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1,081 records in 1977
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to dispose of approximately 117,837,000 troy ounces of silver now held in the national stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Extends cost-of- living increases in benefits payable on account of disability or death to certain widows, children, and parents of members of the military reserves.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to permit a veteran, who is being supplied with drugs but who is not a patient in a Veterans' Administration facility, to determine whether the drugs will be supplied directly by the Administrator or from a source approved by the Administrator and whether the Administrator shall pay such source directly or reimburse the veteran who will pay for the drugs.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Amends the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 to authorize the use of Federal civil defense funds by local civil defense agencies for natural disaster or civil disturbance relief. Increases the Federal contribution for travel expenses and per diem allowances for students in civil defense training programs and increases the Federal financial contribution to States for civil defense personnel and administrative expenses. Increases the authorization for appropriations under such Act for travel expenses, for personal equipment for State and local workers, and personnel and administrative expenses.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Provides that limited expeditionary campaigns or occupations including those in the Philippines, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, China and Mexico and the occupation of Germany after World War I shall be treated as periods of war for the purposes of eligibility for veterans' benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Directs the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to build a general medical, surgical and psychiatric hospital in the Halifax area of Volusia County, Florida. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Defense Economic Adjustment Act - Title I: Defense Economic Adjustment Council - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Defense Economic Adjustment Council to be composed of Cabinet members and Directors of government agencies. Establishes an Office of Economic Adjustment to provide staff support for the Council. Specifies the duties of the Council, including (1) assisting communities, industries, and employees which may be substantially and seriously affected to make adjustment to closure and reduction of bases or cancellation or reduction of defense contracts and (2) developing and coordinating policies and programs to plan for and facilitate economic adjustment to take account of changing emphasis on defense industries. Title II: Community Economic Adjustment Planning - Authorizes the Council to allocate economic development funds appropriated to Federal agencies to communities which would be substantially affected by reduction or elimination of Government military facilities or curtailment or conclusion of military contracts. Requires public announcement of a closure or substantial reduction of a federally-owned defense facility at least 180 days prior to such action. Directs the Council to assure that retraining and other conversion programs for affected Federal employees are immediately funded and that such employees are given first preference for other Federal job openings in the surrounding region. Title III: Industrial Economic Adjustment - Requires defense contractors to undertake planning and preparation for the employment of the personnel and utilization of the facilities employed on a contract after its completion. Permits funds authorized for appropriation to the Department of Defense to be made available for independent research and development or for bid and proposal costs upon a finding by the council that the work for which the funds are to be allocated has a potential relationship to an urgent national requirement in a designated nondefense sector, including energy and fuel efficiency. Authorizes the Chairman of the Council to provide assistance to defense and nonprofit contractors on conversion to one or more of enumerated nondefense industries. Title IV: Economic Adjustment Fund - Requires payment to the Council of one-half of one percent of the amount of any defense contract for funding of the Workers Economic Adjustment Reserve Trust Fund to be established in the Treasury. Provides for the return of all unexpended moneys of a contractor in the fund if all of his obligations under this Act have been discharged and he has not contracted with the Federal Government to furnish defense materials within 24 months or of a designated portion of such sums if the number of workers engaged in the furnishing of defense material to a Defense agency during the preceding 24 months was continuously more than 20 percent below the peak annual average of such workers occurring after the enactment of this Act. Title V: Economic Adjustment Assistance For Workers - Requires all defense contractors to report to the Secretary of Labor all displacements, short workweeks, or down gradings affecting more than five percent of the employees in a defense facility and the Secretary to certify the affected workers whose displacement, short workweek, or downgrading was attributed in part to a reduced volume of defense work as eligible for economic adjustment benefits. Provides that such assistance shall include up to 80 percent of weekly wages, maintenance, of insurance coverages, vested pension credit, and retraining. Conditions the eligibility of workers for such benefits upon maintenance of registration with the Secretary of Labor and an agreement to accept employment determined by the Secretary of Labor to be suitable. Title VI: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Provides for a new Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs whose principal duty shall be the overall supervision of the reserve component affairs of the Department of Defense. Changes the existing position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower. (Amends 10 U.S.C. 136, 175; 5 U.S.C. 5315)
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Veterans Judicial Review Act - Provides that the decisions of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs on any question of law or fact under any law administered by the Veterans' Administration providing benefits for veterans and their dependents or survivors shall be subject to judicial review. Repeals the requirement that the Administrator determine and pay fees to agents or attorneys in allowed claims for monetary benefits. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 211; Repeals 38 U.S.C. 3404(c))
