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United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Elderly Day Care Center Act - Revises, under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, the definition of "provider of service" to include "day care center."
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to schools of medicine to train veterans, with appropriate experience as paramedical personnel, to serve as medical assistants in long-term health care facilities. Authorizes appropriations of $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $5,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
National Home Health Care Act - Broadens the coverage of home health services under the supplementary medical insurance (Medicare) program of the Social Security Act and removes the 100-visit limitation presently applicable to the home health service program. Extends the coverage of posthospital home health services to include payment for items and services which the individual could otherwise obtain only in a skilled nursing facility. Requires the inclusion of home health services in a State's medicaid program under the Social Security Act and permits the payment of rent under such program for elderly persons who would otherwise require nursing home care. Provides expanded Federal funding for congregate housing for the displaced and the elderly by increasing the amount available for such housing under the low income housing program. Establishes, in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a home health patient ombudsman, who shall be appointed and provided with adequate staff and facilities by the Secretary. Makes it the duty and responsibility of the ombudsman to monitor specified programs under the Social Security and the various medical assistance programs under State plans approved pursuant to such Act and to maintain such oversight of those programs and their operation and administration as may be necessary to: (1) assure that home health patients under such programs are receiving the care to which they are entitled; (2) provide safeguards against overcharging for home health services; (3) identify abuses against home health patients; (4) receive, handle, and expedite complaints by home health patients; (5) recommend to the Secretary any changes in the regulation affecting home health services which may appear necessary or desirable; and (6) take appropriate action (including the transmission of findings to the Attorney General) with respect to abuses and violations of law affecting the provision or receipt of home health services under such programs.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants under the Public Health Service Act to colleges and universities to assist them in the establishment and operation of programs for the training of physicians' assistants. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,00 annually commencing with fiscal year 1974 to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Nursing Home Personnel In-Service Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to make grants, not to exceed $100,000 per grant, to assist public or nonprofit private schools of nursing to meet the costs of developing short-term in-service training programs for nurses aids and orderlies for nursing homes. Provides that such programs shall emphasize the special problems of geriatric patients. Authorizes to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Requires that any nursing home which provides services under any State program approved under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, must submit to the State agency administering such program a report of costs and a financial statement, both audited by a certified public accountant, reflecting the operation of such nursing home.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Provides, under the Public Health Service Act, that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may make grants to and enter into contracts with public or nonprofit entities for the purposes of developing or operating programs for the training of nurse practioniers with special emphasis on nursing homes and the care of the aged. States that on or before March 1, 1975, after consultation with appropriate educational organizations and professional nursing and medical organizations, the Secretary shall prescribe program guidelines for nurse practicioners. Sets forth minimum guidelines, including a program of classroom instruction and supervised clinical practice aimed toward preparing nurses to delivery primary health care. Authorizes to be appropriated for the purposes of making payments under grants and contracts $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $7,500,000 for fiscal year 1976. $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975 and $7,500,000 for fiscal year 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist schools of medicine in the establishment and operation, within such schools, of departments of geriatries. Stipulates that such grants shall not be made to more than six schools of medicine and the amount of such grants to any school of medicine for any year shall not exceed $500,000. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 12 March 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President's proposal to restructure the medicare deductible for physician services and the copayment for inpatient hospital services to require citizens to pay more of the health bill shall not be enacted.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Antitrust Enforcement Authorization Act - States that it is the purpose of Congress in this Act to support and invigorate a national antitrust enforcement program authorizing sufficient appropriations to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to permit vigorous and effective enforcement of the antitrust laws. Authorizes to be appropriated to both the Commission and the Justice Department, in addition to such sums as are authorized by any other provisions of law, sums not to exceed $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1976; not to exceed $6,250,000 for the transitional period ending September 30, 1976; not to exceed $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1977; and not to exceed $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1978, such sums to remain available until expended for the purposes authorized by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 11 March 1975
Authorizes the President to issue a proclamation designating April 17, 1975, as "National Food Day".
United States · United States Congress · 10 March 1975
Transfers legislative authority for the Small Business Administration to the Senate Select Committee on Small Business.
United States · United States Congress · 7 March 1975
Performance Rights Amendment - Provides under the Copyright Act, for the establishment of a performance royalty. Gives exclusive rights to a copyright holder to perform publicly for profit and to reproduce and distribute to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending, any reproduction of a copyrighted work which is a sound recording. Limits the exclusive rights of the owner of a copyright to duplicate the sound recording in a tangible form that recaptures the actual sounds fixed in the recording, and to perform those actual sounds. Provides that these rights do not extend to the making or duplication of another sound recording that is an independent fixation of other sounds, or to the performance of other sounds, even though such sounds imitate or simulate those in the copyrighted sound recording; or to reproductions made by broadcasting organizations exclusively for their own use. Provides that where the copyrighted sound recording has been distributed to the public under the authority of the copyright owner, the public performance of the sound recording shall be subject to compulsory licensing. Establishes a compulsory licensing system whereby those who use sound recordings for profit would be required to pay a fee (performance royalty) to the copyright owner. Provides that such fees shall be placed in a fund out of which copyright owners are compensated. Specifies that the annual royalty fees, at the user's option, may be computed on either a blanket or a prorated basis. Allows the substitution of a negotiated license for the compulsory license at a rate not less than specified in this Act. Sets forth detailed payment requirements for royalties under the compulsory licensing provisions of this amendment. (Amends 17 U.S.C. 1; Adds 17 U.S.C. 33)
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
