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Bill· HRH.R. 2601 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Title I: Railway Labor Act - Provides, under the Railway Labor Act, that when a dispute is not adjusted under the provisions of this Act, employees may selectively strike any of the carriers or carrier systems to whom their proposal was directed. Provides that whenever a selective strike or a strike of any combination of carriers occurs, such carriers and representatives of the employees on strike shall provide service and transportation for such persons and commodities as may be directed by the President, on a finding by the President, that such services or transportation cannot in any way be provided by alternate rail, truck, water, or air transportation, and that the termination of such services or transportation would immediately imperil the national health or safety. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any carrier to lock out any craft or class of its employees or any segment of any such class or craft unless such carrier is caused to diminish such service by a strike of all or some portion of its employees. Provides that any agreements affecting rates of pay, rules, or working conditions between employees and any carrier so selectively struck shall be immediately offered jointly, without change, to all carriers who have been jointly or concurrently involved in the previous handling of the dispute under this Act. Provides, under a new title III of the Railway Labor Act, that in the event a dispute is not settled under this Act, any changes in rate, pay, or working conditions made unilaterally subsequent to this Act shall be recinded and the original conditions reinstated, and any selective strike in progress under the provisions of this Act shall be terminated immediately, and for sixty days thereafter, and no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the parties to the controversy in the conditions out of which the dispute arose. Provides that the National Mediation Board shall recommend to the President specific actions which it deems most appropriate to the settlement of the dispute and the protection of the public interest. Provides that, during such sixty day period, the President may create a board to investigate and make, for transmittal to the parties in the dispute, a report respecting such dispute. Provides that if no resolution is reached at the end of such sixty days, and if the President finds that the dispute threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services, the President may: (1) order an additional sixty-day "cooling-off period" during which the parties shall continue collective bargaining under the National Mediation Board; or (2) permit the continuance of the selective strike under the limitations he deems necessary to protect the health or safety of the Nation or any region thereof; or (3) order the parties to submit final offers to the Secretary of Labor and submit such offers to a three-member panel for final settlement. Provides that such panel shall accept one of the final offers without compromise or alteration, except in the case of a settlement being reached by the parties through continued negotiation before such panel makes a final determination. Provides that the final offer selected by such panel shall be deemed to represent the contract between the parties and shall be conclusive unless found arbitrary and capricious. Title II: Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 - Broadens the powers of the President in labor disputes to cover situations which may imperil the health or safety of a substantial part of the Nation's population or territory (presently a threat to the national health or safety is required) and to cover situations which may deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services. Provides that the report of a Board of Inquiry appointed by the President shall contain the Board's recommendations for settlement. Provides that, upon receiving the report and until a final agreement to the labor dispute is reached, the President may issue an order for a specified period not to exceed thirty days that work shall resume or continue with no change in conditions, or he may issue an order for partial operation specifying the extent and condition of such operation. Provides that such orders shall be conclusive unless found arbitrary or capricious by a three-judge Federal district court (presently the President must direct the Attorney General to petition a district court for an injunction). Permits the President to modify his order upon notice to the parties. Requires the President to direct each party to submit a sealed final offer to the Secretary of Labor within five days. Permits each party to submit one alternative final offer. Deems the last offer of a party during previous negotiations to be the final offer if such party refuses to submit a final offer. Permits the parties within ten days to select a three-member panel composed of disinterested persons to act as a final offer selector. Provides that the President shall select the panel if the parties cannot agree. Provides that the Secretary shall transmit the final offers to the panel thirty days after its selection and requires the panel to select the most reasonable offer within five days thereafter. Sets forth factors which the panel may take into account in making its selection. Provides that the panel shall not alter the content of the offer selected. Directs the parties to undertake collective bargaining under the auspices of the Board of Inquiry throughout the period and provides that any complete agreement reached before the selection of a final offer shall be final and binding. Makes the final offer selected by the panel conclusive unless found arbitrary or capricious. Provides that members of the Board or panel shall receive compensation at the daily rate prescribed for the GS-18 level. Makes the provisions of this title enforceable upon suit by the Attorney General brought before a three-judge district court.
