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United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1976
Removes the time limitations within which educational assistance furnished by the Veterans' Administration must be used. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 10 February 1976
Removes the time limitations within which educational assistance furnished by the Veterans' Administration must be used. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1976
Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the Social Security Act, to notify the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate of any proposed health care regulation at least 60 days before the initial publication of a general notice of rulemaking with respect to such a regulation.
United States · United States Congress · 9 February 1976
Permits veterans receiving veterans' educational assistance benefits while pursuing a program of education recognized by the Veterans' Administration to continue to receive such assistance at the close of the present ten-year delimiting period until whichever of the following first occur: (1) the veteran fails to progress in the program; (2) the veteran fails to pursue the program on the same basis that he was pursuing the program at the close of the ten-year period, for any reason other than a reason beyond his control; (3) the veteran completes the program; or (4) the veteran exhausts the educational assistance to which he is entitled. Makes the provisions of this Act effective on May 31, 1976. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1976
Student Consumer Information Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to authorize the Commissioner of Education to make payments to educational institutions eligible under such Act to support programs of student consumer information, and to support other necessary costs of administering Federal student aid programs. Directs institutions receiving such payments to carry out information dissemination activities to prospective students and enrolled students requesting information on financial assistance under such Act. Requires that such disseminated information accurately describe: (1) student financial assistance programs available; (2) methods of distribution; (3) means of application; (4) rights and responsibilities accompanying such assistance; (5) the cost of attending the institution; (6) the institution's refund policy; (7) the institution's academic program; and (8) the persons and location of such persons designated to administer information dissemination activities under this Act. Requires each institution receiving such payments to designate an employee or group of employees to be available on a full-time basis to assist students or potential students in obtaining financial assistance information under such Act, unless this requirement is waived by the Commissioner. Directs the Commissioner to make available to eligible institutions under such Act, by way of publication in the Federal Register and other appropriate means, descriptions of Federal student assistance programs.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Removes the time limitations within which educational assistance furnished by the Veterans' Administration must be used. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Amends the Social Security Act to provide, under title XX (Grants to States for Services) that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided thereunder to individuals aged 60 or over.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to exempt Boys State, Boys Nation, Girls State, and Girls Nation conferences, from the sex discrimination provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act - Appropriates to the Department of Labor specified funds for programs administered by: (1) the Manpower Administration; (2) the Labor-Management Services Administration; (3) the Employment Standards Administration; (4) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (5) the Bureau of Labor Statistics and; (6) for miscellaneous departmental management expenses. Provides that no funds approriated by this Act may be used to make unemployment compensation payments to any individual who performs services in an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity for an educational institution with respect to any week commencing during the period between two successive academic years. Title II: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Appropriates to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare specified funds for programs administered by: (1) the Health Services Administration; (2) the Center for Disease Control; (3) the National Institutes of Health; (4) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; (5) the Health Resources Administration; (6) the Social Security Administration; (7) the Assistant Secretary for Human Development; and (8) for miscellaneous departmental management expenses. Prescribes provisions concerning the expenditure of funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for the purpose of busing students or teachers to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system. Title III: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) Action; (2) the Community Services Administration; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (4) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (5) the National Labor Relations Board; (6) the National Mediation Board; (7) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (8) the Railroad Retirement Board; and (9) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets guidelines for spending sums appropriated by this Act including prohibitions against using such sums: (1) to finance any Civil Service Interagency Board of Examiners; (2) to provide loans or to pay the salary of any person working at an institution of higher education who has engaged in conduct involving the use of force or threat of force to require or prevent the availability of specified curriculum or to prevent the faculty, administrative officials, or students in an institution of higher learning from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution; and (3) to pay for any research program involving human participants which present a danger to such participants without their informed, written consent.