National Biomedical Heart, Lung, Blood, Blood Vessel, and Research Training Act - Title I: National Heart and Lung Institute - Directs the Director of the Institute to prepare in consultation with the National Heart and Lung Advisory Council and submit to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for transmittal to the President and the Congress simultaneously an annual report on the activities, progress, and accomplishments under the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung and Blood Disease program during the preceding year and a plan for the next five years, including projections of the staff required and recommendations for appropriations. Redesignates the Assistant Director for Health Information Programs as the Assistant Director for Prevention and Education. Authorizes $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $45,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs. Authorizes cardiovascular, lung, and blood disease prevention programs to be carried out in chronic lung disease research and demonstration centers. Limits payments under the Act to heart, blood vessel, lung and blood disease centers to $5,000,000 for any year. Authorizes the Advisory Council to approve areas or research in heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases to be supported by the awarding of contracts and approve the percentage of the budget of the Institute which may be expended for such contracts. Excludes indirect costs in determining the maximum amount of research and training grant authorized by the National Heart and Lung Act. Authorizes $475,000,000 for fiscal year 1977 for carrying out the programs of such Act. Title II: National Research Service Awards - Authorizes the awarding of National Research Awards for biomedical and behavioral research at Federal institutions. Authorizes $207,947,000 for the National Research Service Awards program for fiscal years 1975 and 1976.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Health Professions Educational Assistance Act Title I: General Provisions - Renumbers, consolidates, and rearranges existing provisions in title VII of the Public Health Service Act which authorizes Federal assistance to schools of the health professions. Expands the membership of the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education to include representatives of all the health professions schools assisted under title VII of the Public Health Service Act. Sets forth a revised advanced funding provision. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Extends provisions of the Public Health Service Act authorizing grants, loan guarantees, and interest subsidies for the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and public health personnel. Authorizes $100 million for fiscal year 1975; $125 million for fiscal year 1976; and $150 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years for the construction grant program. Authorizes $2 million for fiscal year 1975; $2.5 million for fiscal year 1976; and $3 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years for loan guarantees and interest subsidies. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Revises the student assistance programs authorized under the Public Health Service Act. States that students pursuing a graduate degree in public health would become eligible to apply for health professions student loans under this Act. Repeals the advanced traineeship program for students of public health. Increases the maximum amount of a health professions student loan to equal a health professions student's tuition plus $2,500 per year. Provides that authorizations for the health professions student loan fund are $60 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Provides for the forgiveness or cancellation of professional educational expenses at the rate of 50 percent for the first year and 50 percent for the second year of service in a health manpower shortage area. Makes students pursuing graduate degrees in public health eligible for the loan forgiveness program. Obligates each individual who receives any student loan under title VII to serve at least 2 years in an area or institution designated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare as having a shortage of health manpower. States that the individual could serve the obligated period in a shortage area as designated by the Secretary, or could serve as a member of the National Health Service Corps. Provides that individuals who fail to serve the obligated period would be required to pay damages equal to twice the original value of the student assistance received. Repeals the program of health professions student scholarships and the physician shortage area scholarship program, to be replaced by an amended Public Health and National Health Service Corps scholarship training program. Sets forth the features of such program. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Extends the existing programs of capitation and special project grants to health professions schools and the program of assistance to area health education centers. Provides that schools of public health shall be eligible for capitation grants awarded on the basis of the number of students enrolled. States that each grant will equal one-third of the net educational costs of training a student multiplied by the number of full-time students enrolled in the school. Provides total authorizations for the capitation grant program of $292,273,250 for fiscal year 1975, $304,626,000 for fiscal year 1976; and $316,747,350 for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years. Prohibits the Secretary from making any capitation grant after June 30, 1974, unless the school assures the Secretary that each student accepted for enrollment agrees to serve in the National Health Service Corps or in a medically underserved area as a private practitioner. Authorizes grants for projects to assist schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry to plan, develop, and implement a nutrition education curriculum. Provides for authorizations for the special projects program of $100 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Extends the program of start-up assistance for new schools of medicine, osteopathy, and dentistry. Authorizes $11 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Repeals the program of financial distress grants to health professions schools. Revises the program of assistance to area health education centers by requiring all new centers receiving assistance to: (1) encourage the establishment or maintenance of programs to alleviate shortages of health personnel through training or retraining; (2) provide training programs leading to more efficient utilization of health personnel; (3) initiate new types and patterns or improve existing patterns of training, retraining, continuing education, and advanced training of personnel; and (4) encourage new or more effective approaches to the organization and delivery of health services through the use of team approaches. Authorizes appropriations for area health education centers of $75 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Title V: Assistance for Specialized Training - Extends provisions of the Public Health Service Act which authorize grants to hospitals to develop training programs in family medicine and to provide financial assistance to students and physicians who participate in family medicine programs. Authorizes, for the family medicine grant program, $40 million for each fiscal year 1975 through 1979. Repeals the programs for grants for computer technology health care demonstration programs and grants for training, traineeships, and fellowships for health professions teaching personnel. Authorizes grants to medical and osteopathic schools to train U.S. citizens who transfer from foreign medical schools to a U.S. medical school. Authorizes for such program $5 million for fiscal year 1975; $10 million for fiscal year 1976; and $15 million for fiscal year 1977 and each of the next 2 fiscal years. Title VI: Allied Health Personnel - Defines the term "allied health personnel". Authorizes a program of allied health special project grants for States, schools and representatives of the allied health professions. Authorizes, for this allied health special projects grant program, $40 million for fiscal 1975; $45 million for fiscal year 1976; and $50 million for fiscal year 1977 and the next 2 fiscal years. Revises the advanced traineeship program for professional allied health personnel and authorizes appropriations of $7.5 million for fiscal year 1975; $9 million for fiscal year 1976; and $10.5 million for fiscal year 1977 and the next 2 fiscal years. Authorizes appropriations for the identification of and assistance to financially, culturally, or educationally deprived persons who have a potential to become allied health personnel. Requires the compilation and dissemination of statistics on allied health personnel and submission to the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee and the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of an annual report on these statistics. Title VII: Postgraduate Physician Training - Authorizes a program to certify a limited number and an appropriate balance of postgraduate physician training programs. States that the program would be administered by the Secretary, according to the recommendations of the National Council on Postgraduate Physician Training and 10 regional councils on postgraduate physician training throughout the Nation. Directs the Secretary, according to the recommendations of the council, to set the total number of internship and residency positions to be certified nationwide in