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1,101 records in 1975
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Prohibits the use of appropriated funds by the Commission on Central Intelligence Agency Activities within the United States established under Executive Order 11828 on January 4, 1975.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Authorizes the payment of fees at the expense of the United States for civilian counsel and other expenses connected with the defense of members of the Armed Forces charged with offenses committed while engaged in other hostilities. Includes among the crimes covered under the Act the maiming, mutilation, torture, or killing of any non-combatant, civilian, or member of an opposing military force.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 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 1973.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 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. Establishes the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account. Provides that funds available in the Naval Petroleum Reserve Account shall be available for the expenses of: (1) production, including preparation for production, as authorized by this joint resolution and as may hereafter be authorized, (2) all capital costs necessary for facilities both within and outside the reserve incident to production and delivery of crude petroleum, and (3) exploration, prospecting, conservation, development, use, and operation of the naval petroleum and oil shale reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Directs the President to provide to the House the information contained in the report of William E. Colby delivered to the President on or about December 26, 1974, relating to activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1975
Directs the President to provide to the House Committee on the Judiciary all the information in the possession of the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency relating to any of the following activities since January 1, 1960, engaged in by any person in the United States for the Central Intelligence Agency: (1) each instance of surreptitious entry, breaking and entering or burglary; (2) each instance of intercepting and opening of mail; (3) each instance of wiretapping or electronic surveillance, not pursuant to court order; (4) each instance of collecting information and maintaining files on a citizen of, or person residing in, the United States or on an association or group within the United States; and (5) each instance of a plan or attempt to do any of the acts enumerated above whether or not such plan or attempt was successfully carried out. Specifies the information required for each activity referred to.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Restores the wartime recognition of specified Filipino veterans of World War II. Entitles such veterans to those veterans' benefits, rights, and privileges which result from such recognition.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides that members who belonged to the Reserve of an armed force before August 16, 1945, shall be eligible for retirement pay provided they performed active duty after August 13, 1961, and before May 31, 1963, or after August 4, 1964, and before March 28, 1973, or provided they performed at least 20 years of service after August 15, 1945. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1331-1333)
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Authorizes the burial in a national cemetery of the parents of any member of the Armed Forces whose death occurs under honorable conditions while such member was serving on active duty for a period of more than thirty days and when such member was the only child of such parents. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1002)
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Requires the Armed Forces to provide special educational and health services to dependents of members serving on active duty who are deaf, hard of hearing, handicapped by a speech impairment or a visual handicap, seriously emotionally disturbed, moderately or severely mentally retarted, crippled, or have a speech or health impairment or specific learning disability requiring special education and related services. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1079(d))
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make available to the State of Hawaii, or through it to the Queen's Medical Center, physical facilities not needed by the Army at Fort DeRussy, Hawaii, for the purpose of establishing a mental health clinic in such facilities.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Extends eligibility for dependency and indemnity compensation to widows of veterans who die of non-service-connected causes but who were at the time of death totally disabled as the result of one or more service-connected disabilities. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 410,411)
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Authorizes the widows of former members of the armed forces of the United States, who are entitled to dependency or indemnity compensation or death compensation if the Member prior to his death was totally disabled, to use the services and facilities of post exchanges and commissaries. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1041)
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Authorizes access to memorial areas and appropriate memorials to honor the memory of those deceased members of the Armed Forces whose remains were donated for use in medical research or training in the same manner as provided for those deceased members whose remains were buried at sea, have not been identified, or were nonrecoverable.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 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 · 15 January 1975
Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member of the Armed Forces who was on active duty or in an active status on or before May 31, 1958, and who became or will become entitled to receive retired pay, shall be computed at current active duty rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates. Provides that the enactment of this Act shall not reduce the retired pay to which a member or former member was entitled on the day before the effective date of this Act, nor create any retroactive entitlement to additional retired pay.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides that public or private retirement, annuity, or endowment payments (including monthly social security insurance benefits) shall not be included in computing annual income for the purpose of determining eligibility for a non-service connected disability or death pension for a veteran or his survivors.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Provides that the retired pay of any member or former member of the Armed Forces who was on active duty or in an active status on or before May 31, 1958, and who became or will become entitled to receive retired pay, shall be computed at current active duty rates and increased to reflect later changes in applicable pay rates. Provides that the enactment of this Act shall not reduce the retired pay to which a member or former member was entitled on the day before the effective date of this Act, nor create any retroactive entitlement to additional retired pay.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code to an employer who hires an unemployed vietnam veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Permits any returned prisoner of war of the Vietnam conflict to import free of duty additional personal and household effects during the one-year period after his return to the jurisdiction of the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code to an employer with respect to a Vietnam veteran employed by a taxpayer for not less than 6 months during the 2-year period beginning on the date 1 year before the first day of the taxpayer's taxable year, if, as certified by the Secretary of Labor, the position which the individual is hired either (1) reflects the individual's prior civilian experience, his applicable military experience, or his educational level, or (2) provides training which leads to self improvement or job advancement.