United States · United States Congress · 5 February 1976
Removes the time limitations within which educational assistance furnished by the Veterans' Administration must be used. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Disapproves the proposed deferral of budget authority for the following: (1) National Cancer Institute; (2) National Heart and Lung Institute; (3) National Institute of Dental Research; (4) National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases; (5) National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke; (6) National Institute of General Medical Sciences; (7) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; (8) Division of Research Resources; and (9) Social and Rehabilitation Service - Public Assistance. Disapproves in part the deferral request for: (1) Health Services Administration; and (2) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Congressional Bicentennial Scholarship Act - Defines terms for purposes of this Act. Stipulates that each member of the House of Representatives may appoint five citizens from the district such member represents, no more than three of whom belong to the same political party, to serve without pay as a congressional Bicentennial scholarship board for that district. Authorizes each board to award one Bicentennial scholarship in 1976 to an individual who: (1) is an undergraduate attending or admitted to attend any institution of higher education offering a major course of study in the area of American government or political science; (2) has achieved academic excellence; (3) has demonstrated an intent to concentrate in the study of American government or political science; and (4) has indicated a serious intent to serve with local, State, or Federal government for at least one year following completion of undergraduate study. Directs the Commissioner of Education to establish and make available to each board guidelines for selection of such individuals. Declares that the scholarship will be awarded for the period of full-time study necessary for the completion of the individual's bachelor degree, but in no case for more than four academic years. Entitles each scholarship recipient to a stipend, the amount of which shall be determined by the awarding board but not to exceed, for any academic year, the cost of such recipient of tuition, fees, books, room, and board. Requires each board to notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the name of its scholarship recipient, the name of the institution of higher learning which such student attends or will attend, and the amount of the stipend. Stipulates that each board shall approve the stipend's renewal annually with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary to pay the amount specified by such boards to the designated institution of higher education on behalf of the award recipient.
United States · United States Congress · 4 February 1976
Directs the House Committee on Education and Labor to initiate an investigation designed to evaluate the impact of those garments and textiles produced in part or in whole in a facility outside of the United States, upon unemployment, in the garment industry in the United States, and upon unemployment generally in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1976
Provides that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for the provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided under title XX (Grants to States For Services) of the Social Security Act to groups of low-income individuals aged sixty or older. Limits to six months the frequency of recertifications of eligibility for services under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1976
Adds to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 "Title X-Emergency Education Revenue Act". Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act in fiscal years 1976 and 1977. Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to a local education agency which demonstrates that: (1) for bona fide budgetary reasons it has been forced to reduce the expenditure of funds for essential elementary and secondary education services, making it impossible to maintain such services at a quality level; and (2) that it or the local government unit responsible for providing its revenues has made bona fide efforts to raise the revenue necessary to support essential elementary and secondary educational services and maintain quality education. Makes financial assistance under this Act available for essential elementary and secondary educational services, programs, and projects of the local education agency which had been funded by such agency previously and which the Secretary determines are essential for providing quality elementary and secondary educational services. Requires any local education agency desiring to receive assistance under this Act to submit to the Secretary an application in such form and containing such information as the Secretary shall require by regulation. Permits the Secretary to approve such application only if assurances are given that the State shall not reduce the amount of State aid with respect to the provision of free public education in any school district of any local education agency because of assistance given under this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 February 1976
Amends the Emergency School Aid Act to permit giving aid under such Act to a local agency whose staff at each school is not racially or ethnically balanced upon adequate assurance that an affirmative action plan has been adopted which will eliminate such imbalance within a reasonable time.