the following year. Provides that the total number could not exceed 110 percent of the total number of medical and osteopathic degrees granted in that year. Authorizes the Secretary to compensate institutions which are forced to decrease their number of postgraduate physician training positions because of the 110 percent limit. Requires the Secretary to make grants of up to $100,000 to develop new additional training positions in specialties, and in geographic areas, if the national and regional councils determines such additional positions are needed. Authorizes a study to determine the desired balance of physicians in the various medical and surgical specialties and subspecialties. Title VIII: Minimum National Licensure of Physicians and Dentists - Requires the Secretary, in consultation with appropriate professional organizations, to develop and establish national standards for the licensure of all physicians and dentists who wish to practice in the United States. Directs the Secretary to prepare a national examination to initially license physicians and dentists and subsequent reexaminations to renew licenses which would be given at least every 6 years. States that, under the provisions of the national licensure program, individual States would be encouraged to establish their own licensure programs, which must be in accordance with national standards. Provides that the new national licensure relationships between States must comply with the national standards for licensure of physicians and dentists. Prohibits States from establishing any requirement for the licensure of physicians and dentists which: (1) would be inconsistent with national standards; or (2) would require that the individual applying for the license reside in the State for a certain period of time. Prohibits a State from renewing the license of any physician or dentist who is obligated, under the provisions of this Act, to provide health service in a medically underserved area or as a member of the National Health Service Corps, unless that physician or dentist has fulfilled his obligation, as certified by the Secretary.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Title I: Replacement of Lost, Stolen, or Delayed Checks - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish procedures for expedited payment of monthly benefits. Requires the Secretary, within one day after the date an individual files for late payment of benefits, to cause such monthly insurance benefits to be paid. Title II: Expediting of Hearings and Determination - States that in administration of the programs established by titles II, (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) XVI, (Grants to States for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled), and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary shall establish procedures designed to assure that: (1) any duly requested hearing to which an individual is entitled will be held within a reasonable period of time after requested, if such hearing is requested with respect to a determination of entitlement to benefits; and (2) not later than ninety days after such a hearing is requested, the Secretary shall render a final determination on the issues, or if no final determination of the Secretary has been made at that time, the Secretary shall make payments of benefits to such individual in like manner as if a final determination has been made full in favor of such individual. Title III: Expedited Payment of Black Lung Benefits; and Expedited Hearings and Determinations Respecting Such Benefits - Provides for expedited payments of black lung benefits under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for expediting hearings and determinations on claims for such benefits. Title IV: Limitation of Benefit Reduction to Compensate for Benefit Overpayment - Limits to 25 percent the reduction that may be made in an individual's Social Security benefit check for any month because of any previous overpayment of monthly benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Health Manpower Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Service Act. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations of $25,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976 and 1977. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools. Prescribes procedures for the establishment of a National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements by the Secretary to the Congress in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1975-1977 for carrying out this section. Revises the Public Health and National Health Services Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligiblity requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the program $80,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and $120,000,000 for fiscal year 1977. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorization of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances from each type of school, including assurances that the first year enrollment of health profession schools will rise by specified percentages in succeeding years. Title V: Special Project Grants and Contracts - Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Specifies the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1977. Authorizes appropriations of $15,000,000, $20,000,000 and $25,000,000 for fiscal years 1975-1977, respectively, for the establishment of area health education centers. Title VI: Public and Allied Health Personnel - Revises the training programs for public and community health personnel and allied health personnel, extending appropriations through fiscal year 1977. Title VII: Medical Residency Training Programs - Provides for the accrediting and operation of medical residency training programs with the number of first year positions not to exceed 125 percent of the estimated number of products from accredited school of medicine in the preceding calendar year. Title VIII: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to contract for a study analyzing the current distribution of physicians by speciality, projecting such analysis to 1980, 1985, and 1990, and examining and developing a method for establishing the optimal distribution of physicians by geographic area. Requires the Secretary to make specified quality assurances to the Congress regarding education and training of allied health personnel. Calls for an allied health personnel study, detailing the contents of such study, including identification of classifications in which there are critical shortages of personnel.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Title I: National Health Services Manpower Act - Establishes the National Health Service Corps Scholarship Program for the purpose of obtaining physicians for the National Health Service Corps. Sets forth the eligibility requirements for participation in the Program. Provides that each eligible individual shall be entitled to the payment by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of a scholarship for each approved academic year of training (not to exceed four years). Sets forth the dollar amounts of such scholarships. Requires an individual participating in the Program to serve on active duty as a commissioned officer in the Public Health Service or as a civilian member of the National Health Service Corps following completion of academic training. Provides that such period of active duty shall be six months of service for each year of training received under the Program, with a minimum service time of 12 months. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States the National Health Service Corps Trust Fund from which scholarships under this Act shall be paid. Authorizes appropriations for such fund. Establishes, within the Public Health Service, the National Health Service Corps to improve the delivery of health services to medically underserved populations. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to designate the medically underserved populations in the States. Defines the term "medically underserved population" and enumerates the factors to be taken into account in making such designations, including: (1) ratios of available health manpower to the population; (2) indicators of the population's access to health services; and (3) indicators of health status and need of the population. Empowers the Secretary to assign Corps personnel to State health agencies, private health entities, local governments, and medical, dental or other appropriate health societies. Enumerates the requirements to be met prior to the making of any such assignments and for the continuing of expired assignments. Provides that Corps personnel shall be assigned on the basis of the extent of the population's need for health services and without regard to the ability of members of the population to pay for health services. Directs the Secretary, in making an assignment, to seek to match characteristics of the assignee and of the population in order to increase the likelihood of the assignee remaining to serve the population upon completion of his assignment period. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) provide technical assistance to all medically underserved populations to which are not assigned Corps personnel; (2) make arrangements to enable Corps personnel to utilize the health facilities of the areas in which the population resides; and (3) make grants, with specified limitations, for purposes of providing health services. States that the Secretary shall require as a condition to the approval of an application that the entity enter into an appropriate arrangement with the Secretary under which: (1) the entity shall be responsible for charging for health services by the Corps personnel to be assigned; (2) the entity shall take action for the collection of payments for such health services; and (3) the entity shall pay to the United States specified, calculated amounts. Directs the Secretary to conduct, at schools of the health professions and allied health professions, recruiting programs for the Corps. Directs the Secretary to adjust the monthly rate of pay of each physician and dentist member of the Corps who is directly engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress and specifies the content of such reports. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps to consult with, advise, and make recommendations to, the Secretary with respect to his responsibilities in carrying out this Act, and to review and approve regulations promulgated by the Secretary. Sets forth the membership composition of the Council. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for the fiscal years 1975-77 to carry out the establishment and functions of the National Health Service Corps and the Council. Establishes in the Public Health Service the National Council on Postgraduate Physician Training. Sets forth the membership composition of the National Council. Provides that the National Council shall conduct studies and other activities relevant to the various matters related to the postgraduate training of physicians. Establishes a Regional Council on Postgraduate Physician Training for each of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare regions. Sets forth membership composition of such Councils. Provides that each regional council shall conduct studies and other activities relevant to the various matters related to the postgraduate training of physicians within the region served by the regional council. Provides that the National Council and each regional council shall annually certify postgraduate training positions in entities, and associations of such entities, which directly provide such training. Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to, and contract with, entities which directly provide, or have the capacity to provide directly, postgraduate training of physicians and which are certified to the Secretary by the National Council and a regional council as likely to receive an increased number of certified postgraduate positions subsequent to July 1, 1977, to allow such entities to develop new, and expand existing, postgraduate physician training programs. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 1978-80 to carry out such program and make such grants. Directs the Secretary to contract for the conduct of a study to: (1) analyze the current and projected geographical distribution of physicians by specialty; and (2) examine, evaluate, and develop a reliable and appropriate methodology to establish the optimal distribution of physicians by specialty and by geographic area. Authorizes the appropriation of $10,000,000 for the conduct of such study. Authorizes the Secretary to make special project grants to schools, agencies, organizations and institutions for the improvement of health professions training. Authorizes appropriations to carry out such special project grants. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to public or private nonprofit entities to assist in projects for planning, developing, and operating area health education systems. Defines "area health education systems." Authorizes appropriations for the making of such grants. Authorizes the Secretary, between July 1, 1974 and June 30, 1977, to provide loan guarantees and interest subsidies to students obtaining loans from banking institutions to meet the cost of education expenses in pursuing an approved course of study leading to an undergraduate degree in nursing, pharmacy, or other allied health professions. Establishes in the United States Treasury a health service manpower loan guarantee fund to enable the Secretary to discharge his responsibilities with respect to loan guarantees and interest subsidies under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation to the fund of such amounts as may be required from time to time for the fund. Title II: Miscellaneous Repeals - Revises the Public Health Service Act by repealing the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, Traineeships for Professional Public Health Personnel, Project Grants for Graduate Training in Public Health, the National Health Service Corps, programs for Health Research and Teaching Facilities and Training of Professional Health Personnel, and programs for Nurse Training.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Health Manpower Act - Title I: General Provisions - Revises and repeals specified provisions of the Public Health Services Act. Title II: Assistance for Construction of Teaching Facilities - Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to assist in the construction of teaching facilities for the training of physicians, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, veterinarians, and professional public health personnel. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1978. Title III: Student Assistance; National Health Service Corps - Expands the provisions governing the making of student loans under the Public Health Service Act and the rates for repayment of such loans. Authorizes appropriations for the purpose of making Federal capital contributions into the student loan funds of authorized schools. Prescribes procedures for the establishment of a National Health Service Corps, applications for assistance from the Corps, and assignment and functions of Corps personnel to medically underserved populations. Outlines the rate-of-pay schedule for physician and dentist Corps members engaged in the delivery of health services to a medically underserved population. Details the reporting requirements of the Secretary to the Congress in his carrying out the programs of the National Health Service Corps. Establishes the National Advisory Council on the National Health Service Corps. Specifies the membership composition of such Council. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1976-1978 such purposes. Revises the Public Health and National Health Service Corps Scholarship Training Program, setting forth the eligibility requirements for acceptance in such program and the time and type of obligated service required. Authorizes to be appropriated to carry out the Program $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1978. Title IV: Grants for Health Professions Schools - Sets forth computation rules governing the making of annual grants by the Secretary for the support of education programs of schools of medicine, osteopathy, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and podiatry. Provides for the apportionment of, and authorization of, appropriations for the making of such grants. States that the Secretary shall not make such grants to any school unless specified assurances that the first year enrollment of health profession schools will rise by specified percentages in succeeding years, are met. Title V: Special Project Grants and Contracts - Revises the procedure for the making of special project grants and contracts for the purposes of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Specifies the purposes for which such grants may be used. Authorizes appropriations for such grants through fiscal year 1978. Title VI: Medical Residency Training Programs; Admission of Alien Doctors; Reports - Provides for the accrediting and operation of medical residency training programs. Provides for exclusion of alien doctors who have not met specified requirements of this Act as to certification and demonstrated competency in oral and written English, as well as other criteria.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Authorizes the President to annually issue a proclamation designating the second week of April of each year as "National Medical Laboratory Week". Urges the President, Governors and mayors to take further action during that week to impress upon the american people the importance of laboratory services.
United States · United States Congress · 6 March 1975
Expresses the sense of the Senate that discrimination in international commerce against individuals or institutions on religious, racial or ethnic grounds should not be tolerated. Urges action to be taken to end such discrimination.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Extends the basic educational assistance eligibility for veterans and for specified dependents from 36 to 45 months. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1661,1711).
