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Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 263 (95th)passed

Concurrent resolution to provide for the printing of 3,000 additional copies of the report by the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the Committee on Agriculture entitled "The Role of the Federal Government in Nutrition Education."

United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1977

Directs the printing as a House document the report by the Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and Nutrition of the House Committee on Agriculture entitled "The Role of the Federal Government in Nutrition Education."

Law· SS. 1750 (95th)open

Saccharin Study and Labeling Act

United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1977

Saccharin Study, Labeling, and Advertising Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to conduct a study to assess (1) current technical capabilities to predict the toxic or carcinogenic effect on humans of substanced which have induced cancer in animals; (2) public health benefits and risks of food containing such substances; (3) existing means of evaluating such benefits and risks, and the validity of such analysis; (4) instances in which restrictions on such substances do not accord with benefit-risk analysis; and (5) the relationship between Federal regulatory policies concerning the use of such substances for food and nonfood purposes. Directs the Secretary to request the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, or other public or private nonprofit organizations, to conduct the study. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners to determine (1) any impurities in saccharin; (2) the toxic and carcinogenic effects of such impurities; and (3) the health benefits of saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners. Requires the Secretary to complete both studies within one year and submit the results to the Senate Committee on Human Resources and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce within 30 days of such completion date. Prohibits the Secretary from restricting (except for labeling requirements allowed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) the sale or distribution of saccharin or any food, drug, or cosmetic containing saccharin for eighteen months, unless the Secretary determines that saccharin presents an unreasonable and substantial public risk. Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a food containing saccharin misbranded if it is (1) without a specified warning conspicuously placed on the label or package; (2) sold in a vending machine without such statement conspicuously displayed on the machine; (3) sold at a retail establishment not having prominently displayed near such food a statement prepared by the Secretary including information on the current state of knowledge concerning saccharin; (4) advertised in any electronic communications medium subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission without such advertisement having all the information necessary for a retail establishment statement; and (5) advertised by written communication without the specified warning, conspicuously located in the advertisement.