Bill· HRH.R. 2615 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Removes the percentage limitations on the amount of urban mass transportation grant assistance which may be available in any one State under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. (Repeals 49 U.S.C. 1611)
Bill· HRH.R. 2562 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Provides that sums appropriated after January 1, 1973, for highways under the Federal-aid system shall be available to finance the Federal share of the cost of construction of and acquisition of facilities and equipment for public mass transportation projects. Stipulates that projects which may be financed include exclusive or preferential bus lanes, highway traffic control devices, passenger loading areas and facilities, including shelters, fringe and transportation corridor parking facilities to serve bus, rail, and other public mass transportation passengers, construction of fixed rail facilities and the purchase of passenger equipment, including rolling stock for fixed rail, and the research, development, and construction of computerized point-to-point public transportation systems. Amends 23 U.S.C. 142(b))
Bill· HRH.R. 2600 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 January 1973
Title I: Railway Labor Act - Provides, under the Railway Labor Act, that when a dispute is not adjusted under the provisions of this Act, employees may selectively strike any of the carriers or carrier systems to whom their proposal was directed. Provides that whenever a selective strike or a strike of any combination of carriers occurs, such carriers and representatives of the employees on strike shall provide service and transportation for such persons and commodities as may be directed by the President, on a finding by the President, that such services or transportation cannot in any way be provided by alternate rail, truck, water, or air transportation, and that the termination of such services or transportation would immediately imperil the national health or safety. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any carrier to lock out any craft or class of its employees or any segment of any such class or craft unless such carrier is caused to diminish such service by a strike of all or some portion of its employees. Provides that any agreements affecting rates of pay, rules, or working conditions between employees and any carrier so selectively struck shall be immediately offered jointly, without change, to all carriers who have been jointly or concurrently involved in the previous handling of the dispute under this Act. Provides, under a new title III of the Railway Labor Act, that in the event a dispute is not settled under this Act, any changes in rate, pay, or working conditions made unilaterally subsequent to this Act shall be recinded and the original conditions reinstated, and any selective strike in progress under the provisions of this Act shall be terminated immediately, and for sixty days thereafter, and no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the parties to the controversy in the conditions out of which the dispute arose. Provides that the National Mediation Board shall recommend to the President specific actions which it deems most appropriate to the settlement of the dispute and the protection of the public interest. Provides that, during such sixty day period, the President may create a board to investigate and make, for transmittal to the parties in the dispute, a report respecting such dispute. Provides that if no resolution is reached at the end of such sixty days, and if the President finds that the dispute threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services, the President may: (1) order an additional sixty-day "cooling-off period" during which the parties shall continue collective bargaining under the National Mediation Board; or (2) permit the continuance of the selective strike under the limitations he deems necessary to protect the health or safety of the Nation or any region thereof; or (3) order the parties to submit final offers to the Secretary of Labor and submit such offers to a three-member panel for final settlement. Provides that such panel shall accept one of the final offers without compromise or alteration, except in the case of a settlement being reached by the parties through continued negotiation before such panel makes a final determination. Provides that the final offer selected by such panel shall be deemed to represent the contract between the parties and shall be conclusive unless found arbitrary and capricious. Title II: Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 - Broadens the powers of the President in labor disputes to cover situations which may imperil the health or safety of a substantial part of the Nation's population or territory (presently a threat to the national health or safety is required) and to cover situations which may deprive any section of the country of essential transportation services. Provides that the report of a Board of Inquiry appointed by the President shall contain the Board's recommendations for settlement. Provides that, upon receiving the report and until a final agreement to the labor dispute is reached, the President may issue an order for a specified period not to exceed thirty days that work shall resume or continue with no change in conditions, or he may issue an order for partial operation specifying the extent and condition of such operation. Provides that such orders shall be conclusive unless found arbitrary or capricious by a three-judge Federal district court (presently the President must direct the Attorney General to petition a district court for an injunction). Permits the President to modify his order upon notice to the parties. Requires the President to direct each party to submit a sealed final offer to the Secretary of Labor within five days. Permits each party to submit one alternative final offer. Deems the last offer of a party during previous negotiations to be the final offer if such party refuses to submit a final offer. Permits the parties within ten days to select a three-member panel composed of disinterested persons to act as a final offer selector. Provides that the President shall select the panel if the parties cannot agree. Provides that the Secretary shall transmit the final offers to the panel thirty days after its selection and requires the panel to select the most reasonable offer within five days thereafter. Sets forth factors which the panel may take into account in making its selection. Provides that the panel shall not alter the content of the offer selected. Directs the parties to undertake collective bargaining under the auspices of the Board of Inquiry throughout the period and provides that any complete agreement reached before the selection of a final offer shall be final and binding. Makes the final offer selected by the panel conclusive unless found arbitrary or capricious. Provides that members of the Board or panel shall receive compensation at the daily rate prescribed for the GS-18 level. Makes the provisions of this title enforceable upon suit by the Attorney General brought before a three-judge district court.