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Emergency Marine Fisheries Protection Act - Declares the policy of this Act. Establishes, for the duration of this Act, a fishery zone contiguous to the territorial sea of the United States. Requires that the United States excercise exclusive fishery management responsibility and authority within this contiguous fishery zone. States that the contigous fishery zone has as its inner boundary the outer limits of the territorial sea, and as its seaward boundary a line drawn so that each point on the line is 197 nautical miles from the inner boundary. Provides that the fishery management responsibility and authority of the United States within the contiguous fishery zone of the United Stated shall not include or be construed to extend to highly migratory species, except to the extent such species are not managed pursuant to bilateral or multilateral international fishery agreements. Provides that the fishery management responsibility and authority of the United States with respect to anadromous species, for the duration of this Act, extends to such species wherever found throughout the migratory range of such species. Requires that the United States manage and conserve, and have preferential rights to, fish within the contiguous fishery zone. Provides that the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, may authorize fishing within the contiguous fishery zone of the United States, or for anadromous species or both, by citizens of any foreign nation, in accordance with this Act, only if such nation has traditionally engaged in such fishing prior to the date of enactment of this Act. Requires that the allowable level of traditional foreign fishing shall be set upon the basis of the portion of any stock which cannot be harvested by citizens of the United States. Provides that traditional foreign fishing rights shall not be recognized unless any foreign nation claiming such rights demonstrates that it grants similar traditional fishing rights to citizens of the United States within the contiguous fishery zone of such nation. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to establish reasonable fees to be paid by the citizens of foreign nation engaged in exercising recognized foreign fishing rights. Provides that such fees shall be set in an shall be set in an amount sufficient to reimburse amount sufficient to reimburse the United States for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to this Act, and for an equitable share of the management and conservation expenses incurred by the United States in accordance with this Act, including the cost of regulation and enforcement. Establishes a Fisheries Management Council. Empowers such Council to: (1) provide information and expert assistance to States and local or regional fisheries authorities in marine fisheries management and conservation; (2) consult on an ongoing basis (A) with other Federal agencies and departments; (B) with officials of coastal States who are concerned with maring fisheries management and conservation planning; (C) with appropriate officials of other nations which are exercising traditional foreign fishing rights, through the offices of the Secretary of State; and (D) with owners and operators of fishing vessels; (3) to prepare a survey of fisheries subject to the emergency conservation and management authority granted to the United States by this Act, including, but not limited to, depleted stocks and stocks threatened with depletion; and (4) survey, study, and prepare a marine fisheries management plan setting forth the elements of a national management system to conserve and protect fish. Requires the Council submit the marine fisheries management plan adopted by the Council to the Senate Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of State, upon the request of and in cooperation with the Secretary, to initiate and conduct negotiations with any foreign nation which is engaged in , or whose citizens are engaged in, fishing in the contiguous fishery zone of the United States or for anadromous species. Provides that the Secretary of State, upon the request of and in cooperative with the Secretary, shall, in addition, initiate and conduct negotiations with any foreign nation in whose contiguous fishery zone or equivalent economic zone citizens of the United States are engaged in fishing or with respect to anadromous species as to which such nation asserts management responsibility and authority and for which citizens of the United States fish. Provides that the purpose of such negotiations shall be enter into international fishery agreements on a bilateral or multilateral basis to effectuate the purposes, policy, and provisions of this Act. Sets forth prohibitions and penalties under this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of funds to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Older Americans Community Service Employment Amendments - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to establish an older American community service program in order to promote useful part-time work opportunities in community service activities for unemployed low-income persons 55 years old or older who have poor employment prospects. Makes provisions for allotment of funds to State, local and private organizations to further the purposes of the program. Authorizes appropriations of $100,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $150,000,000 for fiscal year 1977, and $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1978 to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Suspends the import duty under the Tariff Schedules on railroad and railway rolling stock exported for repairs or alterations on or before August 31, 1975. Makes such suspension retroactive, upon request, to October 1, 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Authorizes the filling and construction in a specified portion of Upper New York Bay, Hudson County, New Jersey, if such location in declared to be not navigable waters of the United States by the Secretary of the Army. Stipulates that local interests shall reimburse the Federal Government for engineering and all other costs incurred under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 March 1975
Authorizes the President to proclaim annually the last Friday of April as "National Arbor Day".
United States · United States Congress · 27 February 1975
Age Discrimination in Employment Amendments - Provides that the prohibition in the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 shall be limited to individuals who are forty years of age or older.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
Requires the President to transmit annually to the Congress a report covering sales, procurement contracts, and guaranties under the Foreign Military Sales Act proposed to be made during the next fiscal year to each country or international organization. Requires specified descriptions of major defense services and major weapons systems covered by such report. Provides that no sale, credit sale, or guaranty involving a major weapons system or major defense service may be made unless the Congress by concurrent resolution approves such sale, credit sale or guaranty.
United States · United States Congress · 26 February 1975
National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Act Amendmends - Authorizes appropriations for the fiscal years subsequent to that of 1975 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to formulate and carry out a program of assistance to the States to initiate maintain, or expand nonprofit breakfast programs in schools. States that as a national nutrition and health policy it is the purpose and intent of the Congress that the school breakfast program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 be made available in all schools where it is needed to provide adequate nutrition for children in attendance. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, in cooperation with State agencies, to carry out a program of information to the schools in furtherance of this policy. Requires that within ninety days after the enactment of this legislation, the Secretary shall report to the committee of jurisdiction in the Congress his plans and those of cooperating State agencies, to bring about the needed expansion in the school breakfast programm. Sets forth the schedule of income limitations for reduced price lunches. Provides for the disbursement of funds under this Act to nonprofit private schools. Provides for the inclusion of specified commodities, such as cereal and shortening, in the food donations to the school lunch program covered by this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to enable the Secretary to formulate and carry out a program to assist States through grants-in-aid and other means to initiate, maintain, or expand nonprofit food service programs for needy children in institutions providing child care. Sets forth requirements for the apportionment of funds under this Act to the States. Authorizes the use of funds under the National School Lunch Act for nonfood assistance for the special food service program. Establish a National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition. Provides for the membership of such council. Makes it the function of the Council to make a continuing study of the operation of the special supplemental food program and any related Act under which diet supplementation is provided to women, infants, and children, with a view to determining how such programs may be improved. Directs the Council to submit to the President and and the Congress annually a written report of the results of its study together with such recommendations for administrative and legislative changes as it deems appropriate.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Emergency Natural Gas Allocation Act - Grants, under the Natural Gas Act, the Federal Power Commission emergency authority to allocate supplies of natural gas in cases where the Commission finds that the reduction of natural gas supplies in any area for residential heating or industrial purposes will seriously endanger public health, safety or welfare.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Revises the provisions of title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act by increasing the increment in old-age benefits payable to individuals who delay their retirement beyond age 65.
