institution against loss of principal or interest on any loan to a unit of government for the purpose of assisting that unit of government to meet temporary and urgent financial needs which if not met (1) could seriously impair the ability of the unit of government to provide service for the public, and (2) could adversely and seriously affect the economy of the region surrounding the unit of government. Specifies circumstances under which such guarantees may be made including, (1) the loan is not otherwise available, and (2) there is reasonable assurance of repayment. Stipulates that the maximum obligation of the Secretary under any loan or loans made to any one borrower within any one year which is guaranteed under this Act shall not exceed $500,000,000, unless the Secretary submits a report to the Congress prior to the making of a larger guarantee. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a loan guarantee fund to be administered by the Secretary. Authorizes to be appropriated to the loan guarantee fund such amounts as may be necessary to provide requisite capital. Creates a Loan Guarantee Policy Board to establish general policies which shall govern the making of guarantees under this Act. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the operation of this Act and the need for the establishment of an Emergency Loan Guarantee Corporation to provide for the continuation of the program established by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Declares it to be the public policy of the United States to discourage the needless maiming and suffering inflicted on wild animals by the use of leg-hold and steel jaw traps. Provides that no fur or leather shall be shipped in interstate or foreign commerce if such fur or leather comes from animals trapped in any State or any foreign country which has not banned the manufacture, sale, or use of leg-hold or steel jaw traps. Requires the Secretary of State to compile and publish a list of States and countries which have not banned the use or manufacture of such traps, and to ban all imports of fur or leather from countries which have not banned the manufacture, sale, and use of such traps. Provides a penalty of not more than a $2,000 fine for the first offense of shipping or receiving prohibited furs or leather and for the second and subsequent offenses a fine of not more than $5,000 and a jail term of one to three years. Provides identical penalties for the first and subsequent offensed of carrying, transporting, or shipping leg-hold or steel jaw traps in interstate or foreign commerce or for knowingly receiving, acquiring, or purchasing such traps.
United States · United States Congress · 22 May 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating June 23, 1975, as "International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union Day" to celebrate the occasion of the 75th anniversary of that union.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Volunteer End-of-Service Allowance Increase Act - Increases VISTA Volunteer stipends and Peace Corps Volunteer readjustment allowances. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to provide for such increases.
United States · United States Congress · 20 May 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President of the United States (1) should propose an immediate suspension on underground nuclear testing to remain in effect so long as the Soviet Union abstains from underground testing, and (2) should set forth promptly a new proposal to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and other nations for a permanent treaty to ban all nuclear tests.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act - Requires the licensing of all clinical laboratories, as defined by this Act. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue such licenses. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate licensing authority to the States, providing the Secretary determines that State standards meet or exceed Federal standards. Sets forth the standards that must be met by clinical laboratories in order to receive and maintain the license required by this Act. Provides that such standards shall be designed to assure consistently accurate laboratory procedures and service. Directs the Secretary to establish an Office of Clinical Laboratories. Declares that the purpose of such Office shall be to centralize the laboratory regulatory functions authorized by this Act and to assume responsibility for the laboratory component of other health programs administered and enforced by the Secretary. Creates an advisory council to advise the Office with respect to guidelines for laboratory licensing, personnel, and performance standards. Provides that no grant or reimbursement which the Secretary is authorized to make, or contract which he is authorized to award, whether to or for any health care facility, including but not limited to health maintenance organizations, hospitals, skilled nursing or intermediate care facilities, or in connection with the procurement and reimbursement for clinical laboratory services shall be entered into unless the laboratory meets the standards established by the Secretary. Provides for grants and technical assistance to those States which desire to establish State licensing procedures and regulations for development, administration, and enforcement purposes. Provides that any person who willfully violates any provision of this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder shall be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more than $1,000, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 14 May 1975
Federal Railroad Employees Safety and Health Act - Title I: Transfer of Certain Railroad Safety Functions - Transfers to the Secretary of Labor the railroad safety functions currently performed by the Secretary of Transportation under specified provisions of law. Title II: The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission - Expands the membership of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission from three to five. Requires the two additional members to be qualified in the field of a railroad safety and health. Authorizes the Commission to expedite proceedings held pursuant to the laws relating to the railroad safety functions transferred by this Act. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Establishes a Federal Railroad Safety and Health Administration in the Department of Labor. Directs the Secretary of Labor to carry out the functions transferred by this Act through such Administration. Abolishes the Federal Railroad Administration. Increases the penalties to be imposed upon railroads for violations of specified railroad safety requirement.