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United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977
Authorizes the enrollment of qualified Klamath Indians in Bureau of Indian Affairs residential schools or institutes of higher education, and establishes their eligibility for scholarship aid while enrolled at institutions of higher education not operated by the Bureau.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977
Indian Basic Education Act - Provides for Federal financial assistance to local school systems providing free education to Indian reservation children under the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Act, if the systems submit plans, drawn with the participation of local tribal representatives and approved by the Commissioner of Education, which provide educational standards which meet the unique needs of the Indian tribe as well as promote good education. Provides for the coordination of such plans with existing State programs and standards, with other funding programs, and with ongoing evaluation and review by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and local Indians. Provides for the education of Indian children, with similar funding, in BIA or Indian controlled schools when an approved plan is not adopted. Directs the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare for Education, in consultation with government agencies and Indian interest groups, to establish guidelines for the basic education of children in BIA schools. Provides the BIA, upon request by tribal leaders, with continuing authority to adjust the regulations to the needs of individual tribes. Directs the Assistant Secretary to develop cost guidelines for boarding BIA students. Requires the BIA to implement these guidelines and to bring BIA facilities into compliance with the Education of All Handicapped Act, and Federal or State health and safety standards. Establishes the Office of Indian Education Programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to exercise the BIA's functions relating to the daily direction, supervision and expenditure of Federal funds for Indian education. Provides for the establishment of Office's policies and procedures by the Office Director and the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Directs the Office to establish and implement allotment formulas and funding systems for BIA and Indian-controlled schools. Dictates that the BIA's policy shall be to foster Indian control of Indian education. Defines the rights and status of new and existing employees of BIA and Indian-controlled schools. Directs the Assistant Secretary to define the qualifications and policies for hiring educational personnel and to hire such personnel at the most local level that is consistent with good management policy. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a computerized management system providing complete school and community information relevant to these programs. Directs the Office to develop and submit to the Bureau and appropriate congressional committees a draft set of education procedures and practices for the Bureau, such draft set to be promulgated by the Office Director within one year of enactment of this Act. Directs the Assistant Secretary to prepare: (1) uniform procedures and practises for all BIA divisions insofar as they relate to education; (2) a recruitment policy for Indian educators; and (3) annual progress reports on Bureau education and local Indian control. Authorizes appropriations for these provisions. Provides for the coordination of this Act with the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance and the General Education Provisions Acts. Requires preliminary submission to Congress of all regulations drafted under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education to whom shall be transferred all functions of the Office of Education and of the Commissioner of Education. Transfers to the Secretary of Education specified functions of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Assistant Secretary of Education. Provides for the redesignation of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare. Grants to the Secretary of Education the administrative powers necessary to the performance of his functions. Makes amendments to other Federal laws to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this Act. Provides that any matter of legal privilege or prohibition which has become effective under any provision of law amended by this Act shall continue in effect according to its terms until modified, terminated, or superceded by order of the Secretary, court of competent jurisdiction, or operation of law.
United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1977
Allows the children of parents employed on Federal property who attend school in a State contiguous to the State in which such property is located to be counted in determining the aid entitlement of the local educational agency having jurisdiction over such school.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow as a credit against income tax a limited amount of specified higher education expenses, including tuition, fees, books, supplies and room and board, incurred by a taxpayer for himself or for his spouse or dependents.
United States · United States Congress · 14 September 1977
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the services and contributions of school volunteers be recognized, and requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation in recognition of this fact.
United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1977
Headstart Extension Act - Amends the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to extend funding for the Headstart program. Requires that parents and area residents be involved in the selection of an agency as a Headstart agency. Stipulates that standards of performance used to evaluate Headstart programs may not be made less comprehensive than those in effect upon the date of enactment of this Act. Transfers from the Community Services Administration to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare responsibility for publishing the required summaries of activities under such Act and their distribution to the appropriate Congressional committees.