United States · United States Congress · 25 February 1975
Japan-United States Friendship Act - Declares it to be the purpose of this Act to provide for the use of part of the sums to be paid by Japan to the United States in connection with the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese administration in order to enhance the understanding and support of the close friendship and mutuality of interest between our two nations. Establishes in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Japan-United States Friendship Trust Fund. Requires such amounts in the fund to be used for the promotion of scholarly, cultural, and artistic activities between Japan and the United States. Provides that amounts in the fund may also be used to pay administrative expenses of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. Establishes such Commission and authorizes it to develop and carry out programs for the promotion of scholarly, cultural and artistic activities by Japan and the United States, and to make grants to carry out such programs. Makes administrative provisions to enable the Commission to carry out its functions under this Act. States that the Japan-United States Friendship Trust Fund shall consist of: (1) 10 percent of the funds paid to the United States pursuant to the agreement between Japan and the United States concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands; (2) any other amounts received by the fund by way of gifts and donations; and (3) interest and proceeds credited to it from portions of the fund invested by the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 24 February 1975
Horse Protection Act Amendments - Defines the terms used in the Act including the term "sore" to define the treatment of a horse made unlawful under the Act. Sets forth the Congressional findings as to the cruel, inhumane, and unfair practices to be eliminated with regard to the treatment of horses. Requires the management of a horse show or horse exhibition to disqualify any horse which is sore or which has any unsound limb from being shown or exhibited. Prohibits the sale or auction of any horse which is sore and provides for the appointing and retaining of a person qualified to detect and diagnose a sore horse and horse with any unsound limb (other than a person who has been disqualified by the Secretary) to inspect horses for purposes of the Horse Protection Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to inspect any horse show, exhibition, public horse sale or auction and to inspect and copy all such records as are required to be kept under this Act. Prohibits the shipping, transporting, moving, delivering, or receiving any horse which is sore (except a horse which is sore as a result of veterinary medicine treatment) where there is reason to believe that the horse may be shown, exhibited, or entered in a horse show, exhibition, sale, or auction. Prohibits the showing, exhibiting, or entering any horse in such an event for the purpose of showing, exhibiting, selling, or auctioning, if the horse is sore. Prohibits a horse being shown or exhibited by any person who has been advised that the horse has an unsound limb. Prohibits the management of a horse show, exhibition, sale, or auction to fail to disqualify any horse which is sore or which has an unsound limb from being shown or exhibited, to fail to prohibit the public sale or auction of any horse which is sore, and, in the case of management which appoints and retains a qualified expert to inspect horses, fail to disqualify or prohibit horses from beign shown, exhibited, sold, or auctioned upon the findings of such experts. Prohibits the failure to keep or submit to the Secretary, required records, notices, reports, and other materials; to refuse to permit Government inspection to determine compliance with this law; or to fail to provide adequate space or facilities for the Secretary of Agriculture to use to carry out his inspection and enforcement functions. Revises the enforcement and criminal provisions, civil penalties and other sanctions for noncompliance of the provisions of the Horse Protection Act. Makes it a crime to "knowingly" commit any of the prohibited acts defined in the Act. Authorizes the Secretary, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing, to disqualify any person who is convicted of a criminal violation or found to have committed a civil violation of this Act or any regulation of this Act or any regulation thereunder from future horse shows, horse exhibitions, public horse sales and auctions for a period of up to one year for a first offense and not less than one year for each subsequent offense. Sets forth procedural requirements and authorities to enforce this Act including authority in the Secretary to require annual or special reports, to obtain witnesses, and to penalize failure to comply with procedures. Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports on enforcement actions taken under this Act. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for carrying out the provisions of the Act not to exceed $1,000,000 for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975, June 30, 1976, and June 30, 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Increases from thirteen to twenty-six the maximum number of weeks for which an individual may receive emergency compensation under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act. Requires that amounts established by States for individuals in emergency compensation accounts must equal the lesser of (1) 100 percent (presently 50 percent of the total amount of regular compensation payable to the individual with respect to the benefit year on the basis of which he most recently received regular compensation, or (2) 26 times (presently 13 times) his average weekly benefit amount for his benefit year. (Amends U.S.C. 3304m.)
United States · United States Congress · 20 February 1975
Increases from 26 to 39 the maximum number of weeks for which an individual may receive unemployment assistance under the special unemployment assistance program established by the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Assistance Act of 1974. Requires States to make unemployment assistance payments in the manner prescribed by the special unemployment assistance program in order to be eligible to participate in such program.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1975
Provides for the relief of Glen Donald Murphy.
United States · United States Congress · 18 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide for displaying for public viewing at the Arlington National Cemetery the names of deceased veterans upon the request of the spouse or next of kin of such veterans. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1975
Authorizes the President to designate the month of October 1975 and each succeeding October as "National Fish and Seafood Month".
United States · United States Congress · 12 February 1975
Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Open Market Committee to: (1) take action in the first half of 1975 to increase the money supply in order to promote economic recovery; and (2) maintain growth of the money supply commensurate with production, in order to maximize employment and stabilize prices. Requires the Federal Reserve to consult with Congress at semiannual hearings before the Committees on Banking concerning its money supply growth targets and other monetary policy actions required in the upcoming six months.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Emergency Unemployment Health Benefits Act - Includes a new title under the Emergency Jobs and Unemployment Health Benefits Act establishing an emergency health benefits program for the unemployed. Declares all unemployed individuals who: (1) are entitled to receive State or Federal unemployment benefits and; (2) would, if their employment had not been discontinued, be covered under an employer-sponsored health insurance plan to be eligible for health insurance benefits of the type provided by their previous employer. Extends such benefits to the dependent spouse and the dependent children of such eligible individuals. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to enter into arrangements with carriers and State agencies to carry out this Act. Stipulates that no health insurance benefits may be provided under this Act after June 30, 1976. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Provides, under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, for the payment of subsidies of operating expenses for mass transportation projects located in areas other than urbanized areas. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to States and private mass transportation operators to provide fellowships for training of personnel employed in the urban mass transportation fields. Declares it to be the national policy that elderly and handicapped persons have the same right as other persons to utilize mass transportation facilities and services. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to insure that any project receiving Federal financial assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 have facilitaties accessible to elderly and handicapped persons. Requires the Secretary to establish a National Advisory Council on Accessibility of Mass Transportation. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to States and local public bodies for the specific purpose of providing mass transporation services to meet the special needs of elderly and handicapped persons. Allows the Secretary to convert equipment and facilities loans made pursuant to the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 and the Housing Amendments of 1955, to grants, under conditions stipulated, to mass transportation projects. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on or before February 1, l976, a detailed estimate of the cost of grants to be made for providing public mass transportation service for each fiscal year from 1977 to 1981.