Bill· HRH.R. 7940 (95th)passed

Food Stamp Act

United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977

Food Stamp Act - Repeals the Food Stamp Act of 1964. Replaces the existing program with a new program substantially similar, but: (1) changes the purpose of the program from the provision of an opportunity to obtain a "nutritionally adequate diet" to provision of an opportunity to obtain a "more nutritious diet"; (2) drops the eligibility requirement that household members be related; (3) permits tribal councils to be designated "State agencies" with respect to Indian communities; (4) establishes the income guidelines for the nonfarm United States, prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget, adjusted annually, as the income standards of eligibility for the program; (5) specifies in the computation of household income: (a) a standard deduction of $60 a month for each household (allowing variable deductions for Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands), adjusted semiannually; (b) a tax and work expense deduction equal to 20 percent of all earned income; (c) an excess shelter deduction, not to exceed $75 in the 48 contiguous States (or variable amounts in the remaining States and territories), where the shelter costs exceed 50 percent of household income; and (d) a dependent care deduction, not to exceed $75 a month per household, for actual costs of necessary care of a dependent when such care enables a household member to accept employment or training or education preparatory to employment; (6) requires the calculation of household income to take into account, with specified exceptions, the income reasonably anticipated to be received by the household in the period for which eligibility is being determined; (7) allows a household to own liquid and nonliquid assets of up to $1500; or $2,250, if the household is two or more persons; or $3,000, if the household is two or more persons, one of whom is age 60 or over; (8) specifies inclusions in financial resources (e.g. boats, snowmobiles, recreational airplanes, vacation homes, mobile homes, licensed vehicles valued more than $4500); (9) denies eligibility, for a three-month period, to anyone found by a State agency to have fraudulently trafficked in coupons or authorization cards, or for six to 24 months to anyone found by a court to have fraudulently trafficked in such coupons or cards; (10) denies eligibility to any household which refuses to provide to the State agency information necessary for determining or reviewing its eligibility; (11) denies eligibility to: (a) any individual between ages 18 and 60 who refuses to register for work, to fulfill inquiry-about-employment requirements, to accept a job at a specified pay level, or who is a head of household and voluntarily quits work without good cause; (b) any individual age 18 or over, enrolled at least half-time in an institute of higher learning, who is properly claimed or could be claimed as a dependent child for Federal income tax purposes, or who during the regular school year is not employed at least 20 hours per week, does not earn a specified weekly minimum, is not registered for work amounting to at least 20 hours per week, is not a head of household providing half the support of the other members, nor is covered by any work exemption; (c) any illegal aliens, or legal alien visitors, tourists, diplomats, or students temporarily in the United States with no intention of abandoning home country residence; (12) exempts from ordinary eligibility requirements any person: (a) currently complying with specified work registration requirements; (b) who is employed a minimum of 30 hours per week or receiving weekly earnings at a specified rate; (13) requires monthly reports on each coupon issuer's operations containing an oath or affirmation certifying the information as true and correct to the best of the issuer's knowledge and belief; (14) imposes: (a) a $1,000 fine or one-year imprisonment upon any coupon issuer convicted of failing to file such a report; and (b) a $10,000 fine or five-year imprisonment upon any coupon issuer convicted of knowingly providing false information in such reports; (15) eliminates charges for coupon allotments and sets the value of an allotment at an amount equal to the cost to a household of the thrifty food plan reduced by an amount equal to 30 percent of the household's income; (16) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to report to Congress six months after the implementation of charges, and annually thereafter, on the effect on participation and cost of such elimination; (17) prohibits the authorization of any firm as a retail food store and as a wholesale food concern at the same time; (18) requires that private nonprofit cooperative food purchasing ventures be authorized to redeem their members' food coupons prior to receipt by the members of the food so purchased; and prohibits redemption of coupons through banks by private nonprofit organizations serving meals in drug addiction and alcoholic treatment programs; (19) prohibits discrimination by reason of sex in the certification of applicant households; (20) provides for the administration of the food stamp program on all or part of an Indian reservation or community by an Indian tribal organization; (21) requires each State agency to submit a plan of operation that must provide: (a) for action to inform low-income households of the program, including bilingual personnel and printed material; (b) that each household requesting food stamp assistance be permitted to file for assistance on the day of the request on a simplified uniform national application form; (c) that the determination of eligibility be made within 30 days; (d) that notices of expiration of certification be sent immediately prior to or at the start of the last month of a certification period, and that, assuming continuing eligibility, reapplication within 15 days of expiration ensure receipt of new allotment no later than one month after receipt of the last allotment under the prior certification; (e) that a nonmember of a household, if an adult conversant with its financial resources and circumstances, and if designated in writing, may represent such household in the certification process; (f) that applications for food stamps be contained in public or general assistance applications forms, and that certification be based, where appropriate, on information in the public or general assistance case file; (g) that households with income below the standard deduction level receive coupons on an expedited basis; and (h) that households wrongfully denied any allotment or terminated have such allotments promptly restored; (22) directs the Extension Service to include food stamp recipients within its expanded food and nutrition education program; (23) requires the Secretary to promptly inform any State agency of any failure to comply with any provisions of this Act (currently, notification required only for substantial failure to comply); and allows the Secretary to refer cases of noncomplying State agencies to the Attorney General for suit for injunctive relief; (24) requires a State to indemnify the United States Treasury for mere negligence in the certification of households (currently, the standard is gross negligence); (25) authorizes the Secretary, in conjunction with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to issue regulations allowing recipients of social security benefits or of supplemental security income to apply for food stamps at social security offices; (26) requires post offices to issue food stamps upon request by a State agency; (27) permits the payment of a "nutritional supplement", equal to the value of a coupon allotment, in lieu of an allotment to an eligible household of which every member is either over 65, or is eligible: (a) for a supplemental security income under title XV of the Social Security Act or (b) for grants to the blind or disabled in Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands; (28) permits the Secretary to collect a civil money penalty of up to $5,000 for each violation any approved retail food store or wholesale food concern is found to have made, if outright disqualification of such store or concern would cause hardship to food stamp households; (29) reduces the fine for misdemeanor violations of this Act from $5,000 to $1,000; (30) authorizes the Secretary to pay up to 75 percent of all costs of State program investigations, prosecutions, and other activities related to recovering losses; (31) authorizes the Secretary, effective fiscal year 1979, to adjust the federal share of a State agency's administrative costs: (a) to 60 percent if the agency's cumulative allotment error rate is between five and ten percent; and (b) to 65 percent, if the rate is less than five; (32) requires each State not receiving an increased Federal share to submit a quality control plan specifying proposed actions to reduce the incidence of errors and of invalid decisions in certifying or denying eligibility; (33) directs the Secretary to make contracts or grants for research that will help improve the administration and effectiveness of the food stamp program; (34) authorizes pilot or experimental projects to test program changes (e.g. the use of countersignature of coupons or similar identification mechanisms); (35) directs the Secretary: (a) to implement a pilot project jointly with the Secretary of Labor involving the performance of work in return for food stamp benefits; (b) to study and develop alternative poverty line definitions at different levels; (c) to conduct a feasibility study, through the use of Federal income tax data of a program to recover food stamp benefits from members of eligible households (on a voluntary basis only) in which the adjusted gross income of members of such households for a calendar year may exceed twice the established income poverty guidelines; (36) directs the Secretary to develop and implement measures for evaluating the effectiveness of the food stamp program in achieving its stated objectives; (37) directs the Secretary to purchase sufficient agricultural commodities to maintain the traditional level of assistance for food distribution programs; and (38) authorizes such appropriations as Congress may pass for fiscal years 1978 through 1981.