United States · United States Congress · 8 September 1977
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to revise the definition of "proprietary school" for purposes of student assistance under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977
Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1977
Establishes the Task Force on School Financing and the Taxation of Real Property by State and Local Governments to study and evaluate the taxation of real property, the feasibility of methods designed to reduce the dependence of State and local governments on such taxation, and the effects of Federal taxation and other policies on the financing of public elementary and secondary education.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1977
Freedom of Choice in Education Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to define "unitary school system" for purposes of such Act. Calls for a jury decision as to whether a school system needs such definition. Provides for the termination of United States district and appeals court desegregation orders regarding systems meeting such definition Prohibits such courts from assuming jurisdiction or issuing orders regarding (1) student assignment; (2) administrative and teaching staff; (3) funds; and (4) accreditation of systems meeting such definition. Prohibits withholding Federal funds from such systems. Establishes a similar procedure with parallel restrictions on Federal courts in cases involving statewide postsecondary education systems.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1977
Highway Safety Education and Information Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, to carry out six pilot projects which are designed, through the use of television, to reduce highway fatalities and injuries. Authorizes appropriations of $6,000,000 from the Highway Trust Fund to carry out such program. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Administrator, at the conclusion of such projects to conduct a national highway safety campaign utilizing the mass media to inform the public on ways to reduce highway accidents. Authorizes appropriations of $10,000,000 out of the Highway Trust Fund for such campaign. Amends the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973 to direct the Secretary as part of the citizen participation study required under such Act to study the possible utilization of citizens band radios by the general public in traffic enforcement and accident reporting. Authorizes appropriations of $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1979 to carry out such citizen participation study.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1977
Graduate Educational Access Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Commissioner of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education for the use of graduate and professional schools in establishing programs for the correction and prevention of educational deficiencies in minority, low-income, and culturally disadvantaged individuals in order to increase minority enrollment in such schools.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1977
Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1977
Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 1 August 1977
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education to be headed by a Secretary of Education to whom shall be transferred all functions of the Office of Education and of the Commissioner of Education. Transfers to the Secretary of Education specified functions of the Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Assistant Secretary of Education. Provides for the redesignation of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Department of Health and Welfare. Grants to the Secretary of Education the administrative powers necessary to the performance of his functions. Makes amendments to other Federal laws to bring them into conformity with the provisions of this Act. Provides that any matter of legal privilege or prohibition which has become effective under any provision of law amended by this Act shall continue in effect according to its terms until modified, terminated, or superceded by order of the Secretary, court of competent jurisdiction, or operation of law.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977
Amends the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 to permit the release of information from education records to State agencies for use in establishing eligibility under Title IV, part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of the Social Security Act and in enforcing child support obligations.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977
Requires the Inspector General of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to compile data concerning cases of fraud under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program and the Supplemental Security Income program.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977
Makes it the duty of the Inspector General of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to maintain a system of quality control to monitor payment error rates in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program under Title IV of the Social Security Act, and the Supplemental Security Income program under Title XVI of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1977
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish a system for monitoring payments of benefits under Part A of Title IV (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) of the Social Security Act to prevent overpayments or erroneous payments to ineligible recipients. Authorizes the Secretary to require that States administering programs under such Title monitor payments for the same purposes. Reduces Federal payments to a State under such Title by the amount in excess of four percent which the State erroneously pays in benefits under such Title during the six-month period beginning January 1, 1978, and each six-month period thereafter.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1977
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to have conducted studies on: (1) toxic or carcinogenic substances in food; and (2) saccharin and other nonnutritive sweeteners. Requires the Secretary to complete such studies within one year and submit reports to the Senate Committee on Human Resources and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Prohibits the Secretary from banning or restricting the sale of saccharin for 18 months.