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1975
Allows a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code to an employer who hires a physically handicapped vietnam veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Eliminates the time limitation on the provision of educational assistance to veterans who served on active duty at any time during the Vietnam era or thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Includes conscientious opposition to military service in a particular war within the definition of conscientious objectors, for purposes of the Military Selective Service Act. (Presently only objection to "war in any form.") Provides that any person who received a notice to report for induction prior to the date of enactment of this Act or who left a jurisdiction with intent to avoid prosecution for refusing or evading service in the Armed Forces and who returns to such jurisdiction, shall be entitled to offer information to his local draft board in substantiation of his claim to exemption: (1) from combatant training and service in the Armed Forces provided he was conscientiously opposed to participation in a particular war at the time he received his notice, or left the jurisdiction; or (2) from both combatant and noncombatant training and service in the Armed Forces provided he was conscientiously opposed to participating in any form in a particular war at the time he received his notice or left the jurisdiction. States that any prosecution for refusing or evading service in the Armed Forces of a person who has offered information substantiating his claim to exemption under this Act shall be suspended until his claim to exemption has been granted or denied, including final appeals. Allows the grant or improper denial of his claim for exemption as a defense to such prosecution. Provides for motions for temporary and permanent release for an individual convicted for refusing or evading service in the Armed Forces prior to the enactment of this Act if he offers information substantiating his claim to exemption under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to appoint students at State maritime academies and colleges as Reserve midshipmen in the United States Navy upon graduation from such academies or colleges.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Authorizes and directs the Secretary of Defense and the Administrator of the General Services Administration to insure the procurement and use by the Federal Government of products manufactured from recycled materials by: (1) studying the feasibility of such procurement including entering into research contracts for examination of the various problems of government use of products made from recycled materials; and (2) promulgating standards and regulations ensuring the use of such products by Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities. Defines the term "recycled material" for the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Authorizes the transfer of all or part of a veterans' educational assistance to their spouses. Provides for educational assistance at the secondary school level to widows, widowers, and spouses eligible for veterans benefits educational assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Revises the definition of conscientious objector under the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 so as to include conscientious opposition to military service in a particular war. (Amends 50 App. U.S.C. 456(j))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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 · 14 January 1975
War Resisters Exoneration Act - States that notwithstanding any other provision of law, general amnesty is hereby granted to any person for violation of one or more of the laws enumerated in this Act or regulations and policies promulgated pursuant thereto, if such violation was committed between January 4, 1961, and November 22, 1974. Provides that such amnesty is automatic, and no application to the Amnesty Commission or any other agency is necessary to effectuate it. Sets forth a list of laws to which this Act shall apply, including sections of the Military Selective Service Act and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. States that the effect of the general amnesty granted by or under this Act, shall be to: (1) restore to the grantee all civil, political, citizenship, and property rights which have been or might be lost, suspended, or otherwise limited as a consequence of such violation; (2) immunize the grantee from criminal prosecution for such violation; (3) expunge all notation relating to such violation from the records of law enforcement agencies and cause an appropriate entry to be made in relevant public records; (4) require the granting of an honorable discharge to any person who received a discharge other than an honorable discharge from the Armed Forces if such violation was solely the cause, or a substantial cause, of the granting of such other than honorable discharge; (5) require that the honorable discharge from the Armed Forces granted by subsection (4) of this section contain no indication of any kind of the reason for the discharge; and (6) nullify all other legal consequences of such violation and entitle the grantee to indicate in any manner that such violation never occurred. Establishes the Amnesty Commission to grant general amnesty to any individual who, during the period beginning January 1, 1961, and ending on November 22, 1974, violated any Federal law or State or local law if the Commission finds that: (1) such violation was in substantial part motivated by the individual's opposition to, or protest against, the involvement of the United States in Indochina; and (2) the individual was not personally responsible for any significant property damage or substantial personal injury to others in the course of his violation of any such law. Provides that in any case in which the Commission finds that an individual was personally responsible for significant property damage or substantial personal injury to others in the course of his violation of any such law, the Commission shall grant amnesty if it finds that such conduct was justifiable on the basis of a moral or ethical belief deeply held by the individual. States that, upon petition to any district court of the United States, by petitioner or a legal representative, the United States citizenship of any former citizen who states that he renounced such citizenship or became naturalized in a foreign country, solely or partly because of disapproval of involvement of the United States in Indochina shall be fully and unconditionally restored. Authorizes appropriations of such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Uniformed Services Retirement Pay Equalization Act - Provides that the retired pay of each retired officer of the Navy or the Marine Corps shall be computed on the basis of rates of pay provided by law at the time of his retirement or subsequently for officers on the active list. Permits retired members of the uniformed service, who were retired by reason of physical disability and who are entitled to retired or Compensation Act of 1949, to elect within the one-year period following the effective date of this Act, to receive disability retirement pay under this Act in lieu of that retired or retainer pay to which they are otherwise entitled. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 6149)