Bill· SS. 1727 (95th)referred

A bill to permit marketing orders to include provisions concerning marketing promotion, including paid advertisement, of raisins and distribution among handlers of the pro rata costs of such promotion.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977

Permits marketing orders under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, to include provisions concerning marketing promotion, including paid advertisement, of raisins. Authorizes distribution among producers of the pro rata costs of such promotion. Requires the Secretary to submit a report to the appropriate Congressional committees describing in detail how this Act has been implemented, particularly with regard to assessments collected.

Bill· HRH.R. 7910 (95th)referred

A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977

Directs the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one year review of toxic and carcinogenic substances including: (1) current capabilities to predict the effect on humans of substances found to induce cancer in animals; (2) the benefits and risks to the public of such substances; (3) the validity of benefit-risk analysis of such substances; and (4) the relationship of Federal regulatory policies concerning the use of such substances for food and for non-food purposes. Directs the Institute to report its findings and legislative and administrative recommendations to the Congress and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare within one year. Authorizes the continued use of saccharin for eighteen months. Prohibits the Secretary from taking any action under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit or restrict the sale or distribution (other than requiring labeling) of saccharin.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 651 (95th)referred

Resolution to halt the ban on saccharin.

United States · United States Congress · 21 June 1977

Declares it the sense of the House that no ban on saccharin should take effect unless and until the Food and Drug Administration has conducted hearings as to whether an exemption from such ban should be granted for special dietary uses.

Bill· HRH.R. 7884 (95th)referred

A bill to encourage the establishment of wind erosion control and wildlife habitat areas which meet standards prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture.

United States · United States Congress · 20 June 1977

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an income tax credit for the amounts paid or incurred by the taxpayer to convert land held in the United States and formerly used for agriculture or raising livestock into an area used exclusively for providing vegetative cover for wind erosion control or wildlife habitat. Provides that such wind erosion control and wildlife habitat areas must: (1) meet such requirements as are established by the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) be no less than 20 feet, nor more than 60 feet in width; and (3) comprise no more than 15 percent of the area of any farm. Provides for the recapture of such credits to the extent that credit is taken for land which ceases to be a wind erosion control or wildlife habitat area, or is transferred by the taxpayer (except by reason of death, or in certain tax-free corporate acquisitions) within three years after the credit is taken. Provides for the carryover of allowable credit to the extent it exceeds the taxpayer's liability. Reduces the taxpayer's basis, and disallows any deduction of expenditures properly charged to capital account for which this credit is taken.