United States · United States Congress · 2 February 1976
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to exempt Boys State, Boys Nation, Girls State and Girls Nation conferences from the sex discrimination provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1976
Includes children of parents employed on Federal property, who attend school in a State contiguous to the State in which such property is located, in the determination of Federal aid entitlement of the local educational agency having jurisdiction over such school.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1976
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to exempt Boys State, Boys Nation, Girls State and Girls Nation conferences, from the sex discrimination provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 28 January 1976
Equal Educational Opportunities Amendments - States the Congressional finding that involuntary transportation of students, except in special and limited circumstances, is undesirable, unwise, and counterproductive in attempting to assure equal educational opportunity and equal protection of the laws to all students. Amends the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 to require a three judge court in all actions brought in which the relief sought involves the involuntary transportation of students. Prohibits such courts from ordering the involuntary transportation of students except to the extent that present patterns of assignment of students to public schools are based on race in violation of constitutional or statutory rights. Directs such three judge panels, when ruling in involuntary student transportation actions, to include in their orders or decisions specific findings of fact on the adequacy or inadequacy of alternatives to forced busing, the probable effects of such busing on the quality of education in the district, and its effect on desegregation through shifts in the racial composition of the school district. Requires that the supervision of any courts order regarding the transportation of students be conducted by a panel of three judges. Specifies procedures for designation of panel members. Extends authorizations for appropriations under the Emergency School Aid Act until September 30, 1978, and lists percentages of amounts to be reserved for specified uses under such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1976
Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act - Appropriates to the Department of Labor specified funds for programs administered by: (1) the Manpower Administration; (2) the Labor-Management Services Administration; (3) the Employment Standards Administration; (4) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (5) the Bureau of Labor Statistics and; (6) for miscellaneous departmental management expenses. Provides that no funds approriated by this Act may be used to make unemployment compensation payments to any individual who performs services in an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity for an educational institution with respect to any week commencing during the period between two successive academic years. Title II: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Appropriates to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare specified funds for programs administered by: (1) the Health Services Administration; (2) the Center for Disease Control; (3) the National Institutes of Health; (4) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; (5) the Health Resources Administration; (6) the Social Security Administration; (7) the Assistant Secretary for Human Development; and (8) for miscellaneous departmental management expenses. Prescribes provisions concerning the expenditure of funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for the purpose of busing students or teachers to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system. Title III: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) Action; (2) the Community Services Administration; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (4) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (5) the National Labor Relations Board; (6) the National Mediation Board; (7) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (8) the Railroad Retirement Board; and (9) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets guidelines for spending sums appropriated by this Act including prohibitions against using such sums: (1) to finance any Civil Service Interagency Board of Examiners; (2) to provide loans or to pay the salary of any person working at an institution of higher education who has engaged in conduct involving the use of force or threat of force to require or prevent the availability of specified curriculum or to prevent the faculty, administrative officials, or students in an institution of higher learning from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution; and (3) to pay for any research program involving human participants which present a danger to such participants without their informed, written consent.
United States · United States Congress · 27 January 1976
Includes children of parents employed on Federal property, who attend school in a State contiguous to the State in which such property is located, in the determination of Federal aid entitlement of the local educational agency having jurisdiction over such school.
United States · United States Congress · 26 January 1976
Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act - Title I: Department of Labor - Department of Labor Appropriation Act - Appropriates to the Department of Labor specified funds for programs administered by: (1) the Manpower Administration; (2) the Labor-Management Services Administration; (3) the Employment Standards Administration; (4) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; (5) the Bureau of Labor Statistics and; (6) for miscellaneous departmental management expenses. Provides that no funds approriated by this Act may be used to make unemployment compensation payments to any individual who performs services in an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity for an educational institution with respect to any week commencing during the period between two successive academic years. Title II: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Appropriates to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare specified funds for programs administered by: (1) the Health Services Administration; (2) the Center for Disease Control; (3) the National Institutes of Health; (4) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; (5) the Health Resources Administration; (6) the Social Security Administration; (7) the Assistant Secretary for Human Development; and (8) for miscellaneous departmental management expenses. Prescribes provisions concerning the expenditure of funds appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for the purpose of busing students or teachers to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system. Title III: Related Agencies - Appropriates funds for: (1) Action; (2) the Community Services Administration; (3) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; (4) the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (5) the National Labor Relations Board; (6) the National Mediation Board; (7) the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; (8) the Railroad Retirement Board; and (9) the Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Title IV: General Provisions - Sets guidelines for spending sums appropriated by this Act including prohibitions against using such sums: (1) to finance any Civil Service Interagency Board of Examiners; (2) to provide loans or to pay the salary of any person working at an institution of higher education who has engaged in conduct involving the use of force or threat of force to require or prevent the availability of specified curriculum or to prevent the faculty, administrative officials, or students in an institution of higher learning from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies at such institution; and (3) to pay for any research program involving human participants which present a danger to such participants without their informed, written consent.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1976