Bill· SS. 448 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that a State is not precluded in the case of labor disputes involving a railroad industry primarily engaged in intrastate operations from invoking its own procedures and remedies for the settlement of such a labor dispute. (Adds 45 U.S.C. 165)
Bill· SS. 455 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Defines the term "Inclusive tour charter trip" to mean a charter trip which combines air transportation, pursuant to a contract between an air carrier or foreign air carrier and a person authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board to sell inclusive tours, and land arrangements at one or more points of destination, sold to members of the public at a price which is not less than the just and reasonable fare for charter air transportation plus a compensatory charge for land arrangements, and subject to such other requirements not inconsistent herewith as the Board shall by regulation prescribe. Provides that whenever the Board finds that the government or aeronautical authorities of any foreign country have refused to permit, or have imposed arbitrary or unreasonable restrictions upon, the performance of foreign air transportation, or have discriminated between classes of air carriers, the Board may with or without prior notice and without hearing suspend or modify any permit issued to a foreign air carrier.
Bill· HRH.R. 2485 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides a State is not precluded in the case of labor disputes involving a railroad industry primarily engaged in intrastate operations from invoking its own procedure and remedies for the settlement of such a labor dispute. (Adds 45 U.S.C. 165)
Bill· HRH.R. 2491 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Makes it unlawful to operate a supersonic aircraft, manufactured in the United States or in a foreign nation, for a commercial flight at supersonic speeds in the navigable airspace of the United States until: (1) the Congress, by law, approves findings by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that the operation of such supersonic aircraft in the navigable airspace of the United States will not have detrimental physiological and psychological effects on persons on the ground and will not have detrimental effects on the environment; and (2) the Secretary of Transportation shall have made affirmative findings, and submitted a written report thereon to the Congress, that the operation of supersonic aircraft in the navigable airspace of the United States meets all noise and safety standards prescribed by the Secretary with respect to the operation of aircraft capable of operating at supersonic speeds.
Bill· HRH.R. 2446 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Authorizes the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts to make unused railroad passenger depots available to communities for cultural activities under the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965. Authorizes the Chairman to acquire such unused depots for purposes of this Act. Directs the Chairman to establish an advisory council to consult with him in carrying out this Act. Authorizes the appropriation of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year 1972, and such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year, for purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2456 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Includes privately owned property within the provisions of the Act relating to Federal participation in the cost of protecting the shores of the United States, its territories and possessions. (Amends 33 U.S.C. 426e(b))
Bill· HRH.R. 2389 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
National Transportation Act - Declares the Congressional finding that the development and implementation of a balanced national transportation system embracing all modes of transportation which will contribute to the provision of rapid, safe, efficient, and convenient movement of persons and goods is essential to the general welfare, the economic growth, and the stability and security of the Nation. Title I: National Transportation - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to develop a comprehensive plan for the effective implementation of national transportation policies. Provides that such plan shall include recommendations as to: the most effective utilization of money, the reorganization of governmental functions relating to transportation, and proposed legislation. Directs the Secretary to consult with regional, State, and local transportation agencies in developing the comprehensive plan. Provides that until Congress approves the utilization provisions for the Transportation Fund, transitional authority is granted to make allocations for the Trust Fund to highways, aviation and urban mass transportation programs. Title II: Transportation Trust Fund Revenue Act - Creates a Transportation Trust Fund which will be available for expenditures in accordance with the comprehensive national transportation plan to be approved by the Congress. Authorizes the sale and manner of sale of obligations which the trust fund may acquire and requires that interest earned by the Trust Fund shall be added to form a part of the Trust Fund. Authorizes the Treasury to make advances to the Trust Fund to be repaid when receipts catch up with expenditures. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the Trust Fund, and (after consultation with the Secretary of Transportation) to report to the Congress not later than the first day of March of each year on the financial conditions and the results of the operations of the Trust Fund during the preceding fiscal year and on its expected condition and operations during the current and next ensuing fiscal year, up to and including the fiscal year ending June 30, 1980. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the Trust Fund to the Treasury amounts equivalent to credits allowed under the Internal Revenue Code relating to gasoline and lubricating oil and to the Land and Water Conservation Fund amounts equivalent to taxes received on or after January 1, 1965 with respect to special motor fuels and gasoline used in motorboats.
Bill· HRH.R. 2362 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 2424 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Designates specified segments of the Interstate System as the "Dwight D. Eisenhower Highway."