Bill· HRH.R. 7871 (95th)referred

Stocks Management and Reserve Act

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1977

Stocks Management and Reserve Act -- Title I: Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to establish, maintain and dispose of a separate reserve of wheat, corn and other enumerated feed grains through storage contracts with producers. Limits such reserves to no less than 25 million tons nor more than 35 million tons. Specifies how the Secretary may establish such reserves through the Commodity Credit Corporation. Title II: Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to set the loan level per bushel of wheat at $2.25 for the 1977 crop and $2.35 for the 1978 through 1981 crops. Sets the loan level per bushel of corn at $1.75 for the 1977 crop and $2.00 for the 1978 through 1981 crops. Sets a formula for the adjustment of the respective loan rates under specified circumstances. Requires the Secretary to set a fair and reasonable loan level on each crop of barley, oats, and rye. Title III: Amends the Agriculture Act of 1949 to authorize the President (1) to enter into negotiations with other nations to develop an international system of food reserves to provide for humanitarian food relief needs, and (2) to establish and maintain an International Emergency Food Reserve, as a contribution of the United States toward the development of such a system, to be made available in the event of food emergencies in foreign countries. Requires for such reserve minimum stocks of two million tons, allowing an increase up to six million tons pursuant to an international agreement. Requires periodic rotation of such stocks to avoid spoilage and deterioration.

Bill· HRH.R. 7859 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1964, as amended.

United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1977

Extends from June 30, 1977 to September 30, 1977, the provision of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 which disqualifies from eligibility for either food stamps or the Food Distribution Program any recipient of Federal or State supplemental security income benefits for any month during which he or she resides in a State providing State supplemental security income benefits whose level the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare has found to have been specifically increased to include the bonus value of food stamps.

Bill· SS. 1704 (95th)referred

A bill to provide for two additional Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture.

United States · United States Congress · 16 June 1977

Increases the number of Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture from five to seven. Establishes the rate of pay for the Administrators of the Food Safety and Quality Service and the Food and Nutrition Service of the Department at the rate of pay established for positions at level V of the Executive Schedule. (Amends 5 U.S.C. 5315, 5316)

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 634 (95th)passed

A resolution waiving certain points of order against H. R. 7558, a bill making appropriations for agriculture and related agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, l978.

United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1977

Waives certain points of order against H.R. 7558 (Appropriations for Agriculture and Related Agencies programs).

Bill· HRH.R. 7790 (95th)referred

A bill to require that imported meat and meat food products made in whole or in part of imported meat be subjected to certain tests and that such meat or products be identified as having been imported; to require the inspection of imported dairy products and that such products comply with certain minimum standards of sanitation; to require that the cost of conducting such tests, inspections, and identification procedures on imported meat and meat food products and on dairy products, as the case may be, be borne by the exporters of such articles.

United States · United States Congress · 14 June 1977

Title I: Meat and Meat Products - Requires, under the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the package or container of any imported meat or meat products capable of use as human food to be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported. Requires that such products meet the same health standards as domestically produced meats. Requires testing of imported meat in the countries from which such meat is being imported. Directs that periodic tests be conducted in the United States by the Department of Agriculture also. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe such assessments and fees as he determines necessary to cover the Departments costs under this Title. Title II: Dairy Products - Prohibits the importation of dairy products into the United States unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies the products as wholesome and pure. Requires the Secretary to establish standards for imported products comparable to standards imposed upon domestic dairy products. Directs the Secretary, where and to the extent necessary, to inspect imported dairy products and require such products to be accompanied by a certificate of compliance issued by the Secretary. Requires imported dairy products to comply with United States labeling and packaging requirements. Requires that imported dairy products be labeled in such a way as to inform consumers that such product was imported.

Bill· HRH.R. 7724 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Meat Import Quota Act of 1964 to define fresh, chilled, and frozen meat.

United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1977

Restricts the importation of fresh, chilled, or frozen beef, goat, and sheep meat to entry under specified tariff classifications, regardless of form, classification as processed, change in tariff classification, executive definition, or entry into the United States through any foreign trade zone and modification in form within the trade zone.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 510 (95th)referred

Joint resolution requiring that any trade agreement between the United States and Cuba include a provision preventing disruption of the American sugar market.