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Emergency Public Service Employment Extension Act - Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary for fiscal year 1976 to carry out the emergency jobs program under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Child and Family Service Act - Title I: Child and Family Service Programs - Provides that the Secretary shall take all necessary action to coordinate child and family service programs under his jurisdiction and that, to this end, he shall establish and maintain within the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an Office of Child and Family Services administered by a Director appointed by the President with the advise and consent of the Senate. Provides that such office shall assume the responsibility of the Office of Child Development and shall be the principal agency of the Department for the administration of this Act. Establishes a Child and Family Services Coordinating Council, consisting of the Director of the Office of Child and Family Services (who shall serve as chairperson), and representatives from the Federal agencies administering the Social Security Act and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and from the appropriate Federal agencies. Requires the Department of Labor, and other appropriate agencies, to meet on a regular basis, as they may deem necessary, in order to assure coordination of child and family service activities under their respective jurisdictions so as to assure maximum use of available resources through the prevention of duplication of activities; and to structure the activities related to the purposes of this Act. States that funds available for this title may be used (in accordance with approved applications and plans) for planning and developing child and family service programs; establishing, maintaining, and operating child and family service programs, which may include: (1) part-day or full-day child care programs, which provide educational, health, nutritional, and social services directed toward enabling participating children to attain their maximum potential; (2) other health, social, recreational, and educational programs designed to meet the special needs of children and families including before- and after- school and summer programs; (3) social services to help families determine the appropriateness of child and family services and the possibility of alternative plans; (4) prenatal, post partum and other medical care, including services to expectant mothers who cannot afford such services, designed to help reduce handicapping conditions among the newborn; (5) programs designed to meet the special needs of ethnic groups and to meet the needs of all children to understand the history and cultural backgrounds of ethnic groups and the role of members of such groups in the history and cultural development of the Nation and the region in which they reside; (6) food and nutritional services; (7) diagnosis, identification, and treatment, and special activities designed to ameliorate physiological, mental, psychological, and emotional barriers to full participation in child and family service programs; (8) programs designed to extend child and family service gains (particularly parent participation) into the kindergarten and early primary grades, in cooperation with local educational agencies; (9) other such services and activities as the Secretary deems appropriate in furtherance of the purposes of this Act; (10) rental, lease or lease-purchase, mortgage amortization payments, renovation, acquisition and maintenance of necessary equipment and supplies, and to the extent authorized by this Act, construction or acquisition of facilities, including mobile facilities; (11) preservice and inservice education and training for professional and paraprofessional personnel, including parents and volunteers, especially education and training for career development and advancement; (12) staff and other administrative expenses of child and family service councils and of project policy committees established and operated in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and (13) dissemination of information in the functional language of those to be served to assure that parents are well informed of child and family service programs available to them and may participate in such programs. Provides that a State, locality, or combination of localities may be designated by the Secretary as a prime sponsor for the purpose of entering into arrangements to carry out programs under this title. Enumerates the requirements which must be met by States and localities submitting prime sponsorship applications. States that each prime sponsor shall establish and maintain a Child and Family Service Council of specified composition. States that such Council shall be responsible for approving child and family service plans, basic goal, policies, procedures, overall budget policies and project funding, and the selection or establishment and annual renewal of an administering agency or agencies and will be responsible for annual and ongoing evaluation of child and family service programs according to criteria established by the Secretary. States that financial assistance under this title may be provided by the Secretary for fiscal year 1976 and any subsequent fiscal year to a prime sponsor only pursuant to a child and family service plan which is submitted by such prime sponsor and approved by the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of this title. Specifies the elements to be contained in such plans, and the procedure including opportunity for airing of views with respect to such plan, for approval or disapproval of the plan. States that funds may be provided by the prime sponsor for carrying out any program under such prime sponsor's comprehensive child and family service plan only to a qualified public or private agency or organization, including but not limited to an educational agency or institution, a community action agency, single-purpose Headstart agency, community development corporation, parent cooperative, organization of migrant agricultural workers, organization of Indians, organization interested in child care, employer or business organization, labor union, or employee or labor management organization, or by any other public or private agency whose project application is approved by the Child and Family Service Council of the prime sponsorship. Provides for special grants to States for necessary expenses incident to the operation of programs authorized by this Act in such States, and, in addition to the conditions which must be met for such grants, requires that grants for construction or acquisition of facilities may be made only if such construction or acquisition is essential to the provision of adequate child care services. Title II: Standards, Enforcement, And Evaluations - Provides that, within six months after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall promulgate a common set of program standards which shall be applicable to all programs providing child care services under this or any other Federal Act, to be known as the Federal Standards for Child Care. Provides that the Secretary shall, within sixty days of the enactment of this Act, appoint a Special Committee on Federal Standards for Child Care to participate in the development of Federal Standards for child care and modifications thereof. Provides for the development of a minimum code for child and family service facilities to be addressed to the health, safety, and physical comfort of the children participating in such programs. Provides for the withholding of grants where prime sponsors fail to conform with their approved plans or applicable standards and regulations. Title III: Research and Demonstrations - States that it is the purpose of this title to assist and encourage the provision of urgently needed facilities for child care and comprehensive child services programs. States that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is authorized to insure any mortgage (including advances on such mortgage during construction) in accordance with the provisions of this title upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe and make commitments for insurance of such mortgage prior to the date of its execution or disbursement thereon. Provides that the mortgage shall be executed by a mortgagor approved by the Secretary, and that such mortgages shall involve in principal obligation of up to $250,000 and not to exceed 90 percent of the estimated replacement costs of properties or projects when the proposed improvements are completed. Creates a Child and Family Services Facility Insurance Fund which shall be used by the Secretary as a revolving fund for carrying out all the insurance provisions of this title, including mortgage insurance. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants, contracts, or other arrangements to carry out a program of research and demonstration projects, which shall include but not be limited to: (1) research to develop techniques to measure and evaluate child and family services, and to develop standards to evaluate professional and paraprofessional child and family service personnel; (2) research to test preschool programs emphasizing reading and reading readiness; (3) preventive medicine, techniques, and technology to improve the early diagnosis and treatment of diseases and learning disabilities of pre-school children; (4) research to test alternative methods of providing child and family service; (5) evaluation of research findings and the development of these findings and the effective application thereof; (6) dissemination and application of research and development efforts and demonstration projects to child and family service programs and early childhood education programs; (7) production of informational systems and other resources necessary to support the activities authorized by this Act; and (8) a study of the need on a nationwide basis for child and family services programs and of the resources, including personnel, which are available to meet this need. Title IV: Training of Personnel for Child and Family Services - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to enable individuals employed or preparing for employment in child and family services programs assisted under this Act to participate in preservice or inservice training programs for professional and nonprofessional personnel. Title V: General Provisions - Defines the terms used in this Act. Provides for nutrition services to be provided to child and family service programs under the National School Lunch Act of 1946 and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Requests the President to express the concern of the United States Government for the safety and freedom of valentyn Moroz, historian, writer, and spokesman for the cultural integrity of the Ukrainian people.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Expresses the Senate's disapproval of the Presidents' September 20, 1974, proposal to defer the budget authority for Federal-Aid Highways.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Expresses the Senate's disapproval of the President's September 20, 1974, proposal deferral of budget authority for water program operations construction grants.