United States · United States Congress · 26 July 1977
Academic Freedom Act - Requires any regulation affecting any institution of higher learning to be published in the Federal Register and include an educational impact statement. Prohibits enforcement of any regulation which fails to maintain academic requirements for graduate or undergraduate admissions. Restricts the authority and enforcement powers of Federal officials with respect to educational programs or activities of higher education institutions receiving Federal financial assistance.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1977
Amends the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to provide certain small and isolated communities, as defined by this Act, with more flexibility in determining eligibility criteria for participation in Headstart programs.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1977
Directs 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 substances 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 report to the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and to the Senate Committee on Human Resources (1) the results of the saccharin study within one year; and (2) the results of the food additives study within 18 months. 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 18 months. Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate regulations requiring (1) retail establishments where saccharin, or any drug, food, or cosmetic containing saccharin, is sold to display prominently, during the 18 month period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, a notice of saccharin's possible health risks; and (2) advertising (printed or electronic) of such saccharin products to contain a statement of the possible health risks of saccharin.
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1977
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the services and contributions of school volunteers be recognized, and requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation in recognition of this fact.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1977
Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1977
Congressional Pages Education Act - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to establish the Congressional Pages School Board with authority to establish and maintain a school for congressional pages, and to enter into or terminate, in cooperation with the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House, arrangements with the District of Columbia with respect to the education of congressional pages in the public school system of the District of Columbia. Authorizes the appropriation of funds necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1977
Department of Education Act - Establishes the Department of Education within the Executive Branch of the Federal Government to take over specified functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and all of the functions of the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Establishes the Federal Interagency Committee on Education to coordinate all Federal programs affecting education.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1977
Developing Institutions Endowments Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize grants to developing institutions of higher learning to establish endowments for such institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 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.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to quitclaim retained rights to certain land in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, to the State superintendent of education of the State of South Carolina.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Increases from 10 to 12 years the delimiting period for a veteran to complete a program of education.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals alternative, limited income tax credits or deductions for the tuition paid for the primary, secondary or higher education of the taxpayer, his spouse and dependents.
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals alternative, limited income tax credits or deductions for the tuition paid for the primary, secondary or higher education of the taxpayer, his spouse and dependents.
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1977
Amends the Adult Education Act to increase the funds available for Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Virgin Islands.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Veterans Education Reform Act -- Permits the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to discontinue educational assistance to an eligible veteran or survivor or dependent of a veteran if the Administrator finds that the institution of higher learning concerned has failed to enforce its regularly prescribed standards and practices as approved by the appropriate State approving agency with respect to such veteran or person. Denies the Administrator any authority to prescribe educational standards or practices with respect to any institution of higher learning empowered to award a standard college degree. Requires the Administrator to provide individual educational and career counseling and other appropriate services to facilitate the education of any veteran or person whose educational assistance has been discontinued under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1977
Extends the delimiting period for completing a veteran's education program until such time as the veteran completes or ends the program, if at the close of the ordinary ten-year delimiting period the veteran is enrolled in a program.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1977
Optional Educational Simplification Act - Declares the purpose of this Act to be to provide an optional program of consolidation and simplification of certain Federal assistance programs to State and local educational agencies, and to provide such agencies with greater flexibility in the use of such assistance. Title I: Special Needs Programs - Directs States desiring to participate in such a program to design their programs to; (1) meet the special educational needs of children from low income families; (2) provide health, nutritional, and educational services of such children, including preschool children and those previously enrolled in Headstart or Follow Through programs; (3) meet the educational needs of migratory children, including preschool children; (4) meet the educational needs of handicapped children, and establish standards for such programs; and (5) provide bilingual instruction for children with limited English speaking ability, and such instruction and bilingual vocational training programs for adults. Specifies how a State shall allocate funds to local educational agencies for each of such programs under this Title. Title II: Vocational, Adult, and Continuing Education and Employment Training - Authorizes Federal grants to assist States to; (1) extend programs of vocational, homemaking, and consumer education; (2) develop new programs of vocational education; (3) develop and carry