United States · United States Congress · 9 June 1977

Affirms that maintenance of a viable domestic sugar industry is an integral part of United States agricultural policy and that any trade agreement with Cuba shall contain a clause to prevent the disruption of that industry by Cuban sugar imports.

Bill· SS. 1647 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to permit general recreational access and geothermal explorations for six months within a portion of the Bull Run Reserve, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to permit general recreational access and geothermal explorations for six months within the Special Management Area of the Bull Run Reserve, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.

Bill· HRH.R. 7663 (95th)referred

A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing or risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1977

Directs the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a one year review of toxic and carcinogenic substances including: (1) the current capabilities to predict the effect on humans of substances found to induce cancer in animals; (2) the benefits and risks to the public of such substances; (3) the validity of benefit-risk analysis of such substances; and (4) the relationship of Federal regulatory policies concerning the use of such substances for food and for non-food purposes. Directs the Institute to report its findings and legislative and administrative recommendations to the Congress and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare within one year. Authorizes the continued use of saccharin for eighteen months. Prohibits the Secretary from taking any action under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit or restrict the sale or distribution (other than requiring labeling) of saccharin.

Bill· SS. 1632 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for the review of certain determinations made relating to food.

United States · United States Congress · 7 June 1977

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a safety review panel. Directs such panel to evaluate and approve the results of tests conducted to determine the safety of potentially carcinogenic food additives. Stipulates that regulations concerning such additives shall be ineffective unless such panel has first determined that such regulations are necessary.

Law· HRH.R. 7606 (95th)open

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to permit general recreational access and geothermal explorations for six months within a portion of the Bull Run Reserve, Mount Hood National Forest, Oreg.

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1977

Bill· HRH.R. 7611 (95th)referred

A bill to direct the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 12 months.

United States · United States Congress · 6 June 1977

Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to permit the marketing of saccharin and any food additive, drug, and cosmetic containing saccharin for 12 months.

Bill· HRH.R. 7601 (95th)referred

A bill to amend section 501(e) d of the Housing Act of 1949 for the purpose of requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish escrow accounts in order to assist persons receiving rural housing loans under such act.

United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1977

Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for the establishment of escrow accounts for taxes and insurance by borrowers for farm housing.

Bill· HRH.R. 7599 (95th)referred

A bill to direct the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a 1-year review and evaluation of all available information respecting the toxicity and carcinogenicity of food additives, including information respecting the ability to predict the effect on humans of food additives found to cause cancer in animals and whether there should be a weighing of risks and benefits in making regulatory decisions respecting such additives, and to direct the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to permit the continued use of saccharin as a food, food additive, drug, and cosmetic for 18 months.

United States · United States Congress · 3 June 1977

Law· HRH.R. 7558 (95th)open

An Act making appropriations for Agriculture and related agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, l978, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977

Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1978 for programs of the Department of Agriculture, relating to production, processing and marketing and to farm income stabilization. Title II: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1978 for programs of the Department of Agriculture relating to rural development assistance and to conversation. Title III: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1978 for the Food and Nutrition Service programs of the Department of Agriculture. Title IV: International Programs - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1978 for the Foreign Agricultural Service and the Public Law 480 (Food for Peace) programs of the Department of Agriculture. Title V: Related Agencies - Appropriates specified sums for fiscal year 1978 for specified programs of the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Farm Credit Administration. Title VI: General Provisions - Specifies limitations and prohibitions on the use of appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 7570 (95th)referred

National Food Stamp Reform Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 June 1977