Higher Education Expenses Tax Deferment Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an eligible individual a limited deferment of taxes for any taxable year in an amount not in excess of the amount of net qualified higher education expenses paid by such taxpayer during that year. Limits such deferral to the lesser of: (1) 75 percent of the net qualified higher education expenses paid; (2) $1500 per academic year for an undergraduate student; or (3) the amount of tax liability reduced by twice the amount that such liability exceeds the amount of tax deferrable. Defines terms used in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1976
Authorizes the expenditure of $2,320,000 for further expenses of the investigations and studies to be conducted by the House Committee on Education and Labor. Allocates $145,000 of such funds for each of the eight standing subcommittees of the Committee on Education and Labor. Directs that no more than $25,000 of the total amount provided by this resolution may be used to procure the services of consultants. Prohibits the use of any part of the funds authorized by this resolution for expenditure in connection with the study or investigation of any subject which is being investigated for the same purpose by any other committee of the House.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Amends the Education Amendments of 1972 to exempt Boys State, Boys Nation, Girls State, and Girls Nation conferences, from the sex discrimination provisions of such Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Department of Education Act - Establishes an executive department to be known as the Department of Education, to be headed by a Secretary of Education appointed by the President. States that it shall be the principal function of the Department to improve the quality of education throughout the United States. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) advise the President with respect to the progress of education; (2) develop and recommend to the President appropriate policies and programs to foster the orderly growth and development of the Nation's educational facilities and resources especially in the light of long-range requirements; (3) exercise leadership at the direction of the President in coordinating Federal activities affecting education; (4) conduct continuing comprehensive surveys and collect, analyze, and disseminate relevant information concerning education in the United States; (5) provide information and such other assistance as may be authorized by the Congress to aid in the maintenance of efficient school, college, and university systems; and (6) encourage comprehensive long-range planning by State and local governments, especially with respect to coordinating Federal, State, and community educational activities at the local level. Transfers the education functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to the Department of Education. Transfers various education functions of other executive departments to the Department of Education. Establishes a Federal Interagency Committee on Education to study and recommend such actions as may be necessary to assure effective coordination of Federal programs affecting education. Establishes a National Advisory Commission on Education of specified membership and qualification to review and make recommendations with respect to the administration, regulation, and operation of Federal education programs. Authorizes the appropriation of such sums as are necessary to enable the Department to carry out the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 21 January 1976
Directs the House Committee on Education and Labor to initiate an investigation designed to evaluate the impact of those garments and textiles produced in part or in whole in a facility outside of the United States, upon unemployment, in the garment industry in the United States, and upon unemployment generally in the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 20 January 1976
Senior Citizen Higher Education Opportunity Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require that higher education institutions receiving Federal aid submit to the Commissioner of Education a senior citizen access plan providing for tuition-free registration of qualified senior citizens in scheduled classes and programs on a space available basis. Directs that such plan be implemented to the satisfaction of the Commissioner. Defines "qualified senior citizen" as an individual sixty years of age or older who has completed all course requirements mandated by the institution of higher learning for enrollment in the scheduled class or program. Deems that a class or program has space available if it is not fully subscribed by students other than nonpaying senior citizens. Enjoins the payment of funds or the approval of supplemental or special grants under such Act unless the institution seeking aid has established and fully implemented a senior citizen plan.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1976
Amends the Social Security Act to provide, under title XX (Grants to States for Services) that no State shall be required to administer individual means tests for provision of education, nutrition, transportation, recreation, socialization, or associated services provided thereunder to individuals aged 60 or over.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1976
Authorizes the substitution of flight school certification by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for that presently required of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in the approval of flight training courses for purposes of veterans' educational benefits.
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1976
Removes the time limitations within which educational assistance furnished by the Veterans' Administration must be used. (Amends 38 U.S.C. 1662)
United States · United States Congress · 19 January 1976
Expresses the sense of Congress that vocational education should be treated equally with other forms of education by the Congress, and executive agencies administering educational and Veterans' programs.