Bill· HRH.R. 2399 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to provide assistance to the States and to Federal departments and agencies having jurisdiction over Federal lands open to the public in order to develop highways throughout the Nation to satisfy the science and recreational needs of the people, and to prove the national feasibility of such a system throughdirect Federal participation in the improvement and construction of the Great River Road and attendant facilities and to further provide for Federal participation in the celebration of the tricentennial of the discovery of the Mississippi River. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish criteria for the location and construction or reconstruction of the Great River Road by the ten States bordering the Mississippi River. Stipulates that highways constructed or reconstructed pursuant to this Act shall be maintained by the appropraite State or local jurisdiction insofar as is consistent with this Act. Provides that the Federal share of the cost of any construction or reconstruction project shall be 80 percent. Authorizes to be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund not to exceed $20,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975 for allocation to the States pursuant to the Act and not to exceed $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975 in order to enter into appropriate arrangements for necessary construction on Federal lands open to the public.
Bill· HRH.R. 2404 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Antihijacking Act - Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, he may suspend the right of any air carrier and foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce, to and from that foreign nation as well as between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Provides that after June 30, 1973, no air carrier or foreign air carrier shall operate an aircraft in air transportation unless all passengers boarding that aircraft in the United States, and all baggage carried aboard the aircraft, shall have been inspected by means of a metal detection device or by an X-ray device immediately prior to boarding and have not been found to carry or contain an unauthorized device or weapon of any kind. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1514, 1421)
Bill· HRH.R. 2361 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 2363 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides no part of any appropriation and no local currency owned by the United States shall be available for payment of any expenses, nor shall transportation be provided by the United States, in connection with travel outside the fifty States (including the District of Columbia) of the United States of: (1) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or member of either House of Congress after he has been defeated as a candidate for nomination, or election, to a seat in the House of Representatives or Senate of the United States in any primary or regular election until such time as he shall thereafter again become a Member of Congress, or (2) any Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Member of either House of Congress after the adjournment sine die of the last session of a Congress if he is not a candidate for reelection in the next Congress.
Bill· HRH.R. 2333 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Highway Safety Act - Authorizes appropriations to specified highway safety programs and highway safety research and development programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000,000 for fiscal 1974 and $225,000,000 for fiscal 1975 for the elimination of hazards of railway-highway crossings. Authorizes the appropriation of $225,000,000 for fiscal 1974 and $450,000,000 for fiscal 1975 for bridge construction and replacement. Establishes special pavement marking programs and appropriates $125,000,000 for both fiscal 1974 and 1975 to be available until expended to carry out such programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to carry out safety research on the following subjects: (1) the relationship between the consumption and use of drugs and their effect upon highway safety and drivers of motor vehicles; and (2) driver behavior research. Authorizes to be appropriated for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975 the sum of $100,000,000 to eliminate or reduce the hazards at specific locations or sections of highways which have high accident experiences or high accident potentials, such study to be conducted by the Federal Highway Administration. Provides that two-thirds of such funds authorized and expended in any fiscal year shall be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund. Requires each State to report to the Secretary not later than September 30, 1974, and every September 30 of each year thereafter, on the progress being made to implement projects for high-hazard locations and the effectiveness of such improvements. Directs the Secretary to conduct a full and complete investigation of the use of the mass media and other techniques for informing the public of means and methods for reducing the number and severity of highway accidents. Directs the Secretary to conduct an investigation of ways and means for encouraging greater citizen participation and involvement in the traffic enforcement process. Directs the Secretary to make a study of the feasibility of establishing a National Center for Statistical Analysis of Highway Operations designed to acquire, store, and retrieve highway accident data and standardize the information and procedures for reporting accidents on a nationwide basis. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress his findings and recommendations not later than January 1, 1975. Authorizes the Secretary to make a full and complete investigation and study of pedestrian safety and report his findings and recommendations to the Congress no later than January 31, 1975. Provides that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of all funds authorized to be appropriated for highway safety. Allows the Secretary to make incentive grants to states which have attained above average results in carrying out safety programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 2331 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that in the case of each State which before January 1, 1974, shall have constructed or acquired any interstate toll bridge (including approaches thereto), which before January 1, 1974, caused such toll bridge to be made free, which bridge is owned and maintained by such State or by a political subdivision thereof, and which bridge is on the Federal-aid primary system (other than the Interstate System), sums apportioned to such State as primary and secondary system assistance for urban areas shall be available to pay the Federal share of a bridge project: (1) in such amount as the Secretary determines to be the reasonable value of such bridge after deducting therefrom that portion of such value attributable to any grant or contribution previously paid by the United States in connection with the construction or acquisition of such bridge, and exclusive of rights-of-way; or (2) in the amount by which the principal amount of the outstanding unpaid bonds or other obligations created and issued for the construction or acquisition of such bridge exceeds the amount of any funds accumulated or provided for their amortization, on the date such bridge is made free, whichever is the lesser amount. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 129h)
Bill· HRH.R. 2332 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Highway Safety Act - Authorizes appropriations to specified highway safety programs and highway safety research and development programs. Authorizes the appropriation of $150,000,000 for fiscal 1974 and $225,000,000 for fiscal 1975 for the elimination of hazards of railway-highway crossings. Authorizes the appropriation of $225,000,000 for fiscal 1974 and $450,000,000 for fiscal 1975 for bridge construction and replacement. Establishes special pavement marking programs and appropriates $125,000,000 for both fiscal 1974 and 1975 to be available until expended to carry out such programs. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to carry out safety research on the following subjects: (1) the relationship between the consumption and use of drugs and their effect upon highway safety and drivers of motor vehicles; and (2) driver behavior research. Authorizes to be appropriated for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975 the sum of $100,000,000 to eliminate or reduce the hazards at specific locations or sections of highways which have high accident experiences or high accident potentials, such study to be conducted by the Federal Highway Administration. Provides that two-thirds of such funds authorized and expended in any fiscal year shall be appropriated out of the Highway Trust Fund. Requires each State to report to the Secretary not later than September 30, 1974, and every September 30 of each year thereafter, on the progress being made to implement projects for high-hazard locations and the effectiveness of such improvements. Directs the Secretary to conduct a full and complete investigation of the use of the mass media and other techniques for informing the public of means and methods for reducing the number and severity of highway accidents. Directs the Secretary to conduct an investigation of ways and means for encouraging greater citizen participation and involvement in the traffic enforcement process. Directs the Secretary to make a study of the feasibility of establishing a National Center for Statistical Analysis of Highway Operations designed to acquire, store, and retrieve highway accident data and standardize the information and procedures for reporting accidents on a nationwide basis. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress his findings and recommendations not later than January 1, 1975. Authorizes the Secretary to make a full and complete investigation and study of pedestrian safety and report his findings and recommendations to the Congress no later than January 31, 1975. Provides that no State shall receive less than one-half of one percent of all funds authorized to be appropriated for highway safety. Allows the Secretary to make incentive grants to states which have attained above average results in carrying out safety programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 2262 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Allows a taxpayer to claim a tax deduction under the Internal Revenue Code with respect to the amortization of the amortizable basis of his railroad grading and tunnel bores, such deduction to be in lieu of any depreciation deduction or other amortization deduction. Provides that the deduction allowable under this Act for any taxable year shall be an amount determined by amortizing ratably over a period of 50 years the amortizable basis of the railroad grading and tunnel bores of the taxpayer. (Amends 26 U.S.C. 185)
Bill· HRH.R. 2242 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, under the Urban Mass Transportation Act, to make grants or loans to assist States and local public bodies and agencies thereof in the payment of operating expenses incurred in connection with the provision of mass transportation service in urban areas. Requires a State or public body or agency to submit a comprehensive mass transportation service improvement plan to qualify for such assistance. Authorizes to be appropriated for such grants $400,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974 and 1975. Increases to 80 percent the Federal share of projects other than projects for the paying of operating expenses. Increases to $6,100,000,000 the obligations the Secretary may incur to finance urban mass transportation projects under the Act. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans under the Act to private nonprofit corporations and associations for the specific purpose of assisting them in providing transportation services meeting the special needs of elderly and handicapped persons for whom mass transportation services, planned, designed, and carried out under the Act are unavailable, insufficient, or inappropriate. Provides that no financial assistance shall be provided under the Act to any State or local public body or agency thereof which engages directly or indirectly in the transporting of schoolchildren and school personnel to and from school and school-authorized functions, or proposes to expand present routes, schedules, service, or facilities for the purpose of providing transportation for schoolchildren and school personnel to and from school and school-authorized functions, in competition with or supplementary to the service currently provided by a private transportation company, or other person, engaged in so transporting such schoolchildren and school personnel.