National Food Stamp Reform Act - Extends the Food Stamp Act of 1964 through fiscal year 1982. Excludes from the definition of "food" which may be purchased with food stamps alcoholic beverages, tobacco, ice cubes, artificial food colorings, powdered and liquid cocktail mixes, carbonated beverages, cooking wines, and chewing gum; and any other food, class of food, food product or condiment which the Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the President of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council (Food and Nutrition Board), determines to have a negligible or low nutritional value or to be an insignificant enhancement of palatability. Includes residents of federally subsidized housing for the elderly in the definition of "household". Redefines "elderly person" as someone 65 years or older (currently, 60 years of age). Defines "nutritionally adequate diet" as a diet sufficient to feed a family of four persons, consisting of a man and a woman between 20 and 54 years of age, one child between ages nine and eleven and one child between six and eight, and which meets additional specified conditions. Directs the Secretary to establish uniform national standards of eligibility for participation by households in the food stamp program. Requires the income standards of eligibility in every State to be the nonfarm income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget, adjusted annually; but limits the standards for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam to those of the 50 States. Sets a 90-day accounting period for certification or recertification of food stamp applicants. Limits the maximum allowable financial resources (liquid and nonliquid assets) of a household to $1,500, except that, for households or two or more persons with one or more members 65 years or older, such resources are limited to $2,250. Specifies holdings excluded from the determination of such resources. Requires household income for purposes of the food stamp program to be the gross income of the household less: (1) a deduction of $25 a month for any household in which there is at least one elderly person; and (2) an additional deduction equal to 15 percent of all earned income to compensate for taxes, mandatory deductions, and work expenses. Includes in gross income: (1) all monetary payments to or on behalf of any household member except payments made for medical costs; (2) all income tax refunds and Federal income tax credits; (3) the value of all in-kind items; and (4) the value of all benefits received under any publicly or privately funded assistance program. Excludes from gross income: (1) payments for medical costs made on behalf of the household; (2) compensation for services performed by a student residing with the household who is not yet 18; (3) Uniform Relocation Assistance payments; (4) infrequent or irregular quarterly income; (5) all loans except deferred repayment education loans; and (6) the cost of producing self-employed income. Authorizes the Secretary to establish temporary emergency eligibility standards for households which are victims of a disaster. States that no household shall be eligible for participation in the Food Stamp program which includes an able- bodied adult between the ages of 18 and 65 who: (1) incurs a reduction of income as a result of voluntarily reducing his or her number of hours of employment without good cause; (2) fails to register for employment at a State or Federal employment office; (3) has refused to accept employment or public work within 30 miles of the person's principal residence; (4) fails to actively seek employment; or (5) is enrolled in an institution of post-secondary education as a substitute for full-time employment. Excludes from this class of ineligible individuals mothers with dependent children, primary or secondary school students, post-secondary level students or trainees' employed part-time, enrollees in a drug addiction or alcoholic treatment program, and persons working at least 30 hours per week. States that refusal to work at a plant site because of a strike or other labor dispute shall be deemed to be a refusal to accept employment. Declares that no person shall be eligible who is not a citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence. States that no minor shall be considered a household member if such minor resides in a household in which no other member has a legal duty to support him unless: (1) the individual who had such a duty is financially unable to perform it; or (2) no individual with such duty exists. Requires each household receiving food stamps to report its income at least once each month. Declares that no household that knowingly transfers liquid or nonliquid assets for the purpose of qualifying or attempting to qualify for the food stamp program shall be eligible to participate in the program for a minimum of 90 days. States that no person who receives supplementary security income benefits under title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act, State supplementary payments under such title, or payments under specified provisions of title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of such Act, shall be considered a member of a household for any month, if for such month, such individual resides in a State in which the Supplemental Security Income benefit has been increased specifically to include the bonus value of food coupon allotments. Requires food coupons to be designed with spaces for the user to sign upon receipt and redemption. Requires coupon users to present suitable identification; including signature and photograph, when redeeming coupons at approved food stores. States that the value of the food coupon allotment to which eligible households will be entitled shall be an amount sufficient to allow a household to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet. Requires the semi-annual adjustment of the value of an allotment based on changes in the cost of food. Establishes as the charge a household shall pay for its coupon allotment the lesser of: (1) the percentage of its income which would be expended for food by an average household of its size and income range in the same region of the country; or (2) 30 percent. Provides, under the requirements for State plans for the administration of the food stamp program, for closer State supervision of eligibility by households. Requires the State agencies administering the program to conduct nutrition education programs for recipients. Directs each State agency to establish an earnings clearance system for the purpose of checking the actual income and assets of a household against those reported by the household. Provides that if a State agency does not comply with the provisions of the Food Stamp Act, the Secretary may refer the matter to the Attorney General with a request for an injunction, or he may direct that there be no further issuance of coupons in the political subdivisions where such failure has occurred until such time as satisfactory corrective action has been taken. Establishes a national system for providing information to State agencies in order to assist them in preventing households from receiving food stamps in more than one State or in more than one political subdivision within a State. Sets a civil penalty not in excess of $10,000 for each violation of the Food Stamp Act of 1964 or regulations issued pursuant to it by specified persons, including State agencies. Directs the Secretary to pay to each State agency out of funds appropriated by Congress an amount equal to 75 percent of all direct costs of State food stamp program investigations, prosecutions, and State activities related to recovering losses sustained in the food stamp program. Specifies information to included in the Secretary's annual report in addition to information already given.