out programs to overcome sex discrimination and sex stereotyping in vocational education programs; and (4) provide part-time employment for youths in order for them to continue vocational training. Sets forth the programs for which funds provided under this Title may be used. Requires a State desiring to participate in such consolidation program authorized by such Act to develop programs for adult basic education and for children in adult correctional institutions. Requires a participating State to show how its education training programs relate to manpower programs established under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973. Authorizes to be appropriated for each fiscal year ending prior to October 1, 1982, funds for such programs. Provides for the distribution of Federal funds to local educational agencies by the States for programs under this Title, and defines how they are to be allocated. Title III: Special Emphasis Projects - Requires a participating State to provide funds to local educational agencies for: (1) school library resources; (2) instructional equipment; (3) model elementary and secondary school programs; (4) counseling, testing, and guidance services; (5) nutrition and health services in low income area elementary and secondary schools; (6) programs aimed at lowering the dropout rate in secondary schools with high dropout rates; (7) strengthening the leadership resources of State and local educational agencies; (8) encouraging the use of the metric system; (9) education of gifted children; (10) career education; (11) educational equity for women; (12) drug and alcohol abuse projects; (13) curriculum materials on American ethnic groups and their contributions; (14) the Teacher Corps; (15) programs aimed at children with reading deficiencies; and (16) environmental activities. Directs that local educational agencies establish the needs and priorities of such programs. Provides for the allocation of State funds under this Title to local agencies. Title IV: General Provisions - Provides for the reserving of certain funds from the amounts appropriated to carry out programs consolidated by such Act, and the allocation of such reserved funds among those States participating in the consolidation program. Directs the United States Commissioner of Education to pay to each participating State an amount equal to the amount expended in that State for carrying out the State plan adopted pursuant to this Title. Provides for a participating State to receive a planning grant for use in preparing the comprehensive plan required by such Act. Authorizes appropriations for each fiscal year ending prior to October 1, 1981, to make these planning grants. Requires a State desiring to receive a grant for such consolidation program to; (1) designate a State agency to administer the financial assistance made available under this Act; (2) develop a four-year plan with an annual update; and (3) submit such plan or update to the Commissioner for his approval. Authorizes grants to States for the costs of administering the consolidation program. Requires a participating State to establish certain procedures for use in developing its comprehensive plan designed to assure: (1) the identification of children and adults with special educational and vocational needs; (2) determination of priorities by local education agencies; (3) participation of interested citizens, local government units, appropriate State agencies in the development of the plan; (4) coordination of consolidation funds with State, local, and other Federal funds extended for similar purposes; and (5) publication of the final plan or annual update. Deems a State plan to meet the necessary requirements if it includes; (1) the goals and program objectives; (2) the assessments of needs determined above; (3) the types of individuals to be served and the estimated enrollment of each program; (4) procedures to assure the proper distribution of funds as authorized by such Act; (5) a description of the program's administrative structure; (6) procedures for monitoring the local educational agencies; (7) procedures that the State will use to insure that any local educational agency receiving funds under such Act will annually develop or update a comprehensive plan for the use of such funds; (8) procedures for auditing local educational agency expenditures under such Act; (9) Minimum expenditures of funds from non-Federal sources; (10) procedures to assure that funds made available under such Act supplement and not supplant State and local funds; (11) due process procedures, including withholding of funds, available to a State against a local educational agency which has failed to implement a comprehensive program plan; and (12) an appeal process within the State for a local educational agency dissatisfied with such State's compliance with such Act. Provides for an annual evaluation of a State's program by the Commissioner. Authorizes the Commissioner to conduct annual monitoring programs of States' programs, and to establish procedures to rectify areas of noncompliance. Directs the Commissioner to provide technical assistance upon request of State and local educational agencies. Directs the Commissioner to issue grants to participating States for interstate programs of educational research and planning, and common administrative problems. Authorizes appropriations of $3,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending prior to October 1, 1982, to carry out such provision. Directs that the consolidation program authorized by this Act be administered by a separate Federal administrative unit to be established within 60 days after enactment of this Act. Provides the Commissioner with certain enforcement procedures against participating States, and provides such States with judicial recourse against such action. Authorizes the use of funds paid to a State under this Act for construction purposes where such construction funds would have been available under a program consolidated under this Act. Subjects funds made available under this Act to certain civil rights requirements. Provides the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare with certain enforcement procedures against local educational agencies not in compliance with such requirements. Provides for the participation of eligible children in private nonprofit elementary and secondary schools and Indian tribal schools in the programs authorized under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1977
Urban Grant University Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for, and establish a program of grants to, urban universities for (1) development of urban-oriented educational, research, or service programs; and (2) assistance in carrying out such programs. Establishes a five year comprehensive grant to a university qualifying as an "urban grant university" and establishes criteria for such designation. Creates an Urban University Advisory Council to (1) review, along with the Commissioner of Education, "urban grant university " applications; (2) advise the Commissioner; and (3) make recommendations to the President and to the Congress.
