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United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Permits withholding of State income taxes from the compensation of members of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides, under the Defense Production Act, that members of the National Commission on Supplies and Shortages appointed by the President in consultation with Congressional leaders are exempted from specified provisions of Federal law regulating compensation and activities of Federal officials. Extends until June 30, 1975, the date upon which the Commission shall report to the President and the Congress on specific recommendations with respect to institutional adjustments, including the advisability of establishing an independent agency to provide for a comprehensive data collection and storage system, to aid in examination and analysis of the supplies and shortages in the economy of the United States and in relation to the rest of the world. Provides that appropriations authorized for fiscal year 1975 shall remain available until December 31, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of State to report to the Congress within twenty days a comprehensive plan to deliver civil defense all-purpose survival biscuits which are presently nearing the end of their shelf life to nations designated by the United Nations as "most servely affected" by hunger.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Entitles specified veterans of the Mexican border period and of World War I and their widows and children to a veterans' pension benefit on the same basis as that accorded to veterans of the Spanish American War and their widows and children, respectively. Provides for an increase in pension rates applicable to such classes of veterans.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Prohibits any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973, have been fully complied with by North Vietnam or the President has determined and reported to Congress that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the suitability and feasibility of designating the Vietnam Veterans Chapel, Eagle Nest, New Mexico, as a national memorial to the Vietnam veterans. Authorizes necessary appropriations for such purpose.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Revises the schedule for deductible payments by patients for medical care and special education services under the health benefits program for spouses and children of members of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
United States Amnesty Commission Act - Establishes the United States Amnesty Commission. Provides that an application for amnesty may be filed with the Commission under this Act not later than January 1, 1980, by any individual who, during the period beginning August 4, 1964, and ending January 1, 1974, violated, or is subject to prosecution for violation of the Military Selective Service Act or other specified provisions of Federal law pertaining to military service. Prohibits the Commission from recommending amnesty or any other action with respect to any applicant unless it has determined that the overriding purpose of such applicant in violating the law was to dissent from the policy of the United States with respect to the Vietnam war. Allows an applicant 90 days in which to appeal Commission determinations. Provides that, upon completion of its determinations with respect to any applicant, the Commission shall submit to the President its recommendations for amnesty (conditional or unconditional) and other appropriate actions to be taken by him with such respect to such applicant. Sets forth the method of selection of the members of the Commission. Permits the Commission to issue subpenas requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of any evidence that relates to any matter under investigation by it. States that any individual filing an application for amnesty who is entitled under this Act to appear before the Commission may not be arrested or prosecuted for any violation described in this Act during: (1) the period beginning 48 hours prior to his first scheduled appearance before the Commission and ending 48 hours after his final appearance before the Commission; and (2) any additional period which the Commission certifies is necessary to facilitate the appearance of such an individual before the Commission. Terminates the Commission on January 1, 1983.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes the payment of $125 per month as a pension to World War I veterans, subject to a $2,400 and $3,600 annual income limitation. Provides that retirement income such as social security shall not be counted as income in the determination of annual income for purposes of pensions under this Act. Provides that such pension shall be increased by 10 percent where the veteran served overseas during World War I.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides that in the determination of the annual income of recipients of veterans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation, the Administrator of veterans' Affairs shall not reduce the amount of such pension or compensation because of increases in monthly social security benefits under Public Law 92-336. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations for calendar years after 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes to be appropriated for expenditure by the President $100,000,000 as an Emergency North Atlantic Treaty Organization Fund. Stipulates such fund is to be available only in order to strengthen the military capabilities of signatories of the North Alliance Treaty.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide survivorship benefits under the Survivor Benefit Plan of the Armed Forces for the families of veterans who have a total disability which is permanent in nature resulting from a service-connected disability. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Provides that a member of an armed force entitled to retired or retainer pay pursuant to the Survivor Benefit Plan on the effective date of this Act shall be deemed to include any former member of an armed force who is certified by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs as having a total disability permanent in nature resulting from a service-connected disability and who is not otherwise covered by this Act. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Prohibits any change in the status of any member of the uniformed services who is in a missing status as a result of service in Southeast Asia, until the provisions of the Paris Peace Accord of January 27, 1973, have been fully complied with by North Vietnam or the President has determined and reported to Congress that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Entitles veterans to 45 months (now 36 months) of educational assistance for undergraduate or any other authorized programs of education. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1661).