Bill· HRH.R. 7544 (95th)referred

A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1964, to exclude from coverage under the act households which have members who are on strike.

United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1977

Excludes from eligibility for food stamps under the Food Stamp Act of 1964 any household whose principal wage earner is on strike for the duration of such strike. Excepts a household from this exclusion if it was participating in the food stamp program immediately prior to the start of such strike, or if any of its members is subject to an employer's lockout.

Bill· HRH.R. 7535 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to distribute seeds and plants for use in home gardens.

United States · United States Congress · 1 June 1977

Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to distribute, upon request and without cost, up to three packages of seeds per household for use in home gardening to produce food for the personal consumption of the household. Authorizes an appropriation of $6,000,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act. Limits the duration of this Act to three years.

Bill· SS. 1622 (95th)referred

A bill establishing the Bull Run Watershed management unit, Mount Hood National Forest, specifying authorized uses therein, authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture and the city of Portland jointly and equally to manage the unit.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1977

Establishes a special resources management unit within Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, to be known as the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit to be jointly managed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the city of Portland, Oregon. Prohibits logging and recreational activities within such Unit. Sets forth the purposes of the Unit and makes provisions for its management.

Bill· SS. 1620 (95th)referred

A bill to authorize and direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out forest and rangeland renewable resources research, to provide cooperative forest resources assistance to States and others.

United States · United States Congress · 27 May 1977

Repeals the McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928 and amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to substitute for the existing reforestation and forest products research program a new program of investigations, experiments, tests, and other activities necessary to obtain, analyze, demonstrate, and disseminate scientific information about protecting, managing, and utilizing forest and rangeland renewable resources in rural, suburban, and urban areas. Specifies the content of renewable resource management, environmental, protection, utilization, and assessment research fields. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to establish forest and rangeland research facilities and to make competitive grants to public and private institutions and agencies and to individuals to further such research activities. Directs the Secretary to make and keep current a comprehensive survey and analysis of the present and prospective conditions of and requirements for the renewable resources of the forests and rangelands of the United States and of the supplies of such renewable resources. Authorizes such appropriations as may be necessary.

Bill· SS. 1614 (95th)referred

Western States Conservation Act

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1977

Western States Conservation Act - Amends the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act to expand the present Great Plains area soil conservation program to include the seven Western States of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Permits conservation plans submitted to the Secretary of Agriculture by land owners and operators to include measures for improving irrigation systems to conserve water. Removes the present $300,000,000 ceiling on authorizations for such programs. Requires land owners or operators contracting with the Secretary to agree to forfeit all rights to payments for losses sustained because of natural disaster if such losses were sustained in connection with lands on which permanent conservation measures had been installed under a contract with the Secretary and such measures were destroyed by the owner or operator after expiration of such contract.

Bill· HRH.R. 7457 (95th)referred

A bill establishing the Bull Run watershed management unit, Mt. Hood National Forest, specifying authorized uses therein, authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture and the city of Portland jointly and equally to manage the unit.

United States · United States Congress · 26 May 1977

Establishes a special resources management unit within Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, to be known as the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit to be jointly managed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the city of Portland, Oregon. Prohibits logging and recreational activities within such unit. Sets forth the purposes of the Unit and makes provisions for its management.

Bill· HRH.R. 7432 (95th)passed

A bill to designate the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory in Tucson, Ariz., as the "Carl Hayden Bee Research Center."

United States · United States Congress · 25 May 1977

Designates the United States Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona, the "Carl Hayden Bee Research Center."

Bill· HRH.R. 7393 (95th)referred