A bill to authorize recomputation at age 60 of the retired pay of members and former members of the uniformed services whose retired pay is computed on the basis of pay scales in effect prior to January 1, 1972.
1974-04-09: Referred to House Committee on Armed Services.
Food Program Technical Amendment
1974-04-11: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
To authorize voluntary withholding of Maryland, Virginia, and District of Columbia income taxes in the case of Members of Congress and congressional employees.
1974-04-25: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill directing the Secretary of the Department of Transportation to conduct comprehensive, nationwide study of the effects of railroad abandonment, to develop an effective policy to assure an adequate, economic system for the transportation of freight with emphasis on branch line facilities in the movement of agricultural commodities, and prohibiting the Interstate Commerce Commission from authorizing any further abandonment's of railway freight facilities for a period of three years after enactment of this Act.
1974-04-25: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction from gross income for social agency, legal, and related expenses incurred in connection with the adoption of a child by the taxpayer.
1974-04-30: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sugar Act Amendments
1974-06-05: Measure failed of passage in House, roll call #275 (175-209).
Interim Fisheries Zone Extension and Management Act
1974-05-30: Referred to House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries.
A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide an exemption from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of that act for certain full-time babysitters.
1974-06-05: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to prevent the estate tax law from operating to encourage or to require the destruction of open lands and historic places, by amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide that real property which is farmland, woodland, or open land and forms part of an estate may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value as farmland, woodland, or open land (rather than at its fair market value), and to provide that real property which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places may be valued, for estate tax purposes, at its value for its existing use, and to provide for the revocation of such lower evaluation and recapture of unpaid taxes with interest in appropriate circumstances.
1974-06-05: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Emergency Livestock Credit Act
1974-07-16: Measure laid on table in House, S. 3679 passed in lieu.
Livestock Producers and Feeders Act
1974-06-20: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Harry S. Truman Memorial Scholarship Act
1974-06-27: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Peanut Act
1974-07-02: Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
A bill to amend title 38 of the United States Code so as to entitle veterans of the Mexican border period and of World War I and their widows and children to pension on the same basis as veterans of the Spanish-American War and their widows and children, respectively, and to increase pension rates.
1974-07-02: Referred to House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to restrict the authority for inspection of tax returns and the disclosure of information contained therein, and for other purposes.
1974-08-13: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring an indirect source emission review as a part of any applicable implementation plan.
1974-08-15: Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
A bill to establish a Commission on Federal Paperwork.
1974-08-22: Referred to House Committee on Government Operations.
A bill to terminate age discrimination in employment.
1974-08-22: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
A bill to authorize the acquisition of certain property in the District of Columbia for the use of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
1974-09-11: Referred to House Committee on Public Works.
Education for Exceptional Children Act
1974-09-19: Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.