Bill· HRH.R. 2219 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Removes the percentage limitations on the amount of urban mass transportation grant assistance which may be available in any one State under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964. (Repeals 49 U.S.C. 1611)
Law· SS. 386 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 January 1973
Increases to 90 percent the Federal share of funds to assist States and local public agencies in financing the acquisition, construction, and improvement of facilities and equipment for use in mass transportation service in urban areas.. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants or loans to any State or local public body to enable it to assist any mass transportation system which maintains mass transportation service in an urban area to pay operating expenses incurred as a result of providing such service. Specifies conditions for such grants or loans. Provides that, in order to finance such grants and loans, the Secretary is authorized to incur obligations on behalf of the United States in the form of grant agreements or otherwise in amounts aggregating not to exceed $800,000,000. Increases to $6,100,000,000 the authorization for obligations to finance other specified mass transportation programs. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1602, 1603)
Bill· HRH.R. 2201 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Air Transportation Security Act - Authorizes the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to establish, maintain, and direct a coordinated national police effort to curb acts of aircraft piracy and destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities. Provides for cooperation and coordination with the efforts of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Requires the Director to maintain an air transportation security force, composed of agents of the Bureau, of sufficient size to provide a Federal law enforcement presence and capability adequate to insure the safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation or intrastate air transportation. Provides for semiannual reports to Congress by the Director and the Administrator on their activities under this Act. Authorizes annual appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and for each succeeding fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2146 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Prohibits the exclusion of dog guides for the blind from: (1) public carriers engaged in interstate or foreign commerce or operating under a charter or franchise granted by the Federal Government; or (2) all transport terminals, eating establishments, or other places of public accomodations which operate in interstate commerce. Prescribes penalties and remedies for violations of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2130 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Authorizes necessary appropriations to be used for the elimination of rail-highway grade crossings in the State of Illinois.
Bill· HRH.R. 2153 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Antihijacking Act - Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, he may suspend the right of any air carrier and foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce, to and from that foreign nation as well as between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Provides that after June 30, 1973, no air carrier or foreign air carrier shall operate an aircraft in air transportation unless all passengers boarding that aircraft in the United States, and all baggage carried aboard the aircraft, shall have been inspected by means of a metal detection device or by an X-ray device immediately prior to boarding and have not been found to carry or contain an unauthorized device or weapon of any kind. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1514, 1421)
Bill· HRH.R. 2106 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides that the imposition of taxes the proceeds of which are appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund shall be suspended during any period when amounts in the Fund are impounded or otherwise withheld from expenditure. States that this suspension shall not apply to sums determined to be necessary to be withheld from obligation for specific periods of time in order to assure that sufficient amounts will be available in the Highway Trust Fund to defray the expenditures which will be required to be made from such Fund.
Bill· HRH.R. 2068 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Noncontiguous State Transportation Act - Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary from the highway trust fund for use in each non-contiguous State for transportation purposes the amount elected to be used for such purposes by the Governor of such non-contiguous State. Permits the Governor of a non-contiguous State to elect to have all or part of one or more of such non-contiguous State's Federal-aid-highway system apportionments for a fiscal year made available to the Secretary for making grants in that year to such non-contiguous State, or to local public bodies or agenices in such non-contiguous State. Requires such grants to be made in accordance with the provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, or in accordance with any other Act of Congress authorizing grants to the several States, or political subdivisions thereof, for providing transportation facilities and services, including the development of plans for balanced statewide, metropolitan or regional transportation systems within such non-contiguous State; except that not to exceed one-half of the amount available to the Secretary for making such grants in any non-contiguous State may, upon the request of the Governor of such non-contiguous State, be paid to such non-contiguous State, or such agency or agencies thereof as the Governor may designate, for expenditure in accordance with the laws of such non-contiguous State for transportation purposes. Provides that such election shall be made in such manner as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe, within sixty days after he certifies to the Governor the sums apportioned to that non-contiguous State for a fiscal year. Requires the Governor, in making such election, to specify the amount to be deducted from one or more of the non-contiguous State's Federal-aid-highway system apportionments in order to make available to the Secretary the amount elected to be used for transportation purposes. Provides that if the amount which a Governor of a non-contiguous State elects to have used in a fiscal year for transportation in such non-contiguous State exceeds the sum of amounts expended and obligated by the Secretary in such fiscal year in such non-contiguous State from amounts appropriated, then at the end of such fiscal year such excess shall no longer be available for such purposes and shall, on January 1 of the next succeeding fiscal year, be added to the non-contiguous State's Federal-aid-highway system apportionments for the second fiscal year beginning after such election. Requires the addition to each of a non-contiguous State's apportionments to bear the same proportion to such excess as the amount deducted from the corresponding apportionment for the fsical year in which such excess occurred bore to the amount elected to be used for transportaion purposes in such fiscal year. Defines various terms in this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2013 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Bicycle Transportation Act - Makes funds authorized for Federal-aid highways available to finance the Federal share of the cost of projects for the construction of exclusive or preferential bicycle lanes or paths, bicycle traffic control devices, and shelters and parking facilities to serve bicycles and persons using bicycles. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 145)
Bill· HRH.R. 2020 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Prohibits the Secretary of the Army or any other officer of the United States from issuing any license, permit, or other authorization to construct any offshore bulk cargo transshipment facility in those waters of the territorial seas, the contiguous zone, or the ocean, which are within the boundaries of any State, or within the indefinite extension of such boundaries seaward, if such State has by law prohibited the construction of such a facility in the territorial seas within its boundaries. Requires the Secretary of the Army or any other officer with the intention of constructing such facility to notify the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in writing, who shall then notify the State involved. Stipulates that if such State within one hundred and twenty days of this notification files with the Administrator its objection of construction, such license or authorizations to the issuance of such license or authorization shall not be issued except upon such conditions as the Administrator, the objecting State, and the head of the agency of the United States proposing to issue such license or authorization shall jointly require.