United States · United States Congress · 7 February 1975
Calls for a joint session of Congress to assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on February 20, 1975, at 1 o'clock postmeridian for the purpose of receiving a message on the state of the States from the chairman of the National Governor's Conference.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Coastal Zone Management Act Amendments - Redefines "costal zone" under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, and defines, under such Act, "Outer continental shelf energy activity," "energy facilities," and "coastal energy activity. Makes changes in the Management Act, by adding the following requirements for the coastal zone management program which a State is to develop and maintain under the Act: (1) the program is to include a general plan for the protection of, and access to, public beaches and other coastal areas of environmental, recreational and historical, esthetic, ecological, and cultural value; and (2) the State coastal zone management program is to include a process for the planning for energy facilities likely to be located in the coastal zone and for the planning for, and management of, the anticipated impacts from any energy facility. Increases the maximum Federal share of the costs of the development phase of a coastal zone management program to 80 percent from the present 66 2/3 percent and extends, by one year, the time during which a coastal State may receive such grants for development of a program before it must have an approved program in order to continue to receive grants under the Act. Extends from June 30, 1977 to September 30, 1979, the authority to make such grants. Increases the maximum Federal share for administrative costs of the ongoing State program operation to 80 percent from the present 66 2/3 percent. Requires a coastal State to establish an effective coordination and consultative mechanism between a designated State coastal zone agency and local governments within such State. Requires States to consider any applicable interstate energy plans or programs in the planning for and siting of energy facilities in the coastal zone of such States. Requires each Federal lease to be submitted to each State with, an approved coastal zone management program for a determination by that State as to whether or not the lease is consistent with such State's program. Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in cooperation with the Executive Office of the President, to mediate the difference between a Federal agency and a State in the implementation of an approved State management program, in cases of serious disagreement. Requires such differences to be resolved through public hearings in the area concerned. Directs the Secretary of Commerce to administer and coordinate a coastal energy impact program. Requires pursuant to this program the provision of financial assistance to meet the needs of coastal States and local governments. Provides for formula grants to coastal States. Specifies the purposes for which such grants may be used. Requires the Secretary to make such grants if the Secretary finds that the coastal zone of such State is being, or is likely to be, significantly affected by the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of new or expended energy facilities. Requires the making of loans to assist any State or local unit of government to provide new or improved public facilities or public services required by coastal energy activity. Directs each coastal State to apportion any financial assistance granted to such State to units of local government on a basis of need. Establishes the Coastal Energy Impact Fund for the purpose of making payments under the coastal energy impact program. Encourages the coastal States to coordinate coastal zone planning in areas which are contiguous to areas within the coastal zone of other States and to study, plan, and/or implement unified coastal zone policies for such areas. Provides the coastal States with the consent of Congress to negotiate, and enter into interstate agreements and compacts for the development and administration of coordinated coastal zone planning, policies, and programs. Encourages, and provides for, Federal-State consultation procedures by the parties to interstate agreements and compacts and the Federal Government. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a program of research study and training to support development and implementation of State coastal receiving grants under this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any coastal State to assist such State in carrying out research, studies, and training required in support of coastal zone management up to 80 percent of the cost. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to coastal States for up to 50 percent of the cost of acquisition of access to public coastal areas. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act. Authorizes the appointment within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of an Associate Administrator for Coastal Zone Management to implement and administer the Coastal Zone Management Act. Directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive review of the molluscan shellfish industry and to evaluate the impact upon such industry of Federal law concerning quality. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress the finding of this study. Coastal Zone Environment Act - Provides, under the Coastal Zone Management Act, that any applicant for a required license, lease, or permit for the development or production of energy resources in a coastal zone shall certify that the proposed activity complies with any approved State management program. Establishes in the Department of the Treasury the Coastal Impact Fund. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make 100 percent annual grants from the Fund to those coastal States which the Secretary determines are likely to be significantly or adversely impacted by the development or energy resources or by the siting of energy facilities. Directs the Secretary to establish requirements for grant eligibility and lists circumstances under which the regulations shall provide that a State is eligible. States that the authorization of Congress is given two or more States to negotiate and enter into the interstate agreements for the purpose of study, planning, and implementation of unified coastal zone policies and for the coordination of such policies. Authorizes the Secretary to make annual grants for such purposes, provided they do not exceed 90 percent of the cost. Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistance to the coastal States to develop a capability for carrying out short-term research, studies, and training required in support of coastal zone management. Requires the Secretary to submit additional information each year to the President for transmittal to Congress including: (1) a general description of the economic, environmental, and social impacts of the development or production of energy resources or the siting of energy facilities affecting the coastal zone; and (2) a description and evaluation of interstate and regional planning mechanisms developed by the coastal States. Extends until 1980 the authority of the Secretary to make grants to the coastal States for the development of land and water resources management programs. Authorizes to be appropriated $200,000,000 for fiscal year 1976 and for each of the four succeeding fiscal years for grants made from the Coastal Impact Fund. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal years 1976-79 such sums, not to exceed $5,000,000 for interstate coordination grants to the coastal States. Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal years 1976-79 such sums, not to exceed $5,000,000 for coastal research assistance grants to the coastal States. Includes "islands" and "beach" within the definition of coastal zone under the Coastal Zone Management Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to make annual grants to any coastal State for the purpose of assisting in the development of a management program, including plans for the protection of access to public beaches and other coastal areas.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Bilingual Courts Act - Provides for bilingual proceedings in all district courts of the United States in both civil and criminal actions where it is determined that a party to the action or one of his witnesses does not understand the English language. Authorizes appropriations to the Federal Judiciary to carry out the purposes of this Act.