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Designates as the "Robert G. Stephens, Jr., Veterans' Administration Hospital" the new Veterans' Administration hospital located adjacent to the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Stipulates that a member of the armed forces may be given only one of the following discharges: (1) an Honorable Discharge; (2) a Discharge from Service as regulated under this Act; (3) a Bad Conduct Discharge issued in accordance with the sentence of a general court-martial; or (4) a Dishonorable Discharge issued in accordance with the sentence of a general court-martial. Requires that a narrative statement describing the service of a former member be issued to such member upon request at any time following separation from service. Limits the information which may be included in such a statement. Sets forth the composition of administrative discharge boards which shall consider whether a member should be separated with a Discharge from Service pursuant to this Act. Allows such boards to recommend a Discharge from Service only upon a finding, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, that: (1) the member has engaged in misconduct; (2) in the case of an officer, cadet, or midshipman, that such member has engaged in moral or professional dereliction; (3) the retention of such member would be contrary to the interests of national security; or (4) such member has been convicted previously in a civilian court or previous court-martial under specified circumstances and the retention of such member is not warranted. Authorizes the use of such a discharge by the President in time of war when the individual has been absent without authority for one year, or where the member has requested such discharge, after consultation with counsel, in lieu of board action under this Act or a court-martial. Sets forth the rights of the member concerned before the board and procedures regarding the board's actions. Directs each Judge Advocate General to establish a Court of Administrative Review to review recommendations for separation with a Discharge from Service. Requires the Court of Military Appeals to review the record upon which such a discharge was issued after final action by the Court of Administrative Review if the Judge Advocate General orders such review. Authorizes the Court to review the case upon petition by the member affected. Sets forth the conditions under which an administrative discharge board shall be precluded from determining whether a member should be issued a Discharge from Service.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Provides that recipients of veterans' pension and compensation will not have the amount of such pension or compensation reduced, or entitlement thereto discontinued, because of increases in monthly social security benefits. Applies these amendments to annual income determinations made for calendar years after 1972. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 415(g), adds 38 U.S.C. 503(d))
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Amends the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to direct the Secretaries of the Army, Air Force, and Navy to require the Administrator of General Services to establish a program which: (1) will provide for the acquisition of strategic and critical materials from foreign countries through the barter of goods owned by the United States; and (2) will insure the active cooperation and participation of each appropriate department and agency having custody of goods suitable for barter. Requires the annual stock piling report submitted to the Congress by such Secretaries to include a report regarding such barter program. Makes excess materials in the inventory maintained under the Defense Production Act and in the national and supplemental stockpiles available, where authorized, for transfer at fair market value as payment for expenses in the acquiring, refining, and rotating of materials pursuant to such barter program. Establishes within the Treasury a Strategic and Critical Materials Procurement Fund. Stipulates that all moneys received from the sales of materials under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act shall be placed into the Fund and that moneys from such Fund shall be available only, when appropriated, for the procurement, transportation, maintenance, rotation, storage, refining or processing of materials under such Act. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to annually report to Congress on the operation of the Fund. Requires the Secretary to invest unneeded portions of the Fund in interest-bearing guaranteed obligations of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to sell such obligations except public-debt obligations issued exclusively to the Fund. Prohibits the use of any funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for the procurement of strategic and critical materials.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Authorizes the recomputation at age 60 of the retired or retainer pay for members or former members of the uniformed services whose retired or retainer pay was computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972 in order to reflect any retired or retainer pay increases for other members which was based on changes in the Consumer Price Index since that date.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Grants survivor benefits to dependents of present or former members of the armed forces who die before becoming entitled to retired pay for non-regular service. Stipulates that such amount be 55 percent of the retired pay to which such member would have been entitled. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 1448(e))
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Makes it unlawful for any individual or entity to solicit to enroll or enroll any member of the armed forces in any labor organization, or for any member of the armed forces to join, or encourage other members to join, any labor union. Prescribes a penalty of not more than five years imprisonment for any individual violating this Act, and a fine of not less than $25,000 nor more than $50,000 for any labor organization in violation of this Act. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 975)
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Amends the National Security Act of 1947 by adding: Title V: Classification, Declassification, and Safeguarding of National Security Information and Material . Sets forth the three categories of "Top Secret," "Secret," and "Confidential" as the classifications by which national security information may be designated. States that no other categories may be used. Promulgates standards defining each category. Grants authority to originate the classification of material only to such officials as the President may designate. Lists those classes of officials who shall have authority to downgrade the classification of such information. Prohibits the classification of information in order to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment to any individual or agency, to restrain competition or independent initiative, or to prevent for any reason the release of information the dissemination of which will not damage the national security. Sets forth regulations governing the identification of an item of classified material. Sets forth procedures to be followed by a holder of classified material who does not believe that such material has been properly classified. Sets forth a general declassification schedule. Provides for exemptions from the automatic declassification required under such schedule. Establishes a separate set of regulations governing the declassification of material which is 25 years old or more. Sets forth regulations by which the provisions of this Act shall be implemented. Establishes, in the Executive Office of the President, the Interagency Classification Review Committee. Requires the Committee to monitor actions taken by agencies handling classified information and material in order to ensure compliance with this Act. States that the Committee is to place particular emphasis on preventive overclassification and facilitating access to declassified information. Requires the Committee to report annually to Congress on the administration of this Act. Sets forth criminal penalties for the knowing disclosure of classified information or material to a foreign government or any officer or agent thereof not authorized to receive such information or material. Establishes a penalty consisting of a fine of up to $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both, for the classification of material to conceal incompetence, inefficiency, wrongdoing, or administrative error, to avoid embarrassment, to restrain competition or independent initiative or to prevent or delay the release of information which should not have been classified.