Bill· HRH.R. 1971 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 15 January 1973
Provides that no permit issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board shall continue in force, and that no permit shall be issued by the Board, to a foreign air carrier which operates in any nation which does not agree to prosecute or extradite to the United States, upon request of the United States, any person alleged by the United States to have committed or attempted to commit aircraft piracy within the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1372(b))
Bill· SS. 325 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Expands the Boulder Canyon project to provide for the construction of a highway crossing of the Colorado River immediately downstream from Hoover Dam. Authorizes to be appropriated $15,000,000 for the construction of such highway crossing.
Bill· SS. 295 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Authorizes free or reduced rate transportation on airlines under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to handicapped persons and persons who are sixty-five years of age or older. Authorizes free or reduced rate railroad transportation for persons who are sixty-five years of age or older under the Interstate Commerce Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b), 22)
Bill· HRH.R. 1937 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Removes the time limit for appropriations for the Highway Trust Fund (previously October 1, 1977). Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to consult with the Secretary of Transportation on adjustments of Trust Fund apportionments, and annually before reporting to the Congress on the financial condition and the results of the operations of the Highway Trust Fund (previously the Secretary consulted with the Secretary of Commerce). Permits the use of expenditures from the Highway Trust Fund for the administrative expenses of the Federal Highway Administration (previously of the Bureau of Public Roads). (Amends 23 U.S.C. 120 nt.)
Bill· HRH.R. 1929 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Permits high traffic sections of highways on the Federal-aid primary system which connect to the Interstate system to be selected by each State highway department for priority of improvement as supplementary routes to extend and supplement the service provided by the Interstate system by furnishing needed adequate traffic collector and distributor facilities as well as extensions. Provides that such priority primary routes selected shall be improved to geometric and construction standards for the Interstate system, or to such other standards as may be developed cooperatively by the Secretary of Transportation and the State highway departments in the same manner as are standard developed for the Interstate system. Authorizes appropriations out of the Highway Trust Fund of $300,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1974 - 1975 to carry out the purposes of this Act. (Adds 23 U.S.C. 146)
Bill· HRH.R. 1854 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Authorizes appropriations of $2,000,000 annually for fiscal years 1973-75 to be apportioned among the States bordering the Mississippi River for the purpose of constructing the Great River Road.
Bill· HRH.R. 1928 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that, whenever a State has received its final apportionment of sums authorized to be appropriated for expenditure on the Interstate System, the Secretary of Transportation may permit reimbursement of the Federal share of the actual cost of construction of toll highways except for the toll collection and service facilities, on the same basis and in the same manner as in the construction of free highways. Authorizes the Secretary to permit reimbursement of the Federal share of the costs of construction as applicable to a project on the Federal-aid primary system, the Federal-aid secondary systems, and the Federal-aid urban system whenever the State enters into an agreement with the Secretary whereby it undertakes performance of the following obligations: (1) to construct such highway in accordance with standards approved by the Secretary; (2) all tolls received from the operation of such highway, less the actual cost of such operation and maintenance, shall be applied by the State to the repayment of the actual costs of construction, except for an amount equal to the Federal share payable of such actual costs of a project; and (3) no tolls shall be charged for the use of such highway after the Federal share has been paid and the highway shall be maintained and operated as a free highway. Authorizes to be appropriated out of Highway Trust Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 1871 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Makes an appropriation of $1,000,000 for advanced relocation of a road and bridge over Vermillian Creek, Kansas.
Bill· HRH.R. 1869 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Authorizes the apportionment of funds for the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways for fiscal years 1974 and 1975, based on the factors contained in table 5, House Committee Print numbered 92-29.