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Authorizes the production of petroleum (including crude oil and associated gas and other hydrocarbons) from Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1 at a rate to help insure that the needs of national defense are met, but not to exceed the maximum efficient rate in accordance with sound engineering and economic principles. States that such production is to commence within 45 days after the effective date of this resolution, and to continue for a period of not more than five years after production commences. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to dispose of the production herein authorized by means of sales, uses, or exchanges effected, determined, or agreed upon after the effective date of this resolution. Establishes on the books of the Treasury Department the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account. Provides that this account shall be administered by the Secretary of Defense may prescribe. Stipulates that into such account there shall be transferred or credited during the perior of increased production authorized by this Act or as may be hereafter authorized (1) unobligated balances of appropriations made available to the Department of the Navy for fiscal year 1974, for exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves, (2) all proceeds realized from the sale of petroleum or refined products, oil and gas products, including royalty products, and the net proceeds realized from sales within the Department of Defense of refined petroleum products accruing to the benefit of the Department of Defense as the result of exchanges, and (3) such funds as may be appropriated for the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account, to remain available until expended.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of the State should take the necessary steps, including the renewal of negotiations between the parties, signatory to the Paris agreement and the agreement with the Lao Patriotic Front, to finally determine the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President who is requested to report to the House in 90 days on steps taken to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of the State should take the necessary steps, including the renewal of negotiations between the parties, signatory to the Paris agreement and the agreement with the Lao Patriotic Front, to finally determine the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President who is requested to report to the House in 90 days on steps taken to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1975
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the President and the Secretary of the State should take the necessary steps, including the renewal of negotiations between the parties, signatory to the Paris agreement and the agreement with the Lao Patriotic Front, to finally determine the fate of all United States servicemen and civilians missing in Southeast Asia. Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives to transmit a copy of this resolution to the President who is requested to report to the House in 90 days on steps taken to implement this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of the Army to pay to each person and survivors of those persons who served as a Philippine Scout after December 6, 1941, and before December 31, 1946, in a lump sum the difference between the basic pay which he would have received for his military service during that period if the rates of pay of the Philippine Scouts had been the same as the rates of basic pay for other members of the Army of the United States of corresponding grades and length of service, reduced by the basic pay actually received by such persons.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay a pension to each veteran who served in the active military, naval, or air service at any time during World War I and who is not eligible for other pension benefits. Defines World War I as meaning the period beginning on April 5, 1917, and ending on July 2, 1921. Provides for a schedule of pension payments under this Act. Provides that if the veteran is married and living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse, or has a child or children, the monthly rate of pension under this Act shall be $150. Provides that if the veteran is unmarried (or married but not living with or reasonably contributing to the support of his spouse) and has no child, the monthly rate of pension shall be $135. Provides that if the veteran has a disability by reason of which he is permanently housebound, the monthly rate hereunder shall be increased by $50. Provides that veterans in need of regular aid and attendance shall have their monthly rates increased by $125. Directs the Administrator to pay to widows of veterans, receiving benefits under this Act at time of death, pension benefits as prescribed in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Requires an annual investigation by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs into the cost of travel by veterans to Veterans' Administration facilities and to set rates therefor.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Grants a Federal charter of incorporation to the Army and Navy Union of the United States of America. Prohibits specified political activities by such corporation.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pensions and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced because of increases in monthly social security benefits which result from the enactment of Public Law 92-336 or any subsequent cost-of-living increase under title II (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years afer 1971.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation shall not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66, Public Law 93-233, and subsequent cost-of-living increases under title II of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Authorizes the remission of overpayments for travel expenses made to members of the Armed Forces who are now retired who were on temporary assignment of the Federal Aviation Administration as sky Marshal under Operation Grid Square.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Authorizes the inclusion as creditable service for purposes of the civil service retirement system, those periods of service of civilian employees of nonappropriated fund positions in special services recreation and morale programs of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Prohibits changes in the missing status classification of members of the uniformed services until the President has determined that all reasonable actions have been taken to account for such members and that other criteria have been met under this Act. Requires a study under this Act by the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives to determine whether the provisions of Federal law determining missing status classification should be repealed or modified.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides for the recomputation of military retirement benefits. Provides that a member or former member of a uniformed service: (1) who is sixty years of age or older, and is retired for reasons other than physical disability, whose disability is finally determined to be of a permanent nature and less than 30 percent under the disability rating system, and is entitled to retired pay computed under the rates of basic pay in effect before January 1, 1972; or (2) who is entitled to retired pay for physical disability, whose disability was finally determined to be of permanent nature and at least 30 percent under the schedule of rating disabilities, and whose retired pay is computed under rates of basic pay in effect after October 11, 1949 and before January 1, 1972, is entitled to have that pay recomputed upon the rates of basic pay in effect on January 1, 1972.