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Allows enlisted members (regular and reserve) of the Army and the Air Force to retire after 20 years of service. Stipulates that at such time regular enlisted members shall become members of the reserve until their total creditable years of service equals 30.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Revises the military retiree point credit system to increase the number of points allowable in any year after June 30, 1975, for non-regular service.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Reserve Forces Benefits Act - Entitles specified reserve members of the uniformed services and members of the National Guard to the same medical and dental benefits enjoyed by members of the uniformed services on active duty. Entitles the dependents of such individuals to the same medical and dental benefits presently available to the dependents of members on active duty under specified circumstances.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Entitles members of the armed forces to retirement pay at age 55 if otherwise eligible. Makes members who are at least 50 years of age but less than 55 eligible for retirement pay in reduced amounts.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Stipulates that a member of the armed forces may be given only one of the following discharges: (1) an Honorable Discharge; (2) a Discharge from Service as regulated under this Act; (3) a Bad Conduct Discharge issued in accordance with the sentence of a general court-martial; or (4) a Dishonorable Discharge issued in accordance with the sentence of a general court-martial. Requires that a narrative statement describing the service of a former member be issued to such member upon request at any time following separation from service. Limits the information which may be included in such a statement. Sets forth the composition of administrative discharge boards which shall consider whether a member should be separated with a Discharge from Service pursuant to this Act. Allows such boards to recommend a Discharge from Service only upon a finding, based upon a preponderance of the evidence, that: (1) the member has engaged in misconduct; (2) in the case of an officer, cadet, or midshipman, that such member has engaged in moral or professional dereliction; (3) the retention of such member would be contrary to the interests of national security; or (4) such member has been convicted previously in a civilian court or previous court-martial under specified circumstances and the retention of such member is not warranted. Authorizes the use of such a discharge by the President in time of war when the individual has been absent without authority for one year, or where the member has requested such discharge, after consultation with counsel, in lieu of board action under this Act or a court-martial. Sets forth the rights of the member concerned before the board and procedures regarding the board's actions. Directs each Judge Advocate General to establish a Court of Administrative Review to review recommendations for separation with a Discharge from Service. Requires the Court of Military Appeals to review the record upon which such a discharge was issued after final action by the Court of Administrative Review if the Judge Advocate General orders such review. Authorizes the Court to review the case upon petition by the member affected. Sets forth the conditions under which an administrative discharge board shall be precluded from determining whether a member should be issued a Discharge from Service.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
World War I Pension Act - Requires the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to pay (in addition to any already paid) a monthly pension of $150 to each veteran of World War I who meets specified service requirements, or to the surviving spouse of each such veteran, or when there is no surviving spouse, to the child or children of each such veteran.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Makes it unlawful for any person or organization to solicit to enroll, or enroll any present member of the armed forces in any organization which has as its purpose engaging in collective bargaining with any civilian officer or employee of the Department of Defense or, in the case of the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service of the Navy, the Department of Transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for violations of this Act. Stipulates that any present member of the armed forces who joins, forms or who solicits others to join such an organization may be punished as a court-martial may direct. (Adds 10 U.S.C. 975,892a)
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Provides for the erection of a memorial on public grounds in the District of Columbia to honor and commemorate members of the Armed Forces of the United States who served in the Vietnam war.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Declares that the Congress would support a declaration of policy against United States manufacture or possession of lethal chemical weapons. Urges a treaty to ban manufacture and possession of such weapons by all nations.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretaries of the military departments concerned should award the Purple Heart posthumously to the members of the Armed Forces of the United States interred in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, on Memorial Day of 1977.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Expresses the endorsement of Congress for the President-elect's pardon program for persons who, during the Vietnam era, failed to report for induction into, or refused induction into, the armed forces and have not been prosecuted for such violation. Requests the President-elect to extend his reconciliation program by: (1) granting amnesty to all persons convicted under the Military Selective Service Act of offenses committed during the Vietnam era; (2) upgrading all the general and undesirable discharges issued to those who served during that era to honorable discharges; (3) reviewing on a case-by-case basis each bad conduct and dishonorable discharge issued during that period; and (4) granting amnesty to all those who were convicted or charged with desertion and to those convicted of absence without leave.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Expresses the endorsement of Congress for the President-elect's pardon program for persons who, during the Vietnam era, failed to report for induction into, or refused induction into, the armed forces and have not been prosecuted for such violation. Requests the President-elect to extend his reconciliation program by: (1) granting amnesty to all persons convicted under the Military Selective Service Act of offenses committed during the Vietnam era; (2) upgrading all the general and undesirable discharges issued to those who served during that era to honorable discharges; (3) reviewing on a case-by-case basis each bad conduct and dishonorable discharge issued during that period; and (4) granting amnesty to all those who were convicted or charged with desertion and to those convicted of absence without leave.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Declares it the sense of Congress that the contingent of United States troops stationed in Europe be substantially reduced in stages over the next three and one-half years.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1977
Declares it to be the sense of Congress that the Veterans' Affairs Committees of the House and the Senate consider and report without delay legislation eliminating the possibility of any reduction in veterans' pensions on account of increases in social security or railroad retirement benefits.