United States · United States Congress · 28 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.
United States · United States Congress · 27 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.
United States · United States Congress · 27 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.
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1977
Education Amendments - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend: (1) payments to State educational agencies by the United States Commissioner of Education; (2) minimum payments for State operated programs; (3) the existence of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children; (4) appropriations authorized for grants for school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials in public and private elementary and secondary schools; (5) payment by the Commissioner of the costs involved in provisioning a State with such library resource materials in a State which has no agency to provide such materials; (6) appropriations authorized for supplementary educational centers and services, model programs, guidance, testing, and counseling; (7) partial approval of State plans in substantial compliance with such Act; (8) the existence of the National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and services; (9) appropriations authorized for additional funds to States for library resources and supplementary educational centers and services; (10) appropriations authorized for programs to strengthen State departments of education and local education agencies; (11) appropriations authorized for State and local programs of educational planning; (12) appropriations authorized for dropout prevention programs; (13) appropriations authorized for grants to local education agencies for projects to improve school nutritional and health services for children from low-income families; and (14) appropriations authorized for consumer education programs. Amends such Act to continue the existence of the National Council on Quality in Education until October 1, 1979, and authorizes to be appropriated necessary funds for such Council. Amends the Adult Education Act to extend: (1) appropriations authorized for programs for elderly persons with limited knowledge of English; (2) the existence of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education; (3) appropriations authorized for such Act; and (4) appropriations authorized for educational programs for adult Indians. Amends the National Defense Education Act of 1958 to extend for one year appropriations authorized for grants and loans to States under the terms of such Act. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend for one year the availability of unused funds from one fiscal year to the succeeding fiscal year.
United States · United States Congress · 27 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.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1977
Education Amendments - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1977 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend (1) payments to State educational agencies by the United States Commissioner of Education; (2) minimum payments for State operated programs; (3) the existence of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children; (4) appropriations authorized for grants for school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials in public and private elementary and secondary schools; (5) payment by the Commissioner of the costs involved in provisioning a State with such library resource materials in a State which has no agency to provide such materials; (6) appropriations authorized for supplementary educational centers and services, model programs, guidance, testing, and counseling; (7) partial approval of State plans in substantial compliance with such Act; (8) the existence of the National Advisory Council on Supplementary centers and services; (9) appropriations authorized for additional funds to States for Library resources and supplementary educational centers and services; (10) appropriations authorized for programs to strengthen State departments of education and local educational agencies; (11) appropriations authorized for State and local programs of educational planning; (12) appropriations authorized for dropout prevention programs; (13) appropriations authorized for grants to local education agencies for projects to improve school nutritional and health services for children from low-income families; (14) appropriations authorized for consumer education programs; (15) appropriations authorized for bilingual education programs; (16) appropriations authorized for ethnic heritage studies programs; and (17) the existence of the National Council on Quality in Education until October 1, 1983 , and authorizes to be appropriated necessary funds for such Council. Title II: Federal Impact Aid Programs - Extends Federal payments to local educational agencies for financial burdens placed upon them by: (1) the Federal acquisition of property within the districts of such agencies; (2) children of persons who reside or work on Federal property or who are active in the uniformed services; and (3) a substantial increase in attendance as a direct result of Federal activities. Extends Federal payments to local educational agencies for assistance from certain disasters. Extends Federal payments for school construction in areas having substantial increases in attendance as a result of new or increased federal activities. Title III: Extension of Related Education Programs - Amends the Adult Education Act to extend: (1) appropriations authorized for programs for elderly persons with limited knowledge of English; (2) the existence of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education; (3) appropriations authorized for such Act; and (4) appropriations authorized for educational programs for adult Indians. Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend appropriations authorized for educational programs for Indian children. Amends the Indian Education Act to extend: (1) appropriations authorized for special educational training programs for teachers of Indian children; (2) existence of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education; and (3) authorization of the Commissioner of Education to award fellowships for Indian students. Amends the Emergency School Aid Act to extend: (1) appropriations authorized for programs under such Act to eliminate segregation and discrimination in elementary and secondary schools; and (2) appropriations for the National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity. Amends the National Defense Education Act of 1958 to extend appropriations authorized for: (1) strengthening instruction in academic subjects; and (2) foreign studies and modern foreign language instruction. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend the availability for succeeding fiscal years of unused funds appropriated under such Act. Amends the Education Amendments of 1974 to extend appropriations authorized to improve various reading programs under such Act. Amends the Special Projects Act to extend appropriations authorized for programs under such Act. Amends the Education Amendments of 1974 to extend appropriations authorized relating to: (1) education for use of the metric system; (2) gifted and talented children; (3) community schools; (4) career education; (5) women's educational equity; and (6) elementary and secondary education in the arts.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1977
Education Amendments - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to extend (1) payments to State educational agencies by the United States Commissioner of Education; (2) minimum payments for State operated programs; (3) the existence of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children; (4) appropriations authorized for grants for school library resources, textbooks, and other instructional materials in public and private elementary and secondary schools; (5) payment by the Commissioner of the costs involved in provisioning a State with such library resource materials in a State which has no agency to provide such materials; (6) appropriations authorized for supplementary educational centers and services, model programs, guidance, testing, and counseling; (7) partial approval of State plans in substantial compliance with such Act; (8) the existence of the National Advisory Council on Supplementary Centers and services; (9) appropriations authorized for additional funds to States for library resources and supplementary educational centers and services; (10) appropriations authorized for programs to strengthen State departments of education and local educational agencies; (11) appropriations authorized for State and local programs of educational planning; (12) appropriations authorized for dropout prevention programs; (13) appropriations authorized for grants to local education agencies for projects to improve school nutritional and health services for children from low-income families; and (14) appropriations authorized for consumer education programs. Amends such Act to continue the existence of the National Council on Quality in Education until October 1, 1979, and authorizes to be appropriated necessary funds for such Council. Amends the Adult Education Act to extend (1) appropriations authorized for programs for elderly persons with limited knowledge of English; (2) the existence of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education; (3) appropriations authorized for such Act; and (4) appropriations authorized for educational programs for adult Indians. Amends the National Defense Education Act of 1958 to extend for one year appropriations authorized for grants and loans to States under the terms of such Act. Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend for one year the availability of unused funds from one fiscal year to the succeeding fiscal year.
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."
United States · United States Congress · 23 June 1977
Amends the Emergency School Aid Act to extend (1) appropriations for programs under such Act; and (2) the existence of the National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to extend its provisions requiring due process before termination of Federal assistance to local educational agencies to include terminations of aid to State agencies, institutions of higher learning, community colleges, schools, agencies offering a preschool program, or other educational institutions. Enlarges such due process requirements to include termination of Federal assistance programs for any reason. Changes existing due process requirements under such Act to a requirement of a finding of noncompliance with a specific Federal law after an administrative hearing. Exempts from the requirements of this Act certain provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965 dealing with higher education student opportunity grants.
United States · United States Congress · 22 June 1977
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals alternative, limited income tax credits or deductions for the tuition paid for the primary, secondary or higher education of the taxpayer, his spouse and dependents.