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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 · 14 January 1975
World War I Pension Act - Establishes a monthly pension for qualified World War I veterans of $135 if unmarried and with no children, or $150 if married and living with or contributing to the support of a spouse or with children. Provides an additional monthly payment of $50 if the veteran is permanently homebound, or $125 if he is in need of regular aid and attendance. Provides that no pension shall be paid to a veteran who has income in excess of $3,000 if unmarried or $4,200 if married. Provides that a veteran entitled to another pension shall receive whichever amount is greater. Establishes for widows of qualified World War I veterans a monthly Pension of $100 if there is no child or $125 if there is one child, with an additional $20 for each additional child. Provides that no pension shall be paid if the total annual income of the widow with children exceeds $3,000 or $4,200 in the case of a widow with children. Establishes a monthly pension for the children of qualified World War I veterans when there is no widow. Sets such pension at $45 for the first child and $18 for each additional child. Requires each pension to be equally distributed among the eligible children and makes any child with an annual income, excluding earned income, in excess of $2,000 ineligible for a pension. Exempts increases in Social Security benefits, railroad retirement annuities or pensions, or Federal government employee annuities from the determination of annual income. Gives priority for hospital care to those veterans receiving a pension under the Act. (Adds 38 U.S.C. 513-515; Amends 38 U.S.C. 503, 610)
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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 · 14 January 1975
Requires that there shall apply to veterans and other persons pursuing specified vocational and technical educational programs the same certification requirements with respect to enrollment, pursuit, and attendance as apply to veterans and persons pursuing programs leading to standard college degrees.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides for the discharge of members of the Armed Forces from active military service by reason of physical disability when suffering from drug dependency. Authorizes the civil commitment of such members concurrent with their discharge. Authorizes retroactive honorable discharges in cases covered by this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that, for purposes of computing the retired pay of enlisted members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, the years of service are computed by adding the years of active service in the armed forces, the years of service in a medical unit or in medical work, and the years of service credited for special duty in specified assignments. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 3925(a), 6330, 8925(a))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Authorizes the payment of retirement annuities for specified classes of widows of members of the uniformed services who died before the effective date of the Survivor Benefit Plan.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides for the reduction in survivor annuities under the survivor benefit plan for members of the Armed Forces by reason of social security benefits based on military service only if such benefits are in fact received by the survivor (previously if the survivor was entitled to such benefits). (Amends 10 U.S.C. 1451 (a)).
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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 · 14 January 1975
Permits service-connected disabled veterans, whose disability is rated 30 percent or more in degree disabling, and who are retired members of the uniformed services, to receive disability compensation concurrently with retired pay, without deduction from either. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 3104(a))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides retirement annuities for widows of members of the uniformed services who died before the effective date of the Survivor Benefit Plan. States that any individual who on or before September 21, 1972, was a widow of an eligible person who was entitled to retired or retainer pay when he died, or the contingency option plan, may elect to receive, in lieu of such annuity, the annuity provided for in this Act. Prescribes the procedures for calculation of such annuity.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that the remarriage of the widow of a veteran after age 60 shall not result in termination of dependency and indemnity compensation.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 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 · 14 January 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 · 14 January 1975
Provides that, for purposes of computing the retired pay of enlisted members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, the years of service are computed by adding the years of active service in a medical unit or in medical work, and the years of service credited for special duty in specified assignments. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 3925(a), 6330, 8925(a))
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides that anyone forcibly resisting, opposing or assaulting a member of the National Guard while he is engaged in carrying out his official duties shall be fined $15,000 or imprisoned not more than twenty-five years, or both.
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Extends to forty-five months (presently thirty-six) the maximum number of school months covered by veterans' educational benefits for eligible veterans. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1661)
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a center for research regarding the diseases, disabilities, and other medical and psychological problems of prisoners of war. States that such center shall: (1) enlarge upon studies by the Army-Navy Center for Prisoners of War, San Diego, California; (2) provide for the identification and exchange of information; and (3) disseminate the results of its research, particularly to physicians having former prisoners of war in their care. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1089)
United States · United States Congress · 14 January 1975
Provides for specially adapted housing benefits to veterans suffering the loss, or loss of use, of both arms.