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide a special services program for the morale, recreation, welfare, and mental, physical, and cultural improvement of personnel of the Armed Forces and to employ the personnel necessary to carry out the program. Provides that to the maximum extent possible special services employees shall be paid from funds appropriated for the purpose of payment of their rates of basic pay. Provides that special services employees who have been part at least three years through nonappropriated funds and have an eligible rating on appropriate civil service registers and are recommended by authorities of the employing agency, may transfer to a position of the same level of duties and responsibilities in the competitive civil service and be placed in the appropriate grade of the General Schedule at basic pay rates. Directs the United States Civil Service Commission to issue regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act in behalf of special services personnel of the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who have been citizens of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Provides hospital and medical care to members of the armed forces of Poland or Czechoslovakia who participated in armed conflict with an enemy of the United States during World War I or World War II, and who have been citizens of the United States for not less than 10 years. Provides that such hospital and medical care shall be available to the same extent as if such service had been performed in the Armed Forces of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of Defense to furnish to the House of Representatives, within ten days after the adoption of this resolution, specified information regarding: (1) reconnaissance flights since January, 1973, over North and South Vietnam; (2) the provision of reconnaissance information to the government of South Vietnam; (3) the number and classification of American personnel now employed in the maintenance or repair of military aircraft and other military equipment in South Vietnam; (4) the presence of American aircraft carriers now stationed within twelve miles off the shores of Southeast Asia; and (5) data involving United States involvement in Cambodia.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1975
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President establish a Presidential task force on the missing in action and their families, to propose courses of action to achieve a full accounting, and to make recommendations concerning Federal policies relating to the missing in action.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Allows the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to furnish outpatient dental services and treatment for a non-service-connected disability to any war veteran who has a service-connected disability of 80 percent or more.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Provides that in the determination of the annual income of recipients of veterans' pensions and dependency and indemnity compensation, the Administrator of veterans' Affairs shall not reduce the amount of such pension or compensation because of increases in monthly social security benefits under Public Law 92-336. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to annual income determinations for calendar years after 1974.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Removes the time limitation within which programs of education for veterans must be completed. Restores on behalf of qualified veterans those educational assistance benefits which had previously terminated.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Grants automatic, general amnesty to any person who during the period of United States involvement in Indochina, violated the Military Selective Service Act or committed certain military crimes. Establishes an Amnesty Commission to grant general amnesty to individuals who violated Federal, State or local law in the course of protesting against United States involvement in Indochina and to review denials of honorable discharges. Authorizes the district courts to restore the United States citizenship of war resisters who renounced such citizenship. Grants jurisdiction to the district courts to hear actions brought to redress the deprivation of rights granted by the general amnesty.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Makes available to the veterans of the Vietnam War all benefits available to World War II and Korean conflict veterans. Entitles veterans of the Vietnam era to veterans' home, farm, and business loan benefits, except that such entitlement may not be in addition to benefits derived by the Vietnam veteran because of World War II or Korean conflict service. Provides that entitlement to benefits will expire as follows: (1) 10 years from the date of discharge or release from the last period of active duty of the veteran after August 5, 1964, except that 1 additional year will be granted for duty; and (2) 20 years from the date of release for service-connected disability from active duty occurring after August 5, 1964. Specifies that direct loans shall not be made after January 31, 1980. Provides for the payment of a fee by each veteran obtaining a guaranteed loan. Permits qualified Vietnam veterans to obtain life insurance from the United States without meeting any requirement of good health, so long as application for such insurance is made within the specified time. Prescribes the plans on which the insurance may be issued and allows the conversion or exchange of an insurance policy for any other type insurance issued under these provisions. Sets forth the terms and conditions under which the insurance will be issued. Permits any person in the active military, naval, or air service to surrender his insurance contract for its cash value. Creates in the Treasury a permanent trust fund known as the Vietnam Era Veterans' Life Insurance Fund, wherein all premiums paid for Vietnam veterans' insurance will be deposited.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1975
Directs the Secretary of Defense to furnish to the House of Representatives, within ten days after the adoption of this resolution, specified information regarding: (1) reconnaissance flights since January, 1973, over North and South Vietnam; (2) the provision of reconnaissance information to the government of South Vietnam; (3) the number and classification of American personnel now employed in the maintenance or repair of military aircraft and other military equipment in South Vietnam; (4) the presence of American aircraft carriers now stationed within twelve miles off the shores of Southeast Asia; and (5) data involving United States involvement in Cambodia.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Authorizes the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide hospital and medical care to persons who served in the Local Security Patrol Force of Guam during World War II.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Re-establishes the military draft for a two-year period. Provides for the induction of individuals, during the period beginning July 1, 1975, and ending June 30, 1977, for training and service in the Armed Forces.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Provides that specified provisions relating to the remarriage of a widow of a veteran shall not apply with respect to a claim filed for gratuitous death benefits (pursuant to the National Service Life Insurance Act) in the case of any widow (including the widow of any member of the Philippine Scouts or Filipino Guerrilla Forces) who has been, and, but for this Act, would continue to be, denied payments of insurance by reason of remarriage, conduct inferring remarriage, or conduct (if terminated) relating to adulterous cohabitation.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Authorizes and directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to construct a new Veterans' Administration hospital in the State of Nevada. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Provides that the retired or retainer pay of any member or former member of a uniformed service entitled to such pay before, on, or after the effective date of this Act shall be computed on the basis of the rate of basic pay provided by law to which such member or former member would be entitled if he were serving on active duty in his retired grade.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Provides that veterans' pension and compensation will not be reduced as a result of increases in monthly social security benefits resulting from the enactment of Public Law 93-66 or any subsequent cost-of-living adjustment under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that the provisions of this Act shall apply to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1975
Provides for the application of cost-of-living increases to annuities payable under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan. Provides for the continued payment of annuities under such plan to widows or widowers who remarry at age 60 or thereafter.