Bill· HRH.R. 1861 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Antihijacking Act - Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, he may suspend the right of any air carrier and foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce, to and from that foreign nation as well as between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Provides that after June 30, 1973, no air carrier or foreign air carrier shall operate an aircraft in air transportation unless all passengers boarding that aircraft in the United States, and all baggage carried aboard the aircraft, shall have been inspected by means of a metal detection device or by an X-ray device immediately prior to boarding and have not been found to carry or contain an unauthorized device or weapon of any kind. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1514, 1421)
Bill· HRH.R. 1859 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Antihijacking Act - Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, he may suspend the right of any air carrier and foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce, to and from that foreign nation as well as between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Provides that after June 30, 1973, no air carrier or foreign air carrier shall operate an aircraft in air transportation unless all passengers boarding that aircraft in the United States, and all baggage carried aboard the aircraft, shall have been inspected by means of a metal detection device or by an X-ray device immediately prior to boarding and have not been found to carry or contain an unauthorized device or weapon of any kind. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1514, 1421)
Bill· HRH.R. 1823 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Emergency Mass Transit Passenger Act - Provides for Federal assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 for urban mass transportation systems to continue to provide vitally needed transportation services by helping to defray the costs of such systems, and allocating funds for operating subsidies to each such system in proportion to the total number of passengers it carries. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to any State agency or local public body or agency thereof to help defray the operating costs of any urban mass transportation system which maintains mass transportation service in an urban area within its jurisdiction. Authorizes the appropriation of $400,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, and 1978 for the purposes of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 1872 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of the Army to improve specified highways in connection with the Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Big Blue River, Kansas.
Bill· HRH.R. 1825 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Older Persons Transportation Act - Provides that in providing assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act the Secretary of Transportation shall give preference to applications made by State and local public bodies and agencies thereof which agree to adopt and maintain specially reduced rates, not exceeding 50 percent of regular rates, for pesrsons who are aged sixty-five or over, on all days, in the operation of the facilities and equipment to be financed under the application. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants and loans to private nonprofit corporations and associations for the specific purpose of assisting them in providing transportation services for handicapped persons and persons aged sixty-five and over for whom mass transportation services planned, designed, and carried out by State and local agencies are unavailable, insufficient, or inappropriate. Provides that a common carrier whose rates or fares are established by a board, commission, or other agency of the United States may not, in interstate commerce during nonpeak periods of travel, charge any person aged sixty-five or over more than 50 percent of the fare published in its tariff for the general public to be furnished the transportation requested by the person aged sixty-five or over, if that person is traveling on a standby basis, or more than 75 percent of that fare if that person is traveling on any other basis. Provides for the partial repayment by the United States of any economic loss suffered by a common carrier as a result of compliance with the above provisions. Provides that building constructed with financial assistance under the Urban Mass Transportation Act shall be so designed and constructed as to be accessible to the physically handicapped. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to any public or nonprofit agency, organization or institution, or any individual to conduct transportation research and demonstration projects for the elderly. Authorizes to be appropriated for such research and projects $2,500,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1974.
Bill· HRH.R. 1860 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Antihijacking Act - Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, he may suspend the right of any air carrier and foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce, to and from that foreign nation as well as between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Provides that after June 30, 1973, no air carrier or foreign air carrier shall operate an aircraft in air transportation unless all passengers boarding that aircraft in the United States, and all baggage carried aboard the aircraft, shall have been inspected by means of a metal detection device or by an X-ray device immediately prior to boarding and have not been found to carry or contain an unauthorized device or weapon of any kind. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of this Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1514, 1421)
Bill· HRH.R. 1746 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Changes the name of the United States Merchant Marine Academy to the United States Maritime Academy. Provides, under the Merchant Marine Act, that the mission of the United States Maritime Academy shall be expanded to include the instruction and preparation of selected persons to serve the United States as merchant marine officers and in the marine sciences and related maritime industries. Provides that in addition to an undergraduate program the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to establish at the Academy graduate-level programs of study and training.
Bill· HRH.R. 1800 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Air Transportation Security Act - Authorizes the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to establish, maintain, and direct a coordinated national police effort to curb acts of aircraft piracy and destruction of aircraft or aircraft facilities. Provides for cooperation and coordination with the efforts of the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Requires the Director to maintain an air transportation security force, composed of agents of the Bureau, of sufficient size to provide a Federal law enforcement presence and capability adequate to insure the safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation or intrastate air transportation. Provides for semiannual reports to Congress by the Director and the Administrator on their activities under this Act. Authorizes annual appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1974 and for each succeeding fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 1784 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Air Passenger Safety and Convenience Act - Increases from 50 to 75 percent the United States share of allowable project costs payable under the Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970. Prohibits State taxation of the carriage of persons in air transportation under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958.
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